Citimaps.com is the companion site to our hotel map publications. We currently have projects in six cities in the northeast United States: Brooklyn New York, Liberty State Park New Jersey, Long Island New York, Manhattan New York, Newport Rhode Island, Philadelphia Pennsylvania and now Greenwich Connecticut, Stamford Connecticut and Central Park in Manhattan. Along with information about the city their are information about area sights and events. Along with listings for both area shopping and restaurants each city has a maps page. Here you will find area and other helpful maps to help you get around.
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 Brooklyn New York: Fugettaboudit! From the Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island, and Bayridge to Greenpoint, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough. It is also the largest, at 71 square miles. Did you know that Brooklyn is mostly residential? It is also ranked fourth as the most populated city in the United States. Brooklyn has some of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the country. Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Fort Greene, DUMBO, East New York, Brighton Beach, are just some of the many neighborhoods that have their own distinct diverse populations. Here are some samples of what are the major ethnic groups in these areas: Borough Park is largely Orthodox Jewish; Bedford-Stuyvesant is one of New York City's most notable African-American neighborhoods; Bensonhurst historically is Italian-American; Fort Greene is home to many middle-class black professionals, Brighton Beach for many years is a spot where many new Russian immigrants have come to call their home. There are many Brooklyn Attractions to view while in Brooklyn a few are: the world famous Brooklyn Bridge or how about all the shops and restaurants on Montague Street, Atlantic Avenues or Park Slope. Located in Prospect Park are the Prospect Park Zoo and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden both a must see when taking in the Brooklyn sights. Brooklyn is home to so many authentic ethnic restaurants; you could eat yourself into a daze trying to keep track of all the different nationalities. Brooklyn shopping is profuse whether it's a cozy specialty store on Smith Street or a shopping mall, you can spend all day in Brooklyn. So if your coming to visit Brooklyn plan ahead, on our website we have many great places to eat and shop, please search our pages print out some maps and have fun!You can pick up one of our Printed Brooklyn maps at the Brooklyn Marriott, the Brooklyn Tourist Center or from any of our many sponsors on the Brooklyn website.
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Greenwich and Stamford Connecticut: The name "Connecticut" originates from the Mohegan word quinnitukqut, meaning "place of long tidal river." The first English settlers came in 1633 and settled at Windsor and then Wethersfield in 1634. However, the main body of settlers came in one large group in 1636. The settlers were Puritans from Massachusetts, led by Thomas Hooker. Hooker had been prominent in England, and was a professor of Theology at Cambridge. He was also an important political writer, and made a significant contribution to Constitutional theory. He broke with the political leadership in Massachusetts, and, just as Roger Williams created a new polity in Rhode Island, Hooker and his cohort did the same and established the Connecticut Colony at Hartford in 1636. This was the second of the three colonies. click here for more information
 Liberty State Park New Jersey: Liberty State Park New Jersey (Jersey City): Liberty State Park is fast emerging as Americas most spectacular urban park! Opened in 1976 for the Nations Bicentennial, its location alone deserves that description. The Park sits proudly and squarely as an oasis... a breathing space...a reclaimed peninsula of land in the midst of a magnificent urban panorama. The Park's views stretch from skyline to skyline, taking in the full grandeur of the New York Harbor, the Gateway to Americas Park's 1,120 acres along the Hudson River Waterfront in New Jersey lies within 2,000 feet of the Statue of Liberty and less than a quarter mile from historic Ellis Island. Liberty State Park is conveniently located off Exit 14B(Jersey City) on the New Jersey Turnpike and is a seven minute direct ride on the NY Waterway Ferry from New York’s World Financial Center. While you are here, enjoy the activities Liberty State Park has to offer in its relaxing and scenic setting. Just off the Liberty Walk located at the edge Green Park on the Hudson River are Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. If you look carefully you can still see the passenger ships with the thousands of eager people with different languages and cultures traveling across the Atlantic Ocean to start a better life for themselves and their families. Other than a great view of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Manhattan Liberty State Park offers visitors and educational experience. At the Liberty Science Center you can feel your way through a pitch-black, 100 foot long touch tunnel and climb across a rock wall or simply touch a live horseshoe crab or how about a ferry ride to Ellis Island and Liberty Island to view a piece of history. Some of the Jersey City hotels offer great views of the Manhattan skyline; all are just a short 15-minute trip on the PATH train to Manhattan.Liberty State Park Maps and area attractions are located on our Liberty State Park maps page of our site.
