 DESTINATION NEW YORK CITY
New York City is one of the global centers of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture, and is among the world's most important and influential cities. It is home to a nearly unrivaled number of world-class museums, art galleries, and theatres.
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Located on a large natural harbor on the Atlantic coast of the Northeastern United States, New York City consists of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. With a population of 8.4 million distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States....
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CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY
Central Park is a public greenspace and park in the heart of Manhattan, with approximately twenty-five million visitors each year, it is the most visited urban park in the United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 770 acres of city-owned land, then in 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition ...
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BROOKLYN BRIDGE
The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge ...
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CARNEGIE HALL
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in New York City located at 57th Street and 7th Avenue. Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1891, it is one of the most prestigious venues in the world for both classical music and popular music. Carnegie Hall has its own artistic programming, development, and marketing ...
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CHRYSLER BUILDING
The Chrysler Building is considered a masterpiece of Art Deco architecture. The distinctive ornamentation is based on features that were used on Chrysler automobiles. The corners of the 61st floor are graced with eagles, replicas of the 1929 Chrysler hood ornaments; on the 31st floor, the corner ornamentation are replicas of the 1929 Chrysler radiator caps ...
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EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
The Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, The Empire State. It stood as the world's tallest building for more than 40 years, from its completion in 1931 until the World Trade Center's North Tower was completed in 1972 ...
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GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL
Grand Central Terminal (GCT) - often incorrectly called Grand Central Station, or shortened to simply Grand Central - is a terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger trains, it is the largest train station in the world ...
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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in lower Manhattan. It is the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies. The main building, located at 18 Broad Street, between the corners of Wall Street and Exchange Place, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978, as was 11 Wall Street ...
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RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city. Its interior was declared a city landmark in 1978. The Music Hall opened to the public in 1932 with a lavish show featuring Ray Bolger and Martha Graham ...
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ROCKEFELLER CENTER
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings between 48th and 51st Streets in New York. It is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. Today's Rockefeller Center is essentially a combination of two building complexes. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987 ...
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STATUE OF LIBERTY
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata ...
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YANKEE STADIUM
Yankee Stadium is a stadium located in The Bronx in New York City. It serves as the home ballpark for the New York Yankees, replacing the previous Yankee Stadium, built in 1923. The new ballpark was constructed across the street, north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park ...
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