Walk through the Manhattan Center

Bryant Park

In the 1970s, Bryant Park had been taken by drug traffickers, prostitutes and homeless people, and was considered a "prohibited area" by ordinary citizens and visitors, the park was seen as a symbol of New York's decline. In the 1980s, a group of prominent New Yorkers, including members of the Rockefeller family, intend to restore the park and in 1992, after four years of work, the new Bryant Park park is inaugurated after the restoration and is immediately recovered by the New Yorkers and considered by many as one of their favorite corners of the city, being considered one of the main examples of the New York Renaissance in the 1990s. One of the peculiarities of Bryant Park is that you find scattered around the park many tables and chairs, which are used to eat or rest and chat with friends, so one day of your stay in New York I recommend you buy the food to take in any restaurant or deli in the area, there is a Whole Foods in front of the park, where you sell the food to the weight and many other small establishments, and enjoy the food in Bryant Park while watching the people that pass around you. During the winter, the summer meadow is transformed into a huge ice skating track, used by the New Yorkers, and it is free if you take your skates from home. As you pass by, you will find the track full of tourists and New Yorkers enjoying one of their favorite sports, and with amazing views of Manhattan in the background.

Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, commonly known as The Garden, is the most important sports stadium in New York. It is commonly known as "the most famous coliseum in the world." Today, the most important events in Madison Square Garden are basketball and ice hockey. There are three professional teams that have this stadium as the base of operations: New York Knicks (basketball), New York Liberty (female basketball) and New York Rangers (ice hockey). To visit the stadium you have two options: to make the guided tour or to buy the entrance for some show, where the NBA is always a success. On the guided tour (All Access Tour) you will visit areas such as the dressing rooms, the palches or the trophy room and will explain many anecdotes of the stadium. Although the price of the guided tour is not cheap, if you have the New York Pass you can enter for free. .

United Nations

Cathedral of San Patricio

The St. Patrick's Cathedral is the largest Catholic cathedral in North America. It is dedicated to the Patron of Ireland. Probably, if it were located in another context, the Cathedral of San Patricio would not be so striking but, due to its central location in Manhattan, it is very curious to contemplate the contrasts. The cathedral is located in the heart of New York, among the buildings of Fifth Avenue, so no one should miss their visit.

Lipstick Building

The Lipstick building was completed in 1986, a post-modern work by architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee, two years after the end of the also post-modern AT & T. building Located in Manhattan, it is a building that contrasts with the offices of its surroundings for having an elliptical plant. It has 34 floors and 138 meters high. It is divided into three layers reculated due to Manhattan's urban regulations, with a polished red granite and stainless steel façade finish. The mixture of its shape and finishes has made it related to an open lipstick.

General Electric Building

General Electric Building is a historic building located in Rockefeller Center, a work by John Walter Cross built in 1929 - 1931. It's 196m high,

Chrysler Building

For many the exterior of the building, except for the spectacular top, it is quite dull, and even depressing. But the interiors are a real surprise. Originally the lobby was very elegant, over the years it has been transformed by modifying the original project. It is possible to enter the lobby and if you walk into the watchmen you may be allowed to go up to the first floor where there is a huge mural of the 1930s representing the future of the car industry.

Grand Central Terminal

The emblematic train station, famous for its large façade and main lobby, with shops and restaurants.

Municipal Library

The library occupies a magnificent neoclassical-style building whose entrance is presided over by two marble lions. At the entrance, which is free, you will be provided with a map with the different rooms of the library. Do not miss the following: - The impressive Astor Hall, which is the entrance to the library from Fifth Avenue, whose walls, ceilings and stairs are made of white marble. From Witt Wallace Periodical Room, where you will find press from all over the world. - The beautiful McGraw Rotunda, where its Corinthian columns and the vaulted ceiling paintings stand out, which represent the history of writing and are the work of Edward Lining. - The mapping collection, which houses thousands of old maps. - The Rose Main Reading Room, the main reading room, which will certainly sound like seeing her in the movies. It is a living room decorated with strenuous hanging lamps and old oak tables where we can sit down and look at some copy to connect our laptops, as the library offers free internet access. .

Empire State Building

With 102 floors and a height of 381 meters, the Empire State Building has been the highest building in the world from 1931 to 1972. No one gets away with the Empire State Building as the most famous skyscraper in New York.

Flatron Building

Famous 1902 triangular tower with iron shape designed by architect Daniel Burnham.

Times Square

With its thousands of lights and huge billboards, Times Square has become the best-known image of New York. The center of the area is the square, at the Broadway crossing with 7th Avenue. In Times Square, bars, restaurants, theatres, museums and ambience are agolated. As the night falls, the lights of Times Square illuminate everything, and there is no traveler or New York who does not give up the charm of the city's most famous square. Visiting Times Square is a must on any trip to New York. Scenario of numerous films and series, the most bustling square in Manhattan forms the city center and brings together people of all kinds. The unmistakable light signs of Times Square are probably the most attractive of the square, as the faces and products that project fill everything, look wherever you look. As we know, Times Square has a relatively recent history since, until the late 1990s, the area was synonymous with crime and drugs. During the term of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani at the end of the century, Times Square was recycled to become one of the best areas in New York.