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Twenty-Eighth Annual
Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot
Court Competition
Welcome Guide
Competition Logistics
New York City Area Information
St. John’s University School of Law
American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review
Moot Court Honor Society
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Table of Contents
Hotel Information..................................................................................................................................... 1
Transportation .......................................................................................................................................... 2
Directions from Local Airports to Hotel ..................................................................................................... 2
Directions from Hotel to Local Airports ..................................................................................................... 3
Subway and Taxi Information ........................................................................................................................ 4
Restaurant Guide ...................................................................................................................................... 5
Classic Tourist Spots .......................................................................................................................................... 5
Fun and Trendy.................................................................................................................................................... 5
Expensive ............................................................................................................................................................... 7
Moderately Priced .................................................................................................................................. 8
American ............................................................................................................................................................ 8
Chinese................................................................................................................................................................ 9
French ............................................................................................................................................................... 10
Italian................................................................................................................................................................. 10
Japanese............................................................................................................................................................ 11
Korean ............................................................................................................................................................... 11
Mexican/Spanish/Cuban ........................................................................................................................... 12
Kosher ............................................................................................................................................................... 12
Thai..................................................................................................................................................................... 12
Vegetarian........................................................................................................................................................ 13
Steakhouses .................................................................................................................................................... 13
Activities ................................................................................................................................................... 15
Theater .................................................................................................................................................................. 15
Museums .............................................................................................................................................................. 15
Sightseeing ............................................................................................................................................... 18
Nightlife .................................................................................................................................................... 21
Upscale / Trendy Bars..................................................................................................................................... 21
Casual Bars ........................................................................................................................................................... 21
Irish Pubs.............................................................................................................................................................. 21
Trendy Clubs / Dance ...................................................................................................................................... 22
Comedy Clubs ..................................................................................................................................................... 22
Music .......................................................................................................................................................... 23
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Hotel Information
Grand Hyatt New York
109 East 42nd Street at Grand Central Terminal
New York, New York, USA, 10017,
Tel: +1 212 883 1234 , Fax: +1 646 213 6659
CHECK-IN: 4PM
CHECK-OUT: 11AM
Closest Subway: 4, 5, and 6 (Green Lines) at Grand Central Terminal and
42nd St » Access to SoHo, TriBeCa, the Empire State Building, the Upper East
Side, 5th Avenue, Nolita, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the East Village, Brooklyn, Carnegie Hall,
Washington Square Park, Yankee Stadium, Central Park
7 (Purple Line) at Grand Central Terminal and 42nd St » Access to the Upper
West Side, Chelsea, the High Line
Pier 11 / Wall St Ferries » Access to Governor's Island, Staten Island, Jersey
City, Jersey Shore
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Transportation
Directions from Local Airports to Hotel
JFK to Hotel LaGuardia to Hotel
1. Start out going southeast. 1. Start out going west on Terminal
2. Turn slight left to take the B toward Laguardia Rd.
ramp toward Airport 2. Terminal B becomes Laguardia
Exit/Other Terminals. Rd.
3. Merge onto JFK Expy N. 3. Take the ramp toward Airport
4. Merge onto I-678 N/Van Wyck Exit.
Expy N toward Airport 4. Keep left at the fork in the ramp.
Exit/Return To 5. Merge onto Grand Central Pkwy
Terminals/Long Term W via the ramp on
Parking/Rental Car Return. the left toward Triboro Br.
5. Merge onto I-495 W/Long 6. Take the Bklyn Qns
Island Expy Expwy exit, EXIT 4, toward I-
W via EXIT 12B toward 278 W/Staten Island.
Midtown Tun. 7. Merge onto Brooklyn Queens
6. Keep left to take I-495 Expy.
W toward Midtown 8. Take the I-495/LI
Tun/Manhattan (Portions Expwy exit, EXIT35,
toll). toward Midtown Tun/Eastern
7. Take the 37 St exit LI/Greenpoint Ave.
toward Crosstown. 9. Merge onto I-495
8. Merge onto E 37th St. W via EXIT 35W on
9. Take the 1st right onto 3rd the left toward Midtown
Ave. Tun/Manhattan (Portions toll).
10. Turn left onto E 42nd St. 10. Take the 37 St exit
Grand Hyatt New York, 109 East toward Crosstown.
42nd Street, New York, NY, 109 11. Merge onto E 37th St.
EAST 42ND STREET. 12. Take the 1st right onto 3rd Ave.
13. Turn left onto E 42nd St.
Grand Hyatt New York, 109 East 42nd
Street, New York, NY, 109 EAST 42ND
STREET.
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Directions from Hotel to Local Airports
Hotel to JFK Hotel to LaGuardia
1. Start out going southeast on E 1. Start out going southeast on E
42nd St toward Lexington Ave. 42nd St toward Lexington Ave.
2. Turn right onto 2nd Ave. 2. Turn right onto 2nd Ave.
3. Turn left onto E 36th St. 3. Turn left onto E 36th St.
4. Merge onto I-495 E via the 4. Merge onto I-495 E via the ramp
ramp on the left (Portions on the left (Portions toll).
toll). 5. Merge onto I-278 E/Brooklyn
5. Take the Grand Central Queens Expy via EXIT 17W-
Pkwy/Gr Central Pkwy/I- E toward La Guardia
678/Van Wyck Airport/Bronx.
Expwy exit, EXIT 22A-E. 6. Keep right to take Brooklyn
6. Keep right at the fork in the Queens
ramp. Expy via EXIT 42 toward Grand
7. Merge onto Grand Central Central Pkwy E/La Guardia
Pkwy E. Airport.
8. Merge onto I-678 S/Van Wyck 7. Merge onto Grand Central Pkwy
Expy S E via the exit on
via EXIT 13S toward Kennedy the left toward Terminals
Airport. B/C/D.
9. Take the exit 8. Take EXIT 7 toward La Guardia
toward Terminals/1/2/3. Airport/Terminals/B/C/D.
10. 9.
