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P NEW Other Road JERSEY Allentown CITY Railway ATLANTIC The Main Dams or Philadelphia Pool OCEAN Waterways H Atlantic City ar lem River Cape May Park Delaware Bay TRAVEL GUIDE NEW YORK CITY Interchange Route 278 95 46 Numbers CONTENTS Tunnel Practical, informative and user-friendly, the 1. Introducing New York City NEW YORK CITY City Globetrotter Travel Guide to New York City Town or The Land • History in Brief Long Beach Village highlights the major places of interest, describing their Government and Economy • The People Liberty Place of Island Interest principal attractions and offering sound suggestions 2. Lower Airports on where to tour, stay, eat, shop and relax. The Best of Lower Manhattan Other Museums and Places of Interest T Toll Station The Civic Center and South Street Seaport

Town Plans The Author 3. and East Village Motorway and Michael Leech first visited New York City on airforce leave Lower East Side • East Village Interchange from Canada, returning to live there during the 1970s. 4. Greenwich Village,

Fifth Ave Main Road Now based in central London, he travels to New York City SoHo and TriBeCa W 53rd St Other Road Greenwich Village • SoHo • TriBeCa MALL Mall every year. He has written over 30 books, and 5. Chelsea and Railway extensively on North America for magazines including Sights to See • Old Residential Districts Monorail Hello and Essentially America. Built-up 6. Midtown Area The Garment District • Shopping Along of West • Murray Hill and East Building Interest NEW YORK CITY • – West Side Hospital Fifth Avenue – East Side

Times Place of 7. Square Interest • Museums PLAZA H Hotel Vital tips for visitors Published and distributed by Distributed in Africa by Distributed in the USA by 8. Upper West Side i Tourist Information New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd Map Studio The Globe Pequot Press Best places to stay, eat and shop Cultural Venues Central Park or London Johannesburg, Connecticut Walking on the West Side Park Garden Cape Town, Durban 9. and Washington Heights Bus Star-rated top attractions Terminus Around 125th Street P Parking Washington Heights I SBN 978-1-78009-428-1 Police Detailed regional profiles 10. Beyond Manhattan Station and S Shopping and Center Essential area and transport maps Long Island • Beaches • New Jersey Library Connecticut • Lower New York State Place of Best tours and excursions Worship 9 781780 094281

