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The Greater New York area is full of attractions for all ages. New York City – the so-called Big Apple, America’s largest city and home of the Statue of Liberty National Monument – reigns as capital of the world, an economic powerhouse with the most diverse selection of entertainment, museums and restaurants imaginable. Destruction of the World Trade Center has altered New York City’s skyline, but not its indestructible spirit, and visitors from everywhere continue flocking to the “city that never sleeps" -- even when it’s dark. In synch with New York City accommodations, fitting any budget and taste, New York City also boasts a restaurant to fit every palate and pocketbook, from mom and pop delis and pasta places to five-star bastions of exclusivity. Manhattan and Staten Island are islands; Queens and Brooklyn are on the western tip of Long Island. So, of New York City’s five boroughs, only the Bronx is part of the mainland. Yet, there is an island that‘s part of the Bronx and yet feels like a New England fishing village: City Island, a marine-related community with fishing, boating, restaurants and snack bars. For the record, Manhattan has no Main Street, although there is a Main Street in each of the other boroughs and on Roosevelt Island. Why is New York City called the Big Apple? In the 1920s, John Fitzgerald, a sportswriter for the Morning Telegraph overheard stable hands in New Orleans refer to NYC's racetracks as "the Big Apple" so he named his column "Around the Big Apple." A decade later, jazz musicians adopted (and adapted) the term in reference to New York City, especially Harlem, as the world’s jazz capital. As lore goes, there are many apples on the tree of success, but when you pick New York City, you pick the Big Apple.

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Brooklyn Neighborhood Sites:

Coney Island History Site

• http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/index.html
  A wonderful online resource for those interested in Coney Island; included are its history and historic maps.

Coney Island USA

• http://www.coneyislandusa.com/
  A great site for information on today's Coney Island.

Waterfront Week

• http://www.h2oweek.com/
  An online magazine for Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

Bedford-Stuyvesant Arts and Culture Coalition

• http://www.brooklynx.org/neighborhoods/bedstuyarts/MAIN.HTM
  The coalition was created to support artists from the Bed-Stuy community.

bayridge.com

• http://bayridge.com/newpage.htm
  The Web site for Brooklyn's Bayridge community offers information on its businesses and history.

Brighton Neighborhood Association

• http://www.BrightonBeach.com/
  The Association was created to safeguard this community from becoming an urban slum.

East Brooklyn Online

• http://www.eastbrooklyn.org/
  The Local Development Corporation of East New York created this site as part of their goal to improve their neighborhood.

DykerHeights.com

• http://www.DykerHeights.com
  This site presents the community of Dyker Heights through articles, pictures, and links

Below is a list of some suggested things to do and see in the New York Metropolitan Area, with links to more details when available.

American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History, in Midtown Manhattan, offers permanent and changing exhibits covering Asian, American Indian, Pacific islanders, South American, Aztec and Mayan cultures. It also features one of the world’s largest fossils displays, including a Tyrannosaurus Rex and Apatosaurus, plus other exhibits ranging from human body to animals and minerals.
Central Park West at 79th Street. (212) 769-5100

 

Apollo Theater

A major entertainment landmark, Harlem's Apollo Theater was originally known as Hurtig & Seamon's New (Burlesque) Theater, with vaudeville and burlesque for white audiences. In 1934, Frank Schiffman, a white entrepreneur, started showcasing leading black entertainers for mixed audiences, putting the Apollo forever on the map. Legends such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Dinah Washington played the Apollo, where amateur nights jump-started careers for Pearl Bailey, James Brown, and Gladys Knight. Wednesday is amateur night. Back-stage tours , in groups of up to 20 take place daily, linking past, present and future. Gift shop merchandise includes vintage Apollo items.
253 West 125th Street, near Frederick Douglass Boulevard. (212) 749-5838

 

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The Colonial Years

Before the Dutch settled in Manhattan, the land that would later become Brooklyn was home to a group of American Indians who called themselves the Lenape. Lenape means "The People" and they included groups of Nayack and Canarsee who lived a prosperous live fishing and growing various crops.