John F. Kennedy International LaGuardia Airport (LGA), Laguardia
Airport (JFK) Airport, Flushing, NY, LAGUARDIA
AIRPORT.
directions provided by MapQuest/mapquest.com
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Subway, Taxi & Parking Information
Closest Subway
4, 5, and 6 (Green Lines) at Grand Central Terminal and 42nd St » Access to SoHo, TriBeCa, the
Empire State Building, the Upper East Side, 5th Avenue, Nolita, The Museum of Modern Art
(MoMA), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the East Village, Brooklyn, Carnegie Hall, Washington
Square Park, Yankee Stadium, Central Park
7 (Purple Line) at Grand Central Terminal and 42nd St » Access to the Upper West Side, Chelsea,
the High Line
Pier 11 / Wall St Ferries » Access to Governor's Island, Staten Island, Jersey City, Jersey Shore
Subway and Bus Information
• Website: http://www.mta.info
• Directions: http://tripplanner.mta.info/MyTrip/ui_web/customplanner/TripPlanner.aspx
Taxi Information for N.Y.C.
• Website: http://www.nyc.gov.
Taxi Information for Queens
• Arrow Transportation: (212) 431-1900
• Car Line Transportation: (718) 729-2222
• NYC Airports Limo: (718) 766-6666
Parking at the Hyatt:
We offer valet parking onsite for $70 for up to six hours and $80 for overnight parking. Our hotel
does not offer self-park options or in and out privileges.
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Restaurant Guide
New York has a rich heritage in culinary kids like that doesn't have a ride. And stupid
cuisine. Listed below is a sampling of some drinks like apricot smushes, big burgers, and
favorite restaurants chosen by the staff of the towering sundaes mean that they might even
American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review shut up and eat. But 3 has one chilly bowl of
and the St. John’s University School of Law magnificence that would render the place a
Moot Court Honor Society. must-visit if it was served atop a Dumpster.
Frozen Hot Chocolate -- please don't try to
All restaurant reviews have been provided make sense of it, just sip it, slowly -- is what
by New York Magazine, http://nymag.com Cristal might taste like if it came in a flavor
called fudge brownie. It's like riding the
Cyclone and giving a hickey: You have to do
Classic Tourist Spots it at least once in your life.
Joe’s Pizza
7 Carmine Street at Bleecker Street
Katz’s Delicatessen 150 E. 14th St., nr. Third Avenue
205 E. Houston St Phone: (212) 366-1182; (212) 388-9474
Phone: (212) 254-2246 Website: http://www.joespizzanyc.com
Website: www.katzdeli.com Review: The workaday Greenwich Village
Review: The oldest delicatessen in New York shop is the consummate New York slice
City (established 1888), Katz's is also the parlor first and foremost for its uncanny,
only place in town that still carves all its unparalleled consistency. It’s a spot where
pastrami and corned beef by hand—and it your slice is exactly as excellent as the last
makes a huge difference. It doesn't hurt that time, and the time before that, every time.
these products are the best available, as are That can be attributed, yes, to high turnover:
the frankfurters, knockwurst, knishes and Slices fly off the counter, and new pizzas are
other Jewish deli staples. The ritual of constantly being baked, guaranteeing
interacting with the countermen is one of the freshness. This brings up another essential
great New York experiences. One table in the fact: Joe’s is always busy, but it’s never a
middle of the dining room bears an pain to get in and get out. The ideal slice joint
inconspicuous paper sign taped to its surface: shouldn’t be a major commitment for locals,
"You are sitting at the table where Harry met and the slice must be obtained without hassle.
Sally." Which is why the legendary Di Fara, where
you wait 45 minutes to an hour for a slice that
Serendipity 3 could be fantastic but might be burnt, is
225 East 60th St. absent from this list.
Phone: 212-838-3531
Website: www.serendipity.com
Review: There aren't many places left that
make you want to blow bubbles through an
ice-cream-soda straw. Serendipity 3 is
proof that life isn't always a cabaret --
sometimes it's a sweet-sixteen party. Half
Provincetown antique-queen attic, half
Mad Hatter tea party, it's one of the few
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the last time you strolled the Boulevard St-
Germain.
Fun and Trendy
Dos Caminos
Buvette 475 West Broadway at Houston Street
42 Grove Street 675 Hudson Street at 14th Street
Phone: (212) 255-3590 373 Park Avenue South at 27th Street
Website: www.ilovebuvette.com Phone: (212) 277-4300; (212) 699-2400;
Review: Buvette is open 18 hours a day, and (212) 294-1000
people are lined up outside for most of them. Website: https://www.doscaminos.com
That is because Jody Williams’s self-titled Review: These high-concept Mexican spots
“gastrothèque” is not just ridiculously are the festive links in Stephen Hanson’s B.R.
charming, but it also manages to hit the spot Guest chain. Stylized South-of-the- Border
on any number of meal-period and appetite- food created by chef Ivy Stark and flavorful
specific levels, from steam-scrambled eggs margaritas (sage and plum, anyone?) appeal
for breakfast to a 1 a.m. croque monsieur. A both to after-work hordes and weekend tourist
common denominator on the small-plate throngs. Though the dining rooms at the
menu is richness, a quality that extends even massive midtown outlets and the relatively
to the vegetables and salads. Much of what diminutive Soho location make token gestures
you eat at Buvette is delicious things you put at Mexican themes – wooden crosses, carved
on bread (anchovies and butter, a signature wall panels – sleek latticed walls and mood
combo) and delicious things you dip bread lighting are more hotel lounge than hacienda.
into (a crock of creamy mustard sauce in With big mortars of guacamole made fresh
which assorted rabbit parts are submerged). tableside and those tasty cocktails (plus more
With every detail just so — the illustrated than 100 tequilas), meals can be an
almanac-style drinks book; the cocktail afterthought for some patrons. It follows suit
glasses chilling on the marble bar; the bistro- that the most satisfying orders are hearty
aproned, neck-tied servers who could appetizers like generously-stuffed plantain
conduct a master class on the art empanadas.
of sprezzatura — the place might feel art-
directed, but the effect is transporting.
