NYC ideas for visit with 14 yo?

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Anonymous wrote:I travel to NYC for work regularly and my DD (14) also loves it. I put this together for friends going with their kids to NYC - many recs are from DCUM:

Restaurants -

Veselka (Ukrainian, may see celebrities)
Bubby's (Tribeca breakfast place where we had to wait in line but that's part of the vibe - was on the last episode of American Love Story so may be worse now)
Urban Hawker (Singapore food mart)
Chelsea Market (Great option - adaptive reuse of an old building now teeming with stores and restaurants - Miznon is great for Middle Eastern)
Jellycat Cafe (This was this bizarre thing involving stuffed animals called Jellycats - if your kids are not into Jellycats skip. If they want to do this reserve now. It's in FAO Schwartz)
Laser Wolf Brooklyn (my coworkers love this place)
Joe's Pizza Greenwich village
Ichiran ramen - Japanese ramen chain where you sit in an individual booth and they slide out a bowl of ramen that you custom ordered. Delicious and kind of a fun concept. Your booth will be next to your kid's
Cool Sips - "Dirty Soda" trend which is big in Utah, weird soda combos - in Rockefeller Center basement, there is also this great lunch spot called Urban Provisions in there, not a ton of seating, more of a grab and go
Bad Roman - Somewhat hilariously decorated, over the top Italian restaurant next to Central Park, really great food but think giant boar statue with a neon necklace when you walk in

Musuems/Other things
9/11 Museum is outstanding and 14 is a great age for it if you haven't been
Tenement Museum is also really cool, recreation of actual tenement apartments in their original location
There is a recreation of the Anne Frank house (or her room) in NYC right now, not sure how long that is happening but I couldn't get tickets
I haven't been but my high school best friend and her kids loved the Museum of Math...they said they name undersells it
The Met and really enjoyed, it was huge and we spent half the day
Rented bikes in Central Park
The Cloisters Museum is supposed to be great - far north
Ice skating in Bryant Park, Central Park or Rockefeller Center if open
Highline!

Broadway
Loved & Juliet the feminist retelling of Romeo & Juliet set to pop hits, it is so joyful
Chess - this was a musical I loved around 14 (and still love) - it's about the Cold War and chess so not sure how it will play but it stars Lea Michele and Aaron Tiveat (he won a Tony for Moulin Rouge) and Christopher Jackson (original Washington in Hamilton) - if you love Broadway go to this, it's one power banger after another
Maybe Happy Ending looks great, won the Tony for Best Musical
The Outsiders - Kid loved this, the fight scenes and sets are really cool - I would recommend highly
The Bobby Darin musical Just in Time with Jonathan Groff
Six is you haven't seen
Hamilton if you have't seen

Have fun!

This is amazing! Wish you did London, Paris, other major spots!

Ha! We did a family trip to Paris two years ago and most of my hit recommendations were off DCUM travel so I should compile! Thanks for the compliment, though I apparently sat through Chess thinking I was watching the guy from Hamilton when I wasn't...regardless Tony for Nicholas Christopher, he was amazing!

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Broadway

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Anonymous wrote:I recommend Six. It’s a little raunchy, but poppy and witty and ripe with Tudor history.

Except I believe it's not historically accurate in many ways. That troubles me a bit.

Like how Hamilton takes liberties with Angelica Schuyler's marriage date to make a subplot about her relinquishing Hamilton to her sister. That's actually pretty libelous/misogynistic. Apparently the flirty letter comments are more verified. But not the origin story.

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Anonymous wrote:&Juliet was
A huge hit for our daughter. We sat in rhe second or third row, which was cool.
Wicked was a disappointment after that
One thing no one mentioned that I learned about from DCUM is the hard hat tour at Ellis Island. It really is a that—both for a teen and for adults. Cant recommend enough.

My teen son liked the ranger tour of the main immigration hall. That's the only thing on the island he liked. I enjoyed the whole museum but want to say that the cafeteria was expensive, dirty, and terrible. It's hard to mess up chicken tenders but they managed.

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We did a circle line boat tour when my DD was 14 and we LOVED it! We got a discount on groupon or something. It left from Hudson Yards and we saw the Financial District, Statue of Liberty (close enough for great pics) and the Brooklyn Bridge. Great views of the skyline!
https://www.circleline.com/sightseeing-cruises/landmarks

We also saw &Julet, ate at the Starlight Diner, had frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity, Walked down Cornelia Street (She's a swiftie) and shopped in the West Village. We also walked the Highline. It was a GREAT trip!

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Anonymous wrote:I recommend Six. It’s a little raunchy, but poppy and witty and ripe with Tudor history.

Except I believe it's not historically accurate in many ways. That troubles me a bit.

Like how Hamilton takes liberties with Angelica Schuyler's marriage date to make a subplot about her relinquishing Hamilton to her sister. That's actually pretty libelous/misogynistic. Apparently the flirty letter comments are more verified. But not the origin story.

It’s a factionalized musical. Yeesh. At least you focused on the story and not on the actresses (there’s a lot of hate out there right now over Dylan Mulvaney as Anne Boleyn. It’s stunt casting and she’s not the best singer in the role, but whatever the musical is still fun)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recommend Six. It’s a little raunchy, but poppy and witty and ripe with Tudor history.

Except I believe it's not historically accurate in many ways. That troubles me a bit.

Like how Hamilton takes liberties with Angelica Schuyler's marriage date to make a subplot about her relinquishing Hamilton to her sister. That's actually pretty libelous/misogynistic. Apparently the flirty letter comments are more verified. But not the origin story.

It’s a factionalized musical. Yeesh. At least you focused on the story and not on the actresses (there’s a lot of hate out there right now over Dylan Mulvaney as Anne Boleyn. It’s stunt casting and she’s not the best singer in the role, but whatever the musical is still fun)

The Anne Boleyn song is the one that bothers me the most because it's just so wildly off about what Anne was really like and portrays her less sympathically than the others.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recommend Six. It’s a little raunchy, but poppy and witty and ripe with Tudor history.

Except I believe it's not historically accurate in many ways. That troubles me a bit.

Like how Hamilton takes liberties with Angelica Schuyler's marriage date to make a subplot about her relinquishing Hamilton to her sister. That's actually pretty libelous/misogynistic. Apparently the flirty letter comments are more verified. But not the origin story.

It’s a factionalized musical. Yeesh. At least you focused on the story and not on the actresses (there’s a lot of hate out there right now over Dylan Mulvaney as Anne Boleyn. It’s stunt casting and she’s not the best singer in the role, but whatever the musical is still fun)

The Anne Boleyn song is the one that bothers me the most because it's just so wildly off about what Anne was really like and portrays her less sympathically than the others.

I mean...who cares!! Its for pure entertainment not education.