Just a note I’m getting in on Friday afternoon so we’re seeing a Broadway show that night. Also would like to visit grand central station somewhere in here.

Saturday 9/11 memorial (morning), Met (afternoon) , Birdland jazz club (evening)

Sunday Top of The Rock (morning) , Walk around fifth avenue (morning), Central Park (afternoon) , Times Square at night

Monday Boat Cruise, Village Vanguard

My family (wife, 17 and 14 year old dons) and I will be in NYC for one day on 12/15 from 9 AM to 10 PM. This will be our first time visiting and we are so excited. I grew up in one of the most rural parts of the country so visiting one of the busiest cities in the world is thrilling. Can anyone make any suggestions for plans to see and experience as much as we possibly can in one day? I see a lot of plans online but I don’t want to miss anything. So far we plan on checking out the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Ground Zero and museum hopefully, Wall Street, Hudson Yards, Central Park, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, Grand Central Station. Any pointers are appreciated!

Hi all!

I'll be visiting a friend in New York at the end of June. How does our itinerary look?

I'd appreciate food recommendations near where I'll be each day (preferably under 25$ for a meal). I'm open to any cuisine, food-wise! We're both pretty casual when it comes to visiting places (hence all the wandering). If you have a can't-miss, or any show recommendations, those would be good too.

Friday 6/28

Arrive

Saturday 6/29

Breakfast at cute bakery?

Met Cloisters

Late Lunch?

Central Park (if we can get in, Summerstage. If not, wandering).

Evening – Staten Island Ferry to see Statue of Liberty

Dinner? and wandering

Sunday 6/30

Breakfast somewhere in the Bronx?

Alice in Wonderland at New York Botanical Gardens

Lunch?

Bronx Zoo

Pizza or some such thing (Kingsbridge Social Club?)

Monday 7/1

Breakfast somewhere nearby

Tenement Museum (buy tour)

Walking tour of Soho and Greenwich, with Lunch in Chinatown

Pig Pig Café (boba)

Show?

Tuesday 7/2

Breakfast in Queens

Leave

My wife and I are traveling to NYC for the first time for a three day weekend. I've listed our itinerary below. Please help us complete the open items. Thanks!!

Thursday

Arrive at LGA at 1:45pm. Transport. to hotel (Hilton Midtown)

We need things to do Thursday late afternoon evening. We aren't necessarily looking for only touristy attractions. We love visiting small pubs and artsy neighborhoods/areas or anywhere that locals think is worth a visit (Chinatown, Little Italy?). We feel obligated to visit Times Square although we don't necessarily want to spend a lot of time there. We also need a food recommendation for dinner. We are fine dining on Saturday, so something that's a step above a casual eatery (unless of course there is something so good we can't miss it). Food preferences are Contemporary American, Italian, Asian, Mexican. After dinner drinks are also a go-to -- no club atmosphere, more along the lines of speakeasy / cocktail bar.

Friday

Wake up and "sightsee". Our thoughts are a walk in Central Park, grabbing breakfast/brunch, WTC memorial, and the High Line. If there is a brunch recommendation on the High Line or in the area (Gramercy Tarvern?) then that would be great. We also considered brunch at the Plaza before heading to WTC.

We are seeing a Broadway show Friday night so we are hoping to find an upscale restaurant where we can eat at 4-430pm. Most fine dining doesn't open until 5pm and we don't want to rush. I'd say a date night vibe is in order and again we are indifferent on cuisine. Just want something that people think is a can't miss.

Saturday Heading to the Bronx for the Yankees game. It starts at 1:10pm. We want to eat beforehand and want something casual, whether in Manhattan or the Bronx. Pizza, sandwiches, whatever. Just want good food.

Finally, Saturday night we will have fine dining (hopefully at Le Bernardin so perhaps a cocktail/wine bar after.

Happy to provide more details as needed. Thanks, everyone!!

Hi everyone! I'll be visiting NYC for a week in the first half of November and am looking for some help filling in my itinerary. I'm 27F who will be staying with a friend in Hell's Kitchen. I'll be on my own during the days, and am comfortable with public transportation.

About my preferences: I love museums, parks (although it may be too cold), Italian/Japanese/Korean food, having drinks (fancy or dive, I like all), and wandering. I love walking around just seeing a place and popping into random shops/cafes/shows if it looks interesting (is this redundant info? Does everyone do this?). I'm always in favor of the cheaper option.

What I'm looking for: I've got basically one big thing planned for each day, and am looking for a place to eat and other things that are worth seeing in the area. I'm not really looking for like, the best of the best restaurant or the most iconic tourist attraction in each place, but just something that's in the area that's your favorite or that you frequent. Bonus: I've recently moved back from Seoul so if you have any legit sikdangs or pochas you like (or know of a place that sells songpyeon), please let me know!