Megu
355 West 16th Street
Balthazar Phone: (212) 885-9400
80 Spring Street Website: www.meguworldwide.com
Phone: (212) 965-1414 Review: Having spent three months prior to
Website: www.balthazarny.com the restaurant's opening studying the
Review: Schiller's may be Keith McNally's intricacies of each dish, Megu's servers are
newest nightlife nexus, but Balthazar is his some of the most graciously knowledgeable
masterpiece, an evocation of a Paris folks ever to guide you through a menu. So,
brasserie that out glows anything within you don't have to work, as long as you're
Brie-tossing distance of the Seine. Yet for all willing to relinquish control. Hard as that is,
its visual impact and despite McNally's follow their lead and you'll soon discover the
uncanny skill at creating a place that remains ornate menu descriptions aren't idle boasts.
hot longer than most of its patrons' Megu offers so much distinctively
relationships, Balthazar's tender braised magnificent food, often presented with such
short ribs, shepherd's pie made with duck or staggering beauty, that, though your initial
grilled dorade ringed by roasted eggplant disorientation never fully subsides, you wind
and peppers is exactly the kind of brasserie up too exhilarated to care.
fare you would like to remember having had
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startlingly airy Italian cooking. Ever try goat-
cheese tortelloni dusted in dried orange and
Rosa Mexicano wild-fennel pollen? Or spicy lamb sausage
9 East 18th Street romanced by mint love letters and a paste of
Phone: (212) 533-3350 sweet peas? Get ready. Ingredients you didn't
Website: www.rosamexicano.com expect or have never heard of are about to
Review (from Citysearch): The latest outpost become unforgettable. Hot-chili- flecked
of New York's pioneering Mexican includes linguine and clams will make you lose your
the requisite bright color scheme, festive vibe composure.
and designer David Rockwell's distinctive
water wall that continually draws oohs and
ahs. Old fans will be happy to know that the Craft
famous guacamole also comes prepared 43 E. 19th St
tableside here, and entrees like tortilla pie Phone: (212) 780-0880
with chicken, cheese and poblano chile Website: www.craftrestaurant.com
sauce; chile relleno stuffed with spinach; and Review: Tom Colicchio is a fanatic for the
slow-roasted achiote marinated pork make integrity of fresh ingredients and simplicity in
the translation from the midtown original. cooking, and this much-discussed, much-
imitated restaurant is the extreme, almost
priestly expression of his views. You may not
Kanoyama like the conceit of building your meal one
175 2nd Avenue (11th Street) spare ingredient at a time (many food
Phone: (212) 777-5266 aristocrats actively hate it), but there’s no
Website: http://www.kanoyama.com denying the quality of Colicchio’s sweet day-
Review: (from the Infatuation) Kanoyama is boat scallops or bluefoot mushrooms lovingly
an East Village classic with very fresh fish, foraged in the piney forests of Oregon. Craft
and it’s your best option for casual sushi in gets four stars for its huge influence on the
the neighborhood. They serve a bunch of way restaurant meals are conceived,
different combos for under $30, and in presented, and eaten in this new Greenmarket
addition to whatever sushi you’re eating, you era, and also for Karen Demasco’s impeccable
should be sure to get the tuna tartare and any desserts—toffee- steamed pudding bombed
of the chef’s specials. Just be aware that this with fresh-made rum-raisin ice cream—which
place gets extremely busy - either call ahead are the best in town.
for a reservation or grab a seat at the bar.
Daniel
Expensive 60 East 65th Street
Phone: (212) 288-0033
Website: www.danielnyc.com
Babbo Review: How sad that the word special has
110 Waverly Place been denatured to sound more specious than
Phone: (212) 777-0303 praiseworthy. Because Daniel Boulud really is
Website: www.babbonyc.com special. He's been blessed with the glorious
Review: This Italian restaurant serves food gift of being able to mix familiar flavors into
you'll never find in Little Italy. A staff as the most stunning of summations. He
smart as you want your kids to be helps. So routinely triumphs in why- didn't-anyone-else-
do two uncomplicated floors suffused in think-of-it feats such as the seasonal paupiette
honeyed amber light, as easy to get comfy of sea bass in a crisp potato shell.
in as a calf-skin slip-on. But what will stun,
fool, bewitch, and ultimately obsess you is
chef Mario Batali's staggeringly original yet Del Posto
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85 10th Avenue Greenmarket references to "vine-ripened
Phone: (212) 497-8090 organic" tomatoes and bluefin tuna caught,
Website: www.delposto.com in the proper Slow Food manner, on "hook
Review: As dinner unfolds at Del Posto, the and line.” Nouveau delicacies like
new addition to the Mario Batali– Bastianich- langoustines doused with curried ginger and
family fine-dining empire, it's hard to know Kaffir lime coexist with elderly favorites
whether you’ve entered restaurant nirvana or like sole meunière. The best entrées at the
some strange, slightly comical pastiche of new Le Cirque tend to be the safe and stolid
what an opulent five-star restaurant should ones as well, the dependable kind of big-
be. The plush, darkly glowing room has ticket items favored by elderly plutocrats
towering columns and tall curtained windows with settled tastes and fat pocketbooks.
like those you'd find in
the lobby of a grand Roosevelt-era New York
hotel. The menu is stuffed with $60 dishes of
lobster risotto for two, and old Batali
favorites like bollito misto, a medley of rustic
Italian offal products that are carved, with
elaborate ceremony, tableside. With Mark
Ladner (formerly of Lupa) in the kitchen, the
cooking is generally superb.
Felidia
243 East 58th Street
Phone: (212) 758-1479
Website: www.felidia-nyc.com
Review: In between writing cookbooks and
taping segments of Lidia's Italian Table for
PBS, Lidia Bastianich, the matriarch of the
clan responsible in part for Lupa, Esca, and
Becco, oversees this elegant bastion of
Italian cooking. But chef Fortunato Nicotra
deserves credit for a new breath of energy at
the range. Sauces are lighter, pastas still
wonderful, and entrees get deftly tweaked.
The wine list always impresses, and olive oil
connoisseurs can spring for a $7
comparative tasting. Felidia's first-ever bar
menu features a selection of paninis and
complimentary sorbet. Available for lunch
and pretheater dinner.
