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Broadway
New York NY
~0.01 miles from New York City city center
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Broadway Theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, is the theatre associated with the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York (plus one theatre in Lincoln Center) in Manhattan, New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.The Broadway Theatre district is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, New York. According to The Broadway League, Broadway shows sold approximately $937 million worth of tickets in the 2007-08 season.
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Minskoff Theater
Manhattan NY
~0.04 miles from New York City city center
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The Minskoff Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 1515 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan, It is now showing Disney's musical version of The Lion King.The 1621-seat venue, designed by architects Kahn and Jacobs, is on the third floor of One Astor Plaza, an office tower constructed on the site of the legendary Astor Hotel. Named after Sam Minskoff and Sons, builders and owners of the high-rise building, it opened on March 13, 1973 with a revival of Irene starring Debbie Reynolds. Over the years it has served as host to musicals, dance companies, and concerts.In 1981, it hosted Miss Universe 1981 won by Irene Saez, of Venezuela.In September 2007, a new set within the Minskoff space was created for the syndicated newsmagazine The Insider, which had formerly been based in Los A...
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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
205 W 46th St New York NY
~0.05 miles from New York City city center
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Opened in 1910, the theatre was originally named The Globe, after Shakespeare's theatre in England. The theatre had a retractable roof to enable the theatre to stay cool and open during the summer. For nearly two decades, the theatre housed a variety of plays and musicals until 1932 when it was turned into a movie house.The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 203-217 West 46th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by the architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings, it was built by producer Charles Dillingham and opened as the Globe Theatre, in honor of London's Shakespearean playhouse, on January 10, 1910 with a musical entitled The Old Town. Although it was situated on 46th street with a grand Beaux-Arts facade, it also had a small entrance on Broadway be...
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Theater District
New York City NY
~0.11 miles from New York City city center
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The Theatre District is an area in Midtown Manhattan where most Broadway theatres are located, as well as many other theatres, movie theatres, restaurants, hotels and other places of entertainment. It extends from 40th Street to 54th Street, and from west of Sixth Avenue to east of Eighth Avenue, and includes Times Square. The Great White Way is the name given to the section of Broadway which runs through the Theatre District.Theatre Row, an area on 42nd Street from Ninth Avenue to Eleventh Avenue, which contains many Off- and Off-Off-Broadway theatres, may be considered to be an extension of the Theatre District, although it is not officially a part of it.
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Toys R Us Times Square
Manhattan NY
~0.11 miles from New York City city center
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Attraction type: Specialty shop, Town center/square/plaza, Neighborhood, Theater districtActivities: Shopping, City Walk Sightseeinghttp://www4.toysrus.com/TimesSquare/Address: 1514 Broadway New York City, NYTel: 800-869-7787
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Times Square
Manhattan NY
~0.13 miles from New York City city center
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Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. The extended Times Square area, also called the Theatre District, consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and West 53rd Streets from south to north, making up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan.Formerly named Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after the New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly built Times Building, which is now called One Times Square and is the site of the annual ball drop on New Years Eve. Times Square, nicknamed "The Crossroads of the World" and "The Great White Way", has ac...
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New Amsterdam Theater
Manhattan NY
~0.16 miles from New York City city center
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The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 214 West 42nd Street in the heart of Times Square in New York City. It is operated by Disney Theatrical Productions, and is currently showing the musical Mary Poppins.The New Amsterdam, the first concrete example of architectural Art Nouveau in New York, was built in 1903 by the partnership of impresarios A.L. Erlanger and Marcus Klaw and designed in the Art Nouveau style by architects Herts & Tallant. Painting was carried out by an extensive team of painters and sculptors that included George Gray Barnard, Robert Blum, the brothers Neumark, G.D.M. Peixotto, R. Hinton Perry and Albert G. Wenzel. At the time of construction, it was the largest theatre in New York, with a seating capacity of 1,702. Along with the Lyceum Theatre, ...
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Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
Manhattan NY
~0.17 miles from New York City city center
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Madame Tussauds New York takes you beyond your wildest dreams and makes you the star of the show. You can mingle with over 200 wax celebrities with something for every generation. From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna to Miley or Washington to Lincoln to Kennedy, it's fascinating to stand toe to toe. You'll be surprised to see how tall or short some famous people are. The size of the attraction goes beyond most expectations. The Opening Night Party and Gallery are incredible spaces. Be prepared to walk into Angelina Jolie. Standing face to face with Martin Luther King was amazing. And it can be fun getting rejected by Simon after singing on an American Idol stage. The All Access pass gives you access to the Behind the Scenes and the fun 4D Theater with revolving high tech films. Be prep...
