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department store there are a dozen smaller boutiques brimming with creative fashion; for every major museum, by John Galluzzo a smaller gallery or historic site with another tale to tell. ew York City innovates. Culinary dishes created New York Harbor remains the here are shared throughout the world, and fashion mecca it has been for centuries, a designers gather here for inspiration. Central Park dynamic place where one never knows draws joggers, birders, wanderers, and Times what one might see next. The fixtures Square is, well, timeless. The faces and names remain: The Statue of Liberty will be busy again this summer, opening for change there, but the show goes on. visitation after restoration. Ellis Island is once again a happening place, as It would take years to take in all that New York City has genealogy has again taken off in America, and folks flock to offer. World-renowned landmarks populate the cityscape, to the site to see the spots where their ancestors once stood like the Empire State Building, Yankee Stadium, Madison at the very edge of a new life in America. The South Street Square Garden. Top acts in all entertainment fields move Seaport’s historic ships are not to be missed. through the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the The list goes on: the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Metropolitan Opera House, Radio City Music Hall, and the Gardens, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of various venues of Broadway. Modern Art. And we haven’t even mentioned restaurants, American museum life begins on the Museum Mile, walking tours, hansom cab rides, and more. with the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City stretches into the distance, through night the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, El Museo and day, from history to modernity to futurity. It’s a hub for del Barrio, the Museum of the City of New York, and the world, a place where anything is possible at nearly any more. Shopping starts with the originals: Saks Fifth Avenue, time of day or night. Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s, FAO Schwartz. And for every large
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