How to find the sites listed in this book and other places your family may want to visit.
SITES
Central Park
From West 59th Street to West 110th Street, and from Central Park West to Fifth Avenue
Empire State Building
350 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10118
(212) 736-3100
High Line Park
From Gansevoort Street to West 34th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues
(212) 500-6035
Statue of Liberty
(718) 354-4741
Ellis Island
The Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., History Center
17 Battery Place #210, New York, NY 10004
(212) 561-4588
9/11 Memorial Visitor Center
90 West Street, New York, NY 10006
(212) 225-1009
New York Harbor
For information about the harbor parks:
Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum
Pier 86 at West 46th Street and Twelfth Avenue, New York, NY 10036
(877) 957-SHIP
Brooklyn Bridge
For information about the Brooklyn Bridge:
nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bridges/brooklyn_bridge.shtml
MUSEUMS
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029
(212) 534-1672
New York Transit Museum
Corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 694-1600
New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex & Store at Grand Central Terminal
East 42nd Street between Vanderbilt and Lexington Avenues, New York, NY 10017
Located just off the main concourse in the Shuttle Passage, adjacent to the Station Masters’ Office
(212) 878-0106
Tenement Museum
103 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
(212) 982-8420
South Street Seaport Museum
12 Fulton Street, New York, NY 10038
(917) 492-3480
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
212 West 83rd Street, New York, NY 10024
(212) 721-1223
Madame Tussauds New York wax museum
234 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036
(866) 841-3505
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021
(212) 570-3600
(As of 2015, the new Whitney, designed by Renzo Piano, will be located in the Meatpacking District at Gansevoort and Washington Streets.)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028
(212) 535-7710
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128
(212) 423-3500
New Museum of Contemporary Art
235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
(212) 219-1222
American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
(212) 769-5100
National Museum of the American Indian
1 Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004
(212) 514-3700
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
(212) 708-9400
GETTING AROUND
NYC Subways and Buses/Metropolitan Transit Authority
511 (within NYC)
Grand Central Terminal
East 42nd Street between Vanderbilt and Lexington Avenues, New York, NY 10017
Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises
Pier 83, West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036
(212) 563-3200
Staten Island Ferry
Manhattan Whitehall Terminal: 4 South Street, New York, NY 10301
(718) 727-2508
TOURISM AND SHOPPING
Up-to-the-minute information about NYC:
Times Square/Theater District
Times Square Museum and Visitor Center
1560 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
(212) 452-5283
Discounted Broadway Tickets
Times Square Booth: Father Duffy Square on Broadway and 47th Street Downtown Brooklyn Booth: 1 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201
South Street Seaport Booth: Corner of Front and John Streets, New York, NY 10038
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Begins at West 77th Street and Central Park West, continues down Sixth Avenue, and ends in front of Macy’s Herald Square on West 34th Street
(212) 494-4495
Rockefeller Plaza
Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and 48th and 50th Streets
Radio City Music Hall
1260 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
(212) 247-4777
Ice-Skating at Rockefeller Center
Enter from Fifth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, New York, NY 10020
(212) 332-7654
Fifth Avenue Apple Store/Fifth Avenue Shopping
Apple Store Fifth Avenue, 767 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10153
(212) 336-1440
FAO Schwarz
767 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10153
(212) 644-9400