New York's best neighbourhoods
Lower Manhattan — Wall Street, the 9/11 Memorial, the Brooklyn Bridge, Staten Island Ferry (free). The financial district reimagined as residential.
SoHo & West Village — boutique shopping, cobblestone streets, the best brunch in NYC, high-end apartments.
Midtown — Times Square, Central Park, the Rockefeller Center, MoMA. Most convenient for tourists.
Upper West Side — the Natural History Museum, Central Park West, real New York residential life.
Brooklyn — Williamsburg & DUMBO — NYC's creative borough. The Manhattan Bridge view, the Brooklyn Museum, artisan food market.
Harlem — New York's African-American cultural heartland. Apollo Theatre, soul food, brownstone beauty.
Getting around New York
The NYC Subway runs 24/7 and covers all five boroughs — buy an unlimited MetroCard for stays of 3+ days. Cabs and Uber operate everywhere. JFK is 50 minutes by AirTrain + E/J/Z subway. Newark EWR is 30 minutes by NJ Transit. LaGuardia is taxi/Uber only, 30–60 minutes.
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