New York City Tour

New York City Tour

Why not take a tour on the city of New York. You cane take a tour to the super city of New York. New York has some famous structures, sports venues, entertainment venues and historical sites to see. You may want to see the sports stadiums or the tall skyscrapers. You may want to rent, sell, hire, loan, buy a condo, a villa, a house, a home in the city. You may want to tour the city by a bus or a taxi or a even a horse.

New York City is located in the Northeastern United States, in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston. The location at the mouth of the Hudson River, which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean, has helped the city grow in significance as a trading city. Much of New York is built on the three islands of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Long Island, making land scarce and encouraging a high population density.

The Hudson River flows through the Hudson Valley into New York Bay. Between New York City and Troy, New York, the river is an estuary. The Hudson separates the city from New Jersey. The East River, actually a tidal strait, flows from Long Island Sound and separates the Bronx and Manhattan from Long Island. The Harlem River, another tidal strait between the East and Hudson Rivers, separates Manhattan from the Bronx.

The city's land has been altered considerably by human intervention, with substantial land reclamation along the waterfronts since Dutch colonial times. Reclamation is most notable in Lower Manhattan, with developments such as Battery Park City in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the natural variations in topography have been evened out, particularly in Manhattan.

The city's land area is estimated at 304.8 square miles. New York City's total area is 468.9 square miles. 164.1 square miles of this is water and 304.8 square miles is land. The highest point in the city is Todt Hill on Staten Island, which at 409.8 feet above sea level is the highest point on the Eastern Seaboard south of Maine. The summit of the ridge is largely covered in woodlands as part of the Staten Island Greenbelt.

Tourism in New York City includes nearly 44 million foreign and American tourists each year. Major destinations include the Empire State Building, Ellis Island, Broadway theatre productions, museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and other tourist attractions including Central Park, Washington Square Park, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Bronx Zoo, New York Botanical Garden, luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues, and events such as the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village, the Tribeca Film Festival, and free performances in Central Park at Summerstage. The Statue of Liberty is a major tourist attraction and one of the most recognizable icons of the United States. Many of the city's ethnic enclaves, such as Jackson Heights, Flushing, and Brighton Beach are major shopping destinations for first and second generation Americans up and down the East Coast.

New York City has over 28,000 acres of parkland and 14 linear miles of public beaches. Manhattan's Central Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is the most visited city park in the United States. Prospect Park in Brooklyn, also designed by Olmsted and Vaux, has a 90 acre (36 hectare) meadow. Flushing Meadows - Corona Park in Queens, the city's third largest, was the setting for the 1939 World's Fair and 1964 World's Fair.

New York's food culture, influenced by the city's immigrants and large number of dining patrons, is diverse. Jewish and Italian immigrants made the city famous for bagels, cheesecake and New York-style pizza. Some 4,000 mobile food vendors licensed by the city, many immigrant-owned, have made Middle Eastern foods such as falafels and kebabs standbys of contemporary New York street food. The city is also home to many of the finest haute cuisine restaurants in the United States.

Tourism in New York City is a large industry.

Spearheading the city's tourism efforts is NYC & Company, the city's official convention and visitor bureau currently headed by George Fertitta. It has offices in 14 countries, including Argentina, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Japan, Korea and China. NYC & Company is the official source of tourism statistics for the city. The research department develops and distributes comprehensive information on NYC domestic and international visitor statistics and monitors the travel industry's impact on New York City's economy. The department also produces 14 official New York City tourism marketing publications that feature information on member hotels, museums, attractions, theaters, stores, restaurants, meeting venues, and service providers.

Famous buildings, sites, and monuments in New York City ;

American Museum of Natural History
Broadway
Times Square
Bronx Zoo
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Public Library
Carnegie Hall
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
Central Park
Central Park Zoo
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Strawberry Fields memorial
Chelsea Piers
Chrysler Building
Columbia University
Consolidated Edison Building
Downtown Athletic Club
Empire State Building
Federal Hall
Flatiron Building
Grand Army Plaza
Grand Central Terminal
General Grant National Memorial
Green-Wood Cemetery
Ground Zero of the World Trade Center (see World Trade Center site)
Harlem
Lever House
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lipstick Building
Madison Square Garden
Metropolitan Opera
MetLife Building
Manhattan Municipal Building
New York Botanical Garden
New York Life Building
New York Public Library
Pennsylvania Station
Prospect Park
o Prospect Park Zoo
Racquet and Tennis Club
Rockefeller Center
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Seagram Building
Shea Stadium
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Statue of Liberty
Trinity Church, New York
United Nations Headquarters
The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Wall Street
o New York Stock Exchange
Washington Square Park
o New York University campus
Woolworth Building
Yankee Stadium

Skyscrapers

Empire State Building - 381.0 m
Chrysler Building - 318.8 m
American International Building - 290.2 m
40 Wall Street - 282.5 m
Citigroup Center - 278.9 m
Trump World Tower - 262.4 m
Bloomberg Tower - 260.8 m
GE Building - 259.1 m
CitySpire Center - 248.1 m
One Chase Manhattan Plaza - 247.8 m
Condé Nast Building - 246.6 m
MetLife Building - 246.4 m
Woolworth Building - 241 m
One Worldwide Plaza - 237 m
Carnegie Hall Tower - 231 m
Bear Stearns World Headquarters - 231 m