Hello visitors to New York City! As part of NADC 2011, you have the opportunity to tour the city's finest! To your left, Michelle Zheng, the New York City Committee Chairperson, gives her greetings and warm wishes for a enjoyable stay for you!

For the tour video with various landmarks you can visit while you are in the city, please check the video below for a more in-detail explanation by April Rose, who is a part of the NADC 2011 New York City Tour Committee.

New York City Tour - Tour Activity

Please check the activity list below, as well as the video and find out what New York City has to offer for your sightseeing pleasures!  Much thanks to April Rose for creating this amazing video for our visitors!   Subtitles are included!

Tour Activity:

Tour Starts At: Battery Park near Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island ticket booth

Tour Ends At: Empire State Building in 34th Street and Seventh Avenue

1. Meet at Battery Park ticket booth at between 7:30AM – 8AM. Purchase the ferry ticket to Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island. The sculpture dedicated to the immigrants who arrived at Castle Clinton often after harrowing journeys by boat. The low open circle of the sandstone ‘castle’, built as a fort, was the immigration office before Ellis Island and now acts as a ferry ticket office. Join the long lines here for boats to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island – with its moving museum honoring the 20 million immigrants who entered here between 1892 and 1954.

Ticket Price:
Adult - $13
Senior (60+) - $10
Child - $5
Duration:  Take about 2 -3 hours.

2. Walk to Bowling Green, the oldest park in Manhattan. Notice Charging Bull, its symbolizing the strength of the city’s financial markets.

3. Walk straight to Trinity Church – Wall St & Broadway. This Episcopal Church was chartered in 1697 by King William III of England, for an annual rent of “one peppercorne.” Its graveyard is the oldest in Manhattan , containing tombstones from 1681 to the 1840s – that of founding father Alexander Hamilton.

4. Turn right to Wall St, Federal Hall National Memorial – 26 Wall St. It once stood the first Capitol of the United States. It is where George Washington was inaugurated President on April 30, 1789, and where the Bill of Right was passed. The current building, completed in 1842, has served as a United States Sub-Treasury and a Federal Reserve Bank.

5. Walk on Nassau St and turn left at Cedar St. See Red Cube (in front of 140 Broadway, SE corner) This is Isamu Noguchi’s six-sided, 28 foot vermilion prism. Isamu Noguchi (1904 to 1988) was a Japanese-American sculptor known for his public works.

6. Walk on Trinity Place, Ground Zero – Church St from Vesey to Liberty St. It’s the six World Trade Center Buildings, on the morning of Sept 11, 2001, two commercial jets, fueled for transcontinental flight, crashed into the Twin Towers, engulfing them in hugh fireballs.

7. Take R & N train to Chinatown to eat lunch.

8. Take 6 train to 42nd Street, Times Square.

9. Walk to 34th Street to the Empire State Building. Built in 1930s during the Depression. At night, top floors are lit in different colors according to special events.

Ticket Price:
86th and 102nd Floor Combination
Adult - $37
Senior (62+) – $35
Child (6-12) - $31