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| Tourism and Recreation |
The city's many bridges
include the George Washington Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Henry
Hudson Bridge, Triborough Bridge, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge,
the Throgs Neck Bridge, and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The
Holland Tunnel (the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson)
and the Lincoln Tunnel link Manhattan with New Jersey. The Queens-Midtown
Tunnel and the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, both under the East
River, connect Manhattan with W Long Island. Islands in the
East River include Roosevelt Island, Rikers Island (site of
a city penitentiary), and Randalls Island (with Downing Stadium).
In New York Bay are Liberty Island (with the Statue of Liberty);
Governors Island; and Ellis Island. New York City is the seat
of the United Nations. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
is a complex of buildings housing the Metropolitan Opera Company,
the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, the New York City
Ballet, the New York City Opera, and the Juilliard School. Also
in the city are Carnegie Hall and New York City Center, featuring
performances by musical and theatrical companies.
Among the best known of the city's many museums and scientific
collections are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of
Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (designed by Frank
Lloyd Wright), the Frick Collection (housed in the Frick mansion),
the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Neue Galerie, the Museum
of the City of New York, the Museum of Jewish Heritage–a
Living Memorial to the Holocaust, the American Museum of Natural
History (with the Hayden Planetarium), the museum and library
of the New-York Historical Society, the Brooklyn Museum (see
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences), and the Museum of
Television and Radio. The New York Public Library is the largest
in the United States. Major educational institutions include
the City Univ. of New York (see New York, City Univ. of), Columbia
Univ., Cooper Union, Fordham Univ., General Theological Seminary,
Jewish Theological Seminary, New School Univ., New York Univ.,
and Union Theological Seminary. A center for medical treatment
and research, New York has more than 130 hospitals and several
medical schools. Noted hospitals include Bellevue Hospital,
Mt. Sinai Hospital (part of Mt. Sinai NYU Health), and New York–Presbyterian
Hospital (encompassing Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
and New York Weill Cornell Medical Center). Among New York's
noted houses of worship are Trinity Church, St. Paul's Chapel
(dedicated 1776), Saint Patrick's Cathedral, the Cathedral of
St. John the Divine (see Saint John the Divine, Cathedral of),
Riverside Church, and Temple Emanu-El.
New York's parks and recreation centers include parts of Gateway
National Recreation Area (see National Parks and Monuments,
table); Central Park, the Battery, Washington Square Park, Riverside
Park, and Fort Tryon Park (with the Cloisters) in Manhattan;
the New York Zoological Park (Bronx Zoo) and the New York Botanical
Garden in the Bronx; Coney Island (with a boardwalk, beaches,
and an aquarium) and Prospect Park in Brooklyn; and Flushing
Meadows–Corona Park (the site of two World's Fairs, two
museums, a botanic garden, and a zoo). Sports events are held
at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, home to the Knickerbockers
(basketball) and Rangers (hockey); at Yankee Stadium in the
Bronx, home to the Yankees (baseball); and at Shea Stadium (home
to baseball's Mets) and Arthur Ashe Stadium (home to the U.S.
Open in tennis) in Queens. In the suburbs are the homes of the
Islanders (hockey; in Uniondale, Long Island) and the Giants
and the Jets (football; at the Meadowlands, in East Rutherford,
N.J.).
Other places of interest are Rockefeller Center; Battery Park
City; Greenwich Village, with its cafés and restaurants;
and Times Square, with its lights and theaters. Of historic
interest are Fraunces Tavern (built 1719), where Washington
said farewell to his officers after the American Revolution;
Gracie Mansion (built late 18th cent.), now the official mayoral
residence; the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage; and Grant's Tomb.
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