Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Gramercy Park
, just to the northeast, is named after one of New York's loveliest
parks; for residents only, though, and you need a key to get in!
Greenmarket Farmers Market
FOOD MARKET
( 212-788-7476;
www.grownyc.org
; 17th St, btwn Broadway & Park Ave S; 8am-6pm Mon, Wed,
Fri & Sat)
On most days, Union Square's north end hosts the most popular of the
nearly 50 greenmarkets throughout the five boroughs, where even celebrity chefs come
for just-picked rarities including fiddlehead ferns, heirloom tomatoes and fresh curry
leaves.
Midtown
The classic NYC fantasy - shiny skyscrapers, teeming mobs of worker bees, Fifth Ave
store windows, taxi traffic - and some of the city's most popular attractions can be found
here. Long ago when print ruled and newspaper and magazines were the cultural cur-
rency of the day, Midtown was actually also the literary district - the prime movers and
shakers used to meet at the Algonquin Hotel. Major media companies such as the
New
York Times
are still based here.
Museum of Modern Art
MUSEUM
(MoMA;
www.moma.org
; 11 W 53rd St btwn Fifth & Sixth Aves, Midtown West; adult/child $25/free,
4-8pm Fri free; 10:30am-5:30pm Sat-Thu, to 8pm Fri; E/M to 5th Ave-53rd St)
Superstar of
the modern art scene, MoMA's booty makes many other collections look, well, endear-
ing. You'll find more A-listers here than at an Oscars after party: Van Gogh, Matisse, Pi-
casso, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rothko, Pollock and Bourgeois. Since its founding in 1929,
the museum has amassed over 150,000 artworks, documenting the emerging creative
ideas and movements of the late 19th century through to those that dominate today. For
art buffs, it's Valhalla. For the uninitiated, it's a thrilling crash course in all that is beauti-
ful and addictive about art.
Times Square & Theater District
NEIGHBORHOOD
There are few images more universally iconic than the glittering orb dropping from
N/Q/R, S, 1/2/3, 7 to Times Sq-42nd St)
on New Year's Eve - the first one descended 100
