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16  INTRODUCING NE W Y ORK CIT Y

Central New York City

This guide divides Manhattan into 14 areas, with a further
chapter dedicated to Brooklyn. Many of New York’s oldest and
newest buildings rub shoulders in Lower Manhattan. It is from AVENUE
BROADWAY
here, too, that you can take the Staten Island Ferry for breath­ HENRY HUDSON PARKWAY HARLEM
taking views of the city’s skyline and the Statue of Liberty. AMSTERDAM AVENUE
Midtown includes the Theater District and Fifth Avenue’s AVENUE 135TH STREET
glittering shops. Museum Mile, alongside Central Park on MORNINGSIDE 125TH STREET
HEIGHTS
the Upper East Side, is a cultural paradise. To the north lies H u d s o n R i v e r Cathedral of EIGHTH SEVENTH MALCOLM X BLVD AVENUE AVENUE
St. John the Divine
Harlem, the US’s most famous African­American community. 116TH STREET
Grand Central Terminal
This Beaux Arts station has been 96TH STREET 110TH STREET FIFTH
The Morgan Library a gateway to the city since 1913. PARK
& Museum Its concourse is a vast pedestrian CENTRAL PARK WEST
CENTRAL
One of the world’s area with a high-vaulted roof UPPER PARK AVENUE
finest collections of rare (see pp152–3). WEST SIDE
86TH STREET
manuscripts, prints, and AVENUE American Museum FIFTH
books is on display BROADWAY AVENUE of Natural History Guggenheim
in this palazzo-style Museum
AMSTERDAM CENTRAL PARK WEST AVENUE UPPER
building (see pp160–61). COLUMBUS Metropolitan
Museum of Art
CENTRAL
MIDTOWN WEST PARK AVENUE EAST SIDE
AND THE THEATER 57TH ST FIFTH AVENUE AVENUE 86TH ST
DISTRICT AVENUE
PARK 72ND STREET
48TH STREET
Rockefeller Museum of THIRD
Center Modern Art SECOND
42ND STREET
AVENUE AVENUE SQUARE AVE St. Patrick's FIRST
TIMES
34TH ST
Cathedral
AVENUE
MIDTOWN
CHELSEA AVENUE SIXTH Grand
TENTH Central 48TH ST
NINTH EIGHTH Empire State 42ND STREET
Building
SEVENTH FIFTH AVENUE UN
PARK AVENUE
Headquarters
GRAMERCY AVENUE
14TH STREET
Cathedral of St. John the Divine GREENWICH PARK AVENUE AVENUE
be the largest in the world. It is also a theater R i v e r WASHINGTON BROADWAY 23RD ST
VILLAGE
When it is finished, at some time after the
mid-21st century, this great cathedral will
SQUARE
VARICK ST
H u d s o n TRIBECA BROADWAY DELANCEY ST STREET VILLAGE
and music venue (see pp220–21). WEST ST CANAL ST SOHO THIRD SECOND FIRST
HOUSTON
EAST
BOWERY
WEST ST
LOWER BROADWAY LOWER EAST
CHURCH ST
SIDE
EAST BROADWAY
MANHATTAN AND
Ellis THE CIVIC CENTER T VIADUCT
Island SOUTH STREE Brooklyn
Bridge
E a s t R i v e r
Statue of
Liberty
Statue of Liberty
Presented as a gift Governors JAY ST BROOKL Y N QUEENS EXP
Island
from the French
to the American COLUMBIA ST
people in 1886, this
towering statue ATLANTIC AVE MYRTLE AVE
has become a F L AT BU SH A V EN U E E XT E N SIO N DEKALB AVE
BROOKLYN
symbol of freedom RICHARDS ST SMITH ST
throughout the world 3rd ST FULTON ST
(see pp78–9).
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