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Sightseeing New York s Finest
our Buildings, two
Museums, one Bridge and a The top of the Empire State
Station Building is legendary both in
movies and in life. Taking this
Rockefeller Center trip is one of New York’s
Between Fifth & Seventh Avenues, highlights. The road travelled
47th Street & 52nd Street goes a bit like this… take a
high-speed lift up to the 80th
Urban architects have tried to floor in under a minute. Take a
imitate the scale and complexity second lift to the 86th floor.
of the Rockefeller Center ever Queue again to continue to the
since it was built in the ‘30s, 102nd storey, where there’s a
but no one has ever succeeded. It 360-degree view with
covers two entire city blocks! 50-mile/80-km visibility on a
People hang about the pedestrian clear day. Think of innovator,
spaces between the Maison Douglas Leigh, the man who worked
Francaise and the British Empire out how to bathe the tower in
Buildings, looking down on the different coloured lights using
ice-skating rink, which in summer plastic sheets and coloured gels.
is used as a café. Sunset isthe Try to visit the Empire State
best time to visit, as the views Building at sunset when the place
accompanying the cocktails at the is less crowded. You can watch
elegant Rainbow Room can be the city lighting up: the view is
spectacular. The famous art deco particularly stunning at dusk.
Radio City Music Hall is situated
on the western side of the Chrysler Building
complex. 405 Lexington Avenue, at 42nd
Street
Empire State Building
350 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street New Yorker’s have a great
fondness for this magnificent hectare site by the East River,
building. Although you can’t plus a library added in the ‘60s.
visit its luminous pinnacle – You can visit the foyer and
made of stainless steel arches basement of the General Assembly
and shaped like a ‘30s Chrysler building alone, but to see any of
car’s radiator cap – you can the council rooms and the General
visit the fabulous art deco lobby Assembly itself, you must take a
of red and brown marble and tour.
chrome, with original inlaid
wooden elevator doors and a Brooklyn Bridge
painted ceiling. The façade of Probably the most famous and
white brick is decorated with breathtaking bridge in the world;
designs taken from automobile the Brooklyn Bridge was a massive
hubcaps. Another romantic New undertaking. It took over 600
York hotspot: particularly at men, some 16 years to build and
sunset. when completed in 1883 was the
world’s largest suspension bridge
United Nations Headquarters – and the first to be constructed
First Avenue, at East 46th Street of steel. This bridge is a
popular film location, used as a
The Modernist headquarters of the backdrop for films like ‘Saturday
United Nations is also an Night Fever’ and ‘Mo’ Better
excellent example of ‘50s Blues’. Although you might have
architecture. Built by a seen it on celluloid; nothing
committee of international beats the wonder of standing on
architects that included Le it for the very first time.
Corbusier (who eventually
renounced any association with Metropolitan Museum of Art
the final design) there are three Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street
main buildings on the 17-acre/7
New Yorkers regard this Museum as drawings, prints, photographs,
home-away-from-home during the architectural models and
winter months. Spending endless drawings, and design objects.
hours pouring over the art: then MoMA also owns some 22,000 films,
retiring to the café for videos, and media works, as well
something warm. This treasure as film stills, scripts, posters
trove of 1.4 million square feet and historical documents.
of galleries is virtually
impossible to do in a single Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
afternoon, but don’t be put off: 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 88th Street
the art you will see cannot be
viewed anywhere else. Friday In 1943, iconoclast architect,
evenings are particularly Frank Lloyd Wright drew a citrus
pleasant. Relax in splendid press, and submitted it to the
surroundings, enjoy a cocktail, New York building authorities. 16
and listen to a string quartet. years later, this innovative and
remarkable design came into
Museum of Modern Art being, commissioned by Solomon R
11 West 53rd Street, between Guggenheim to house his notable
Fifth $ Sixth Avenues collection of works by modern
artists. It was completed six
A storehouse of some of the months after Wright died. The
world’s most exciting and cylindrical design of this
contemporary art of the twentieth building and use of volume and
century, the Museum of Modern Art space make it one of Wright’s
houses some of the most masterpieces. In January 1990, a
significant modern paintings, new gallery building – designed
drawings and sculpture. The by Gwathmey & Associates, based
collection has grown to include on a plan by Wright – was built
150,000 paintings, sculptures, and opened too much fanfare. The
Guggenheim also has a downtown dates from 1903, was once the
branch in SoHo that is well worth heart of New York. Inside is
visiting and stays open late. still marvelous: the enormous
vaulted ceiling is decorated with
Grand Central Station the constellations of the Zodiac.
If you’re looking for old-world For great dining views; check out
romance, the most legendary of Michael Jordan's Steak House on
New York’s romantic havens has to the west side of the concourse
be Grand Central Station. Its and Metrazur on the east. The
faded elegance only adds to the Vanderbilt Hall often hosts
ambience its magnificent origins visiting art exhibits and other
provide. Once a hubbub of city events. Take a moment to stand on
life - before the airlines took the platform and envisage elegant
business from the railroads - days gone by. How great it is to
this Beax-Arts building, which be in New York!
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