Le Cirque
151 East 58th Street
Phone: (212) 644-0202
Website: www.lecirque.com
Review: Conflicts between old and new are
evident on the menu. It's been pared down
from its previous baroque, Eurocentric
form and is dotted now with chic
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American snack-bar grub that good. Yes, the
Nobu line at lunchtime is as bad as your local Duane
Reade. But go late in the afternoon, when the
40 W 57th Street OR 195 Broadway
crowds have thinned, sit at one of the
Phone: (212) 219-0500
regulation-green Parks Department tables, and
Website:
have one of everything on the menu—perfect,
https://www.noburestaurants.com/downtow
smallish L.A.-style burgers that have no equal
n/home/
in New York; dressed to the nines Chicago-
Review: The great fusion chef Nobu
style dogs with authentic Day-Glo-green
Matsuhisa has done enough innovating to
relish; a purple cow made with Grape Crush
span several culinary lifetimes, and, more
from the bottle; and frozen custard that tastes
than most things cooked up during the
like a dream. You can even gulp beer or have
nineties, his miso-marinated black cod, rock
a good half- bottle of wine inside a
shrimp with spicy mayonnaise, and tuna
designated quaffing zone, no brown bag
tartar with a bed of crushed avocado all have
required.
stood the test of time.
Virgil’s Real Barbecue
Moderately Priced 152 W 44th St
Phone: (212) 921-9494
AMERICAN Website: www.virgilsbbq.com
Review: The burgundy hand towel you get
instead of a linen napkin is the tipoff. Don't do
Blue Smoke Virgil's with your pinkie up. This is bar- b-q—
116 E. 27th St food you're supposed to suck off your fingers
Phone: (212) 447-7733 and dribble down your chin. But is it
Website: www.bluesmoke.com authentic? Faced with a plate of Memphis
Review: Forget what the 'cue quibblers say— pork ribs and red beans, this big guy from
Blue Smoke is an ingenious Manhattan Tulsa looks up and says, "Who gives a crap?
barbecue joint with a woody barroom full of It tastes fine to me!" That should be good
red-vinyl booths, a sky lit dining room, and a enough for you.
hot jazz club downstairs. True, some of the
barbecue isn't there yet, but each visit shows
improvement, as pit master Kenny Callaghan
breaks in those Missouri-made smokers.
Salt-and-pepper beef ribs are terrific; so are
sides and desserts, and as far as pit-smoked
foie gras and salmon goes, what's the
problem? This ain't East Treestump, Texas,
after all.
Shake Shack
Madison Ave at 23rd St
Phone: (212) 889-6600
Website: shakeshack.com
Review: Everyone has a favorite Danny
Meyer restaurant; ours is Shake Shack. A
weekly visit could cause you to rethink the
necessity of having to get out of town during
the summer. The park is that lush, the all-
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display here (charcuterie platter, foie gras
CHINESE terrine, a fine hanger steak and frites), but
mostly Roussel (who is also a partner in the
venture) peppers his menu with rib-sticking
Jing Fong Alsatian specialties such as a tarte flambé
20 Elizabeth St, 2nd Floor (slightly weathered and over crisped on the
Phone: (212) 964-5256 night I tried it); crocks of potée Alsatian
Website: www.jingfongny.com swirling with white beans, cabbage, and
Review: You must ascend an extra-long nuggets of bacon; and big, heavy-artillery
escalator to get to Jing Fong’s massive items like the famous Alsatian casserole called
second-floor dining room where, in the baeckoffe.
mornings, Jing Fong’s specialty, dim sum, is
served from wheeled carts by waiters in Orsay
spiffy yellow jackets. During weekends the
1057 Lexington Ave
restaurant gets so busily chaotic that you
Phone: (212) 517-6400
might have to chase down the steamed
Website:www.orsayrestaurant.com Review:
dumpling or egg roll of your choice.
The remake of The Exorcist isn’t nearly as
Peking Duck House chilling as what Jean de Noyer must have
236 East 53rd Street gone through ridding the demons from this
Phone: (212) 759-8260 place. But from the ash of Mortimer’s musty
Website: www.pekingduckhousenyc.com chicken hash, Orsay has risen, a brasserie
Review: In the heart of Chinatown, you swirling with seductive arches and good
expect uncompromised, robust flavors, and cheer, giving the Upper East Side the French
Peking Duck House doesn't disappoint. tickle it sorely needs.
Duck, naturally, is the signature dish here,
and the big attraction drawing in mainly ITALIAN
crowds of non-Chinese folks pleased not to
be sitting under fluorescent lighting. The
gorgeous, tawny brown Peking duck is a 44 SW Ristorante & Bar
spectacle: Masterfully carved into thin 621 9th Avenue
slivers of tender meat and crispy, maltose- Phone: (212) 315-4582
basted skin, it's fun to roll it up into the Website: 44southwest.com
accompanying pancakes, along with Review (from Citysearch): Deep red walls
scallions, cucumber strips, and hoisin sauce. and furnishings give this two-room restaurant
The wide-ranging menu offers some a slightly formal air, while its corner location
adventurous fare, like sea cucumber with and big windows allow for lots of light and a
shrimp roe and Peking-style shark's fin, but view of the theater district bustle. The dining
the crowds seem content with standards like rooms are populated by a middle-aged crowd
sliced beef with broccoli. of playgoers and locals. The menu features
pastas, pizzas, a grilled salmon filet, and
chicken breasts served half a dozen ways.
FRENCH
Café d’Alsace
1695 Second Ave
Phone: (212) 722-5133
Website: www.cafedalsace.com
Review: Several of the familiar staples of the
French-American brasserie canon are on
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creations are sophisticated grown-up sundaes,
Carmine’s anchoring this fun neighborhood hangout
firmly in four-star territory.
200 W. 44th St.
Phone: (212) 221-3800
Website: www.carminesnyc.com Trattoria Trecolori
Review: Using the same formula that’s kept 254 W 47th St
its Upper West Side sibling cooking on all Phone: (212) 997-4540
burners, it’s a roaring success, with a high- Website: www.trattoriatrecolori.com
spirited old-time atmosphere, mammoth Review (from Citysearch): Popular Theater
portions that demand to be shared, and District destination for homey Italian fare.
uncomplicated Southern Italian cooking that
delights the palate and fills the belly. Best,
Carmine’s cooking is primal and adept. Uva
Shrimp scampi is a veritable school of plump 1486 2nd Avenue
crustaceans dusted with breadcrumbs and Phone: (212) 472-4552
broiled with scads of butter, garlic, and clam Website: www.uvanyc.com
juice. Ravioli are formidable rectangular Review: Uva is a cozy little collaboration
pasta pillows puffed up with creamy ricotta from the owners of neighboring Lusardi's,
cheese and doused with ragù. This place Due, and Luke's. The wine list is
reminds you that red sauce, garlic, and good international (give the earthy Lusardi
times will never go out of style. Sangiovese a shot), but the menu is distinctly
Italian and casually snacky. Chisolini are
Emilian-style focaccia, stuffed with robiola
John’s Pizzeria and black truffles or whipped tuna with
278 Bleecker St capers and chives. Cured meats and cheeses
Phone: (212) 243-1680 come on cutting boards. Best of all, in a
Website: www.johnsbrickovenpizza.com neighborhood that needs it, nothing is truly
Review: What's better than sitting down with expensive.
your friends for cheap red chianti, pizza, and
salad? Spending less than $30, perhaps? The
brick oven thin-crust pizza is legendary; the JAPANESE
basic Margherita should be the standard on
which all other pizzas are judged.
