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some of the world’s greatest November being one of the New Yorker will point you toward
athletes perform. The cities here more popular events. hundreds of events and activities.
host a wide array of professional Lincoln Center is home to many
and amateur sports teams, with Outdoor Activities ballet, opera, and orchestral
major pro baseball, football, and performances, as is legendary
basketball franchises operating New York State is also home Carnegie Hall. The region’s
in New Jersey, New York City, to one of the country’s prime other large cities, Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. winter sports resorts – Lake Pittsburgh, and Newark, also
Another extremely popular Placid in the Adirondack host numerous cultural and
spectator sport is ice hockey. Mountains, where the 1932 entertainment events. Newark’s
There are also many “minor and 1980 Winter Olympics were New Jersey Performing Arts
league” teams in smaller cities, held. There are also ski areas in Center hosts a superb array of
and hundreds of high-quality the Pocono Mountains of music and art events.
sports teams fielded by the Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
various public and private as well as Camelback Mountain
universities across the region. and Hidden Valley in Western Shopping
The baseball season lasts from Pennsylvania, and Hunter New York City is without a
April to September, football Mountain and Catamount in doubt one of the world’s greatest
from September through Cat skills, in New York State. marketplaces, and it is safe to
January, and basketball from For the best skiing, however, say that if you cannot buy a
winter through mid-spring. the most avid skiers head to certain thing here, it probably
However, an extremely the resorts of Vermont and does not exist at all. Everything
popular sports event is the US New Hampshire. ranging from fashionable
Open Tennis Championships, boutiques to cut-price computers
which is held annually in the can be found in Manhattan,
borough of Queens in August. Entertainment and some neighbor hoods of
Horse-racing’s Belmont Stakes The world capital of the enter- New York City cater especially
in early June is the last leg of the tainment industry, New York City to the interest of shoppers and
“Triple Crown” championship, is a showcase for just about any bargain hunters. Don’t miss
while throughout the months form of performance. A quick the oppor tunity to take a trip
of July and August racing read of the many local news- to at least one of the city’s
continues at historic Saratoga papers, like the New York Times exceptional and world-famous
Springs. Participant sports are or the Village Voice, and maga- department stores, such as
also prominent, with the zines such as Time Out New York, Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s,
New York Marathon in New York Magazine, and the Tiffany & Co., or Barney’s.
DIRECTORY
Tourist Baseball Football Lincoln Center
Information Tel (212) 875-5030.
New York Mets Buffalo Bills ∑ lincolncenter.org
New Jersey Tel (718) 507-8499. Tel (716) 649-0015. New Jersey
∑ buffalobills.com
Tel (800) 847-4865. ∑ newyork.mets. Performing Arts
∑ visitnj.org mlb.com New York Giants
Tel (201) 935-8222. Center
New York City New York Yankees ∑ giants.com Newark, NJ.
Tel (212) 484-1200. Tel (718) 293-4300. Pittsburgh Steelers Tel (888) 466-5722.
∑ nycgo.com ∑ newyork.yankees. Tel (412) 323-1200. ∑ njpac.org
∑ steelers.com
New York State mlb.com Shopping
Tel (800) 225-5697. Philadelphia Phillies Other Sports Barney’s
∑ iloveny.com Tel (215) 463-1000. Belmont Stakes 660 Madison Ave, NYC.
Pennsylvania ∑ philadelphia. Tel (718) 641-4700. Tel (212) 826-8900.
∑ nyra.com/belmont
Tel (800) 847-4872. phillies.mlb.com US Open Tennis Bloomingdale’s
∑ visitpa.com Basketball Championships Lexington & 59th St, NYC.
Festivals New York Knicks Queens, New York City. Tel (212) 705-2000.
∑ usopen.org
Macy’s
Glimmerglass Opera Tel (212) 465-6000. Entertainment Broadway & 34th, NYC.
Festival ∑ nba.com/knicks Tel (212) 695-4400.
Cooperstown, New York. Philadelphia 76ers Carnegie Hall Tiffany & Co.
881 7th Ave, New York City.
Tel (607) 547-2255/0700. Tel (215) 339-7600. Tel (212) 247-7800. 727 5th Ave, New York City.
∑ glimmerglass.org ∑ nba.com/sixers ∑ carnegiehall.org Tel (212) 755-8000.

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