New York City Orientation Walking Tour, New York
New York City Orientation Walking Tour
Guide Location: USA » New York
Guide Type: Self-guided city tour
# of Attractions: 16
Tour Duration: 5 hour(s)
Transportation Mode: by foot
Travel Distance: 9.7 km
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Author: doris
The most populated American city, New York was the capital of United States until 1790. This city has something to offer for everyone. It provides a wide range of shops and museums, restaurants and nightclubs, and also a wonderful collection of architectural buildings and amazing parks. Take this tour to explore the most visited places in New York.
Tour Stops and Attractions
Time Warner Center
1) Time Warner Center
Time Warner Center was finished in 2003. It is famous for its high listed market value in New York City - $1.1 billion. The Center represents a mixed-used skyscraper consisting of two towers. It houses the Time Warner World Headquarters, the Mandarin Oriental luxury hotel, CNN's broadcast studios, Jazz at Lincoln Center and high-profile restaurants like Masa.
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St. Malachy's Church
2) St. Malachy's Church
St. Malachy's Church was constructed in 1902, as an integral part of the Theater District. Today it is an active part of its most unusual, most dynamic community. This church is well known for its simple purpose to improve the quality of life of the elders living in New York City, providing seniors with healthy meals, shopping escorts and social events.
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Majestic Theater
3) Majestic Theater
The Majestic Theater opened in 1927. It is one of Broadway's premier musical houses. Hosting more than a few thousand performances, the most important being "The Phantom of the Opera", it is considered to be the longest-running production in New York history. The theater features amazing architecture and design.
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Times Square
4) Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. The theaters of Broadway and the huge number of animated neon and LED signs have long made them one of New York's iconic images, and a symbol of the intensely urban aspects of Manhattan. Times Square is the only neighborhood with zoning ordinances requiring building owners to display illuminated signs. The density of illuminated signs in Times Square now rivals that of Las Vegas. Officially, signs in Times Square are called "spectaculars", and the largest of them are called "jumbotrons." Times Square is the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop. On December 31, 1907, a ball signifying New Year's Day was first dropped at Times Square, and the Square has held the main New Year's celebration in New York City ever since.
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Rockefeller Center
5) Rockefeller Center
An Art Deco marvel, the Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings. In 1987 it was declared a National Historic Landmark. Nowadays it is the ultimate shopping destination. Other than stores, restaurants and bars, this major plaza is also famous for the Rock Observation Deck, the NBC Studio Tour and two small parks (Garden Park and McGraw Park).
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St. Patrick's Cathedral
6) St. Patrick's Cathedral
St. Patrick's Cathedral is considered to be one of the city's most wonderful architectural sights, designed in the Gothic Revival style. The construction was finished in 1878. Its main features are the numerous unique altars, stained glass windows, marble sculptures, and the giant organ with over 7,000 pipes, designed by George Kilgen & Son.
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Chrysler Building
7) Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building was constructed in 1930, and it is one of the last skyscrapers built in Art Deco style. Its main features are the ornaments on the shaft and the setbacks consisting of metal hubcaps, gargoyles in the form of radiator caps, car fenders etc. The interior is decorated with Egyptian motifs, and the fresco ceiling depicts buildings, airplanes, and scenes from the Chrysler assembly line.
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Grand Central Terminal
8) Grand Central Terminal
The Grand Central Terminal was built between 1903 and 1913. This grant Beaux-Arts building features a triumphant facade with a 50 foot pediment with statues of Minerva, Mercury and Hercules, surrounding a 13 foot clock. One of the terminal's highlights is the vast vaulted ceiling with it's 2500 twinkling stars.
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New York Public Library
9) New York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the leading public libraries of the world and is one of the United States's most significant research libraries. It is composed of a very large circulating public library system combined with a very large non-lending research library system. It is simultaneously one of the largest public library systems in the United States and one of the largest research library systems in the world. It is a privately managed, nonprofit corporation with a public mission, operating with both private and public financing. The New York Public Library has branches in the boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronxand Staten Island. 
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Bryant Park
10) Bryant Park
While the Bryan Park being a public space, it is privately managed. The central building of the New York Public Library is in the park. Available amenities for the visitors are a French-style carousel, a boule board, chess tables, extensive gardens and seasonal planting displays, the Bryant Park Grill, and free wireless access. The park offers 2,000 movable chairs for pausing to enjoy the sights.
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Empire State Building
11) Empire State Building
Built in 1931, the Empire State Building is the tallest building in New York and the 5th tallest in the world. This Art Deco building has 6,500 windows, 103 floors and 73 elevators. There are 2 observation decks that offer amazing views of the city. At night, floodlights illuminate the top of the building, and the colors differ depending on the season of the year and other events.
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Madison Square Garden
12) Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Madison Square Garden is the third busiest arena in the world in terms of ticket sales. The present Garden hosts approximately 320 events a year. It is the home of the New York Rangers of the NHL, the New York Knicks of the NBA, and the New York Liberty of the WNBA. MSG is also known for its place in the history of boxing. In 2010 the Madison Square Garden Chose Michael Jackson 1988 concert as the greatest concert ever held at its venue.
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Rubin Museum of Art
13) Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) is a museum dedicated to the collection, display, and preservation of the art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions, especially that of Tibet. It is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Rubin Museum originated from a private collection of Himalayan art, which Donald Rubin, the founder of the managed-health-care network MultiPlan, Inc., and his wife Shelley had been compiling since 1974. The museum was opened in October 2004 and has been displaying a total of more than 1,000 objects including paintings, sculpture, textiles, as well as ritual objects from the 2nd to the 20th century. Besides exhibitions based on RMA's own permanent collection, the museum also serves as a venue for national and international traveling exhibitions. 
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Flatiron Building
14) Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building, or Fuller Building as it was originally called, is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, and is considered to be one of the first skyscrapersever built. Upon completion in 1902 it was one of the tallest buildings in New York City. The Flatiron was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissancepalazzo with Beaux-Arts styling. The building sits on a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, anchoring the south (downtown) end of Madison Square. The neighborhood around the building is called the Flatiron District after its signature building, which has become an icon of New York.
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Gramercy Park
15) Gramercy Park
Gramercy Park, sometimes misspelled as Grammercy, is a small, fenced-in private park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park is at the core of both the neighborhood referred to as either Gramercy or Gramercy Park  and the Gramercy Park Historic District. The approximately 2 acre (0.8 hectare) park is one of only two private parks in New York City; the public is not generally allowed in – although the sidewalks of the streets around the park are a popular jogging, strolling and dog-walking route.
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Union Square
16) Union Square
The Union Square is a historic intersection in New York City. It is famous for its statues and monuments, like the statue of Abraham Lincoln and the one of George Washington, both modeled by Henry Kirke Brown. Another feature worth being noticed is the beautiful Temperance Fountain with the figure of Charity who empties her jug of water.
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