Frommer's EasyGuide to New York City 2019 by Pauline Frommer

Author:Pauline Frommer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FrommerMedia
Published: 2018-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

National Geographic ENCOUNTER: Ocean Odyssey ATTRACTION With the help of cutting-edge technology—computerized projections that interact with museum-goers, 3-D animation, massive tablets—visitors are encouraged to experience the seas as if they were swimming in them. In fact, in one exhibit room, everyone is “eaten” by a humpback whale—or at least so it appears through the 3-D glasses. Kids will love this entirely waterless aquarium; adults will, too, though a bit less—it’s hard to get over the sting of the hefty admission price here.

226 W. 44th St. (just off Times Square). www.natgeoencounter.com. 646/308-1337. Admission $40 adults, $37 seniors, $33 children. Daily 10am–9pm. Subway: 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, W, S to Times Square/42nd St.

NFL Experience Times Square ATTRACTION Are you ready for some footbaaaalll? This amped-up indoor theme park delivers the game every which way, many as loud and athletic as the sport itself. Visitors watch a surround-vision, rock-concert volume, 15-minute football film, theirs seats bronco bucking every time someone on screen is tackled. After the movie they have the opportunity to test their jumping, blocking, throwing, and calling skills, sometimes playing against simulations of real players. An artifact collection—Mike Ditka bobbleheads to Superbowl rings—fills in the gaps, and there’s a brewpub (of course) and souvenir store at the finish.

20 Times Square (on Seventh Ave. btw. 46th and 47th sts). www.nflexperience.com. 646/863-0088. Admission $34 adults, $29 youth 5-12. Sun–Thursday 10am–6pm, Fri–Sat 10am–8pm.

Rockefeller Center ARCHITECTURE Gotham’s splendid “city within a city” was built in the 1930s at the height of the Depression. Thanks to the jobs it gave construction workers, it was the city’s second-largest employer at the time, surpassed only by the federal Works Progress Association (WPA). And it remains a marvel of elegance and aspiration, a several-blocks-wide collection of 19 buildings that, despite their mass, create a space that is airy and light, a welcoming haven for both tourists and residents. No matter how many times I come here, I still get goosebumps on the walk from Fifth Avenue through the gardened central path—called “The Channel,” as it runs between the French and the British buildings.

Follow this boulevard down to the ice-skating rink (the first commercial one in the world), and the golden statue of Prometheus, or “Leaping Louie,” as wits have called him over the years, his prone position under the soaring vertical of the RCA building making him look like he just jumped. The rink is open October to early April, Monday through Thursday 9am to 10:30pm, Friday and Saturday 8:30am to midnight, Sunday 8:30am to 10pm.

There’s much to see at the Rock. Directly behind the statue is where the yearly 70-plus-foot Christmas tree is set on November 20 each year, a plaque marking the space. Take a left and walk toward 49th Street to the small side street with the glassed-in TV studio on the corner. This is where NBC’s Today Show is taped, the street area where sign-waving crowds gather every weekday morning, as early as 4am, to attempt to get their faces on TV. (When

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