The real Midtown
About 6,500 buildings from OpenStreetMap, most at their real height: the Empire State Building stands 443 metres to the tip of its mast, the Chrysler Building 319. More of the city comes later.
Instant New York BETA
Explore or race by bike, on foot or on horseback among the skyscrapers of Manhattan!
Midtown Manhattan in 3D, round 42nd Street: Times Square, Bryant Park and the Public Library, Grand Central, the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center, every tower from OpenStreetMap.
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What there is to do
Towers, a station and a library
Times Square under its screens, the Empire State Building on 34th Street, the Public Library and Bryant Park on Fifth Avenue, Grand Central and the Chrysler Building on 42nd Street, and Rockefeller Center.
A race: Midtown Loop
Down Seventh Avenue through Times Square, along 34th Street to the Empire State Building, up Fifth Avenue past the library, along 42nd Street to the Chrysler Building and back by Rockefeller Center.
This is New York
New York lies at the mouth of the Hudson River on the Atlantic coast of the United States, a city of five boroughs on islands and the shore round one of the world’s great natural harbours. Manhattan, the long island at its heart, is a grid of avenues and numbered streets lined with skyscrapers. The Dutch founded it as New Amsterdam, millions of immigrants came in through its harbour, and today it is the largest city of the United States and a world capital of money, theatre, art and fashion.
- The skyline of Manhattan, with the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings
- Times Square and the theatres of Broadway
- The Statue of Liberty in the harbour
- Central Park
- Yellow cabs and the subway that runs all night
- Wall Street, and pizza by the slice
Places, elements and landmarks
Empire State BuildingThe Art Deco tower on Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, the tallest building in the world from 1931 to 1970.
Times SquareThe crossing of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, under walls of lit screens, at the heart of the Theater District.
Chrysler BuildingThe Art Deco tower on 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, with a crown of steel arches and a needle on top.
Grand Central TerminalThe great railway station on 42nd Street, with its hall under a ceiling of stars and its clock of opal.
New York Public LibraryThe marble library on Fifth Avenue, guarded by the two stone lions Patience and Fortitude.
Rockefeller CenterThe Art Deco towers between Fifth and Sixth Avenue, with the golden Prometheus, the skating rink and the Christmas tree.
Bryant ParkThe green lawn behind the Public Library, with its plane trees, its green chairs and in winter its ice rink.
St. Patrick’s CathedralThe Gothic cathedral of white marble on Fifth Avenue, facing Rockefeller Center.
Macy’s Herald SquareOne of the largest department stores in the world, on 34th Street, where the Thanksgiving Day Parade ends.
Ready to go?
Play Instant New YorkStill in development: expect some rough edges.