For many, the Upper West Side - with its brownstone apartments,
American Museum of Natural History, Riverside Park and gourmet markets -
is the New Yorker's New York. Home of the classic New York City romance
from strolls in Riverside Park (Riverside Drive from 72nd Street to 155th Street)
to stunning brownstone apartments to the famed American Museum of Natural
History (Central Park West at 79th Street), the Manhattan neighborhood
on the west side of Central Park is a place like no other. Primarily a residential
neighborhood, the Upper West Side can offer visitors a true taste of New York life.
Area Attractions
Central Park
Strawberry Fields
Bethesda Fountain & Terrace
Dakota Apartments
American Folk Art Museum
American Museum of Natural History
Hayden Planetarium
Ballet Hispanico Tina Ramirez
Bard Graduate Center
Beacon Theater
Children's Museum of Manhattan
Lincoln Center – A total of 12 performing arts companies hosted in a
variety of theater and recital spaces
Metropolitan Opera
Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic
New York State Theater, home of the New York City Opera and the New
York City Ballet
The Juiliard School of Music
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall
Film Society of Lincoln Center
The School of American Ballet
Vivian Beaumont Theater
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Museum of Biblical Art
Merkin Concert Hall
New-York Historical Society
Midtown
Midtown, is an area of Manhattan, New York City home to world-famous
commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center, Broadway and Times
Square. Midtown Manhattan is home to the city's tallest and most
famous buildings such as the Empire State Building and Chrysler
Building.
Midtown, along with Uptown and Downtown, is one of the three major
subdivisions of Manhattan. Though Uptown and Downtown can also be
used as adjectives or prepositions and can take on completely
different meanings in the other boroughs whereas the term Midtown
cannot and can be understood as those parts of Manhattan in neither
of these two other regions. That is, all areas between 14th Street
and 59th Street, from the Hudson River to the East River, about five
square miles or 12 km2. The core of Midtown Manhattan is from about
31st Street to 59th Street between Third and Ninth Avenues, about two
square miles (this is the area most commonly referred to as
Midtown.) The Plaza District, a term used by Manhattan real estate
professionals to denote the most expensive area of midtown from a
commercial real estate perspective, lies between 42nd Street and 59th
Street from Third Avenue to Seventh Avenue, about a square kilometer
or half a square mile.