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MetLife Stadium is located at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, 8 miles (or 13 kilometers) west of New York City. Opened in April 2010, it is the home stadium of two NFL football teams, the New York Giants and the New York Jets, and hosted Super Bowl 48 between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos in Read more...

The 2013 season Super Bowl XLVIII was played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on February 2nd, 2014 between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks won, defeating the Broncos 43-8, and giving them their first ever Super Bowl victory. Seattle Seahawks linebacker Malcolm Smith was named Super Bowl MVP. Read more...

Alexander Hamilton’s 1802 home, The Grange, was relocated in June 2008 to the northern end of Saint Nicholas Park in Harlem’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood. The Founding Father’s yellow and white Federal-style house previously stood a block north, next to Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church on Convent Avenue at 141st Street. Despite becoming a National Memorial in 1962, it was hemmed in Read more...

LaGuardia Airport terminals for arrivals and departures are shown below. In case of terminal changes, contacting the airline to confirm before travel is advisable. Airline Terminal Air Canada B American Airlines B American Shuttle B Delta C / D Delta Shuttle C Frontier Airlines C JetBlue Airways A Spirit Airlines B Southwest Airlines C United Airlines B WestJet C Read more...

The New York City Marathon starts from Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, near the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. The 26.2-mile (or 42.2-kilometer) marathon route passes through all five boroughs of New York City before finishing in Manhattan’s Central Park. It is usually held annually on the first Sunday in November and is the world’s largest marathon by participation. 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...

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...

EWR is the IATA code for Newark Liberty International Airport, located 3 miles (or 4.8 kilometers) south of downtown Newark, New Jersey, and about 9 miles (or 14 kilometers) west of Manhattan. Although it is in the state of New Jersey, its proximity to New York City makes it is one of the three major airports serving the New York Read more...

Newark Liberty International Airport departure terminals are shown below. In case of terminal changes, contacting the airline to confirm before travel is advisable. AirlineTerminal Aer Lingus B Air Canada A Air China B Air India B Alaska Airlines A Allegiant Air B American Airlines A Austrian Airlines B Avianca B British Airways B Cathay Pacific B Delta B El Al Read more...

Coney Island is located on a peninsula at the southwestern tip of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Read more...

The highest natural point of land in Manhattan is in Bennett Park at 265.05 feet (or 81 meters) above sea level. Bennett Park is located at Pinehurst Avenue and West 183rd Street in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Washington Heights in upper Manhattan. A stone plaque on an outcropping of Manhattan schist rock on the west side of the park Read more...

American businesswoman, writer, and media personality Martha Stewart’s childhood home is on Elm Place in Nutley, New Jersey. Born Martha Helen Kostyra in 1941, she moved with her family from Jersey City to Nutley when she was three years old and attended Yantacaw School before graduating from Nutley High School in 1959. Martha Stewart was inducted into the Nutley Hall Read more...

On the evening of October 30th, 2002, Jason Mizell, better known as Jam Master Jay of the hip hop group Run-DMC, was shot and killed, aged 37, at his recording studio in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. Ronald Washington was identified by prosecutors in April 2007 as an accomplice in the murder, although it was alleged that he was accompanied Read more...

Staten Island is an island, surrounded by water on all sides. One of the five boroughs of New York City, Staten Island is connected by road to Brooklyn via the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and to the state of New Jersey by three road bridges: the Outerbridge Crossing, Goethals Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge. The Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Railroad Bridge single track Read more...

WFUV radio is located in the basement of Keating Hall on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in the Bronx, New York City. The station moved to its present location in 2005, having previously been based on the third floor of Keating Hall since first signing on in 1947. Owned by Fordham University, WFUV is a listener-supported NPR affiliate Read more...

American Airlines Flight 587 crashed near Beach 131st Street and Newport Avenue in the residential neighborhood of Belle Harbor in Queens, New York City, shortly after takeoff from nearby JFK Airport on November 12th, 2001. All 260 passengers and crew were killed, along with 5 people on the ground, and the impact and ensuing fire destroyed several houses. The NTSB Read more...

John F Kennedy International Airport was officially called New York International Airport-Anderson Field, after it opened in 1948, but was more commonly known as Idlewild Airport. The airport in Queens, New York, was developed on land once occupied by the Idlewild Beach Golf Course, leading to it being referred to as Idlewild, and even used IDL as the FAA and Read more...

The New York Islanders NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, some 20 miles (or 32 kilometers) east of Manhattan. Situated next to the Belmont Park horse racing facility, the newly-built arena opened in November 2021 and the Islanders played their inaugural home game there against the Calgary Flames. Previously, the they Read more...

A Park Pass is not needed for Glen Island Park, but proof of Westchester County residency is required for admission. This can be established with a Westchester County park pass or a valid New York State driver’s license with a Westchester county address. Residents may each bring up to four adult guests and five children. Pass holders receive discounted admission Read more...

Senator Cory Booker’s childhood home was on Norma Road in Harrington Park, New Jersey, until 1977 when he moved with his family to a new home on Parkhill Road in Harrington Park. Read more...