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New York’s Best: Entertainment

New York is one of the great entertainment capitals
of the world, with live music, theater, and comedy
on every night of the year. Major sports events
are a huge attraction too. Top names in every
branch of the arts are drawn here to perform and
often to live and work. In terms of nightlife, New
York truly lives up to its reputation as “the city that
never sleeps.” From the huge choice offered, there
are some venues and events that stand out; this
selection has been chosen from the listings Madison Square Garden
on pages 338 to 355 as among those not to be Top sporting action is found at
missed. Even if you experience only one of them, “the Garden,” including home
you will have been part of something as essentially games for basketball’s New Midtown
West and
New York as the Empire State Building or the York Knicks and ice hockey’s the Theater
Rangers, plus other sporting
Brooklyn Bridge. events and big-name concerts District
(see p354).
Village Vanguard
The jazz clubs of
Greenwich Village have
played host to all the Chelsea and the
great names in jazz. Garment District
Fans can catch the
stars of today and Hudson R iver
tomorrow at the
world-famous Village
Vanguard and the Gramercy and
Blue Note (see p346). Greenwich the Flatiron
District
Village

East
SoHo and Village
TriBeCa

Lower East Side
Lower Manhattan and
the Civic Center

Film Forum
At New York’s most stylish
art-house movie theater you
can see the latest foreign
and American independent The Public Theater
releases or catch up with a Founded in 1954, The Public has
classic in a wide range of a mandate to create theater for
retrospectives (see p343). all New Yorkers. Its year-round
Shakespeare Festival is part of
a commitment to classical
works, but new plays are also
developed here (see p116).

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