DK Travel : New York : Places of interest

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Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Center is the hub of midtown New York, alive with activity day and night, integrating shops, gardens, dining and office space, and countless works of art.
Roosevelt Island

A four-minute tram ride is the route to this East River enclave. Once known as “Welfare Island,” when it was home to a prison, poor house, and hospital for the insane, the 147-acre island was renamed and redeveloped in the 1970s according to a master plan drawn up by Philip Johnson and John Burgee, intended to create a quiet, almost traffic-free residential community. The plan has not been fully developed, although more than 3,000 apartments have been built, and while there is a subway stop from Manhattan, the only auto access is via a bridge in Queens.
Schermerhorn Row

Federal-style houses built by Peter Schermerhorn in 1811–12 have restaurants and shops. They will house the World Port New York exhibition.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

A complex opened in 1991 houses the largest research center for African and African-American culture in the U.S. The immense collection was assembled by the late Arthur Schomburg, who became curator when the collection was given to the New York Public Library. The original building was the unofficial meeting place for writers in the black literary renaissance of the 1920s, and the present building includes a theater and two art galleries.
Seaman’s Church Institute

Established in 1834, the institute is in a stunnning 1991 building with a gallery plus water views.
Seventh Regiment Armory

The socially prominent members of the Seventh Regiment, formed in 1806, had the wherewithal to construct a remarkable armory in 1877–89, with a drill room 200 by 300 feet (60 by 90 m) and 100 feet (30 m) high, and an administration building in the form of a medieval fortress. Interior decoration was by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, and others, and the result is opulent rooms with lavish Victorian furnishings. The drill room is used for the prestigious Winter Antiques Show every January, as well as for many society charity balls.
Sheepshead Bay Fishing Boats

A fishing fleet takes passengers for day and evening excursions.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

A notable collection of modern art set in Frank Lloyd Wright’s only New York building.
South Street Seaport

The cobbled streets, buildings, and piers that were the center of New York’s 19th-century seafaring activity (known as “the street of sails”) have been restored as a tourist center. There are shops, food stalls, restaurants, a museum with many seafaring exhibits, a fleet of tall ships for boarding, and plenty of outdoor entertainment.
South Street Seaport Museum

The city’s maritime heritage is celebrated in art, photographs, workshops, and ships.