globetrotter new york travel pack
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The highly successful Globetrotter Travel Series covers more than 90 destinations worldwide. The travel packs are excellent value, including both a guidebook and a soft cover fold-out Globetrotter map of the region, in a printed plastic wallet. The handy pocket-size guide is packed with useful information, tips and recommendations, accompanied by colour photographs, charts and maps for the first-time traveller who wants to experience the major highlights that New York City has to offer. The fold-out map of New York City is ideal for tourists and visitors. Contents include Lower Manhattan, Lower East Side and East Village, Greenwich Village, SoHo and TriBeCa, Chelsea and Gramercy Park, Midtown, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Harlem and Washington Heights and beyond Manhattan.TRANSCRIPT
NEW YORK CITY
NEW YORK CITY
Vital tips for visitors
Best places to stay, eat and shop
Star-rated top attractions
Detailed regional profiles
Essential area and transport maps
Best tours and excursions
Practical, informative and user-friendly, the Globetrotter Travel Guide to New York City
highlights the major places of interest, describing their principal attractions and offering sound suggestions
on where to tour, stay, eat, shop and relax.
The AuThor
Michael Leech first visited New York City on airforce leave from Canada, returning to live there during the 1970s.
Now based in central London, he travels to New York City every year. He has written over 30 books, and
extensively on North America for magazines including Hello and Essentially America.
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N E WH O L L A N D
1. Introducing New York City
2. Lower Manhattan
3. Lower East Side and East Village
4. Greenwich Village, SoHo and TriBeCa
5. Chelsea and Gramercy Park
6. Midtown
8. Upper West Side
9. Harlem and Washington Heights
10. Beyond Manhattan
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CONTENTS
The Land • History in Brief
Government and Economy • The People
The Best of Lower ManhattanOther Museums and Places of Interest
The Civic Center and South Street Seaport
Lower East Side • East Village
Greenwich Village • SoHo • TriBeCa
Sights to See • Old Residential Districts
The Garment District • Shopping Along West 34th Street • Murray Hill and East 42nd Street • Fifth Avenue – West Side
Fifth Avenue – East Side
Central Park • Museums
Cultural VenuesWalking on the West Side
Around 125th StreetWashington Heights
Brooklyn and QueensThe Bronx and Staten Island
Long Island • Beaches • New JerseyConnecticut • Lower New York State
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INDEXaccommodation 114,
115, 116, 124Aids Memorial 98Albany 6, 111Algonquin Indians 9, 11,
14Algonquin Hotel 23Alice Tully Hall 91Alphabet City 41Amagansett 5, 107American Civil War 14,
15American Folk Art
Museum 91American Football 26American Museum of
Natural History 87, 89, 92
Apollo Theater 24, 96Aqueduct Race Track
103Art Deco 23, 24, 25, 35,
67, 71, 72, 75, 83, 93Astor Place 52Atlantic City 109Audubon Terrace 96Avenue of the Arts 10Avery Fisher Hall 24, 91
Balanchine, George 24Bank of Manhattan 62Barnard College 95, 98Bartholdi, Frédéric 32baseball 26basketball 26Battery, The 9, 31, 32,
34, 37Bayard Building 42Bear Mountain 111Belvedere Castle 82Bethesda Fountain 82Bloomingdale’s 14, 68,
84Boricua College 96Boss Tweed 12Bowery, The 39, 42, 44,
45Brighton Beach 107British Museum 85Broadway 9, 10, 22, 23,
25, 35, 44, 45, 47, 50, 53, 55, 60, 61, 65, 74, 89, 91
Bronx, The 5, 7, 26Bronx Zoo 7, 87, 104Brooklyn 5, 7, 10, 26,
102, 103Brooklyn Battery Tunnel
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Brooklyn Botanical Garden 103
