Holiday Extras Travel Guides's video: Exploring The Boroughs Of New York New York Travel Guide

Welcome to New York City! 🗽Experience all that makes this city one of the most exciting cities in the world as we discover the spectacular sights, epic food and the humbling sense of community in the city that never sleeps. A big thank you to Elena Martinez from the Bronz Music Heritage Center and Esneider Arevalo from Culinary Backstreets for their incredible insight. Find out more about their work below: Bronz Music Heritage Center 👉https://www.thisisbronxmusic.org/ Culinary Backstreets 👉https://culinarybackstreets.com/category/cities-category/queens/ Book your Culinary Backstreets tour here 👉https://culinarybackstreets.com/ Don’t forget to… SUBSCRIBE ► https://goo.gl/mKhPKt Get in touch on Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/holidayextras Follow our travels on Twitter ► https://www.twitter.com/holidayextras Get some sneak-previews on Instagram ► https://instagram.com/holidayextras/ Quench your wanderlust on Pinterest ►https://www.pinterest.com/holidayextras/ And explore our Blog ► https://goo.gl/EgQpsp ………………………… PoweredBy: http://www.holidayextras.co.uk ………………………… Transcript: There's a whimsical magic that comes with the name of America's best known city and it’s no surprise Frank Sinatra sings ‘If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere'. You could spend a week's holiday in New York simply wandering the streets and never get bored. Around every corner is a location from a movie set and you only have to look up to experience another world of high rise rooftops. In all honesty, the last time I visited New York five years ago, I was left feeling a little overwhelmed by it all. It's insanely busy, home to almost nine million people. It's expensive, dirty, and the chaos can be quite unforgiving if you're not keeping your eyes wide open. However, I only explored Manhattan. The most famous and iconic borough of New York so this time around, I wanted to broaden my horizons and see what else the city had to offer. This trip was about re-discovering New York. I wanted to explore it in a less obvious way; chatting to people and cultures that live here. Exploring unique places to eat, and journeying to other boroughs, not just Manhattan — plus finding things to do that are more about the experience than seeing for the sake of seeing. Welcome to New York City. Our journey starts at London Heathrow. After dropping off our car with a handy meet and greet service, we checked in and went to an airport lounge which gave us some time to enjoy a bit of peace and quiet before an eight hour flight into New York's JFK airport. To save any hassle getting into the city, we had booked an airport transfer for the hour long journey to our accommodation. We were staying in Manhattan. The epicentre of New York, and where our adventure begins. So if Manhattan is the epicentre of New York, then Grand Central Station is the epicentre of Manhattan, and there is so much to do here. We're going to have a little look around, starting with that clock behind me which is allegedly worth $20million! Well, nearly. The clock is estimated to be worth between $10-20million by Sotherby's and Christie's. One of Grand Central Stations most iconic features, appearing in many movies, it's got quite the celebrity status. Just outside the main concourse on the way to the food court, is the whispering gallery. The design of the arches means the shape of the walls create an acoustic phenomenon. If you say something on one corner, someone standing on the opposite corner will hear you loud and clear. As well as meeting Argentinian tourists, Grand Central station is also a great place to come for food. With a fresh food market and food court where I had the best doughnut I've ever had. Peanut butter jam, or should I say peanut butter and jelly! Next on my list was somewhere I'd been recommended countless times. A community funded park called the high line. Getting there gave us a chance to test out New York's subway system. The subway system is the main public transportation system in New York, and it operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — but then would you expect anything less from the city that never sleeps. So if you want to use the subway you're going to have to purchase a MetroCard. Essentially you have two options here: either a pay per ride card where you top up a certain amount and it knocks it off every time you use it, the more money you put on, the less each ride is. The second option is an unlimited card, for a 7 or 30 day period and you can use the subway as much as you like within those timeframes. Navigating the metro is extremely confusing, so rather than trying to get my head around it, I downloaded GoogleMaps so I could use it offline. It worked an absolute treat, and I recommend you do the same. GoogleMaps is also really useful at street level.