Since I have been horribly deficient in my research, what would you do with three days in New York, in October? The obvious tourist things are fine to suggest; Ted has never been there and though I grew up only about a hundred miles away, the last time I was in New York was 1983, when I was deciding which college to attend.
We’ll probably do the Empire State Building and a trip on the Staten Island Ferry (with me trying not to intone “We were very tire / we were very merry” the whole time); Ted wants to see Wall Street and the Stock Exchange, which is good because I want to see Occupy Wall Street, assuming they’re still there. I’m thinking maybe the Met as well; not sure about MoMa, because neither of us is thrilled with modern art but they also have a design focus.
What else?
We’ll be staying in midtown, at the Belvedere on 318 W. 48th (thanks for the suggestion, Kiwiria!), so recommendations for restaurants near there are welcome too.
The U.N. Plaza, even if you don’t go in. Rockefeller Center is always worth seeing. Greenwich Village: I first went there to see the Threepenny Opera, but if there’s a festival going on, the Village is fun.
Grand Central Station is still a wonderment to me, though I commuted through it for years. There was an old movie exhibition last time I was there.
I asked my daughter about going to Ground Zero, where they are building (have built?) a monument. She won’t go back, having visited often when she was working with the Red Cross in New York in 2001.
Theater is expensive by my standards, even if you have a two-fer. There are other museums, which I can’t remember now without looking them up; there are also art galleries in midtown. I’m more east side than west side, but there’s *always* something special in the city. Have fun!
the american indian museum is definitely different (and free!!)