THINGS TO SEE & DO:

• Herald Square
• Bryant Park + New York Public Library
• St. Patrick’s Cathedral
• Rockefeller Center + Radio City Music Hall
• Empire State Building
• Times Square
• 9/11 Museum & Memorial
• Brooklyn Bridge + DUMBO/Brooklyn Waterfront
• American Museum of Natural History
• The Met + Central Park + Zoo
• Grand Central Terminal
• Washington Square Park 
• Yankees or Mets game
• Broadway Show
• Statue of Liberty / Ellis Island
• The High Line

FOOD:

• PopUp Bagels: multiple locations – rip and dip bagels
• Time Out Market NY: a whole market with different restaurants in Dumbo
• Joe Coffee Company: multiple locations
• Liberty Bagels: multiple locations
• Milano Market: delicious sandwiches, try the Chicken Casear Salad Wrap
• Levain Bakery: multiple locations – try any and all sweet treats
• Ralph’s Coffee
• Ichiran Ramen: a place we love from Japan, perfect late night stop – you may have to wait in a line
• Culture Espresso: get the chocolate chip cookie!
• Magnolia Bakery: whipped banana pudding
• The Perfect Pint: fun Irish Pub in between 6th & 7th Ave
• Devoción: coffee in Brooklyn
• Friedman’s: restaurant near The Empire State Building
• Ghiradelli: quick treat near The Empire State Building
• Two Bros Pizza: multiple locations – cheap pizza slices

PRO TIPS:

1. For the Metro it is tap and pay, so need to buy a Metro card anymore! Make sure to have a credit card in your digital wallet and have transit mode turned on.
2. At Milano Market there is no where to sit to eat, so plan to walk to a park to eat.
3. Water bottles at a food stand outside of The Met is shockingly more affordable than right outside of Central Park a block away.
4. You could walk through The Met for hours, it is so beautiful and amazing. We really enjoyed seeing paintings from Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock and all of the ancient Roman and Egyptian artifacts!
5. To really enjoy sunsets in New York, we suggest going to The Empire State Building and The Top of the Rock at sunset and do a sunset cruise to The Statue of Liberty.
6. Simply cannot express enough how good the cookie is at Culture Espresso.
7. You can get the City Pass to save you money overall on a handful of activities around the city, we used ours to go to The Top of the Rock, The Empire State Building, our sunset cruise, American Museum of Natural History and the 9/11 Museum. The app is really easy once you buy the passes to go in and select your times for each activity.
8. You can’t see much of the Plaza Hotel you can only enter one entrance, but you can see a space that is used in the movie Eloise at the Plaza and you can have afternoon tea too!