When the Dutch arrived in the early 1600's they founded five villages - Bushwick, Brooklyn, Flatbush, Flatlands and New Utrecht. A later village was added in 1643 named Gravesend. In 1674 the British captured the Dutch territory, collecting the six villages under the Kings County, making it a part of the crown colony New York.

By 1698 settlers had immigrated to the Brooklyn area from Germany, Scandinavia, England, France along with a large number of black slaves bought in from Africa. Brooklyn's past is shadowed by a dark cloud of slavery - by the year 1771 and the Revolutionary War, nearly one third of the Kings County population was slaves.

During the Revolution a historic battle was fought at Brooklyn, where George Washington's inexperienced troops suffered immense fatalities, narrowly escaping annihilation. The British would occupy Manhattan and Brooklyn for the duration of the war.

Brooklyn has held a special place in the American imagination for many years; what's not to love about Coney Island, the Brooklyn Bridge and who could forget the Dodgers?! Brooklyn is home to the true American experience, while at the same time it offers a save haven to international visitors; Brooklyn is the quintessential city of immigrants. As you drive through the streets in your Brooklyn rental car crack open the windows and listen to the wave of foreign accents that float through the air! Languages like Creole, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese are just a few found in the Brooklyn Borough, resulting in a cultural experience like no other! Brooklyn is also the largest of the five New York City boroughs with over 2.3 million people living there.

Every American has a soft spot in their heart reserved for Brooklyn… perhaps because it's said that one out of every seven Americans can trace their roots back through the boroughs streets! If you're interested in learning more about the history of this New York City borough before reserving your Brooklyn car rental, read on for a brief summary.

The Early Days

Before Brooklyn Van Rentals crowed the busy borough streets, Brooklyn was a tiny village with only a few houses. In 1794 there were approximately 100 one-story buildings in the village and the roads were unpaved, resulting in extremely muddy traveling. As New York flourished, so did Brooklyn. The East River was soon filled with rowboats, sailboats, and horse powered ferries funneling food grown on the rich Long Island soil. Brooklyn acted as the transport dock for much of the surplus product at the time, allowing the tiny village to flower into a full fledged city. A steam ferry service was opened in 1814 which allowed wealthy businessmen to live in the Brooklyn Heights, as they were now provided essay access across the East River. An influx of Irish immigrants flowed into Brooklyn at the turn of the century, where they found work in small factories along the waterfront and the new U.S. Navy yard. Economic and industrial business boomed in 1825 as the Erie Canal was completed and factories began to spring up all along the landscape. A public school system was set up, gas lights illuminated the public streets, and an impressive city hall was erected to symbolize Brooklyn pride. Between 1840 and 1845 Brooklyn population soared to nearly 80, 000, transforming Brooklyn into the third largest city in the United States. By 1855 Brooklyn was home to 205, 000 residence, many of who were foreign-born. More than one million people populated Brooklyn Rent A Car at the turn of the century, and the construction of the historic Brooklyn Bridge was completed.

The 20th Century

The 20th century has seen a vast expansion of Brooklyn and a total urbanization. Innovations were made in transportation (i.e. that Brooklyn car renal you're about to reserve!), manufacturing, industry and much more. Brooklyn played a vital part in the Post-War years after World War One and has since grown to be one of the most influential areas of the United States.

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Bronx Magnetism

As for the Bronx, some say how Swede it is, since it was settled in 1639 and named for the Swedish settler Jonas Bronck. More than 60 landmarks and historic districts are in the Bronx, including the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage on the Grand Concourse and the Van Cortlandt Mansion and Museum in Van Cortlandt Park. Wave Hill, a former private estate once home to Mark Twain and Theodore Roosevelt, among others, has spectacular views overlooking the Hudson River and New Jersey’s soaring 500-foot cliffs, the Palisades. Its 28-acres, given to the city for use as a public garden, also has wooded paths, herb and flower gardens, and benches for contemplation. The Bronx Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Park show cases more than 600 species indoor in indoor/outdoor environments.
Bronx Zoo, Fordham Road, off the Bronx River Parkway. (718) 367-1010
Edgar Allen Poe Cottage, Poe Park, 2460 Grand Concourse. (718) 881-8900
Van Cortlandt Mansion and Museum, Broadway at 246th Street, Van Cortlandt Park, Riverdale. (718) 543-3344
Wave Hill, 675 West 252nd Street. (718) 549-3200 Affordable Van Rental
 

Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Open since 1899, Brooklyn Children’s Museum is the world’s first for youngsters, with nearly 27,000 cultural objects and natural history specimens. The Museum's first home was in Adams Building, a Victorian mansion in Brooklyn’s Bedford Park, in 1923 renamed Brower Park. Parlor rooms and halls held exhibits, with workshops and a library upstairs. Youngsters were encouraged to participate, not just look. Driving force Anna Billings Gallup becoming curator in 1904, and invented ways for children to use the Museum. During the 1930s Depression, federal WPA workers made improvements, while the Museum expanded its take-home program, now called the Portable Collections. After WWII, the BCM helped children prepare for the "space age." By 1967, the expanded BCM’s Adams and Smith mansions were deemed beyond repair. Temporary space, called “The Muse,” in a renovated pool hall and auto showroom opened in 1968, leading to experiments with dance and music classes. In 1977, BCM's Brower Park building opened on the Smith mansion site with other building structures recycled into the architecture. Visitors enter through a trolley kiosk from the 1900's. A "People Tube" -- a huge sewer pipe -- connects four exhibit floors, and a corn oil tank serves as "The Tank" -- an amphitheater.
45 Brooklyn Avenue, at St. Marks Avenue. (718) 735-4400

 

Bryant Park

A park since 1842, Bryant Park’s midtown location – one block from Times Square – is a big lunch hour destination in warm weather, typically hosting more than 5,000 workers on a football field-sized lawn. Amenities include a French-style carousel (mid-park on 40th Street), chess tables, free yoga classes, 25,000 varieties of flowers, and free wireless access. Bryant Park provides multiple venues for year-round events and gatherings. Six flower beds border Bryant Park’s lawn to the north and south—three on the shady south side and three on the sunny north. Along the northern and southern sides are twin promenades bordered by London plane trees (Platanus acerifolia), the same species found at the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, and contributing to Bryant Park’s European aura.
Behind New York Public Library between 40th and 42nd streets.

 

Carnegie Hall

Since Walter Damrosch conducted the first "Young People's Concert" in 1891, Carnegie Hall has taught all ages about music. Each season includes concerts for families, workshops for teachers and musicians, programs for students and schools, and free concerts in NYC neighborhoods. One-hour backstage tours, (212) 903-9765, detail the story of Andrew and Louise Carnegie and how the Hall was saved from demolition in 1960. Carnegie's century-long performance tradition showcased artists from Tchaikovsky to Mahler, from Horowitz to Callas to Bernstein, Judy Garland and the Beatles. Gift shop merchandise strikes a chord celebrating the Hall's 111-year-plus history.
Corner of 57th Street and Seventh Avenue. (212) 247-7800

 

Central Park

Designed in 1858 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, envisioning a wooded urban oasis from treeless, rocky terrain and stagnant swampland, Central Park is New York City’s backyard -- a place where people of all social and ethnic backgrounds mingle. The 843-acre Central Park, covering six percent of Manhattan, has more than 26,000 trees, 58 miles of scenic paths, and nearly 9,000 benches on 843 acres. Attracting 25 million people a year, it also houses the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center, lakes, boathouse, sports facilities and entertainment. Four visitor centers are: Belvedere Castle, a 19th century stone castle and home to the Henry Luce Nature Observatory; The Dairy Visitor Center and Gift Shop, in a Victorian building with a reference library; Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, with hands-on exhibits; and North Meadow Recreation center, with indoor/outdoor climbing walls, basketball and handball courts. At least eight different free, volunteer-led walking tours are sponsored by the Central Park Conservancy, (212) 360-2726.
Belvedere Castle, mid-park at 79th Street. (212) 772-0210
The Dairy at Central Park, Mid-Park at 65th Street. (212) 794-6567
Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, 110th Street and Lenox Avenue. (212) 860-1370
North Meadow Recreation Center, mid-park at 97th Street. (212) 348-4867
 

Cheapies and Freebies

New York City has hundreds of no-cost or low-cost pleasures from concerts, plays, and museums to TV show tapings, and tours throughout the five boroughs. For a start on cheapies and freebies, drop by NYC’s Official Visitor Information Center at 810 Seventh Avenue at 53rd Street, the City Hall Park Visitor Information Kiosk downtown at the southern tip of City Hall Park, or the Harlem Visitor Information Kiosk uptown at the State Office Building plaza at 163 West 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. Awaiting are hundreds of brochures and expert, multilingual visitor counselors to advise on all things New York.

