Top places to visit

Rockefeller Fountain is an ornate nineteenth-century Italian fountain at the western end of the Bronx Zoo's Astor Court, rich with sea creatures and human figures.

The seasonal Wild Asia Monorail crosses a forty-acre Bronx Zoo landscape, offering elevated views of Asian hoofstock, deer, elephants and river-edge habitats.

Baboon Reserve recreates an Ethiopian highland landscape at the Bronx Zoo for geladas, Nubian ibex and other species adapted to steep rocky terrain.

Hammock Grove is a ten-acre young woodland on Governors Island where suspended hammocks, lawns and play areas sit among thousands of climate-resilient trees and shrubs.

The United Nations Headquarters is an eighteen-acre East River modernist complex of the Secretariat tower, General Assembly, council chambers, library and diplomatic art.

The Chrysler Building is William Van Alen's 1930 Art Deco skyscraper, distinguished by a stainless-steel crown of radiating arches, triangular windows and automotive ornament.

Radio City Music Hall is Rockefeller Center's 1932 Art Deco theater, built around a vast auditorium, curved proscenium, precision stage machinery and the Rockettes.

Rockefeller Plaza is the ceremonial center of the Art Deco complex, linking Channel Gardens, the sunken Lower Plaza, Paul Manship's Prometheus and 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Columbus Circle is a major traffic and civic space at Central Park's southwest corner, organized around an 1892 monument and ringed by towers, transit and cultural venues.

The Battery is Lower Manhattan's historic harbor park, combining a sweeping waterfront promenade, Castle Clinton, ferry approaches, gardens and layered monuments.

The Spur is the High Line's broad eastern branch at West 30th Street, opened in 2019 as a gathering space and home of the rotating monumental Plinth commission.

Staten Island Museum is a multidisciplinary institution at Snug Harbor whose natural-science specimens, art and historical archives document the island across time.