Elin's Tentative Itinerary
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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ETI
Arriving Day (Mon 10th):
Arrive 3:45, check in, find accommodation. Find somewhere to eat dinner (Manhattan Clam Chowder??) then sleep.
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
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
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
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
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.
Free Day (not to be confused with liberty day)
An option is to go to Philadelphia. 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.