New York Midtown Manhattan: click on time, jump to segment
00:21 Midtown Avenues 5th, 6th, Park, Madison, Lexington
17:14 Central Park
28:03 Upper West Side
36:02 Times Square
51:06 Metropolitan Museum
58:14 Frick
59:30 MoMA
1:00:44 Whitney
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Lined with prestigious shops, Fifth Avenue is consistently ranked among the most expensive an elegant shopping streets in the world. Continuing back down Fifth we turn on 42nd Street, to reach Grand Central Terminal, one of the great railway stations of the world and perhaps New York's most famous interior space. We are plunging into a very worthwhile twenty blocks which can be nicely enjoyed along Madison, Park and Lexington Avenues.
New York’s Central Park is a beautiful pleasure ground of meadows, ponds, forests, and trails, nature at its best, surrounded by the great wall of Manhattan.
The park is one of the world's most-visited places with an amazing 42 million annual visitors, putting it into the planet’s top-three most popular destinations, along with Times Square and the Las Vegas Strip.
We are taking you on a quick subway ride to the Upper West Side, one of New York's most popular, high-end residential neighborhoods. We'll take you up Broadway, starting from 72nd St. on walk on up to Zabar's, one of the great food stores of the city, and then continue over to Amsterdam Avenue for a few blocks, the two main streets of the Upper West Side.
Crossroads of the World, or perhaps it is center of the universe! Whatever you call it, Times Square is one amazing and busy place. We’re going to bring you now on a detailed exploration of this unique intersection in the middle of Manhattan.
Electric heart of the city packed with honking taxis, pedestrian mobs, giant billboards lighting the sky, Broadway shows all around, performers of all kinds out on the sidewalk putting on a show, and drawing big crowds. 350,000 people passing through every day, many of them locals on their way to work. How busy is it? Times Square is the most visited place in the world, packed with over 131 million people each year – a mix of locals and visitors.
You are going to discover the top four art museums in New York in this brief summary, starting out with The Met, our nation's best art museum. Then we will bring you inside the Frick, a small private art museum with nothing but masterpieces. Then we will move along to the Museum of Modern Art, take you out in the sculpture garden, and bring you to Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night" and many other famous modern paintings. Finally, heading down to lower Manhattan to see the new Whitney, with a superb modern and contemporary collection.
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