Madison Square Garden And Yankee Stadium...

I thought that was a second-hand clothing shop.

 

Here are my options for the NYC Pass. We have three days for four of us, with kids in high school and middle school. All of us are happy to walk all over. Staying in Times Square.

Purchasing the pass gets us into... (I took out things like a bus trip to Atlantic City, for example).

9/11 Memorial & Museum*
9/11 Tribute Center
Alternative NY Street Art Tour
American Museum of Natural History*
Big Bus Tours (Hop-On, Hop-Off) -- we're planning on this for some of the Manhattan touring.
Blazing Saddlers Bike Rentals & Tour
Bronx Renaissance Tour
Bronx's Little Italy Tour
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Bridge Sightseeing Bike Tour*
Brooklyn Bridge Sightseeing Walking Tour
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn Museum
Carnegie Hall Tour
Central Park - bicycle, sightseeing bike, walking (3 different options)
Circle Line Downtown Cruise
Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises* (instead of the ferry to SoL, we're planning this)
Clipper City Tall Ship Cruises
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Discovery Times Square
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
El Museo del Barrion
Fashion Windows Walking Tour
FDNY FIre Zone
Food on Foot Tours
Fraunces Tavern
Grand Central Terminal Audio Tour
Greenwich Village Walking Tour
Gospel Wednesday (Harlem Church tour)
Harlem Heritage Walking Tour
High Line-Chelsea-Meatpacking Tour
Hudson River Sightseeing Bike Rentals
Inside Broadway Tours* (already booked it*)
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Jewish Children's Museum
Madison Square Garden All-Access Tour*
Moma PS1
Museum of Eldridge St.
Museum of American Finance (I may do this one)
Museum of Jewish Heritage/Memorial to Holocaust
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Sex (not this trip...)
Museum of the City of New York
New Museum
NY Botanical Garden
NY Hall of Science
NY Historical Society
NY Transit Museum
NY Water Taxi
NYC Gospel Walking Tour
On Location: Central Park TV/Movie Sites
On Location: Harry Met Seinfeld Bus Tour
Queens Museum of Art
Radio City Music Hall Stage Door Tour*
Rockefeller Center Tour*
Shearwater Classic Schooner - Manhattan by Sail
Slavery/Underground Railroad Tour
SoHo-Little Italy-Chinatown Walking Tour*
Guggenheim Museum
Star Trek at the Intrepid
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Brooklyn Bridge/DUMBO Neighborhood Tour
Cathedral of St. John the Divide
Highlights of Midtown Tour
Metropolitan Museum of Art*
Paley Center for Media (I want to -- but probably won't have time)
The Ride
The Skyscraper Museum*
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Top of the Rock*
Tour at Lincoln Center*
Van Cortlandt House Museum
Wall Street Walks*
Wave Hill
Weeksville Heritage Center
Whitney Museum of American Art
Yankee Stadium Full Tour

The * notes what we're already planning to do -- we have three full days -- Friday we'll do downtown/Wall Street/Chinatown, Saturday for Midtown, Sunday for Central Park, Upper West/East.

Any suggestions here from the knowledgeable about NYC Crowd here?

We're a family of four - don't mind walking - don't mind some adventure and the unexpected along the way. Kids don't complain and are happy for the opportunity. In other words, they're not short attention span. That would be me.

 

We did a Circle Line tour on our first visit, great way to see a lot in a short time. We also did a guided Harlem walking tour last month that was outstanding.

 

Don't forget to eat at Chili's.

 

Cran, do you know the Raccoon bar? Somewhere toward lower Manhattan, I think.
Couple hundred years old. Don't get to NYC much, but we once had a memorable night there.

 

And someone thought changing an avatar was sucking up.

 

Yeah, the Raccoon Lodge. It shut down about half a year ago. It was a classic dark place with "eclectic" decor, pool tables in the back and very friendly staff. The whole block (including New York Dolls strip club) is getting torn down for a luxury high rise. That's TriBeCa for you. It was always a little out of the way for me, but I ended up there a few times, although not in several years.

 

Aw, shit. There was a strip club down the street?

 

Well, no. I believe in actually trying to get to know and possibly meet people on my favorite message boards, instead of just remaining anonymous assholes.

 

FWIW, it's cool you want to meet up with Moddy and cran. Just a lame joke and didn't mean any disrespect with it.

 

Speaking for the UWS since that's where I live: Start at Central Park South, walk through the park to the Museum of Nat History. You'll pass the tribute to John Lennon at 72nd street. After the museum (plan to be there for several hours), walk two blocks west to Amsterdam and 83rd and eat at Fred's, a great neighborhood joint. Anything you can do along the Hudson -- bike, walk -- is great. Seeing events or shows at Lincoln Center is well worth it, though I'd be iffy about the tour (from what I've been told, haven't done it in person). I'm guessing the Harry Met Seinfeld is all about the UWS also, which would be fun.

You MUST walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I've heard only good things about Food on Foot tours. (There is also a great dessert tour that goes through the Village ... I'll try to find it.)

 

Lots of great suggestions on here. My two cents:

If you want to do a tall building, go Top of the Rock. View is just as good, and less of a crowd than Empire State Building.

I love the New York Historical Society. Always great exhibits. And close to Natural History Museum and the Dakota. Can knock off a few things in a short time.

9/11 Memorial is very well done and free. The museum is well done... But it's a rough visit. Some things are still hard to see.

And if you're staying in Times Sqaure, go to Jimmy's Corner. Great old-time boxing bar. Tremendous old boxing art and newspaper articles hanging on the walls.

And get Moddy and extra beer. Tell him DeskGrunt50 is good for it next time.