Page 12 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - New York City

10  INTRODUCING NE W Y ORK CIT Y

GREAT DAYS IN
NEW YORK CITY

New York is a city packed with things to first by theme and then by length of stay.
see and do. Whether you are here for There’s a mix of activities, and the schedules
several days, or just wanting a flavor of are not meant to be rigid – you’ll find ample
this great metropolis, you need to make the time to explore places that catch your fancy
most of your time. Over the following pages, too. Price guides show the cost for two adults
you’ll find itineraries for some of the best or for a family of two adults and two children
attractions New York has to offer, arranged including lunch.

or a platter of Long Island
City Landmarks
oysters at the Grand Central
Oyster Bar (see p302).
Two adults
allow at least $140 Afternoon
• A tour of the UN Back on 42nd Street is another
Beaux Arts creation, the New
• Modern, Art Deco, and
Beaux Arts edifices York Public Library (see p142;
free 1-hour tours at 11am
• Lights of Times Square
Mon–Sat and 2pm Sun). The
• Empire State Building marble halls, stairways, Main
Reading Room and Periodicals Glistening Prometheus Statue and
Room are highlights. Check Lower Plaza at Rockefeller Center
Morning your e-mail for free in the Bill
Start at the Flatiron Building Blass Public Catalog Room. Art and Shopping
(see p123) and stroll through Look out also for temporary
Madison Square toward the East exhibits. Behind the library
River. Join a guided tour of the is Bryant Park (see p141), a Two adults
United Nations headquarters welcome oasis of green in allow at least $170
(see pp156–9), with its striking Midtown. Ahead is New York’s • A morning of modern art
modern architecture. Then most famous crossroads, Times • Lunch at Rockefeller
head to 42nd Street, and drop Square (see pp142–3), gateway Center
in to admire the Art Deco to the glittering neon of • St. Patrick’s Cathedral
interior of the Chrysler Building Broadway. Just beyond is 42nd
(see p151). Next is Grand Central Street, now a bright avenue • Fifth Avenue shopping
Terminal, a great Beaux Arts of restored theaters, giant
landmark (see pp152–3). Admire movie palaces, and Madame
the Main Concourse and Tussauds wax museum, with Morning
explore the shopping gallery, many true-to-life celebrities. The spectacular Museum
colorful food market, and a food Hail a cab to the Empire State of Modern Art (MoMA) (see
court with everything from sushi Building (see pp132–3) and pp168–71) will easily fill your
to Southern barbecue to New end the day with a fine twilight morning with its wonderful
York cheesecake. Another view of the city from the art. Allow a couple of hours to
lunchtime option is chowder 86th-floor observatory. enjoy its great works, including
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry
Night and Claude Monet’s Water
Lilies, as well as Pablo Picasso’s
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, to
name just a few. Don’t miss the
design exhibits on floor three;
one of MoMA’s best-known
facets. Leave the museum and
stroll over to Rockefeller Center
(see p140) for lunch at the Rock
Center Café, where you can
watch the ice skaters in winter.
In summer the rink is transformed
into a leafy garden, where you
The neon lights of Times Square, the city’s famous crossroads can dine at the Rink Bar.
The tip of Manhattan in 1942

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