New York City

It's pretty hard to pick a few highlights
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Rachel Stafford reports on the grandest, most dynamic, sophisticated, diverse city in the world.

Today's New York is known around the world for its distinctive skyline, its first-rate museums and performing arts companies, and its status as the capital of finance, fashion, art, publishing, broadcasting, theatre and advertising. It is a densely packed mass of humanity - seven million people within 800 square kilometres. Statue of Liberty

While you are craning your neck amongst the skyscrapers it's easy to forget that islands make up most of the land mass. Manhattan and Staten Island stand alone; Queens and Brooklyn comprise the western end of Long Island. Only the Bronx is connected to the continental mainland. The water gap between Brooklyn and Staten Island - the "narrows" through which the first Europeans entered the area - serves as the entrance to New York Harbour, which is also accessible to ships from the north via Long Island Sound. Manhattan is bordered on the west by the Hudson River and on the east by the East River, both technically estuaries subject to tidal fluctuations.

It's pretty hard to pick a few highlights

In a city so large, it's pretty hard to pick a few highlights. For iconic value, you can't surpass the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, Central Park and Times Square. The Museum of Modern Art has to be one of the world's top museums, and the Guggenheim Museum and the American Museum of Modern History aren't far behind. Bookshops, food, theatre, shopping, people: it doesn't really matter what you do or where you go in New York because the city itself is an in your face, exhilarating experience. New York is known as the city that never sleeps and for good reason. It has enough diversions to keep visitors occupied for weeks.

In the same evening you can head to a classic jazz haunt, a sleek Tribecca lounge, a sophisticated uptown cabaret, or a raucous comedy club. There are new Broadway shows opening all the time and a number of touring orchestras and opera and ballet companies visit the city in the summer. The streets and parks are filled with ethnic parades, impromptu concerts, and free performances under the stars. Many newspapers offer weekly listings of what's on around town including the New York Times, the Village Voice and Time Out New York.

If it's business that's brought you here, then you've come to the right place. New York City is the undisputed capital of the business world. You can easily tap into the resources of local companies for specialists in every imaginable field to add authority to any meeting. The familiar skyscrapers that dot the skyline offer space for seminars, conference sessions, and gala banquets. New York is America's media capital too, so conferences, announcements, and product launches here command attention. Central Park

Pleasure or work-related, a trip to New York is definitely an experience unto itself. This is a city unlike any other in the world. Arrive into one of its three airports and see for yourself. There's something for everyone in this fast paced city.

Web Sites

www.playbill.com - purchase discounted tickets to selected shows in advance and then pick them up at the box office the night of the performance

www.expressres.com - specializes in recommending New York Hotels with an 800 number for personal service

www.nycvisit.com - the official New York City website

Did you know…

the estimated number of visitors in 1999 was 33.3 million?

there are 66,000 hotel rooms?

there are 3,867 buses, 5,799 subway cars and 12,187 taxis?

there are 18,000 restaurants?

Macy's is the world's largest store covering 2.1 million square feet and stocks over 500,000 different items?

the Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long?

the Bronx is the only New York borough connected to the mainland?

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is so long - 4,260 feet - that the towers are a few inches out of parallel to accommodate the curvature of the earth?

price of the Staten Island Ferry: free

Babe Ruth hit his first home run in Yankee Stadium in the first game ever played there in 1923?

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