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]]> http://newyorktouristattractions.net/linkpartners.html/feed Top of the Rock http://newyorktouristattractions.net/top-of-the-rock.html http://newyorktouristattractions.net/top-of-the-rock.html#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:15:56 +0000 admin http://newyorktouristattractions.net/?p=29

Have you ever visited New York? If yes, then you must have gone to the Top of the Rock. If no, then you have missed a big experience and you must repeat your tour to New York. The spot named as the Top of the Rock is considered to be the main charm of the Rockefeller Center. This is basically an observation deck situated at the Rockefeller Center of midtown Manhattan. The Rockefeller Center is a 102 stories building out of which the top three stories offer the most amazing view of the city of New York.

You will find the entrance of this place next to the Radio City Hall. This place is located at the 50th Street of New York City. The first thing which will bring a feel good factor in your mind is the spectacular Swarovski chandelier having 14000 crystals greeting all the visitors at the lobby. Once you enter the place you will be in the verge of some extraordinary experiences. Once you have ascended the meandering staircase, you will come into a mezzanine, which has time line related to the historical accounts of the Rockefeller Center.

If you are at the photo opportunity region, you will get to rest on a metallic beam and reconstruct your own edition of the legendary photograph by Charles Ebbets, created in 1932.

While you are engaged in such an activity, you can look down to see the animation showing the probable incidents occurring inside the workers when they received a break on the summer afternoon. You can easily miss this wonderful scene, so just keep your eyes glued to the ground.

Then you will get to enter the two-lane path having a mini movie theater. Here you will be shown for minute films based on the history of the NBC Studio, Rockefeller Center, and the secret tricks for becoming a famous Rockett. Next the elevator will take you into the observation tower i.e. the Top of the Rock.

If you are interested to have the nicest view of the city of New York, then you must not miss this experience. The ride on the elevator acts as an enthralling experience. You will find blue lights to illuminate while passing through each floor, and a many historic images continually flash on the ceiling. This will create an environment of a time machine taking you to some other era.

Now as you reach the two story long 67th floor you will be able to have an extraordinary and clear 360 degree view of the city of New York. The clear glass covers makes the view even more exciting and lucid. You will also be able to locate the Empire State Building from the observation deck at the Top of the Rock. Thus as you climb up to this place, you can catch the glimpse of the entire city at a time.

]]> http://newyorktouristattractions.net/top-of-the-rock.html/feed New York Times Square http://newyorktouristattractions.net/new-york-times-square.html http://newyorktouristattractions.net/new-york-times-square.html#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:14:41 +0000 admin http://newyorktouristattractions.net/?p=27

If you have not visited Times Square in New York, then you have just not completed a successful tour of the richest city of the world. This place is situated at the 42nd street of the city of New York. If you are interested in the night life of the city, then this place is a must see for you. Times Square is also the hub of the theater life of New York City. You will be immensely entertained once you visit this part of the city. Each and every moment of the day Times Square gives birth to some kind of excitements.

If you want to discover the real New York, then this place will act as your best guide. Go and watch a show at the Broadway theatre. This legendary place is situated at the heart of Times Square. The entire area of Times Square has close to 50 theatres. All of them are unique in their own right.  You will also get a number of cinema halls, restaurants, bars and shops in this part of the city of New York.

This place is never low in its energy and is often called the Crossroads of the World. You will never find any other theater hubs in the world like you see in this part. The theatre district of Times Square is burning with neon lights along with gigantic TV screens. This place is always bustling with energy. This is the best place to have an experience of the busy streets of New York City.

This place attracts more that 30 million visitors every year. If you are visiting this place for the first time, you must be ready to face some daunting experiences. The constant traffic and the crowd may make you feel a little sick, but once you will start enjoying the energy of the place you will come back here again and again.

This place is very well known place for spending the New Year’s Eve. People from all around the world gather here to spend the last day of the year at this exciting place.

