Make sure to book at high end hotel since there are lot of free time inbetween each day.

>>2879843
When I went I did the empire state building in the morning to see the city in the daylight and the top of the rock at night to get pictures of empire state and the city lit up.

I get sick of New York in like 2 hours every time I visit.

>>2879843
You can do all of this in a day if you cut out the shitty tourist din dins

Why would you go to Lex and 125th? You trying to get shot?

Not even gonna see sportsball or a Broadway play? Cmon bro!

>>2879843
>Time square, Top of the Rock
OP, please get somebody who lives in New York to help you because half of these places are overrated touristic scams. Go to Queens to get some actual good food.

>>2879843
Times Square 2x might be excessive. Also what's with Bubba Gump? They're a seafood chain all over the U.S. Is this bait?

>>2879985
>Queens
>good food
Como

>>2880006
Queens has incredible food. Only place on earth you can get Jamaican jerk chicken down the street from Chinese Bao and kebanese shawarma

Take a ride on the Staten Island ferry or some other boat just to get out in the harbor and catch some views of Manhattan.
If you’re in lower Manhattan the free Museum of the American Indian is an oasis from all the tourist hustles around Battery Park. It’s in a spectacular old customs house and even if you’re not into native stuff the building is worth it. Nearby Battery Park City is one if the few places in Manhattan where there isn’t a highway by the water and the esplanade is a great walk, with lots of pocket parks, artwork and memorials.
Take a subway out to Coney Island now that the weather is warmer, Get out of Manhattan and see the rest of the city, even if it’s just a short hop to Williamsburg.

>>2880020
I lived in queens for 6 months and i never ate any of that slop nigga

go to one of NYC's famous gay sex parties
not gay? don't worry, there's popular clubs that do tranny nights on tuesdays, fridays, and most saturdays
or you could go to one of those jerk off ones where the guys just jerk it on their lunch breaks

>>2879843
Herald Square Macy's is cool but aside from the parade and all the decorations when it's Christmastime it's still a Macy's.
Eataly is a chain, I'd recommend replacing it with something NY-specific.
Why go to the 9/11 memorial twice?
Horse carriages might not be out depending on when you go, if it's too hot it's considered animal abuse to "operate" them.

Obviously you'll have a lot of free time, so here's some things I'd recommend:
>Museums:
MET, MOMA, the New Museum (now that it's reopened), Guggenheim, MoRUS, Museum of the Moving Image, City Reliquary Museum
>Neighborhoods:
My favorites in Manhattan are East and West Village. Different vibes but they both have a lot of character. There's also Chinatown and the Upper West Side. Avoid Midtown, it looks like shit.
In Brooklyn there's Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Prospect Heights, and Coney Island. Greenwood Cemetery is also worth checking out, it's what inspired Central Park.
Queens is my favorite borough, definitely check out Flushing if nothing else for great Chinese food. Forest Hills and Kew Gardens Hills are very quaint, and Jamaica has sovl.
Staten is basically New Jersey but Historic Richmond Town is kind of nice, if you really want to hit the island. And then the Bronx I have not been to.
>Movie Theaters:
NYC is one of the best cities in the country for film. My favorite is the IFC in West Village, but there's also the Walter Reade Theater and the Film Forum. East Village Angelika is cool, too, for the building. Metrograph has a great selection but the seats are pure ass-pain.
>Shops:
The Strand is the biggest bookstore in the country by volume, I believe. It's open til 9pm so I usually end up there when I'm in the city.
Night Owl Video in Williamsburg is a new video store with a great selection.
Search and Destroy in EV is a legacy punk shop that kicks you out if you take photos of anything. It's cooler on the outside than inside.

Out of character space so that's all you're getting.

>>2880235
>Greenwood Cemetery is also worth checking out, it's what inspired Central Park.
I used to live next to the cemetery and it’s spectacular. Highest point in Brooklyn, old trees and tombs of the robber barons. Nearby Prospect Park is the same without dead people (though there is a hidden Quaker cemetery) and was done by the same guys who did Central Park but with a decade’s experience and no present day Manhattan looming over it. There’s a few sketchy areas to avoid but it’s safe. I realize people don’t go to NYC to hike but if you ever need a break and the surrounding neighborhoods are interesting. The waterfront parks along the East River in Brooklyn also give you that wide open space but you’re steps away from urban stuff.

>>2879843
Ngl the food choices are mid and very touristy unless you’re from Alaska or something. Go on google maps and search the kinda food you like in various neighborhoods you’ll be near at the time. The only reason actual New Yorkers visit Times Square is to mug white dumb white people like you and shoot heroin

You will got mugged and raped by niggers at 125th street. That’s Harlem, nigga. if they see a white boy tourist like you with all your luggage clueless where tf he is they’re gonna crack your ass open, clean it out and glue it shut

>>2880324
When's the last time you've been there? 20 years ago? Crime is a nothingburger in NYC nowadays. All the gangsters are smartphone zombies just like everyone else. Everything is super gentrified