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International Center of Photography (ICP)
Manhattan NY
~0.18 miles from New York City city center
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The International Center of Photography is a photography museum, school, and research center located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. The center was founded in 1974.It is the host of the Infinity Awards, which were inaugurated in 1985 "to bring public attention to outstanding achievements in photography by honoring individuals with distinguished careers in the field and by identifying future luminaries."
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Bayonne (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~0.20 miles from New York City city center
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Harborview Park now open to visitors from dawn to duskOut here, it feels like you can leap across to lower Manhattan or reach out and touch the Statue of Liberty. That’s what visitors are saying about Harbor View Park, the new two-acre park at The Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor. “The views are simply breathtaking,” remarked one park visitor. “It’s a great place to come and take a break from everything.”In 2006, Harbor View Park was built by the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority (BLRA) and funded in part by the Hudson County Open Space Trust Fund and a contribution from Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Its centerpiece is the recently dedicated memorial “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism” a gift from Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli. The “September 11… Bayonne Remembers” committ...
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Carteret (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~0.20 miles from New York City city center
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Carteret is a borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 20,709.What is now Carteret was originally created as the borough of Roosevelt on April 11, 1906, from portions of Woodbridge Township, based on the results of a referendum approved on May 22, 1906. The name was changed to Carteret as of November 7, 1922. The borough was also called Carteret during the period from December 19, 1921, to January 16, 1922
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Cliffside Park (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~0.20 miles from New York City city center
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Cliffside Park is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 23,007.Cliffside Park was formed based on the results of a referendum held on January 15, 1895, from portions of Ridgefield Township at the start of the second year of the Boroughitis phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County.U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg currently resides in the borough. Cliffside Park was also home to the former Palisades Amusement Park.
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Edgewater (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~0.20 miles from New York City city center
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Edgewater is a borough located along the Hudson River in Bergen County, New Jersey. Its history has featured the founding of the first colony in Bergen County, contribution to the Revolutionary War, a period as a "sleepy, pastoral little town" with resort hotels in the 1800s; industrialization in the early 19th century and transition to residential community in the late 19th century.As of the 2007 Census estimate, the borough had a population of 9,582. Edgewater was originally formed on December 7, 1894, from portions of Ridgefield Township as the Borough of Undercliff, at the height of the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County. The name was changed to Edgewater on November 8, 1899
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Garment District (Neighborhood)
Manhattan NY
~0.25 miles from New York City city center
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The Garment District, also known as the Garment Center, the Fashion District, or the Fashion Center, is a neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan, located between Fifth and Ninth Avenues from 34th to 42nd Street. It has been known since the early 20th century as the center for fashion design and manufacturing in the United States.The Garment District is the fashion center of New York City. Approximately one square mile in area, the district is bordered by the Javits Convention Center at the extreme west, the New York General Post Office, Penn Station, and Madison Square Garden in the center, and the Empire State Building in the east. The neighborhood is home to the warehouses and workshops of the fashion industry.
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Circle in the Square Theater
Manhattan NY
~0.26 miles from New York City city center
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The Circle in the Square Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre in midtown Manhattan on 50th Street.The original Circle in the Square was founded founded by Paul Libin, Theodore Mann and Jose Quintero in 1951 and was located at 5 Sheridan Square (a brownstone) in Greenwich Village. The original Circle in the Square did not have a theater license, but Quintero was able to get a cabaret license; the production staff and off duty actors served as waiters if anyone insisted on ordering food or drinks. Many of the theater personnel, both acting and technical, lived on the premises. In 1960 the company moved to the Circle in the Square Downtown, on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village.Designed by architect Alan Sayles, the present home of the company is one of two theatres in the Paramount...
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Bryant Park
Manhattan NY
~0.29 miles from New York City city center
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Radio City Music Hall
Manhattan NY
~0.30 miles from New York City city center
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Gershwin Theater
Manhattan NY
~0.31 miles from New York City city center
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The George Gershwin Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 222 West 51st Street in midtown-Manhattan in the Paramount Plaza building. The theatre is named after famous composer George Gershwin. It has the highest seating capacity of any Broadway theatre, with over 1,900 seats.Designed in an Art Nouveau style by set designer Ralph Alswang, it is situated on the lower levels of a towering office complex built at an estimated cost of $12.5 million on the site of the historical Capitol Theatre. It opened as the Uris Theatre on November 28, 1972 (named for the building developer Uris Brothers) with the musical Via Galactica starring Raul Julia. It proved to be an inauspicious start for the venue, closing after only seven performances. From 1974-76 it served as a concert hall for ...
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Theatre District
Manhattan NY
~0.35 miles from New York City city center
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The Theatre District is an area in Midtown Manhattan where most Broadway theatres are located, as well as many other theatres, movie theatres, restaurants, hotels and other places of entertainment. It extends from 40th Street to 54th Street, and from west of Sixth Avenue to east of Eighth Avenue, and includes Times Square. The Great White Way is the name given to the section of Broadway which runs through the Theatre District.Theatre Row, an area on 42nd Street from Ninth Avenue to Eleventh Avenue, which contains many Off- and Off-Off-Broadway theatres, may be considered to be an extension of the Theatre District, although it is not officially a part of it.