Momofuku Ko
163 First Ave
Otto Enoteca Pizzeria Phone: (212) 500-0831
One 5th Avenue
Website: www.momofuku.com
Phone: (212) 995-9559
Review: The reservation system is a little
Website: www.ottopizzeria.com
nutty, and the quiet, priestly vibe can be off-
Review: Mario Batali's most casual Italian
putting. But if you wish to taste the best in
restaurant is part buzzing wine bar, part
experimental down-home cooking, this is the
glorified pizzeria, with an always appealing
place to do it.
selection of fresh salads and smartly
seasoned vegetable antipasti that arrive in
small ceramic bowls on a snappy tray. True,
we pine for the fritti Molto yanked from the
menu to make room for the pasta people
clamored for, but the pizza is indeed
delish—thin-crusted, creatively topped, and
cooked, ever so controversially among the
Pizza Police, on a griddle. The gelati
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Sushi Yasuda meal. Most do: Seafood pancakes are crispy
and laced with tender squid; gobdol bibimbap
204 E. 43rd Street
(a hodgepodge of rice, beef, and vegetables in
Phone: (212) 972-1001
a sizzling stone bowl) achieves a properly
Website: www.sushiyasuda.com
crunchy bottom. The disorientation that sets in
Review: Between the rarified air of Masa
after a few bottles of soju might even steer you
and the party-never-stops scene at Sushi
away from standard fare and toward a
Samba is a whole world of sushi dens
bubbling-hot stew of oxtails floating with
servicing New Yorkers' raw-fish cravings.
purplish chunks of blood. Embrace it—it’s
The variety and freshness of its food, both
fiery and fabulous.
raw and cooked, puts Sushi Yasuda in the
top ranks of these restaurants.
MEXICAN/SPANISH/CUBAN
KOREAN
Cuba
222 Thompson Street
Kang Suh Phone: (212) 420-7878
1250 Broadway
Website: www.cubanyc.com
Phone: (212) 564-6845
Review: The suckling pig has a crackling crust
Website: www.kangsuh32.com
that drips with garlic-sauce marinade, and
Review: In the city that never sleeps,
yucca con mojo, boiled cassava in garlic sauce,
Kangsuh, a Koreatown staple since 1983,
is pungent enough to cut any date short.
never closes. The bi-level restaurant is open
Typical ropa vieja (skirt steak), empanadas,
24/7, including Christmas and New Year's,
chorizo with plantain chips, and Cuban
and is generally jammed with Korean and
sandwiches take their place alongside less
Japanese businessmen, as well as tourists.
common dishes like potatoes filled with
The first floor is dominated by a sushi bar,
picadillo meat sauce, braised oxtail, and red
offering the usual raw fish permutations.
snapper with green plantain crust.
Better to head upstairs, where traditional
Korean cuisine dominates.
Sala One Nine
35 W. 19th Street
Kun Jip Phone: (212) 229-2300
9 W. 32nd St Website: www.salaonenine.com
Phone: (212) 216-9487 Review: (from Citysearch) The bright space
Website: www.kunjip.net is lit by colorful jeweled chandeliers and
Review: For every three massive, two-floor, features rustic arches above prints of
fluorescent-lit eateries in Koreatown, there is Pamplona. The Valencian chef is inspired by
one restaurant like this. Small and outfitted in the foods of all 17 Spanish regions. Choices
wood from floors to tables, it teems with extend from paella and gambas al ajillo
mostly twenty-somethings, either standing in (shrimp in garlic oil), to tortillas Espanola
a long, amorphous line or crammed elbow-to- and corbero a la segoviana (roasted lamb).
elbow at tables; the scene is as raucous as its The full menu is served at the granite bar,
food is satisfying. The lively little dishes— where Spanish cherries and wines, such as
cubes of tangy, spicy pickled turnip, for Oloroso and Rioja, are poured.
instance, and strips of chewy, sweet-dried
catfish—that appear when you sit down are
an auspicious beginning and suggest that any
of the stews, noodles, and casseroles listed on
the extensive menu will also make a fine
KOSHER
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retro look and hopping downstairs tequila
Ben's Kosher Delicatessen bar, Tico’s.
209 W 38th St
Phone: (212) 398-2367 Spice
Website: www.bensdeli.net
236 8th Avenue
Review: This casual delicatessen—the Art
Phone: (212) 620-4585
Deco-ish Manhattan offshoot of a Long
Website: www.spicethainyc.com
Island chain—brings a full roster of pastrami,
Review: Another branch in a burgeoning Thai
corned beef, sour pickles, potato latkes, and
chainlet challenges the conventional wisdom
other highlights of kosher cooking to the
that the authenticity of an ethnic restaurant
garment district. All baking is done on the can be measured by its grubbiness (the more
premises, and for those who hanker for worn the Formica, the better the food). The
something a little stronger than Dr. Brown's, deft kitchen here overcomes a strikingly mod
there's a full bar. décor, a persistent electro soundtrack, and
fancified presentations to turn out well-
Prime Grill seasoned, extremely tasty versions of classics
60 East 49th Street like soft, wide rice noodles in an addictive
Phone: (212) 692-9292 black-bean sauce; and a roster of fresh-
Website: seafood specials.
www.theprimegrill.primehospitalityny.com
Review: Joey Allaham opened Prime Grill in
1999 with a lofty goal: a kosher steakhouse
VEGETARIAN
with the chops to compete with the best
restaurants in town. This was no small order: Candle Café
Kosher meat, due to its rigorous slaughter 1307 Third Ave
and preparation processes, often risks being Phone: (212) 472-0970
less flavorful than its ritual-free Website: www.candlecafe.com
counterparts. Despite these restrictions, Review: A vegan restaurant that doesn't feel
Prime Grill churns out juicy, flavorful steaks like one, and the perfect place for a date. Try
from its dry-aging room, including prime the tempeh lasagna, or the club sandwich with
rib, chili-rubbed hanger, a 16-ounce "Ladies' grilled tofu, sprouts, and a very convincing
Cut," and the house's own interpretation of a tempeh bacon.
