NEW YORK CITY, MANHATTAN

Best Time to Visit New York City, Manhattan

Yes. New York isn’t only Manhattan. It's also Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Inland. 

Besides New York is also the capital of a large state that includes destinations and places as Long Island, the Niagara Falls, the Hudson Valley and the Catskills or the Adirondacks Mountains...

But Manhattan is really New York City's heart: the heart of a celebrated architecture and of many exceptional museums and all types of dance, theatre, music and other arts; the heart of American financial district; the heart of all imaginable types of eating and drinking at any time of day; the heart of shopping... 

See: 
Best time to visit New York
When not to go to New York
New York Weather Table


New York State - Travel Destinations Map




MAIN GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
WHAT TO VISIT IN NEW YORK CITY?

The island of Manhattan is divided into three big zones: Downtown (below 14th street), Midtown (from 14th street to 59th street - Central Park) and Uptown (from 59th street).

Downtown Manhattan references
The statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
The Financial District: New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street and around
Brooklyn Bridge
Chinatown
Citty Hall
Little Italy
SoHo (New Museum of Contemporary Art)
Greenwich Village
The East Village
Times Square and the Theater District: Broadway, etc.
Chelsea district
The Lower East Side
Former World Trade Center

Midtown Manhattan references
Empire State Building
Penn Station
New York Library
Rockefeller Center
Grand Central Station
United Nations Buildings
Museum of Modern Art
Lincoln Center
Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park

Uptown Manhattan references
Guggenheim Museum
Central Park
Columbia University
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Harlem

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BEST TIME TO TRAVEL & VISIT NEW YORK CITY

New York weather is very changeable with moderate precipitation all over the year, and some heat waves in summer and very cool weather in winter and even in the early spring. Snow is obviously concentrated in winter months, but not precipitation

If we only consider the weather issue, then the best time to visit New York is undoubtedly spring - April, May, June – or late-summer and early-fall – September, October, when Central Park becomes magical…

But… there are, of course, other issues when equating a visit to New York. And so it all depends on what you value most. For some people there is nothing like Christmas time to experience Times Square, the Rockefeller Center, the city’s shopping ambiance.


WHEN NOT TO GO TO NEW YORK CITY

For many people summer should be avoided. Humidity and high temperatures may turn July and August very uncomfortable months. But, contradictory, these are also the most visited months for New York...


Weather Table New York City

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