We started our 1st day in New York by receiving the New York PASS we had already purchased online, and immediately loaded onto the Downtown Loop Tour bus, which travels throughout Lower Manhattan to Battery Park and back .
The BIG BUS Downtown New York bus route is the longest, has many stops where you can get off, see what you planned and take any next bus BIG BUS, continue the sightseeing tour. The bus runs from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., so you can travel with stops all day long.
The first stop of the BIG BUS Downtown Tour route is at the corner of Broadway and 42nd Street (by the way, a 14-minute walk from our Blakely New York Hotel), the route through Lower Manhattan begins here, the bus takes you along 5th Avenue Times Square,
past the famous Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building skyscraper, Union Square one of the main squares of New York, the New York neighborhoods of Greenwich Village or Greenwich Village, SoHo or SoHo, Chinatown or China Town, Little Italy or Little Italy, Brooklyn Bridge or Brooklyn Bridge , Wall Street or Wall Street and popular among guests of New York — Charging Bull or Charging Bull from Wall Street, Battery Park or Battery Park with a view of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island (boats go from Battery Park to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, but more on that later ;), Hornblower cruises pier from where river cruises begin around Manhattan, and further along the «hanging» High Line park, past Madison Square Garden and Penn Station or Penn Station, Theater District Shopping Court (here you can transfer to the Upper Manhattan Big Bus Updown HOP-ON HOP-OFF) to its final stop near the M& ;M`s World.
If this is your first time in New York and you don’t yet have any must-see and favorite places in the city, then I highly recommend starting your exploration of the city with an easy physically and visually impressive sightseeing tour of Lower Manhattan 🙂
After leaving the Downtown bus route, you can, after having a snack, transfer to the Uptown route bus through Upper Manhattan in New York and travel the same day through Upper Manhattan, seeing New York’s Central Park and the famous museums surrounding it from all sides. Big Buses also operate on the Updown route all day long from 9am to 6pm.
The Uptown BIG BUS route begins at the corner of 42nd Street and 8th Avenue, through Theater District Shopping Court to Central Park and Columbus Circle — one of the most famous squares in New York, Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera, Dakota & Strawberry fields, American Museum of Natural History, Cathedral of St. John, Grant`s Tomb — General Grant Memorial, Riverside Church, Apollo Theater New York — Harlem, New York’s Museum Mile: Museum of the City of New York or the Museum of the City of New York, the Guggenheim Museum or the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art or the Whitney Museum, and driving around New Central Park York on the south side, past the New York Zoo, and the bus will return to the M&M`s World store.
BIG BUS Downtown Bus Route in Lower Manhattan New York — marked in red on the diagram, Uptown route through Upper Manhattan — blue:
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M&M`s World also starts another interesting bus route — New York at night — Night tour.
Night tour New Your starts at 19:00, 19:30, 20:00, 20:30 and 21:00. Route Night New York BIG BUS on the diagram — yellow 😉
You can leave Upper Manhattan for another day, which we did, and after having a bite to eat, we went to the Empire State Building, because it is on our «must-do» list, and because it is IMPOSSIBLE not to see it!
Having climbed to the very top of the Empire State Building and enjoying its views, we set off towards our hotel, already pretty tired (do not forget about the time difference, which the body has not yet come to terms with) and planning to see along the way Times Square at night, because you CAN’T miss it!!!
