New York City - Manhattan

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Manhattan is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. It is a huge city with several district articles containing sightseeing, restaurant, nightlife and accommodation listings. Manhattan has many famous landmarks, tourist attractions, museums, and universities. The Metropolitan Museum of art, Museum of Modern Art, Empire State building, Wall Street,  Madison Avenue,  34th Street,  Broadway. Manhattan is so well known that even the names of its streets have become iconic and understood the world over. Manhattan has the world's brightest and most renowned theater district; Manhattan has Central Park, Rockefeller Center, the Guggenheim Museum, and the World Trade Center site; and Manhattan comprises iconic neighborhoods like Harlem, the Upper East Side, Times Square, and Greenwich Village. It is also the location of the UN Headquarters. 

A stretch of Broadway is known worldwide as the heart of the American theatre industry. One famous stretch near Times Square, where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan, is the home of many  Broadway theatres, housing an ever-changing array of commercial, large-scale plays, particularly musicals. This area of Manhattan is often called the Theater District or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline "Found on the Great White Way" in the February 3, 1902 edition of the New York Evening Telegram.

The Broadway Theatre is one of only five playhouses that front on the street named Broadway. It opened in 1924 as B. S. Moss’s Colony, a premiere film house. The most notable film that played there in the early years was Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie which opened in 1928, and introduced American audiences to an adorable rodent named Mickey Mouse. The theatre went “legit” from 1930 to 1934, when it was re-christened the Broadway. From 1934 to 1940, the house was once again dedicated to motion picture exhibition, and offered the premiere of Disney’s Fantasia in 1939. In 1940, however, it returned to legitimate stage production and, except for a brief stint as a Cinerama movie theatre in the 1950s, has remained in the business of showcasing live theatre ever since. Nowadays there are a lot of shows performeda at Broadway, which are worldwide famous such as The Lion king,  Chicago, Wicked, Jersey Boys, Mary Poppins, Ghost and etc. 

One of New York City's most popular tourist attractions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomes over 5 million visitors a year. With a permanent collection containing over two million cultural treasures from six continents, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is widely regarded as one of the most important museums in the world. Also known as The Met, this museum contains an extensive collection of permanent exhibits and several changing exhibit halls. Museum-goers worldwide remark that of all the museums in New York City.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is by far the largest and most comprehensive. It is recommended for visitors either leave a full day to explore the museum or else decide in advance which exhibits to see and which ones they want to leave for another day. Divided into nineteen separate sections ranging from ancient to contemporary art from a wide variety of cultures around the world, you're sure to find something that interests you here. At over one hundred forty years old, this is one of the oldest NYC museums still in operation. In addition to viewing its extensive collection of art, Metropolitan Museum of Art visitors can lunch in the Roof Garden, where a new single-artist sculptural exhibition is held every year.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to works of art whose creation spans millenia and the globe. From Ancient Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Asian and Oceanic art, to art from the old masters of Europe, from American pastoralism to modern photography and everything in between, a variety of masterpieces are permanently installed here. An entire hall is dedicated to arms and armor, and another exhibition section contains only books, including bound art from masters like Durer and Athanasius Kircher. Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates, Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat and Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Pitcher represent some of the many masterworks on exhibition in this New York Museum. Modern and contemporary art is represented both on the the Rooftop Garden and in the 60,000 square foot Modern Art section of the museum. Containing masterpieces like Max Beckmann's Beginning, Jasper Johns's White Flag, and Picasso's Portrait of Gertrude Stein, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is clearly a treasure for the ages.