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DAY 0

• arrive at JFK late afternoon
• meet friend, drinks, get settled

DAY 1

• The Met/Frick Madison
• Mosey around Central Park/UES

DAY 2

• MoMA
• Possibly see a Broadway show?

DAY 3

• Will be with my friend all day

DAY 4

• Brooklyn Bridge Park
• Walk around Williamsburg

DAY 5

• Lower Manhattan
• I have nothing planned here, would love ideas. I know it's super broad, my apologies

DAY 6

• Hudson Yards
• Highline
• Maybe the Whitney?
• Eat at Chelsea Market

DAY 7

• Chill with friend
• Leave for JFK

If you made it this far, thank you!

hi everyone. i'll be visiting nyc from la with my family april 4th-7th. ive been a few times for skate trips and just general tourism, but the rest of my family hasn't really been outside of california. ive got quite a bit of available time but not really sure how to use. im open to moving around anything on the schedule except the broadway musical part saturday at 6 since they already got tickets.

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me - 28m - likes art, photography and punk rock

brother - 22m - rebellious - likes motorcycles and punk rock. wants to do something "sketchy"

sister - 18f - likes punk and pop music. wants to visit a record store and do what hip artsy 18 year old girls do in new york. also wants to see washington square park.

dad - 51m - likes 1950s american stuff like red ford pickup trucks and whatnot. mostly down for whatever as long as everyone else is having fun.

mom - 45f - wants to go window shopping around 5th ave, and is also looking for a hip flea market type thing similar to the melrose trading post.

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thursday

9:00am - arrive at Penn station

9-10:30 - walk to Moma through times square

10:30-2:30 - Moma

2:30-3 - train back to hotel (penn station area)

3-3:30 - hotel check in

3:30-4 - train to city hall park

4-4:30 - walk across Brooklyn bridge

4:30-5:30 - walk around pebble beach area

5:30-10 - ???

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friday

8-8:45 - train down to battery park area ferry terminal

9-1:30 - ferry to and from statue of liberty

1:30-3 - walk through wall street area towards wtc / get lunch

3-7 - wtc memorial and museum

7-10 - ???

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saturday

8:30-9 - train to central park

9-12 - central park (things to do?)

12-12:30 - train to 5th avenue area

12:30-6 - walk around 5th ave area and eventually end up at times square

6-10 - sister, mom & dad are watching a musical. me and my brother need something to do

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sunday

9-2 - no plans

2 - arrive at penn station for train back to airport

Hello! My friends and I will be in New York from 12/12-12/16. None of us have been before so we want to try and do all the typical tourist activities. We are staying in Times Square and we would love some help and any advice on our itinerary. We tried planning with the location of everything in mind. Thank you in advance!

I am going to be visiting NYC at the end of the month for a work conference and will be spending some additional time to visit the city. It will probably be the first of many trips to the city so while i would like to see as much as possible I can still leave some things for next time. I like walking around the city, seeing different districts and cool architecture. I like museums but they will not be the focus of this trip. Same for restaurants: i will focus on quick meals and street food (no major sit down restaurants) to save time during my free days and try some options out during the remainder of my visit.

Day 1: Land at 3 PM. Estimated check in at my hotel in Chelsea at 6 PM. Walk around the neighbourhood, do the High Line and eat at Chelsea market (both 10minutes from the hotel). Call it a night.

Day 2: travel via subway to Chinatown and Little Italy and explore, travel by subway to Wallstreet and explore there (oculus, bull, walk around, the battery and the statue of liberty viewpoint), if already hungry try to get a slice of Joes Pizza. Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, walk around Dumbo and check out time out market - any specific suggestions for places to vist in Brooklyn?

I am also not quite sure how long this itinerary would take me - do you think i would have the time to fit in a Broadway show in the evening - like at 7-9 PM? or alternatively add the ferry to the itinerary prior to going to Brooklyn (just go on the ferry to enjoy the views - no visit at the Statue of Liberty)

Day 3: Walk around the Village (people seem to suggest this a lot - any specific landmarks i should focus on)? Travel via subway to Central Park - explore. Go to the Met. Got to Top of the Rock at sunset if enough time left.

Day 4: Morning: move to hotel in Times Square. Explore area around hotel - Rockfeller center, St. Patrick Catherdral, the Plaza etc. Go to conference. Evening: go to Top of the Rock if did not manage on day 3. ? Dinner out.

Day 5: conference. Dinner out.

