reasonable walking distance from hotel

We are staying at the Club Quarters Midtown at

40 West 45 Street. I know that the hotel lists that it is # blocks from this and # blocks from this.

Realistically what are the major things that a tourist can walk to and from in the area from this hotel. We are in our early 40%26#39;s so can do alot of walking.

Thanks for the tips!

reasonable walking distance from hotel

Here%26#39;s a summary of Manhattan neighborhoods, including highlighting the major attractions in each -- and a thread on calculating distances by blocks -- that should be helpful:

tripadvisor.com/Travel-g60763-s204/New-York-鈥?/a>

tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g60763-i5-k699395-鈥?/a>

Frommer%26#39;s put the maps that are in its NYC guidebook on line, for free. The ';Midtown Attractions'; one covers the territory that it sounds you%26#39;re willing %26amp; able to cover on foot:

frommers.com/destinations/鈥?1_maps.html

reasonable walking distance from hotel

great maps on Frommer.

Not sure when you are going, but given that weather is reasonable you can walk almost everywhere in Manhattan. Wear comfortable shoes and enjoy the city!

Here are some walking times from 45th %26amp; Sixth, from a walking (and biking) tourguide:

Empire State Building, 15 minutes

Times Square, under 10 minutes

Rockefeller Center, 6 - 7 minutes

Madison Square Garden, about 20 minutes

Ninth Avenue restaurants NYers eat at, 15 minutes

Lincoln Center, 30 - 35 minutes

Central Park, 15-20 minutes

Natural History Museum, roughly an hour through the Park

Metropolitan Museum, same.

Don%26#39;t go there, girlfriend:

Chinatown

SoHo

Little Italy

Brooklyn Bridge

World Trade Center

Battery Park

All these places are more than 2.25 miles from you. Blocks going north-south are a uniform 260 feet in length, or almost exactly 20 to the mile.

Houston (HOW-ston) Street corresponds to number zero. SoHo starts there. Canal street is roughly half a mile below Houston, and The Battery is almost a mile below Canal.

But do walk around the Financial District, and do cross the Brooklyn Bridge.

Stan

We are going in Mid April to NYC.

So from hotel to Central Park are we talking like a 10 minute walk or 30 min or from hotel to Rockerfeller Plaza etc...

Now to go outside the areas of Times Square/Central Park/Theaters/Rock....we need to do subway?

I am from a Dallas suburb....we drive from here to the corner store...so I am excited about all the walking....I just don%26#39;t want to start off thinking that I can walk to a location where those who live there would say you really should take the subway or bus.

Thanks for the help!

I%26#39;m guessing, Tattie, that you were typing your most recent post while Stan was posting his with that handy-dandy list.

HopStop is a great website; it will give you directions and average time spans for getting around by bus/subway, on foot alone, or cab [with estimated fare]:

http://www.hopstop.com/?action=dir_home

And here%26#39;s a terrific article from the NY Times on seeing virtually all of Manhattan via public bus, with a minimum of transfers:

鈥ytimes.com/2008/11/23/travel/23weekend.html

Don%26#39;t be afraid to use the subway. It%26#39;s cheap, fast, and safe and you can be all over the place in minutes. We drive everywhere here as well so the subway was quite a novelty for us.

Thanks Stan for the time listing for walking from out hotel...this gives us alittle perspective in venturing out and about.

ALso, the hopstop website should be of great help too!

Thanks!

General rule: subways up and down town on Lexington

Broadway, 7th avenue, 8th avenue. and take buses

across town on Major streets. Closest one to 45th

would be 42nd M42.