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It was the dream of a very successful Scottish businessman. The arms dealer Francis Bannerman built a pompous castle at the beginning of the 20th century on an island in the Hudson River. This did not serve as a residence, but as ammunition stores – until it flew into the air.

If you don’t get a personal recommendation for a hotel in New York, finding a needle in the hay is often the case. Very laborious. But if you know which neighborhood you want to spend most of your time in and which areas are best located, finding the right hotel is easy.

New York is not a cheap travel destination. Accommodation and admissions for crowd pullers are not always cheap. When it comes to eating, it comes down to what you want to eat. Fast food is cheap, “healthy food” is a bit more expensive than ours.

New York is the city of extremes: huge skyscrapers, surrounded by 2 rivers, right by the sea, and yet there are many green spots. Sometimes very small and with a waterfall-like Paley Park in Midtown or huge like the popular Central Park, the green lung of Manhattan. The best parks in New York including our insider tips on what you should definitely do there and why you have to go there, you can find out here.

If you are only in New York for two or three days you ask yourself the question: What is really worthwhile and should I just not miss it?

The Rockefeller Center is one of the most famous commercial properties in the world and connects the New York of the 1930s with the modern. The building complex is centrally located in Manhattan, consists of a total of 20 buildings, and is located between Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of Americas, West 47th Street, and West 52nd Street.