Arrival: 1st September (thursday) at 1:00 o%26#39;clock JFK.
*first thing to do: unpack at the Affinia Dumont
*5th avenue for some postcards, then up to the Postoffice (don%26#39;t know the opening-hours though...)
*dinner: ?
*ESB by night
2nd September (friday)
*Big Apple Greeter
afternoon: ?
dinner: Minado (sushi buffet)
3rd September (saturday)
*Labordayweekend, so we%26#39;re going to Brooklyn%26#39;s Carribean Parade, also Brooklyn Botanical Garden (open?), Chocolate Factory Jaques Torres and afterwards a Grimaldi Pizza and a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge
4th September (sunday)
*Harlem Gospel Tour
*afternoon: rent a tandem-bicycle (3hrs) in Central Park
and stroll in CP
*Pre-theater dinner Carmine%26#39;s: is this an OK place? I mean, is it possible to make any reservations here?
We are going to see Beauty and the Beast afterwards it%26#39;s on : Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
205 West 46th Street
and at what time should we go for dinner if the play starts at 7:30 pm?
5th September (monday) Labor Day
*Shopping Macy%26#39;s - Bloomingdales - Saks - Century 21
*Mme Tussauds
*NY Public Library (open?)
*Rockefeller Center Tour (open?)
*stroll around Theater %26amp; Garment district
If anybody else has some advices to do anything on this day... it would be helpful, thx
dinner:
6th September (tuesday)
*SOL %26amp; Circle Line Cruise 2hrs
*Ellis Island
*South Street Seaport
*Battery park, Wall Street
*Helicopter Ride (can I already go over there, and make reservations for example on friday the 2nd?)
dinner: Rivercafe
7th September (wednesday)
*AMNH
*Central Park stroll to Carnegie Hall (tour)
*Chelsea and West-Village (what%26#39;s interesting there?)
dinner: Virgil%26#39;s BBQ
8th september (thursday)
*NBC Tour %26amp; Radio City Music Hall Tour (maybe also CNN?)
*East Village, Gramercy, St Marks Place
*Little Italy, Chinatown
Anybody suggestions to see over here?
dinner: Lombardi%26#39;s (italian)
9th September (friday)
*Historic Richmondtown (it%26#39;s included in the NY Pass which we have, but how do you get there, and is it any interesting?)
*Madison Square Garden Tour
*Manhattan Mall
What else??
10th September (saturday)
*Brunch at St Barts Caf锟斤拷
*Stroll at the Chelsea Fleamarket
*Leave for the airport -%26gt; Belgium!
Please, i%26#39;m not the ';best'; when it comes to making an itinerary, so if anyone has some advice about anything on this schedule, it%26#39;s more than welcome!
Thx a lot!
Itinerary, needs some adjustments...Wow, you%26#39;ve got a lot going on (and still a lot of time to plan, so don%26#39;t panic yet!)
Check your dates on the West Indian parade in Brooklyn. I believe it%26#39;s on the Monday, not the Saturday, of the weekend. It%26#39;s definitely worth going to. There will be food stalls of all sorts at the parade; since you will have lots of time here maybe that%26#39;s not the best night for a big pizza meal at Grimaldi%26#39;s. Also, the Botanic Garden is closed on Mondays; it%26#39;s nice but really not worth a special trip so late in the season.
If I%26#39;m wrong about the day of the parade, I%26#39;d strongly suggest switching your plans for Monday, Labor Day, with some other day. Labor Day is a big shopping weekend and people are off from work, and the stores will be ridiculously and unpleasantly crowded. If you don%26#39;t _have to_ be there that day, you%26#39;re better off not. Also, skip Manhattan Mall altogether. There%26#39;s not much there and what there is, is unpleasant.
Also, consider combining Wednesday and Thursday so that one day you%26#39;re in midtown (musuem, Carnegie Hall, park, Radio City, etc) and the other you%26#39;re downtown (Chelsea, Village, Chinatown, Little Italy).
Richmond is a neighborhood of Staten Island. I%26#39;m sure it%26#39;s lovely but it%26#39;s not generally on most people%26#39;s must-see lists for a visit.
Do you have any interest in any of the musuems?
Itinerary, needs some adjustments...I%26#39;d try to fit in a visit to the Met if you can. It%26#39;s too big to see all of in a day, but if you pick you bits you%26#39;re interested in, you can see quite a lot. It%26#39;s open late till 9pm on Fridays so you could go then. Make sure you go to the Egyptian exhibition and gaze at the Temple in the twilight. Also, check out what%26#39;s on at the Guggenheim and maybe take a look. When I was there in Jan it was an Aztec exhibition and it was great.
You can make reservations for liberty helicopters on line (just type liberty helicopters into a search engine). We did this and had no problem. It%26#39;s a bit out of the way to go to the office to reserve, but people turned up and flew straight away when we were there without reservations.
The AMNH is fantastic - my fav museum in NY. Beauty and the Beast is fantastic as well. I hope you have a great time!!
