Fifth Avenue in Manhattan is where all New York’s leading museums and art galleries are located and one stretch of road is called "Museum Mile". It makes life easy if you choose your holiday apartment in the Upper East Side to have all the leading museums within a few blocks of each other. Every year in June, 5th Avenue is closed for the Museum Mile Festival which is a joyous event full of musicians, street entertainers and free access to the museums. Here are a few of the museums that contribute to Museum Mile: • El Museo del Barrio is dedicated to exhibiting Latin American art and also works from Puerto Ricans and people of Caribbean origin. • The Museum of the City of New York has the feel of an old colonial mansion and is one of New York’s most elegant-looking museums. There are five floors of exhibits including areas such as the Rockefeller rooms. The exhibits retell the history of New York and there is a fantastic display of model ships recounting New York’s prominence as a port. One of the most fascinating exhibits is a series of rooms that have been recreated to represent various periods in America’s colonial history. • The Jewish Museum ...