Times Square is the home to some of the most famous restaurants of the city of New York. You will get to refresh your taste buds in all those restaurants having the exclusive cuisines prepared there. Just because Times Square has a mall like appearance, doesn’t prove that this place has extravagant and costly restaurants. You may be the richest or a man from a middleclass background, this place will offer you cuisines of all kind from across the world. One thing that can be assured about this place, is the taste of the food, which will always be the best.

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You may not have visited the city of New York, but the name ‘Statue of Liberty’ must have excited you since your childhood. So, whenever you get a chance to visit the New York City, remember to include this site in your tour chart. This is one of the reason, which makes New York the top ranked tourist destinations of the world. This place acts as a magnet and gets the tourists from around the planet to visit this rich and prosperous city of America.

This attractive site is situated on a petite island at the the centre of the harbor of the city of New York. The Statue of Liberty is designed by the famous sculpture Frederick Bertholdi. This was a souvenir of worldwide friendship coming from France in memorial of the centennial anniversary of USA in 1876. You will have a unique feeling as you will see this 151 ft high monument. It stands on top of a granite pedestal over the fence of an abutment. This abutment is of a star shape.

The best of having fun here is visiting the statue and sight it from a close range. You can do this by having a ride on the special ferries from the Battery Park. All the excursions available at this place include a journey to the Ellis Island and the Immigration Museum on it, which are very close to the Statue of Liberty. Both the Ellis Island and the Liberty Island are kept opened for the visitors from 9 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon. And on the Christmas day this place has completely separate rules. The Ferry tickets charges as high as $11.50 for the adults and only $4.50 for the infants and the children.

You will get to purchase your Ferry Ticket from the Battery Park and also from the Museum situated at the Liberty State Park. If you want to book your ticket even before visiting the city, you can do it quite comfortably. You will be allowed to purchase ticket in advance for a gap of up to six months. This can be done either by internet or telephone. If you call 1-866-782-8834 you will get to reserve your sit in the Ferry ride and for booking your ride on the internet you will have to visit statuereservations.com/online.asp.

The Statue of Liberty is an immensely beautiful structure. You will never feel that you have spent much for experiencing this wonderful view. You will not be able to go into the statue, but what you can do is have a tour across the walkway situated at the foot of the huge statue. You can also go into the observatory within the base to have a look at the structure of the Statue of Liberty. You will not have to pay any extra money for this tour.

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The Rockefeller Center is one of the major tourist destinations of New York City. It is comprised of nineteen commercial buildings and covers almost 22 acres of land between the 48th and the 51st Streets of the city of New York. This centre was built in time of Great Depression during the 1930. The name is borrowed from the name of its creator John D. Rockefeller.

The best time to visit this destination is Christmas. You will enjoy this place the most if you come here during the month of December. Christmas time at the Rockefeller Center can be considered as one of the most significant American traditions. The special and creative lighting of Christmas tree attracts the public to visit this place during this particular time of the year.

This place experiences record mob and highest television coverage in the time of Christmas and New Year. You will also have another pleasant experience while skating in the park of the Rockefeller Center. The park is a quite romantic place and you can spend some good time here either with your lover or spouse.

Although December is the most suitable time to visit this place, you will also not feel deprived if you come to this place during some other time of the year.  You will not have to wait for December for visiting this beautiful place. The Rockefeller Center is an impressive exhibition of human originality and creativity.

You will find an underground Concourse here at the Rockefeller Center. This part of the Center is considered to be one of the most fascinating portions of the centre.  The concourse is considered as the largest underground establishment of the city of New York. You will come across a number of fast food centers, restaurants and retail shops in this part of the Rockefeller Centre.

The most appealing and exciting areas of this place are the two shopping corridors situated parallel to each other and a horseshoe corridor near the skating surface. These corridors serve well in bad weather conditions, by letting people move from one Rockefeller Building to another.

This center is considered to be among the most esteemed office complexes of Manhattan Island. The Rockefeller Center acts as the hub of activities for a large number of people living in New York. People love to accept this place as a symbol of the pride of their country and city.

