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For New York Rangers ice hockey games at Madison Square Garden, doors open 1 hour before puck drop. Read more...

The northern end of Manhattan’s High Line elevated park and walkway wraps around the Hudson Yards development and emerges on West 34th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues. A spur off the Highline at West 30th Street near 10th Avenue connects directly to the shops and restaurants at 10 Hudson Yards and there is stair and elevator access to street Read more...

During summer, Seastreak operates a fast passenger ferry between New York and Nantucket, via Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, departing 4 pm on Fridays and returning 2:30 pm Sundays. The New York City ferry terminal is at East 35th Street and FDR Drive on the east side of midtown Manhattan. The crossing time to Nantucket takes approximately 6 hours 15 minutes, Read more...

The Edge observation deck on Level 100 of New York’s 30 Hudson Yards skyscraper is 1,131 feet (or 345 meters) above the ground. The cantilevered outdoor platform extends up to 80 feet (or 24 meters) from the building and offers views across Manhattan and the Hudson River, and visitors can stand on a glass floor panel looking straight down to Read more...

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...

The Staten Island Ferry is free of charge in both directions and no ticket is required to travel. Read more...

Bella Abzug was a lawyer and three-term Democratic congresswoman from New York City known for championing women’s rights, human rights, equality and social justice. She died in 1998 and Manhattan’s Hudson Yards Park was renamed Bella Abzug Park in her honor in 2019. Read more...

The ice skating rink at Bryant Park in New York City is open from the last weekend in October through to the end of the last weekend in March each year. Located between 40th and 42nd Streets at Sixth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, the Bryant Park skating rink opens at 8 am daily, including holidays. Skating at Bryant Park can Read more...

New York’s WPIX TV, known as PIX11, is located in the News Building at 42nd Street and 2nd Avenue in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan. WPIX was once the TV broadcast subsidiary of the New York Daily News newspaper, and the building housed the Daily News operations until 1995, but PIX 11, by then under separate ownership, remained 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...

Times Square in Manhattan was so named in 1904 in anticipation of completing the newly-constructed headquarters of The New York Times newspaper at the convergence of Broadway and 7th Avenue at 43rd Street, an area previously called Longacre Square. With its distinctive narrow wedge-shaped tower, the New York Times Building was a prominent architectural landmark and provided access to the 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...

Alcohol consumption is not permitted in Times Square at any time, including New Years Eve. It is illegal to drink alcoholic beverages or have an open container of alcohol in any public place in New York City. Read more...

Staten Island Ferry runs every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A more frequent service every 15 or 20 minutes operates on weekdays during the rush hours of 6 am to 9:30 am and 3:30 pm to 8 pm. Read more...

There are two bronze statues in Duffy Square, the northern triangle of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, one of Chaplain Francis P Duffy and the other of musical theater star George M Cohan. The statue of Father Duffy, a military chaplain and priest after whom the square is named, was sculpted by Charles Keck and dedicated on May Read more...

Father Francis Patrick Duffy was a Canadian-American Catholic priest and military chaplain, recognized for his service during World War I on the Western Front in France. Duffy served on the battlefield as part of the Rainbow Division, helping to recover many injured soldiers, and became the most decorated cleric in the US Army. He was later pastor of Manhattan’s Holy Read more...

Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 in midtown Manhattan lost 15 members on 9/11, the biggest loss of any firehouse in New York City. When two planes struck the World Trade Center twin towers on the morning of September 11th, 2001, all 15 members of the night shift turned out, but none made it back to the firehouse after the Read more...

Requests for free tickets to see a taping of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at NBC Studios in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center can be made online at tonightshowtix.com. Tickets are released monthly, with a month’s ticket waitlist typically opening during the first week of the prior month. Numbered stand-by cards are also handed out at 9 am on the morning Read more...

Radio City was a name given to the western portion of New York’s Rockefeller Center by its first major tenant, the Radio Corporation of America, or RCA. RCA, then the parent company of NBC, initially housed its radio-related broadcast operations at Radio City, later adding television production facilities. NBC’s TV studios continue to be located in the Rockefeller Center. Read more...