MY FAVORITE PLACES TO SEE, VISIT, AND DO
Museums | Sites to See and Visit | Shows | Nightlife
CityPass - get discounted prices on nyc museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art - I love this place. It's big, full of various genres of art, and immaculately clean. If you hate crowds don't go on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The best time to go is during the weekdays as early as possible (to miss the school trips too!) If you can help it, BAG YOUR OWN LUNCH! The amount of money they charge is insane! Also admission is a suggested price! This means you can pay whatever you want. I've paid 2 dollars for 5 people before. It's ok to do it, I figure my contribution to the arts will have to wait until I have enough money for it. Admission will also cover The Cloisters on the same day. *Note: You can't see the entire museum in one day. It's impossible.
MoMa -Excellent modern and contemporary art. They will be opening up in the summer of 2002.
American Museum of Natural History - Love this place! Has a great tropical butterfly conservatory! Though a bit aged inside, it's still a phenomenal place to be. Special exhibits (like the butterflies), you need to pay to see but the rest of the museum is pay what you wish.
Guggenheim Museum - Great collections of modern and contemporary art. The architechture alone will dazzle you. Admissions is 15 dollars but it is worth it! Students get in for 12.
Hall of Science in Queens - $4.50 for admission. Great for kids and adults. Very hands on and interactive! The cow's eye dissection is the best! Also the outdoor children's playground is out of this world. Located right in Flushing Meadow's Park.
MANHATTAN
-Lower Manhatten
South Street Seaport - terrific place for shopping, entertainment, and restuarants!
Fulton Markets - Fresh fish!
-Central Park - should not be missed! There are a variety of artists, people, and vendors all over.
Statue of Liberty- Admission to the statue is free but you must take ferry over. Ferry fee is $8 adults, $6 seniors and $3 children.
-Union Square/Gramercy Park/Murray Hill
Empire State Building - admissions is 9 dollars for adults and 4 dollars for children.
Flat Iron Building - 175 Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street New York, NY (212) 477-0947
-Midtown
Grand Central Station - beautiful architechture at this meeting center for most of the subways and metronorth trains. Inside are shops and restuarants.
-Theater District/Garment Center
Times Square - Tons of restuarants, shops, and entertainment. It's great to see, but don't eat or shop there. It's waaaaay too expensive. You can't the same things just five or six blocks away.
-The Village
trendy and hip neighborhood bordered between 14th street and Houston, 1st avenue and 6th avenue. Here you will find NYU, Washington Square Park, West 8th and W4th steet (watch the basketball and handball games at the playground), Bleeker St, St. Mark's place, and Union Square. A neighborhood to wander for a day.
-Chinatown/Little Italy
bordered by the East River, Lafayette, Chambers, and Houston Street. Filled with tons of street life such as open markets, street vendors, bargain basement clothing, jewelary shops, medicine shops, Buddhist temples..etc. Walking through Chinatown requires lots of patience. Locals will walk and stop at random intervals to look at a product without caring that someone is walking right behind them. Be patient and learn to walk ahead of the crowd. A nieghborhood to wander for a day.
THE OUTER BOROUGHS
Queen's Botanical Gardens/Flushing Meadow Park- Beautiful flowers are planted here every spring. The Hall of Science, Queens Theatre in the Park, Ice Skating Rink, Mets Stadium, Arthur Ashe stadium, Queens museum of art, Flushing zoo, and home to the World's Fair in the 30's and 60's is all located here. This is an excellent place to be if Central Park is just too crowded.
Bronx Zoo $6 for Adults $4 for children
Coney Island in Brookyln. New york Aquarium is located here.
New York Botanical Garden - one of the world's most outstanding botanical gardens at 250 acres in the Bronx
Yankee Stadium - in the Bronx
De La Guarda - Daryl Roth Theater 101 East 15th Street 45 dollars a ticket. Children under 12 not allowed. This is an EXCELLENT SHOW! It is a phenomenal experience of sights and sounds. You will not regret this.
Blue Man Group - Great show! 45 dollars a ticket.
Queens Theater in the Park - a cheaper way to see some shows (Now this is really off off Broadway!)
Radio City Music Hall - Don't miss the Christmas Show Spectacular in the Winter!
CC East Village Cinemas - 187 2nd Avenue at 12th Street Usually plays the Rocky Horror Picture Show on Fridays and Saturdays at midnight. Prepare for audience interaction
The Angelika Film Center - for independent films
Webster Hall - Various music, Huge place with three levels and smaller side rooms 125 E 11th St, New York, NY 10003 (212) 353-1600
Culture Club - 80's dance club 179 Varick St, New York, NY 10014 (212) 243-1999
Polyesthers - 60's and 70's dance club 186 W 4th St, New York, NY 10014 (212) 924-5707
Knitting Factory - Live music and shows, small club 74 Leonard St, New York, NY 10013 (212) 219-3055
Lucky Cheng's - restuarant and bar! Food is pricey but good and the wait staff are all drag queens! Live entertainment! Lots of fun! 24 First Avenue at Second Street 212-473-0516
The Bottom Line - Live concerts 15 West 4th Street, on the corner of West 4th and Mercer (212) 228-6300
CBGB's - Underground rock! 315 Bowery between 1st and 2nd Street 212) 982-4052
Terra Blues - excellent jazz and blues club 149 Bleecker Street Between Thompson Street & LaGuardia Place (212) 777-7776
Blue Note - infamous jazz and blues club 131 West 3rd Street 212-475-8592
Copacabana -Latin dancing 617W 57th Street (272) 582 COPA