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The Book, The Map, The Discount Card - Get The Visitor Kit that Gives You Essential New York. The press have called NYPages “detailed," ”informative," "unique” and "formidable.” Quite simply, it's the best pocket guide to New York City available anywhere. The NYMap is an easy-to-read map of Manhattan that folds down between two credit card-sized covers. It's packed with information and has a street index to help you navigate Downtown as easily as Midtown. The latest NYCard now forms one of the covers of the NYMap. So, once you've found your way, it's easy to find your NYCard and get dining discounts, attraction discounts, museum discounts, hotel discounts and more... Having “an edge” helps in New York. This kit is yours. |
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The NYCard is New York's gift to you. It will give you discounts at all of the city's must-sees and must-dos. Here's a list of the places that honor the NYCard:
Top Cruises Four of the five boroughs that make up New York City are on islands. Water is a big deal here and the harbor is one of the greatest natural havens in the world. We've made it easy for you to get out there with a line-up of options, from a 3-hour cruise with dinner, dancing and a live band to a 30-minute race around the harbor.
Top
Museums
Top Shopping
Hotels
and Reservations
Grange Hall, 50 Commerce
Street (at Barrow Street) 212-924-5246. aKa,
49 Clinton Street (betw. Rivington and Stanton Streets) 212-979-6096.
Alias,
76 Clinton Street (at Rivington Street) 212-505-5011. Koodo
Sushi,129 Front Street, lower level Seaport
Suites Hotel (betw. Pine and Wall Streets) 212-425-2890.
ExtraSure
Travel Insurance for UK and EC Residents, Tel:
+44-20-7480-6871. If you're traveling from any EC country, you're
in luck. We have arranged some remarkable rates with one of Europe's
premier insurance companies. What's more, ExtraSure is the only
reputable company we know of that immediately addressed some current
anxieties and included war and terrorism coverage in its policies.
NYCard rates start at an amazing
£57.80 plus tax (IPT) per year.
This price gets you a policy valid all over the world, for any number
of trips for a full 12 months. Each trip can be up to 31 days long.
For businessmen, long distance treckers and the just plain lucky,
there's another year-round policy that allows trips of up to 120
days for just £92.50 plus IPT.
A partner (and, no, you don't have to be married, just cohabiting)
or spouse can be included for just £32.40
(plus IPT) on either policy and this extra payment also gives up
to 2 children free coverage. Accompanying infants aged 2 or under
are covered FREE.
To get these rates and the other discounts we have negotiated, quote
the special NYCard code SS00027. |
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The Empire State Building Observatory, 350 5th Ave.
between 33rd and 34th Streets. Tel: 212-736-3100. The observatory
here, in one of the world's most famous and romantic buildings,
gives you a spectacular overview of the whole city.
$1.00 off all tickets with your NYCard
New York Visions & Harlem Spirituals Tours,
690 8th Ave. at W.43rd St. (a short walk from Times Square) Tel:
212-391-0900. The best bus tours of the city with the best guides.
$5.00 off all tickets
purchased at the main 8th Avenue office with your NYCard 
Ponycabs of New York,
517 Broome St. (at Thompson St.) Tel: 212-766-9222. The ride’s
part of the adventure in these bike-powered cabs. Call to book a
cyclist-guide for a special, up close tour of fascinating SoHo,
Chinatown and Little Italy, ending at historic South Street Seaport.
$5.00 off the 30-minute
SoHo-to-South Street Tour with your NYCard
Liberty Helicopter
W.30th
St. and 12th Ave. Tel: 212-967-6464 or Tel: 800-542-9933, and Pier
6, Whitehall St. at the East River Tel: 212-487-4777. A helicopter
flight over the glittering canyons of New York City is the thrill
of a lifetime. NYCard Holders will find this thrill just a little
more affordable. Tours from 5 to 15 minutes. $7.00
off
all tickets purchased at the ticket offices listed above.
Reservations
are advised.
3-Hour Full Island Cruise, Circle
Line, Pier 83 at W.42nd St. and 12th Ave. (take the westbound M42
bus anywhere on 42nd St. to the Hudson River) Tel: 212-563-3200.
