I'm finally ready to head east NYC to be exact, I am very anti tourist so please advise I'm 22 and can't wait

Manhattan:

Metropolitan Museum of Art/Cloisters Museum:

Met offers convience public cafeteria, Petrie Court overlooking Central Park, Balcony Cafe. Fri/Night when museum closed 8:45pm, Balcony cafe becomes Balcony bar from 4:30pm to 8:30pm, with concert playing. During the sunny days, check out the Roof Garden cafe (located on 5th Floor).

Cloisters Museum only has Trie Court cafe.

They're same day admission and great museums.

American Museum of Natural History

Museum of Modern Art

Bloomingdale (Shopping)

Rockfeller Plaza (street and lower level)

Top of Rock

Empire State Building/NY Skyride

World Trade Center

Brooklyn

NYCT Museum

Coney Island

Fulton Mall

Queens

Queens County Farmhouse Museum

Ethnic cultures along (7) line from Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av to Flushing.

Shea Stadium (NY Met)

Jamaica Bay Wildife Refuge

Bronx:

Bronx Zoo

City Island (has best seafood restaurants).

Bay Plaza Mall (Shopping)

NY Botanical Garden

Staten Island

St. George

Staten Island Ferry

Much more I could tell you.

I applaud your attitude. You should have a great time here!

However, you've asked WAY too much for me to answer here! NYC is BIG! There is so much to tell you.

I really suggest you get a copy of the Not For Tourists Guide to NYC. Lots of New Yorkers use it. It's not just a tourist guide.

Another good book is the AIA guide to New York. That's an architectural guide, and will give you lots to see that has nothing to do with what regular tourists want. I use a copy to look up interesting buildings I see from time to time. It's put together by a professional association of architects, and will give you some great history of the City, much of it in the outer boroughs.

As far as which neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens to see, here is a nice sampler:

In Brooklyn

Brooklyn Heights

Park Slope

Prospect Park (this is a huge park, not a neighborhod.)

Williamsburg

DUMBO

Greenpoint

Cobble Hill/Boreum Hill/Carroll Gardens (Officially 3 neighborhoods, but they kind of run together - some call the whole thing "Bocaca".)

Sunset Park (especially the Asian part of the neighborhood, around 8th Avenue.)

Fort Greene

Sheepshead Bay

Coney Island

Brighton Beach (if you are interested in visiting a Russian Jewish neighborhood.)

Borough Park (especially if you want to visit a traditional Chasidic neighborhood.)

In Queens

Astoria

Long Island City

Flushing

Flushing Meadow Park (another big park, the original site of the New York World's Fair.)

Kew Gardens

Those are good ideas. Another thing - read the New York Times Weekend Sections (there are 2 every week.)

Read Time Out Magazine.

Manhattan has most of the city's best restaurants, bars, clubs, museums, theater, live music, etc.

Bronx - Zoo and Botanic Garden

Brooklyn and Queens - many interesting immigrant neighborhoods that are a lot less touristed than Chinatown and Little Italy - Indian culture in Jackson Heights, Arab on Steinway Street around 25th, Chinese in Flushing, Russian in Brighton Beach.

Staten Island has some nice parks and is the largest Italian community in the US - lots of Italian restaurants, food stores, bakeries, cafes, etc.

If you want to see all 5 boros - then hop on the subway system and off you go.

Manhattan - go to China Town/Little Italy (great Knock offs) then go uptown to Harlem

Staten Island - Statue of Liberty

The BRONX - Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse to REALLY get the Feel, after go to the Bronz Zoo.

Brooklyn - Coney Island?????

Queens - Long Island EXpressway - you will be sitting for a LONG time.

Have fun.