It is quite easy to find your way around Manhattan. The entire midtown and upper Manhattan sections are laid out in a gridiron pattern of streets and avenues. All numbered streets run east and west (crosstown). All avenues run south (downtown) and north (uptown). The problem is choosing what to do in Manhattan. There are so many possibilities. A good place to begin is the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau. It is located at the southwest corner of Central Park at 59th Street. Here you can pick up helpful …

New York is full of facts about both popular and little-known places in the city. Despite its huge population, New York City does not occupy much space. The island of Manhattan is a relatively small place in terms of the land it covers. It is 2.3 miles wide at its widest point. It is only 0.8 mile wide at its narrowest point. It is just under 13-5 miles long. All of Manhattan occupies only 22 square miles. Manhattan is the place most people mean when they say New York City. …

There is an excitement about just the name “New York.” This is the city called the “Big Apple.” It is one of the best-known cities in the world. New York is where the pace never slows and the day never ends. It is a pulsating, dynamic city. That is how the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau sees the city. The bureau also says it is a “city that changes its face almost daily.” There is a vitality in this city. The city’s life doesn’t halt with darkness, even though …

Lady Liberty is something almost every visitor wants to see. The statue is located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. It is a mile and a half southwest of Manhattan. It is just off the New Jersey coast. Castle Clinton serves as the boat dock for boarding the ferry to the Statue of Liberty. Circle Line ferries leave Battery Park seven days a week for the ten-minute ride to Liberty Island.
Lady Liberty has lifted her lamp since 1886. Her multimillion dollar restoration was finished in 1986, in time for …

If you bump into this casually-attired thirty-something on the streets of Manhattan, his ponytail and groovy sideburns screaming for attention might lead you to mistake him for a rock singer wannabe. How wrong can one be? This man, Wylie Dufresne, is but the most talked-about chef in New York, the man who spearheaded Clinton 71 Fresh Food and WD-50 (both made waves when they opened in the Lower East Side to phenomenal reviews). Just how huge a phenomenon was it? Let’s just say that with his restaurants, Dufresne has …