#1 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
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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#2 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Minskoff Theater
Manhattan NY
~0.04 miles from New York City city center
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
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. http://www.luntfontannetheatre.com
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Theater District
New York City NY
~0.11 miles from New York City city center
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Toys R Us Times Square
Manhattan NY
~0.11 miles from New York City city center
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Times Square
Manhattan NY
~0.13 miles from New York City city center
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
New Amsterdam Theater
Manhattan NY
~0.16 miles from New York City city center
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
Manhattan NY
~0.17 miles from New York City city center
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
International Center of Photography (ICP)
Manhattan NY
~0.18 miles from New York City city center
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
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 dusk
Out 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” committee also oversees a paver stone program of engraved pavers within the pathways at the Park. In 2008, with Green Acres funding from New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection, the BLRA will construct a new bulkhead along Harbor View Park’s eastern boundary, stabilize the shoreline and extend the park all the way to the river’s edge. With additional Green Acres funding, the BLRA will be constructing a walkway along the waterfront at the Park.
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
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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#12 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
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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#13 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
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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#14 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Garment District (Neighborhood)
Manhattan NY
~0.25 miles from New York City city center
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
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 Plaza office tower. Its much bigger sibling is the Gershwin Theatre. The theatre entrance lobbies are side by side but separated by a wall. The company retains the downtown premises, but rents them out.
The Gershwin and Circle in the Square were built in 1970 when the Uris Brothers tore down the Capitol Theatre to build the tower (with the Gershwin originally being called the Uris Theatre).
It originally served as the uptown home to the Circle-in-the-Square repertory company. Their first production on Broadway, a revival of Mourning Becomes Electra, opened on November 15, 1972.[1]
The theatre is below street level. The rather small auditorium has a seating capacity of 650. It is one of only two Broadway houses with a thrust stage (the other is Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre).
The building also houses the Circle in the Square Theatre School, the only accredited training conservatory associated with a Broadway theatre, which offers a two-year training program in acting.
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Bryant Park
Manhattan NY
~0.29 miles from New York City city center
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Radio City Music Hall
Manhattan NY
~0.30 miles from New York City city center
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Gershwin Theater
Manhattan NY
~0.31 miles from New York City city center
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Theatre District
Manhattan NY
~0.35 miles from New York City city center
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Rockefeller Center
Manhattan NY
~0.36 miles from New York City city center
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Rockefeller Plaza
Manhattan NY
~0.37 miles from New York City city center
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
NY Public Library
Manhattan
~0.37 miles from New York City city center
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
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, which started in 1931. The move uptown started in 1941. The district grew in importance when the German Nazis invaded the Netherlands and Belgium, forcing thousands of Orthodox Jews in the diamond business to flee Antwerp and Amsterdam and settle in New York City. Most of them remained after World War II, and remain a dominant influence in the Diamond District[1]
A notable, long-time anomaly of the district was the famous Gotham Book Mart, a bookstore, which was located at 41 West 47th Street from 1946 to 2004.
The area is one of the primary centers of the global diamond industry (along with London - rough stones; Antwerp, Belgium - historical but waning; Mumbai, India - increasing in significance, Ramat Gan, Israel - also growing, and Johannesburg, South Africa - the major historical source), as well as the premier center for jewelry shopping in the city. An estimated 90% of diamonds in the United States enter through New York.
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
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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#25 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
American Girl Place
Manhattan NY
~0.41 miles from New York City city center
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
St Patrick's Cathedral
Manhattan
~0.45 miles from New York City city center
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Manhattan
Manhattan NY
~0.45 miles from New York City city center
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Museum of Television and Radio
Manhattan NY
~0.46 miles from New York City city center
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
American Folk Art Museum
New York City NY
~0.48 miles from New York City city center
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in New York City
Hell's Kitchen (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~0.51 miles from New York City city center
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