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Long Island New York: The Hamptons on South Fork of Long Island is the weekend playground of some of the biggest movers and shakers in business as well as Hollywood’s most famous people. Some of the most sought after Long Island's area attractions include miles and miles of sandy beaches, 22 lighthouses that are around the island and the numerous wineries & farm stands. Long Island is a shoppers dream. More than 270 specialty stores at the Roosevelt Field Mall, just a five-minute ride east is the Source Mall with it's many stores. There are also two huge outlet malls - Bayport and Riverhead.Our Long Island maps extend from Belmont Park in Nassau County to Montauk Point at the end of Suffolk County. Our maps cover all of Long Island.
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Downtown and Midtown Manhattan New York: Manhattan is one of the most popular places to visit in the world. It's known as the city that never sleeps. Nowhere else in the world you can go or get just about anything at anytime. Downtown Manhattan to Midtown Manhattan there is something for everyone. Here you will find the some of the most famous sights and attractions like Central Park, The Empire State Building, The United Nations, The New York Stock Exchange, The South Street Seaport, SoHo, Little Italy, Chinatown, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, American Museum of Natural History, Times Square, Trump Tower, Madison Square Garden, the list of Historic and Popular Manhattan sights and attractions go on and on. In Manhattan the show scene is either on Broadway or off Broadway. Both offer just about everything for a theater lover; comedies, musicals and dramas, there is show for everyone to see. While you are in Manhattan go watch a taping of your favorite show at NBC or go ice-skating at Rockefeller Center. You can also check out one of the over 100 Museums and don't forget the Statue of Liberty is just a ferry ride away. While trying some of the many world class and just great Manhattan restaurants don't forget to grab a slice of pizza. Manhattan pizzerias serve up some of the best pizza in the country! After you treat yourself to some of the fine restaurants that Manhattan has to offer, you might want to work of some of that food by going shopping. Manhattan has some of the most varied stores in the country. Just stroll down Madison or Fifth Avenues If your looking to stay in Downtown there are three major hotels in the area: Millennium Hilton, Embassy Suites, Marriott Financial Center, but if you are planning on staying in the Midtown area: Mandarin Oriental, Westin New York at Times Square, Waldorf=Astoria, InterContinental The Barclay New York, New York Hilton, Marriott East Side, Grand Hyatt, Hilton Times Square Hotel, Millennium Broadway, Doubletree Guest Suites.To locate hotels, restaurants, shopping stores go to their webpage on this site. For any Manhattan landmark or attraction please visit our Manhattan map page for maps of Downtown Manhattan, Midtown Manhattan, Central Park, Harlem, Broadway Theaters. Have a great time in the city... and it's okay to eat off the food carts, Have a hotdog for me with extra sauerkraut.
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Manhattan's Central Park: Since 1908, more than 240 feature films containing scenes in Central Park have been released, making it the most filmed public park in the world. In addition, countless episodes of television series are filmed in Central Park. An alarming number of murders and other unspeakable crimes featured in Law and Order and its various spin-offs seem to take place in the Park. Viewers who are familiar with the Park can often recognize a bridge, a landscape, or a monument. Other shows that like to use the Park include Saturday Night Live, Sesame Street, 30 Rock, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Elimidate, Six Degrees, Kidnapped, The Apprentice, Project Runway, and Will and Grace. The Food Network, Discovery and Animal Planet channels often film in the Park. And, of course, the major networks love the Park; both NBC and ABC have made and aired special series highlighting the Conservancy and its work in the Park. PBS filmed A Walk Through Central Park, featuring David Hartman and historian Barry Lewis. HBO's mini-series, Angels in America, began and ended with the Angel of the Waters at Bethesda Terrace. Its enormously popular series Sex and the City used Central Park in many episodes. The Park is also one of New York City's top locations for commercials, documentaries, and photo shoots.
