New York trip suggestions

Reznik

I'm going to New York in May with my family for my brother's graduation. My parents have been there already and have seen the touristy things (Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, etc) and they've asked me what I want to do there. I'm not too big on the super touristy stuff and I don't really know anything about New York other than the super touristy stuff. So I would like some suggestions for things to do/places to see.

Things I am interested in:

- games and general geekiness
- science/technology
- good food (I Chinese food and Indian food)
- movies/tv
- basically anything cool that I wouldn't be able to find in Toronto/Ottawa/Winnipeg

Deebaser

Geeky and/or Touristy Stuff

Go to Ninja. http://www.ninjanewyork.com/
Japanese food served by Ninjas!

American Idiot is opening up soon. That should be an awesome show.
http://www.americanidiotonbroadway.com/tickets.php

Colbert and The Daily Show have Free Tickets and consider out of towners with priority. I dunno if you Canadians are down with JS, though.

Paladin

The best food is on the west side. But I don't go there regularly so whatev

If you're going for food, then Manhattan isn't the only piece of the puzzle. There's manhattan pizza, bronx pizza, brooklyn pizza, queens ... hot dogs, and a lot of other combinations.

If you don't necessarily need the best deal in terms of money, I'd recommend purchasing a Zagat guide to restaurants or really just looking for the Zagat sticker on any restaurant window, doesn't have to be current. Personal and recent recommendations are always the best though.

Current low class (my) favorites are: Chicken and rice from any halal cart, madison square garden Shake Shack for burgers if you looove standing in line or can check out their webcam, basically any brick oven pizza place that knows what they're doing, zagat rated sushi places on 3rd or park avenue, ess-a-bagel for fluffy bagels and impossibly fluffy cream cheese (there are plenty of better ones, shut up I forgot their names), and chinatown for chinese food and vietnamese food - there's also good chinese bakeries, always get the fresh buns from the heating rack in the back. Little Italy for italian dining. Koreatown for really, really expensive korean food.

Uh, gee, I'm not very good at this. Oh yeah: Artichoke pizza on 14th? street between first and second avenue. Great place, artichoke and spinach $4 a slice.


Rockefeller Center is still super touristy, but if you haven't gone it's worth it because it's still a functioning broadcasting center? Maybe? Which will be good for the TV thing, also there's an ice rink! That's closed in spring! Also this means there's a lot of connected businesses/attractions to it, so it won't be a total bust even if it is.

Um, for atmosphere, you can go to the brooklyn bridge, on one side - forgot which - there's a really nice boardwalk with somewhat nice restaurants.

You know, I should really get out more. I haven't been to many of the museums so I can't give you recommendations on which ones fit your science and technology needs, and I'll refrain from talking about anything I haven't personally experienced. I've been to the MoMA, and there was this really neat section on architecture and design that I geeked out over.

Um, there's the Union square greenmarket if you wanna get good fresh cheese, vegetables, and hot apple cider for $2 and zucchini bread and treacles and maple candy and probably a lot of stuff you get in Canada. That's every saturday right on the square itself.

Bleh, I know I can do better than this. Oh well, whatever. Enjoy yourself, and remember: cabbies are required to provide credit card services in the backseat, so if they say it's broken, then they've probably just disabled it to save on transaction fees.