OCTOBER 10-13 / 2021

Welcome lunch in the Meatpacking District. The chosen restaurant is the famous PASTIS . It was opened in 2003 by Keith McNally, a veteran in the hospitality field.

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All the big celebrities have passed through this place, so you have many numbers to find someone famous at one of its tables.

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They don't accept reservations on this site, so you will most likely have to wait, but don't worry because they are quite fast. The site is spacious and also has a terrace. 

This luxurious high-rise hotel is located 1 mile from One World Trade Center and a 12-minute walk from Washington Square Park.

Rooms are refined and feature floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the city or the Hudson River, flat-screen TVs, Nespresso machines, free Wi-Fi, iPod docks, bathtubs, and rain showers. The suites include a living room and, in some cases, a hydromassage bathtub.
 

Number 30 Hudson Yards, the building in which The Edge is located, is at over 340 meters, the tallest building in its district. The observation deck is located on the 100th floor and its spectacular terrace extends more than 20 meters above the streets of Manhattan.

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The Edge is the highest exterior viewpoint in New York and one of the five highest in the world ranking. In addition to unforgettable panoramic views, this Hudson Yards overlook also features a glass floor section through which you can admire a 100-story free fall. No other viewpoint in New York gets your pulse racing like this!

Little Italy welcomes a large tourist crowd to its high concentration of souvenir shops and traditional Italian restaurants and bakeries.

Residential buildings, once home to immigrants who settled the area in the late 19th century, line the narrow streets.

Mulberry Street, the main drag, turns into a pedestrian mall on summer weekends. The area celebrates its heritage each September at the popular San Gennaro festival.

Chinatown is the place of residence for most of the Asians who live in New York. Chinese immigrants were banding together to defend their rights and protect themselves from racism. It is currently a neighborhood that assists new immigrants and prepares them to begin to make a living in New York.

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The large number of Chinese living in New York has caused Chinatown to grow to the point of almost completely absorbing Little Italy and much of the Lower East Side. The vast majority of the immigrants who started the neighborhood came from Guangdong and Hong Kong .

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The origin of Chinatown in New York and its most important street is Mott Street.

Central Park is the largest urban park in New York and one of the largest in the world. It measures more than 4 kilometers long and 800 meters wide.

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In the 340 hectares that Central Park occupies you will find meadows, artificial lakes, waterfalls and areas that look like a real forest. Within the park itself is also the Central Park Zoo and other attractions.

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In addition to being the main lung of Manhattan, this park is one of the favorite places for New Yorkers to walk, sunbathe or play sports. As a curiosity, it is surprising to see many people running pushing baby carriages.

Washington Square Park is a park in New York City, located in the south of the island of Manhattan. Close to New York University in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, it has been a traditional site for meetings, political rallies, protests and also cultural activities.

The MoMA Museum in New York is the most important in the world for modern art. It currently has two offices, the most important in Midtown Manhattan and the other in Queens._cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_

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Some of the most important works exhibited at MoMa are: Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Dalí's The Persistence of Memory and Miró's Dutch Interior.

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The MoMa is a fairly large museum and, if you want to go through it completely, it will take at least two hours to visit it quickly. If you have little time and you are not passionate about modern art, the most worthwhile floors are the fourth and fifth, where some of the most famous paintings in history are found.

Seen on film countless times, the Brooklyn Bridge has become one of the most famous bridges in the world. Movies like Manhattan, Saturday Night Fever, Godzilla or Deep Impact have filmed this 19th century architectural work.

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Upon completion of its construction in 1883, the bridge became the longest suspension bridge in the world, with a distance between pillars of almost 500 meters. The construction lasted 13 years and during it 27 people died. The total length of the bridge is 1825 meters.

Domino Park is a public city park, opened in 2018 on the ruins of the former Domino Sugar Refinery.

The factory opened in 1856 and produced sugar for 148 years, that is, until 2004. It was one of the largest refineries in the world and supplied 98% of the sugar consumed in the United States.

3 of its buildings were recognized as historical monuments of the city in 2007.
Then, in 2010, the New York City Council authorized the demolition of part of the complex to create a recreational area.

The 9/11 Museum is in the reconstructed World Trade Center next to the 9/11 Memorial . Its mission is to remember the victims of the attack on the Twin Towers .

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His great achievement was channeling so much emotional charge into a historical record. A record that overwhelms with the crudeness of each exhibited object.

Well, to the point! Basically it is an experience where we will see relevant places from around the world at a scale of 1:87 such as the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Colosseum in Rome, the Taj Majal, the Grand Palace in Bangkok, the Petronas Towers, to name a few. …, but ultimately… there are all the most important places in the world!

And of course, there is a special area dedicated to New York, so we can see the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Terminal, the Empire State Building ….all the emblematic places!

The museum was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vandelbilt Whitney, a millionaire sculptor who collected more than 500 works of art at the turn of the century. The creation of his own museum came conditioned by the refusal of the Metropolitan Museum to exhibit his collection.

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The current building is the work of the Hungarian architect Marcel Breuer and was inaugurated in 1966. It is built with cement and gray granite and has an imposing façade.

Jane's Carousel is a beautiful vintage carousel that you can find in Brooklyn, protected by a glass case. Thanks to this you can always take a walk, rain or shine, with children or without children. Yes, Jane's Carousel is for all ages, no one will look at you funny because you're older, so don't be embarrassed and ride, it's only $2.

The area where the carousel is located is known as DUMBO (Down Under The Manhattan Bridge Overpass), and it was one of the most affected during Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. The wind also affected Jane's Carousel (originally from Youngstown, Ohio), just a year after it opened. Luckily the damage was quickly repaired and the carousel is now more beautiful than ever.

Freestyle Love Supreme is an improvised hip-hop comedy musical group started by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Veneziale in 2004 and led by Thomas Kail. The group performed a Broadway musical of the same name from 2019 to 2020 at the Booth Theater.

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Freestyle Love Supreme performances offer incredibly creative and exciting moments as performers create songs using random words suggested by the audience, such as “dishwasher” or “peanut butter”.

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