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Whether you like the team or not, a trip to New York City wouldn’t be complete without a visit to Yankee Stadium. The first stadium in America and baseball first triple-decked structure was inaugurated on April 1923. It was a no brainer that the stadium was immediately known affectionately as "The House That Ruth Built", but later on, after a staggering number of Word titles, it was also known as "The Home of Champions." Many important events had been held here, more notable were the two Masses celebrated by Pope Paul VI on October 4, 1965, and by Pope John Paul II on October 2, 1979. Leave a Comment Address: 161st St, Bronx, NY 10451Directions: Take the 4, D, or B (weekdays only) to 161st St./Yankee StadiumWebsite: http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/nyy/ballpark/index.jsp
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| | | | Battery Park: The Beautiful Southern Tip | Tip Rating: | | | | |
If you need a place to soak in the sun while enjoying a pleasant picnic, you don't need to go farther than Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan. Most people only see this beautiful public park as the place to board the ferry to Liberty Island and Ellis Island, and miss one of New York's bests. Here at Battery Park, the breathtaking view of Lower Manhattan skyline, Governors Island, Staten Island, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge are all free for the taking. The Atlantic Ocean, the East River, and the Hudson River met here to provide a different aspect of New York, one that doesn't require any effort to enjoy. Come to Battery Park and spend a couple of hours of doing nothing, and amaze yourself with a peaceful rest from the constant moving of a city that never learns to slow down. Leave a Comment Directions: Take the 4 or 5 to Bowling Green or the 1 or 9 to South Ferry.
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| | | | St Patrick's Cathedral: "At Its Portals, The World Seems Left Behind.." | Tip Rating: | | | | |
It is the most beautiful cathedral in the country. Even though it was built on the same Gothic style as all other medieval cathedrals all over Europe, it doesn't look as if it came from the same copy cutter. There are originality and purity emit The construction of this massive but elegant structure was 47 years in the making, with white and stone marble exterior, bronze doors, bronze canopy ceiling, a cruciform shape interior with 12 side chapels and exquisite stained glass windows. Tiffany designed St. Michael and St. Louis altars and Paolo Medici designed St. Elizabeth altar to honour Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint. Leave a Comment Address: 460 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022Phone: (212) 753-2261Directions: Take the E, F to Fifth Ave, or the B, D, F, V to 47-50th Sts. /Rockefeller Center.Website: www.saintpatrickscathedral.org
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| | | | Brooklyn Bridge: A Walk Over Water | Tip Rating: | | | | |
One of the greatest architectural structures and also one of the oldest suspension bridges in the country is Brooklyn Bridge. This majestic bridge, which was constructed over 14 years (1869 - 1883), brought the distance between the city of New York and the city of Brooklyn to a matter of minutes. Walking on the Brooklyn Bridge is an experience that is hard to match. New York is spread out in front, behind, on the left, on the right, and below you. Because the subway runs under the East River, and the vehicular level is under the pedestrian level, it had been said that Brooklyn Bridge is the only place on earth where an airplane could fly over a pedestrian who is walking over a car that is driving over a boat that is floating over a train. Leave a Comment Directions: Over the East River, connecting Park Row in Manhattan and Adams Street in Brooklyn. To get to the bridge, take the 2 or 3 to Clark St, the 4, 5, or 6 to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall, the A or C to High St, or N or R to City Hall.
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| | | | Empire State Building: The View To Kill For | Tip Rating: | | | | |
The 86th floor Observatory is 1,050ft or 320m above NYC streets. That doesn't sound very tall for a mountain, even a small mountain. We have hiked to almost three times that heights. It took us a while to get to that point, and we had to wear hiking boots and brought along backpack of water and energy bars, but we still carried a conversation while trudging up. The elevator to the 86th floor takes less than a minute. We don't need to carry anything except a wallet or a purse. We wear street shoes and we carry a conversation leisurely on the way up. Then we stop talking. You would stop too, when you see the view. From the West side of the Observatory, there are One Penn Plaza, Madison Square, Jacob Javits Convention Center, and Intrepid -- the WWII aircraft carrier and Air and Space Museum. Beyond the Hudson River are New Jersey with Newark Aiport and the Ramapo Mountains. Beyond that is Pensylvania with the Pocono Mountains. From the South, there are Wall Street, Flatiron, and Woolworth. In the Upper New York Bay are Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Beyond the great bridges (Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Verrazano-Narrows) are Brooklyn and Staten Island. From the East, it's Queens, with CitiCorp building and United Nations. There are the trio of bridges in Long Islands (Triboro, Bronx-Whitestone and Throgs Neck), La Guardia, JFK, and then Brooklyn with Williamsburg Bridge. From the North, it's Chrysler, MetLife, CitiCorp, GE, St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Plaza Hotel (which no longer is), and the majestic GWB. Beyond the Hudson are Connecticut and Massachusetts. Leave a Comment Address: 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYPhone: (212) 947-1360Directions: Take the 1, 2, 3, 9, A, C or E to 34th Street/Penn Station.Website: http://www.esbnyc.com/
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| | | | Greenwich Village: The Artist Are No Longer Starving | Tip Rating: | | | | |
This is a neighbourhood of beautiful brownstones and tree-lined streets. This is also a neighbourhood of lively bars and cafes and the best jazz clubs. This is the core of New York gay scene. This is Greenwich Village. Greenwich Village used to be the bohemian centre of Manhattan where the starving artists lived and created, and that was the pride and character of the area. The air of bohemian is still here, but the old village is gone. In West Village, gay life is still the way to live, but not everywhere in West Village either. The Meat Packing District is still a working neighbourhood while a couple of block away, it is predominantly a GLBT scene. East Village is more or less a youth-and-rebel oriented area where tattooing, body mutilating and frying your hair are the norm. Perhaps the denizens here are acting the same way most of us acted in the '60s, and they will all grow up and become respectable citizens as we do. I hope that is the case, but somehow I doubt it. In the center of Greenwich Village where it is known simple as The Village, the starving artists have grown older and become much more successful, they now live in high-priced property and shop in high-priced markets and boutiques. At the same time, the lost NYU students, the leftover hippies, the wanna-be hippies, and the hobos are still spending the best days of their lives doing nothing in Washington Square. Greenwich Village is still there, the image is still more or less the same in some parts, but as everything in life, tide turns, time changes, people grow up and grow old, and Greenwich Village, in consequence, has become a more responsible adult. Leave a Comment Website: http://www.nycgv.com/
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| | | | Central Park: Time Warner Center | Tip Rating: | | | | |
This place is slick, shiny, glittery, glamorous, and of course, ridiculously expensive. A few of the restaurants here disclosed the price range in their menu, and the lowest dish was $300. The use of space in the building is also quite wasteful, and the display artworks are too strange for my taste. The $27,000 chair looks extremely uncomfortable, a pair of colossal statues depicting out-of-proportion people is very unattractive, and the sculpture that sits at the sitting area upstairs resembles neither animal nor human being. I guess it's a matter of acquire taste, translating to if you cannot acquire it, you don't have a taste to begin with. Anyhow, it was an experience being in there for a few hours watching the people and knowing we didn't belong. At least all of us dressed sort-of properly that evening, a task that is sometimes not easy to master for our Californian roots. Leave a Comment Address: 10 Columbus Circle (1 Central Park), New York,Directions: Take the 1, 9, A, C, B or D to 59th St./Columbus Circle.Website: http://www.centralpark.org/
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