Places and even sounds: how to stroll around New York without getting up off the couch

If you miss your usual life in New York or dream of visiting it for the first time, quarantine is not a hindrance. Thanks to modern technology, you can go on an interesting journey right now. The selection was shared by the publication Forbes.

Visit famous places such as the Statue of Liberty, the New York Public Library and the Guggenheim Museum without leaving your home. Immerse yourself in the sounds of this noisy metropolis that make it so unique.

Museum Guggenheim recently launched an initiative Works & Process Artists Virtual Commissions (WPA). Her goal is to raise funds to help artists survive this difficult time for them. Artists of various genres were instructed to create works lasting less than five minutes, while respecting the principles of social distance.

Now their works can be seen in Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

Dancer Caleb Teicher recorded a video of the day spent in central park. The work is called Thank You, Central Park. To Norah Brown’s song, Fly Around, Ticher rides a bicycle, dances and wanders through the park, enjoying life.

You can take a walk with him virtually by going at this link.

Meanwhile New York Public Library published an album called Missing Sounds of New York. This album is a new way to immerse yourself in the world of sounds. It is a collection of city sounds, such as the noise of cars and speeding cyclists, the voices of people and the rumble of pigeons, the sounds of the subway and other noises that are familiar to us. In this way, Missing Sounds of New York reminds us of what makes New York so special for many people.

The album is available on Spotify and on the library website.

The National Park Service has developed a new virtual tour of the most popular attraction in New York - Statue of Liberty! Immerse yourself in the study of the external and internal spaces of this creation. Start your journey with the torch of the statue, enjoy stunning views, previously inaccessible to visitors to the statue.

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“We look forward to reopening Liberty Island to visitors,” said John Piltzecker, director of the National Freedom Monument and Ellis Island. "Until then, this tour provides an opportunity to see the Statue of Liberty from perspectives not available to visitors while on the island."

You can go on a virtual trip on America's business card on this site.

The virtual tour is part of the NPS Heritage Documentation Program (HDP) Historic American Building Survey (HABS), the federal government's oldest heritage conservation program. It is part of a comprehensive survey to create a highly accurate model of the Statue of Liberty. For this, advanced technologies of three-dimensional laser scanning and photogrammetry were used. Thanks to this, for the first time, a complete model of the statue will be assembled, which will help in the further preservation and interpretation of this object.