Attractions

The UN Headquarters consist of the Secretariat Building, General Assembly Building, Conference Buildings and Dag Hammarskjöld Library. The Secretariat Building is impressive, with 189 flags of member countries fluttering outside this 39-story monolith. Technicaly these 6 blocks are not United States territory; it belongs to all the member nations.

The Buildings attractions apart from the fact that it is the UN Building, include many marvelous works of art from around the world. Japan has presented the Peace Bell, which is mounted in a Shinto style shrine and is rung to mark the beginning of the General Assembly Session. Also at the UN building is the Chinese gift of a trestle train carving made from the tusks of eight elephants, which was worked on by 100 artists for 2 years! And of course the mosaic based on the Norman Rockwell painting “The Golden Rule”, which has the inscription “Do unto Others as You Would Have Them Do unto You”.

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Rose Center for Earth & Space
The Rose Center for Earth & Space is located inside the American Museum of Natural History at Central Park West with independent entrance from 81st Street
Admission cost $12 for adults and a Combined ticket, including the Museum, the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and the Hayden Planetarium Space Show, is price at $21.00 for adults. The Rose Center is open from 10am to 5:45pm Sun-Thu; and 10am to 8:45pm Fri-Sat. The Space show is 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Sun-Thu and 10:30 am to 8:00 pm Fri-Sat.

This is a fantastic awe inspiring and educational experience for visitors of any age. The structure of the Rose Center looks like an 87-foot globe floating in a glass block. The major attractions apart from this are The Space Show, Hayden Planetarium, Hall of the Universe, Cosmic Pathway, Scales of the Universe, Hall of Planet Earth.
The Space Show is held in the Larges Virtual Reality Simulator titled “The Search for Life” this show uses scientific data to create dazzling visualizations and animations that take visitors through space and time to witness phenomena as never before. The Top half of the Sphere that makes Hayden Planetarium is the Virtual Reality Simulator and the lower half shows the big bang with technological wizardry like never before, from here the Cosmic Pathway marks out the evolution of the universe. The Cullman Hall of the Universe is a permanent exhibition dedicated to modern astrophysics, with hands-on interactive exhibits. The Scales of the Universe is a 400-foot long walkway focusing on relative sizes in the universe. The Hall of Planet Earth answers such fundamental questions as - How has the earth evolved? and Why is earth habitable?

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Central Park
This is a landmark location from 59th to 110th Streets between Fifth Ave. & Central Park West. The park is open everyday from 6 am to 1 am.

This is 843-acres of Greenery & lakes in the middle of New York’s skyscrapers. 150 years ago this was wasted swampy land. The park is entirely man made since 1858 under the “Greensward Plan”. This is the first major park intended entirely for public use. Over the years it fell into disrepute due to drug abuse and criminal use of the park. In 1980 the Central Park Conservancy went into action to save the park. This is a unique public/private combined initiative to save the park.

Now the new improved Central Park is again what it was intended to be, a natural refuge amidst the city. Be it for a jog or just to sit at a bench and watch the many stage performances being held there.

This place is worth many visits since every dawns brings new light and one can’t see the whole park at one go anyway.

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Rockefeller Center
The Rockefeller Center extends from 47th to 52nd Streets between 5th & 6th Avenues. Admission is free and it is open everyday from 9:30 am to midnight.

In the late 1920s Rockefeller Jr. envisioned a large commercial complex of 14 buildings. The original target was radio-stations, an industry that were just developing. It was named “Radio City”. The vision included an extensive art program that resulted in “The New Frontier” an art collection with over 100 major works of art.

The Rockefeller Center is futuristic but true to classical elegance. It has skyscrapers that reach other underground. The Center’s buildings are connected by pedestrian shopping concourse. The place is so big and so full of life that it is almost ‘a city within a city’.
The Center contains a skating rink in the winter, which transforms into an open-air restaurant in the summer, then there is the Radio City Music Hall, plus theaters, events, shopping malls, just about anything.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The MoMA is Located at 1000 Fifth Avenue on 82nd Street. It is open from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm from Sunday to Thursday and 9:30 am to 9 pm on Friday-Saturday. It is closed on Mondays. Admission charges are $12 adults, and it include all open galleries and current shows at the MoMA.

New York City's grand museum has a collection of more than two million works of art from almost all over the world, covering almost all significant junctures in time. The collection has been in formation since 1870. Maintaining and displaying Art is an expensive proposition and in spite of the state support the MoMA may not have all galleries open at all times, but even the ones that are open cannot be covered in one visit. After all, the human mind can only take so much at one time. Asian, African, Egyptian, European, Islamic, Greek, Medival, Modern, Post Modern, Paintings, Sculptures, and even Arm & Armour! The list just goes on and these are only the categories.

Apart from and based on this permanent museum collection, the MoMA has an incredible number of shows and programs running at all times, including concerts and lectures.

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