Culture in New York

Central Park

Culture / Outdoor Activity

Party Earth Review No place epitomizes the spirit of New York City quite like Central Park, an 843-acre swath of green that stretches from 59th Street to 110th Street, making it a much-needed and much-loved escape for the city’s overworked urbanites. Seven bodies of water and countless sprawling lawns provide a playground for everyone from ... more

Central Park
New York, NY 10019

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The Met Roof Garden Café and Martini Bar

Culture / Rooftop Bar

Party Earth Review In a city dominated by towering steel and buzzing neon, the Roof Garden Café and Martini Bar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a welcome cultural escape from the hard-edged bustle of New York. Museum patrons and couples in need of refreshment can head through the South Wing and take an elevator to the Iris and B. Gerald ... more

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10028

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Times Square

Culture / Landmark / Square

Party Earth Review One of the busiest, most frenetic, and most visually stimulating urban centers in the world, Times Square offers a vast assortment of dining, shopping, and entertainment options that go beyond its famous bright lights and giant flashing advertisements. Usually filled with hordes of tourists and people who work in the area ... more

42nd Street to 50th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019

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Union Square

Culture / Landmark / Park / Square

Party Earth Review With its famous chess tables dotting 14th Street and its alternative artistic vibe, Union Square has been one of Manhattan’s defining cultural landmarks since the 1800s when it was the site for union rallies. Now a favorite with NYU students and local lunching workers, the park offers plenty of conversation pieces and people ... more

14th to 17th Street between Union Square West (University) and Union Square East (Fourth Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum

Info The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of New York City’s best art museums housing extensive permanent and temporary collections. Founded in 1870, the museum, known simply as The Met, has both a main Central Park location and a smaller Upper Manhattan location called The Cloisters. Permanent art at the Met includes works ... more

1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028

Whitney Museum of American Art

Museum

Info The Whitney Museum of American Art, located in New York's Upper East Side, is a modern art museum which focuses on American artists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney originally founded the museum in 1929, when her gift of 700 works of American art was declined by the Metropolitan ... more

945 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10021

Rockefeller Center

Culture / Landmark / Market / Plaza

Party Earth Review Sprawling from 48th to 51st Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue, the world-famous Rockefeller Center is a bustling nerve center that welcomes millions of local and foreign visitors every year. Weekdays see the area abuzz with everyone from business people and ad execs hurrying off to lunch meetings to the more ... more

48th to 51st Streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
New York, NY 10112

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