The first full moon between Jan 21 and Feb 19. Chinatown bursts open to watch a giant red, green, and gold dragon made of wood, cloth, and papier-mâché run down Mott Street. Note that the chances of getting a meal in Chinatown then are slim.
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skomentuj (0)Manhattan’s most densely populated ethnic neighborhood, this vibrant locale is great for Chinese food and shopping for the truly exotic.
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One of New York City’ s finest examples of Greek Revival architecture, the Federal Hall National Memorial, at Wall Street’ s canyon-like head, was first built in 1699 to serve as the city hall of the colony of New York. Its current (1842) construction is best known for
the monumental statue of George Washington on its steps.An exhibition inside relates the heady days of 1789 when Washington was sworn in as America’ s first president from a balcony on this site.The documents and models inside repay consideration, as does the
hall with its elegant rotunda and Cretan maidens worked into the decorative railings.
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A supreme display of nineteenth-century landscaping, without which life in Manhattan would bequite unthinkable.
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Pretty much any time is a good time to visit New York. Winters here can be bitingly cold, but the city can be delightful in November and
December during the run-up to Christmas, when the trees are lit up with fairy lights and shops stay open extra-late.The weather is at its coldest in January and February, but there can be great flight bargains at this time of year, and in any case New York has some wonderful crisp and clear sunny days even then. Spring, early summer, and fall are perhaps the most appealing times to visit, when temperatures can be comfortably warm. July and August are the only months you may truly want to avoid: the temperatures tend be sweltering and the humidity worse, while flights are expensive and everyone tends to leave town for more comfortable climes if they can.
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The most enthralling city inthe world, New York holds immense romantic appeal for visitors.There’s no place quite like it: it’s historic, yet its buildings and monuments are icons of the modern age; the dizzy maelstrom of its streets and neighborhoods is famously – and fantastically – relentless, but it has some of the most peaceful urban green spaces in the world.Whether you’re gazing at the flickering lights of lower Manhattan’s skyscrapers from the Brooklyn Bridge, experiencing the 4am half- life of SoHo or the East Village, or just wasting the morning on the Staten Island ferry, you really would have to be made of stone not to be moved by it all.
You could spend weeks in New York and still barely cratch the surface, but here are some key attracions and pleasures you won’t want to miss.The city is rife with vibrant ethnic neigh- borhoods, like hinatown and Harlem, and boasts the artsy enclaves of SoHo,
TriBeCa, and Greenwich Village. Of course, you will find the celebrated architecture of corporate Manhattan as well as the city’s
renowned museums – not just the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Museum of Modern Art, but countless smaller collections that afford weeks of happy wandering. Inbetween sights, you can eat just about anything,cooked in any style; you can drink in virtually any
company; and attend any number of obscure movies.
New York is very much a city of neighborhoods, and one that is best explored on foot – bring sturdy shoes; you’re going to be doing a lot of walking.
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