Hey I will be in the City for 4 days from this Monday.
Apart from the Usual tourist sites which I have seen before, what unusual places to any of you recommend?
Thanks
JWF
by JWFreak 12 Replies latest jw friends
Hey I will be in the City for 4 days from this Monday.
Apart from the Usual tourist sites which I have seen before, what unusual places to any of you recommend?
Thanks
JWF
Central park.
Brooklyn Heights.
I was just there...walked the Brooklyn Bridge and didn't even wish I had a grenade...definite progress. Enjoy NY, its a great city!
Fascati's pizza @ 80 henry brooklyn heights. they have the best cheese slices and lemon ice in the world..... my favorite!
Fascati's Pizza is THE BEST!
Day Tours leaving NYC Port Authority:
West Point Military Academy
Hyde Park (Franklin Delano Roosevelt Home & Vanderbilt Mansion)
Orange County Choppers
Bear Mountain State Park
Other great day-trips throughout the Hudson Valley: Kykuit, Sunnyside, Philipsburg Manor, Van Cortlandt Manor, Montgomery Place, Union Church
Upper West Side: Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Highlights tour plus Biblical garden plus freaky outdoor sculpture, Vertical tour to the roof only is only weekends.)
Bike and Roll NY
@ Hudson River Park
Manhattan Kayak Company (Pier 66)
Lower Manhattan, you could roll the Financial District or Chinatown/Little Italy into a day with lunch/dinner with either of these:
Fraunces Tavern Museum
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
This glorius time of year especially,
NY Botanical Garden (up in the Bronx)
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Guided Tour of Lincoln Center
National Museum of the American Indian
Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)
For all the nooks and crannies, Big Onion Walking Tours.
The south bronx
RR, you cannot be serious!
~Sue (born in St. Raymond's. Literally FLED for our lives to NJ)
the Statan Island Ferry is great and it's FREE . IT GOES RIGHT PAST THE STATUE OF LIBERTY AND you get great view of lower Manhattan great for taking Pictures. one of the best Pizza's in ny is Lombardi's coal oven on Spring street off Bowery near chinatown and little Italy