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Brooklyn Botanical Dutch West Indies Greenwich Village 5, 9, INDEX Garden 103 Company 11 10, 13, 19, 22, 45, Brooklyn Bridge 14, 15, Dutch settlers 9, 11, 12, 49, 51, 54 accommodation 114, 37 14, 31, 35 Ground Zero Museum 115, 116, 124 Brooklyn Heights 32, 102 Workshop 34 Aids Memorial 98 buskers 20 East Houston Street 39, Guggenheim Museum 85 Albany 6, 111 Butler Library 98 41 Gulf War 18 Algonquin Indians 9, 11, East River 6, 7 14 Canal Street 39, 40, 53, East Village 25, 45 Hamilton Grange 96 23 56 Easthampton 5 Hamptons, The 107 Alice Tully Hall 91 Cape May 109 eating out 116, 117, 118, Harlem 7, 10, 13, 14, 19, Alphabet City 41 Caribbean Islands 39 119, 124 95, 96 Amagansett 5, 107 15, 24, 72 Eighth Avenue 27 Harlem International American Civil War 14, 32 El Barrio 96, 97 Trade Center 96 15 Castro, Fidel 96 Ellis Island 14, 15, 31, Hartford 110 American Folk Art Cathedral of St John the 32, 33 Harvard Club 63 Museum 91 Divine 14, 21, 95, 98 Empire State Building 5, Haughwout Building 55 American Football 26 Cather, Willa 23 10, 14, 16, 18, 25, Hayden Planetarium 87, American Museum of Catskill Mountains 111 59, 62, 65 89, 93 Natural History 87, Central Park 5, 6, 7, 8, Erie Canal 13, 14 Hispanics 20, 21, 39 89, 92 10, 14, 15, 20, 21, history 11–17 Apollo Theater 24, 96 26, 81, 82, 83, 87, 92 FAO Schwarz 73 Holliday, Billy 97 Aqueduct Race Track Chagall 76, 85 National hotels 114, 115, 116 103 65, 72 Monument 35 Houston Street 40, 50 23, 24, 25, 35, Charles II 12 Federal Reserve Bank 35 Hudson River 5, 6, 14, 67, 71, 72, 75, 83, 93 Chelsea 10, 25, 59, 62 Fifth Avenue 5, 9, 10, 50, 16, 50, 53, 99, 111 Astor Place 52 Chelsea Hotel 23, 59, 62 52, 61, 63, 65, 72, Hudson, Henry 14 Atlantic City 109 Children’s Museum of 73, 74, 78, 81, 83, 36, 107, Audubon Terrace 96 Manhattan 93, 104 85, 90, 97, 99 109 Avenue of the Arts 10 Chinatown 28, 36, 39, Financial District 9, 13, Hyde Park 111 Avery Fisher Hall 24, 91 42, 43, 44 17, 25, 28, 31, 36, 56 Chinese New Year 40 Finger Lakes 111 immigrants 14, 15, 20, 33 Balanchine, George 24 Christopher Street 49, 51, Fire Island 5, 106, 107 International Center of Bank of Manhattan 62 52, 53 Flatiron Building 59, 61, Photography 74 Barnard College 95, 98 16, 25, 62 Bartholdi, Frédéric 32 62, 65, 71 Ford Foundation 72 Jacob K Javits Conference baseball 26 Church of the Fordham University 89 Center 68 basketball 26 Incarnation 72 95, 99 Jacques Marchais Center Battery, The 9, 31, 32, Citi Field 24, 26, 103 Fort Washington Park 99 of Tibetan Art 105 34, 37 City Hall 36 Fort Williams 32 James, Henry 23, 52 Bayard Building 42 Civic Center 31, 36 Four Seasons Restaurant Jefferson Market Bear Mountain 111 climate 7, 113, 121 27, 77 Courthouse 52, 53 82 Cloisters, The 95, 99 Fraunces Tavern 31, 34 Jewish Lower East Side 39 Bethesda Fountain 82 Colonnade, The 46 Frick Collection 74, 81, Jewish Museum 84 Bloomingdale’s 14, 68, Columbia University 12, 86 Judson Memorial Church 84 95, 98 59, 77 52 Boricua College 96 93 Fulton Fish Market 37 Juilliard School 24, 89 Boss Tweed 12 Columbus Day Parade 21 J W Marriott Essex House Bowery, The 39, 42, 44, Connecticut 101, 110 Garment District 65, 66 25, 27, 73 45 Cooper, Peter 46 General Electric Building Brighton Beach 107 Cooper Union 39, 45, 46 77 Kennedy Airport 102, 103 British Museum 85 Cotton Club 96, 97 George Washington Kennedy, John F 18 Broadway 9, 10, 22, 23, Coward, Noël 16 Bridge 95, 108 King, Martin Luther 18 25, 35, 44, 45, 47, Cuba 21, 28 Giants’ Stadium 26 Knickerbockers 26 50, 53, 55, 60, 61, Cushman Row 62 Giuliani, Mayor 18 Koch, Ed 15, 18 65, 74, 89, 91 customs 122 Goethe–Institut 55 Bronx, The 5, 7, 26 Grace Church 47 Lafayette Place 46 7, 87, 104 72 Gramercy Park 59, 62, 63 Lafayette Street 39 Brooklyn 5, 7, 10, 26, Dakota Apartments 92 Grand Central Station 25, LaGuardia Airport 103 102, 103 De Kooning 87 65, 71, 81 LaGuardia, Fiorello 14, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Delacorte Theater 83 14, 16, 16, 18 102 Dinkins, Mayor 18 17, 67 Lake Champlain 111

