Rough Guide. New York

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Saks Fifth Avenue

Gorgeously appointed haunt of beautiful

people looking for beautiful designer gar-

ments.

 P.152  MIDTOWN EAST 

Tiffany’s & Co

A Fifth Avenue landmark, Tiffany’s is worth

a visit for its famous interior and snooty

assistants.

 P.153  MIDTOWN EAST 

Bergdorf Goodman

Old-money speaks loudest at the city’s

most elegant department store, known for

its elegant window displays.

 P.152  MIDTOWN EAST 

Macy’s

A world unto itself, Macy’s is worth a visit

for its size alone.

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GARMENT DISTRICT

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Barney’s

A New York byword for high-flying designer

wear and the best place to find little-known

labels or next season’s hot item.

 P.167  THE UPPER EAST SIDE 

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Home

The creative and reasonably priced

American food at this relaxed brunch is

always fresh and superb.

 P.118  GREENWICH VILLAGE 

Few New York

dining experiences

are as civilized as

the leisurely

breakfast or the

bountiful weekend

brunch. The

number of places

offering special

breakfast or brunch

menus is ever

expanding, and, at

some restaurants,

Saturday or Sunday

brunch is the main

attraction. Often,

there is no time

limit to when

breakfast and

brunch are served,

so grab a

newspaper and join the

locals.

Breakfast and brunch spots

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Bubby’s

Celebrities and regular folk enjoy the homey

and filling comfort food of this TriBeCa eatery.

 P.82  CITY HALL PARK AND TRIBECA

Barney Greengrass

If you’re prepared to stand in line, the self-

styled “sturgeon king” is the place for the

classic lox and eggs brunch.

 P.175  THE UPPER WEST SIDE 

Good Enough to Eat

Upper West Siders relish breakfast at this

Amsterdam Avenue institution.

 P.177  THE UPPER WEST SIDE 

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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day

Parade

More than two million spectators see the

big corporate floats and dozens of marching

bands parade down Central Park West,

along Broadway to Herald Square.

 P.220  ESSENTIALS 

While the visitor

might well mistake

the rush hour

crowds of midtown

or the Financial

District for a

(somewhat)

orchestrated

procession, New

York does offer its

fair share of

parades. Almost

every ethnic group

in the city holds an

annual get-together,

often using Fifth

Avenue as its main

drag. The events are

often religious or

political in origin,

though now they are just

as much an excuse for

music, food, and dance.

Parades and annual events

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Chinese New Year

At the first full moon between January 21

and February 19, Chinatown bursts open to

watch parades, featuring gongs, heavy per-

cussion, and dragon dances.

 P.220 ESSENTIALS 

Halloween

Every October 31st, America’s largest

Halloween celebration envelops the Village

with spectacular costumes, wigs, and

make-up.

 P.220  ESSENTIALS 

New Year’s Eve

Several hundred thousand revelers party in

the cold, well-guarded streets around Times

Square while waiting for the ball to drop.

 P.221  ESSENTIALS 

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Seeing the Harbor Islands

Ferries run by Circle Line visit both Liberty and Ellis islands and leave every thir-

ty minutes from the pier in Battery Park in lower Manhattan (daily

9.30am–3.30pm; round-trip $10, children $4, tickets from Castle Clinton;

t212/269-5755, wwww.circlelineferry.com).The ferry goes first to Liberty Island,

then continues on to Ellis, and it’s best to leave as early in the day as possible to

avoid long lines (especially in the summer); note that if you take the last ferry of

the day, you won’t be able to visit Ellis Island. Liberty Island needs a good hour,

especially if the weather’s nice and there aren’t too many people; Ellis Island

demands at least two hours for the Museum of Immigration.

Alternatively, the free Staten Island Ferry (t212/639-9675, wwww.siferry

.com) departs every half-hour from Whitehall Terminal and shuttles some twenty

million passengers annually. While it doesn’t actually make stops on the islands,

the ferry furnishes a beautiful panorama of the islands and downtown skyline.

PLACES

Battery Park and the

Harbor Islands

Battery Park and the

Harbor Islands

The southern tip of Manhattan Island and the enclosing

shores of New Jersey, Staten Island, and Brooklyn form

the broad expanse of New York Harbor, one of the

finest natural harbors in the world, covering one-hun-

dred square miles in total and stretching as far as the

Verrazano Narrows – the thin neck of land between

Staten Island and Long Island. While it’s quite possible

to appreciate Manhattan simply by gazing out from the

promenade in Battery Park, to get a proper sense of

New York’s uniqueness and the best views of its cele-

brated skyline, you should take to the water. The Staten

Island Ferry and Circle Line offer scenic vistas of

Gotham, as do Liberty and Ellis islands – two highly

compelling destinations.

Battery Park

Lower Manhattan lets out its

breath in Battery Park, a bright

and breezy greenspace with

inventive landscaping and views

of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis

Island, and America’s largest

harbor.The squat 1811 Castle

Clinton (daily 8.30am–5pm), on

the west side of the park, is the

place to buy tickets for and

board ferries to the Statue of

Liberty and Ellis Island. On the

 CASTLE CLINTON

Liberty

State

Park

Ellis Island

Liberty

Island

BROOKLYN - BATTERY TUNNEL

Battery

Park

F.D.R. DRIVE

Staten Island

Ferry Terminal

WEST ST.

BROADW

Statue of Liberty

Ellis Island

Museum of

Immigration

NEW

JERSEY

BROOKLYN

East

River

Hudson River

MANHATTAN

Castle

Clinton

Governors

Island

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PLACES

Battery Park and the Harbor Islands

park’s Eisenhower Mall near

Bowling Green stands one of

the city’s first official memorials

to the victims of September

11th; its focal point is the

cracked fifteen-foot steel-and-

bronze sculpture designed by

Fritz Koenig entitled “The

Sphere”– meant to represent

world peace – that once stood in

the World Trade Center Plaza.

The Statue of Liberty

Daily 9.30am–5pm; free t212/363-

3200, wwww.nps.gov/stli. Standing

tall and proud in the middle of

New York Harbor, the Statue of

Liberty has for more than a

century served as a symbol of

the American Dream. Depicting

Liberty throwing off her

shackles and holding a beacon

to light the world, the

monument was the creation of

the French sculptor Frédéric

Auguste Bartholdi and was

crafted a hundred years after the

American Revolution in

recognition of fraternity

between the French and

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 THE STATUE OF LIBERTY