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What to do in New York?
Snotgut
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I'm going to NY with family from Tuesday until Saturday and I'll need to stay busy... I'll have some walking-around money, and I'm 19; where is there to go? I'm hoping for something where I can meet some people to chill with until I go back home.
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Have you been to New York before? Do you have any interest in the touristy things? How much walking-around money do you have? What times of day do you need to be kept entertained?
There's a lot to do in NYC. A little more info would make this a much easier question to try and answer.
-Museum of Natural History
-Metropolitan Museum of Art
-Madame tussauds Wax museum
-FAO Schwartz toy store (really cool...and massive [Think the movie "Big" with Tom hanks. Yeah, that toy store.]), there's also the Mac store right next to FAO Schwartz.
-Toys R Us (It's pretty cool, and has a ferris wheel inside)
-You could walk around Times Square and visit the stores near there
-Chelsea Market. It's indoors. Great atmosphere, and has amazing little food shops. It's also the same building where they film "Emeril Live", Major League Baseball Head quarters, and Oxygen H.Q.
-Take a train to China town or Little Italy and just walk around, eat great food, and have a good time.
-Walk around Central Park.
If I think of anything else, I'll add it to the list. I hope this helps. PM me if you have a question, or something!
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NYC is best experienced by walking around. I suggest you start from downtown manhattan and walk up a different route each day. Like one day go east so you get to experience the financial district, Chinatown/Little Italy, SoHo, NoHo, East Village, etc.
Personally I think it's a waste to go directly to (most of) the above sites and nothing else. What makes NYC interesting is finding some quirky store in the side streets. You're not exactly getting the fullest from going to places such as GAP, A&E, Urban Outfitters, and eating in places like Outback Steakhouse, Fridays, Olive Garden, Starbucks, etc. You can get that anywhere.
If you need suggestions or have a specific interest, just ask.
In my opinion, the nintendo store is really overrated. Its basically just an over priced video game store that only sells nintendo products. When i was there back in may, the had a display of all the different versions of gameboys with a few that i guess you could call famous among gamers. (i just cant think of a better way to explain it, sorry) Other then that, all they really had special was a few gamecubes and tvs set up so you can play smash brothers with other people. Maybe they added something new since the wii came out though.
Across the street from the Nintendo Store is this really good Chinese Restaurant. I think its name is Szechuan Second Floor, but it has stairs leading up to it and its kinda easy to miss. So if you're looking for some good food, you can totally check that out.
You walk through some great neighbourhoods -- through Columbus Circle (at the southwest corner of the park), through Times square, the Flatiron district, Union square, Soho (more or less), and end up in Chinatown. If you keep going, you'll wander past City Hall, pass within a block or so of Ground Zero, and end up at Battery park.
Broadway really does define Manhattan in a lot of ways. And it's free, which isn't something that can be said for many entertainments around here.
I also forgot the:
"top of the rock" observatory
and the empire state observatory. I prefer those at night thought I wouldn't say it's exactly worth it.
They're free and bring in a range of people