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Tribeca Film Festival. Tribeca is a popular location for filming- you may recognize some of the streets from the movie Ghostbusters. SoHo, for "South of Houston," has become one of New York's most famous neighborhoods due to its destination shopping and huge collection of art studios and galleries. The historic district here has wonderful cast iron building facades and cobblestone streets.

Chinatown and Little Italy are great ethnic neighborhoods in Lower Manhattan. Visitors enjoy the festive Asian atmosphere in Chinatown with open markets and Chinese New Year celebrations. Little Italy is just one of New York's many Italian neighborhoods. Manhattan's Italian area is best known for its 11-day Feast of San Gennaro held each September. Mulberry Street is shut down for the street fair as vendors and churches celebrate Italian and Roman Catholic culture.

Last, but not least, the downtown neighborhood of Greenwich Village is very popular with visitors. The Village is mostly an upper-middle-class residential area known for its haphazard street layout that has been there since the area was just a small rural town. Now, it is home to New York University, a good performing arts scene, the Village Halloween Parade, and numerous celebrities including Liv Tyler and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

MIDTOWN

Moving on to Midtown Manhattan, you won't find it hard to believe that this part of New York is the largest business district in the entire world. It is arranged around world-famous Central Park. There are almost too many iconic New York sites here to keep track of.

Times Square's soaring billboards, LED screens, and scrolling news tickers are a must-see for any visitor to New York. You will get the feeling of being at the heart of it all as you join the huge throngs of people in the crosswalks. The neighborhood surrounding Times Square is best defined as the Theatre District, with a huge collection of Broadway and Off-Broadway shows and theaters.

Fifth Avenue is, according to Forbes Magazine, the most expensive street in the world. The shopping scene on Fifth is one of the top retail destinations on the planet, and wealthy New Yorkers and visitors delight in the pricey inventories at stores like Tiffany & Co., Saks, Prada, Gucci, and Cartier SA. For less extravagant travelers, however, Fifth Avenue also offers the Museum Mile which can't be missed on a trip to New York CIty. Ten world-class museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and the Museum of the

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