The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. A gift from France, it was designe

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, known as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum founded in 1870. Its main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue on Manhattan's Upper Eas

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Central Park

First landscaped park in the United States

Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, located between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side. It is the sixth-largest park in New York City at 843 acres,

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Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Walkway

Skyline walk between boroughs

The Brooklyn Bridge is a cable-stayed suspension bridge spanning the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened in 1883, it was the longest suspension br

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One World Trade Center

US and Western Hemisphere's tallest skyscraper

One World Trade Center, also called One WTC, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan. Designed by David Childs, it sta

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Museum of Modern Art

Extensive modern and contemporary art collection

The Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan holds over 200,000 works from the late 19th century to today, including architecture, design, painting, sculpture,

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American Museum of Natural History

Home to 32 million specimens and a planetarium

The American Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on Manhattan's Upper West Side, set within Theodore Roosevelt Park across from Central Park.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Iconic Frank Lloyd Wright spiral museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, a landmark on Manhattan's Upper East Side, houses a permanent collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, a

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SERGE CLIVIO AND FRIENDS 6: Rock Royalty

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Bruce Cockburn with special guest Livingston Taylor

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Frequently Asked Questions About New York

What are the top things to do in New York?

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