Short Breaks to New York

Short Breaks to New York

Why not take a short visit to the city of New York. It can be a super place to have a vacation in. You may want to see the famous skyline. Obviously it is more about what is below the skyline rather than above it. You may want to see the famous shows, the broadway, the famous landmarks, the famous historic sites, the well known tourist centres, the statues, the skyscrapers, the culture, the nightlife, or the rural areas of the state.

New York covers 54,556 square miles (141,299 km²) and ranks as the 27th largest state by size. The Great Appalachian Valley dominates eastern New York, while Lake Champlain is the chief northern feature of the valley, which also includes the Hudson River flowing southward to the Atlantic Ocean. The rugged Adirondack Mountains, with vast tracts of wilderness, lie west of the valley. Most of the southern part of the state is on the Allegheny plateau, which rises from the southeast to the Catskill Mountains. The western section of the state is drained by the Allegheny River and rivers of the Susquehanna and Delaware systems. The Delaware River Basin Compact, signed in 1961 by New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and the federal government, regulates the utilization of water of the Delaware system. The highest elevation in New York is Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks.

New York's borders touch (clockwise from the west) two Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario, which are connected by the Niagara River); the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in Canada; Lake Champlain; three New England states (Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut); the Atlantic Ocean, and two Mid-Atlantic states (New Jersey and Pennsylvania). In addition, Rhode Island shares a water border with New York.
New York metropolitan area (Downstate) New York City exurbs which are rural in character but arguably still within the New York City sphere of influence (possibly Downstate) Included in the standard definition of Upstate New York North Country and Adirondacks
New York metropolitan area (Downstate) New York City exurbs which are rural in character but arguably still within the New York City sphere of influence (possibly Downstate) Included in the standard definition of Upstate New York North Country and Adirondacks

Contrasting with New York City's urban atmosphere, the vast majority of the state is dominated by farms, forests, rivers, mountains, and lakes. New York's Adirondack Park is the largest state park in the United States. It is larger than the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier and Olympic National Parks combined. New York established the first state park in the United States at Niagara Falls in 1885. Niagara Falls, on the Niagara River as it flows from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, is a popular attraction. The Hudson River begins with Lake Tear of the Clouds and flows south through the eastern part of the state without draining Lakes George or Champlain. Lake George empties at its north end into Lake Champlain, whose northern end extends into Canada, where it drains into the Richelieu and then the St. Lawrence Rivers. Four of New York City's five boroughs are on the three islands at the mouth of the Hudson River: Manhattan Island, Staten Island, and Brooklyn and Queens on Long Island.

"Upstate" and "Downstate" are common terms used to distinguish New York State counties north of suburban Westchester and Rockland counties, on the one hand, from the New York City metropolitan area on the other. Upstate New York typically includes the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains, the Shawangunk Ridge, the Finger Lakes and the Great Lakes in the west; and Lake Champlain, Lake George, and Oneida Lake in the northeast; and rivers such as the Delaware, Genesee, Mohawk, and Susquehanna. (A popular joke goes, "Where does Upstate begin?" "At the sign that says, 'Welcome to Yonkers'!") Central New York is the region centered around Syracuse and Utica, regions west of Syracuse are Western New York (i.e. Rochester and Buffalo), Binghamton, Elmira and west along the Pennsylvania line is the "Southern Tier," and "The North Country" is the region between the Adirondacks and the Canadian border, from the Watertown area to Plattsburgh. Residents of neighboring states and provinces may use the term "New York State" to refer to Upstate New York, to distinguish the region from New York City.

Upstate New York is the region of New York State north of the core of the New York metropolitan area. Downstate New York is a term for the southeasternmost portion of New York State, United States, in contrast to Upstate New York. It should be noted that the term "Downstate New York" has significantly less currency than its counterpart term "Upstate New York", and the Downstate region is often not regarded as one cohesive unit but rather thought of as being divided into the units which make it up - New York City, Long Island, and the northern suburbs of New York City

Manhattan Island is bounded by the Hudson River to the west and the East River to the east. To the north, the Harlem River divides Manhattan from The Bronx and the mainland United States. Several small islands are also part of the borough of Manhattan, including Randall's Island, Ward's Island, and Roosevelt Island in the East River, and Governors Island and Liberty Island to the south in New York Harbor. Manhattan Island is 22.7 square miles (58.8 km²) in area, 13.4 miles (21.6 km) long and 2.3 miles ) wide, at its widest (near 14th Street).

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.

Skyscrapers in New York City"

10 East 40th Street, 101 Park Avenue, 1095 Avenue of the Americas, 14 Wall Street, 150 Greenwich Street, 17 State Street, 245 Park Avenue, 3 Park Avenue, 303 East 51st Street, 33 Thomas Street, 345 Park Avenue, 360 Tenth Avenue, 37 Wall Street, 375 Pearl Street, 383 Madison Avenue, 388 Greenwich Street, 399 Park Avenue, 425 5th Avenue 50 West Street, 500 Fifth Avenue, 55 Water Street, 56 Leonard Street, 590 Madison Avenue, 599 Lexington Avenue, 60 Hudson Street, 666 Fifth Avenue, 7 World Trade Center, 712 5th Avenue, 750 7th Avenue, 810 Seventh Avenue, 888 7th Avenue, 90 West Street, New York City, 919 Third Avenue, 99 Church Street, AXA Center, American International Building, American Radiator Building, American Surety Building, Americas Tower, Bank of America Tower (New York), Barclay Tower, Bayard-Condict Building, Beekman Place Tower, Belaire Apartments, Bertelsmann Building, Bloomberg Tower, Burlington House (New York City), Carnegie Hall Tower, Central Park Place, Chanin Building,
Chrysler Building, Citigroup Center, City Bank-Farmers Trust Company Building, CitySpire Center, Con-Ed Redevelopment, Condé Nast Building, The Corinthian (New York), Court Square Place, Credit Lyonnais Building, Daily News Building, Deutsche Bank Building, Empire State Building, Equitable Building (Manhattan), Equitable Life Building, Flatiron Building, Four World Financial Center, Fred F. French Building, Freedom Tower, GE Building, General Electric Building, General Motors Building (New York), GiraSole (New York), Goldman Sachs New World Headquarters, Hearst Tower (New York City), Helmsley Building, Home Insurance Plaza, IBM Building, Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, Lever House, Lincoln Building, Lipstick Building, Manhattan Life Insurance Building, Manhattan Municipal Building, Marine Midland Building, Marsh & McLennan Headquarters, MetLife Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, Metropolitan Life North Building, Metropolitan Tower (New York) Nelson Tower, New York Life Insurance Building, New York Times Building, New York World Building, New Yorker Hotel, Olympic Tower, One Astor Plaza, One Chase Manhattan Plaza, One Court Square, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, One Liberty Plaza, One New York Plaza, One Penn Plaza, One Times Square, One Wall Street, Manhattan, One World Financial Center, One Worldwide Plaza, Paramount Plaza, Park Row Building, Random House Tower, Rockefeller Center, Seagram Building, Singer Building, Solow Building, St. Paul Building, The Epic, The Morgan Stanley Building, The Orion, Three World Financial Center, Time Warner Center, Time-Life Building, Times Square Tower, Tower 49, Trump International Hotel and Tower (SoHo), Trump Palace Condominiums, Trump Tower (New York), Trump World Tower, Two World Financial Center, Verizon Building, Vornado Tower, W. R. Grace Building, 60 Wall Street, 40 Wall Street, Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, Woolworth Building, World Financial Center, World Trade Center, World Trade Center Tower 5.

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