The most beguiling city in the world, New York is an adrenaline-charged, history-laden place with it’s own unique style flair and romantic appeal. Wandering the streets here, you’ll cut between buildings that are icons to the modern age. Whether gazing at the flickering lights of the midtown skyscrapers as you speed across the Brooklyn Bridge, or just wasting the morning on the Staten Island ferry, you really would have to be made of stone not to be moved by it all.
You could spend weeks in New York and still barely scratch the surface, but there are some key attractions and some pleasures that you won’t want to miss. There are the different ethnic neighbourhoods, like lower Manhattan’s Chinatown and the more artsy concentrations of SoHo, TriBeCa, and the East and West Villages. Of course, there is the celebrated architecture of corporate Manhattan, with the skyscrapers in downtown and midtown forming the most indelible images. There are the museums, not just the Metropolitan and MoMA, but countless other smaller collections that afford weeks of happy wandering.
In between sights, you can eat just about anything, at any time, cooked in any style and you can drink in any kind of company. And for the avid consumer, the choice of shops is vast, almost numbingly exhaustive in this heartland of the great capitalist dream.
Nightlife in New York is legendary, with clubs from each district offering a variety of vespertine delights. From the glitzy uber-clubs in the Meat-Packing District, to the hip dive bars in the East Village, to live music in Brooklyn and Bowery, the possibilities are endless.
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