{"id":76,"date":"2026-07-30T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/?touriza_city=new-york"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:19:38","slug":"new-york","status":"publish","type":"touriza_city","link":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/?touriza_city=new-york","title":{"rendered":"New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why go<\/h2>\n<p>New York&#39;s density is its feature: five boroughs, 800 languages and a subway that runs all night. Manhattan is the postcard, but Queens is the food capital and Brooklyn is where most of the city actually lives.<\/p>\n<h2>Five things to do<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"rule-list\">\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">01<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>The Staten Island Ferry<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Free, twenty-five minutes, harbour views.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">02<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>The Met at opening<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Tuesday, 10am, straight to the Egyptian wing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">03<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Walk the Brooklyn Bridge east<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Manhattan behind you the whole way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">04<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>A bagel and a slice<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Argue about which shop afterwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">05<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Prospect Park on a Sunday<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Better than Central Park, quietly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Neighbourhoods<\/h2>\n<div class=\"grid g2\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Lower East Side<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Tenements, galleries, dumplings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Jackson Heights<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Momos, arepas and the best-value dinner in the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Brooklyn waterfront<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Dumbo to Red Hook on foot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Harlem<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Jazz history, brownstones and Sunday gospel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Getting around<\/h2>\n<p>Buy the transport card on arrival \u2014 every city on this list has one, and it is cheaper than single fares within about four journeys. Walking covers more than the map suggests: most of the districts above are within thirty minutes of each other on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Taxis and ride apps are worth it late at night and when you are carrying luggage. Everything else is faster on the metro, the tram or the ferry, in that order.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to eat<\/h2>\n<p>The rule that holds in New York is the rule that holds everywhere: eat at the busy place, at the hour the locals eat, and order the thing the kitchen makes most of. Reserve for dinner in the districts above; lunch rarely needs it.<\/p>\n<h2>Two days here<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Morning: The Staten Island Ferry<\/li>\n<li>Afternoon: walk Lower East Side<\/li>\n<li>Evening: Walk the Brooklyn Bridge east<\/li>\n<li>Day two: Prospect Park on a Sunday<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grid that rewards walking and looking up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"touriza_continent":[5],"touriza_theme":[],"class_list":["post-76","touriza_city","type-touriza_city","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","touriza_continent-americas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/touriza_city"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/76\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"touriza_continent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftouriza_continent&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"touriza_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftouriza_theme&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}