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GREAT TOURS/OBSERVATION SPOTS IN NEW YORK
For the best one stop shop for all types of tours in and around New York, including tours by bus, sea and air, visit www.nyctourist.com.
Advance booking via the site is encouraged and tours of all kinds are plentiful, from the straightforward to the more New York-centric, including a Sex and the City tour, Movie Scenes tour, Haunted New York tour and Fall Foliage in Central Park tour.
Popular companies that provide a good, basic tour around NYC (that can be booked via nyctourist.com) are:
• CircleLine boat tours (3 hour tour circumnavigating Manhattan; great views!!)
• NY Sightseeing Double Decker Bus (a single ticket allows you to get on and off at will for 2 days; narrated tour while you're on board).
Staten Island Ferry Line (free) - spectacular views of the Statue of Liberty & Lower Manhattan
Water taxi to Brooklyn for famous Grimaldi Pizza (cash only) at 19 Old Fulton Street under the Brooklyn Bridge 718.858.4300 (you can walk back over the Brooklyn Bridge which is a great sightseeing walk)
MUSEUMS TO VISIT
Museum of Modern Art [MoMA] (11 W 53rd St between Fifth and Sixth Aves)
MoMA recently reopened after a multi-year renovation. The new building is a must see along with all the phenomenal modern art that is finally out of storage and into its new home.
Metropolitan Museum of Art [The Met] (1000 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, 212-535-7710)
Open since 1870, the Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from ancient through modern times ~ it's HUGE, amazing and a great way for those who want to see a whole lotta great art to spend a proper New York afternoon!
As the Met is surrounded by Central Park, the Roof Deck provides an incredible view of the changing foliage during peak Fall months.
Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Avenue at 75th street, 212-570-3676)
The Whitney collects and exhibits American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Museum's collections start at 1900 and continue to the present.
American Museum of Folk Art (45 West 53rd street, 212-265-1040)
American Museum of Natural History (79th Street and Central Park West, 212-313-7278)
IMAX, Hall of Meteorites, huge animals hanging from the ceiling, and more
Museum of Sex (233 Fifth Avenue, at 27th Street, 212-689-6337)
We only read it for the articles!
Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum (1071 5th avenue at 89th street, 212-423-3500)
The Guggenheim's Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building alone is worth the trip, the 20th century art inside ain't so bad either!
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