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Midtown
Neighborhood and central business district in New York City

Midtown

Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan, which serves as the city's primary central business district.

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Midtown is home to some of the city's most prominent buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, the headquarters of the United Nations, Grand Central Terminal, and Rockefeller Center, as well as several prominent tourist destinations, including Broadway, Times Square, and Koreatown. Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan is the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere.

Get in

Getting to Midtown

There is plenty of subway service to this area. The 4, 5, and 6 lines travel under Park Avenue (south of Grand Central Station) and Lexington Avenue (north of Grand Central), stopping at 42nd St. (Grand Central Station) and 59th St., with the 6 also stopping at 51st St. and 33rd St. Running under 6th Avenue are the B, D, F, and M lines, which stop at 34th St. (close to the Empire State Building), 42nd St.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Greenacre Park
  2. 02
    Paley Park
  3. 03
    Chrysler Building
  4. 04
    Citigroup Center

    153 E 53rd St (between Lexington and 3rd Aves).

  5. 05
    Daily News Building

    220 E 42nd St (between 2nd and 3rd Aves).

  6. 06
    Empire State Building

    350 5th Ave (at 34th St; Subway: B D F M N Q R W to 34th St),.

Do

Things to do

Walk on 5th Av. Around Christmas, it is usually mobbed, but off-season, it can be downright pleasant, and you can get to see just how pretty some of the department stores and high-end shops are. You may even be able to walk around Rockefeller Center at a strolling pace and see a view of the entire plaza. For great views: Walk or bike across the Edward I. Koch Queensboro Bridge. Take the Roosevelt Island Tram.

  1. 01
    Meditation Steps
  2. 02
    Franklin D

    Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, a public space at the southern tip of the island, accessible by one of the riverside promenades.

  3. 03
    Roosevelt Island Tramway
Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Dos Caminos

    One of four up-market Mexican restaurants in Manhattan by the same name and under the same ownership (the others are in Gramercy, Chelsea, SoHo) Sticky, saucy ribs and guacamole.

  2. 02
    Ess-a-Bagel

    This legendary place serves up doughy, chewy bagels the size of hubcaps that some New Yorkers consider 'the best bagels in NYC - which means everywhere'.

  3. 03
    Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant

    89 E 42nd St (At Grand Central Terminal, lower level.

  4. 04
    Tao

    42 E 58th St (between Park and Madison Aves),.

  5. 05
    VietHaven

    Very nice Vietnamese restaurant with full bar.

How locals move

Getting around Midtown the local way

  • Go nextOn the Hudson River sits the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum at Pier 86 on the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier, which features a prototype NASA space shuttle, restored jets, and a World War II helicopter.

From Wikivoyage: Manhattan/Chelsea, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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