Place

Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden is the circular arena above Penn Station, home to the Knicks and Rangers and a major stage for concerts, boxing, college basketball and special events.

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Overview & visitor information

The current Madison Square Garden opened in 1968 between Seventh and Eighth avenues above Pennsylvania Station. It is the fourth New York venue to carry the name and the first located away from Madison Square, using a circular arena and cable-supported roof to create a large column-free interior.

The New York Knicks and New York Rangers are its principal resident teams, requiring rapid conversions between basketball court and ice rink. Boxing, college basketball, concerts, comedy, political gatherings and large public ceremonies repeatedly transform the same floor, seating and backstage systems for very different kinds of crowd.

A major renovation completed in 2013 added bridges high above the arena, expanded concourses and modernized suites and technology while retaining the distinctive bowl. The building's importance comes from accumulated live events as much as form: its architecture is a machine for repeatedly changing scale, surface, sound and public attention.

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Famous arena hosting major NBA basketball and NHL hockey games

Information reviewed: 2026-08-09

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Empire State Building

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The Empire State Building combines a landmarked Art Deco tower and restored interior with museum galleries and observatories on the 86th and 102nd floors.

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The Americana Inn

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The Americana Inn is a basic Midtown budget hotel near Bryant Park, offering small private rooms with shared bathrooms and kitchenettes on each floor.

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Madame Tussauds New York

Wax Museum

Madame Tussauds New York fills nine Times Square floors with more than 200 hand-crafted wax figures, themed celebrity environments and interactive entertainment.

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Times Square

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Times Square is the intensely illuminated Midtown junction where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue, combining pedestrian plazas, theaters, media façades and constant street activity.

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Bryant Park

Park

Bryant Park is a formal Midtown lawn behind the New York Public Library, framed by London plane trees, terraces, kiosks and dense year-round public programming.

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Liberty Island

Statue of Liberty

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Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi's copper monument on Liberty Island combines French-American political symbolism, ambitious nineteenth-century engineering and commanding harbor views.

New York Harbor

Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration

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Manhattan

Central Park

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Midtown West

Empire State Building

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The Empire State Building combines a landmarked Art Deco tower and restored interior with museum galleries and observatories on the 86th and 102nd floors.

Midtown West

Times Square

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Upper East Side

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met Fifth Avenue is an encyclopedic art museum whose galleries range from ancient Egypt and the Islamic world to European painting, arms and armor, and American art.

Lower Manhattan

Brooklyn Bridge

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The Brooklyn Bridge joins Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights through granite Gothic towers, steel cables and an elevated pedestrian promenade above the East River.

Brooklyn

Prospect Park

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Prospect Park is Olmsted and Vaux's major Brooklyn landscape, joining Long Meadow, wooded ravines, a lake, formal entrances and cultural institutions within 585 acres.

Brooklyn

Brooklyn Museum

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The Brooklyn Museum is a major encyclopedic institution beside Prospect Park, known for Egyptian holdings, African and American art, decorative arts and socially engaged exhibitions.

Brooklyn

DUMBO Waterfront

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Mr. Chang Halal Chinese

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Mum Feteer

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Dave’s Hot Chicken, Bay Ridge

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Yemen Café, Bay Ridge

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Bungalow

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Ayat Astoria

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Ravagh Persian Grill

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Upper East Side

The Pierre, a Taj Hotel, New York

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The Pierre is a 1930 Fifth Avenue landmark with polished rooms, park-view suites, Taj service, three dining spaces and a Central Park doorstep.

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The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park

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Midtown East

Lotte New York Palace

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Midtown West

The Plaza, a Fairmont Managed Hotel

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InterContinental New York Barclay

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Midtown East

Hyatt Grand Central New York

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Midtown West

Baccarat Hotel New York

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The St. Regis New York

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The Peninsula New York

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Mandarin Oriental, New York

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