| The Financial District is located at the southern tip of Manhattan. South Street Seaport on Fulton and South St., has a mall of shops for your perusal, a waterfront setting, and lots of docked wooden ships. There are a number of smaller museums in this areas as well as the Circleline Ferry, which leaves for Ellis Island and Liberty Island, where the Statue of Liberty stands. Chinatown, a neighborhood within the Financial District, is located between East Broadway and Canal St.; it has an amazing array of inexpensive shops with goods ranging from dried halibut to embroidered slippers, as well as some of the best restaurants in America. Little Italy is located on Mulberry Street, between Broome and Canal: here’s where you’ll find singing waiters and pounds and pounds of spaghetti.
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| Soho is the neighborhood extending between Canal and Houston Streets. Greenwich Village is the neighborhood spanning the blocks between Houston and 14th Streets. The East Village is the area surrounding St. Marks/Astor Place. Tribecca, short for “triangle below Canal,” is the neighborhood north of Canal, west of Broadway, south of Barclay St., and west of Houston. These neighborhoods, which make up the Lower East Side, were built by recent immigrants to New York: African Americans newly freed from slavery and Irish families fleeing the Potato Famine. It has since become a center for bohemian artistic expression, and more recently, an upscale shopping area. Some of the big sights in this area are The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Guggenheim Museum Soho, and The Flatiron Building. |
| If you were curious and trying to locate all the other tourists in Manhattan, west Midtown might be a good place to look. Anyone else who’s staring upwards is a pretty fine bet. Midtown West extends from 30th to 59th St., west of 5th Ave. Begin your voyage at the Empire State Building. Other sites to see include gaudy Times Square, Madame Tussauds wax museum, The New York Public Library, and its graceful backyard, Bryant Park. |
| Diplomatic and fiercely capitalist, east Midtown plays host to a plethora of department stores and corporate offices. Some of New Yorks most famous landmarks are here including the Chrysler Building, Grand Central Terminal, the U.N. Building, Rockefeller Center, and the Museum of Modern Art. |
| The Upper West Side is a generally elegant, upscale neighborhood. It retains a village-like feeling in side-street nooks and crannies, even though it has its fair share of condos. Lincoln Center, 875-5000, Broadway between 62nd and 66th St., houses the famous Juliard School of Music, the Metropolitan Opera, and is the place to see the New York City Ballet. |
The Upper East Side is Manhattan’s wealthiest, and perhaps least bashful, neighborhood. This area is worth a visit in winter for the fur coats alone. Its love of the finer things in life has furnished the area with many, many museums; 5th Avenue above 60th St. is also called “Museum Mile.” The attractions in the neighborhood include the Asia Society, the Frick Collection, the Whitney Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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| Traditionally an African American and Hispanic neighborhood, Harlem is currently undergoing a period of gentrification to mixed results. While some business owners welcome the new capital flowing into the area, older residents worry that Harlem will lose its character under these changes and that poorer residents will be forced to move because of rising rents. One of the landmarks here is the Apollo Theater. |
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