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New York
Midtown
This central area of Manhattan runs approximately from 27th Street
to 84th Street, and includes Times Square, which some consider the
symbolic commercial center of the free world, most of Central Park
with its 840 acres of woodlands, lakes, bicycle paths, and the renowned
Central Park Zoo. Midtown also includes the Garment District, between
34th and 40th streets, and 6th and 8th avenues, from which is produced
almost half of the country’s clothing. Between 46th and 60th
streets, along Park Avenue, you will find the headquarters of the
nation’s largest corporations, and the private apartments of
the wealthy and famous in impressive buildings where no expense has
been spared. Also worth exploring in Midtown are the United Nations
complex between 42nd and 48th streets, along First Avenue, and the
Rockefeller Center area between 48th and 51st streets, from Fifth
to Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas).
Greenwich Village
The old Village of the post-World War II era which produced the
best American playwrights and poets, and nurtured the beatnik and
hippie cultures, is largely gone now, though a few traces remain.
What used to be an inexpensive area, where starving artists flocked
for spiritual nourishment, has been replaced by a more expensive,
commercial caricature of its old persona, and in the process has
pushed the newer artists elsewhere. As always, though, the Village
remains a center of underground culture. The coffee house and curio
shop ambiance still encourages walking tours and rest stops for
health shakes and shopping for that special old recording, book,
poster or craft.
SoHo
When the artists and bohemians got pushed out of Greenwich Village
by rising real estate prices, some of the more successful moved
into the area south of Houston, called SoHo. Between Lafayette,
Houston, Canal and West Broadway, you will find the characteristic
cast-iron architecture of the area, as well as the city’s cutting
edge art galleries, eclectic cafes and curio shops. SoHo is a great
place to shop for that unusual, but very New York City gift.
TriBeCa
The Triangle Below Canal Street district is part of the oldest section
of New York City, and is outlined by the convergence of Canal and
Church Streets, Park Place and the Hudson River. The original center
of commerce, shipping and fresh-air produce markets for the city,
which was replaced by the new commercial centers of the World Trade
Center and other skyscrapers, in part converted the older office
buildings to warehouses, which artists and others found desirable
to convert further into livable lofts. TriBeCa is fast becoming
one of the more attractive and popular residential areas within
the busiest part of Manhattan.
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