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Night Buses
Sightseeing Buses
Most lines run 24 hours, but
be sure to check the schedule For a pleasant and cheap alternative to a tour bus, hop on a city bus
posted at your stop. After 10pm, and see New York with the New Yorkers. Recommended bus routes
many buses run every 20 include route M2, which runs down Fifth Avenue alongside Central
minutes or so. From midnight Park and stops near the Guggenheim and the Met Museum. It then
to 6am, expect to wait 30–60 returns north on Madison Avenue (via the Empire State Building
minutes for a bus. and the Rockefeller Center), where it runs alongside the M5, which
continues south to SoHo and Greenwich Village. From Broad Street,
head north on the M15 to visit Brooklyn Bridge and the United
Bus Tours Nations, or take route M7 or M20 along Eighth Avenue for Times
Square and Madison Square Garden.
One of the most popular
ways to see the sights is
aboard a hop­on/hop­off W 147 E 89 Street W 147 E 125
Street
Street
Street
bus tour that allows you to get
off wherever you like, stay as Guggenheim
long as you want, and catch E 83 Street Museum
another bus when you are
ready. Gray Line (see p381) is Metropolitan
the best­known company Museum of Art
offering these tours aboard Central
double­decker buses. Routes Park
include a Downtown Loop, W 65 St
Museum of
Uptown Loop, Brooklyn Loop, Lincoln Modern Art
and Night/Holiday Lights Tour Center
(not hop­on/hop­off). Buy a W 53
48­ or 72­hour pass, and you St
can see a great deal of New W E 45
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York. While you ride, narration Rockefeller St Street
Center
United
is available in several languages W 42 Street Times Nations
through rented headsets. Square Grand E 42
Central
Empire State W Terminal Street
Madison
MTA Trip Planner Square Garden Building 34
St
The MTA website has a useful W 31
Madison
feature known as the Trip Street Square Park
Planner, which provides a E 23
map and directions by bus Street
and/or subway between any
two points in New York. Enter
your starting and ending points,
the time you expect to travel,
preferred mode of transport­ Greenwich
Village
ation, how far you are willing Greenwich St/ W 3 Street
Horatio St
to walk, and whether you need
accessible vehicles, and you Whitney SoHo Spring St
Museum
will get clear directions. Visit Spring St
www.tripplanner.mta.info to Spring St
access the planner. Canal St
DIRECTORY Frankfort
Fulton City Hall Street
MTA Travel Information Hudson Street Wall
Tel 511. River Liberty National Street Brooklyn
Street
∑ mta.info September 11 Wall St Bridge
Memorial
Route Maps & Museum Broad Street
Available from MTA/NYCT, Key
Customer Service Center, Major sights
3 Stone St, Bus route
Lower Manhattan. Bus stop (selected stops only)
Map 1 C4.
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