Late fall through early spring offers prime viewing of IceCapades wannabes at the Rockefeller Center, but turn around and walk into the GE building for larger than life art in the lobby. Wander downstairs and you might find an art installation or run into someone from NBC.
Read a book at what The New Yorker calls "The most celebrated book shop in New York... important and irreplaceable" or wander through eight miles of books at the Strand.
Figure out how the "sculpture" works in the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Essential Details
- Naked Cowboy
Times Square
Broadway between 42nd and 47th Streets
Well, he's not really naked. - MTV
Times Square
Broadway and 46th
"I want my MTVeee..." - Rockefeller Ice Skating
Fifth Avenue and 47-50th Streets
Watch the budding Tara Lipinskis - GE building and NBC
6th Ave and 49th Street at Rockefeller Center - Gotham Book Mart
41 W. 47th Street between 6th and 7th
Get your Edward Gorey in or imagine LeRoi Jones or Allen Ginsberg as your clerk (they used to work here, you know). - The Strand
12th Street and Broadway, just south of Union Square
The pickings are good, should you choose to buy something. Check out the 50% off review copies in the basement if you're looking for just published works. - Port Authority Bus Terminal Sculpture
Enter at 42nd Street Entrance near 8th Avenue
Sculpture will be straight ahead.
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