Nueva York: qué ver, dónde dormir y cómo moverse

Cómo llegar y moverse por Nueva York

• JFK Airport · AirTrain to the E train, an hour to midtown
• LaGuardia · Closest airport — the free Q70 bus meets the subway
• Grand Central · Go in even if you are not catching a train
• Penn Station · Trains to Boston and Washington
• Port Authority · The bus out of the city, to anywhere

Museos: Nueva York

• Whitney Museum · American art, at the foot of the High Line
• New-York Historical Society · The oldest museum in the city, and the Tiffany lamps
• Museum of the City of New York · Four hundred years of the city in one building
• Brooklyn Museum · Egypt, and the dinner party that changed feminist art
• Tenement Museum · One building, and the families who lived in it

Parques y jardines: Nueva York

• Governors Island · No cars, hammocks, and the skyline behind you
• Prospect Park · The same designers as Central Park — and they preferred this one
• Fort Tryon Park · Cliffs over the Hudson, at the top of the island
• Riverside Park · Six kilometres of river path with almost no tourists
• Green-Wood Cemetery · A Victorian park with graves in it, and wild parrots

Nueva York con niños

• Bronx Zoo · The largest city zoo in the United States
• Luna Park, Coney Island · The 1927 wooden Cyclone still runs
• Museo de Historia Natural · The whale, the dinosaurs and the planetarium
• Jane’s Carousel · A 1922 carousel in a glass box under the bridge
• Children’s Museum of Manhattan · Five floors, all of it hands-on

Dónde comer barato: Nueva York

Eight counters where you order standing, pay in cash and eat on your feet. A pastrami cutter who has done nothing else for thirty years, a dollar-slice window, a lamb burger in a basement, a bagel queue that moves faster than it looks. None of them is a restaurant.

• Katz’s Delicatessen · Pastrami cut by hand, $26, since 1888
• Joe’s Pizza · A plain slice, $3.50, eaten standing on Carmine Street
• Xi’an Famous Foods · Hand-ripped noodles and a cumin lamb burger, $10
• Mamoun’s Falafel · Open since 1971, open till four in the morning, $5
• Ess-a-Bagel · Boiled then baked, and the queue moves
• Gray’s Papaya · Two hot dogs and a papaya drink, standing, $7
• Los Tacos No. 1 · No chairs anywhere, and the tortillas are pressed to order
• Di Fara Pizza · An hour in Midwood, and worth it

Música en vivo: Nueva York

• Village Vanguard · One set a night, cash at the door
• Smalls · Jazz until four, and a jam after midnight
• Birdland · Named for Charlie Parker, who played the first one
• Bowery Ballroom · A 1929 hall, and the best mid-size room in the city
• Brooklyn Steel · A steel plant in East Williamsburg, loud and tall
• Apollo Theater · Amateur night every Wednesday since 1934

Vida nocturna: Nueva York

• Please Don’t Tell · Through the phone booth. Book at three in the afternoon
• Attaboy · No menu — they ask what you like and build it
• Employees Only · A psychic in the window, a bar behind her
• House of Yes · Circus, dancing, and a costume you are expected to wear
• Nowadays · A backyard in Queens that runs from Sunday afternoon

Lugares sagrados: Nueva York

• St John the Divine · Unfinished after 130 years, and blessing animals
• Eldridge Street Synagogue · The first great synagogue built by immigrants
• Temple Emanu-El · The largest synagogue in the world, on Fifth Avenue
• Riverside Church · Where Martin Luther King gave his speech against Vietnam

Naturaleza y excursiones cerca de Nueva York

• Inwood Hill Park · The last original forest on Manhattan
• Jamaica Bay Refuge · Three hundred bird species, inside the city limits
• Wave Hill · A garden over the Hudson where Mark Twain once lived
• Staten Island Greenbelt · Fifty kilometres of trail, reached by the free ferry