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This newly updated pocket travel guide for New York City will lead you straight to the best attractions the city has to offer, from unearthing archaeological treasures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to biking through Central Park to discovering the citys hottest neighborhoods on walking tours. Plus, check out the best of the boroughs with suggested highlights for Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, The Bronx, and upper Manhattan.
Expert travel writers have fully revised this edition of DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 New York City.
Brand-new itineraries help you plan your trip to New York City.
Expanded and far more comprehensive, new laminated pull-out map now includes color-coded design, public transportation maps, and street indexes to make it even easier to use.
Maps of walking routes show you the best ways to maximize your time.
New Top 10 lists feature off-the-beaten-track ideas, along with standbys like the top attractions, shopping, dining options, and more.
Additional maps marked with sights from the guidebook are shown on inside cover flaps, with selected street index and metro map.
New typography and fresh layout throughout.
Youll still find DKs famous full-color photography and museum floor plans, along with just the right amount of coverage of the citys history and culture. A free pull-out city map is marked with sights from the guidebook and includes a street index and a metro map.
The perfect pocket-size travel companion: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 New York City.
DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: the most maps, photographs, and illustrations of any guide.
Table of Contents
Welcome to New York
Exploring New York
Top 10 New York Highlights: Empire State Building, Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Times Square and Theater District, Central Park, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, American Museum of Natural History
The Top 10 of Everything: Figures in New York History, Museums, Art Galleries, New York SkyscrapersHistoric Buildings, Off The Beaten Path, Places for Children, Gay and Lesbian New York, Performing Arts Venues, Music Venues, Restaurants, Bars and Lounges, New York Stores, New York for Free, Festivals and Events
New York Area by Area: Lower Manhattan, Civic Center and South Street Seaport, Chinatown and Little Italy, Lower East Side and East Village, SoHo and TriBeCa, Greenwich Village, Union Square, Gramercy Park, and Flatiron, Chelsea and Herald Square, Midtown, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Morningside Heights and Harlem, The Outer Boroughs
Streetsmart: Getting To and Around New York, Practical Information, Places to Stay
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The Empire State Building is the most famous skyscraper in New York. More than 120 million visitors, including such luminaries as Queen Elizabeth II, have gazed down on the city from the observatories since it opened in 1931. Planned in the prosperous 1920s by the architectural firm of Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, this Art Deco classic was completed during the Depression and was largely vacant for several years, giving rise to the nickname Empty State Building. It has been featured in countless movies, most famously King Kong.
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350 5th Ave, at 34th St www.esbnyc.com Open 8am2am daily Main Deck adults $32, seniors (62+) $29, children (612) $26, express ticket $55 for all Top Deck add $20; military in uniform and kids under 6 free; multimedia guide included with all tickets No bags over carry-on size allowed - There are a number of restaurants and shops on the ground level.
- Visit at the end of the day to watch the city lights turn on.
Empire State Building
A mooring mast for airships, now the base of a TV tower, was built to ensure the 102-story, 1,454-ft (443-m) building would be taller than the Chrysler Building.
The main lobby houses a 36-ft (11-m) Art Deco relief that showcases the Empire State Building image in steel, aluminum, and gold leaf with dramatic impact.
Lobby Mural
Visitors can ride to the 86th floor in 45 seconds 1,400 ft (427 m) per minute in one of 73 Art Deco elevators. The last ride is at 1:15am.
Breathtaking views from the 86th floors open-air observatory, 1,050 ft (320 m) above the city, attract more than 3.5 million visitors yearly.
Visibility on a clear day from the 102nd-floor deck is up to 80 miles (130 km). Tickets are sold in advance online or upon arrival at the second-floor Visitors Center ($20 extra).
102nd Floor Observatory
The spire is lit to honor holidays, seasons, events, causes, and the many ethnic groups of New York: red, white, and blue for national holidays; green for St. Patricks Day; and blue and white for Hanukkah.
Spire
Each February, following a tradition dating to 1978, hundreds of runners race up the 1,576 steps from the lobby to the 86th floor.
Empire State Run-up
Weddings have been an Empire State Building tradition since 1994. Every year, 14 lucky couples are selected to get married on the one day that the ceremony is conducted here.
A virtual reality, big-screen simulation of a helicopter ride takes viewers over, under, and through the citys best-known landmarks.
Four display windows in the marble-clad Fifth Avenue lobby exhibit art and memorabilia from the citys museums, galleries, and artists. Exhibits change regularly.
William F. Lamb designed the building, following a brief to make it big. It took only 410 days to build the 102-story, 365,000-ton limestone and granite skyscraper, with an average of four and a half stories added every week. However, in one outstanding ten-day period, the 3,500-strong construction team completed ten stories. Due to the buildings relatively shallow foundations, 60,000 tons of steel beams were used to support the tower.
Fifth Avenue is New Yorks best-known boulevard and home to three of its most famous buildings. In the late 1800s, it was lined with mansions belonging to prominent families, but as retailers moved north in the 1900s, society fled uptown. One remaining former mansion is the Cartier building, reputedly acquired from banker Morton F. Plant in 1917 in exchange for a string of pearls. Although commercial enterprises now share the avenue, it has remained a mecca for luxury goods.
New York Public Library: 212 930 0800 on 34th St, to the Grand Army Plaza, 59th St, a walk of just over 1 mile (1.6 km) - Free tours of the New York Public Library: 11am and 2pm MonSat, and 2pm on Sun; theres no need to book for groups of fewer than 10 people.
- St. Patricks Cathedral is open to visitors 6:30am8:45pm daily. Frequent services MonSat; 7, 8, 9, 10:15am & noon, 1 & 5:30pm Sun
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This ornamented plaza is presided over by the 1907 Plaza Hotel and Augustus Saint-Gaudens statue of General William T. Sherman. Hansom cab rides through Central Park can be boarded here.
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