Day:  NEW YORK                                             

One day in New York is hardly enough time to see all the city’s wonderful attractions. Home to some of the finest museums in the world, you could spend a week in New York and not see all of their treasures.

A good place to start your tour of New York is at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on 53rd Street between 6th and 7th Aves. It has one of the most revered collections of modern art ever assembled. You can see such master works as Van Gogh’s Starry Night and a room full of Monet’s Water Lillies. Plan to spend at least a couple of hours here.

Just a couple of block south on 6th Ave. is Rockefeller Center, this city within a city is a 21-acre Art Deco plaza that is a wonderland of restaurants, theaters, and other imposing structures. It is also the site of the world-famous Christmas tree lighting and ice-skating rink, as well as Radio City Music Hall and NBC Studios.

Grab lunch in the area and head over to St. Patrick’s Cathedral on 5th Avenue and 51^st Street. America’s largest Catholic Cathedral, St. Patrick’s tall spires and stained glass windows can’t be missed.

Head over to Times Square at 47th Street and 7th Avenue to see some of New York’s flash. The revitalized area is much more tourist-friendly with restaurants like the ESPN Zone and respectable stores like Warner Brothers and Disney. If you’re in your teens, you might be interested in checking out 1515 Broadway, the MTV studios. On weekday afternoons, truant MTV fans fill the streets to wave to Carson Daly and try to get on camera.

The more adventurous will take this opportunity to take the infamous New York subway. From Times Square, take the #2 or # 3 train downtown to Chambers Street, get off and take the local #1 or #9 across the tracks one stop to Cortland Ave. This stop will put you directly underneath the World Trade Center. Get out at any exit and look up, you should be able to find the Twin Towers now. Check out the sunset from over 107 stories.