BACKGROUND:
NK (my husband) and I (LT) will be arriving 7/19 and leaving 7/25. We will be staying in Jersey City with a friend of NK. Friend lives a short distance from a PATH station, and for us the inconvenience of having to travel into the city each day will be worth the lodging savings.
We are in our late 20%26#39;s. NK is an architect, and we both enjoy architecture and design. I%26#39;m looking forward to sampling local beers and would love any suggestions.
ITINERARY:
I have tried to include a mix of activities each day so we aren%26#39;t walking for several hours straight or visiting multiple museums in one day. I%26#39;ve included the names of restaurants if we are planning on eating at a specific place.
*Items marked with an asterisk are %26#39;non-negotiable%26#39; meaning we have to do them on that day/at that time because we already have tickets/the place has limited hours/the place has free admission/etc.
I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions for improvement. Thank you for taking the time to read this!
WEDNESDAY:
-Arrive at JFK at 10:20am. NK wants to check out Saarinen%26#39;s TWA terminal at the airport. I have to find out if and how this is possible since the terminal closed in 2001.
-In the afternoon, tour United Nations
-Check out public art in Battery Park City
*8:00 Phantom of the Opera
THURSDAY
-3 hour Circle Line tour to get acquainted with the city
-lunch at Florent
-Meatpacking District Soundwalk audio tour (www.soundwalk.com)
-Fashion Institute of Technology museum
*7:00 dinner at Blue Smoke
-before or after dinner check out the Flatiron Building and relax in Union Square
FRIDAY
-Architecture walk: Chrysler Building, Lever House, Seagram Building, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, etc.
-Late lunch at Katz%26#39;s Deli
-LES Soundwalk tour
*3:00 Tenement Museum: Getting By tour
*MoMA (free from 4-8)
SATURDAY
-Breeze through Chinatown
-Early lunch at Corner Bistro
*11:30 Free Greenwich Village walking tour
-Brooklyn Brewery tour
-Soak up the tour %26#39;remains%26#39; with some pizza (any Sicilian pizza recommendations in this area?)
-Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan
-9:00 Time Square Soundwalk audio tour
SUNDAY
-The Bronx Soundwalk tour trilogy: Yankee Stadium, Hip-Hop, Graffiti
-Central Park
4:00 Museum of Art and Design
*7:00 Dinner at 66 (restaurant with interior designed by Richard Meier)
MONDAY
-The Met
-St. Paul%26#39;s Chapel
1:00 Wall Street Soundwalk tour
-Guggenheim
-Self-guided walking tour up Malcolm X Blvd into Harlem
TUESDAY
-Cry as I%26#39;m flying home.
NK%26#39;s friend will show us the nightlife so I%26#39;m not worrying about planning that.
LT and NK in NYC: a trip preview
Seems reasonable. Even though MoMA is free on Fridays, it is a zoo. If you really want to see stuff, you may want to go another time and suck up the $20 each. Just my opinion.
LT and NK in NYC: a trip preview
I thought exactly the same thing as BobbyC. I would avoid MoMa on Friday and buy my tickets online to avoid waiting in line.
I was afraid the MoMA would packed Friday night.
Thanks for the advice.
Is it safe to assume that a good time to visit without the crowds would be a weekday earlier in the day?
Wednesday: I would not waste time going down to Battery Park City on this day, go on Monday. Instead knock off Grand Central Terminal, Rock, Chrylser which are nearer.
Monday: MET is closed. I would also check on the days and hours of operations of your other museum choices as well. Monday--Guggenheim is out of the way.
Nice plans, good choices. Be flexible, you might be tired and traveling a lot (for instance, subway from LES to MOMA is at least 1/2 hour). The tenement museum is quite good.
Saturday:
Suggestion for pizza (not Sicilian, thin crust real Italian, some of my favorite pizza in NYC) in Williamsburg: Brick Oven Gallery, 33 Havemeyer St (between N7th and N8th). Havemeyer is 3 blocks east of Bedford. Looks like about an 8 block walk from Brooklyn Brewery.
Best Beer Bar in NYC (Belgians on tap, 100 rare bottles): Spuyten Duyvil (unmarked red bar at 359 Metropolitan Ave, about 3 blocks south of N 7th St and Havemeyer).
Williamsburg is nowhere near the Brooklyn Bridge. When you are down in Battery Park City or Chinatown walk across town to Brooklyn Bridge and see it then. The park stretch from the new West Village Piers to Wagner Park (just north of Battery Park) is all really nice, best experienced on rollerblades (to get past the stretch that is still under construction).
I think the Met is closed on Mondays??? Check out those museum hours. Sunday brunch (get there around 11 or it%26#39;s crowded) in the euro-style cafe with views of Central Park (not the one by the American Wing) is really good. Since the Met is next to Central Park you might want to do them the same day.
REVISIONS:
Wed:
-United Nations tour
-Check out Chrysler Bldg, et.al in area
Phantom
Fri:
-MoMA (will it be okay crowd-wise to go when it opens on Friday?)
-LES Soundwalk
-Tenement Museum
-Met Museum (open until 9pm - is Fri pm a busy time here?)
Mon:
-Battery Park City public art
-St. Paul%26#39;s
-Wall Street
-Guggenheim (how far out of the way is it?)
I do appreciate the suggestions and those who caught my Met-on-Monday mistake! That would have been an unpleasant surprise.
kenito799,
Thanks for the pizza rec. I%26#39;m sure after an hour or two at the brewery it will be a welcome stop.
Guggenheim is near the MET. I would substitute Tenement for Guggenheim and vice versa.
...and LES soundwalk as well, keep it with lower Manhattan activities.
...and LES soundwalk as well, keep it with lower Manhattan activities.
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