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• Know motorcoach drop-off locations and city guidelines for motorcoach travel.
  • NYC Overview for Charter and Tour Buses
  • NYC Charter Bus Parking Locations

• Plan driving routes between all locations on your itinerary. Also, have an alternate plan in case of a road closing or major delay. Carry extra city maps to share with the motorcoach operator if the situation calls for it. Remember, it is the driver’s primary responsibility is to operate the vehicle safely.

• Want to easily identify your buses? Customize and print this bus sign!

Download the Bus Sign

Before you visit a site:

• Know the location of the Group Entrance for all sites on your itinerary. Visit the vendor website or call the vendor for this information.

• Know the location of the restrooms. It’s often the first question asked!

• Ask yourself, “If the chaperones had maps, would it ease anxiety and make the trip flow more smoothly?” If the answer is yes, print a few maps of the site or the area. Highlight your meeting point and write your meeting time at the appropriate location.

Here are several maps to get you started:

• • New York City Neighborhoods
  • Subway System
  • Manhattan
  • Uptown Manhattan Attractions
  • Uptown Manhattan Dining
  • Midtown Manhattan Attractions 
  • Midtown Manhattan Dining
  • Lower Manhattan
  • Lower Manhattan / Downtown  Attractions
  • Lower Manhattan Dining
  • Central Park
  • Museum Mile
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art 
  • Rockefeller Center
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • Theater District Theaters
  • Chinatown
  • Liberty Island and Ellis Island
  • Coney Island Boardwalk 

Uptown Manhattan

Upper West Side

• Am. Museum of Natural History – Central Park West at 79^th Street
• Central Park – 843 acres, oasis in the city
• Children’s Museum of Manhattan – 212W 38^th Street
• Columbia University – 116^th Street
• Dakota – castle like, on Central Park West, home of John Lennon
• Grant’s Tomb – 122^nd Street
• Lincoln Center – 70 Lincoln Ctr Plaza –  home of NYC Ballet, Metro Opera House, Julliard School,  The New York Philharmonic Orchestra and many others
• St John the Divine Cathedral – 1047 Amsterdam at 112^th Street
• Saint Remo – on Central Park W – home of Rita Hayworth, Dustin Hoffman,
• Paul Simon, Diane Keaton

Upper East Side

• Bloomingdales – a NYC shopping icon – 59^th Street & 3rd Ave
• Cloisters – housed Metro Museum of Art’s medieval art collection – 5^th Ave at 82^nd
• Guggenheim Museum – designed by Frank Lloyd Wright – 1071 5^th Ave at 89^th St
• Gracie Mansion – home of the mayor – on 88^th Street & East End Avenue
• Madison Avenue – window shopper’s paradise
• Metro Museum of Art – largest art museum in US – 1000 5^th Avenue
• Museum Mile – stretch of Fifth Ave between 82^nd and 105^th Streets (once known as    Millionaire’s row) has an astonishing number of world class cultural institutions
• Park Avenue – oasis of calm, wide streets, lovely architecture, flowers, sculptures
• Plaza Hotel – Central Park & 59^th Street

Midtown – 34^th Street to 59^th Street

• Chrysler Building – fancy, layered top, east of Grand Central Station
• Diamond District – 47^th St – 90% of all diamonds bought & sold in USA are traded here
• Empire State Bldg –2nd tallest bldg. in NYC– considered the 8^th Wonder of the World
• Grand Central Station – beautifully restored train station
• Jacob K Javitz Convention Center – 11^th Avenue between 34^th & 40^th Streets
• Macy’s – Herald Square – 7^th & Broadway
• Madison Square Gardens – 8^th & 33^th Street next to PA Station
• Museum of Modern Art “MoMA” – modernistic art – 53^rd St btw 5^th & 6^th Avenues
• Radio City Music Hall –6^th Ave – built in 1932, seats 6,000
• Rockefeller Center – a city within a city – 19 bldgs, home of NBC studios
• St. Patrick’s Cathedral – John Kennedy laid in state here
• Theater District – “The Great White Way”
• Times Square – named after NY Times bldg – 42^nd & Broadway at 7^th Street
• Trump Tower – 5^th & 57^th Streets, retail, office and residential space
• United Nations – on river a few blocks east of Times Sq, green glass, limestone
• USS Intrepid – Pier 86 at 12^th Ave & 46^th Street
•  Waldorf Astoria – 301 Park Avenue at 49^th Street

Greenwich Village

• West Village is more upscale then East Village
• Home of artists, writers, non conformists, entertainers, intellectual etc.
• Washington Square Park – famous for its arch – 9 ½ acre park
•  New York University – located in the village, home to such famous writers and artists including, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Norman Rockwell, etc.

East Village – a young person’s neighborhood

• Alamo at Astor Place – a steel cube that revolves when pushed
• Blue Man Group – performs at the Astor Place Theater

Little Italy

Mulberry Street – the heart of Little Italy

Chinatown

Canal Street & surrounding – great place to eat and shop

Lower Manhattan – our nation’s first capital

• 911 Memorial – tribute to those killed during the 9/11 attacks, World Trade Center
• Battery Park – 30 acres of gardens, playgrounds, art – can access Stanten Island,
• the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island, Ellis Island
• Bowling Green – oldest park in NYC, end of Broadway
• Brooklyn Bridge – first bridge to connect to Long Island – great to walk across
• City Hall – oldest city hall in US, btw Broadway, Park Row and Chambers Sts
• Ellis Island – center for immigration
• Federal Hall Memorial – where George Washington took his oath as the first American president – 26 Wall Street
• Federal Reserve Bank – stores $368.5 billion in gold bullion, 33 Liberty Street
• Financial Capital of the World – Wall Street – originally a walled fortress – 1929
• crash and beginning of depression
• Freedom Tower – “One World Trade Center” tallest building in NYC
• New York Stock Exchange – the world’s largest stock exchange – average daily trading
• volume of $169 Billion!
• Stanton Island Ferry – free ride with views of Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Brooklyn Bridge, etc.
• St Paul’s Chapel – oldest surviving church building in Manhattan, 209 Broadway, btw Fulton & Vesey Streets
• Statue of Liberty – Liberty Island
• South Street Seaport – tall ships, museums, shops – ½ price Ticket booth
• Trinity Church – Episcopal Church – 79 Broadway at Wall Street
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial – corner of Water and Broad Streets
• Wall Street – Financial District of Lower Manhattan
• World Financial Center – a beautiful riverfront complex of shops, restaurants, and
• public spaces

Harlem – north of Central Park

• Famous Black community
• Apollo Theater – rite of passage for rising musicians

• Times Square
• Statue of Liberty
• Ellis Island
• South Street Seaport
• Union Square
• Herald Square
• Madison Square Garden
• Empire State Building
• Top of the Rock
• Brooklyn Bridge

• Coming Soon!