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Lambertville 109 National Academy Rose Center for Earth and Trinity Church 35 Lever Building 17 Museum 84 Space 92 9, 78 63 New Amsterdam 11, 12 Twain, Mark 110 Lincoln Center 5, 14, 17, New England 110 São Paulo 20 Tweed Courthouse 36 24, 53, 89, 90, 91 New Haven 110 St Mark’s in the Bowery Lind, Jenny 32 New Hope 109 45 St Mark’s Place 9, 47 Union Square 59, 60, 61 Litchfield 110 New Jersey 5, 26, 42, 53, St Patrick’s Cathedral United Nations Building Little Italy 22, 28, 39, 42, 56, 101, 108 21, 74, 79 17, 70 43 New London 110 St Paul’s Chapel 35 United States Custom Little Red Lighthouse 99 New York Aquarium Saks 73 House 34 Little Russia 107 32, 103, 107 San Francisco 22, 28, University Club 63 Long Island 5, 7, 27, 101, New York Botanical 40, 42, 43 Upper Broadway 23 106, 107, 109 Gardens 7, 104 Schermerhorn Row 37 Upper East Side 10, 19, Lord and Taylor’s 73 New York Historical 5, 17, 77 62, 81 Lower East Side 13, 15, Society 93 Seaport Liberty Cruise 37 Upper West Side 10, 13, 35, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45 New York Public Library shopping 119 22, 23, 89, 90 15, 65, 69 Siegal-Cooper 63 MacDougal Street 51 New York State Theater slavery 14, 95 Van Cortlandt House Macy’s 65, 68, 69 24, 91 Smithsonian Institute 34 Museum 104 73, New York Stock Exchange Snug Harbour 104, 105 Vanderbilt Mansion 111 83 35 SoHo 5, 10, 22, 49, 54, Van Gogh 85 New York University 52 57 Vaux, Calvert 82 24, 25, 26, 59, 61, 67 Newhouse Center 104 South Street Seaport Vermeer 86 Manhattan 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, Newport 110 31, 36, 111 Verrazano, Giovanni de 14 14, 17, 19, 29, 31, Nureyev, Rudolf 92 Spanish Harlem 19, 81, Victory Theater 15 32, 33, 34, 65, 72 95 Vivian Beaumont Theater Manhattan Antique Off-Broadway 23, 50 Spanish Museum 97 91 Center 73 O’Keeffe 87 Staten Island 5, 7, 32, 33, Marble Collegiate Old 63 101, 105 Waldorf-Astoria 25, 78 Church 72 Old Docks, The 37, 54 Staten Island Ferry 31, Walker, Jimmy 16 Mark Hotel 27 Olmsted, Frederick Law 33, 55 Wall Street 9, 16, 35 Merchant’s House 82, 93, 99 5, 14, War of Independence Museum 46 O’Neill, Eugene 110 15, 31, 32, 33 12, 14, 34, 99 Metropolitan Museum of One Wall Street 35 Stock Market Crash 14 Warhol, Andy 87 Art 15, 22, 81, 83, 85, Orchard Street 39, 41 Stonecutting Yard 98 Washington, George 12, 86 Stonewall Riots 53 34, 35, 52, 104 Metropolitan Opera Pan Am Building 72 Strand Book Store 52, 90 Washington Heights 10, House 90, 91 Paramount Hotel 27 Striver’s Row 96 95, 98–99 Midtown 5, 10, 13, 19, 65, 83 Stuyvesant, Peter 11, 14, Washington Memorial 22, 25, 59, 63, 65, 91 Parker, Charlie 97 45, 103 Gallery 34 Millennium Hotel 27 Pennsylvania Station Symphony Space 93 Washington Square 49, Mills Mansion 111 25, 67, 106 52, 53, Moore, Clement 62 Picasso 76, 85 Tammany Hall 12 West Point Military More, Thomas 87 Plaza 73, 78 TKTS (Theater tickets) Academy 111 Morgan Library and Poe, Edgar Allan 50 Booth 23, 25, 74 Wharton, Edith 23 Museum 65, 70 Pollock 87 Temple Emmanu-El 87 Whitney Museum 81, 87 Morningside Park 95, Princeton 101, 108 Theater District 13, 27 Wildlife Conservation 98 Prohibition 14, 96 Theodore Roosevelt’s Center 8 Mott Street 44 Puck Building 42 Birthplace 63 Winter Garden 34 Mulberry Street 43 Theological Seminary 62 10 Murray Hill 70 Quakers 11, 103 Tiffany’s 73 World Financial Center Museo del Barrio 84, 97 Queens 5, 7, 102, 103 23, 65, 74 34 Museum of Chinese in the 47 World Trade Center 14, Americas 45 tourist information centres 19, 31, 34, 35, 62 Museum of Jewish 23, 25, 75 121, 122 World Trade Towers 17 Heritage 34 restaurants 116–119 tours 120, 121 Wright, Frank Lloyd 85 Rhode Island 110 transport 113, 114 Wright, Wilbur 14 22, 65, 76 Richmond 5, 105 travel tips 122–126 Museum of the American Riverside Park 89, 93 Triangle Shirtwaist Yale 110 Indian 34 Riverside Church 89 Factory 15 Yiddish 21 Museum of the City 7, 16, TriBeCa 10, 22, 49, 56, of New York 84 25, 65, 74, 75, 78 57 Zabar’s 93

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