The state of New York is one of the thirteen original states of the United States of America and is spread over 49,108 square miles. It is the second most crowded state and the main center for the development of American art, culture and economy. Census of 2000 revealed that New York State and New York deal City had a population of 19,254,630 and 8,168,388 respectively. New Yorkers are diverse in ethnicity. They include African-American, Puerto Rican, and Italian, Irish, Dominican, Chinese, Asian Indian, Filipino, Korean and others. New York earns billions of dollars from tourism and employs about one million people in this job. About thirty-nine million people visit New York every year. It has innumerable natural as well as non-natural places which make the city a very special tourist center.


Approximately fifty-three percent land of New York deal is covered with forests out of which there are about one hundred and fifty state parks. The most modern amusement park, beaches, striking water falls, historic sites, museums, theatres, rinks etcetera are at Newyork deal to entertain people.

`New York City’ or `New York’ or `Big Apple’ as it is commonly called is the most important place for travelers of New York. This is the US’s largest city. New York City has five boroughs. These are Bronx (Bronx County), Brooklyn (Kings County), Manhattan (New York County), Queens (Queens County), and Staten Islands (Richmond County). Out of these five boroughs Manhattan is the primary place for the visitors of New York and is often called `the city’ whereas other four boroughs are known as outer boroughs. Manhattan is the center of attention for travelers as well as observers. New York City covers about eight hundred square kilometer and all the five boroughs of New York City show signs of different life styles and have several differences with each other giving the impression that different borough belong to different countries altogether. The Newyork deal does not distinguish itself only in ethnicity and religion but also in economy. New York City’s Gross Metropolitan Product in 2003 was US $488.8 billion. It was the largest of any city in the United States and if it were a nation it would be seventeenth in the world. New York Stock Exchange, which is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar volume and NASDAQ Stock Exchange, are located at New York.


The city has several important places. Wall Street is famous for finance, Broadway is for theatre. Fifth Avenue is for shopping, Madison Avenue is for advertising industry, Greenwich Village is for Bohemian lifestyle and Seventh Avenue is for fashion, Harlem for Jazz Age, African American Aspirations and slums. Besides it is home for United Nation. It is the world’s first and the foremost tourist destination.

In the County of Bronx, important places of travel are Bronx Zoo, New York Botanical Garden, Yankee Stadium, Bronx Historical Society, Edgar Allan Poe cottage, Valentine-Varian House etc.

In Brooklyn, BAM or Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Center for the Performing Art, Gateway National Recreation Area, New York Aquarium, Prospect Park Alliance, Prospect Park Wild Life Center, Brooklyn Historical Society, Children’s Museum, Trolley Museum, Harbor Defense Museum, New York Transit Museum, Old Stone House etc are important. During winter skating rinks like Abe Stark rink and Kate Wolman rink could be benefited from.

In Queens, Queens Boroughs Permanent Collection of African Art, and Kings Land Homestead Museum of the Moving Image, Aqua duct Race Track for horses, Jamaica Bay Wild Life Refuge for birds, PSI Contemporary Art Center, Queens Botanical Garden, Queens Wild Life Center, Shea Stadium, Socrates Sculpture Park are important for tourist attraction. World’s Fair Ice Skating Rink at Queens is an important tourist pull during winter.

Staten Island Green Belt is a natural area and traditional park in Staten. Staten Island Botanical Garden, Staten Island Yankee, Children’s Museum, Alice Austen Home, The Conference House, National Light House Museum, Noble Maritime Collection etcetera are important places whereas Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink is a lure in winter.

Manhattan is the most important place in New York deal. It is the house of several institutions of national and international repute. Apollo Theatre, Carnegie Hall, Empire State Building, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Jacob K Javits Convention Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, National Tennis Center; a home for US open, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, Radio City, Music Hall, Rockefeller Center, Shakespeare in the Park, South Street Seaport, Summer Stage or Central Park, Times Square, Trinity Church and Seat of United Nation are important places of tourist attraction at Manhattan.

Besides these, Museum of American Financial History, American Folk Art Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Bard Graduate Center, Center for Jewish History, Children Museum of Manhattan, International Center of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of American Indian, Newyork dealHistorical Society, New York Police Museum are important locations for New York travel. Manhattan Skating Rinks like Lascar Rink, The Pond at Bryant Park and Wolman Rink are the major rinks to rejoice cold in Manhattan. When the ice gets strong, in winter, parks choose safe skating areas throughout the five boroughs. Long Island beach is, however, supportive in summer.

Important neighboring areas of New York deal are Battery Park, Central Park, Chinatown, Chelsea, East Village, Financial District, and Flatiron Gramercy, Greenwich Village, Harlem, Little Italy, Midtown, SoHo etc.

Statue of Liberty at Liberty Island ( it has a museum in the statue’s pedestal), The Immigration Museum at Ellis island, Brooklyn bridge (from Brooklyn to Manhattan and the world’s first steel wire suspension bridge), Sony Wonder Technology Lab (a display of latest technology sponsored by Sony), Museum of Sex at fifth Avenue, 27th street, Empire State Building, Grand Central Station, Wall Street, Chrysler Building, Civic Center, Fashion Center, Madame Tussaud’s and Teddy Roosevelt’s Birthplace are important places at New York which a travel would not like to miss.