New York City Things To Do

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Central Park

Central Park's creators had a simple goal: to design a place where city dwellers could go to forget the city. Even though New York eventually...

Brooklyn Bridge

A drive-through cathedral" is how the journalist James Wolcott described the Brooklyn Bridge, one of New York's noblest and most recognized...

Ellis Island

Between 1892 and 1924 approximately 12 million men, women, and children first set foot on U.S. soil at the Ellis Island federal immigration...

Governors Island

Governors Island is open to the public from May to October: get there via a short, free ferry ride. It's essentially a big, charming park that...

Staten Island Ferry

Every day, some 70,000 people ride the free ferry to Staten Island, one of the city's outer boroughs, and you should be one of them. Without...

The Statue of Liberty

For millions of immigrants, the first glimpse of America was the Statue of Liberty, growing from a vaguely defined figure on the horizon into...

Washington Square Park

NYU students, street musicians, skateboarders, jugglers, chess players, and those just watching the grand opera of it all generate a maelstrom...

The High Line

Once a railroad track carrying freight trains, this elevated space has been transformed into one of the city’s top attractions—a 1½-mile landscaped...

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Housing one of the world's finest collections of modern art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is renowned for its permanent exhibits, which include...

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark nautilus-like museum building is renowned as much for its famous architecture as for its superlative collection...
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