Traveling to NYC--suggestions for things to do/see?

May I recommend the following.

Landmarks

-Empire State Building

-Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island

-Rockefeller Center and the Top of the Rock Observation Deck

-Times Square (no trip is complete without a visit to the"Crossroads of the World")

-Lower Manhattan/Wall Street Area

-United Nations

-Central Park

-Brooklyn Bridge (you can walk across it too)

-Grand Central Terminal (largest railroad terminal in the country)

-A Ride on the Staten Island Ferry (its free and you can see the Statue of Liberty as the ferry crosses the harbor)

-Sightseeing tour on a Double Decker Bus

Museums

-Museum Mile (Fifth Avenue from East 86 to East 103 Streets)

-Museum of Natural History and the Rose Center for Earth and Space (formerly the Hayden Platerium)

-MoMa

-New Museum of Contemporary Art

-Madame Tussaud Wax Museum

-New York City Fire Museum

-New York City Police Museum

-Transit Museum

-The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum

-The Bronx Museum of the Arts

-Brooklyn Museum

-Milk Gallery

-American Craft Museum

-Museum of American Folk Art

-Museum of the Moving Image

-The Paley Center For Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio)

-The Municipal Art Society

Shopping

-Macy's (West 34th Street and Broadway in the heart of Hearld Square)

-Bloomingdale's (Lexington Avenue at East 59 and East 60 Streets)

-The shops along Fifth Avenue (just don't max out you credit cards)

-FAO Schwarz

-Toys "R" Us in Times Square

-Lord and Taylor (5th Avenue at East 38th Street)

-Chinatown/Canal Street Area (if you want to go on the cheap for the stuff you can't get on Fifth Avenue)

-NBA Store (for the basketball fan - 5th Avenue at East 52nd Street)

-The Apple Computer Store (East 59th Street and Fifth Avenue)

-The Time Warner Center (West 59th Street - Columbus Circle)

-Hershey Store (for those with a sweet tooth)

-M&M World (49th Street and 7th Avenue)

-Grand Central Terminal (for the shopping)

-H&M

-Century 21 Department Store (Church and Cortlandt Street)

-forever 21

-Barneys New York (660 Madison Ave)

-Abercrombie & Fitch (5th Avenue @ 57th Street and Water Street between Fulton and John Streets)

-American Eagle Outfiters (4 locations in Manhattan)

-Urban Outfitter (8 locations in Manhattan)

-Manhattan Mall

-Queens Center Mall

-Queens Place Mall

-Roosevelt Field Mall (on Long Island)

-Fulton Street Mall

-Kings Plaza Mall

-Woodbury Common Premium Outlets

-Garden State Plaza

-The Westchester Mall

-Palisades Center Mall

-Westfield Sunrise Mall

-Green Acres Mall

-Jersey Gardens

Restaurants

-Second Avenue Deli

-Carnegie Deli

-Stage Deli

-Junior's Cheescake (home to their World Famous Cheesecake)

among others

I hope this information is very helpful.

Good luck and have a nice trip.

Native New Yorker

For issues to do it sounds as though like close by New Yorker took care of the failings you're able to do - yet basically in ny. There ARE different areas of manhattan that are outdoors of ny - greater appropriate places, honestly, like Brooklyn :) using fact which you would be there for the forged summer season months, circulate right down to Brighton sea coast and Coney Island - Coney Island for the appropriate friggin' warm dogs ever at Nathan's, and Brighton sea coast for a chilled sea coast experience ... take the Q to Brighton sea coast (which will additionally take you to Coney Island 2 stops later) or the N, F, D or B to Coney Island and you will walk down the board walk to Brighton sea coast. there is likewise Queens - Howard sea coast is extraordinarily relaxing, inspite of the undeniable fact that it gets crowded interior the summertime now and lower back. As for the journeys to DC from manhattan - Megabus is large inexpensive. that is as inexpensive as $4.00 each and each way from long island to DC. As for stay shows, i'm no longer lots of a stay overall performance goer as i'm a bar hopper, lol, yet there are continually unfastened stay shows or stay bands at rather some places in Greenwich Village. Take the D to the West 4th stop - assured you will run into some thing :) stable success!