Brooklyn Bridge 14, 15, 37
Brooklyn Heights 32, 102buskers 20Butler Library 98
Canal Street 39, 40, 53, 56
Cape May 109Caribbean Islands 39Carnegie Hall 15, 24, 72Castle Clinton 32Castro, Fidel 96Cathedral of St John the
Divine 14, 21, 95, 98Cather, Willa 23Catskill Mountains 111 Central Park 5, 6, 7, 8,
10, 14, 15, 20, 21, 26, 81, 82, 83, 87, 92
Chagall 76, 85Chanin Building 65, 72Charles II 12Chelsea 10, 25, 59, 62Chelsea Hotel 23, 59, 62Children’s Museum of
Manhattan 93, 104Chinatown 28, 36, 39,
42, 43, 44Chinese New Year 40Christopher Street 49, 51,
52, 53Chrysler building 16, 25,
62, 65, 71Church of the
Incarnation 72Citi Field 24, 26, 103City Hall 36Civic Center 31, 36climate 7, 113, 121Cloisters, The 95, 99Colonnade, The 46Columbia University 12,
95, 98Columbus Circle 93Columbus Day Parade 21Connecticut 101, 110Cooper, Peter 46Cooper Union 39, 45, 46Cotton Club 96, 97Coward, Noël 16Cuba 21, 28Cushman Row 62customs 122
Daily News Building 72Dakota Apartments 92De Kooning 87Delacorte Theater 83Dinkins, Mayor 18
Dutch West Indies Company 11
Dutch settlers 9, 11, 12, 14, 31, 35
East Houston Street 39, 41
East River 6, 7East Village 25, 45Easthampton 5eating out 116, 117, 118,
119, 124Eighth Avenue 27El Barrio 96, 97Ellis Island 14, 15, 31,
32, 33Empire State Building 5,
10, 14, 16, 18, 25, 59, 62, 65
Erie Canal 13, 14
FAO Schwarz 73Federal Hall National
Monument 35Federal Reserve Bank 35Fifth Avenue 5, 9, 10, 50,
52, 61, 63, 65, 72, 73, 74, 78, 81, 83, 85, 90, 97, 99
Financial District 9, 13, 17, 25, 28, 31, 36, 56
Finger Lakes 111Fire Island 5, 106, 107Flatiron Building 59, 61,
62Ford Foundation 72Fordham University 89Fort Tryon Park 95, 99Fort Washington Park 99Fort Williams 32Four Seasons Restaurant
27, 77Fraunces Tavern 31, 34Frick Collection 74, 81,
86Fuller Building 59, 77Fulton Fish Market 37
Garment District 65, 66General Electric Building
77George Washington
Bridge 95, 108Giants’ Stadium 26Giuliani, Mayor 18Goethe–Institut 55Grace Church 47Gramercy Park 59, 62, 63Grand Central Station 25,
65, 71, 81Great Depression 14, 16,
17, 67
Greenwich Village 5, 9, 10, 13, 19, 22, 45, 49, 51, 54
Ground Zero MuseumWorkshop 34
Guggenheim Museum 85Gulf War 18
Hamilton Grange 96Hamptons, The 107Harlem 7, 10, 13, 14, 19,
95, 96 Harlem International
Trade Center 96Hartford 110Harvard Club 63Haughwout Building 55Hayden Planetarium 87,
89, 93Hispanics 20, 21, 39history 11–17Holliday, Billy 97hotels 114, 115, 116Houston Street 40, 50Hudson River 5, 6, 14,
16, 50, 53, 99, 111Hudson, Henry 14Hurricane Sandy 36, 107,
109Hyde Park 111
immigrants 14, 15, 20, 33International Center of
Photography 74
Jacob K Javits Conference Center 68
Jacques Marchais Center of Tibetan Art 105
James, Henry 23, 52Jefferson Market
Courthouse 52, 53Jewish Lower East Side 39Jewish Museum 84Judson Memorial Church
52Juilliard School 24, 89J W Marriott Essex House
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Kennedy Airport 102, 103Kennedy, John F 18King, Martin Luther 18Knickerbockers 26Koch, Ed 15, 18
Lafayette Place 46Lafayette Street 39LaGuardia Airport 103LaGuardia, Fiorello 14,
16, 18Lake Champlain 111
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Lambertville 109Lever Building 17Lexington Avenue 63Lincoln Center 5, 14, 17,
24, 53, 89, 90, 91Lind, Jenny 32Litchfield 110Little Italy 22, 28, 39, 42,
43Little Red Lighthouse 99Little Russia 107Long Island 5, 7, 27, 101,
106, 107, 109Lord and Taylor’s 73Lower East Side 13, 15,
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MacDougal Street 51Macy’s 65, 68, 69Madison Avenue 73,
83Madison Square Garden
24, 25, 26, 59, 61, 67Manhattan 5, 6, 7, 9, 13,
14, 17, 19, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 65, 72
Manhattan Antique Center 73
