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[quote=Anonymous]We live in NYC with teens.

The NYC ferry is a cheap way to see the east river sights (and some of the boats have cute names - like tooth ferry, seas the day, mushiny, and lunchbox). If you are on UES then the only convenient stop is 90th, though Carl schurz park at the stop is nice. The Astoria ferry line will stop in Astoria, Roosevelt island, LIC, 34th, Brooklyn navy yard, and down to Wall Street. The seaport area at wall st is nice with a great bookstore (McNally) and a seaport museum.

Our kids liked walking across Brooklyn bridge - start in Manhattan and end up in Brooklyn and eat at one of the famous pizza places (ie julianas). We let them buy some crud from the vendors on the bridge - like a  baseball hat or llama toy. They like that.

I personally love the natural history museum. You can walk across the park if you are on UES. Our kids like the decorations in the museum subway stop, but the subway seems to scare people. There’s a pink fish scavenger hunt in the new rocks and mineral exhibit - 5 little garnet fish hidden around the room.

Our kids really like the whale watching tour but that’s not very “NYC.” Tons of whales out in the harbor, it’s so odd to see them around the Statue of Liberty. Our kids also like governors island, but we go there with cousins who live in Brooklyn & probably not great bang for your buck when it comes to being a tourist.

When we have friends with kids in town we always take them to Tony’s Di Napoli - the one near the Q train at 63rd. It’s not fine dining but great with kids bc the food is good but inoffensive to kids. They mix the Cesar salad at your table, which intrigues our out of town friends’ kids. Family style, so 2 meals will feed the whole family with leftovers. The brownie sundae is good. Our kids love Korean bbq - down by 34th. “Love” bbq is easy if you haven’t done Korean bbq before. Don’t order too much food- It’s so much food! You can walk around to see Korean beauty shops, fancy bubble tea places, and the Empire State bldg is there.

The Met is nice (if you are with a ny resident go in at sidewalk level so you can do “pay what you wish” - otherwise I suspect it’s expensive). Egypt and “arms and armor” are our favorite stops (can read “from the mixed up files of mrs basil e frankweiler” in preparation!) - if you haven’t been there in a while the Oceania exhibit was recently completely refurbished. From there you can walk to turtle pond, which is aptly named.

Our kids thought the Guggenheim building was cool even when they were 9 or 10. Museum of the city of NY is, reportedly, “boring” but our kids have been there multiple times with school. Their cousins love the transit museum, but we have - somewhat bizarrely in retrospect - never been there. The intrepid is also good if your kids are into ships or the space shuttle. Our kids liked the slime museum - that said, I’ve never been in person bc my spouse would take the kids there when I was out of town for work. The kids’ friends say the ice cream museum is “dumb” because the samples are limited. One of our kids is a nerd and loves the JP Morgan library (they also go with school) - she says the book tour is interesting. If you want to answer hard questions on the tour, the red dye in the 600 year old books is made of beetles.

In Central Park, the zoo is cute. Yes, it’s touristy, but the locals like it too. When the kids were little we had a membership. I have fond memories of the times we spent in the outdoor parts of the zoo and the rest of Central Park during the pandemic. The shopping area is just south of the park. If they are into manga, there’s a good store in the entryway to the subway at Columbus  circle in the underground stores - it’s just south of the big mall with the Whole Foods underground. Our kids like Uniqlo, which has a huge store just south of the park -near MOMA.[/quote]

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