Going around in New York, the Big Apple

Located on the East Coast of the United States, New York is the first most visited city in the United States, and the 2nd one most visited in the World. The Hudson River flows across all the state to empty in the Atlantic Ocean. New York is divided in 5 districts (boroughs): Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. Seat of the United Nations; Wall Street, epicentre of capitalism; trends generator in Arts, Fashion and Design. Multicultural gastronomy is due mainly to to the wide range of immigration of different ethnic groups and countries that settled in New York: you might eat at a different place every night and by the end of the year you would not have visited all the restaurants in the big Apple!
From the Downtown district (southern end of Manhattan) to the Uptown district, there are plenty of districts to visit: : Lower Manhattan, Chinatown, Little Italy, Soho, Tribeca, Greenwich, West & East Village, Chelsea, Madison Square, Brodway and Central Park, Harlem and the Heights are just some of the most famous.
New York, movie film scenery for all kind of gendres for years, from the crowded Times Square or the Bronze Bull in Wall Street district to the Statue of Liberty, 5th Avenue, Rockefeller Center, sunsets viewing Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building, one of the most photographed places in the world. The World of Art is also present in New York not only because of the museums and art gelleries (MoMA, the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) with its magnificent Velázquez collection in the USA), but also for the events (NewYork Art Book Fair, the Ballet season, New York Fashion Week, Independence Day and the Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks in New York City, among many others). New York’s famous shopping circuits ranging from electronics to clothing In New York the official language –as in all the USA- is English. But you will come across people speaking many other languages, mainly Spanish due to the large Latin community. The official currency is the American dollar or USA dollar. Summer is very humid with very high Heat-Humidity Index; Winter is cold and icy with frequent snowfalls in January and February. Spring and Autumn are pleasant seasons with a smaller amount of tourists.
In New York there are 3 International Airports: JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy), La Guardia and Newark, well connected with the city centre. Subway, buses and the well-known yellow taxi cabs are the main means of transport used in New York, but you can as well walk, use skates or bikes. Metrocard is valid for the subway network and buses. The New York Pass is a card that for a single price will allow you to visit more than 40 tourist attractions in New York (The Empire State Building, MoMA, the Statue of Liberty and the Guggenheim Museum), discounts at shops, restaurants, theatres , tours and a complete tourist guide is given to you as a present.
CityPass, a card that allows you to visit the main tourist attractions in the city such as the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the American Museum of Natural History, the MET –Metropolitan Museum of Art-, the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) and the Guggenheim Museum. In all the above mentioned museums you can avoid queuing by only showing your CityPass. Take advantage of guided visits and audio guides.
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