Astoria
Worth seeing in and around Astoria
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story, supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building was designed in the Art Deco style by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and constructed between 1930 and 1931.
5.4 km · skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, USA · Wikipedia - 02Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter under George II of Great Britain on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States.
4.8 km · private university in New York City, New York, US · Wikipedia - 03Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the third-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas.
2.9 km · art museum in New York City, United States · Wikipedia - 04Central Park
Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States. It is the sixth-largest park in the city, containing 843 acres, and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors annually as of 2016.
3.2 km · public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States · Wikipedia - 05Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is a 1,046-foot-tall, Art Deco-style supertall skyscraper in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Located at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, it is the tallest steel-framed brick building in the world.
4.5 km · building in New York City · Wikipedia - 06Times Square
Times Square is one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, tourist destinations, and entertainment hubs. It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
5 km · neighborhood and square in Manhattan, New York City, United States · Wikipedia - 07Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media.
4.2 km · art museum in Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States · Wikipedia - 08Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world.
5.1 km · a type of theater in Manhattan, New York, United States of America · Wikipedia - 09Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It hosts a permanent collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year.
2.7 km · art museum in New York, New York · Wikipedia - 10American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.
3.9 km · natural history museum in Manhattan, New York · Wikipedia
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Getting to Astoria
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 5 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 19 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 22 km
- Stations
- LaGuardia Airport, 4.7 km
- Philadelphia → Astoria139 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · $13–18
- Hartford → Astoria152 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · $14–19
- Albany → Astoria210 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · $19–26
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Astoria
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Astoria. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inLimited ferry service is available at the Yorkville NYC Ferry stop at East 90th Street and York Avenue within Carl Schurz Park.
- Get inThe Soundview ferry provides service every 30 to 35 minutes during rush hours, every hour during middays and evenings, and every hour and a 40 minutes on weekends.
- Get inThe Soundview ferry runs from Soundview in the Bronx, a riverside residential neighborhood, and travels down the East River, providing service to Yorkville along with service at the East 34th Street Ferry Landing in Gramercy and Pier 11 at Wall Street in the Financial District, where you can connect to a variety of other ferry services throughout the city.
- Get inAn adult one-way ticket on the ferry costs $4.50, while a 10-trip adult pass costs $29.Bringing a bike, which is certainly an option with the extensive bike paths in the neighborhood, brings a $1.00 surcharge.
- Get inTickets can be purchased on the [https://www.ferry.nyc/appguide/ NYC Ferry app, the ticket machines at the landings, or a ticket agent (present only at Pier 11/Wall Street).
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Next door to Astoria
Astoria is 3 km from Manhattan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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