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The most popular sights, with 2026 entrance fees. Prices are adult admission — cheapest at the gate. Many of the best things are free.
| Attraction | Entrance | Time | Why go |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island | $26 | 3-4 hours including both islands | Neoclassical copper statue on Liberty Island gifted by France in 1886, paired with the Ellis Island immigration museum reached by the same ferry; both sites were the arrival point for over 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954. |
| Times Square | Free | 1 hour | Neon-lit commercial intersection at Broadway and 7th Avenue that anchors the Theater District, known for large advertising screens and the annual New Year's Eve ball drop. |
| Central Park | Free | 2-4 hours | 843-acre landscaped park in the middle of Manhattan, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1858, containing lakes, walking paths, a zoo, and several small museums. |
| Empire State Building | $44 | 1-1.5 hours | 102-story Art Deco skyscraper completed in 1931 with indoor and outdoor observation decks on the 86th and 102nd floors overlooking Manhattan. |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | $30 | 2-3 hours | Encyclopedic art museum on Fifth Avenue with a permanent collection exceeding two million works spanning 5,000 years, including the Temple of Dendur and an arms-and-armor collection. |
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About New York
New York never quite settles: yellow cabs cut through steam vents on Seventh Avenue while a block over a violinist busks outside a bodega that's been there since 1974. It's the five boroughs' worth of contradictions packed into one skyline — Wall Street suits and Bushwick muralists riding the same subway car. Every neighbourhood is its own small city, from the Dominican bakeries of Washington Heights to the sample sales of SoHo, and the whole thing runs on a 24-hour subway that never quite stops moving.
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