Steven Wanderberg

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Seventh Avenue

Seventh Avenue – known as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard north of Central Park – is a major thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan. It is southbound below Central Park and a two-way street north of the park. Seventh Avenue originates in the West Village at Clarkson Street, where Varick Street becomes Seventh Avenue […]

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Fall in Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village as a part of the Manhattan Community District 2 contains Washington Square Park, as well as two of New York’s private colleges, New York University (NYU) and The New School. The Village consists of several subsections, including the West Village (west of Seventh Avenue) and the Meatpacking District (the far northwest edge). In […]

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The East Village air

Avenue A is a north–south avenue in the East Village, Manhattan, east of First Avenue and west of Avenue B. It runs from Houston Street to 14th Street, where it continues into a loop road in Stuyvesant Town, connecting to Avenue B. Below Houston Street, Avenue A continues as Essex Street. It is the western border of Tompkins Square Park and is considered to be the same of […]

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Tudor City

42nd Street is a major crosstown street in Manhattan, running primarily in Midtown and Hell’s Kitchen. The street is the site of some of New York’s best known buildings, including the UN headquarters, Chrysler Building, Grand Central Terminal, New York Public Library and the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Did you know that 42nd was designated […]

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A Misty Morning in Chinatown

I enjoy walking slowly through Centre Street in the morning. Sometimes I experience the hustle and bustle of the city, some other time there are only a few people on the street running north–south and crossing the Civic Center, Chinatown, and Little Italy neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan. As late as 1821, there was no Centre […]

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Strolling through Greenwich Village

During the Corona crisis and the lockdown my thoughts went out to my buddies and all New Yorkers as well. In view of empty streets and overcrowded hospitals I was not able to post anything. Now, a few month later, after I was recovered from my individual Corona shock I decided to post at least some […]

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Top of the Rock

If you want to take a look at entire Manhattan from above you have three ways to do it: you can book a helicopter flight, you can visit Empire State Building or you enter Top of the Rock Observation Deck. We decided us for the latter and I tell you the reasons why.

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World Trade Center & 9/11 Memorial

Using Staten Island Ferry to visit Manhattan, passing Battery Park and walking uptown on Hudson River Greenway along West St. you will reach World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial. Both close-by areas are bounded by West, Vesey, Church and Liberty streets and crossed by Greenwich St. One World Trade Center is highly visible all over New York and gives distinction to the skyline of Downtown Manhattan.

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Visiting Roosevelt Island

Roosevelt Island is an island in the middle of New York City’s East River right between Manhattan to its west and Queens, on Long Island, to its east. In spite of that it is part of the borough of Manhattan. Running from the equivalent of Manhattan’s E 46th to 85th Streets, it is about 2 […]

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Exploring Chinatown

Manhattan’s Chinatown is the biggest one in the United States, with the largest concentration of Chinese people in the western hemisphere. It is located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. With an area covering two square miles, Chinatown is home to a resident population estimated at 150,000. Chinatown, NYC is loosely bounded by Lafayette, […]

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