New York City - What It's Like Now
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Netherland Memorial Flagpole
Historic site · Battery Park
The monument itself is underwhelming; the area's history is the draw.
Wall Street
Neighborhood · Financial District
Called the 'capital of capital', with curving streets in the Financial District.
New York Stock Exchange
Landmark · Financial District · brief mention
The world's largest stock exchange, with a market capitalisation of roughly $25 trillion.
Union Square
Neighborhood · Manhattan · brief mention
Times Square
Landmark · Midtown Manhattan
Roughly 90% tourists; it was seedy in the 1980s and early 90s.
Grand Central Terminal
Landmark · Midtown Manhattan
Called the world's largest train station, with 67 tracks on two levels.
Fifth Avenue
Shopping · Midtown Manhattan · brief mention
Rockefeller Center
Landmark · Midtown Manhattan
Called a must-see Art Deco complex built during the Great Depression.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (Andrew Carnegie Mansion)
Museum · Upper East Side · brief mention
Upper Fifth Avenue (Millionaire's Row)
Neighborhood · Upper East Side · brief mention
Gilded Age families such as the Astors, Carnegies and Rockefellers built grand mansions here.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Museum · Upper East Side · brief mention
The Hub (149th Street & Third Avenue)
Neighborhood · South Bronx
An open drug scene on the street; a local warned that tourists should be cautious.
City Island
Neighborhood · The Bronx
Salt air, white picket fences and porches; scallops are also affordable.
