#1 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Macy's
Manhattan NY
~0.06 miles from Manhattan city center
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One of the largest department stores in the world. Located in the Fashion District on 34th street. Shop online at the world's largest department store; an extraordinary assortment from all the best brands in fashion for him and her, everything for home.
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Fashion District (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~0.17 miles from Manhattan city center
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The Garment District 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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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Madison Square Garden - NY Knicks - NY Rangers
Manhattan NY
~0.19 miles from Manhattan city center
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http://www.thegarden.com/
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Penn Station
Manhattan NY
~0.19 miles from Manhattan city center
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Pennsylvania Station—commonly known as Penn Station—is the major intercity rail station and a major commuter rail hub in New York City. It is one of the busiest rail stations in the world, and a hub for inboard and outboard railroad traffic in New York City. The New York City Subway system also has multiple lines that connect to the station. The station is located in the underground levels of Pennsylvania Plaza, an urban complex located between Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue and between 31st Street & 33rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, and is owned by Amtrak. Serving 600,000 passengers a day (compared to 140,000 across town at Grand Central Terminal) at a rate of up to a thousand every 90 seconds,[1] it is the busiest passenger transportation facility in the United States[2] and by far the busiest train station in North America.
Penn Station is at the center of the Northeast Corridor, an electrified passenger rail line extending south to Washington, D.C., and north to Boston. Intercity trains are operated by Amtrak, while commuter rail services are operated by the Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit. The station is also served by six New York City Subway routes.
Penn Station saw 8.7 million Amtrak passenger arrivals and departures in 2008, double the traffic at the next busiest station, Union Station in Washington, D.C.[4] Penn Station's assigned IATA airport code is ZYP.[5] Its Amtrak and NJ Transit station code is NYP.
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Empire State Building
Manhattan NY
~0.20 miles from Manhattan city center
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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 the state of New York. It stood as the world's tallest building for more than forty years, from its completion in 1931 until construction of the World Trade Center's North Tower was completed in 1972. Following the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, the Empire State Building once again became the tallest building in New York City and New York State.
The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The building and its street floor interior are designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and confirmed by the New York City Board of Estimate. It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1986. In 2007, it was ranked number one on the List of America's Favorite Architecture according to the AIA. The building is owned and managed by W&H Properties.
The Empire State Building is the third tallest skyscraper in the Americas (after two Chicago towers the Willis Tower and Trump International Hotel and Tower) and the 15th tallest in the world. It is also the 4th tallest freestanding structure in the Americas. The Empire State building is currently undergoing a $120 million renovation in an effort to transform the building into a more energy efficient and eco-friendly structure.
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
The Morgan Library and Museum
Manhattan NY
~0.32 miles from Manhattan city center
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The Morgan Library & Museum (formerly The Pierpont Morgan Library) is a museum and research library in New York City, USA. It was founded to house the private library of J. P. Morgan in 1906, which included, besides the manuscripts and printed books, some of them in rare bindings, his collection of prints and drawings. The library was designed by Charles McKim from the firm of McKim, Mead and White and cost $1.2 million. It was made a public institution in 1924 by his son, John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.
The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Garment District (Neighborhood)
Manhattan NY
~0.34 miles from Manhattan 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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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Bryant Park
Manhattan NY
~0.36 miles from Manhattan city center
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Bayonne (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~0.38 miles from Manhattan 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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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Carteret (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~0.38 miles from Manhattan 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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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Cliffside Park (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~0.38 miles from Manhattan 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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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Edgewater (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~0.38 miles from Manhattan 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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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
NY Public Library
Manhattan
~0.38 miles from Manhattan 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 Harvard and Yale.
The New York Public Library has branches in the boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx and Staten Island. According to the American Library Association, the branch libraries comprise the twenty-sixth largest library in the United States. New York City's other two boroughs, Brooklyn and Queens, are served by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Borough Public Library respectively. These libraries predate the consolidation of New York City.
