High line

My idea was to go to central park, but I don't hate the high line chelsea market idea I see now.

After little island, continue down the esplanade and take it all the way to battery park. Loop around the Staten island ferry dock (take it back and forth if you want), then continue up the East River past the helipad to the ferry dock. Take the ferry up to 96th Street. Walk West on 96th until you get to Central Park. Walk across/down Central Park to 86th Street. Walk down CPW to 77th or take 86th to Amsterdam, then walk south to 77th. Walk west on 77th to the Hudson. Where do you want/ need to end?

Anonymous wrote:High line to Chelsea mkt to west village of course!

If you do this you can also add on Little Island, which is nice to see.

If you walk west from Penn Station, you can then walk north along the Hudson River Esplanade past the Intrepid and as far as you want (I like going to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine) and then loop back.

Or go south along the high line and then you can go down to the financial district and up into the Lower East Side and Chinatown. Or walk up to Central Park and then go around then. You could also walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and see how far you get and take the subway back. Or go east, go by the United Nations, take the tram to Roosevelt Island, and walk around there.

Or take the 7 from Times Square to Jackson Heights, explore there a little, walk east into Flushing (normally I would say go to the Louis Armstrong House Museum on the way but it's closed Sundays), then loop down to Rego Park (if you want there's the Queens Botanical Garden, Museum, and Zoo on the way but with only 5 hours not sure you'd have enough time). Get a cheburek or two at Cheburechnaya (Bukharian Jewish food...basically kosher Central Asian empanadas) and either loop back to Jackson Heights or take a different subway to where you're going next. This one is less walking and more subway and eating, but the variety of communities you'd see would be very interesting and you'd get a sense of how more typical New Yorkers live!

Also if you really like walking in NYC, look for the Great Saunter in May. It's a 50k circumnavigation of Manhattan in a single day!

Get to Broadway, walk as far south as you can, then head for the financial district. Eat at Fraunces Tavern, ride the Staten Island Ferry for a harbor view, visit the 9-11 tower memorial and the new PATH station/mall (Oculus?).

High line to Chelsea mkt to west village of course!

I'll be coming into Penn station around 9 a.m. and will not be carrying any luggage. I could go to a museum, but one of my favorite things to do in NYC, assuming the weather isn't awful, is to just walk/wander. Any suggestions for rough route? My feet will hold up for at least 12 miles.