New York!

1. Battery Park

9.1
Battery Pl (at State St), New York, NY
Park · Financial District · 301 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: The park gets its name from the series of artillery batteries built along the area’s waterfront for protection, starting in the later part of the 17th century.

New York Stock Exchange is one of New York!.

2. New York Stock Exchange

8.1
11 Wall St (btwn Broadway & Broad St), New York, NY
Financial Service · Financial District · 115 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: Architect George B. Post designed the neo-Classic building, whose front features a glass window wall measuring 50 feet high and 96 feet wide.

Woolworth Building is one of New York!.

3. Woolworth Building

7.8
233 Broadway (btwn Park Pl & Barclay St), New York, NY
Structure · Tribeca · 29 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: Completed in 1913, this was the world’s tallest skyscraper until 1930, when it was surpassed in height by the Chrysler Building, also in New York City.

4. Duke Ellington Memorial by Robert Graham

8.3
5 Avenue A (Duke Ellington Circle), New York, NY
Outdoor Sculpture · Central Park · 9 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: This statue of the iconic jazz composer, pianist and band leader, who died in 1974, was sculpted by Robert Graham and dedicated in 1997.

Rockefeller Center is one of New York!.

5. Rockefeller Center

9.1
Rockefeller Plaza (btwn W 49th & W 50th St), New York, NY
Plaza · Rockefeller Center · 848 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: Covering 22 acres, Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings that was built during the 1930s.

Charging Bull is one of New York!.

6. Charging Bull

8.3
Broadway & Morris St, New York, NY
Outdoor Sculpture · Financial District · 215 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: Displayed in its current location since 1989, this 7,000-pound bronze sculpture has become a famous symbol of American capitalism.

National September 11 Memorial is one of New York!.

7. National September 11 Memorial

9.2
180 Greenwich St (btwn Liberty & Fulton St), New York, NY
Memorial Site · Financial District · 869 tips and reviews
High Line is one of New York!.

8. High Line

9.4
btwn Gansevoort & W 34th St (btwn 10th & 12th Ave), New York, NY
Park · Chelsea · 1499 tips and reviews

9. Museum Mile

Fifth Avenue (btwn 82nd and 105th Streets), New York, NY
Road · Upper East Side · 11 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: This stretch might just as well refer to the distance spanned if you lined up, ends to end, all the paperweights, mouse pads, and refrigerator magnets with reproductions of famous paintings on them. Read more.

10. Metropolitan Museum of Art

9.5
1000 5th Ave (btwn E 80th & E 84th St), New York, NY
Art Museum · 1954 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: “Nancy told me Lon Havemeyer was in town and waiting that very moment to go with us to the Metropolitan Museum.” —Peter Taylor, “A Sentimental Journey” Read more.

11. Apple Upper West Side

8.5
1981 Broadway (at W 67th St), New York, NY
Electronics Store · Lincoln Square · 142 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: “This is loaded with subtle shit,” Apple store architect Peter Q. Bohlin explained of his new building in a May, 2010 Talk of the Town piece. Read more.

12. Whitney Museum of American Art

9.2
99 Gansevoort St (btwn 10th Ave & Washington St), New York, NY
Art Museum · Meatpacking District · 435 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: The founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, often bought not the best work of the artist, which the artist might hope to be able to sell elsewhere, but the second best, which nobody else would have. Read more.

13. Central Park Zoo

8.5
Central Park (btwn E 63rd & E 65th St), New York, NY
Zoo · Central Park · 248 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: A peacock once escaped from the zoo and settled into the fifth-floor ledge of an Upper East Side building, capturing the attention of kids, cops, tourists, and Rupert Murdoch. Read more.

14. Bloomingdale's

8.2
1000 3rd Ave Fl 5 (btwn E 59th & E 60th St), New York, NY
Department Store · 343 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: Don’t miss the basement around Christmastime “by thoughtlessly choosing to go to Europe instead.” It’s “a high adventure in smells”: bacon, leather, “rayon undies.” Read more.

15. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

9.3
11 W 53rd St (btwn 5th & 6th Ave), New York, NY
Art Museum · 1874 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: “Immaculate, rectilinear, capacious, and chaste,” John Updike wrote in 2004 after the museum’s renovation. Read more.

16. Rockefeller Center

9.1
Rockefeller Plaza (btwn W 49th & W 50th St), New York, NY
Plaza · Rockefeller Center · 848 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: Frida Kahlo once told the New Yorker that her husband, Diego Rivera, lost a whopping hundred and twenty-five pounds while painting the controversial Rockefeller Center frescoes. Read more.

17. New York Public Library

9.2
476 5th Ave (at W 42nd St), New York, NY
Library · 529 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: “Kerouac’s crutches are kept in the Berg. / Is not this the greatest of institutions, / With levels we both know nothing about?” – Michael Longley, “In the New York Public Library” Read more.

18. Empire State Building

9.0
350 5th Ave (btwn 33rd & 34th St), New York, NY
Structure · Koreatown · 1174 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: Is the Empire State Building the center of a second Bermuda Triangle? Lizzie Widdicombe investigated with an Internet-purchased radio-wave meter and a veteran cab driver… Read more.

19. Strand Bookstore

9.4
828 Broadway (at E 12th St), New York, NY
Bookstore · Greenwich Village · 592 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: Books-by-the-Foot service provides ready-made libraries. “Bargain books,” a random selection of hardbacks, is the cheapest, at ten dollars a foot. For thirty dollars, clients can customize the color. Read more.

20. One World Trade Center

9.2
1 World Trade Ctr (btwn Fulton & West St), New York, NY
Structure · Financial District · 316 tips and reviews

The New YorkerThe New Yorker: Architect Daniel Libeskind’s plan strikes “a careful balance between commemorating the lives lost and reëstablishing the life of the site itself.” Read more.

Bowling Green is one of New York!.

21. Bowling Green

7.7
Broadway and Whitehall St, New York, NY
Park · Financial District · 69 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: This is New York City's oldest park, a designation it received in 1733. According to legend, over a century earlier, in 1626, Native Americans sold the island of Manhattan to the Dutch at this site.

New York City Hall is one of New York!.

22. New York City Hall

7.6
260 E Broadway (at Murray St), New York, NY
City Hall · 87 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: The three-story, Federal-style building houses the mayor‚'s office and the city council chambers, as well as a collection of historic portraits, furnishings and artifacts.

Trinity Church is one of New York!.

23. Trinity Church

75 Broadway (at Wall St), New York, NY
Church · Financial District · 86 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: Opened in 1846, this Gothic Revival style building is the third and current home of Trinity Church, part of the Episcopal Diocese of New York City.

Times Square is one of New York!.

24. Times Square

8.4
Broadway & 7th Ave (btwn W 42nd & 47th St), New York, NY
Plaza · Theater District · 2356 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: This area was originally named Longacre Square but was renamed in 1904 when the NY Times moved to the skyscraper now known as One Times Square at 42nd St., famous for the Times Square Ball drop.

Madison Square Garden is one of New York!.

25. Madison Square Garden

8.8
4 Penn Plz (btwn 7th & 8th Ave), New York, NY
Basketball Stadium · 999 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: Opened in 1968, it is the longest active major sporting facility in the Metropolitan area & is the 4th incarnation of the arena in the city. The Garden hosts approximately 320 events a year.

United Nations is one of New York!.

26. United Nations

760 United Nations Plz (at 1st Ave & E 46th St), New York, NY
Government Building · Turtle Bay · 126 tips and reviews
Columbia University is one of New York!.

27. Columbia University

116th St & Broadway, New York, NY
University · West Harlem · 114 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: Columbia University is the oldest institution of high learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.

Low Memorial Library is one of New York!.