T-bone. There's also fish, veal, and duck
entrées, and a full sushi menu.
Vatan Indian Restaurant
409 Third Ave
THAI Phone: (212) 689-5666
Website: www.vatanny.com
Review: You leave your shoes at the door,
Tijuana Picnic and pad to your cushioned booth to sit cross-
151 Essex Street legged. Then you forget about menus, because
Phone: (212) 219-2000 you'll be presented with a thali – a prix fixe
Website: http://www.tijuana-picnic.com tapas-like spread of small dishes. Even the
Review (from Zagat Review): Modern surprises are delicious.
Mexican fare gets an Asian spin at this
“flavorful” Lower Eastsider via Acme
alums, offering tapas, skewers and family-
style plates alongside “inventive” cocktails;
fans like its late-night hours, “cool”, vaguely
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Zen Palate brandy-cream sauce, top-sprinkled with
caviar and accompanied by a crisp triangle of
115 East 18th Street
fried bread.
Phone: (212) 387-8885
Review: Zen Palate is for when you’re
feeling virtuous: The vegetarian fare is tasty Del Frisco’s Double Eagle
and relentlessly healthy. There’s no bar—
just tea, juices and soymilk for kicks. The Steak House
scene tends to be young and student-heavy, 1221 Avenue of the Americas
especially since the bounty here comes Phone: (212) 575-5129
cheap. Much of the menu has familiar Asian Review: Want to see what mahogany
staples such as noodle soup, spring rolls and fashioned by testosterone looks like? This is
steamed vegetables; some corners are without question the most urbanely elegant
hardcore veggie, or just plain strange (moo- steakhouse you will ever see, its meat locker
shu Mexican style?). Whether you go out on filled with terrific beef. Now if they can
a limb or not, it’s a reliable bet for simply only figure out how to get their staff up to the
prepared, tasty food. level of their surroundings and kitchen.
STEAKHOUSES Peter Luger Steak House
178 Broadway (Brooklyn)
Phone: (718) 387-7400
Bobby Van’s Steakhouse Website: www.peterluger.com
135 West 50th Street (b/w 6th and 7th Aves) Review: The staff goes about its nonstop
Phone: (212) 957-5050 business with cordial if mechanical efficiency,
Review: Bobby Van's serves some of the serving onion-and-tomato salads, creamed
city's best steaks and lobsters to a loyal, spinach, and pasty fried potatoes. So why is it
local, and low-key clientele. While there are always more crowded than Toys 'R' Us on the
several other Manhattan steakhouses in the weekend before Christmas? Because there are
same quality range (not as good as Peter few gastronomic sensations that confirm the
Luger, but better than most of the rest), few good life better than a hunk of a spectacular
provide an overall experience as satisfying steak. And Peter Luger can broil and deliver
as Van's, thanks to the combination of one magnificently aged and marbleized two-
choice cuts of meat and attentive service. finger-thick porterhouse after another with the
unfailing certainty of Dustin Hoffman
adenoidally reciting baseball scores. So don't
Delmonico’s even ask for a menu. Get big. Eat beef.
56 Beaver Street
Phone: (212) 509-1144
Website: www.delmonicosny.com
Review: Pompeian columns flank the
entrance of this stately Wall Street
steakhouse, open since 1837 (no typo!) on a
shadowy, wind-blown corner. This historic
meatery is the birthplace of the Delmonico’s
steak, a juicy cut of rib eye that’s perfectly
charred and bloody good, served topped
with a single, golden onion ring that could
double as an edible bangle. Lobster
Newburg, also created here, blankets lumps
of the succulent crustacean in an unctuous
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Wolfgang’s Steakhouse
4 Park Ave
Phone: (212) 889-3369
Website: www.wolfgangssteakhouse.net
Review: After four decades of faithful
service to Peter Luger, its former headwaiter,
Wolfgang Zwiener, has opened a restaurant
of his own. The elegant room with its
striking Guastavino-designed vault ceiling, a
bigger menu with more seafood, and the
credit-card policy (they take them)
distinguish Wolfgang's from Peter Luger.
The meat, though, is prime, dry-aged for
about 28 days in a basement locker and cut
into porterhouse steaks for two, three, or
four, just the way they do it in Brooklyn.
STK
1114 Avenue of the Americas
Phone: (646) 624-2455
Website: https://stksteakhouse.com
Review (from TripAdvisor): STK Midtown
artfully blends the modern steakhouse and a
chic lounge for a vibe-driven dining
experience unlike anywhere else. Don't
expect to find antiques on the walls or a
stuffy, old atmosphere. We want you to
mingle and have fun. Say hello to your table
neighbors. Dance to the DJ and then hydrate
with a cocktail or two. At STK, you'll get
more than a great culinary experience...
You'll get the perfect night out. STK
Midtown is located in Midtown Manhattan,
just steps from the bustling Theatre District.
STK Midtown includes an outdoor patio and
separate bar during summer months.
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Activities
Theater night when much of the Great White Way is
“dark.” Additionally, some productions
TKTS Booth - Theater perform one or more 7 PM evening
Development Fund (TDF) performances to allow an earlier night out for
Duffy Square – 47th St and Broadway family audiences and other early birds.
Phone: (212) 912-9770
Website: www.tdf.org TodayTix
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tickets to Broadway and Off-Broadway Description (from the website): Get tickets
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TKTS accepts Visa, MasterCard, American
Express, and Discover cards, as well as cash,
and TKTS Gift Certificates. A small number Museums
of Off-Broadway shows may require cash
Listed below is a sampling of some great
only. Both locations sell tickets at 20% to
museums that cannot be missed.
