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6  HOW T O USE THIS GUIDE

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This Eyewitness Travel Guide helps you get with maps, photographs, and detailed illus-
the most from your stay in New York City. trations. In addition, seven planned walks
The opening section, Introducing New York take you step-by-step through standout areas.
City, locates the city geographically, sets Well-researched tips on where to stay,
modern New York in its historical context eat, shop, and on sports and entertainment,
and describes the highlights of the year. can be found in Travelers’ Needs. Children’s
New York City at a Glance is an overview of New York City lists highlights for young
the city’s attrac tions. New York City Area visitors, and the Survival Guide shows you
by Area guides you through the city’s sight- how to do everything from mailing a letter
seeing areas. It describes all the main sights to using the subway.

New York City
Area by Area
history and listing all the sights most interesting part of the area.
New York City has been divided covered in the section. Sights Finding your way around each
into 15 sightseeing areas, each are numbered and clearly area is made simple by the num-
described separately. Each area located on an Area Map. After bering system. This refers to the
opens with a portrait, summing this comes a large-scale Street- order in which sights are described
up the area’s character and by-Street Map focusing on the on the pages that follow.

Color-coding on each page makes
NE W Y ORK CIT Y AREA B Y AREA  163
the area easy to find in the book.
UPPER MIDTOWN
Upscale New York in all its diversity is here, in the Waldorf salad originated and, in 1934,
this district of churches and synagogues, clubs the Bloody Mary was first served at the King
and museums, grand hotels and famous stores, Cole Bar in the St. Regis Hotel. In the 1950s,
as well as trendsetting skyscrapers. Upper architectural history was made when the Lever
Midtown was once home to society names, and Seagram buildings were erected. Today,
such as Astor and Vanderbilt. The Waldorf the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), one of the Recommended restaurants in the
Astoria Hotel, completed in 1931, is where greatest art galleries in the world, stands here.
area are listed and plotted on the map.
Sights at a Glance
Historic Streets Modern Architecture Churches and Synagogues
and Buildings 3 IBM Building 4 St. Thomas Church
1 Fifth Avenue w Lever House 7 St. Patrick’s Cathedral pp174–5
8 Villard Houses e Seagram Building 9 St. Bartholomew’s Church
0 General Electric Building r Citigroup Center t Central Synagogue
y Sutton Place Museums and Galleries Landmark Hotels
u Roosevelt Island 5 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) q Waldorf-Astoria
p Fuller Building
pp168–71 a Plaza Hotel
6 Paley Center for Media Landmark Stores Numbered circles pinpoint all the
2 Tiffany & Co.
AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS WEST 55TH ST 57th St WEST 57TH ST GRAND ARMY PLAZA Fifth Ave- E A S T 59th St 4.5.6 6 0 T H Lexington Ave- Parks and Squares 500 listed sights on the area map.
o Bloomingdale’s
CENTRAL PARK S
59th St
N.Q.R
i Franklin D. Roosevelt
F
Roosevelt Island, for example, is u
F I F T H A V E N U E P A R K A V E N U E L E X I N G T O N A V E N U E E A S T E A S T S T R E E T 5 8 T H 5 9 T H 0 yards S T R E E T 500
Four Freedoms Park
59th St
N.Q.R

0 meters

M A D I S O N A V E N U E
WEST 54TH ST
E A S T
Fifth Ave-
WEST 53RD ST
53rd St
E.M
SWING STREET
C O N D A V E N U E
E A S T
Lexington Ave-

53rd St

AERIAL TRAMWAY
E.M
E A S T
5 5 T H

E AS T 51st St R D A V E N U E 5 7 T H S T R E E T S T R E E T SUTTON PL Queensboro Bridge

E A S T 5 6 T H S T R E E T
E A S T 49T H 6 E A S T 5 4 T H A locator map shows you where
E A S T S T R E E T ROAD
48T H S T REE T S TREE T T H I E A S T 5 2 N D 5 3 R D I R S T A V E N U E S T R E E T SUTTON PLACE S

S E S T R E E T WEST you are in relation to surrounding
5 1 S T
E A S T E A S T 5 0 T H S T R E E T F S T R E E T W e s t C h a n n e l ROOSEVELT

