New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States.
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States. It is located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs—Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island—each being coextensive with its respective county. It is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of technology, finance and commerce, culture, entertainment and media, academics and scientific output, the arts and fashion—and as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. New York City is known for its fast pace and continuous urban energy.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Like most of the great world cities, New York has an abundance of great attractions—so many, that it would be impossible to list them all here. What follows is but a sampling of the most high-profile attractions in New York City; more detailed info can be found in the district pages.
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Things to do
= = New York boasts an enormous number and variety of theatrical performances. Most of these are concentrated in Manhattan, particularly the Theater District around Times Square, where you'll find the major musicals and big-name dramatic works of Broadway. These are the most popular with visitors, with tickets for some shows running to $130 a seat, though discounters make cheaper seats available.
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Where to eat
New York has, as you might expect of the Big Apple, all the eating options covered and you can find almost every type of food available and every cuisine of the world represented. There are literally tens of thousands of restaurants, ranging from dingy cheap pizza-by-the-slice joints to $500-a-plate prix fixe sushi.
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Getting to New York City
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 13 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 14 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 21 km
- Philadelphia → New York City130 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · $12–17
- Hartford → New York City161 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · $15–20
- Albany → New York City217 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · $19–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 New York City
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 New York City. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inGo Airlink Shuttle - Shared van service to or from most of Manhattan.
- Get inShared ride van services - Some companies as ETS Airport Shuttle and All County Express run very infrequent shared ride van service between airports.
- Get inin Queens was built as a seaplane harbor, and the Marine Air Terminal still stands, serving Delta (land-bound) flights]] {{go | name | url | address 40.77725 | long | phone | hours | wikipedia LaGuardiaairport.jpg | wikidata=Q319654 | content=The smallest of the New York Metropolitan Area's three major airports, but also the closest to Midtown Manhattan.
- Get inAir taxi and air charter companies fly a variety of private charter aircraft and jets, from charter luxury Gulfstream's down to economical piston twins for small groups and individuals.
- Get inIt also serves the town of Montclair via the Montclair-Boonton Line with a transfer in Travelling via a PATH or ferry connection in Hoboken, it also serves points north of the city (in New Jersey and New York State west of the Hudson), via the Pascack Valley and Bergen/Main/Port Jervis Line.
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Next door to New York City
New York City is 8 km from Brooklyn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.