never been before.. really looking forward to it.....

what are the must sees?

 

sopranos tour!

 

yey, excellent question, was gonna put pretty much this up myself. Am due out there on 15th

 

new york is 1 place i will defo be going 1 christmas

 

Empire State, Times Square/Broadway, Rockefeller centre. Jersey Gardens and Woodbury Common for the discount designer shopping. You have to check out a good Irish bar too for the Craic.

 

Erm, everything? LOL

In no particular order

- Go up the Empire State (don't bother going to the top floor, go to the viewing deck on the 82nd or whatever floor it is) Get loads of cool pics
- Then go up the Rockafella - get more cool pics, this time with the Empire State in them lol
- Boat tour from around 42nd-44th Street West - the BEST way to see Manhatten, and excellent voice-tour guides too
- Walk around Wall Street + the NY Stock Exchange
- Walk from Battery Park all the way to Central Park (ask Erik - I did this! Twice )
- Central Park - just see all of it! Honestly, one of my favorite places in the whole world!
- Ride the subway
- Visit "Three L's Pizza" (315 Broadway) aswell as Ben's Pizza (177 Spring St) - best pizza EVER!
- Meat District around 14th St is quite cool
- As is the South Street docks (under the FDR)
- The Met (art museum)
- American Indian Museum
- And if you fancy it, The Sex Museum lol
- Take a walk into and around China Town
- The WTC site and obviously Ground Zero - very humbling
- Ghostbusters firehouse (14 N. Moore St)
- Take a trip to New Jersey (just across the Hudson) and see Manhattan all lit up at night
- Obviously go to Liberty Island. Go to Ellis Island aswell if you like history stuff...
- Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. Get a cab back the other way
- Go to Madison Square Garden, then walk over to Grand Central Station.

Personally, I just walk around everywhere - best way to see virtually everything. As you walk around you find more and more stuff to go see/look at/walk round...

 

pics please

 

http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...albumview=grid

Thats from when I went in '06. For some reason I haven't uploaded the ones from '07. Might do that later.....

 

Thrush pics look great mate

i really must make a point of going next year

 

As above all are a must see, plus I went to see Phantom of the Opera on Broadway which was good as well (well as good as theatre can get!!!!)

Chris

 

2007 pics

http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...albumview=grid

 

thats my 5 days sorted then -

pizza and the ghostbusters fire house seem the priorities tho

 

when i went years ago there was an air craft carrier museum think it was called the intrepid may be wrong that was a good look around

 

Im going 16th january agin 3rd time love it..Cetral park is awesome esp in the winter when they are ice skating ect,go to a broadway show,planet hollywood & hard rock cafe times square are great for a munch,there is that much to do you cant fit it in.
The big abercrombie & fitch shop is great loads tidy burds good for a perv

 

you wanna do the open top bus tours fella, best way to see a lot of it, and its hop on hop off if you see something you wanna have a longer look around, you wanna try the fulton fish market, its early, like 4-5am, but what a site to see!!

to ne fair, the pizza is good everywhere, proper new york style pizza, proper nice! and you can't not have a hot dog whilst your there!!

i loved macy's, and was surprisingly cheap for shopping too

but as already mentioned, your better doing plenty of walking, as you'll see so much more, and get an extra big memory card for you camera, cos you'll never run out of things to take pics of!

you could try get a knicks game in at madison square garden or a yankee game???

enjoy it whatever pal, and you'll want to return again and again

 

Yes you are right , but hen e went earlier this year it wasn't there as its being restored.

Personally i ould not bother going up the empire state building, the rock is far better and better views.

 

as per thrush....walk as much as you can and use the open top bus tours to make the longer hops.

 

Mat has covered what i would have said...

Don't miss Macys either! That place is like a blackhole it's so bloody big!

 

I think ground zero would be a pretty amazing place to see, to soak in the atmosphere and the realisation of what actually happened there a few years ago......

 

few pictures









And if your feeling rich

 

going there as part of our honeymoon in june, can't wait. Was there 2 years ago and as said, want to keep going back! Maybe a daft question, is there anything car orientated worth seeing??