Tourist Information

More tourist information is available at New York City's official tourism web site and The Official Website for New York City's Tourism.

American Museum of Natural History

Located at Central Park West and 79th Street in New York City and open daily from 10:00 a.m.?:45 p.m. More information is available at http://www.amnh.org/.

It offers various exhibits and shows. The permanent ones include:

Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries - This cutting-edge exhibition reveals how current thinking about dinosaur biology has changed dramatically over the past two decades.

The Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth ?This permanent hall displays one of the most outstanding collections of geological specimens ever displayed in an exhibition hall.

The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life ?Home to one of the Museum's most celebrated icons, the 94-foot-long blue whale model, the hall was recently transformed into a fully immersive marine environment with video projections, interactive computer stations, and new ocean dioramas.

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Broadway Shows

Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. Broadway theatre, or a Broadway show, refers to a performance (usually a play or musical) staged in one of the thirty-nine larger professional theatres located in the New York City borough of Manhattan, with 500 seats or more, that appeal to the mass audience.

Tickets, hours and more information can be found at The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc.

Carnegie Hall
The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall

Its official website is http://www.carnegiehall.org/.?Carnegie Hall has three great stages:

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Isaac Stern Auditorium

The largest hall at Carnegie Hall has been the premier classical music performance space in the United States since its opening in 1891, showcasing the world's greatest soloists, conductors, and ensembles. Throughout its century-plus history, it has also hosted important jazz events, historic lectures, noted educational forums, and much more. Designed by architect and cellist William Burnett Tuthill and renovated in 1986, the auditorium's striking curvilinear design allows the stage to become a focal point embraced by five levels of seating, which accommodates up to 2,804. The auditorium's renowned acoustics have made it a favorite of audiences and performers alike. "It has been said that the hall itself is an instrument," said the late Isaac Stern. "It takes what you do and makes it larger than life."

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Joan and Sanford I. Weill Recital Hall

Located on the third floor of Carnegie Hall, the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Recital Hall is an intimate auditorium ideal for recitals, chamber music concerts, symposia, discussions, master classes, and more. Seating 268 people, the elegant auditorium evokes a Belle Epoque salon and is "remarkable for the symmetry of its proportions and the beauty of its decorations," according to a review from 1891, when the hall was known as the Chamber Music Hall. In 1986, the Chamber Music Hall was renamed in recognition of the generosity of the Chairman of the Board of Carnegie Hall, Sanford I. Weill, and his wife, Joan.

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Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall

The new Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall opened in September 2003 as the site of a broad spectrum of performing and educational events.

 

Central Park

Central Park is a large public urban park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. With about twenty-five million visitors annually, Central Park is the most visited city park in the United States, and its appearance in many movies and television shows has made it among the most famous city parks in the world. It is run and operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Central Park is bordered on the north by West 110th Street, on the west by Eighth Avenue, on the south by West 59th Street, and on the east by Fifth Avenue. For more information, visit www.centralpark.org.

 

Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story contemporary Art Deco style building in New York City, declared by the American Society of Civil Engineers to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.

The Empire State Building is located at 350 Fifth Avenue, between 33rd and 34th Streets, in Midtown Manhattan. For more information, visit Official website, with history and a lighting schedule.

 

Lincoln Center

The 16.3-acre Lincoln Center complex, the world's largest performing arts center, is home to the 12 resident arts organizations listed below, representing the highest standards of excellence in symphony, opera, chamber music, theater, dance, film, and arts education. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (LCPA) serves three primary roles: a resident organization with its own series of artistic programming; a national leader in arts and education and community relations; and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. LCPA presentations (also called "Lincoln Center Presents") include American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and the Emmy Award-winning Live From Lincoln Center.

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Lincoln Center is on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, between West 62nd and 65th Streets and Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. Rose Hall venues are in the Time Warner Center, Broadway at 60th St.?For more information, visit http://www.lincolncenter.org/.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Address, hours and more information can be found at http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

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In formation since 1870, the Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. About 6,500 objects—highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as the entire Department of European Paintings and the entire Department of American Paintings and Sculpture—can be accessed online.

 

The Museum of Modern Art

Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. Central to The Museum of Modern Art's mission is the encouragement of an ever deeper understanding and enjoyment of modern and contemporary art by the diverse local, national, and international audiences that it serves. And the address is,

(212) 708-9400

11 West 53 Street

New York, NY 10019-5497

 

 

The Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty National Monument - Photo: National Park Service
Located on 12-acre Liberty Island in New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty was a gift of international friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States and is one of the most universal symbols of political freedom and democracy. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October 28, 1886 and was designated a National Monument on October 15, 1924. The Statue was extensively restored in time for her spectacular centennial on July 4, 1986.