Things to do in NYC, updated 2024

The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island of the Hudson River has always been regarded as a spiritual symbol of the United States. The Statue of Liberty is divided into a crown and a base. The crown strictly limits the number of visitors and must be booked in advance. The base of the Statue of Liberty is an immigration museum, the interior of the Statue can be seen from the ceiling when you raise your head.

If you want to greet the Statue of Liberty close up, you must take the designated ferry, Statue Cruises, to Ellis Island. There are two boarding points on the ferry: Battery Park in New York and Liberty State Park in New Jersey State. The number of tickets is limited, and tickets are booked months in advance during the summer.

Standing in Times Square, watching crowds at a street and glittering neon signs, there’s a reall sense of, “Ah, I’m in New York!” The triangle area, located at the junction of West Manhattan 42nd Street and Broadway, is the busiest area in New York.

The crystal ball countdown in Times Square on December 31 each year is a world-famous New Year’s event, more than half a million people gather here every year. If you want to feel the best cross-year countdown, it is necessary to do a good job of immersing people in the cold wind.

The Empire State Building is New York’s most famous skyscraper. The romantic love in Sleepless in Seattle happens here, and King Kong falls off the top of the Empire State Building...

Take the elevator up to the observation deck on the 86th floor, and most of the time it's packed with tourists. You can view Wall Street, Central Park and the Statue of Liberty from different directions across the barrier. Continue to indoor observation deck on the 102nd floor for a bird’s-eye view of New York City.

Without a museum, the charm of New York is probably losing a half. There are more than a hundred museums in this city, and the familiar Metropolitan and Guggenheim are on Museum Mile.

If you’re a museum fan, set aside at least two days for museums in New York. From art, science to nature, design, history, there is a wide range of categories. Let’s elaborate a tour of Museums in New York!

The Brooklyn Bridge, which spans the East River in New York, is a century-old suspension bridge that connects Manhattan and Brooklyn. Walking along the bridge walkway, you can see the entire skyline of Manhattan and overlook the Statue of Liberty on the Hudson River.

Take the bridge around 16:00 and walk to Brooklyn to shoot the sunset, it’s perfect to take a night shot on the bridge after dark. Viewing the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline under the bridge is a classic view of New York.

The presence of Central Park is really moving in Manhattan of New York with an inch of land values an inch of gold. If you want to experience a New Yorker’s day, start with a morning run at Central Park! The 10-kilometer racetrack is beautiful and is popular with joggers, bikers and dog walkers.

This rectangular free park, known as the Back Garden of New York, occupies about 3.4 million square meters. The park has large grassland, forest courtyard, merry-go-round and so on, people watch outdoor movies in summer and go to the skating rink in winter, the four seasons all have the picturesque scenery.

Tourists for its congregating opera houses know Broadway, an important north-south road in New York. The most bustling and crowded place on Broadway is at the junction with Times Square, where the theater will release classic operas every day such as the Phantom of the Opera, the Lion King, Wicked and so on.

If you want to take a good look at the avenue, you can take Times Square as the center, the southernmost point of the avenue is Battery Park, it has the famous Clinton Castle. There is a Charging Bull representing New York’s financial industry at the end of Broadway, after the Charging Bull, you will pass through the Federal Building, New York City Hall and Chinatown along the way. North of Times Square is Columbus Circle, going inside here is Central Park, and passing through the Upper West Side, where the wealthy gather, you can get to Lincoln Center.

Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, a collection of New York’s most luxurious boutiques, is called “Street of Dreams”. Even if you are not a mall rat, it’s worth a visit. The window designs are creative.

Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue, parallel to it, bring together almost all the world’s top brands. From the well-known Hermes, Chanel, Tiffany, LV to some low-key 100-year family brands, you can find all the famous shops that you can think of here.

Wall Street in Lower Manhattan is the world’s most famous financial street. Lots of financial institutions influencing the US or even the world gather here, including the New York Stock Exchange, Federal Reserve Bank, etc. The story of The Wolf of Wall Street happens every day.

Most tourists come here to see the Bronze Ox. Today, this Bronze Ox has been moved to Bowling Green Park next to Wall Street, since there are too many tourists every day. It is said that people who touch the Charging Bull are lucky.

Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings with a famous Top of the Rock Observation Deck on the 70th floor. It is the second best place after the Empire State Building to overlook the panorama of Manhattan.

Every year from late November to early December, the largest Christmas tree in New York will be lit up at Rockefeller Center to welcome Christmas. Christmas tree lighting activity is a small carnival in which tourists from all over the world gather in the square and famous singers and actors appear on the open-air stage to perform for free at the afternoon.

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