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VIRTUAL
TOUR
New
York, New York, Its a Wonderful Town. All images are expandable
- Click here
to
view Times Square web cams
- Click here to view
other city sites.
- Use this map to locate
and view all the city
attractions
- Panoramically
view these city
attractions.
- Watch these 4
movies about city attractions, nightlife, shopping, and
dining.
- Listen to these 7
audio tapes describing the wonders of the city.
- Check out the major
city boroughs:
- Manhattan
- The
Bronx.
- Brooklyn
- Queens
- Staten
Island
- Look at these three
video
clips about Manhattan, Circling the City, and Wall Street
- See what's playing on Broadway.
- Take a historical Tour of
New Netherlands
- Look at this Metropolitan Museum Quicktime
Panoramic Scene.
- View 35 city
traffic webcams
- Take a walk
in
Greenwich Village.
- Visit the Metropolitan
Museum of Art to view 5000 years of art.
- For something different,
try a cell phone tour
of the lower east side.
- Watch MSNBC
for the latest local and national news videos and web casts.
- Listen to this Savvy
Traveler audio about the New York Public Library.
- See Ground Zero
panoramics 10 days after.
The
major sport teams are the Yankees
and Mets
in Baseball, the football Giants,
the basketball Knicks and Nets, and
the NY Rangerslist of famous New
Yorkers. in
hockey. Look at this
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Any
attempt to define New York today recalls the Zen wisdom that you can't
step in the same stream twice. The city is so mutable, so constantly
changing, that it's almost impossible to get a fix on. Restaurants and
nightclubs become trendy overnight, then die under the weight of their
own popularity. (Yogi Berra had the perfect phrase for that very
phenomenon: "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded.") Fashions,
almost by definition, change in the time it takes to try on a pair of
vinyl pants. Broadway shows, exercise fads, even neighborhoods are all
subject to the same Big Apple fickleness. But within this ebb and flow
lies the answer: No other place keeps you on your toes ite like New
York City. Nowhere else is the challenge so tough, the pace so
relentless, the stimuli so everchanging and insistent--and the payoff
so rewarding. Simply put, New York never gets boring. Anything can
happen here.
 The
city has a special magnetism--a charisma, if you will--that pulls in
the intelligent, the creative, the determined, the overbearing, and the
overblown from all over the world. Just about any language and any
dialect is spoken here, from Mandarin to Brooklynese; no other dot on
the map is quite so ethnically, culturally, socially, and economically
diverse. This is the nerve center of world finance and trade. The
international hub of advertising, publishing, entertainment, and
fashion. The creative core for the arts. The top showcase for pure
celebrity. And, now as never before, a huge magnet for travelers from
all over the country and around the globe, in search of a brief glimpse
of it all.
Prior
to the WTC tragedy, the city was in top form, its finest in more than
50 years. The economy is down because of recent events, and crime is
down. Everywhere you look, things are being refurbished and the city is
steadily improving. It has even become, believe it or not,
family-friendly--just look at the new peep show- and porn-free Times
Square. Few alive today have ever seen the city so friendly, so
manageable. New Yorkers love to wax nostalgic about the good-old,
bad-old days, but the fact is the city was starting to change its
negative image
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St Patrick's Cathederal
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