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RP: Review our NYC agenda, please!
My husband and I will be visiting NYC in April. We've already reviewed multiple online forums to decide what we'd like to see and we're okay passing on while we're there. I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to review our plans and see if they work time-wise, also if we're leaving anything out... I really really appreciate it!
1st PM - afternoon arrival, check in to hotel (we're staying @ The Library- super excited!), dinner@ GC Oyster Bar, Empire State Building night tour
2nd AM - brunch (any recs b/t GC and 42nd street pier?) Circle Line Cruise, back to hotel PM - subway to Greenwich Village, Ducati NYC, dinner@ Otto, then possibly walk the Highline or Chelsea Piers Golf (on DH's list)
3rd AM - breakfast@ Normas, rent bikes in Central Park (tour if available), lunch@ Shake Shack, PM - over to Rockefeller Center for Top of the Rock and Ice Skating (also on DH's list), back to hotel then subway to Soho for dinner@ Aqua Grill, explore Soho (any recs?)
4th AM - breakfast@ Balthazar, down to Financial District for WTC Tribute visitor Center, bike tour of Financial District/ Brooklyn Bridge, lunch@ Meatball Shop, PM - Tenement Museum, dinner@ Beauty and Essex, subway to/ dessert @ Serendipity 3 (if time)
5th AM - whatever we didn't have time for, found along the way that we'd like to do, then lunch PM - head to airport.
Re: RP: Review our NYC agenda, please!
That looks like a good itinerary to me. A few things that I would change...
- I wouldn't do both Top of the Rock and the Empire State Building.
- The High Line closes at 7, so I don't think you can do that after dinner (unless you're doing what by NY standards would be a late lunch
). I'd walk around the West Village if you can on that day
- My only suggestion for Soho is to explore. Broadway is the most mainstream mall-ish (it is where Hollister and Victoria's Secret and American Eagle and such are) and least charming street, so I'd walk more on the others.
- I've never been to Serendipity but I've heard it is VERY overrated. And it is really far from B&E. Things I'd do instead: cupcake at Sugar Sweet Sunshine; Laboratorio di Gelato (both are on the LES).
- Maybe Pershing Square for brunch near GC? It isn't the best meal you'll ever have, but it is kind of neat and breakfasty (and 42nd Street is a culinary dead zone anyway)
Do you have any drinks plans? I'd definitely add some of those if you drink. For instance, after the Oyster Bar I'd maybe go to the Campbell Apartment in GC.
This is a great itinerary though. Good food choices.
"I've never been to Serendipity but I've heard it is VERY overrated. And it is really far from B&E."
Agree!! as is magnolia imo.
That's the most iconic location, but if she'll be in Central Park before and Rock Center after, there are several locations that would be more convenient and I'd actually recommend that she go to one of those instead unless she wants the whole Madison Square Park Shake Shack experience.
We plan on going to the Shake Shack on 8th Ave...
I understood what you meant about Soho. I appreciate the recommendation. If I wanted to shop at VS, AE, etc I could head to my local mall. I'd like to see things that are unique to NY while we're there.
Last time I was in NYC (about 8 years ago), my grandma and I ate lunch and dessert at Seredipity and I remembered it to be quite good. That's why I added it to our list this time around. But I know that restaurants change with time.
Where do we get a good piece of authentic NY pizza? Street vendors?
no-the vendors are best for knishes and hot dogs and pretzels
there are tons of great pizzerias around. my fave is actually in brooklyn-L&B spumoni gardens. not nearly as tourist popular as grimaldis (of which i'm not a fan). but if you're doing the brooklyn bridge walk grimaldis might be the best for you locationwise. here's a list that our local CBS station did which has good recs for all over the city. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/top-lists/best-slices-of-pizza/ new park is also fantastic (one of my good friend's brothers used to work there-wow i miss him!!)
L&B Spumoni is fantastic (although maybe a little more unconventional -- their specialty is square pizza that has the sauce on top of the cheese), but it would take a few hours of your time to go there. Worth it, but you'd need the time to do it.
I think the best classic slice in Manhattan is at Joe's on Bleecker and Carmine (Greenwich Village). It is a place to grab a slice -- you'd be in and out in 20 minutes. If you want a more substantial pizza experience (meaning wait service), I like Grimaldi's over Lombardi's (although Grimaldi's just moved to a new location so it may have lost some of its charm -- but it is cool to walk over the bridge to get there), and both are good but I don't think either is the best in NY. John's in the Village (right around the corner from Joe's) is a neat experience,and Arturo's on Houston Street is great and has live music at night.
But now I want to go to L&B ASAP