Marble Collegiate Church 72
Mark Hotel 27Merchant’s House
Museum 46Metropolitan Museum of
Art 15, 22, 81, 83, 85, 86
Metropolitan Opera House 90, 91
Midtown 5, 10, 13, 19,22, 25, 59, 63, 65, 91Millennium Hotel 27Mills Mansion 111Moore, Clement 62More, Thomas 87Morgan Library and
Museum 65, 70Morningside Park 95,
98Mott Street 44Mulberry Street 43Murray Hill 70Museo del Barrio 84, 97Museum of Chinese in the
Americas 45Museum of Jewish
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22, 65, 76Museum of the American
Indian 34Museum of the City
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National Academy Museum 84
New Amsterdam 11, 12New England 110New Haven 110New Hope 109New Jersey 5, 26, 42, 53,
56, 101, 108New London 110New York Aquarium
32, 103, 107New York Botanical
Gardens 7, 104New York Historical
Society 93New York Public Library
15, 65, 69New York State Theater
24, 91New York Stock Exchange
35New York University 52Newhouse Center 104Newport 110Nureyev, Rudolf 92
Off-Broadway 23, 50O’Keeffe 87Old Colony Club 63Old Docks, The 37, 54Olmsted, Frederick Law
82, 93, 99O’Neill, Eugene 110One Wall Street 35Orchard Street 39, 41
Pan Am Building 72Paramount Hotel 27Park Avenue 65, 83Parker, Charlie 97Pennsylvania Station
25, 67, 106Picasso 76, 85Plaza 73, 78Poe, Edgar Allan 50Pollock 87Princeton 101, 108Prohibition 14, 96Puck Building 42
Quakers 11, 103Queens 5, 7, 102, 103
Radio City Music Hall 23, 25, 75
restaurants 116–119Rhode Island 110Richmond 5, 105Riverside Park 89, 93Riverside Church 89Rockefeller Center 7, 16,
25, 65, 74, 75, 78
Rose Center for Earth and Space 92
São Paulo 20St Mark’s in the Bowery45 St Mark’s Place 9, 47St Patrick’s Cathedral
21, 74, 79St Paul’s Chapel 35Saks 73San Francisco 22, 28,
40, 42, 43Schermerhorn Row 37Seagram Building 5, 17, 77Seaport Liberty Cruise 37shopping 119Siegal-Cooper 63slavery 14, 95Smithsonian Institute 34Snug Harbour 104, 105SoHo 5, 10, 22, 49, 54,
57South Street Seaport
31, 36, 111Spanish Harlem 19, 81,
95Spanish Museum 97Staten Island 5, 7, 32, 33,
101, 105Staten Island Ferry 31,
33, 55Statue of Liberty 5, 14,
15, 31, 32, 33Stock Market Crash 14Stonecutting Yard 98Stonewall Riots 53Strand Book Store 52, 90Striver’s Row 96Stuyvesant, Peter 11, 14,
45, 103Symphony Space 93
Tammany Hall 12TKTS (Theater tickets)
Booth 23, 25, 74Temple Emmanu-El 87Theater District 13, 27Theodore Roosevelt’s
Birthplace 63Theological Seminary 62Tiffany’s 73Times Square 23, 65, 74Tompkins Square Park 47tourist information centres
121, 122tours 120, 121transport 113, 114travel tips 122–126Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory 15TriBeCa 10, 22, 49, 56,
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Trinity Church 35Trump Tower 9, 78Twain, Mark 110Tweed Courthouse 36
Union Square 59, 60, 61United Nations Building
17, 70United States Custom
House 34University Club 63Upper Broadway 23Upper East Side 10, 19,
62, 81Upper West Side 10, 13,
22, 23, 89, 90
Van Cortlandt House Museum 104
Vanderbilt Mansion 111Van Gogh 85Vaux, Calvert 82Vermeer 86Verrazano, Giovanni de 14Victory Theater 15Vivian Beaumont Theater
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Waldorf-Astoria 25, 78Walker, Jimmy 16Wall Street 9, 16, 35War of Independence
12, 14, 34, 99Warhol, Andy 87Washington, George 12,
34, 35, 52, 104Washington Heights 10,
95, 98–99Washington Memorial
Gallery 34Washington Square 49,
52, 53, West Point Military
Academy 111Wharton, Edith 23Whitney Museum 81, 87Wildlife Conservation
Center 8Winter Garden 34Woolworth Building 10World Financial Center
34World Trade Center 14,
19, 31, 34, 35, 62World Trade Towers 17Wright, Frank Lloyd 85Wright, Wilbur 14
Yale 110Yiddish 21
Zabar’s 93
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