Travel Tips For New York City

ork, New York – so good they named it twicefor its wide selection of foreign restaurants.
– is one of the most fascinating, exciting andShopping in New York is equally satisfying, offering
cultural cities in the world. Within the 20 square milesworld class department stores with such famous
that comprise Manhattan can be found some of thenames as Bergdorf Goodman and Bloomingdales. At
world’s greatest museums, shops andthe other end of the shopping spectrum are street
restaurants, as well as a spectacular skylinemarkets, designer boutiques and specialty stores.
that’s known the world 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
experiencing everything fully. Some of the sights thatthe edge of Central Park. The Metropolitan Museum of
any first time visitor to New York must see include theArt attracts more visitors than any other place in the
Empire State Building - for many years thecity and offers everything from Egyptian mummies to
world’s tallest building - the immigration museum20th century masterpieces.
at Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, Times Square andOn the other hand the city has over 50 smaller but
the United 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’sone of New York’s biggest attractions has
diversity - in New York you can hear virtually anybeen the remains of the World Trade Center in Lower
language spoken and dine in a different ethnicManhattan. More than a tourist attraction, to many
restaurant every night for a month. Apart fromit’s a site of pilgrimage and a poignant reminder
Manhattan, the borough of Queens is also well knownof the events of that day.