Brace yourself New York, The Return Of The Spice Girls tour is coming to town in February and will be playing at these locations in and around the city:
6 & 7 Feb: Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
10 & 11 Feb: Prudential Center, Newark, NJ
13 Feb: Izod Center, East Rutherford, NJ
18 Feb: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

The Spice Girls visited New York City on the 1 July 1998 on their first world tour. The concert sold out in 12 minutes, which was a record for a British pop act.

Originally called New Amsterdam, the Dutch colonial town was renamed New York by the English in 1664, to honor the Duke of York.

New York is the largest city in the USA and the 13th largest in the world, by population.

On their Spice World tour, the Spice Girls performed at Madison Square garden which hosts approximately 320 events a year but it is best known as the home of the New York Knicks of the NBA and New York Rangers of the NHL.

The Big Apple is the birth place of Michael Jordan, Ben Stiller, David Duchovny, Charlie Sheen, Paris Hilton and Robert De Niro.

GIRL POWER! Feminist activist and politician Bella Abzug famously said: "This woman's place is in the house... the House of Representatives," during her successful election campaign to represent New York in 1970.