50% off full-price (plus a $4.50 per ticket
service charge, which helps support other
All descriptions have been provided by New
TDF services and programs). Availability
York Magazine, http://nymag.com.
and ticket inventory change throughout the
day and at the discretion of individual
productions. American Museum of Natural
History
Playbill.com Central Park West (at 79th Street) Phone:
Website: www.playbill.com (212) 769-5100
Weekly schedule of current Broadway shows Website: www.amnh.org
While most of Broadway runs on a Hours: Daily, 10am – 5:45pm Prices:
traditional Tuesday through Sunday schedule Suggested donation $22, $17 students
- with Sunday and Monday evenings off - a and seniors
handful of productions diverge slightly and Description: Established in 1869, the American
offer performances at nontraditional times. Museum of Natural History covers four blocks
This affords potential theatergoers a number between West 77th and 81st Streets and—with
of options should they wish to take in a its enormous galleries of dinosaurs, aquatic
Broadway show on a life, fossils, and meteorites—is one of the
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city's most appealing museums for children. square feet. Today, art comes alive in the
There are usually two special exhibits on Museum’s galleries and through its
view at any given time. Past shows have exhibitions and events, revealing both new
ranged from detailed explorations of the ideas and unexpected connections across time
genome to cultural overviews of Vietnam to and cultures.
wildly popular displays of live frogs and
butterflies. Leave some time to explore space. The MET Breuer
The glassy Rose Center for Earth and Space, 945 Madison Ave
hailed as an architectural masterpiece, adds Phone: (212) 535-7710
the equivalent of another museum. Website: www.metmuseum.org/visit/met-
breuer
Guggenheim Museum Hours: Tue - Thurs: 10am - 5:30pm; Fri, Sat:
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street) 10am - 9pm; Sun: 10am - 5:30pm; Closed
Phone: (212) 423-3500 Mon
Website: www.guggenheim.org Prices: $25 adults, $17 seniors, $12
Hours: Sun-Wed and Fri, 10am – 5:30pm; students; NY residents and NY, NJ, and CT
Sat, 10am – 8pm students pay what they wish
Prices: $25, $18 students and seniors Description: The Metropolitan Museum of
Saturday’s from 5pm – 8pm, pay what you Art's modern and contemporary art program
wish (suggested amount is $10) includes exhibitions, performances, artist
Description: Since 1988, director Thomas commissions, residencies, and educational
Krens has irritated and enlivened the art initiatives in the landmark building designed
world with showy, populist exhibits from by Marcel Breuer [BROY-er] on Madison
motorcycles to Mapplethorpe, and from Avenue and 75th Street. The Met Breuer
video artists Bill Viola and Nam June Paik to provides additional space for the public to
the interdisciplinary conceptualist Matthew explore the art of the 20th and 21st centuries
Barney. But traditional modernists need not through the global breadth and historical reach
avoid this dynamic, tilt-and-twist space— of The Met's unparalleled collection.
there's still plenty of art by well- known
types, like Klee, Brancusi, and Matisse, and
round-ups of 20th century artists or the Museum of Modern Art
Russian avant-garde. (MoMA)
11 West 53rd St (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Phone: (212) 708-9400
Website: www.moma.org
(MET) Hours: 7 days a week, 10:30am – 5:30pm;
1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street) Fri and first Thurs. of each month, open
Phone: (212) 535-7710 until 9pm
Website: www.metmuseum.org Prices: $25 adults, $18 seniors, $14 students;
Hours: Sun-Thurs, 10am – 5:30pm; Fri -Sat: Free on Friday 5:30 – 9pm
10am – 9pm Description: In its early days, the museum's
Prices: $25 adults, $17 seniors, $12 celebrated garden was a place of retreat--not
students; NY residents and NY, NJ, and CT just from the hurly-burly of the city but from
students pay what they wish the metaphysical racket within the museum.
Description: The Met Fifth Avenue presents Now, in this new building, Taniguchi has
over 5,000 years of art spanning all cultures imbued the entire museum with the spirit of
and time periods. Since the Museum opened the garden, creating a light-filled temple.
its doors to the public in its current location
in Central Park in 1880, its footprint has
expanded to cover more than two million Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Avenue at 36th St, Astoria,
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Queens
Phone: (718) 777-6888
Website: www.movingimage.us Rubin Museum of Art
Hours: Weds-Thurs, 10:30am – 5:00pm; Fri, 150 West 17th Street
10:30am – 8:00pm (free 4:00pm – 8:00pm); Phone: (212) 620-5000
Sat-Sun, 11:30am – 7:00pm Website: www.rubinmuseum.org
Prices: $15 adults, $11 students and seniors; Hours: Mon and Thu, 11am – 5pm; Wed,
Free on Friday 4pm – 8pm 11am – 9pm; Fri, 11am – 10pm; Sat-Sun,
Description: Inhabiting a landmark building 11am – 6pm
that once belonged to Astoria Studio Prices: Free every Friday 6pm – 10pm,
(Paramount Pictures' bustling East Coast $19 adults, $14 students and seniors
production center during the 1920s), the Description: The Rubin opened in October
Museum of the Moving Image was 2004 and houses about 2000 works in 25,000
established to educate the public about the art square feet of exhibition space, with a central
and science of film, television, and digital six-story spiral staircase. Though he admires
images. Aside from the galleries, the scholarship, Donald Rubin does not want his
museum's major draw is its film program, museum to become forbiddingly academic.
presented in the Riklis Theater, where He emphasizes the living quality of Buddhist
cineastes are treated to a wide spectrum of art, its ability, he says, to stimulate an
works, from silent-era gems to international "emotional rush" in viewers. The floor-wide
films rarely distributed in the U.S. exhibitions around the staircase are therefore
organized by theme rather than by particular
P.S.1 Contemporary Art time or place.
Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at 46th Avenue,
Long Island City, NY Whitney Museum of American
Phone: (718) 784-2084 Art
Website: momaps1.org 99 Gansevoort St., New York, NY
Hours: Thu-Mon, 12pm – 6pm
Madison Avenue (at 75th Street)
Prices: $5, $2 students and seniors Phone: (212) 570-3600
Description: For those accustomed to the
Website: www.whitney.org
burnished surfaces of Manhattan's legendary
Hours: Mon, 10:30 am – 6pm, Wed-Thu and
fine art institutions, MoMA affiliate P.S. 1 is
Sat-Sun, 10:30am – 6pm; Fri, 10:30 am –
both a geographic and esthetic departure.
