vacation in new york city?

Answer 1

It couldn't be a real vacation, more like an excursion because you just can't relax in New York City

Answer 2

Go during late fall/early winter! Its beautiful then. And remember bring lots of money. For tourist stuff...first, get a good tour map. Then I recommend you take the BIG APPLE double decker tour bus for an overview of the city. There are several different neighborhoods so I'll highlight these and what to see:
Upper East Side: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim, Whitney Museum. Walk up and down Madison Avenue for awesome shops and boutiques 96th - 57th st. Walk Park Avenue for architecture all the way to Grand Central Terminal and see the treasures located within. Walk along 5th Avenue to see/go in and out of Central Park - go for a run, go to the Central Park Zoo, go to the Carousel, go for a gondola ride at the boat house.
UPPER WEST SIDE:
Museum of Natural History -a must! on Central Park West,
Walk along Columbus Avenue. Visit the West side of Central Park and pay respects to John Lennon's Strawberry Fields.
MIDTOWN:
Shopping - 57th St (Chanel and the gang), Fifth Avenue - must see Henri Bendel, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks and FAO Schwartz - many other fun stores.
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Museum of Modern Art
Sony Bldg
Rockefeller Center
Go west to awesome new Time Warner center and visit the new Mandarin Hotel bar/restaurant for awesome view and treats!
Oh, Bloomingdale's is on 59th St and Lexington.
Empire State Bldg.
The Intrepid Aircraft Museum is fascinating and on the West side...worth the visit even if you have no kids.

CHELSEA:
Walk around the blooming area sprouting awesome restaurants and shops. Chelsea Pier is fun.

WALL ST:
Pay respects to the 9/11 victims and heroes at the WTC site., Walk Wall St., visit the Chase Hdqtrs, Federal Reserve. Seaport area is great to see.

THE VILLAGE:
Funky shops in the West Village. Walk through the NYU Washington Square Park. The East Village has some shops from new artists and designers

SOHO:
Great galleries and shops on n off West Broadway. Walk thru to Little Italy for awesome meals and desserts...walk through Chinatown. CANAL STREET has stall after stall of Designer "copies"...bring cash and bargain and watch your purse!

These should put an awesome smile on your face. Bring your camera and takes lots of photos to remember your trip. If you dont want to be touristy go downtown and get lost there.

Answer 3

New York is one of my favorite places to visit. Especially during the holidays. It's expensive though. So be prepared to shell out.

Answer 4

You'll never rest and will feel the need to go back again and again to catch what you missed.

Please don't eat anywhere that has a theme (i.e. Mars 2012 JekyllHyde, Forrest Gump) and don't eat anywhere that has a franchise in other towns (like Olive Garden, Pizzeria Uno Chicago Grill, TGIF). Absolutely no offense to those restaurants, which even I go to as to experience what the rest of the country is subjected to -- but YOU WILL BE IN NY!!! There is a different international cuisine on every corner! Don't be afraid. Read restaurant reviews and calm down. Watch the cooking shows on PBS and cable. Clean ethnic food will not make you sick, nor will you be served anything dangerous or weird, like cat, or garden snails. If New Yorkers eat there every day and you read nothing going wrong, then it's safe. I'd be more worried about mice droppings in the french fries at the ChuckECheese than eating delicious fresh cold (cooked) shrimp rolls at some Thai restaurant.

You must go to a Broadway Show or two, either buying in advance or going to the TKTS booth and flipping a coin. You will not go wrong; it takes millions to launch a play so none of them, no matter how obscure, could be too bad. Read up on what's going on Off-Broadway, too.

Check out concerts in small venues according to your musical tastes: jazz, classical, up-and-coming rock bands. Chances are you'll be surrounded by "natives", which is what you want.

What about if you get bored with Times Square, the Empire State building, Rockefeller Center and Statue of Liberty (all must-sees)?

Or overwhelmed by the magnificent art in all the museums (Met, MoMA, Frick, Guggenheim, etc)?

Or done with some of the other great museums (Police, Tenement, Natural History, NY Historical Society, Ellis Island, Photography, Moving Image, Television and Radio, Cloisters, Native American-- I could go on-and-on).

Or walked through the Village starting at Union Square (rest-up in the park before starting), down Broadway to Bleecker Street then west till you can't go any further?

Or done SOHO from Prince and Spring Streets east of Broadway, west to West Broadway?

Or walked the Upper East Side -- Fifth, Madison and Park Avenues from, say, 60th street to 90th-- and seen how the really rich live? Or enjoyed the laid-back but equally but lower-key rich Upper West Side and understand why neither neighborhood resident would live in the other's?

And you've shopped along 57th Street, Bloomingdales, Macy's 34th Street, SOHO, and gone downtown to get bargains at Century 21 and visited J&R Music-Computer-Electronics World near Ground Zero?

Then you're ready for the other boroughs!

I don't just mean going the awesome Bronx Zoo and Bronx Botanical Garden, or simply walking across the Brooklyn Bridge and sitting on the Brooklyn Promenade looking at the NYC skyline; there're other places...

Brownstone Brooklyn: from DUMBO under the bridges to Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene/Clinton Hill to Prospect Heights, Prospect Park, Botanic Garden (there is an indoor exhibit, depending on when you go), Brooklyn Museum, Park Slope (especially 7th Avenue from 14th Street to Flatbush Ave). You could walk this in a day but you'll be exhausted by the time you hit Park Slope. I recommend taking buses from Brooklyn Heights over to Ft Greene and walk the rest, up Vanderbilt to the Park. Walking shoes time!

Then there's Coney Island, albeit only Nathans will be open.

Caribbean neighborhood along Flatbush Avenue (take the 41 bus or train to Parkside), where you can get genuine roti, oxtails, tropical fruit and shop for bargains.

Brooklyn's Chinatown on 8th Avenue, where souvenirs are cheaper (but probably just as fragile as Manhattan C-town) and the restaurants treat you less anonymously.

Bay Ridge still has some Italian/Greek flavor, but catch it before it goes the way of the heavy Scandanavian influence that used to be there decades ago (5th avenue and 86th street; 3rd avenue between 65th and 101st streets). This is a residential neighborhood and can feel territorial, so know where you're going. The best Christmas lights are there and in Bensonhurst (recommend driving around as opposed to walking).

Brighton Beach's Russian strip?

On to Queens: Jackson Diner in Jackson Heights has the best freshest Indian food. It's truly a melting pot around there.

Back to Manhattan: Columbia University campus, up Broadway, east to Harlem across 125 Street. Don't be afraid! Do as you'd do in the rest of the city: act like you know where you going by memorizing your map and do not meet eyes of crazy people looking for confrontations. More good food, bargains and souvenirs.

Koreatown karaoke bars (Manhattan 32nd street)

Continue your research on other websites (try timeout.com, zagat.com, the Village Voice paper) and you'll have a great ol' time!

Answer 5

Well it,s a largest city in the world may be you will have a great fun there!

Answer 6

Absolutely, it's a great place to visit, tons to do, and never boring!

If you want to come soon, come around September - Early November, because it's not so crowded then.

Answer 7

Go at Thanksgiving time, that's the best!!

Answer 8

I watch the tourists and they all seem to love it

Answer 9

I want to go, but not now. Maybe next summer.

Answer 10

if u got lots of money sure but if not dont bother