If it were possible I WOULD make reservations, but you need to pay immediatley by creditcard, but I already booked a NY pass which I can get discount on a helicopter flight, so you see, I can%26#39;t make reservations through internet for a helicopter-flight :-(
This is an ambitious itinerary.
Arrival day. Don%26#39;t know why you need Post Office. If it%26#39;s simply to mail the postcards, just give them to the desk at the hotel. If you need to go, the main P.O. is on 8th Avenue between 32nd and 34th Streets. Open until at least 9 pm. Since you%26#39;re going to ESB that night, you probably want to stay in the neighborhood. If there are any meat eaters in your group, try Keen%26#39;s Steak %26amp; Chop House, 74 West 36th. If you like Spanish food, there%26#39;s a lovely, small Spanish restaurant called El Pote on 2nd Avenue between 39th and 38th or 38th and 37th.
For Friday, your second day, you have a gap in the itinerary. I%26#39;m going to suggest you take what you have scheduled for Monday (Labor Day) and move it back to Friday. Why? Two reasons. The Caribbean Parade is on Monday, Labor Day, not Saturday, and you do not want to miss that. Second, you do not really want to be in the stores shopping on Labor Day. It%26#39;s a zoo. By the way, there%26#39;s really not much to see in the Garment District. So after your morning greeter, hit the department stores, Mme Toussauds and the library, not necessarily in that order.
Now Saturday is open since you are no longer going to the Caribbean Parade. I noticed on Tuesday you have the Circle Line Cruise, the SOL and Ellis Island, South St. Seaport and a helicopter ride. That%26#39;s a lot of water for one day. Move either the Circle Line cruise or the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island trip to Saturday. I suggest the latter. You can easily spend a half-day at Ellis Island alone. If you have time left in the afternoon, explore Chinatown and Little Italy. Dinner at Lombardi%26#39;s if you want pizza, or 10 Pell or Joe%26#39;s Shanghai or New Green Bo if you want Chinese.
Sunday looks fine, and for a 7:30 curtain you want to eat at around 5:30 to 5:45. Carmine%26#39;s is not great for two people. It%26#39;s better suited for groups. And you may have eaten Italian food at Lombardi%26#39;s the night before. So go to my favorite Brazilian restaurant, Via Brasil, 34 West 46th for an excellent seafood dinner and walk up 46th to the theater.
That brings us to Monday, Labor Day. Go into Brooklyn for the Caribbean Parade. Don%26#39;t plan on dinner. There%26#39;s plenty to eat at the stalls along the parade route. If you have time, walk down Eastern Parkway to Grand Army Plaza and have a look at Prospect Park. It%26#39;s Brooklyn%26#39;s Central Park. If you go to the Botannical Garden, go in the morning before the parade begins, but check to make sure it%26#39;s open on Labor Day. I%26#39;m not sure it is.
Tuesday. We%26#39;ve previously moved Ellis Island to Saturday, so that leaves us with your Circle Line cruise and helicopter tour. The departure points for each are not too far apart. I would move the NBC and Radio City tours from Thursday to this afternoon and substitute dinner at Virgil%26#39;s for dinner at the River Cafe.
Wednesday is fine, but we%26#39;ve already moved Virgil%26#39;s to Tuesday so you need a dinner place. Since you%26#39;ll be in the west Village, may I recommend Chez Michallett, a charming, romantic, tiny French bistro on the corner of Bedford and Grove streets. After dinner, just wander round the neighborhood. It%26#39;s lovely.
Thursday%26#39;s, NBC and Radio City tours have been previously moved. That leaves the entire day and night open. Here is where you%26#39;re going to do Wall Street, South Street Seaport, perhaps Soho, the East Village and St. Mark%26#39;s Place. For dinner, the River Cafe and then a walk back across the Brooklyn Bridge.
That leaves Friday. I have no idea about what%26#39;s in historic Richmondtown or why it%26#39;s historic. I think you can pass it by (it%26#39;s really out of the way) and the Manhattan Mall is no big deal either. That leaves you with the Madison Square Garden tour. So what else to do? How about the Museum of Modern Art? Or Grand Central Station with lunch at the Oyster Bar. Or a bit of athletic activity at Chelsea Piers.
Saturday. Double check brunch at St. Bart%26#39;s. It%26#39;s wonderful but I thought it was on Sunday. Perhaps it%26#39;s both.
I know this is complicated, but the key to a good itinerary is grouping things in the same geogrphic area to cut down on traveling time. Hope this helps.
Have a great trip.
Thx Ruffian!
I%26#39;m going to make some changes on the itinerary this evening, reading your advices won%26#39;t make that a problem ;-)
I%26#39;ll let you know what the final itinerary will be...
Grtz
Ellen
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Check out the Cloisters Museum and the NY Hall of Science. Try finding a small bistro or cafe in Chelsea for dinner when you are down there.
The Met is a must.
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