A single day in New York city

Amaryl

Hey just found out i'm on a business trip to the states next week, and due to flight costs (its cheaper flying home sunday than friday) my boss will park me in new york over the weekend, where i'd normally have my transfer. So I have saturday the 18th off in new york city,

I know that's not a lot of time so maybe you guys have some suggestions on the best things to do/see in the little time I have.

My first instinct would be to enter a museum, but i'm not sure if that's the best way to spend my time in a city I haven't visited before.

BlazeFire

What part of NYC are you staying in?

djmitchella

How much do you like walking? You can walk past a lot of the "big name" sights in a day, but that'll mean you're walking around an awful lot. We were there for two days recently, and I asked for tips in this thread, so there might be something useful in there.

Amaryl

I haven't booked my hotel yet. Just got my esta waiver renewed. I like walking in general - though I figured I'd get around with the subway.

Does New York City have some kind of museum card - where you can enter multiple places without buying separate tickets? and I don't feel like a chum for only spending one hour in one and then hopping over to the next?

schuss

Amaryl wrote: »

I haven't booked my hotel yet. Just got my esta waiver renewed. I like walking in general - though I figured I'd get around with the subway.

Does New York City have some kind of museum card - where you can enter multiple places without buying separate tickets? and I don't feel like a chum for only spending one hour in one and then hopping over to the next?

Well, considering there are often big lines for the museums (natural history), you're realistically going to only hit 1 or 2.

djmitchella

It'd be worth checking out what's actually showing at museums when you'll be there, too -- the Guggenheim's main display (on the big spiral ramp) wasn't someone we were interested in, so we just went past it to look at the outside; the Met has a lot of stuff but is pretty big and could well chew up a lot of time just walking around the insides, so we went to MoMA, where the top floor has an insane density of Big Name Modern Art in a very small space. (Starry Night, Waterlilies, The Persistence Of Memory, Warhol's soup cans, just a _bunch_ of stuff).

So It Goes

If you do one museum do MoMA for sure. They have awesome stuff there.

Akilae

The lines for Natural History tend to be bad, for whatever reason. Lines for the Met move quite fast. If you want to be savvy and are willing to spend an entire day at it, admissions to the Cloisters works at the Met as well. Cloisters in the morning, and the Met in the afternoon works quite well.

There are a lot of other museums depending on what you're interested in. The Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Museum (a better experience than the Met IMHO, go to Islands afterwards for good Jamaican food).