Currently, the New York Public Library consists of 89 libraries: four non-lending research libraries, four main lending libraries, a library for the blind and physically challenged, and 77 neighborhood branch libraries in the three boroughs served. All libraries in the NYPL system may be used free of charge by all visitors. As of 2008, the research collections contain 44,160,825 items (books, videotapes, maps, etc.) of which 15,985,192 are books. The Branch Libraries contain 7,565,579 items of which 4,416,812 are books. Together the collections total more than 50 million items, and the books number more than 20 million, a number surpassed only by the Library of Congress and the British Library.
Due to the current 2009 economic crisis, NYPL is facing a $23.2 million funding cut when the new fiscal year begins July 1. This will result in the expected elimination of 465 jobs, and in sharply scaled back branch operating hours
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Fashion Institute of Technology
Manhattan NY
~0.41 miles from Manhattan city center
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Founded in 1944, the Fashion Institute of Technology is a selective college of art and design, business, and technology, of the State University of New York. Seventeen majors are offered through the School of Art and Design and ten through the School of Business and Technology leading to the A.A.S., B.F.A., or B.S. degrees. The School of Graduate Studies offers programs leading to the Master of Arts or Master of Professional Studies degree. FIT is an accredited institutional member of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and the Foundation for Interior Design Education Research.
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
New Amsterdam Theater
Manhattan NY
~0.45 miles from Manhattan 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, also built in 1903, it is the oldest surviving Broadway venue.
The New Amsterdam opened in November 1903 with a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. For many years, it hosted the Ziegfeld Follies, showcasing such talents as Olive Thomas, Fanny Brice and the Eaton siblings. A racier sister show of the Follies, the Midnight Frolics, played in the New Amsterdam's roof garden theatre. The New Amsterdam was the scene of Marilyn Miller's greatest triumphs in the musicals Sally (1920) and Sunny, which opened in September 1925 co-starring Clifton Webb as Harold Wendell-Wendell and ran for three seasons. But the theatre also hosted serious productions, and in June 1927 Basil Rathbone appeared there as Cassius in Julius Caesar .
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
Manhattan NY
~0.46 miles from Manhattan 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 prepared to get wet! For those driving in, there is discounted parking available at IKON/Global Garage at 143 West 40th St when you validate your claim ticket at Madame Tussauds. Keep an eye out for discounts online.
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Toys R Us Times Square
Manhattan NY
~0.47 miles from Manhattan city center
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Attraction type: Specialty shop, Town center/square/plaza, Neighborhood, Theater district
Activities: Shopping, City Walk Sightseeing
http://www4.toysrus.com/TimesSquare/
Address: 1514 Broadway New York City, NY
Tel: 800-869-7787
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
International Center of Photography (ICP)
Manhattan NY
~0.48 miles from Manhattan 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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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
The Institute of Culinary Education
Manhattan NY
~0.55 miles from Manhattan city center
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The Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) is a American culinary school located in New York City, New York.
Accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology, the institute specializes in pastry and baking arts, career culinary arts and culinary management.
The institute offers classes for both career culinary and recreational students. It also hosts hundreds of corporate and private hands-on cooking events each year.
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Manhattan NY
~0.57 miles from Manhattan city center
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Grand Central Terminal (GCT) — (sometimes incorrectly called) Grand Central Station or simply Grand Central — is a terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. 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 by number of platforms:[3] 44, with 67 tracks along them. They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in yards exceeds 100. When the Long Island Rail Road's new station, below the existing levels, opens (see East Side Access), Grand Central will offer a total of 75 tracks and 48 platforms. The terminal covers an area of 48 acres.
The terminal serves commuters traveling on the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties in New York State, and Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut.
Although the terminal has been properly called "Grand Central Terminal" since 1913, many people continue to refer to it as "Grand Central Station". Technically, "Grand Central Station" is the name of the nearby post office, as well as the name of a previous rail station on the site, and is also used to refer to a New York City subway station at the same location.
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Broadway
New York NY
~0.58 miles from Manhattan 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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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Minskoff Theater
Manhattan NY
~0.58 miles from Manhattan 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 Angeles and MTV's Time Square facilities, which are in the office portion of the One Astor Center building. The program moved back to Los Angeles fully for the 2008-09 season.