You'll sail round the entire island of Manhattan on this 3-hour
cruise and take in 3 rivers, 7 major bridges, 5 boroughs, a host
of famous landmarks and a dramatic close-up of the Statue of Liberty.$3.00
off with your NYCard
2-Hour Cruises
1-Hour Seaport Liberty Cruise, Circle
Line, Pier 16, South Street Seaport Tel: 212-563-3200. Here's a
quick nip out onto the water with up-close views of the Statue of
Liberty and Ellis Island. $3.00
off with your NYCard
Seaport Music Cruises, Circle
Line, Pier 16, South Street Seaport Tel: 212-630-8888. Cruise to
live blues, jazz or rock and soul. Phone ahead for summer months'
line-up. On Fridays and Saturdays, there's even a floating dance
party with top New York City DJ's. $3.00
off with your NYCard
The Beast Speedboat Ride, Circle
Line, Pier 16, South Street Seaport or Pier
83 at W.42nd St. and 12th Ave. (take the westbound M42 bus anywhere
along 42nd Street to the Hudson River) Tel: 212-563-3200. A 30-minute
jet lag-defeating thrill ride. This is definitely going to wake
you up! $3.00
off with your NYCard
World Yacht Dinner Cruises,
Pier 81 at W.41st St. and 12th Ave. Reservations Tel: 212-630-8100.
A spectacular 3-hour cruise that combines dinner and dancing with
a tour of the city's harbor. It's a really special night out, and
one not to be missed. So, if budget's a consideration, go mid-week
when reservations are easier to get and the prices are more gentle.
Jackets required 10%
off with your NYCard
Guggenheim Museum,
1071 5th Ave. at 89th St. Tel: 212-423-3500. The most famous
museum building in the world. Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark uptown
spiral gives you art from Picasso to Kandinsky, plus daily tours
at no extra charge. $2.00 off with
your NYCard
Intrepid-Sea-Air-Space-Museum, Pier 86 at W46th
St. Tel: 212-245-0072. The world's largest naval museum is actually
on a WWII aircraft carrier. Climb around the adjacent submarine,
check out the fighter planes and the Apollo space capsule, and test
yourself in the flight simulator.
$2.00 off with your NYCard 
Lower East Side Tenement Museum,
90 Orchard St. at Broome St. Tel: 212-431-0233. How millions
of immigrants began their American dream is preserved here, in this
incredibly moving, child-friendly museum. Everything in the tenement
house is as it was at the turn of the century before last.
25% of with your NYCard
Morris-Jumel
Mansion, 65 Jumel Terrace at 160th St. Tel: 212-923-8008.
This is the oldest house in Manhattan, and a little-known but excellent
excuse to see what Harlem was, is and isn’t. Charles Dickens
went there and so should you.
2 for 1 admission with your NYCard
Museum
of the City of New York, 1220 5th Ave. and 103rd
St. Tel: 212-534-1672. Come here when you’ve fallen in love
with the city. Toys, photographs, silver, Tiffany glass and Broadway
memorabilia are just some of the things that make New York’s
history come alive. 2 for 1 admission
with your NYCard
Museum of Jewish Heritage,
18 First Place at Battery Pl. Tel: 212-968-1800. Add this to
your Downtown itinerary - and it's not about being Jewish. The message
here goes beyond regret and sect, to hope and the possibility of
renewal. There is a stunning fifth floor panoramic view of the Statue
of Liberty which underlines the point nicely.
2 for 1 admission with your NYCard
Bloomingdale's,
1000
3rd Ave. (entrances on 3rd and Lexington Aves. betw. E59th and E60th
Sts.) Buy anything, anything at all, however inexpensive and take
the receipt to the Visitor Center. Show your NYCard and you'll get
a free gift
that's
actually worth having. Our favorite is the smoothly designed 'b'
key ring (it works just as well as a 'p' or a 'd') which could easily
(over Elsa Peretti's dead body) have come from Tiffany's with the
appropriate price tag.
J&R Music and Computer World,
31 Park Row (betw. Ann and Beekman Sts.) Tel: 212-238-9100. Just
about every New Yorker has bought something from this row of shops
right across from City Hall. Everyone knows it, and everyone trusts
it - important when you're laying out hundreds or even thousands
for the latest computer, camera, plasma screen, DVD player, etc.
The store has a truly enormous selection and despite its size is
still family run. But what really touches the bristly kernel of
a New Yorker's heart is that J&R has some of the best prices
in town. NYCard holders get an even better deal with
$10 off any purchase over $100
The Sherry-Netherland,
781 5th Ave. at Central Park South. Tel: 212-355-2800, Fax: 212-319-4306.
Holiday Inn Wall Street,
15 Gold Street at Platt St. Tel: 212-232-7800, Fax: 212-425-0330.
