NYC BLOG & TRAVEL GUIDE: Neighborhoods

Upper East Side is filled with New York personality. It sits opposite of Upper West Side, on the other side of Central Park, in the northern part of the city. Upper East Side is is where the money lives. All those Thomas Crown-type palatial apartments you’ve seen in movies? They’re here. So are a clutch [...]

The Midtown East neighborhood, due east of the hotel, houses Rockefeller Center, the original Trump Tower and lots and lots (and lots and lots) of shopping. What to see: St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Radio City Music Hall and Grand Central Terminal are not to be missed. This area is also a shopper’s mecca: from the haute [...]

Upper West Side is one of New York’s most well-known neighborhoods, twin to Upper East Side. You’ll find both boroughs along the northern – hence “upper” – part of the city. Central Park divides one from the other: Upper West Side, in other words, sits to the west of the park. Upper West Side is [...]

Did you know that New York City is actually “five cities” – five boroughs, including Manhattan, that make up one big City That Never Sleeps? Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island are the other four boroughs; we’ll delve into them in another post. In the meantime, let’s explore Manhattan, one of the most famous [...]