New York CityPass
The New York CityPass concept is simple: A booklet contains tickets to New York’s best attractions at almost 50% savings.
The pocket-size booklet contains an actual admission ticket to each attraction. And with a CityPass you’ll avoid ticket lines at most attractions. New York CityPass is valid for nine leisurely days from day of first use. One admission to each of the following attractions is included:
– Empire State Building Observatory: general admission & audio tour
– American Museum of Natural History & Rose Center: general admission & Hayden Planetarium Space Show
– Guggenheim Museum: general admission
– Museum of Modern Art (MoMA): general admission
– The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters: VIP general admission including all special exhibitions and $1 off Audio Tour; also same-day admission to The Cloisters
– Option ticket: Choose to visit either Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises: one 2-Hour Harbor or Harbor Lights Cruise or 75 minute Liberty Cruise (available May 1 – Oct 31 only)
OR Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island: general admission to both Liberty Island and Ellis Island Immigration Museum with priority entry to security check-in
Price:
74$
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Most popular places in New York City:
Empire State Building Observatory
Address:
350 5th Ave, New York, NY,US
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The legendary Empire State Building Observatory is New York’s iconic, must-see attraction. A star of gigantic proportions, it has appeared in over 90 movies! Enjoy uninterrupted views while your native audio-tour guide, Tony, beguiles you with fascinating facts and stories. As someone once said “If you haven’t seen New York from up here, you haven’t seen it at all!” Empire State Building Observatory is the experience of a lifetime.
Insider Tips:
Visit Empire State Building Observatory first thing in the morning or during the early evening hours to get to the top with a minimum wait. You may encounter a line to enter the building due to security restrictions.
Prices:
27$
Hours:
Open daily 365 days a year.
8:00am to 2:00am
7 days a week.
Last elevators go up
at 1:15am.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Address:
1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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Visit the Met… see the world! Discover the new home for the Met’s beloved collection of Impressionist art – the greatest such collection outside of Paris. Find inspiration in the spectacular New Greek and Roman Galleries. Explore 5,000 years of art – from the splendors of ancient Egypt to the leading artists of today – at New York City’s number one tourist attraction.
Admission to the Met includes same-day admission to The Cloisters, a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Northern Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park devoted to the art, architecture, and gardens of medieval Europe. See magnificent sculpture, exquisite illuminated manuscripts, glorious stained glass, and the celebrated Unicorn Tapestries.
Prices:
20$
Hours:
Monday: Closed (Except Holiday Mondays*)
Tuesday–Thursday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.**
Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m.**
Sunday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.**
(Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day)
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Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
Address:
Liberty Island, NY 10004
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Statue Cruises, an authorized National Park Service concessioner, takes you to New York‘s most famous icons – the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. One ticket is good for both islands! Your CityPass grants you priority entry to the security check-in.
The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States and is a universal symbol of freedom and democracy. The Statue of Liberty stands as tall as a 22-story building!
The Ellis Island Immigration Station processed over 12 million immigrant steamship passengers while in operation until 1954. The main building was restored after 30 years of abandonment and opened as a museum in 1990. Today, over 40 percent of America’s population can trace their ancestry through Ellis Island.
Prices:
Reserve or Flex: 12$
With Audio Tour: 18$
Hours:
Statue of Liberty Monument/Audio + Ellis Island Audio: Allow for 5.5h Last Boarding from NY: 10:30AM Last Boarding from NJ: 10:00AM
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World Trade Center Site
Address:
World Trade Center Site, Church St, New York, NY
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The World Trade Center site sits on 16 acres (65,000 m²) in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The World Trade Center complex stood on the site until the September 11, 2001 attacks; Studio Daniel Libeskind, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Silverstein Properties, and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation oversee the reconstruction of the site. Vesey Street bounds the site in the north, the West Side Highway in the west, Liberty Street in the south, and Church Street in the east. The Port Authority owns the site’s land (except for 7 World Trade Center), and Larry Silverstein, the developer of ground zero, holds the lease to retail and office space in four of the site’s buildings.
Prices:
10$
Hours:
Monday
10AM – 6 PM
Tuesday
12PM – 6PM
Wednesday – Saturday
10AM – 6PM
Sunday
12PM – 5PM
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The Central Park
Address:
Central Park,New York, NY
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Central Park is a large public, urban park (843 acres, 3.41 km², 1.32 mi²; a rectangle 2.6 statute miles by 0.5 statute mile, or 4.1 km × 830 m) in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, almost 4/5 of the size of Vancouver’s Stanley Park and just over 1/3 of the size of London’s Richmond Park, but just 1/5 of Los Angeles’s Griffith Park. With about twenty-five million visitors annually, Central Park is the most visited city park in the United States, and its appearance in many movies and television shows has made it famous.
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Times Square
Address:
Times Square,New York, NY
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At the end of the 19th century, New York City had expanded up to 42nd street and the area was becoming the center of the city’s social scene. In 1904, the New York Times built the Times Tower on 43rd street just off Broadway to replace the premises in Downtown. The square facing the building was called the Longacre square, but was soon renamed Times Square. The name is now used for the area between 40th and 53rd street and 6th and 9th avenue.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Address:
Brooklyn Bridge,New York, NY
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The Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretches 5,989 feet (1825 m) over the East River connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. On completion, it was the largest suspension bridge in the world and the first steel-wire suspension bridge. Originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, it was dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge in an 1867 letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has become an iconic part of the New York skyline. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964.
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Brighton Beach
Address:
Brighton Beach,New York,US
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Brighton Beach was developed by William A. Engeman as a beach resort in 1868, and was named in 1878 by Henry C. Murphy and a group of businessmen in an 1878 contest; the winning name evoked the resort of Brighton, England. The centerpiece of the resort was the large Hotel Brighton (or Brighton Beach Hotel), placed on the beach at what is now the foot of Coney Island Avenue and accessed by the Brooklyn, Flatbush, and Coney Island Railway, later known as the BMT Brighton Line, which opened on July 2, 1878. The village was annexed into the 31st Ward of the City of Brooklyn in 1894.
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Washington Square Park
Address:
27 Washington Square N,New York, NY
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Washington Square Park is one of the best-known of New York City’s 1,700 public parks. At 9.75 acres (39,500 m²), it is a landmark in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village, as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. It is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
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Chinatown
Address:
Chinatown,New York, NY
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The Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan — (Chinese: 紐約華 ) a borough of New York City — is an ethnic enclave with a large population of Chinese immigrants, similar to Chinatown districts in other American cities. It is the second most populous Chinatown in the Western Hemisphere (after San Francisco’s Chinatown), and third in area size (San Francisco, Vancouver).
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Rockefeller Center Ice Skating
Address:
45 Rockefeller Plz,New York, NY
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Since it first opened on Christmas Day, 1936, the Rink has attracted over a quarter million people each year. The Rink is open from October to April. The skating surface is 122 feet long and 59 feet wide and can accommodate only 150 skaters at one time.
Prices:
Ice Skate Rentals: 8$
Admission:
Weekdays: $14
Weekends: $17
The Rink accepts CASH ONLY
Hours:
The Ice Scating will be open from 11 October at 8:30 AM
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
8:30 – 10:00 p.m.
10:30 – 12:00 midnight
Phone: 212-332-7654
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