Manhattan, New York City

NEW YORK'S TOP TEN TOURIST

  ATTRACTIONS:

Ellis Island

New York's Best: Museums

Empire State Building

* Museum of Modern Art -

* Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum -

* Morgan Library & Museum -

* Merchant's House Museum -

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* American Museum of Natural History -

* American Museum of Natural History -

* Cooper-Hewitt Museum -

* Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum -

* Metropolitan Museum of Art -

* Whitney Museum of American Art -

New York's Best: Architecture

Apartment Buildings -

Rockefeller Center

Post-Modernism  -

Museum of Modern Art

Beaux Arts -

Central Park

Federal Architecture -

Statue of Liberty

New York's Best: Theaters and Dances

Broadway Theaters:

* Al Hirschfield - 302 W. 45th St.
* Ambassador - 219 W. 49th St.
* American Airlines Theatre - 227 W. 42nd St.
* August Wilson - 245 W. 52nd St.
* Barrymore - 243 W. 47th St.
* Belasco - 111 W. 44th St.
* Bernard B Jacobs 242 W. 45th St.
* Biltmore - 261 W. 47th St.
* Booth - 222 W. 45th St.
* Broadhurst - 235 W. 44th St.
* Brooks Atkinson - 256 W. 47th St.
* Cort - 138 W. 48th St.
* Eugene O'Neill - 230 W. 49th St.
* Gerald Schoenfeld - 236 W. 45th St.
* Gershwin - 222W. 51st St.
* Helen Hayes - 240 W. 44th St.
* Hilton - 213 W. 42nd St.
* Imperial - 249 W. 45th St.
* John Golden - 252 W. 45th St.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brooklyn Bridge

Ballet:

Contemporary Dance:

Classical Music:

Comedy, Cabaret, and

Literary Events

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)

Comedy Showcases

Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Leading the comedy club pack is the Broadway Comedy Club in the Thester District, which has formed from a merger of Chicago City Limits and NY Improv. As the city's largest club, it draws big names nightly.

Rock, and Jazz Music:

Rock Music

draws top acts from around the country, he seems to have gotten respect after all. The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre has sassy, Chicago-style improvisation on Sundays.

Joe's Pub

Crash Mansion

The Gotham Comedy Club in the Flatiron District, presents a wide range of comics in a sophisticated setting. Comic Strip Live, on the East Side, has hosted a slew of top comics, including Eddie Murphy, and continues to introduce many new comics to the scene. The basement-level Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village presents a nightly lineup of new and established comics. Also good are Stand-Up New York, NY Comedy Club, and Laugh Lounge NYC, which showcases two comedy shows a night, as well as offering nicely priced cocktails. Underground Lounge and The Laugh Factory are also good value.

Jazz Music

In Greenwich Village, jazz temples from the 1930s survive and continue to foster great music. Foremost among them is the Village Vanguard, where some of the most highly revered jazz memories linger and newer ones are being fashioned by such groups as the McCoy Tyner and Branford Marsalis trios. Blue Note hosts big bands at high prices but has a great atmosfere. Smalls offers cutting-edge jazz, with four sets a night from two different bands. The Knitting Factory features contemporary and avant-garde jazz.

Village Vanguard

Blue Note

Smalls

Knitting Factory

Smoke

Cafe Carlyle

Jazz Standard

For a classic piano lounge with a panoramic Manhattan view, visit the Top of the Tower at the Beekman Tower Hotel. The "long-distance hummer" award goes to the late Bobby Short, who played his piano for over 25 years at the Cafe Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel.

A sopisticated club and restaurant, Iridium features progressive jazz. If you are in New York in June, do not miss the annual JVC Jazz Festival, where such famous jazz and blues icons as Oscar Peterson and B.B. King play at various clubs all around Manhattan.
Jazz at Lincoln Center events are scheduled throughout the year, including concerts by the renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchester under the direction of Wynton Marsalis.

Iridium

JVC Jazz Festival

Jazz at Lincoln Center

When and Where

Dancing

New Yorkers thrive on music and dancing. The dance floor available all around the city range from the ever popular SOB's - for jungle, reggae, soul, jazz and salsa - to a few huge basketball-court-sized places, such as Roseland. This has ballroom dancing every Thursday and Sunday and is New York's classic Broadway ballroom, revealing a tantalizing glimpse of older Broadway culture. It also has a good megasize, 700-seater, restaurant with a full stocked bar.

SOB's

Roseland

Football

The city's two professional football teams are the New York Giants and the New york Jets. The both play their home games across the river at the Giants Stadium in New Jersey.

The legendary club Pacha, with started out in Ibiza, has opened a swanky four-floor venue in the heart of Times Square and is consistently booking top international DJs to make the most of the colossal sound system installed here.
Marquee is another A-list spot in Chelsea, with a glass-enclosed VIP mezzanine that draws Hollywood starlets. Bring some models if you want to be sure of getting in.

Pacha

Marquee

Those who prefer a more underground house scene should head to Apt for top DJ tunes. Home is exclusive, dim, and sexy in Chelsea.
The Plumm fills with trendy clubbers, celebrities, and those who have come to spot them. Join the crowd cutting moves on the dance floor to hip-hop, funk, rock, and classic. The door policy can be strict, so dress up in your hippest duds.
Also attracting a try-hard crowd is The Pink Elephant, with its swanky decor (a lot of pink lights).The tables all require bottle service, and house music is the mainstay. Even more elite is the Hiro Ballroom at the Msritime Hotel, a Sunday night must for the beautiful set. There are two levels to this Japanese-themed restaurant, with ample seating for poseurs who wish to see and be seen.

Apt

Home

Plumm

The Pink Elephant

Hiro Ballroom

Baseball

To capture the essence of this American institution, baseball fans should try to see the famed New York Yankees, who moved to the new Yankee Stadium in 2009. The team's legendary accomplishments are manifold, and include winning the most World Series titles and boasting such celebrated player as Joe DiMaggio and Jackie Robinson. The New York Mets, the other major baseball team, plays at Shea Stadium in Queens.

For those who are more interested in music and dancing, rather then decor, head to Club Shelter, New York's longest-running deep-house club, and The Sullivan Room, which draws the cream of techno talent and has recently been renovated, with more seating space and an upgrade to the sound system.

Club Shelter

The Sullivan Room

Nightclubs

Nightclubs are the places to see a show. Expect to pay a cover charge; many of the clubs also require that you have at least two drinks.
The Rainbow Grill on the 65th floor of the RCA Building has a fine piano bar. The chic Supper Club surrounds you with gold lame draperies and features big band music downstairs. Cabaret singers perform upstairs in their intimate Blue Room. Joe's Pub at the Public Theater has very decent food and serves the likes of John Hammond and Mo Tucker. Central Park has an indoor/outdoor club, Tavern on the Green, which offers jazz in its Chestnut Room, and Feinstein's at the Regency is the epitome of classic cabaret.

Rainbow Grill

Joe's Pub

Tavern on the Green

Feinstein's at the Regency

Horse Races

Harness racing, in which horses pull sulkies, takes place year-round at the Yonkers Raceway. Flat races are held daily, except Tuesday, October to May, at the Aqueduct Race Track in Queens, and May to October at the Belmont Park Race Track in Long Island.

Ice-Skating

* Rockefeller Plaza Rink
* Wollman Memorial Rink - Central Park
* Lasker Ice Rink - Central Park
* Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers (indoor sites)