BlueGuide

New York

---- CONTENTS ----

Overview map 4–5

The architecture of New York City 8

The geology of Manhattan 27

Chronology 29

---- The Guide ----

The Borough of Manhattan 33

Downtown

The Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island 35

Lower Manhattan 42

A walk through Battery Park City 59

The Financial District 64

St. Paul’s Chapel, City Hall & the Civic Center 77

A walk through TriBeCa 93

SoHo 98

Chinatown, Little Italy & Nolita 107

The Lower East Side 118

Greenwich Village 128

The East Village 152

Midtown

Midtown Union Square to Madison Square 169

The Meatpacking District & Chelsea 184

The Garment District & Herald Square 192

The Empire State Building, Morgan Library & Bryant Park 197

A walk around Fifth Avenue 211

The Times Square Theater District 216

Grand Central Terminal & Park Avenue 228

Rockefeller Center 243

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, MoMA& Fifth Avenue to 59th St 254

A walk on the far east side 274

Central Park 279

The East Side

The Frick Collection 299

The Whitney Museum 317

The Metropolitan Museum 326

Museum Mile 365

Yorkville & the East River Islands 378

The West Side

Lincoln Square to Columbus Circle 383

The American Museum of Natural History & Central Park West 395

Morningside Heights 417

Harlem & Upper Manhattan

Harlem 437

Upper Manhattan 444

The Outer Boroughs

The Borough of Brooklyn 461

A walk through Brooklyn Heights 469

The Borough of Queens 493

The Borough of the Bronx 500

The Borough of Staten Island 505

Practical information

Practical information 512

Glossary 544

Index 549

Maps 573–83