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Rockefeller Center
Manhattan NY
~0.36 miles from New York City city center
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Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres (89,000 m2) between 48th and 51st streets in New York City. Built by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.Rockefeller Center was named after John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who leased the space from Columbia University in 1928 and developed it from 1930. Rockefeller initially planned a syndicate to build an opera house for the Metropolitan Opera on the site, but changed his mind after the stock market crash of 1929 and the withdrawal of the Metropolitan from the project. Rockefeller stated "It was clear that there were only two courses open to me. One was to abandon the e...
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Rockefeller Plaza
Manhattan NY
~0.37 miles from New York City city center
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Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres (89,000 m2) between 48th and 51st streets in New York City. Built by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.The plaza forms the central quad of the complex and features ice skating in the winter.
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NY Public Library
Manhattan
~0.37 miles from New York City city center
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The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the leading public libraries of the world and is one of the United States's most significant research libraries. It is composed of a very large circulating public library system combined with a very large non-lending research library system. It is simultaneously one of the largest public library systems in the United States and one of the largest research library systems in the world. It is a privately managed, nonprofit corporation with a public mission, operating with both private and public financing. The historian David McCullough has described the New York Public Library as one of the five most important libraries in the United States, the others being the Library of Congress, the Boston Public Library, and the university libraries of Harva...
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Diamond District (Neighborhood)
Manhattan NY
~0.37 miles from New York City city center
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The Diamond District is an area of New York City located on West 47th Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in midtown Manhattan, within walking distance of many New York attractions. It is located one block south of Rockefeller Center, three blocks south of Radio City Music Hall (along the Avenue of the Americas), three blocks south of St Patrick's Cathedral (along Fifth Avenue), and one block east of the Broadway Theater District. The Plaza Arcade, lined with shops, connects the street to Rockefeller Center.The district was created when dealers moved north from an earlier district near Canal Street and the Bowery that was created in the 1920s, and from a second district located in the Financial District, near the intersection of Fulton and Nassau Streets...
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Ed Sullivan Theatre
Manhattan
~0.41 miles from New York City city center
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The Ed Sullivan Theater, which is located at 1697-1699 Broadway between West 53rd and West 54th Streets, in Manhattan[1], is a venerable radio and television studio in New York City. The 1200-seat theatre — of which 400 seats are currently used for TV audiences — has been used as a venue for live and taped CBS broadcasts since 1936.It is best known as the longtime home of The Ed Sullivan Show, though since 1993, it has been the home for the Late Show with David Letterman. It is on the list of National Register of Historic Places.
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American Girl Place
Manhattan NY
~0.41 miles from New York City city center
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St Patrick's Cathedral
Manhattan
~0.45 miles from New York City city center
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Saint Patrick's Cathedral is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral church in the United States. It is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and a parish church, located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York. It faces Rockefeller Center.
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Manhattan
Manhattan NY
~0.45 miles from New York City city center
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Manhattan is one of the boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York. It consists of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Ward's Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble Hill, a small section on the mainland adjacent to the Bronx. The original city of New York began at the southern end of Manhattan, and expanded in 1898 to include surrounding counties. It is the smallest yet most urbanized of the five boroughs.The County of New York is the most densely populated county in the United States, and one of the mos...
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Museum of Television and Radio
Manhattan NY
~0.46 miles from New York City city center
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The Paley Center for Media, formerly The Museum of Television & Radio (MT&R) and The Museum of Broadcasting, founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, is a cultural institution dedicated to the discussion of the cultural, creative and social significance of television, radio and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public.It was renamed The Paley Center for Media on June 5, 2007 to encompass emerging broadcasting technologies such as the Internet, mobile video and podcasting, as well as to expand its role as a neutral setting where media professionals can engage in discussion and debate about the evolving media landscape
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American Folk Art Museum
New York City NY
~0.48 miles from New York City city center
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Hell's Kitchen (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~0.51 miles from New York City city center
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Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton and Midtown West by real estate brokers, is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City that covers roughly the area between 34th Street and 57th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River.The neighborhood provides transportation, hospital, and warehouse infrastructure support to the Midtown Manhattan business district. Its gritty reputation—which led to its portentous name—gave it depressed real estate prices relative to much of the rest of Manhattan until the early 1990s.Throughout its history, Hell's Kitchen has figured prominently in the New York City underworld, especially in the Irish American Mob. Gangsters like Owney Madden, bootleggers like Bill Dwyer, and Westies leaders James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone were Hell's Kitchen natives. ...
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