Elin's Tentative Itinerary
SUGGESTION FOR CONSIDERATION: Could Free Day be Bronx Day? I would like to book a FREE tour of the Bronx with someone who lives there (the Big Apple Greeter program)*. What do you think? Let's remember that the Bronx has some critical-condition airducts on its hands as well.
- subject to availability.
Things to do for the ETI:
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Buy tickets for Spring Awakening, 8pm, for 14/09 for 2. (Total: $365.50) |
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Buy tickets for ferry and Stat of Lib tour |
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?Get tickets (they're free) for Sony place |
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Buy tickets for Empire State Building (Total: $36) |
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?Buy tickets for Central Park Movie walking tour (Total: $34) |
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(Days can be any day unless specified.)
Day Plan
Monday 10th: Arrival Day
Tuesday 11th:
Wednesday 12th:
Thursday 13th:
Friday 14th: Broadway Day
Saturday 15th:
Sunday 16th: Harlem Day
Monday 17th:
Tuesday 18th:
Wednesday 19th: Little Italy Day
Thursday 20th: Leaving Day
Days to choose from: Liberty Day, Greenwich Village Day, Central Day, Brooklyn Day, Philly Day, Bronx Day.
ETI
Arriving Day (Mon 10th):
Arrive 3:45, check in, find accommodation. Find somewhere to eat dinner (Manhattan Clam Chowder??) then sleep.
Broadway Day (Friday 14th):
Morning:
- St Patrick's Cathedral,
- See Times Square during the day,
- Chrysler Building,
- UN building,
Lunch: At Rockefeller Centre?
Afternoon:
- Explore Rockefeller Centre,
- NYC Public Library,
- Sony Tech Lab.
Evening: Meet outside theatre, find Scott, have dinner and see show on Broadway
Harlem Day (Sunday 16th):
alternative 1 (cheaper):
Morning:
- Pop into a gospel church, selected at random
Lunch: soul food!
Afternoon:
- General Harlem exploration
- Street Parade 2pm in Harlem, Columbia University.
- If we want to, 4-6 there's a free music festival upper right corner of Central Park for Harlem.
Dinner: More soul food? Maybe Wimp's to try out their Sweet Potato Pie..
Evening: Explore 5th Avenue, or just free.
alternative 2:
Morning:
- Columbia University
- Pay to go to Gospel Brunch 1.30, Times Square
Afternoon: Harlem exploration
Evening: Explore 5th Avenue, or just free.
Little Italy Day (Official Feast Day: Wed 19th):
Morning:
- Check out festivities in Little Italy
Lunch: Saussie sarnie on one of the Little Italy stands
Afternoon:
- Anything not done on Liberty day afternoon,
- Visit Tribeca or stay at festival if something interesting is happening.
- Or pop to Greenwich village if we feel we didn't cover it enough on Greenwich Village Day.
Dinner: Obviously at Little Italy. It's official feast day!!
Evening: Check out the festivities at Little Italy or just free
Brooklyn Day:
Morning:
- Cross Manhattan Bridge
- if we feel up to cheesecake we can have apparently a very fine one at "Junior's"
- Coney Island
Lunch: The Famous Nathan's hot dog stand (I'm gonna go for chili dog)
Afternoon:
- Brooklyn Botanical Garden Harvest Festival
- Brooklyn Ice Cream factory (let's hope it's a nice day)
- Cross Brooklyn Bridge at sunset
Dinner: Near Chinatown or Little Italy or a number of other districts to choose from.
Evening: free
Liberty Day (if that doesn't sound American I don't know what does):
Morning:
- Battery Park
- Ferry to Statue of Liberty
Lunch: Umm...pick something up maybe outside battery park?
Afternoon:
- Ground Zero,
- Wall Street,
- City Hall
- Woolworth building
Dinner: Chinatown chinese (or Koreatown Korean)
Evening: Explore Chinatown
Greenwich Village Day:
Morning:
- Explore Tribeca and SOHO in a 'laid-back' manner.
Lunch: Katz's Deli for a pastrami sandwich
Afternoon:
- Explore Greenwich village,
- at some point stopping off at Magnolia bakery to check out the "best cupcakes in the world".
- Empire State Building.
- Flatiron.
Evening: Up to you and your 'out on the toon' sensibilities, Agent Dr. Peter Ventman
Central Day
Morning:
- The Frick Collection
- Natural History Museum.
Lunch aim: Everything Bagel with cheese and tomayto
Afternoon:
- Central Park INC: Shakespeare Garden, Belvedere Castle, Swedish Cottage, Strawberry Fields.
- Possible: 2 hour walking tour of Central Park's movie highlights...(fri 3pm or sat 12pm. I suggest latter)
- Take a quick look at the Guggenheim while we're in that area.
Dinner: Restaurant Row for something exotic
Evening: Times Square.
Bronx Day
Check out the Bronx.
Philly Day
Bus departs from Penn Station regularly, and the journey is only 1.5 hours.
Leaving Day
- Pack
- Quickly eat all food aims we failed to meet/eat as we went along
- Quickly do everything we failed to do as we went along
- Eat some petit filous to keep us going on our journey.