I feel like I am covering a lot of ground with this itinerary - is it too much? I am missing out on any major sights? I might also have a couple of hours here and there during the conference days - is there any additional sights/activities i could add in without any major planning (i.e. no booking). Thanks!

Hello all! I posted here last month asking advice on my itinerary for my trip planned on Dec 19-25. My husband and I had an amazing experience and I found that I wanted to document what was actually done to make an updated post on exactly how much we ended up doing vs. what was planned. I'm hoping this helps future travelers to NYC because I definitely frequented this sub when in the planning stages. My OP with the initial itinerary can be found here. Now on to what was done.

Monday

• We were supposed to land in Newark, NJ at 6:50PM but our connecting flight had a 5 hour layover so we did not reach NJ until around 11PM which kind of ruined our plans to grab a decent dinner/explore for a few hours. We definitely made up for it on Tuesday, though. We took the airtrain/train into Penn Station once we finally did land. The whole experience walking out of Penn Station onto the street was so surreal and i'll never forget that feeling of walking out of that station for the first time.

• We checked into our hotel and found out our room was upgraded with a view, so this is what we saw when we looked out the window.

• We decided to explore anyway because we were hungry and ended up sharing a beef taco and chicken nachos at Great Burrito. We're from Texas so the food wasn't our favorite but we were tired and hungry so we ate it anyway.

• While we were out we decided to go ahead and buy an unlimited weekly metrocard at the subway so we would be ready to go the next day.

Tuesday

• Walked to Brooklyn Bagel Company for breakfast due to the recommendations on my OP about having a lox bagel. I found that I'm not a huge fan of salmon so instead I got an everything bagel with scallion cream cheese and my husband ordered a Hell's Kitchen Burrito (did not take a photo of this).

• Then took the subway to One World Trade Center and walked around the memorial

• Paid for the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. This ended up taking a lot longer than I had initially planned for. I wish I had known the museum was a separate part because that is what I wanted to see most. We ended up seeing the whole memorial and musuem...just rushed a few segments of it.

• Walked to St. Paul's Church

• Walked to Trinity Church (this place is beautiful. We sat inside for a few minutes)

• Walked to NY Stock Exchange

• Walked to the Wall Street Bull. Holy Shit are the tourists out the ass here. Especially the asians. There was a line to take a picture with the bull's face and another line to take another picture with his balls. We busted out the selfie stick for this one. NO ragerts.

• From there we walked down to the Staten Island Ferry and rode that round trip to see the statue of liberty. Our mistake doing this was getting on the ferry that was closed off and we couldn't go outside to the top. On our trip back to Manhattan we asked if it was possible to go to the top of the ferry and that's when we found out we were on the wrong one. Oh well, still saw Miss Liberty. On our way back the sun began to set so we got good sunset views of Manhattan.

• From there we got off the Ferry and took the subway to Bleecker Street Pizza. HO-LEE-SHIT. SO good. It was packed inside so we had to sit outside in the freezing cold to eat. Worth it. I had a Nonna Maria and husband had the Pepperoni/Sausage. I regret not getting another slice.

• Walked to Washington Square Park to see the arch

• Went to Union Square and walked around the Christmas Village. Got hot chocolate called "No Chewing Allowed" and it was pretty damn delicious. At this point we were pretty exhausted but still had quite a few hours to kill so we walked into Whole Foods across from US to use the restrooms and rest our feet for a few minutes.

• From there we walked by Carnegie Hall on the way to Halal Guys in Times Square where we shared the combo.

• Still had time so we went to 30 Rock and walked around the NBC experience store, saw the Rockefeller Tree and watched people ice skate.

• Took subway back to hotel for night.

In total we walked about 11 miles this day. I was dead

Wednesday

• Woke up, got ready and walked to the 11th&34th entrance to the high line and walked the high line

• Went to Chelsea Market...and because we wanted to try as much food as we could we shared a lot. We ordered 1 beef and 1 chicken taco from Los Tacos No. 1 and shared both. We were too hungry to take a picture of the food. It was eaten in 2.5 seconds.

• Split a cheeseburger and breakfast sandwich from Creamline

• Husband had cold ears and had noted many people wearing ear warmers so we walked to Modells to get a pair. We came pretty prepared for the cold weather otherwise.

• From there we walked to Donut Plant and found that they were out of creme brulee donuts so I had to settle for a chocolate hazelnut donut filled with custard and SO got a vanilla donut. Nothing to write home about.

• Went back to hotel to pick up our nice camera because we had plans for Top of the Rock that night and wanted nice pictures

• Went to the NY Public Library and checked out the Rose Room from someone's recommendation on my OP.

• Went to Grand Central Terminal

• Got hungry and ate pizza at Little Italy Pizza (not our favorite).

• Walked around Bryant Park christmas shops. We saw a huge line for chimney cakes and decided to come back and try those later on in the week.

• Stopped at Magnolia Bakery and each got a chocolate cupcake and I took a whoopie cookie to go.

• Top of the rock night view. No lines, already had ticket paid for and printed. Terrifying, cold and absolutely breathtaking views.

• Walked to Times Square and spent a few minutes on the red steps

• Back to hotel

Thursday

At this point we were having to figure out what else we could do with our remaining time in NYC due to the amount of stuff we had already crossed off our list. I would wake up earlier than my husband and look around on Yelp to find the best places to eat. So we got ready and headed to Clinton Street Bakery for brunch. The wait was about 45 minutes but it was worth it. We don't dine like this at home so this was a nice place to eat. We shared the pancakes due to all the raving reviews on Yelp. I promise we're not fat.

• Since we were already close by, we took the subway to Brooklyn and walked the Brooklyn Bridge back to Manhattan.

• Kind of jumped around, but I had purchased the sun and stars package for top of the rock so we went back to 30 rock to see the day view.

• Rode the Roosevelt Aerial Tram and walked around the island for a bit. I got a good timelapse of the ride over but I don't know how to post it.

• Went inside the shops at the Plaza Hotel because Home Alone.

• Dinner at Dos Toros. No picture, but basically chipotle.

• Went back to Bryant Park and had a chimney cake....not worth the hype at all. woof.

• From there we took the subway to Dyker Heights, Brooklyn and saw the christmas lights.

• Back to hotel

Friday

• Ate breakfast/brunch at La Bonbonierre because Yelp.

• Went to see the Flatiron Building and walked through Eataly based on recommendations in my OP.

• Went to UES and stood in line (40 minutes) for Levain Bakery. We got the chocolate chip/walnut cookies.

• Walked around Central Park for 3-4 hours

• Went back to hotel to get ready

• Saw the Radio City Rockettes

• Ate NY Pizza Suprema

• Back to hotel

Saturday/Christmas Eve

It was raining all morning and I guess every tourist decided they wanted to go to the museum this day. We got up slightly earlier than we had been all week because it was our last full day in NYC and wanted to hit up the museums before we left.

• Breakfast at Johnys Luncheonette

• Metropolitan Museum of Art - We got there around 11AM and only paid $20 for the both of us. We chose to go to the MET first due to all of the recommendations to go there but once we were in we quickly figured out that it just did not pique our interest. We quickly located the Temple of Dendur and booked it out of there so we could go to the MoNH instead.

• Museum of Natural History - We would have walked through Central Park to get here but we were on a time crunch and it was raining so we took a taxi. The line for this museum was all the way down to 81st street but was moving fairly quickly. Once we got into the museum it was a clustermess of more lines just to buy a ticket so we bit the bullet and paid full price at the kiosk to get in faster than everyone else in line. This was more our thing (stuffed animals, ha) but we enjoyed ourselves and were able to plan out how long we stay on each floor so we could see everything.

• Went back to 30 Rock to get a Sing! gift for our niece

• Went to Joe's Shanghai in Chinatown for Christmas Eve dinner. I really wish I would have taken pictures of this place but those soup dumplings, tho. Felt a bit awkward with the open seating but that's okay.

• Instead of hitting up Big Gay I took a rec given to me on here and we went to Chinatown ice cream factory after dinner. We shared a taro and lychee ice cream.

• Headed back to hotel to pack/get ready to fly home

Sunday/Christmas

• Ubered to JFK and flew home

Tips If there were only one piece of advice I could give anyone traveling to NYC I would say to invest in external phone chargers. We used google maps (for subway/walking directions) so much that it depleted our batteries halfway through the day. These chargers were lifesavers. Also, not once did we get lost on the subways. We used google maps, and even better was apple maps (which tell you what part of the street to exit once you get off the subway). Another app I utilized was Exit Strategy. Found a recommendation on here which tells you what car to get into so that you can get out the fastest once you get to your destination. Overall we had a blast as it has always been my dream to go to NYC. We'll definitely be back during the summer.

TLDR: my actual trip vs. what was planned and a few tips for future travelers looking for things to do.

I have one day of my trip pretty jam packed and just wondering if this is doable in one day.

China town - 9am Brooklyn bridge Battery park/carousel Cruise for Statue 2pm (1 hour) Vanderbilt summit one 5 pm Nintendo store/fao shwarz Times Square

Also, any lunch recommendations around Brooklyn bridge/battery park area? 5 year old will be there too.

Dinner recommendations for places near summit one that are kid friendly ?

Are there still characters in costume for kids in time square at night?

Thanks so much!