ISLAND

E A S T FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT DR (E RIVER DR)
S T R E E T
4 9 T H areas. The area of the Street-by-
4 8 T H
S T R E E T WEST ROAD ROAD
Street Map is highlighted.
EAST
S T R E E T
Restaurants see pp294–305
1 Aquavit
2 BLT Steak
3 Dawat
4 Felidia
5 Four Seasons
6 La Grenouille
7 Pampano
8 Rue 57
9 Shun Lee Palace
10 Smith & Wollensky See also Street Finder maps 12, 13, 14
Beautiful stained-glass windows inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral For keys to symbols see back flap
164  NE W Y ORK CIT Y AREA B Y AREA UPPER MID T OWN  165
Area Map Street by Street: Upper Midtown Trump Tower is CENTRAL PARK EAST SIDE UPPER
Donald Trump’s
signature tower
1For easy reference, the sights in The luxury stores that are Paley Park luxury residences. UPPER MIDTOWN
is a tiny
and contains
synonymous with Fifth Avenue
green oasis,
first blossomed as society
moved on uptown. In 1917, known as Roosevelt I.
a “vest-
each area are numbered and Cartier acquired the mansion 1 Fifth Avenue The University Club pocket” park. Locator Map East River
LOWER
MIDTOWN
was built in 1899 as
of banker Morton F. Plant,
supposedly in exchange for a
an elite club for
located on an area map. To help string of pearls, setting the Carriage rides have been replaced gentlemen. at the base of this polished See Manhattan Map pp16–17
3 IBM Building
with rickshaws and iconic yellow
style for other retailers to
A peaceful atrium is found
taxis, offering tourists more
Key
follow. But this stretch of
leisurely ways to view some
black granite building.
the visitor, the map also shows Midtown is not simply for of the main sights. distinctive “Chippendale” top. 0 meters Suggested route 100
shoppers. There are some
Sony Building has a very
distinctive museums and a
subway stations, heliports, and diverse assembly of archi­ 0 yards 100
tectural styles to enjoy, too.
ferry embarkation points. 4 St. Thomas Church w Lever House 2Tiffany & Co.
Renowned for its discreet
This building is one of
Much of the interior carving
luxury, this iconic store
the most prominent
contains many precious
was designed by sculptor
Lee Lawrie. A V E N U E “glass-box” buildings jewels (see p322).
in New York.
5. Museum A V E N U E
of Modern Art
Stars indicate the sights One of the
world’s finest
collections of
that no visitor should miss. modern art. E 5 3 R D S T
bulky glass prism containing
an airy atrium.
6 Paley Center M A D I S O N Park Avenue Plaza is a 0 General Electric Building
for Media The spiky pinnacle of
Exhibitions, seasons of F I F T H Racquet and Tennis Club, a Renaissance this building, built in 1931,
special screenings, live Fifth Avenue palazzo–style building, provides squash is meant to symbolize
events, and a vast library subway and tennis courts for its members. electrical waves.
of historic broadcasts (lines E, V)
are offered at this
media museum. 9 St. Bartholomew’s
Saks Fifth Avenue A V E N U E Church
has offered goods in E 5 1 S T S T A Byzantine dome sets this
impeccable taste to place apart from other
generations of New Midtown churches.
7. St. Patrick’s Yorkers (see p313). P A R K
Cathedral
This, one of the largest
Catholic cathedrals in
the United States, is a Olympic Tower
magnificent Gothic combines offices,
Revival building. apartments and a 51st Street
skylit atrium within subway (line 6)
its sleek walls.
8 Villard Houses q Waldorf-Astoria
Five handsome brownstone Old-world elegance has attracted
houses now form part of the
many famous guests to this hotel,
A suggested route for a walk Lotte New York Palace Hotel. from movie stars to heads of state.
takes in the most attractive and
interesting streets in the area. The Street-by-Street Map
2This gives a bird’s-eye view of the heart of each sightseeing
area. The numbering of the sights ties in with the area map
and the fuller descriptions on the pages that follow.
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