TriBeCa is a neighborhood in downtown Manhattan. The name is a syllabic abbreviation of "Triangle Below Canal Street."
It runs roughly from Canal Street south to Park Place, and from the Hudson River east to Broadway. TriBeCa
was an industrial district, dominated by warehouse structures, that in the last decade has undergone
a major revitalization.
Arts & Musuems
Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Tribeca Performing Arts Center (TRIBECA) is a leading arts presenter in lower Manhattan. TRIBECA's mission is to provide ethnically and culturally diverse arts programs of high quality and educational value for Lower Manhattan, for the greater New York City metropolitan area and for the Borough of Manhattan Community college (BMCC) community in which it is physically located.
Lincoln Center
The city's foremost performing arts center is Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, and the New York City Ballet. In 2004, the center opened up its first new venue in decades -- Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick Rose Hall.
Guggenheim Museum
Founded in 1937, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a modern art museum located on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is the best-known of several museums owned and/or operated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and is often called simply The Guggenheim. It is one of the best-known museums in New York City.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as "the Met", is one of the world's largest and most important art museums. It is located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The Met also maintains "The Cloisters", which features medieval art.
The Met's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world.
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff as a response to the attacks on the World Trade Center. Conceived to foster the economic and cultural revitalization of Lower Manhattan through an annual celebration of film, music and culture, the Festival s mission is to promote New York City as a major filmmaking center and allow its filmmakers to reach the broadest possible audience.
Theatre
Times Square is the heart of New York's theater world. In its neon-splashed center presides the Times
Square Ticket Center (TKTS) booth, where same-day theater tickets are sold for half price. On the square's
side streets are the famous Broadway theaters -- the Shubert, the Belasco, and the like. Most smaller
and more experimental Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theaters are located downtown, where you'll
also find modern dance and art-house movie theaters.
If you love playing golf then you re going to love playing in New York City. With public golf courses scattered throughout the boroughs lush fairways abound minutes away from the concrete towers, noise and bustle of Manhattan.
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Parks maintains 14 miles of beaches, all of which are open from Memorial Day weekend (Saturday, May 27) through Labor Day (Monday, September 4). Lifeguards will be on duty daily, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
With about twenty-five million visitors annually, Central Park is the most visited city park in the United States,[1] and its appearance in many movies and television shows has made it among the most famous city parks in the world. It is run by the Central Park Conservancy, a private, not-for-profit organization that manages the park under a contract with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Though it is known as "the subway", implying underground operations, about 40% of the system runs on above-ground right-of-way (the system is almost entirely underground in Manhattan, as well as portions in the other boroughs), including steel or cast iron elevated structures, concrete viaducts, embankments, open cuts and surface routes
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