New York City tourism guide

This Harlem soul food and jazz evening tour is great way to see this famous New York City neighborhood, you’ll explore Harlem’s musical legacy, churches, spiritual centers, and swinging nightlife. After your tour of Harlem, you’ll be treated to a traditional, home-style soul food meal at a local restaurant. Then, after dinner, you’ll catch a jam session at the famous Cotton Club (where they play real jazz), you’ll even get a couple of complimentary drinks. The tour guides are passionate about Harlem history, and the food is fantastic. Highly recommended.

Harlem soul food and jazz tour
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Follow in the fancy footsteps of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda on a ‘Sex and the City’ tour of New York City! Conquer New York City, drink where the girls drink, shop where they shop, and gossip where they gossip. The Sex And The City Hotspots Tour will take you to more than 40 locations from the TV series, including Charlotte’s art gallery, Aidan’s workshop, Scout (the bar owned by Steve and Aidan), the Jimmy Choo shoe boutique, The Pleasure Chest where Charlotte bought her ’rabbit’, and the bakery where Miranda stuffed herself with cupcakes.

The tour is great value (it goes for 3.5 hours!), departs daily from near the Plaza Hotel – and includes all transport via a luxury air-conditioned/heated coach bus!

Sex And The City tour
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Christian Louboutin is one of the world’s greatest shoe designers. Not only are his designs absolutely beautiful, they’re also excellent quality – and incredibly expensive. The average price is around $700 a pair, but if you love shoes, then you’ll be in heaven. Even if you’re not planning on buying anything, the Madison Avenue boutique is worth visiting just for the experience. Exquisite.

Christian Louboutin
965 Madison Avenue, New York City, 10022
Website : www.christianlouboutin.com

Established way back in 1972, Ursus Books serves clients in New York and throughout the world. They provide a comprehensive selection of art reference books, superb copies of rare books in all fields, and fine antique decorative prints.

Ursus Rare Books is renowned throughout the rare book world for handling outstanding copies of important rare books. Their inventory ranges from early printed books to modern livres des artistes. Their particular strength is in illustrated books of all periods; from the 15th to 21st centuries. They also carry fine copies of literature in all languages, art and architecture, natural history, voyages and travels, landscape gardening and fine bindings.

Ursus Books
981 Madison Ave, New York, 10075
Website : www.ursusbooks.com

Now celebrating their 25th year as an independent bookstore in the heart of midtown Manhattan, Chartwell Booksellers has long combined the best of the old and the new. Chartwell Booksellers are the only standing bookshop in the world devoted to the writings of Winston Churchill. They also maintain a select, exclusively hardcover stock of newly-published general non-fiction and fiction. Chartwell Booksellers regularly presents exhibitions in their adjoining photo gallery featuring giants like Eugene Atget and Walker Evans, as well as innumerable contemporary photographers. They are also pioneers in the exhibiting of important jazz photographers and continue to represent William P. Gottlieb, Chuck Stewart, and many others.

Chartwell Booksellers
55 East 52nd Street, New York City, 10055
Website : www.chartwellbooksellers.com

New York City is famous for its subway system, but if you’re visiting New York City and want to use the subway for transport – then the subway can seem like an intimidating maze! Luckily the MTA publish a very detailed map of the NYC subway system, you can either view it online, or download a PDF for your PDA or to print out. More information here.

New York City subway map
Website : www.mta.info

Katz’s is the perfect place to go for a late night snack while on the Lower East Side, or anytime you want a fabulous sandwich or an authentic NYC hot dog. Katz’s Delicatessen was the site of Meg Ryan’s famous “I’ll have what she’s having” scene in When Harry Met Sally, and also where Johnny Depp’s character met with an FBI contact in Donnie Brasco – worth a visit just to say you’ve been there!

Katz’s Delicatessen
Website : www.katzdeli.com
205 East Houston Street, New York

Ayurveda Cafe is a wonderful little spot to have a quiet relaxed vegetarian meal, either by yourself, or with a friend. The food is amazing, and the preset menu changes everyday – just sit down and eat what you’re given! Ayurveda Cafe is an absolute must for any vegetarian visiting NYC, or even anyone who enjoys clean healthy food.

Ayurveda Cafe
Website : www.theayurvedacafe.com
706 Amsterdam Avenue, New York

See New York like you’ve seen it in the movies! The New York Sunday brunch cruise is a great way to see the world famous New York skyline from the water. The cruise travels down the Hudson river and around the tip of Manhattan, up the East River, under the world famous Brooklyn Bridge and far enough north for passengers to catch a glimpse of the pristine architecture of the United Nations. The cruise then sails for the Statue of Liberty and back up the Hudson to the Pier 81 dock. See NY in style, and have brunch while you’re at it!

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See New York’s most famous landmarks from the air – including the Statue of Liberty, Empire State building, Chrysler building, Pan Am building, Ellis Island, New York Harbor, George Washington Bridge, and the world renowned Central Park. This is a great way to ‘get your bearings’, and is a a once in a lifetime helicopter ride that you will never forget. If you take only one tour while in NYC, make it his one. Recommended!

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