CNN’s broadcast studios in Manhattan are based at 30 Hudson Yards on West 33rd Street and 10th Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood. CNN’s parent, WarnerMedia, moved its New York operations here from the old Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle in 2019. Shows produced at this location include: Early Start Cuomo Prime Time Quest Means Business CNN Tonight with Don Read more...
When John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to New York City in August 1971, they lived at the St Regis Hotel for two months before moving to an apartment at 105 Bank Street in the West Village. The couple rented the apartment from The Lovin’ Spoonful’s drummer-vocalist Joe Butler, and lived there until 1973 when they moved to their apartment Read more...
Columbia College in New York is Columbia University’s traditional undergraduate liberal arts college. It is situated on the Morningside Heights campus in Manhattan. Founded in 1754 as King’s College, Columbia College is the oldest school within Columbia University. Read more...
The Statue of Liberty was erected in New York in 1886 and dedicated on October 28th, 1886 by President Grover Cleveland. Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi started fabricating the Statue of Liberty in France in 1875 and completed the work in July 1884. In 1885, the statue was shipped in sections to New York and assembled on a purpose-built granite pedestal Read more...
Madison Square Garden is the home arena of the New York Rangers NHL ice hockey team and the New York Knicks NBA basketball team. St John’s Red Storm men’s NCAA basketball team also plays some home games at The Garden. Read more...
The Brooklyn Bridge can be crossed on foot in approximately 30 minutes, depending on factors such as numbers of other pedestrians and the weather. The walkway is segregated for pedestrians and cyclists, and sightseers stopping to take photographs and not keeping to the designated lanes can slow the flow of other pedestrians and bike traffic across the bridge considerably. Read more...
John Lennon was fatally shot four times at the entrance to The Dakota, his apartment building at West 72nd Street and Central Park West in New York City, on the evening of December 8th, 1980. The former Beatle was taken by police car to Roosevelt Hospital but died due to massive internal hemorrhaging. Read more...
Heath Ledger died in his rented apartment on the fourth floor of 421 Broome Street in New York’s SoHo neighborhood on January 22nd, 2008, aged 28. The Australian actor reportedly overdosed accidentally on prescription medication. Read more...
59th Street-Columbus Circle subway station in New York City is served by: 1, A and D trains at all times C trains at all times except late nights B trains on weekdays 2 trains late nights Read more...
It is not possible to visit the top of the Chrysler Building as the 77-floor building is leased to business tenants and there is no observation deck. General public access is limited to the lobby area only. Read more...
The National Debt Clock in New York is on a wall near the Stephen Sondheim Theater, at the entrance to the covered passageway connecting 43rd and 42nd streets between Broadway and 6th Avenue. The digital billboard, operated by the Durst Organization, displays the current United States gross national debt. Read more...
There is a 24 hour Starbucks Coffee in New York City at 43rd and Broadway in Times Square. This busy store is small and has no customer seating or wifi. Read more...
The Starbucks on West 32nd Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, has decor inspired by nearby Penn Station and Hudson Rail Yards. Illuminated tracks snake across the store’s ceiling and a 32-foot light box features the work of Brooklyn-based artist Jake Wallace. Read more...
Shake Shack first opened in 2001 in Madison Square Park, New York City, operating initially from a hot dog cart over three summers. The permanent Shake Shack kiosk restaurant opened in the park on June 12, 2004. Read more...
Shea Stadium was located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City, on the site of what is now parking for Citi Field, the home field of the New York Mets baseball team. Demolition of Shea Stadium started in October 2008 and the locations of its home plate, pitcher’s plate, and bases are marked in the parking lot. Read more...
The Staten Island Ferry leaves Manhattan from the Whitehall Terminal (also called South Ferry) on Whitehall Street and South Street, near Battery Park, at the southern tip of Lower Manhattan. Read more...
Yankee Stadium is a 10-minute walk from MTA Metro-North’s Yankees-East 153rd Street station on the Hudson line running between Poughkeepsie and Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. On game days the station is also served by the Harlem and New Haven lines, and frequent shuttles run between the station, Harlem-125th Street station, and Grand Central. Read more...
The Imagine mosaic, a gift to New York from the city of Naples in memory of John Lennon, is in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields area, near the Central Park West entrance at West 72nd Street. Read more...
New York City’s version of Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE sculpture is located on the corner of Sixth Avenue and West 55th Street in midtown Manhattan. Read more...