New York City Arts

Walk along the sidewalks teeming with tourists and locals alike as you take in the bright neon lights, the famous jumbotrons, sky-high billboards and the towering skyscrapers of Times Square. See ABC’s television studio where Good Morning America is filmed, the famous Broadway theaters, the immense Toys R Us store and the iconic scrolling seven-story NASDAQ sign.

Visit the Museum of Modern Art and celebrate creativity, openness, tolerance, and generosity while looking closely at modern masterpieces and cutting-edge contemporary art. MoMA has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world.

**Pending Availability Anyone up for dinner and a show? At Ellen’s Stardust Diner, you’ll find both. With singing waiters and waitresses serenading you at your booth, you’ll feel like you’ve traveled back in time to a 1950’s “greasy spoon”. As classic videos play on the authentic black & white TVs, and NYC’s largest indoor choo-choo circles about the room, you’ll be equally mesmerized by the gigantic menu of American classics, from meatloaf to malted milkshakes. So bring your appetite and your sense of fun for what will truly be a memorable meal.

If it sings and dances, laughs or cries, you'll find it here. The range of Broadway's theatrical productions, from Shakespearean tragedies to sequins-and-feathers musicals, is immense, and the glitter, hype, and talent draw audiences from around the world. See some of the biggest theater America has to offer on one of its most famous streets.

Take a walking tour of the most famous park in the United States. With over 800 verdant acres located smack-dab in the middle of bustling Manhattan, Central Park has been a bucolic oasis amidst the towering buildings of urban New York. Your local guide will lead you through the park, as you make your way past bikers, rollerbladers, and the occasional horse-and-buggy!

In central park this memorial is named after one of Lennon’s favorite songs “Strawberry Fields Forever.” It is located just across the street from the landmark Dakota apartment building, Lennon’s former home and the site of his tragic death in 1980. Like many an Upper West Sider, Lennon would often take walks in this very landscape.

The Metropolitan Museum, known to New Yorkers as the MET, houses a vast permanent collection of over two-million works of art, as well as cutting-edge feature exhibitions from the world’s most prominent artists. Tour the museum’s grand halls, drawing inspiration from the masters. Highlights include European Paintings, Modern Art & Photography, and The Costume Institute, as well as the stunning traditional works of Egypt, Ancient Greece and Rome, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

Live like a local and hop on the subway for a quick one-way trip to your next destination in the Big Apple!

Housed in a 560,000-square-foot Beaux-Arts building, the The Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Its world-renowned permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures. Artists represented in the collection include Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, Norman Rockwell, Winslow Homer, Edgar Degas, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber. The museum also has a "Memorial Sculpture Garden" which features salvaged architectural elements from throughout New York City.

Soar 70 stories into the air and step out onto the observation deck of 30 Rockefeller Plaza for a truly breathtaking view of the city below.

Tour Lower Manhattan, where industry, immigration, and colonial history converge. As the symbol of Western capitalism, Wall Street's modern traders bristle with cell phones, PDAs, and other modern tech accessories. This area's original traders, however, were Dutch colonialists, who gave the street its name by building a wall here to protect themselves from British settlers. Nearby Trinity Church, once the tallest building in the city, holds the grave of Alexander Hamilton and other Revolutionary luminaries who helped shape the emerging United States, and thousands of immigrants, who shaped the modern country, came in through Battery Park, the immigration entry point for the city until the operation moved to Ellis Island.

Visit the National 9/11 Memorial which spans across eight of the sixteen acres at the World Trade Center. The memorial honors the lives and memories of those who were lost on 9/11. The Memorial's twin reflecting pools are each nearly an acre in size and feature the largest manmade waterfalls in North America. The pools sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood.

Located on Manhattan's West Side and running from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, The High Line is a public park built on an historic freight rail line elevated above the bustling streets. It is operated and maintained by members of the community, who fought to preserve the High Line when there was talk of it being demolished. This beautiful 1.45 mile walk gives you an unprecedented view of the city below!

Experience New York landmarks from the sea. Take the 25-minute ferry ride between Manhattan and Staten Island and view the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Manhattan bridges and the towering skyscrapers in all their glory. The Staten Island ferry service dates all the way back to the 18th century and were originally privately owned. Today, however, it is owned by the City of New York and carries a massive 75,000 passengers per day. That’s more passengers than there were people living in New York in 1776!