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Newport Rhode Island: Newport is home to fabulous mansions, cozy lodgings, and colonial history. Newport has more colonial era inns, bed and breakfast's than any town in America. You can live among history from earliest settlers, through the American Revolution, to the great mansions built by 19th century industrialists. You will find excitement on every step of the Cliff Walk and turn of Ocean Drive. There's spectacular beauty among the beaches and harbor. Listen to great performances at the music festivals and sail amid a regatta. Newport museums range from U.S. naval history, tennis, yachting, and, of course, history. Newport shopping mostly consists of many different boutiques and galleries that offer handmade jewelry, art and other hard to find. To pre-sample many of the stores and restaurants of Newport, visit them on this website. Newport is the home of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, as well as a number of mansions dating back to the Gilded Age, including The Breakers, Belcourt Castle, Chateau-sur-Mer, The Elms, Marble House, Rosecliff, and Rough Point. Some of these are open for guided tours. With coastlines on the west, south and east, it's known as the sailing capitol of the United States. Many defenses by the New York Yacht Club of the America's Cup yachting prize took place here. All these historic sights and landmarks and others are located on our Newport, RI pages.We also offer many maps for the RI area: Rhode Island, Downtown Newport, Bannister's & Bowen's Wharfs, Middletown, RI, Lower Thames Street and Jamestown, RI.
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Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Philadelphia is one of the oldest and most historical cities in the United States. Philadelphia was the major center of the independence movement during the American Revolutionary War. The Declaration of Independence and US Constitution were drafted here and signed in the city's Independence Hall. Along with Independence hall Philadelphia is also home to The Liberty Bell Center, the new home to the Liberty Bell. The reason why the Liberty Bell is such an important piece of American History is because on July 8, 1776, with the Liberty Bell ringing out from the tower of Independence Hall it summoning citizens to hear the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence by Colonel John Nixon.The Old City area of Philadelphia is like going back in time, narrow streets, old buildings. It is a great place for a walk, go visit some of the many small stores and galleries. The Old City also runs First Friday it is a popular event held only in the Old City. The first Friday of each month, rain or shine, this eclectic "open house" brings out the best in the Old City. Many Art Galleries & Shoppe's have impromptu free wine tastings and snacks. The informal and friendly shop and gallery owners make viewing the new exhibitions a rare treat. You will work up an appetite walking the quaint streets going from store to store. There are also many restaurants in the Old City that are sure to suit your tastes. The City of Philadelphia suspends most on-street parking regulations during the First Friday hours in the Old City District (5:00 pm to 9:00 pm). Please visit our section: shopping and services, Old City, If you drop by a sponsor please tell them that you saw them on citimaps.com website. The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia is the nations oldest and is one of six mints located in the United States. Philadelphia makes circulating coins of all denominations; commemorative coins as authorized by Congress, and produces the dies for stamping coins and medals and is open for public tours (call ahead) Monday through Friday from 9 am to 3 pm. Pat Olivieri invented the "Philly Cheesesteak" here in 1930, go to Jim's Cheesesteak on South Street for a great sandwich.Philadelphia is a great walking city. Most major attractions are located within walking distance of each other.Check out the Philadelphia restaurants, shops or historical attractions, located on this site. Our Philadelphia map page has a number of maps; Downtown Philadelphia, Old City Philadelphia, SEPTA city transit and an airport map to help provide an easy way to get around Philadelphia.
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White Plains New York: Early in the 20th century, White Plains' downtown area developed into a dominant suburban shopping district and featured branch stores of many famous New York-based department and specialty stores. Some of these retail locations were the first large scale suburban stores built in America, and ushered in the eventual post-World War II building boom.[citation needed] With the construction of the parkways and expressways in the 1940s and 1960s, White Plains' role as a destination retail location was only enhanced. Among some of these early stores were such storied names as B. Altman & Co., Rogers Peet, Saks Fifth Avenue, Alexander's, Macy's, Wallach's and a short-lived branch of Bergdorf Goodman, which was later converted to sister chain, Neiman Marcus, in 1981.
During the late 1960s, the city of White Plains developed an extensive urban renewal plan for residential, commercial and mixed-use redevelopment that effectively called for the demolition of its entire central business district from the Bronx River Parkway east to Mamaroneck Avenue. By 1978, the urban renewal program centered around the construction of the Westchester County Courthouse (1974), the Westchester One office building (1975), the Galleria at White Plains mall (1978), and a number of other office towers, retail centers and smaller commercial buildings.
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