28. Low Memorial Library

535 W 116th St (Columbia University), New York, NY
College Administrative Building · West Harlem · 13 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: Low Memorial Library was the first major building erected on the present Columbia University site. Today it is one of the most important Neo-Classical structures in America.

Castle Clinton National Monument is one of New York!.

29. Castle Clinton National Monument

7.8
Battery Pl, New York, NY
Historic and Protected Site · Financial District · 33 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: Built as a U.S. military fort in 1811 in anticipation of the War of 1812 against the British, Castle Clinton went on to serve a variety of roles.

National City Bank Building is one of New York!.

30. National City Bank Building

55 Wall St, New York, NY
Apartment or Condo · Financial District · 2 tips and reviews
Spoonbill & Sugartown Books is one of New York!.

31. Spoonbill & Sugartown Books

8.5
218 Bedford Ave (at N 5th St), Brooklyn, NY
Bookstore · Williamsburg · 51 tips and reviews

32. New York Botanical Garden

9.5
2900 Southern Blvd (at Bronx Park Rd), Bronx, NY
Botanical Garden · Bronx Park · 198 tips and reviews

Time Out New YorkTime Out New York: Fed up with the lines for the Holiday Train Show? Get a year’s membership ($75) to get access to special members-only days for the garden’s big exhibits. Read more.

33. Rockefeller Center

9.1
Rockefeller Plaza (btwn W 49th & W 50th St), New York, NY
Plaza · Rockefeller Center · 848 tips and reviews

Time Out New YorkTime Out New York: A vacant storefront was transformed into a makeup shop for The Smurfs movie. It was so convincing that passersby actually tried to enter it. Read more.

34. Times Square

8.4
Broadway & 7th Ave (btwn W 42nd & 47th St), New York, NY
Plaza · Theater District · 2356 tips and reviews

Time Out New YorkTime Out New York: When the New York Times moved into offices at Broadway and 42nd Street on Dec 31, 1904, it threw a party so legendary that New Yorkers started to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Times Square every year. Read more.

Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is one of New York!.

35. Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House

6.6
1 Bowling Grn (btwn Broadway & State St), New York, NY
Government Building · Financial District · 12 tips and reviews

HISTORYHISTORY: Completed in 1907, this Beaux Arts building housed U.S. Customs Service operations for the port of New York until 1973.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is one of New York!.

36. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

733 11th Ave (btwn 51st & 52nd St), New York, NY
TV Station · Hell's Kitchen · 68 tips and reviews

37. Brooklyn Bridge

9.5
Brooklyn Bridge, New York, NY
Bridge · 1011 tips and reviews

Time Out New YorkTime Out New York: The giant anchorages of this suspension bridge were supposed to double as shopping arcades. The inside of each features the same Gothic design as the towers, plus 50-foot-high cathedral ceilings. Read more.

St. Paul's Chapel is one of New York!.

38. St. Paul's Chapel

209 Broadway (btwn Vesey & Fulton St), New York, NY
Church · Financial District · 43 tips and reviews
John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) is one of New York!.

39. John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)

6.2
JFK Expy (Van Wyck Expy), Queens, NY
International Airport · Jamaica · 3393 tips and reviews

40. Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center New York

8.6
243 W 24th St (between 7th and 8th Avenue), New York, NY
Yoga Studio · Chelsea · 6 tips and reviews

galfromdownundergalfromdownunder: An org run entirely on selfless service: no one is paid, and music-free, deeply meditative yoga classes are kept moderately priced, $10-12. The Wednesday satsang, free and open to all, is wonderful.

41. LaGuardia Airport (LGA)

4.8
Grand Central Pkwy, Queens, NY
International Airport · East Elmhurst · 2578 tips and reviews

City of New YorkCity of New York: Did you know ? The airport has been through 3 names: Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, North Beach Airport then New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field

42. Manhattan Municipal Building

7.1
1 Centre St, New York, NY
Government Building · Downtown Manhattan · 13 tips and reviews

City of New YorkCity of New York: Did you know the Municipal Building was the first building in New York City to incorporate a subway station at its base?