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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.

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.

Vine and HQ Trivia cofounder, Colin Kroll, died at the age of 34 from an apparent drugs overdose in his apartment on Spring Street in New York’s Nolita neighborhood. In the early hours of Sunday, December 16th, 2018, police attended Kroll’s apartment and found him face down and unresponsive in his bedroom, and he was declared dead shortly afterwards. His cause of death was reported to be an accidental overdose of a combination of drugs including fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.

MTA operates the following subway trains across the Manhattan Bridge: B Sixth Avenue Express on weekdays only, at all times except late nights. D Sixth Avenue Express at all times. N Broadway Express at all times except late nights. Q Second Avenue/Broadway Express/Brighton Local at all times. For B and D trains, the stops on either side of the Manhattan Bridge are Grand Street in Manhattan, and DeKalb Avenue on the Brooklyn side. For N and Q trains crossing the bridge, the first Manhattan stop is Canal Street. On the Brooklyn side, Q trains stop at DeKalb Avenue, while most N trains bypass DeKalb Avenue and stop at Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center.

Jane’s Carousel is a restored 1922 carousel with ornate carved horses located in the Empire Fulton Ferry section of the Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. Originally installed at Idora Park in Youngstown, Ohio, the carousel was purchased in the 1980s by David Walentas, the real estate developer behind the revitalization of the Dumbo neighborhood, and his artist wife Jane. Jane Walentas oversaw a meticulous restoration of the carousel to its former glory and the couple donated it to the Brooklyn Bridge Park for the public’s enjoyment. Housed in a purpose-built glass pavilion on the waterfront, with views of the bridges and Manhattan skyline, the carousel is open to both children and adults, and rides are $2 each.

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.

WNYC is located at New York Public Radio’s offices and broadcast facilities at Varick Street and Charlton Street in Hudson Square, Manhattan.

The country music format radio station in New York is WNSH, branded as New York’s Country 94.7. Owned by Entercom, it broadcasts from studios in Manhattan’s Hudson Square at 94.7 MHz FM and HD Radio, and also streams online. The station is licensed to Newark, New Jersey, but its broadcast area covers North Jersey and New York City.

Dumbo is short for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. This waterfront neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, as the name suggests, sits beneath Manhattan Bridge, sandwiched between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. It is thought the acronym was coined in the 1970s and use of the name became more popular from the late 1990s when a period of revitalization saw its industrial buildings repurposed as residential apartments and offices

New York University has the following varsity sports teams, which are nicknamed the NYU Violets: Women's Sports Men's Sports Basketball Baseball Cross country Basketball Fencing Cross country Golf Fencing Soccer Golf Softball Soccer Swimming & diving Swimming & diving Tennis Tennis Track and field Track and field Volleyball Volleyball Wrestling NYU also has 24 club sports, including badminton, rowing, triathlon, squash and water polo.

Yes, West Village is a subsection of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York City. Although its boundaries are not formally defined, the West Village is generally accepted as being that area of Greenwich Village lying west of 7th Avenue, excluding the Meatpacking District. It is not unusual to see 6th Avenue being shown as the eastern boundary.

Abe Lebewohl owned the Second Avenue Deli in the East Village and was shot and killed on March 4th, 1996 in a robbery near the NatWest Bank branch at East Fourth Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan. Ukraine-born Lebewohl immigrated to the United States in 1950 and four years later took over a 10-seat diner, transforming it into a landmark deli restaurant on the southeast corner of Second Avenue and East 10th Street. His family continued running the deli after his death, but closed the location in 2006. Two new 2nd Ave Deli locations have since opened in Murray Hill and the Upper East Side.

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 in the Dakota building on West 72nd Street.

The fifteen digit clock on the building facade above Best Buy at 1 Union Square South in New York measures the time from midnight and the time remaining in the day as follows: From the left side the first seven digits show the time in 24-hour format as hours, minutes, seconds and tenths of a second. The last seven digits, from right to left, display the time remaining in the day as hours, minutes, seconds and tenths of a second. The eighth digit in the center represents hundredths of a second. For example, if the clock shows 120510911495411, the time is 12:05 and 10.9 seconds, and there are 11 hours, 54 minutes, and 49.1 seconds left in the day. The clock display is called The Passage and is part of larger art installation on the building, called Metronome by Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel.

The W Hoboken hotel does not have a pool but does have a gym with fitness equipment.

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.

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 on Liberty Island in 1886.

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.

The stores at Manhattan Mall in New York City include: JCPenney Aeropostale Express Top Gun Leather City Streets Shoes Call It Spring LensCrafters New York & Company GNC Lids Mandee Strawberry, and Starbucks, and

Pennsylvania Station in New York City is owned by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, also known as Amtrak. Amtrak is a US government-owned corporation operating intercity passenger rail services in the United States and to certain cities in Canada. Ownership of Penn Station passed to Amtrak in 1976 when it assumed control of the 457-mile Northeast Corridor (NEC) railroad linking Boston and Washington DC following the Penn Central Transportation Company bankruptcy.