10pm
Housed in a castle-like brick Renaissance
Prices: $25 adultsl $18 students and seniors;
Revival structure dating back to 1893, Long
Friday 7pm – 9:30pm, pay what you wish
Island City's showcase for edgy,
Description: This Madison Avenue gem is
contemporary work takes an aggressive
undoubtedly the place to go to view truly
curatorial approach in which placement is as
eclectic contemporary art. The Whitney's
crucial as the content itself.
permanent collection now holds about 18,000
pieces, including works by Georgia O'Keeffe,
Andy Warhol, Charles Sheeler and Jackson
Pollock.
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Sightseeing
Whether you are a first time visitor to New
York or a repeat visitor the sights listed below illuminate the tower for various
are excellent places to visit. commemorations.
All descriptions have been provided by New Grand Central Terminal
York Magazine, http://nymag.com 87 East 42nd Street
Phone: (212) 340-3404
Website: www.grandcentralterminal.com
Description: With its majestic vaulted Sky
Central Park Ceiling depicting constellations, a series of
5th Ave to Central Park West, 59th-110th St Roman-inspired ramps designed to keep
Phone: (212) 360-3456 pedestrians on the move from the street to their
Website: www.centralparknyc.org trains, and 60-ft. arched windows that streamed
Description: Stretching from Midtown to sunlight into a grand concourse that has become
Harlem, Central Park's green hills, rocky an enduring symbol of perpetual motion, the
bluffs, and dense woodlands annually host Beaux Arts terminal soon became the busiest
countless free diversions, from concerts and train station in the nation.
protests to tai chi and tennis. 58 miles of
pedestrian pathways lead 25 million visitors
around such cinematic scenes as the placid Ground Zero, World Trade
reservoir, perpetually fringed with joggers; Memorial and Museum
skaters speeding through cones or wheel- Website: www.911memorial.org
dancing near the band shell; couples and Phone: (212) 312 - 8800
families paddling the lake by the Loeb Location: 200 Liberty Street
boathouse; youngsters tossing Frisbees and Description: The National September 11
soaking up rays in Sheep Meadow; and Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and
baseball fans shagging flies in two dozen ball honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the
fields. terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the
World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa.,
Empire State Building and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people
350 Fifth Avenue killed in the World Trade Center bombing in
Phone: (212) 736-3100 February 1993. The Memorial’s twin reflecting
Hours: Daily, 8am – 2am pools are each nearly an acre in size and feature
Website: www.esbnyc.com the largest manmade waterfalls in the North
Description: The 86th-story observation deck America. The pools sit within the footprints
has long been a hit with flocks of tourists where the Twin Towers once stood. Architect
willing to brave long lines for the spectacular Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter
views. On a clear day visibility extends eighty Walker created the Memorial design selected
miles, with sightlines running as far as from a global design competition that included
Massachusetts. The glitz of New York nights more than 5,200 entries from 63 nations. The
ups the glamour quotient for late shift visitors. names of every person who died in the 2001 and
Colored lights, introduced in 1976, provide 1993 attacks are inscribed into bronze panels
their own allure as they edging the Memorial pools, a powerful
reminder of the
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largest loss of life resulting from a foreign terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the
attack on American soil and the greatest single Statue closed and underwent a massive
loss of rescue personnel in American history. overhaul, reopening in early August 2004 with
Admission is free to the 9/11 Memorial. a more secure and visitor-friendly version of
However, visitor passes are required. The the familiar landmark. The vastly improved
easiest and quickest way to make a reservation lighting makes it possible to see all the way up
is online. Museum admission is $26 for adults, to the crown without huffing and puffing up the
$20 for seniors, and $20 for college students. narrow flights of stairs. Liberty Island remains
accessible from Battery Park in Manhattan and
Liberty Park in New Jersey. While the ferry
Rockefeller Center ticket still covers admission to the park and
Rockefeller Plaza at 50th nearby Ellis Island, additional tickets are
Street needed for the new observatory and promenade
Phone: (212) 332-6868 tours. There's no ticket fee, but calling to
Website: www.rockefellercenter.com reserve a spot is highly recommended as they
Description: The 14 buildings that complete fill up rapidly.
this sprawling landmark all share the same
design vocabulary—limestone cladding,
sparing Deco flourishes, and a liberal Times Square
sprinkling of art works to relieve the Location: Broadway and 7th Avenue (at
otherwise sober effect. Beyond its 42nd Street)
architectural merits, the center is also a major Description: Over a century ago, Thomas
transit center, a thriving public square, and Edison juiced what is now the oldest surviving
one of midtown's most concentrated Broadway theater, the Lyceum; ever since, the
shopping districts. Stores, mainly of the mall- Great White Way has been known both for its
chain variety, can be found at street- level as playhouses (around 20 are landmarked) and as
well on the concourse below. Other tenants the place where night becomes day. In the
include the famed auction house Christie's, words of one of its many chroniclers, it has also
the premiere concert venue Radio City Music been a "crossroads of class and race," a
Hall, and the NBC studios for The Today microcosm that has been everything to
Show, Saturday Night Live and Dateline. everyone, from the employees of top media,
legal, advertising, and financial companies to
Statue of Liberty the billions around the world who tune in once
Battery Park and Liberty State Park (Ferry to a year to watch the ball drop from the former
the Island) headquarters of the New York Times.
Phone: (212) 363-3200
Website: www.nps.gov/stli Top of the Rock
Hours: Daily, 9am – 5pm 30 Rockefeller Plaza (at 49th Street)
Prices: $18.50, $14 seniors, $9 children Phone: (212) 698-2000
Description: Standing 305 feet from the Website: www.topoftherocknyc.com
ground to the tip of her torch, Lady Liberty Hours: Daily, 8am – 12am
has welcomed immigrants and visitors to Prices: $38, $36 seniors, $32 children
New York for well over a century with the Description: To attain the spectacular panorama
lofty words carved into the base: "Give me afforded by this 1933 landmark, visitors must
your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses wind through a multimedia exhibit on the
yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse mezzanine level then take a 50-
of your teeming shore. Send these, the second shuttle elevator to the top while
homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my watching a quick history projected onto the
lamp beside the golden door!" Following the transport's glass ceiling. Discharged to the 67th
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