Prince William and Princess Kate Begin their 3-day US Tour

Beginning their three-day trip to the United States, members of Britain's royal family Prince William and Princess Kate arrived in New York City Sunday.

This is the first time that the couple is experiencing the Big Apple on their first official visit to the country.

The royal pair was welcomed by scores of mediapersons and shrieking admirers when they stepped out of a black Cadillac Escalade in front of their hotel in Manhattan at around 5:40 p.m Sunday.  

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are staying at New York City's Carlyle Hotel.

The crowd of more than 200 people were kept behind police barricades across Madison Avenue.

Prince William and Princess Kate posed for around 30 seconds for a photograph before heading inside their Upper East Side hotel, Vanity Fair reports.

The Carlyle Hotel was a favourite of William's mother, princess Diana.  

The five months-pregnant princess flaunted her baby bump in a plum-coloured Seraphine coat, known as the Marina and made especially for the Duchess, over a black dress along with black gloves, tights and suede heels, palace officials said.

"It's good to be here," William reportedly told the hotel's managing director, Giovanni Beretta, who was waiting for the pair outside the hotel.

The royal pair has a jam-packed schedule over the next two days including a visit to the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum and also a basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

When the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge arrived early Sunday at John F. Kennedy International Airport on a British Airways flight, they were greeted by the British Ambassador to the United States, Peter Westmacott, and his wife; British Consul General Danny Lopez; and U.S. chief of protocol Peter Selfridge.

Prince William will also be meeting U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House Monday while on his tour to Washington to attend a World bank Conference. Meanwhile, the Duchess is supposed to embark on a tour of a New York Child Development Center with the city's first lady, Chirlane McCray, ABC News reports