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Midtown
West, the vast area from 34th to 59th streets west of Fifth Avenue to
the Hudson River, encompasses several famous names: Madison Square
Garden, the Garment District, Rockefeller Center, the Theater
District, and Times Square. This is New York's tourism central, where
you'll find the bright lights and bustle that draws people from all
over the world. As such, this is also the city's biggest hotel
neighborhood, with choices running the gamut from budget to deluxe.
The 1, 2,
3, 9 subway line serves the massive neon station at the heart of Times
Square, at 42nd Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue, while the
B, D, F, Q line runs up Sixth Avenue to Rockefeller Center. The N, R
line cuts diagonally across the neighborhood, following the path of
Broadway before heading up Seventh Avenue at 42nd Street. The A, C, E
line serves the west side, running along Eighth Avenue.
If you know
New York but haven't been here in a few years, you'll be quite
surprised by the "new" Times Square. Longtime New Yorkers like
to kvetch nostalgic about the glory days of the old
peep-show-and-porn-shop Times Square that this cleaned-up, Disney-fied
one supplanted, but the truth is that it's a hugely successful
regentrification. Grand old theaters have come back to life as
Broadway and children's playhouses, and scores of new family-friendly
restaurants and shops have opened (including the terrific Virgin
Megastore on Broadway as well as Disney and Warner Bros. studio
stores). Plenty of businesses have moved in--MTV studios overlook
Times Square at 1515 Broadway, and, taking a key note from the far
more successful Today show, Good Morning America is in the process of
launching its own street-facing studio at Broadway and 44th Street,
which should be up and running by the time you arrive. The neon lights
have never been brighter, and middle America has never been more
welcome.
Most of the
great Broadway theaters light up the streets just off Times Square, in
the West 40s just east and west of Broadway. At the heart of the
Theater District, where Broadway meets Seventh Avenue, is the TKTS
booth, where crowds line up daily to buy discount tickets for
tonight's shows.
Unlike
neighboring Times Square, gorgeous Rockefeller Center needs no
renovation. Situated between 46th and 50th streets from Sixth Avenue
east to Fifth, this art deco complex contains some of the city's great
architectural gems that house hundreds of offices, a number of NBC
studios (including Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien,
and the famous glass-walled Today show studio at 48th Street), and
some pleasing upscale boutiques (attention, shoppers: Saks Fifth
Avenue is just on the other side of Fifth). Holiday time is a great
time to be here, as ice skaters take over the central plaza and the
huge Christmas tree twinkles against the night sky.
Along
Seventh Avenue south of 42nd Street is the Garment District, of
little interest to tourists except for its sample sales, where some
great new fashions are sold off cheap to serious bargain hunters
willing to scour the racks. Other than that, it's a pretty grim
commercial area. Between Seventh and Eighth avenues and 31st and 33rd
streets, Penn Station sits beneath Madison Square Garden, where the
Rangers and the Knicks play. Taking up all of 34th Street between
Sixth and Seventh Avenues is Macy's, the world's largest department
store; exit Macy's at the southeast corner and you'll find more
famous-label shopping around Herald Square.
Farther
north, despite the presence of grand dame Carnegie Hall, West 57th
Street has become a theme restaurant bonanza, with Planet Hollywood
(for now, anyway, until it moves to the in-the-works Planet Hollywood
Hotel in Times Square), the Harley-Davidson Cafe, the Motown Cafe,
Brooklyn Diner USA, and the venerable Hard Rock in residence. There
are a good number of hotels in all price categories in this area, and
their convenience to Central Park (which starts at 59th Street) is an
extra plus.
If you're
looking for something a little more culture-rich than an over-priced
burger and a logo T-shirt, Midtown West is also home to the Museum of
Modern Art, Radio City Music Hall, and the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space
Museum. |
OUR HOTELS IN
MIDTOWN WEST

>
Radisson Martinique On
Broadway
   
49 W 32nd St New York, NY 10001
>
The Ritz-Carlton New
York, Central Park
    
50 Central Park
S, New York, NY 10019, USA
>
The Muse
   
130 W 46th St
New York, NY 10036
> Jumeirah Essex House
   
160 Central Park South, New York, NY 10019
> Marriott Marquis New
York
    
130 W 46th St New
York, NY 10036
>
Renaissance New York
Hotel Times Square
   
Two Times Square,
714 7th Avenue, at W. 48th Street, New York City, NY 10036
> The Bryant Park
   
