New York City Hotels
New York City, the Big Apple, NYC, any way it’s said means grandeur. With a grandiose city, comes fantastic hotels.
New York, New York! Just the name brings images of fast living, big celebrities, first rate accommodations and fine dining.
Visitors to NYC can see a Broadway production, join the audience in the taping of numerous television shows, experience the grandeur of fine museums or grab a hot dog from a street cart. There’s no other place in the world like New York City.
Boroughs
The Bronx is the only borough that is not located on an island. The percentage of green space in the Bronx is larger than any other US urban area. Rich botanical gardens, parks and rugged cliffs on the west side of the Hudson River, make The Bronx a great escape for any urbanite.
The Bronx is home to: Yankee stadium, The Bronx Zoo, the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage, the Bronx Culture Trolley, Hip-Hop Culture tours and Fordham Road–the third largest shopping district in New York.
Manhattan
Manhattan is the best known of the NY boroughs. Just naming the list of neighborhoods breeds excitement:
- Chinatown
- East Village
- Greenwich Village
- Civic Center
- Harlem
- Little Italy & NoLita
- Lower East Side
- Lower Manhattan
- Midtown
- Soho & Tribeca
- Union Square
- Gramercy
- Upper East Side
- Upper West Side
Brooklyn is home to the nation’s oldest performing arts center, The Brooklyn Academy of Music. One can’t visit Brooklyn without seeing one of the world’s greatest suspension bridges, The Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn offers a myriad of cultural and historic things to see, but its crowning glory, the attraction that put Brooklyn on the map has to be Coney Island.
Queen’s is home to Long Island, Shea Stadium, the US Open Tennis Tournament, two World Fairs, and Archie Bunker. The Queen’s Jazz Trail is a guided tour, conducted by music historians, that explores the museums, neighborhoods, and clubs of America’s greatest jazz musicians. The tour concludes with some fine southern cooking and a great jazz concert.
Staten Island is the point of departure, aboard the free Staten Island Ferry, for anyone wanting to get a fantastic view of Manhattan, Ellis Island, where immigrants first set foot in the land of prosperity, and The Statue of Liberty. South Beach boasts the fourth longest boardwalk (7,500 ft) in the world.
Hotels
From a luxury penthouse, to a small, stylish boutique, there’s a place to stay for any type of budget and taste.
- The Waldorf Astoria
- Trump Hotel and Tower
- The Carlyle
- The Ritz-Carlton
- St. Regis
- Dream
- Flatotel
- The Muse
- Night Hotel
- The Time Hotel