Midtown Manhattan

Transport gateways

Grand Central Terminal

Midtown Manhattan

Grand Central Terminal is a commuter rail terminal on East 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, opened in 1913, with a vaulted main concourse and a painted celestial ceiling.

Civic & heritage

New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

Midtown Manhattan

The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is the New York Public Library's main research building on Fifth Avenue, opened in 1911, with the Rose Main Reading Room on its top floor.

Museums & galleries

The Morgan Library & Museum

Midtown Manhattan

The Morgan Library & Museum on Madison Avenue holds J. Pierpont Morgan's collection of manuscripts, rare books and drawings in his 1906 library by McKim, Mead and White, with a 2006 extension by Renzo Piano.

Museums & galleries

Museum of Modern Art

Midtown Manhattan

The Museum of Modern Art on West 53rd Street holds one of the principal collections of modern and contemporary art, founded in 1929 and expanded most recently in 2019.

Parks & gardens

Bryant Park

Midtown Manhattan

Bryant Park is a public park in Midtown Manhattan behind the New York Public Library's main building, redesigned in the late 1980s and managed by a private corporation on the city's behalf.

Architecture & design

Rockefeller Center

Midtown Manhattan

Rockefeller Center is a complex of commercial buildings between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Midtown Manhattan, built from 1930 to 1939 around a sunken plaza and a private pedestrian street.

Performing arts

Carnegie Hall

Midtown Manhattan

Carnegie Hall on Seventh Avenue is a concert hall opened in 1891, containing three auditoria of which the Stern Auditorium is the largest.

Restaurants

Keens Steakhouse

Midtown Manhattan

Keens Steakhouse is a chophouse on West 36th Street in Midtown Manhattan, trading since 1885, with a ceiling hung with several tens of thousands of clay pipes left by members.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

Shopping

Kalustyan's

Midtown Manhattan

Kalustyan's is a spice and speciality-food shop on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan's Murray Hill, founded in 1944 and central to the South Asian retail strip around East 28th Street.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

Shopping

Argosy Book Store

Midtown Manhattan

The Argosy Book Store is an antiquarian bookshop on East 59th Street in Manhattan, founded in 1925 and occupying six floors of its own building.

Architecture & design

Chrysler Building

Midtown Manhattan

The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper of 1930 on Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, designed by William Van Alen, with a stainless-steel crown and a marble lobby open to the public.

Architecture & design

Seagram Building

Midtown Manhattan

The Seagram Building is a bronze and glass office tower of 1958 on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson, set back behind a granite plaza.

Nightlife

Birdland

Midtown Manhattan

Birdland is a jazz club on West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, carrying a name first used for a club on Broadway that opened in 1949.

Shopping

Bergdorf Goodman

Midtown Manhattan

Bergdorf Goodman is a department store on Fifth Avenue at 58th Street in Manhattan, trading on the site of the former Cornelius Vanderbilt II mansion since 1928.

Architecture & design

Hearst Tower

Midtown Manhattan

Hearst Tower on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan is a glass tower of 2006 by Norman Foster rising from the retained six-storey Art Deco base of the 1928 Hearst Magazine Building.