The Central Park North - Location

Central Park

Central Park is really one of New York's most pleasant areas and is where many New Yorkers come to relax. You haven't visited New York until you have strolled in the Park. Most of the areas immediately adjacent to the park are known for impressive buildings and valuable real estate. The park contains several natural-looking lakes and ponds, extensive walking tracks, two ice-skating rinks, the Central Park Zoo, the Central Park Conservatory Garden, a wildlife sanctuary, a large area of natural woods, a reservoir with an encircling running track, and the outdoor Delacorte Theater which hosts the "Shakespeare in the Park" summer festivals. The park also serves as an oasis for migrating birds. Central Park is also the most visited city park in the United States, and its appearance in many movies and television shows has made it famous.

Central Park

59th to 110th Streets between Fifth Ave. & Central Park West

Upper East Side

The Upper East Side is one of New York’s most famous neighborhoods located between Central Park and the East River. Once known as the Silk Stocking District, it is one of the most affluent neighborhoods in New York City. Historically, most members of New York's upper-class families have made residences on the Upper East Side, including the oil-rich Rockefellers, the political Roosevelts, the Kennedys. The area is host to some of the most famous museums in the world. The string of museums along Fifth Avenue fronting Central Park has been dubbed "Museum Mile." It was once named "Millionaire's Row." Take a stroll in this beautiful neighborhood full of breathtaking architecture and feel like a true New Yorker.

Museum Mile

Museum Mile is a section of Fifth Avenue running from 82nd to 105th streets on the Upper East Side. The Mile, contains one of the densest displays of culture in the world. Nine museums occupy the length of this section of Fifth Avenue and a tenth museum, the Museum for African Art, joined the ensemble in 2009. In addition to other programming, the museums collaborate for the annual Museum Mile Festival, held each year in June, to promote the museums and increase visitation. Museums include, The Museum For African Art, The Museum of the City of New York, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, The Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Neue Galerie, The Jewish Museum, The National Academy Museum and School and El Museo Del Barrio.

Metropolitan
Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as "the Met", is one of the world's largest and most important art museums. It is located on the eastern edge of Central Park. The Met's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. The collection's holdings range from treasures of classical antiquity, like those represented in its Greek and Cypriot galleries, to paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, to an extensive collection of American art. The collection also contains extensive holdings of Egyptian, African, Asian, Oceanic, Middle Eastern, Byzantine and Islamic art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd St.
New York, New York 10028-0198

The American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York’s most impressive landmarks located along Central Park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The building that it is housed in is a work of art in and of itself. The museum contains 42 permanent exhibitions as well as an interesting selection of temporary ones. Permanent exhibitions include a huge collection of rare dinosaur fossils and massive dinosaur skeletons, rare gems and exhibitions devoted to the earth’s history and outer space. There are also very impressive anthropology sections and the new Rose Center for Earth and Space. The Museum also has an IMAX theater and much more. It is definitely a must see for NYC.

The American Museum of Natural History

Central Park W and 79th St
New York, NY 10024

Harlem

Harlem is a large, vibrant and exciting neighborhood located in the Northern section of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem was the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community. The Apollo Theater opened on 125th Street on January 26, 1934, in a former burlesque house. The Savoy Ballroom, on Lenox Avenue, was a renowned venue for swing-dancing, and was immortalized in a popular song of the era, "Stompin' At The Savoy". In the 1920s and 1930s, between Lenox and Seventh Avenues in central Harlem, over 125 entertainment places operated, including speakeasies, cellars, lounges, cafes, taverns, supper clubs, rib joints, theaters, dance halls, and bars and grills. More recently, Harlem past and present residents have made major contributions to the hip-hop movement including such names as Tupac Shakur, Big L, Kurtis Blow, Immortal Technique, A$AP Rocky, Mase, P. Diddy and Azealia Banks. Harlem is also the birthplace of popular hip-hop dances such as the Harlem shake, toe wop, and Chicken Noodle Soup. Harlem is currently experiencing a gourmet renaissance with new dining hotspots popping up uptown around Frederick Douglass Boulevard. Don’t miss a visit to this fantastic neighborhood!

MOMA

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is often considered the most influential museum of modern art in the world. The museum’s collection offers a great overview of modern and contemporary art including works of architecture, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints illustrated books, film and electronic media.  Considered by many to have the best collection of modern Western masterpieces in the world, MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces in addition to approximately 22,000 films and 4 million film stills. The collection houses such important and familiar works as the following: The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau, I and the Village by Marc Chagall, The Dream (1910), by Henri Rousseau, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso, The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí, Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol, Water Lilies triptych by Claude Monet, The Dance by Henri Matisse, The Bather by Paul Cézanne, Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock, Flag by Jasper Johns and many more.

The Museum of Modern Art

11 W 53rd St
New York, NY 10019

Times Square

Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Times Square has achieved the status of an iconic world landmark and has become a symbol of its city. Times Square is principally defined by its animated, digital advertisements. Times Square is the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop. On this night hundreds of thousands of people congregate to watch the Waterford crystal ball being lowered on a pole atop the building (though not to the street, as is a common misconception), marking the new year. On average, about 300,000 revelers crowd Times Square for the New Year's Eve celebrations. Times Square is right next door to New York's famous Broadway Theater District.

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village often referred to by locals simply as "the Village", one of New York’s most culturally important neighborhoods located on the west side of Lower Manhattan. It is home to numerous beautiful townhouses, cafes, restaurants and music venues. Greenwich Village, was known in the late 19th to mid 20th centuries as an artists' haven, the bohemian capital, and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat and '60s counterculture movements. The Village would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore and Dylan Thomas. The Village had and still has a cutting-edge cabaret and music scene. Village resident and cultural icon Bob Dylan by the mid-60s became one of the foremost popular songwriters in the world. Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. Notably, Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bette Midler, The Lovin' Spoonful, Simon & Garfunkel, Liza Minnelli, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Joan Baez, The Velvet Underground, The Kingston Trio, Richie Havens, Joni Mitchell, and Nina Simone. Greenwich Village is still home to celebrities, including many actresses/actors - Emma Stone, Julianne Moore, Uma Thurman, Edward Norton, Amy Sedaris and Daniel Radcliffe. Matthew Broderick grew up and still lives in the neighborhood with his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker. American designer Marc Jacobs and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper live in the community.

The Cloisters

The Cloisters is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art located in Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan and features an extensive collection of art, architecture and artifacts from Medieval Europe. The Cloisters has an especially beautiful location - situated on a hill overlooking the Hudson River, and incorporates parts from five European abbeys that were disassembled and shipped to New York City between 1934 and 1939. The area around the buildings was landscaped with gardens planted according to horticultural information obtained from medieval manuscripts and artifacts, and the structure includes multiple medieval-style cloistered herb gardens. Be sure to visit the Cloisters when staying with us.

The Cloisters

99 Margaret Corbin Dr,
New York, NY 10040