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Sometimes the best places to visit are the ones that aren't commonly known. Let NYC.com take you to locations you might not have heard about but will certainly want to see!
This unique home for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s vast medieval holdings, built in the mid-1930s atop one of Washington Heights’ many hills, seems more a sanctuary on the mountaintop than a museum. For the Cloisters indeed recreate the experience of a Gothic monastery, incorp...
W. 193rd Street at Washington Ave. (Fort Tryon Park)Seven and a half miles of Beach on the Atlantic Ocean. Lifeguards are stationed on the beaches from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Visitors enjoy basketball and handball courts, roller-hockey rinks, sitting areas and playgrounds along the boardwalk and adjoining areas. Recent im...
The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long (22 blocks) abandoned elevated railway, that stretches from the Hudson Rail Yard at 34th Street down through the West Chelsea gallery neighborhood where it continues on to Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking district. It has recently been develo...
West 30th Street to Gansevoort Street (bet 10th and 11th Avenues)Gateway National Recreation Area (NRA) is a 26,000 acre recreation area located in the heart of the New York metropolitan area. The park extends through three New York City boroughs and into northern New Jersey. Park sites offer a variety of recreation opportunities, along with a...
Like any neighborhood in New York, Harlem's boundaries are often contested. For our purposes—and we should know—Harlem extends north from 110th Street (the northern edge of Central Park) to 155th Street and from the East River west to the Hudson River, with the notable exception ...
Not surprisingly, Bay Ridge is situated at the southwest corner of Brooklyn, overlooking the Verrazano Narrows that shelter New York Harbor and the Upper & Lower New York Bays. Predominantly a middle-class, residential neighborhood, the area is steeped in the sort of ethnic d...
The northernmost section of Manhattan, the Washington Heights/Inwood area was home to a Native American settlement where the sale of Manhattan was negotiated in 1626, as well as the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Fort Washington. The early 20th century saw a rapid popula...
New York is one of the world's greatest places to take kids, because there is so much to do and see. In this tour we cover kid-specific stores and restaurants, but note that the museums and cultural attractions in our sample itineraries are also ideally suited for kids. Links to ...
Fifth Avenue, Central Park, lower ManhattanMarch to the beat of a different drummer? Or just looking for some insider tips on fun places to visit where you won't find the roaring crowds? Here is NYC.com's list of favorite off the beaten track places: The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a wonderfully tranquil place to visit reg...
New York City: Your Number One LGBT-Friendly Destination So much more diverse and multi-faceted these days, gay New York really has blossomed and become a world unto itself in recent years. We assume you want a range of offerings for your rainbow pilgrimage, so we offer a neighbo...
Greenwich Village - Chelsea - Hell's KitchenSpanish Harlem, also known as El Barrio and East Harlem, is sandwiched in the northeastern corner of Manhattan and has historically been home to several immigrant communities. With a population of nearly 120,000, today it's one of the largest predominantly Latino communities in N...