 

Chelsea Piers

Saved from being paved over by a failed highway project, historic Chelsea Piers has emerged into a $120 million privately financed 30-plus acre waterfront sports-entertainment complex housing a golf driving range, ice- and roller-skating, bowling, and a health club. With the Statue of Liberty National Monument as part of the panorama, four once-neglected piers – 59, 60, 61, and 62 – also have shops and restaurants. Luxury liners of yesteryear once departed from the Piers amid hoopla and champagne. In 1910, the Chelsea Piers debuted with speeches noting eight-years of construction after three decades of talk. In 1907, even before the Piers were done, the Lusitania and Mauretania docked there. For the next 50 years, Chelsea Piers was the city's premier passenger ship terminal, an embarkation point for WWI and WWII soldiers, and finally, a cargo terminal. Obsolescence struck with jets and container ships requiring facilities Manhattan could never provide. Redevelopment of the four surviving Chelsea Piers brings to mind the days when the famed White Star and Cunard lines, with as many as 20 stacks in view, prepared to sail. As the high and mighty disembarked, so did immigrants from steerage below, by 1910 arriving daily by the thousands. Most ships came first to Chelsea Piers, before transferring to ferries bound for Ellis Island and freedom.
Golf Club, Pier 59. (212) 336-6400
Sports Center, Pier 60. (212) 336-6000
Sky Rink, Ice Hockey, Pier 61. (212) 336-6100
Roller Rink, Field House, Pier 62. (212) 336-6500, (212) 336-6200

 

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Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum, in Upper Manhattan, is the largest such museum in the world outside Israel, with exhibitions covering 4,000 years of Jewish art, history and culture.
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street. (212) 423-3200

Little Italy

Little Italy in Lower Manhattan, and the place to buy Italian cheeses, sausages and breads, is an excellent place for immersion into Old World atmosphere. In summer, al fresco dining on Mulberry Street is reminiscent of an evening in Naples or Rome.

 

Long Island Vineland Tour

Tour the vineyards and taste the wines produced at the east end of Long Island, in limousines and party buses with a variety of packages available. 111 Albany Avenue, Freeport. (718) 946-3868

Madame Tussauds New York

In Times Square, Madame Tussauds provides schmooze opportunity with famed personas, where visitors can stand beside life-like replicas of A-listers, icons, world leaders, and politicians. Interactive action includes Sing for Simon on American Idol and Chamber of Horrors, Madame’s scariest exhibit.
234 West 42nd Street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues. (212) 512-9600, (800) 246-8872

 

Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, on Seventh Avenue between 31st and 33rd streets, has long been the venue for things memorable, from the NFL Draft, CBS Television's Fall Premiere, Con Edison's Shareholder Meetings, Product Launches for Intel, presidential birthday fetes including when Marilyn Monroe sang happy birthday to JFK, and religious conferences. The Madison Square Garden Theater is home to the timeless holiday classic, A Christmas Carol.
4 Pennsylvania Plaza, New York. (212) 307-7171

 

 

Staten Island Ferry

For Manhattan skyline spectacle, take the Staten Island Ferry from New York harbor. The ferry runs 24 hours a day and is free at all times. (Vehicle fare is $3.) Big facelifts set for 2004 wrap-up are underway at the St. George and Whitehall Ferry Terminals, to serve more than 65,000 daily riders with enhanced dining and an outdoor promenade easing pedestrian access between Bay Street and the terminal.
St. George Ferry Terminal at Richmond Terrace, Staten Island. (718) 815-BOAT
Whitehall Ferry Terminal at Whitehall and South Streets in Lower Manhattan. (718) 815-BOAT

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