ACTIVITIES

Well, once you get here,
might as well explore
the City a little.


time to get busy


museums.

THE museum of modern art

Midtown Manhattan

Located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world.

The Met

Central Park

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially “the Met”, is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments.

The Guggenheim

Upper East Side

The Guggenheim exhibits modern and contemporary painting and sculpture in one of the most famous buildings in the world, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

American Museum of Natural History

Upper West Side

One of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions

whitney museum of american art

Meatpacking District

the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists

parks.

BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK

Spanning over 1.3 miles of Brooklyn’s waterfront, from the Columbia Heights waterfront district to the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO, this treasure of a park offers views of Lower Manhattan’s panoramic skyline and the New York Harbor. 

CENTRAL PARK

Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, Central Park influenced the development of urban parks nationwide and is widely regarded a masterpiece of landscape architecture. Central Park is a National Historic Landscape (1963) and a Scenic Landscape of the City of New York (1974).

THE HIGH LINE

The High Line is a public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side. Saved from demolition by neighborhood residents and the City of New York, the High Line opened in 2009 as a hybrid public space where visitors experience nature, art, and design.

hudson river park

A waterfront park on the North River that extends from 59th Street south to Battery Park in Manhattan. It’s the second-largest park in Manhattan after the 843-acre Central Park.

UNION SQUARE PARK

A former burial ground that transitioned from a town square to a City park> Home of statues depicting distinguished men like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, and Marquis de Lafayette. 

WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK

A battleground for chess enthusiasts. Well-known for its arch, honoring George Washington.