New York, English edition

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PLANET NEW YORK

No question about it: New York City is one of the most exciting travel destinations on earth. The city of eight million is a symbol of urban life worldwide. Even though its one hundred percent American, New York is seen by the whole world as the absolute metropolis, as the mother of all large cities and as a laboratory for lifestyle and urban trends.

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BACKGROUND
Planet New York 12
Facts 16
Population * Politics * Economy 17
History of the City 22
New Yorks Beginnings 23 England Conquers the City 23 The War of Independence 24 The Civil War 25 From the Civil War to the Stock Market Crash 26 1930s until today 27
Arts and Culture 30
City Development and Architecture 31 New York - City of Culture 40 Music and Theatre in New York 41
New York - City of Cinema 42
41 Art in New York 50
Famous People
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PRACTICALITIES Accommodation 64
Who sleeps where ... 66
Arrivals * Before the Journey 72 Beaches 76 Children in New York 77 Electricity 79 Entertainment 79 Etiquette and Customs 87 Festivals, Holidays and Events 88 Food and Drink 93 Health 108 Information 108 Literature 110 Media 112 Money 112 Museums and Galleries 113 Post and Communications 123 Prices and Discounts 124 Shopping 124 Smoking Ban 130 Sport and Outdoors 131 Theatre, Music and Ballet 134 Tickets 137 Time 139 Tipping 139 Tours and Guides 139 Transport 143
100 Years of Subway Service 145
Travellers with Disabilities 150 Weights, Mesures, Temperatures 150 When to Go
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TOURS Getting Around in New York 157 Tour 1: Midtown, the heart of the city 157 Tour 2: Downtown: where it all began 160 Tour 3: From west to east - a cable car in New York 163 Tour 4: Museum Mile: A"culture tourA" 165 Tour 5: Chelsea: neighbourhood on the upswing 167 Excursions 168
SIGHTS FROM A to Z AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory 172 Battery Park 175 Battery Park City 177 Bowery 179 Bridges in New York 180 Broadway 182 Bronx 182
Baseball - a Mans World 184
Bronx Zoo 189 Brooklyn 191 Brooklyn Bridge 199 Brooklyn Museum 199 3D: Brooklyn Bridge 200 Cathedral of St. John the Divine 202 Central Park 203 Chelsea 207
Fitness Counts 208
Chinatown 212 Chrysler Building 215 City Hall
Civic Center 215 3D: Chrysler Building 216 The Cloisters 220 Columbus Circle 223 East Village 223 Ellis Island 226
Conquering the Heights 228
Empire State Building 232 Fifth Avenue 233
New Yorks Millionairs 234
Financial District 238 Flatiron District Union Square 242 Frick Collection 245 Gracie Mansion 247 Grand Central Terminal 248 Greenwich Village 250 Guggenheim Museum 254 Harlem 256 Jewish Museum 262 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 262 Little Italy 265 Lower East Side 266 Manhattan 267 3D: Beneath Manhattan 268 Metropolitan Museum of Art 271 Morgan Library and Museum 279 Museum of Modern Art * MoMA 280 Museum of the American Indian 284 Neue Galerie 286 New York Botanical Garden 286 New York Public Library 287 Park Avenue 289 Queens 292 Rockefeller Center 297 St. Patrick's Cathedral 300 St. Paul's Chapel 301 SoHo 303 Sony Building 304 South Street Seaport 305 Staten Island 307 Statue of Liberty 311
Immigration - a Growing Trend 313
Times Square 316 Tribeca 318 United Nations Headquarters 319 Whitney Museum of American Art 322 World Trade Center Site 323
Index 326 List of Maps and Illustrations 334 Photo Credits 334 Publishers Information 335