40 W 40th St, New
York, NY 10018, USA
> Sofitel New York
    
45 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
>
The Westin New York at
Times Square
   
270 West 43rd
Street New York, NY 10036
> The Helmsley Park Lane
   
36 Central Park
South New York, New York 10019
> Flatotel    
135 West 52nd
Street, New York, NY 10019
> Le Parker Meridien
   
118 West 57th
Street Central Park South NY 10019
> Sheraton Manhattan at
Times Square
   
790 7th Avenue at
51st Street, New York City, NY 10019
> Sheraton New York Hotel
& Towers
   
811 7th Avenue on
53rd Street, New York City, NY 10019
> The Iroquois
    
49 West 44th St.,
10036 , New York
> Warwick New York Hotel
   
65 West 54th Street
At Sixth Avenue New York City, NY 10019
> Millennium Hotel
Broadway
   
145 W 44th Street
New York City, NY 10036
> Hilton New York
   
1335 Avenue of the
Americas New York City, NY 10019
> The Shoreham
   
33 West 55th Street
New York City, NY 10019
> Affinia Manhattan
   
371 Seventh Ave
(formerly Southgate Tower) New York City, NY 10001
> Dream
   
210 West 55th
Street New York City, NY 10019
> Night Hotel    
132 West 45th
Street New York City, NY 10036
> Royalton Hotel New York
City
   
44 West 44th Street
New York City, NY 10036
> Crowne Plaza Manhattan
   
1605 Broadway 49th
Street New York City, NY 10019
> Paramount Hotel New
York City
   
235 West 46th
Street At Eighth Avenue New York City, NY 10036
> The Time
   
224 West 49th
Street New York City, NY 10019
> Manhattan Club Suites
   
200 West 56th
Street New York City, NY 10019
> Hilton Times Square
   
234 West 42nd
Street New York City, NY 10036
>
Hudson Hotel    
356 West 58th Street New York, New York 10019
• Residence Inn Times Square Hotel    
1033 Avenue of the Americas New York City, New York 10018
• Mansfield Hotel    
356 West 58th Street New York, New York 10019
• 6 Columbus Hotel    
6 Columbus Circle, New York City, NY 10019
• Aka Central Park Hotel    
42 West 58th Street, New York City, NY 10019
• Aka Times Square Hotel    
123 West 44th Street, Between 6th & Broadway New York City, NY 10036
• Blakely Hotel    
136 West 55th Street, New York City, NY 10019
• London Hotel    
151 West 54th Street, New York City, NY 10019
• Michelangelo Hotel    
152 West 51st Street, Between 6th and 7th Avenues,
New York City, NY 10019
• Algonquin Hotel    
59 West 44th Street, Between 5th & 6th Avenues,
New York City, NY 10036
• Stay Hotel    
157 West 47 Street, (between 6th & 7th Avenues),
New York City, NY 10036
• The Hotel at Times Square    
59 West 46th Street, New York City, NY 10036
• Chambers Hotel    
15 West 56th Street,
New York City, NY 10019

Major Sights in geographical
order
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Plaza Hotel 59th
Street & Fifth Avenue
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F.A.O Schwartz
58th Street & Fifth Avenue
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Carnegie Hall
57th Street & Seventh Avenue
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Trump Tower 57th
Street & Fifth Avenue
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IBM Building 57th
Street & Madison Avenue
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Russian Tea Room
57th Street & Seventh Avenue
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Museum of
Television and Radio 52rd Street & Fifth Avenue
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St. Patrick's
Cathedral 51st Street & Fifth Avenue
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Radio City Music
Hall 50th Street & Sixth Avenue
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Waldorf Astoria
49th Street & Park Avenue
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Rockefeller
Center 48th Street & Fifth Avenue
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Guardian Angels
Headquarters 47th Street & Eighth Avenue
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United Nations
Building 45th Street & First Avenue
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Helmsley Building
45th Street & Park Avenue
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Grand Central
Terminal 43rd Street & Park Avenue
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Chrysler Building
42nd Street & Lexington Avenue
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Bryant Park 42nd
Street & Sixth Avenue
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The New York
Public Library 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue
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Times Square 42nd
Street to 44th Street on Broadway
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Port Authority
Bus Terminal 41st Street & Eighth Avenue
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The Empire State
Building 34th Street & Fifth Avenue
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Macy's 34th
Street & Broadway
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Madison Square
Garden 33rd Street & Seventh Avenue
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General Post
Office 33rd Street & Eight Avenue
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