New York City Breaks - Overview
Welcome to the Big Apple! New York is the largest and most fascinating city in America. There’s Broadway, Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Empire State Building, the Statute of Liberty, Macy’s and more. The city boasts more than 50 museums, hundreds of art galleries, and incredible shopping. If it’s available, you can find it in New York. To make it even more interesting, the city has been a cultural melting pot since it was known as New Amsterdam nearly three centuries ago. You can find food, music and the heritage of practically every country on earth here. Be sure to people watch along the way.
Few people know or remember that New York City served as the first capital of the United States and witnessed the inauguration of President George Washington. This is only part of the remarkable history and heritage of this city, which also includes Ellis Island, the immigration point for millions of new Americans, Ground Zero, the site of the September 11 attacks that forever changed the country, the Empire State Building, which represented a new trend in skyward buildings, and, of course, the Statute of Liberty. The American Museum of Natural History illustrates the geologic and geographic events that changed the nation.
