Top 15 Things to see/do in New York City?

Question

I'm going to NYC for my 15th birthday the 1st week of October and so I want to know what are the "must see"or do things there. =)

Answer 1

At 15 you'll want to go to Times Square and see TRL from the street, score tix to a show (also in Times Square), picture with Naked Cowboy, window shop 5th Avenue, see the Village, Little Italy (Ferrara's for a cannoli), China town is gross, ride a subway and take the tur bus around the city. It looks fun even though I live here. Eat a dirty water hot dog from a vendor- yum!, pick a museum you like, stare at funny homeless people and read their signs. Try not to look like a tourist by walking fast with your head straight. Have fun. You'll dig it.

Answer 2

1) Empire State Building
2) Statue of Liberty
3) Broadway/Times Square
4) Museum of Natural History
5) Metropolitan Museum of Art
6) 5th Ave. Shopping
7) Rockefeller Center
8) Soho and Greenwich Village
9) Central Park
10) Ground Zero
11) Ellis Island
12) Grand Central Station
13) The United Nations
14) South Street Seaport/Battery Park
15) Brooklyn Bridge

These are in no particular order, and they are the most "touristy" things to do... the essentials I suppose.

Personally, some other favorites of mine (but not essentials for a tourist) are the Cloisters and Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side.

Answer 3

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.

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

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.

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 4

If you like museums, go to the Met, or the Museum of Natural History, the Gugenheim, Cloisters, the Intrepid (which is closing soon)

Typical Tourist stuff:
Statue of Liberty
Ellis Island
Empire State Building
Times Square
World Trade Center Site
a Cruise of lower Manhattan
Go see a broadway show...a number of decent ones out there
Go see an off-broadway show

Other Stuff:
South Street Seaport
Chelsea Piers

Restaurants
Sardis
Carmines
(I've got a ton of them if you need more)

US Open is going on...get some tickets, go to that...

I guess it really depends on what YOU like to do...this place has got everything

Answer 5

NYC is a great place, people are very friendly, I would suggest at 15yrs you would wanna do the Time Square thing, Always take in a Yankee Game (you can get a bleacher seat for 7buck !!!)...get some pizza in Little Italy...go and see the USS Intrepid on pier 86, Coney Island...Hard Rock in Times Square, Madame Tussauds.

Answer 6

Walk the Brooklyn Bridge and get an ice cream at the lightouse on the rivers edge by the bridge.
Eat at Foley's fishouse ver-looking Times Square. Amazing view and amazing food!
Take a carriage ride through central park at night and hvae dessert at tavern on the green in centyral park.\
Go to FAO Swartz toy store as they are opening in the morning, be in line to enter the store and see what happens!
Visit Wall Street - walk around it
Ride the Staten Island Ferry
Walk along the Hudson river walk
Go to Mulberry Street in Little Italy and eat at Farrara's
Ride the Ferris Wheel in Toy's r us in Times Square

Answer 7

a million) suitable of the Empire State development. 2) Greenwich Village - circulate to the Slaughtered Lamb pub. 3) well-known Park Zoo 4) Harlem - There was bus excursions, which could perform, yet verify with the vacationer workplace first. 5) floor 0 - internet site of the international commerce center. ny Island is a large place to circulate to, yet could be costly in case you carry on with the vacationer bits, like Time sq.. sidestep those places in case you pick to circulate buying, using fact the locals will rip vacationers off, as with all city international.

Answer 8

There's lots of good shopping, the statue of liberty and ellis island, times square is pretty cool, central park, the empire state building, ground zero. There's lots of cool stuff.

Answer 9

visit chinatown and then stroll down mott street in little italy for some good italian.

Answer 10

have sex on the plane