The city's major iconic sites, trendiest shops, major museums and entertainment centres are concentrated in Manhattan. Manhattan is the centre of New York's cultural and financial life, teeming on every one of the hundreds of floors of huge skyscrapers led by the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center and within the walls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art and the American Museum of Natural History. Manhattan is a world leader in entertainment, leisure and fashion: the doors of countless shops on Fifth Avenue and Soho are always open to the fashion-conscious, while the theatres of the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera and the concert halls of the world's largest cultural centre, Lincoln Center, are constantly filled with the sounds of art. And the world's longest street - the famous Broadway - is also here, it crosses the whole of Manhattan and fills it with continuous lively movement.
That is why the best hotels in New York are located in Manhattan. Among them there are some legendary hotels of New York, in which various celebrities have visited at different times: Mark Twain, O. Henry, Jean Paul Sartre, Edith Piaf, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan stayed in Manhattan hotels during their travels. These hotels have preserved a part of the soul of their creative and talented guests, that is why the mood that reigns within the walls of each hotel is so deep and diverse. It's easy to catch it sitting somewhere high up on the balcony of a room in one of these hotels, sipping chilled champagne.
For those who don't want to settle for dinner in a hotel, New York has restaurants and cafes with a variety of cuisines that will impress even the most discerning gourmet. And for energetic young people looking for wild and colourful impressions and dancing instead of a quiet, calm rest in the hotel, for example, after a day's walk in Central Park, clubs are open all night long.
However, besides all the luxury of bohemian and social life - theatres, opera, museums, clubs, hotels, restaurants, cafes - in New York, as in any other city, in good weather you can simply enjoy its nature. So, when you leave the hotel doors, the morning can be pampered with a breath of wonderful fresh air on a river trip on a small boat on the East River or a ferry ride to the main symbol of New York - the majestic Statue of Liberty. With its torch pointing upwards, it will bathe in the bright sunshine on a clear day and smile welcomingly at every visitor to its city.