New York City One Day Walking Tour Preview

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57th Street F Train Stop

Get off the train here and walk to 57th Street and Turn left.If you feel like you need a coffee. Zibetto is a true Italian espresso bar. It's small with a stand up bar on each side of the narrow shop.

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57 Street/111 West 57th Street

Turn left here, walk to the end of the block. As you are walking look for the for 111 West 57th Street. It is a breathtaking example of classic NYC elegance and architecture. Composed of the landmark Steinway Hall and a stunning new tower, this building is a truly remarkable new addition to the NYC skyline. SHoP architects have crafted this building to match the iconic look of the most memorable NYC skyscrapers while still maintaining its own unique style.

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Carnegie Hall

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice or take the subway to 57th Street. Since it opened in 1891, Carnegie Hall has set the international standard for musical excellence as the aspirational destination for the world’s finest artists. From Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Mahler, and Bartók to George Gershwin, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Judy Garland, and The Beatles, an honor roll of music-making artists representing the finest of every genre has filled Carnegie Hall throughout the years.

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Central Park South

Turn right here and walk along the park.Central Park was established in 1857 on 778 acres of land acquired by the city. In 1858, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and architect/landscape designer Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they titled the "Greensward Plan". Construction began the same year, and the park's first area was opened to the public in the winter of 1858. Construction north of the park continued during the American Civil War in the 1860s, and the park was expanded to its current size of 843 acres in 1873.Along this way is where the horses and carriages pick up people for rides in the park.

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Grand Army Plaza

The Grand Army Plaza, completed in 1916, is the primary east side entrance to Central Park. One of the four corners of Central Park, the Plaza takes its name from the Union Army in the Civil War. Following in this tradition, a bronze statue of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman has been erected in his honor.The Pulitzer Fountain lies in the second half of Grand Army Plaza, on the southern end. This Fountain features a bronze statue of the Roman goddess of abundance, Pomona.The Grand Army Plaza is perhaps best know as the place to begin a horse-drawn carriage ride through the Park.

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The Plaza Hotel

It was once said, “Nothing unimportant ever happens at The Plaza.” One of America’s most celebrated hotels, The Plaza opened its doors on October 1, 1907, amid a flurry of impressive reports describing it as the greatest hotel in the world. Located at Fifth Avenue and Central Park South, this luxury hotel was constructed in the most fashionable residential section of New York City.From its original 19th century construction to its magnificent $450 million dollar restoration in 2008, the world’s most famous hotel has had a remarkable history.Eloise is a series of children's books written in the 1950s by Kay Thompson (1909–1998) and illustrated by Hilary Knight (b. 1926). Eloise is a girl who lives in the "room on the tippy-top floor" of the Plaza Hotel in New York City with her Nanny, her pug dog Weenie, and her turtle Skipperdee.

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The first Apple Store in New York.

It has been a little over a decade since Apple opened its iconic Fifth Avenue store in New York. The flagship store is mostly underground with the entrance being enclosed by a 32-foot glass cube that resides above ground. Now there are 10.

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St. Patrick's Cathedral/Atlas Statue

Enormous 13th-century-style Gothic church on Madison Avenue, with a seating capacity of 2,200, rose window reaching 26 feet across, pipe organ with more than 7,380 pipes and the graceful twin spires that reach 330 feet into the sky.Across the street is the Atlas Statue.

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Rockefeller Center/Plaza

30 Rockefeller Plaza is an American Art Deco skyscraper that forms the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center.Home of NBC Studios (They still shoot the Tonight Show with Jimmy Falon and Saturday Night Live here). The plaza is where the Rockefeller Christmas Tree stands during the holidays. You should walk through the lobby to see the fine stone work floors.

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Radio City Music Hall

Look to your right as you come out of Rockefeller Center and you will see Radio City Music Hall, the home of the Rockettes. At the height of the Great Depression, thousands turn out for the opening of Radio City Music Hall, a magnificent Art Deco theater in New York City. Radio City Music Hall was designed as a palace for the people, a place of beauty where ordinary people could see high-quality entertainment. Since its 1932 opening, more than 300 million people have gone to Radio City to enjoy movies, stage shows, concerts, and special events.

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At Radio City Music Hall turn 50th Street and walk until you reach Broadway

At Radio City Music Hall turn 50th Street and walk until you reach Broadway.

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Home of Marvel Entertainment

This unassuming building is the home of Marvel Entertainment at 135 W. 50th Street.

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The Great White Way/ Broadway Theater District

New York City's Theater District is an area in Midtown Manhattan where most Broadway theaters are located, as well as many other theaters, movie theaters, restaurants, hotels, and other places of entertainment. It is bounded by West 40th Street on the south, West 54th Street on the north, Sixth Avenue on the east and Eighth Avenue on the west, and includes Times Square. The Great White Way is the name given to the section of Broadway which runs through the Theater District.It also contains recording studios, record label offices, theatrical agencies, television studios, restaurants, Duffy Square, Shubert Alley, the Brill Building, a Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium, and Madame Tussauds New York.

