Central Park is the city's one unchangeable thing: 843 acres of designed wilderness holding prehistoric rocks, hidden paths, street artists, and two million people lining the streets for a parade. Finding a door in a wall you didn't know was there.

SoHo might look like a shopping destination, but look closer. Hidden galleries, intimate cultural spaces, and a neighborhood that keeps reinventing itself while its buildings stay exactly the same.

Midtown is New York at full volume: 42nd Street, Grand Central, Broadway lights, Times Square spectacle, and skyline views from the Empire State Building.