New York City — Destination Guide: Overview

Simply, New York City has more of everything than anywhere else on the planet, and better than anywhere else, too: the Metropolitan Opera and Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Metropolitans baseball team, better known as The Mets, and their rivals, the Yankees; Broadway theater and the stars of tomorrow at the comedy clubs; the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island, better ridden before eating a Nathan's Famous hot dog slathered with spicy mustard. Clippity-clopping around Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage, dim-sum in Chinatown, sushi in Soho, jazz brunches in Harlem, designer shopping on Fifth and Madison, discount shopping in ...

Simply, New York City has more of everything than anywhere else on the planet, and better than anywhere else, too: the Metropolitan Opera and Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Metropolitans baseball team, better known as The Mets, and their rivals, the Yankees; Broadway theater and the stars of tomorrow at the comedy clubs; the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island, better ridden before eating a Nathan's Famous hot dog slathered with spicy mustard. Clippity-clopping around Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage, dim-sum in Chinatown, sushi in Soho, jazz brunches in Harlem, designer shopping on Fifth and Madison, discount shopping in Brooklyn. Your choice of Little Italy in Manhattan or the Bronx, which also has its own island, City Island, with a main street of seafood restaurants. The hip new Lower East Side, which the grandparents of its fashionable newcomers couldn't wait to move away from. The Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo and Coney Island Aquarium, and the two-footed club-crawling animals of Chelsea. Buy yourself a $7 unlimited one-day subway/bus pass or a $24 weekly, and try to see, do and eat it all. Try. Then return and try again.

About the Expert

Evelyn Kanter is a contributor to Fodor's NYC and Fodor's Canada, editor of the Michelin Green Guide Switzerland, and author of Great Destinations: The Hudson Valley.