I plan to tour Newyork for two days, any good suggestion given for a short visit?

Question

For two days touring in such big city like New york, please give me some good ideas. I'm touring along, should I get with tour group or just by myself. Many thanks.

Answer 1

Eat at a Jeckyll and Hydes location. It is not great food, but it is cool spooky atmosphere!

Answer 2

As a native New Yorker, I recommend that you try to hit the following spots

1) A Broadway Play (Wicked, The Lion King, and Rent are wonderful)

2) South Street Seaport Museum. (Have your picture taken by the base of the historic Brooklyn bridge).

3) Have a picnic lunch on The Great Lawn in Central Park.

4) Macy's (it really is a miracle on 34th street).

5) Ride on a subway (to get to any destination, just so you can say you did it.)

6) Walk around So-Ho and tour the cool stores (So-Ho means South of Houston pronounced How ston only in New York.)

7) The tours on the red buses are ok, I guess. I know that they cover most of the city because they are always backing up traffic.

8) Go to the top of the Empire State Building, and kiss a sweetheart (very sleepless in Seattle).

9) Little Italy

10) China Town

11) Times Square- Check out Caroline's Comedy Club.

Answer 3

with a group or alone, doesn't matter. Take the tour buses by day, see as much as possible. See Times Square at night if you can, it's wonderful. Try to catch a play on broadway. The wax museum is great. New York is a wonderful city to visit, couldn't pay me enough to live there.

Answer 4

Two days is really a short visit, It would probably be best to be with a tour guide who knows where all the points of interests for a tourist is located.New Yok city is a great place to visit, good people, great food, this city never sleeps. Have a good Time....

Answer 5

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. For shopping, I prefer the Upper West Side boutiques to 5th Ave and Midtown because I try to avoid tourists. Amsterdam and Broadway have a lot of cute ones from about 84th to 60th (which is near Columbus Circle, and I think you should check that out too)

Answer 6

I'd prefer to go alone, and just wander about. Don't use the subway system it stinks. When I went with family we got a taxi from Times Square down to Battery Park (the very bottom of New York) and spent the day walking back to our hotel. We went to China Town (had fun looking at the dodgy markets on Canal Street), and just wandering about looking in shops etc.

If you want, its worth visiting the Empire State (the view from the top on a clear day is amazing, although the ques are looooong!), a boat out to see Statue of Liberty...all touristy stuff but well worth checking out.

Eat New York striploin steak, and New York cheesecake! And dont bother with the many tourist shops in Times Square, they all sell the same junk, you've seen one, you seen em all.

Have fun!

Answer 7

I am from New York. A great place to go is down to central park. I used to go there all the time. I loved to chill in the park, throw the frisbee, and watch the cute little kids play. If you have an ipod, go to the applestore. I think its on 40th street, and 8th avenue. There are also some delicous resturaunts that serve seafood or meat uptown like on 120th street or something. Cony island is nice, but its not as great as it once was, but i would still go there. The bronx zoo is great! I think the statue of liberty is going to be too crowded, its my favorite. Times square is also one of my favorites.



have fun! NYC is beautiful

Answer 8

Visit the Statue of Liberty & the Empire State Building.

Answer 9

wax museum is cool,also the village. I live in NYC, it's full of many attractions so can't really tell you what to see in a short visit. I think you should research it first and then go see what you think would be most appealing to you. Alone or with a group, well, if you're alone you have an advantage of going anywhere you decide to go, with a group you have to follow them. Of course if you don't know what you're doing, it's better with a group

Answer 10

Times Square is a must... go at night. Rockerfeller Center if it's between Thanksgiving and Christmas especially to see the tree... Madame Toussaud's Wax Museum and the Statue of Liberty. FAOSchwarz no matter what your age :)

Answer 11

On 47th and Broadway we have a Visitor spot. You can by a city pass and can go to any tourist place in the city. Empire State building, circle line boat, madame tussaud and others.