Empire State Building, NY

Empire State Building, NY, USA is currently and has been one of the tallest building in the New York State and world for many years. It had shifted to second rank after completion of the World Trade Center Building. However after the destruction of the World Trade Center Building on 11 September 2001, it once again became the tallest building in New York.
Observation Deck:
The Empire State Building has an observatory on the 86th Floor. There is a huge Queue to get tickets of the Observation deck. Same Queue is followed towards the Observation deck. If you can spare more bucks, you can buy express passes to surpass the long Queue. One has to change two elevators to reach the observation Deck.
View from the Observatory:
The Observatory offers 360 degrees view of New York Skyline. Some of the major attractions to be spotted from the Deck are:

• The crown of the Chrysler Building


• Macys Square
• Grand Central Park, etc

Toysrus Times Square NY

The Multistoried Toysrus Shop at Times Square New York, USA stands tall in midst of the bustling and crowded streets of Times Square. This shop not only attracts kids but also the adult tourist on the Times Square. The shop hosts Ferries Wheel, Jurasic Park Diansour, Chrysler Building replica, Barbie houses section etc.

If not shopping this place will certainly attract you for the various attractions hosted by it.

Last but not the least it gives you option of decent toilets on the Times Square Newyork.

Central Park, NY

We wrapped up our first day on New York, USA at Grand Central Park. It is a huge Public Park in midst of Manhattan City. It covers around square mile of the Manhattan. Once you enter the park you get lost in midst of lush green leaves and you completely forget that you are walking in heart of the busy Manhattan city. Its good idea to have a summer day picnic in Central Park.

The Park has a few lakes and big reservior. One can spot the New York Skyline over the horizon of the Central Park Reservoir. Since we entered the park in evening, we were tierd and decided to cover few part of it and took exit. The Central Park Reservoir, Chinese house and China Garden were some of the parts of the Central Park which we explored.

Saint Patricks Cathedral

Saint Patricks Cathedral is located in Midtown Manhattan, New York, USA. It was constructed in New York in 1800 and is constructed in Gothic style. Since we had not visited many catherdrals before it the cathedrals architecture did attracted us.

We entered the cathedral and prayed at the Altar. Since, it was allowed to take snaps inside the cathedral we took some snaps and moved on to our next New York cities tourist destination.

Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Center in New York, USA is complex of few commercial buildings in Midtown Manhattan. The Rockefeller Center is named after the Rockefeller family who leased the space in 1930s and built these building complex.
The Rockefeller Plaza is one of the most famous buildings in Manhattan and snap with this giant is must in your New York Trip

The Rockefeller Center Art is the heart of the tourist attraction in this complex. It hosts statue of Prometheus (Greek God) in the center of the courtyard.

Times Square, NY

Times Square, New York, USA is one of the most sorted out places in the world. It is one of the must see tourist attraction. Although just a busy busttling street, it is full of sign boards and shops. The Sign Boards hoarded on top of all the buildings being the major attraction of this street. Its worth visiting the times square at day and night time both, just to enjoy the Sign boards lit alight. This place is also filled up with lot of other weird activities to attract tourist like skating, tall cycle ride, etc.

New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), USA is the father of all the stock exchanges in the world. It is also one of the major tourist attractions in New York City along with the Wall street Bull. We had visited New York City on long weekend so that NYSE was closed at that time. The busy Walls street was less crowded and it took us some time to figure out the NYSE building.
The building is an old structure with New York Stock Exchange carved on its entrance. There is strict security outside the building premises.

Grand Central Terminal, NY

The New York's Grand Central Station or Terminal is one of the must see tourist attractions of the New York City. The terminal was built hey days of the USAs long distance travel trains, when air travel was not so famous in USA. This station servers terminal for trains travelling to various counties in New York State.


For an American Tourist who cannot travel to Europe, this is one of grand Rail Terminals to watch out for. There are several display boards showing the schedule of various trains departing and arriving at the terminal. The station has two levels, the lower level has dining concourse with lots of fast food joints offering multi-cusine food. It was afternoon by the time we reached the Grand Central terminal and we had our lunch at one of the fast food joints table.

New York Skyline

The New York has separate concentration of high-rise buildings in Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan.

Brooklyn Bridge is one of the few places in Manhattan, New York from where you can see the New York Skyline. One can see the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building.

On your way to the Statue of Liberty and while strolling the grounds of the Statue of Liberty you can enjoy the New York Skyline. The absense of the two World Trade Center Buildings is noteworthy.

We also visited the top of Emipre State Building and had arial view of the New York Skyline.

Brooklyn Bridge New York

The Boorklyn Bridge in New York was one of the longest and oldest suspension brigde built in the world. This bridge was the first one to connect Brooklyn to the Manhattan New york city. All though old enough, the bridge has unique charisma due to its long supsension wires. There are separate pedestrian walkways provided for tourist. The toursist can enjoy viewing the Manhattan city skyline while walking along these walkways.

New York Wall Street Bull

The New York Wall Street Bull is one of the major star attractions of the NY city sightseeing. The bronze bull statue stands right in midst of the Wall street and is always crowded with tourist. The Bull statue signifies the charging Bull market on Wall street, NY. It is said that the statue is burnished by the hands of the NY stockexchange brokers for luck on their way to work.

Niagara USA Discovery Pass

The Niagara State Park USA offers day pass for the Niagara Falls Adventures - Niagara USA Discovery Pass.
Important - This pass is avaibable inside the Niagara State Park. I would recommed the visitors to buy this pass. The pass is the best and cheapest option available to enjoy all the attractions offered at the Niagara State Park. Once you buy this pass they will give you wrist band which allows you entry to all the attractions. At the entrance of the attraction there is a special Queue for the Pass holders and you can skip the long queues for individual ticket Queue. This seriously save considerable amount of time. The pass also allows you to use the Niagara Scenic Trolley – A local park bus to commute between the different tourist destinations inside the Park.

Beware of the many private tour operators and private vendors outside the Niagara State Park who claim that they are the official park attaction ticket vendors. These vendors charge you double the amount of the Niagara State Park. They put on hoarding in front of the Car parks outside the park which say that they sell the official Niagara Pass and one does get fooled easily.