Best of New York City

Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island [1]: The country’s most famous statue stands 151 feet tall, with a 3-foot mouth and 25-foot waist. Between 1882 and 1924, 12 million immigrants beheld the sight of the statue while passing through the red-and-white Byzantine-style castle at Ellis Island.

Chinatown’s Mott Street [2]: The bustling heart of Chinatown is lined with restaurants, bakeries, tiny food stores, and cheery souvenir shops.

SoHo Walking Tour [3]: Wander down the main shopping drags of Broadway, West Broadway, Prince, and Spring, where you’ll find everything from street vendors to chic boutiques.

Empire State Building [4]: The quintessential skyscraper was erected during the Depression in an astonishing 14 months.

Times Square [5]: This iconic square in the heart of the Theater District is a neon-splashed spectacle, best taken in after the sun goes down.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) [6]: Newly renovated, with twice the exhibition space, the MoMA is one of the world’s foremost museums of modern art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art [7]: The largest museum in the Western Hemisphere houses nearly three million works of art from all over the world.

Central Park [8]: The 843-acre “lungs of New York” is entirely human-constructed, with every bush, tree, and rock planted by someone.

Coney Island [9]: With a boardwalk, amusement rides, and carnival-like snack stands, Coney Island is quintessential old-time New York.

The Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden [10]: One of the world’s largest and most important zoos, housing over 4,000 animals, many of which roam relatively freely in large landscaped habitats, sits alongside the well-tended gardens full of roses, orchids, ferns, waterlillies, and more.