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Central Park (a rectangle of 2.5 miles by 0.5 mile, or 4 km by 800 m) located in the middle of Manhattan is an oasis for Manhattanites, and a tourist destination with many points of interest. It is highly landscaped and contains several artificial lakes, extensive walking tracks, ice-skating rinks, a wildlife sanctuary as well as grassy areas used for sports and playgrounds for children ...

Metropolitan Museum (Met) opened in 1872 and has occupied the current location since 1880, The museum is widely considered to be among the top three in the world - together with the Louvre Museum (French), and the Hermitage Museum (Rossian). Its collections of over three million objects represent cultures from every part of the world, from antiquity to the present ...

American Museum of Natural History is the world's largest museum of natural history. It is built in the area surrounded by 77th Street, 81st Street, Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. With 45 exhibition halls and more than 32 million artifacts and specimens, the museum has a staff of more than 1,200 ...

Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings located in the heart of Manhattan - between 48th and 51st Streets and (mainly) 5th and 6th Avenue. It includes such tour spots as Lower Plaza (ice skate rink in winter), GE Building and Top of the Rock, headquarters of NBC and many of the New York studios, and Radio City Music Hall ...

Times Square makes up a western part of Midtown - between 6th and 9th Avenue and 39th and 52nd Street. At the heart of the Theatre District, Times Square is full of flashing lights, honking horns and shoulder-to-shoulder people. The density of illuminated signs in Times Square rivals Las Vegas ...

Grand Central Station (opened in 1913) and another equally impressive train station - Pennsylvania Station (opened in 1910) - had been constructed during the same period of time. Today, Grand Central Terminal is the gateway to the city, used by 150,000 commuters a day and thousand of visitors ...

Greenwich Village is known as a neighborhood centered around the Washington Square - which appears to be the primary campus for New York University (NYU). It is roughly bounded by Broadway (east), the Hudson River (west), Houston Street (south), and 14th Street (north.) The neighborhoods surrounding it are East Village (east), SoHo (south), Tribeca (southwest), and Chelsea (north) ...

SOHO (named from South of Houston Street) is an area bounded by Houston Street on the north, Lafayette Street on the east, Canal Street on the south, and 6th Avenue on the west. Buildings in SOHO originally were mostly warehouses and factories, and then the cheap spaces vacated by departing factories were converted by artists into lofts and studios ...

TriBeCa stands for the "Triangle Below Canal Street." It runs from Canal Street south to Park Place, and from the Hudson River east to Broadway. Like SOHO, TriBeCa was once an industrial and warehouse district. During the last 10 to 15 years, it has undergone a major revitalization ...

Chinatown and City Hall are located around the Canal Street, and on the east side of downtown Manhattan. Particularly for tourists, this neigborhood is attractive as a wide range of Chinese food is available at very reasonable prices. The center of Chinatown is perhaps considered such intersections as Canal Street with Mott and Mulberry streets ...

Brooklyn Bridge, when opened in 1883, was the longest suspension bridge in the world. It stretches 6,016 feet or 1,834 m over the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn. It is 85 feet (or 26 m) wide, and the longest span is 1,595 feet (or 486 m). It is a beautiful Gothic style bridge, with characteristic pointed arches above the passageways through the stone towers ...

South Street Seaport includes renovated original mercantile buildings from the early 19th century, renovated sailing ships, Fulton Fish Market, South Street Seaport Museum and modern tourist malls featuring food, and shopping. It is located at the east end of Fulton Street - beside the East River (adjacent to the Financial District) ...

Financial District, located on the southern end of Manhattan, comprises the offices and headquarters of many major financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange. The neighborhood once included the World Trade Center until the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The site is now known as "Ground Zero" ...

Battery Park City, a 92 acre (0.4 km²) waterfront development community, is located at the southwestern tip of Manhattan. The land was created on the Hudson River using 917,000 m³ of dirt and rocks excavated during the construction work of the World Trade Center and other adjacent buildings ...

New York City Christmas Scenery - From the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center to the Christmas displays at Time Warner Center, there are endless Christmas sights to enjoy during the christmas season in New York City ...

Scenery from Observation Deck - The slideshow includes the senery from the observation decks of the Empire State Building and the GE Building ...