You will often get to hear the nickname ‘Rock’ for this place. If you are interested to have a room at a nearby Hotel, you will not have to search much. Hotel like ‘The Rockefeller Center Hotel’ is just a few minutes away from its ice skating rink. So, what are you waiting for? Just book a ticket and visit New York. Only then you will get to see this artistic human-creation.

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One of the must sees in the city of New York is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is one of the most popular sites of the New York City. In a single year this place is visited by almost five million visitors. This place has something to offer for everyone. The huge size of this building will make spell bound, but the things in offer here will provide you some pleasant experiences. This is a place having exclusive works of art.

This place will be easy to locate if you know the exact location of another famous destination of the city of New York, i.e. the Central Park. If you come to the eastern border of the Central Park, you will find the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You will get to see artistic works from all over the world at this awesome museum.

This is regarded to be a universal museum. You will find arts belonging to all kinds of categories coming from every corner of the earth in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. If you analyze it differently, you will also get to see work of art in all possible mediums and on all famous happenings in the history of this planet. You can visit this place to make a research on the comparison of arts of different parts of the world.

Once you visit the city of New York you will get to see many large museums, but the Metropolitan Museum is the most gigantic in its structure. It has tall columns and big windows, huge stairways and nicely designed water fountains. It will not be wrong if you describe or compare this museum with the palace of an emperor.

Like the size of the building the sizes of the art works on display are also very big. The art works scans the Stone Age as well as the twentieth century. If you visit the art gallery of Egypt you will get to see an entire temple brought to USA from Egypt as a souvenir.
Although this place is too big to travel, it is quite easy to navigate through this place. If you are lost in the meandering ways of this enormous building, you will always get to ask the direction from the museum personnel. You will always manage to find museum personnel near you no matter where you are.  He or she can provide you information about the path of the museum. If you have plans to visit the Met you have to keep one full day for this purpose. Visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art is not a matter of a few hours. It will take a whole day, if you want to have a look at all its belongings properly.

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Once you reach the city of New York, you will come across a number of tourist attractions. Most of them have their individual significances in the daily life of the city. One such popular destination of the tourists is the Grand Central Terminal. This generally considered as one of the most visited sites of New York. But the Grand Central Terminal can not be listed only among the famous tourist spots.  This place is considered to be one of the busiest railway stations of the world. More than Over 150,000 people walk through this place as daily passengers.

If you visit this place you will have a unique experience only by watching the commuters. You’ll be highly surprised to see the way people walk up and down this place walking at a record breaking speed. People are always at their highest possible speed when they pass through the stairs, escalators and ramps of this eventful terminal.  The confusion created by the speed sometimes creates confusions, which is also worth watching. This confusion is also continued in the outer side of the terminal.

This public space not only attracts the tourists to visit this place for watching the terminal in its daily chaos, but also for the huge retail community featuring food markets, restaurants, and stores.  You can have a dream meal along with high quality beverages at the Grand Central Terminal.

Oyster Bar is one such famous restaurant. People often visit this terminal only to have a drink here. This visit can take you to the days of glory of railway travel. The vaulted ceilings made up of high-quality Gustavino tiles will catch your attention. You can also visit a restaurant named as the Grand Central. This place has already made a mark at this terminal. You can enjoy the food of this place before catching a train to some other place.

The Grand Central Terminal can be considered as a landmark having an impressive history and some complex stories which makes it a much more exciting place to visit. If you miss to visit this place in your trip of New York, you can not consider yourself as a satisfied tourist.

On the way of the Grand Central Terminal, you must always try to visit the New York Transit Museum. This place will help you out in knowing more about the city of New York. You will get to see the history of the mass transit structure of New York.  The entire system is depicted through different photographs and displays. This is a perfect place to pick up some kind of memorabilia or gifts for your near and dear ones. If you are not interested to visit this place you can collect gifts from the Grand Central Market situated at the public area of the terminal.

