Quick question to NYers

[EGAR]

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Hello, NYers.
I just have a quick question to you guys.
This is my first time visiting NYC, and I am trying to spend my last winter break meaningfully before graduation.

Can you guys help me finding great places to visit or things to do that are only "available" in NYC?

Only two weeks left for our D-DAY, and I am planning for my winter break, which is one month left! Excited!

Thank you guys.

 

[Sakab]

NY Skyride, Ice Skating Rink @ Rockefeller Center, Chelsea Piers, Metropolitan Museum and/or Museum of Natural History, Broadway musicals, shopping (especially at Macy's and Saks during winter/Christmas time), Time Warner Center, are just some of the things I can think of. I would also recommend visiting the Liberty Science Center in NJ (only 15 mins from the city). Also, there are numerous events going on at Madison Square Garden. Then there are those places that you almost have to visit (Central Park, Times Square, Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal, 5th Avenue, etc.)

I think that visiting NYC during the wintertime is one of the best times to visit because of the holiday decor/music/general festive theme throughout the city. Have fun!

 

[zeno]

Staten Island Ferry is a great way to see the statue of Liberty.

 

[KillaGorilla]

Pick any type of ethnic food and give it a try. Also if you need to buy anything nyc has almost everything you can imagine.

 

[crax]

NY Skyride, Ice Skating Rink @ Rockefeller Center, Chelsea Piers, Metropolitan Museum and/or Museum of Natural History, Broadway musicals, shopping (especially at Macy's and Saks during winter/Christmas time), Time Warner Center, are just some of the things I can think of. I would also recommend visiting the Liberty Science Center in NJ (only 15 mins from the city). Also, there are numerous events going on at Madison Square Garden. Then there are those places that you almost have to visit (Central Park, Times Square, Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal, 5th Avenue, etc.)

I think that visiting NYC during the wintertime is one of the best times to visit because of the holiday decor/music/general festive theme throughout the city. Have fun!

Great list,
to add:
-try to go out at night and see the christmas tree @ rockefeller center.
-chinatown if you like chinese food, and a great atmosphere! My favorites are Wohop (make sure you go to the downstairs section of it), and Greenbo. Prepare your nose for some interesting smells while walking
-like mentioned above, take the staten island ferry (for free roundtrip, make sure you stop in the center station and get a nice $3.50 24oz can of fosters!) and see the statue of liberty,
-check out some good restaurants, i really like carmines italian restaurant , a little pricey though, huge portions.
-L&B spumoni gardens in brooklyn if you can, you have to go.
-MSG for a rangers game, also during the winter MSG hosts a NCAA D1 big east / winter classic i believe, and if not St Johns plays home games there.
-awesome nightlife, i would check out some dance clubs if you can. let me know when youre going, and i can show you which DJ you might enjoy the most, otherwise check out:
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=545683&referrerid=2
-go get lost on the subway, walk around penn station, you can even head over to newark penn for 4$ and walk to UMDNJ (1.5mi)

 

[EGAR]

Pick any type of ethnic food and give it a try. Also if you need to buy anything nyc has almost everything you can imagine.

NY Skyride, Ice Skating Rink @ Rockefeller Center, Chelsea Piers, Metropolitan Museum and/or Museum of Natural History, Broadway musicals, shopping (especially at Macy's and Saks during winter/Christmas time), Time Warner Center, are just some of the things I can think of. I would also recommend visiting the Liberty Science Center in NJ (only 15 mins from the city). Also, there are numerous events going on at Madison Square Garden. Then there are those places that you almost have to visit (Central Park, Times Square, Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal, 5th Avenue, etc.)

I think that visiting NYC during the wintertime is one of the best times to visit because of the holiday decor/music/general festive theme throughout the city. Have fun!

Staten Island Ferry is a great way to see the statue of Liberty.

Great list,
to add:
-try to go out at night and see the christmas tree @ rockefeller center.
-chinatown if you like chinese food, and a great atmosphere! My favorites are Wohop (make sure you go to the downstairs section of it), and Greenbo. Prepare your nose for some interesting smells while walking
-like mentioned above, take the staten island ferry (for free roundtrip, make sure you stop in the center station and get a nice $3.50 24oz can of fosters!) and see the statue of liberty,
-check out some good restaurants, i really like carmines italian restaurant , a little pricey though, huge portions.
-L&B spumoni gardens in brooklyn if you can, you have to go.
-MSG for a rangers game, also during the winter MSG hosts a NCAA D1 big east / winter classic i believe, and if not St Johns plays home games there.
-awesome nightlife, i would check out some dance clubs if you can. let me know when youre going, and i can show you which DJ you might enjoy the most, otherwise check out:
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=545683&referrerid=2
-go get lost on the subway, walk around penn station, you can even head over to newark penn for 4$ and walk to UMDNJ (1.5mi)

Thank you guys. I REALLY appreciate your help!!

 

[Kahr]

I'd hit up the Guggenheim over MoMA if I had to pick.

It might be cold, but walking across the Brooklyn Bridge and getting pizza at Grimaldi's isn't bad.

Shopping in SoHo if you like shopping, there's a store there that sells raccoon penis bones and other cool stuff (http://theevolutionstore.com/).

Broadway seconded, as well as eating something different every damn chance you get (Yelp is your friend); after 5 years I left feeling I had so so very much left to eat in NYC, I miss it.

 

[polola55]

-All of the ethnic communities: Chinatown (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Flushing), Little Italy (Manhattan and the Bronx), Koreatown (Manhattan and Flushing), etc.

-Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera, Time Square, 9/11 Memorial, etc.

-Walk across the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge