Please help me plan my week-long solo trip to NYC

[Anonymous]

It’s been years since I have been to NYC, and I want to fill it with as much as possible. I have made dinner and theatre plans with local friends every evening, but am free everyday until 5-6pm.

So far, I have booked the tenement museum. I am open to anything, and I love history, tours, architecture, art, shopping, spas, and walking all over the city.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Do a skip the line tour of the Met. I can spend a whole day there.

[Anonymous]

When is this?

[Anonymous]

First week of june

[Anonymous]

I love spending time in Central Park, so much to do and see there. I always go to Bodhi in Chinatown for vegan dim sum, it’s really good and very reasonably priced! Not terribly far from the Tenement either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First week of june

Well that should be a pretty great time then to do a lot of outdoor things. Off the top of the head:

Governors Island
High Line (weekday morning for lower crowds)
Prospect Park
Staten Island Ferry (hey it's free and boat rides are nice, and the views are great, and it will probably be warm)
Brooklyn Bridge Park (again, the views!)
Gantry Plaza State Park (seeing a theme here...)

Food:

Miznon at Chelsea Market for ridiculously good pita sandwiches and their roast cauliflower oh God
Go to deep Queens for some awesome Chinese/Korean food

[Anonymous]

Walk the High Line & go to the Cloisters.

[Anonymous]

If you haven’t been to Ellis island and stage of liberty, they are both totally worth it — take both tours.

Tenement museum is also a great pick, and agree on high line and cloisters.

What part of the city are you staying in?

I think I would also stake out TKts and just pick the best matinee.

Add in the Met and that’s five days. Is a slip the like your really necessary for the Met now? I used to just wander in. I think I would prefer a podcast type tour for someplace like the Met where you can pause it or take detours. Rick steve had a decent one for British museum — would seem like there must be something similar for the Met.

Sadly I can’t think of any great lunch places other than getting dim sum in Chinatown.

[Anonymous]

Tenement Museum is great.

I went to the International Center for Photography and that was small and manageable with an interesting show.

I like MOMA a lot. Met too, but it's exhausting.

I took the gondola to Roosevelt Island because of a movie I liked and historical stories. Otherwise, just off-beat.

Ellis Island if you like that stuff.

It's great to walk around the theater area/Times Square, especially at dusk or night. So much energy! It's exhilarating.

[Anonymous]

If you like to walk, last time I was there my daughter and I walked from the Tenement Museum to Brooklyn over the Williamsburg Bridge. It was a pretty cool walk. Once in Williamsburg we just walked around, went to some thrift stores and a book store, and had lunch. Took the subway back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s been years since I have been to NYC, and I want to fill it with as much as possible. I have made dinner and theatre plans with local friends every evening, but am free everyday until 5-6pm.

So far, I have booked the tenement museum. I am open to anything, and I love history, tours, architecture, art, shopping, spas, and walking all over the city.

Thanks!

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[Anonymous]

+2 for the Met
Chelsea Market
Blue Note
Whitney Museum
Neue Gallery and lunch at Cafe Sabarsky
Eataly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you haven’t been to Ellis island and stage of liberty, they are both totally worth it — take both tours.

Tenement museum is also a great pick, and agree on high line and cloisters.

What part of the city are you staying in?

I think I would also stake out TKts and just pick the best matinee.

Add in the Met and that’s five days. Is a slip the like your really necessary for the Met now? I used to just wander in. I think I would prefer a podcast type tour for someplace like the Met where you can pause it or take detours. Rick steve had a decent one for British museum — would seem like there must be something similar for the Met.

Sadly I can’t think of any great lunch places other than getting dim sum in Chinatown.

Skip the line definitely not necessary at the Met.

[Anonymous]

Jazz Age Lawn party on Governors Island:
https://jazzagelawnparty.com/

Check out Queens Night Market for cheap eats

New York Botanical Garden and Bronx Zoo

Brooklyn Heights is a fun neighborhood to explore

Go to the Edge at Hudson Yards for great views; there is also the Vessel and a high-end mall there

Shopping: walk all around Soho and the Village

Tribeca film festival starts June 5

See Turandot opera at the Met

[Anonymous]

Some places I've enjoyed:
Museum of the City of New York
Hamilton House
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Roosevelt Island Tram
UN tour
Zabar's
Jackson Heights
Cloisters
Urban Hawker (Singaporean food hall)
Transit Museum
NBC Studio tour

Places on my to-do list:
NY Botanic Gardens
City Island
Staten Island for Sri Lankan food and Snug Harbor
Morgan Library
Louis Armstrong House Museum
Kalustyan's
Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum