Travel Tips For New York City

New York, New York - so good they named it twice -foreign restaurants.
is one of the most fascinating, exciting and culturalShopping in New York is equally satisfying, offering
cities in the world. Within the 20 square miles thatworld class department stores with such famous
comprise Manhattan can be found some of thenames as Bergdorf Goodman and Bloomingdales. At
world's greatest museums, shops and restaurants, asthe other end of the shopping spectrum are street
well as a spectacular skyline that's known the worldmarkets, designer boutiques and specialty stores.
over.New York has some of the greatest museums in the
You could spend a lifetime in New York withoutworld - several conveniently located together at the
experiencing everything fully. Some of the sights thatedge of Central Park. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
any first time visitor to New York must see include theattracts more visitors than any other place in the city
Empire State Building - for many years the world'sand offers everything from Egyptian mummies to 20th
tallest building - the immigration museum at Ellis Island,century masterpieces.
the Statue of Liberty, Times Square and the UnitedOn the other hand the city has over 50 smaller but
Nations Building.fascinating museums dedicated to such diverse
One of the joys of visiting the city is simply to wandersubjects as firefighting, tenement living and the history
through the different and varied neighborhoods -of finance. Children are not forgotten - there are
Greenwich Village, Chinatown, the Theater District,several museums aimed at children as well as the
Harlem and Little Italy. The outlying borough of Brooklynever popular Bronx Zoo with its more than 4,000
has several attractions including the botanical gardensanimals.
and the famous amusement park at Coney Island.Since the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001,
One of the biggest attractions is the city's diversity - inone of New York's biggest attractions has been the
New York you can hear virtually any language spokenremains of the World Trade Center in Lower
and dine in a different ethnic restaurant every night forManhattan. More than a tourist attraction, to many it's a
a month. Apart from Manhattan, the borough ofsite of pilgrimage and a poignant reminder of the
Queens is also well known for its wide selection ofevents of that day.