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New York is a place full of unique tourist attractions. The empire State Building is one such exciting place to visit in the New York City. This building is famous for its large construction and is ranked as the seventh largest building of the world. While traveling through the city if you pass through the crossing of the West 34th Street and the Fifth Avenue, you will come across this 102 storied skyscraper.

It was the tallest building in the city till the construction of the famous WTC building. But now it is again the tallest one, after the disaster of 9/11. The Empire State Building is named as one of the modern seven wonders of the earth and holds the number one rank as the top architectural work of America.

Once you visit this place during the night, the view created by the floodlights will attract you visit the place again and again. If you are lucky to be able to visit the place during any festive season, such as Christmas, you will get to see beautiful colored illumination at the top pf this building.

This Building owns an immensely popular outdoor observatory. More that 110 million tourists visit this place every year. Enter the observation deck situated at the 86th floor of the Empire State Building and have the see a complete 360 degree view of the beautiful city of New York.

You will also get another observation deck at the top floor of the building. This deck was closed for sometime in 1999, but now you can visit it after it was again opened in 1005. The second observation deck is much smaller that that of the 86th floor and is entirely enclosed. If you visit the site in time of high traffic this desk might be closed.

Another major attraction of this place is the attraction of the motion stimulator, which is located at the second floor of the building. This ride was mainly opened to complement the observation decks. The NY Skyride can be defined as a simulated mid-air trip over the entire city of New York. You will have this dramatic experience for about 25 minutes.

You will get to see an updated version of this journey, if you visit the Empire State Building now. This restructured film is basically the same as the first version, only the shots of the WTC are removed after the destruction of the Twin Tower in 2001. If you have seen this film previously, you will notice another minor change as the role of the pilot is now played by Kevin Bacon instead of Doohan. This version has a much more educational narration and an intense patriotic feeling associated with the 9/11 blast.  This show makes the place even more magnetic and enjoyable.

]]> http://newyorktouristattractions.net/empire-state-building.html/feed Ellis Island Immigration Museum http://newyorktouristattractions.net/ellis-island-immigration-museum.html http://newyorktouristattractions.net/ellis-island-immigration-museum.html#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:03:18 +0000 admin http://newyorktouristattractions.net/?p=11

If you visit the city of New York, one thing you must see is the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.  This place is tremendously popular among the travelers visiting the city of New York. Particularly in summer time, this place gets over populated. You must gather all the fundamental information before planning a trip to this place. This basic information should include direction of the place, time required to reach the place and costs of admission to the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. You will have to get a Ferry to locate the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

The first thing you have to know if you are visiting this place for the first time ,is the way of avoiding long queues at the ferry. This re-established attraction was reopened in 1990 and saved the reminiscences and legacy of more than 100 million people of American having some kind of refugee roots in this place. This museum offers all its visitors an opportunity to experience the coming to USA and the meaning of this time in several ways. These experiences are shared through archives, photos, films, recorded items and the characteristic of this Great Hall.

Don’t miss to visit the Immigrant Wall of Honor. It is a circular tombstone having 200,000 names remembered by their predecessors. This place will let you the exact history of the immigrants. The most enthralling experience of visiting this place is achieved through a 30 minute documentary film. This film is a brief but effective introduction of the life and experiences that the immigrants had in the Ellis Island. You will get to see the free screening of this film all through the day. You will also get to have a free 45 minutes tour through the history of the Ellis Island.

Although these to trips are absolutely free of cost, you will have to pay a small amount of $ 6 to get access to a audio tour at this museum The audio tour is available in several languages. These languages include, English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French. This tour is a combination of many audios for continuous one hour accompanied by short clips.

This place is not only meant for the grown ups. If you bring your child here, he or she will also get to enjoy the place in his or her own way. You can buy a ticket for your child to and make him or her visit the liberty dance show. This is a good option for the children between five to twelve years of age. The cost of each ticket is only $ 6. This 30 minutes long play acted by live performers will offer a unique experience for you child.

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