Sights in New York City
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Chelsea Piers
This massive waterfront sports center caters to the athlete in everyone. You can set out to hit a bucket of golf balls at the four-level driving range, ice skate in the complex’s indoor rink or rent in-line skates to cruise along the new Hudson River Park waterfront bike path – all the way down to Battery Park. There’s a jazzy bowling alley, Hoop City for basketball, a sailing school for kids, batting cages, a huge gym facility with an indoor pool (day passes for nonmembers are $50), indoor rock-climbing walls – the works. There’s even waterfront dining and drinking at the Chelsea Brewing Company, which serves great pub fare and delicious home-brews for you to carb-load…
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Chelsea Hotel
It’s probably not any great shakes as far as hotels go – and besides, it mainly houses long-term residents – but as a place of mythical proportions, the Chelsea Hotel is top of the line. The red-brick hotel, featuring ornate iron balconies and no fewer than seven plaques declaring its literary landmark status, has played a major role in pop-culture history. It’s where the likes of Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas and Arthur Miller hung out; Jack Kerouac allegedly crafted On the Road during one marathon session here, and it’s where Arthur C Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey. Dylan Thomas died of alcohol poisoning while staying here in 1953, and Nancy…
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Koreatown
For kimchi and karaoke, it's hard to beat Koreatown (Little Korea). Mainly concentrated on 32nd St, with some spillover into the surrounding streets both south and north of this strip, it's a Seoul-ful jumble of Korean-owned restaurants, shops, salons and spas.
Authentic BBQ is available around the clock at many of the all-night spots on 32nd St, some with microphone, video screen and Manic Monday at the ready.
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Tavern on the Green
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Paul Kasmin Gallery
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Museum of Television & Radio
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Literary Walk
This Parisian-style promenade – the only straight line in Central Park – is flanked by statues of literati on the southern end, including Robert Burns and Shakespeare. It is lined with rare North American elms.
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Gagosian Uptown
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Alice in Wonderland
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Matthew Marks Gallery
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Hell's Kitchen
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Ground Zero Memorial
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Stranaham Monument
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Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument
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New York Life Insurance Building
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower
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McBurney School
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Maryland Monument
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Manhattan Bridge
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Lafayette Monument
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Gallery Group
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Fulton Landing
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Brooklyn Heights Promenade
All of the neighborhood’s east–west lanes (such as Clark and Pineapple Sts) lead to the neighborhood’s number-one attraction: a narrow park with breathtaking views of Lower Manhattan and New York Harbor. Though it hangs over the busy Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (BQE), this little slice of urban perfection is a great spot for a sunset walk.
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Brooklyn Bridge Park
This 85-acre park is one of Brooklyn’s most talked-about new sights. Wrapping around a bend on the East River, it runs for 1.3 miles from Jay St in Dumbo to the west end of Atlantic Ave in Cobble Hill. It has revitalized a once-barren stretch of shoreline, turning a series of abandoned piers into public park land. Two of these (Piers 1 and 6) were open at the time of writing; others were scheduled to open in 2012 and 2013. Once completed, it will be the biggest new park in Brooklyn since Calvert Vaux and Frederick Olmsted designed the 585-acre Prospect Park in the 19th century.
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