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Heart of Times Square 47th Street to 42nd Street

Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as "The Crossroads of the World", "The Center of the Universe", "the heart of The Great White Way", and the "heart of the world". One of the world's busiest pedestrian areas, it is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. Times Square is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually. Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of them tourists,[13] while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days.Times Square was named after The New York Times in 1904 when it moved its headquarters to the then newly erected Times Building – now One Times Square – the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop which began on December 31, 1907, and continues today, attracting over a million visitors to Times Square every year.

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42nd Street, Times Square

Times Square Tower, the building from which the ball drops on New Year's Eve, Broadway and Seventh Avenue.

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Bryant Park

Bryant Park is site of ice skating at Winter Village, free summer movies on the lawn, and endless meals and meetings at its tables, it serves its role well as a centrally located Manhattan park. Filled with office workers at lunch for some fresh air and sunlight. Twice a year New York Fashion week is held here. There is an antique French carousel, ping pong tables, snack stands and a bar. The park is an ideal resting spot for the thousands of tourists and residents who pass by its boundaries each day.

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Main Branch of the New York Public Library

The New York Public Library Main Branch building, is easily recognizable by its lion statues named Patience and Fortitude that sit either side of the entrance, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965 listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, and designated a New York City Landmark in 1967. Construction began in 1895 and was completed in 1902. It has also been featured in many television shows, including Seinfeld and Sex and the City, as well as films such as The Wiz in 1978, Ghostbusters in 1984, and The Day After Tomorrow in 2004.

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Grand Central Terminal

Grand Central Terminal's distinctive architecture and interior design have earned it several landmark designations, including as a U.S. National Historic Landmark. The terminal is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, with 21.9 million visitors in 2013, excluding train and subway passengers.

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Look to the east to see the Chrysler Building

The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco–style skyscraper located on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. At 1,046 feet (318.9 m), the structure was the world's tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931. It is the tallest brick building in the world with a steel framework. As of 2018, the Chrysler is the sixth-tallest building in the city, tied with The New York Times Building.The building's gargoyles on the 31st floor and the eagles on the 61st floor, were designed to signify flight, and to exemplify the machine age of the 1920s. Even the topmost needle was built using a process similar to one Chrysler used to manufacture his cars, with precise "hand craftmanship". In his autobiography, Chrysler says he suggested that his building be taller than the Eiffel Tower.

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Park Avenue

Park Avenue is also one of the most attractive boulevards in Manhattan. While it is not really an attraction, it is notable in that it is home to some of the most expensive real estate in the United States. It's not unusual to find that some of the CEOs of New York's largest companies live here as well as many Fortune 500 corporations are situated along Park Avenue, including MetLife, Bloomberg, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Alcoa, Mutual of America, Colgate-Palmolive, and many others.

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Morgan Library and Museum

John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.The Morgan Library & Museum is a museum and research library. It was founded to house the private library of J. P. Morgan in 1906, which included manuscripts and printed books, some of them in rare bindings, as well as his collection of prints and drawings. Today the library is a complex of buildings which serve as a museum and scholarly research center. The scope of the collection was shaped in its early years as a private collection by Belle da Costa Greene, J.P. Morgan's personal librarian.

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View of Empire State Building

Follow the traffic down 5th Avenue keeping to the right side of the street to see nice views of the Empire State Building.

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Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story[b] Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and completed in 1931, the building has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m) and stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall, including its antenna. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of New York. As of 2017 the building is the 5th-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States and the 28th-tallest in the world. It is also the 6th-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.

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Macy's Department Store

One of the largest department stores in the world. Built in 1902, the building measures 2.2 million square feet and was the first building in the world to have the modern day escalator. The wooden escalators are still in use today! Macy's used publicity devices such as a store Santa Claus themed exhibits, and illuminated window displays to draw in customers.Macy's has sponsored its Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, the world's largest parade. The tradition started in 1924 tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States.

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Flatiron Building

The Flatiron Building has been called "one of the world's most iconic skyscrapers and a quintessential symbol of New York City. It is a triangular 22-story steel-framed landmarked building which is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city at 20 floors high and one of only two skyscrapers north of 14th Street."Flatiron" derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron.

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Hop on the Downtown R or W Train to City Hall

Give your feet a rest and head downtown. Hop on the Downtown R or W Train to City Hall

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City Hall

New York City Hall is the oldest city hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions, such as the office of the Mayor of New York City and the chambers of the New York City Council. While the Mayor's Office is in the building, the staff of thirteen municipal agencies under mayoral control are located in the nearby Manhattan Municipal Building, one of the largest government buildings in the world.Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York City Hall is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Woolworth Building

The Woolworth Building was designed by architect Cass Gilbert and constructed between 1910 and 1912, is the first skyscraper built. More than a century after its construction, it remains, at 792 feet, one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States as well as one of the 30 tallest buildings in New York City. It has been a National Historic Landmark since 1966, and a New York City landmark since 1983.

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World Trade Center/911 Memorial

One World Trade Cente or Freedom Tower is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex. It is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the sixth-tallest in the world. The supertall structure has the same name as the North Tower of the original World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (also known as the 9/11 Memorial & Museum) is a memorial and museum in New York City commemorating the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six. The memorial is located at the World Trade Center site, the former location of the Twin Towers that were destroyed during the September 11 attacks.

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Brooklyn Bridge Entrance

The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States. Started in 1869 and completed fourteen years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. It takes about 30 to 45 minutes to cross depending on how many pictures you take.