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Grand Central Station
Manhattan NY
~0.60 miles from Manhattan city center
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Grand Central Terminal (GCT) — (sometimes incorrectly called) Grand Central Station or simply Grand Central — is a terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. 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 by number of platforms: 44, with 67 tracks along them. They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in yards exceeds 100. When the Long Island Rail Road's new station, below the existing levels, opens (see East Side Access), Grand Central will offer a total of 75 tracks and 48 platforms. The terminal covers an area of 48 acres.
The terminal serves commuters traveling on the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties in New York State, and Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut.
Although the terminal has been properly called "Grand Central Terminal" since 1913, many people continue to refer to it as "Grand Central Station". Technically, "Grand Central Station" is the name of the nearby post office, as well as the name of a previous rail station on the site, and is also used to refer to a New York City subway station at the same location.
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Flatiron Building
Manhattan NY
~0.62 miles from Manhattan city center
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The Flatiron Building, or Fuller Building as it was originally called, is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, and is considered to be one of the first skyscrapers ever built. Upon completion in 1902 it was one of the tallest buildings in New York City. The building sits on a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, anchoring the south (downtown) end of Madison Square.
The neighborhood around the building is called the Flatiron District after its signature building.
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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
205 W 46th St New York NY
~0.63 miles from Manhattan 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 between 46th and 47th Streets. Most of the Globe's early shows were dramatic plays, including two revivals of La Dame aux Camélias. In the late teens and 1920s, the focus shifted to musicals.
The original design and construction called for the ceiling and the roof 20 feet above it to roll back to reveal starlight and keep the theatre cooler in summer. No other Broadway theatre had such a design. There is no record of it ever actually opening. Other innovations included seats being individually cooled by ice or heated by hot air from vents underneath.[1]
In the 1930s, the Globe was converted into a movie house operated by the Brandt chain. City Playhouses Inc. (which consisted of developers Robert W. Dowling and William Zeckendorf) bought it in 1957 and had the firm Roche and Roche gut renovate it. Major changes were made, including the removal of the second balcony level, the Broadway entrance, and much of the original decor. It was rechristened the Lunt-Fontanne in honor of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and reopened on May 5, 1958 with Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit, starring the distinguished theatrical couple. The theatre, which seats 1415, presently is owned by the Nederlander Organization.
http://www.luntfontannetheatre.com
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Chrysler Building
Manhattan NY
~0.65 miles from Manhattan city center
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The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan in the Turtle Bay area at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Standing at 319 metres (1,047 ft), it was the world's tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931. After the destruction of the World Trade Center, it was again the second-tallest building in New York City until December 2007, when the spire was raised on the 365.8-metre (1,200 ft) Bank of America Tower, pushing the Chrysler Building into third position. In addition, The New York Times Building which opened in 2007, is exactly level with the Chrysler Building in height.
The Chrysler Building is a classic example of Art Deco architecture and considered by many contemporary architects to be one of the finest buildings in New York City. In 2007, it was ranked ninth on the List of America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects.
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Theater District
New York City NY
~0.67 miles from Manhattan 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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Diamond District (Neighborhood)
Manhattan NY
~0.68 miles from Manhattan 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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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Times Square
Manhattan NY
~0.70 miles from Manhattan 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 achieved the status of an iconic world landmark and is a symbol of New York City and the United States.
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan NY
~0.76 miles from Manhattan 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 most densely populated areas in the world, with a 2008 population of 1,634,795 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles (59.47 km²), or 71,201 residents per square mile (27,485/km²). It is also one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, with a 2005 personal income per capita above $100,000. Manhattan is the third-largest of New York's five boroughs in population.
Manhattan is a major commercial, financial, and cultural center of both the United States and the world.] Many major radio, television, and telecommunications companies in the United States are based here, as well as many news, magazine, book, and other media publishers. Manhattan has many famous landmarks, tourist attractions, museums, and universities. It is also home to the headquarters of the United Nations. Manhattan has the largest central business district in the United States, is the site of both the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, and is the home to the largest number of corporate headquarters in the country. It is the center of New York City and the New York metropolitan region, hosting the seat of city government and a large portion of the area's employment, business, and entertainment activities.
Walt Whitman invoked the Native American word for the island when he called it, "Mad Manahatta"
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