NYC Tourist Attractions

There are so many New York tourist attractions thanks to the 5 boroughs—the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—that are linked by a series of bridges, tunnels, and ferries. Each area brings its own variety of New York City tourist attractions that make each portion of New York such a pleasure to visit.

Manhattan is an island; the Bronx, north of Manhattan is located on the mainland; Queens and Brooklyn are on the Western tip of Long Island, which stretches east into the Atlantic Ocean. See Maps & Neighborhoods for more information on New York tourist attractions.

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Fifth Avenue divides Manhattan into East Side and West Side; street addresses increase with their distance west and east from Fifth Avenue, usually by 100 per block.

Midtown is Manhattan's main business district. Downtown (below 14th Street) contains Greenwich Village, SoHo, TriBeCa, and the Wall Street financial district. Downtown can also mean south of wherever you happen to be at the moment; uptown refers to all points north. If you're at 14th Street and your destination is 50th Street, you'll be traveling uptown to get to Midtown to get to any NYC tourist attractions.

Streets in Manhattan (13.4 miles long and 2.3 miles wide at its widest), run east-west and ascend in numerical order going north from Houston Street. Below Houston, streets have their own names.

Approximately 20 north-south blocks equal a mile. Find more information on New York City bus tours or some of the other New York City tourist attractions such as the Empire State Building, Madison Square Gardens, Rockefeller Center, and the United Nations Building , or the Theater District as well as the many NYC museums in town.