Welcome to Gotham

• Statue of Liberty plus Ellis Island
• 9/11 Memorial and Museum plus Oculus
• Grand Central Terminal plus Whispering Gallery
• New York Public Library Main Branch plus Bryant Park
• Rockefeller Center base for Top of the Rock, windows, and the tree lane

One skyline observatory

• SUMMIT One Vanderbilt
• Top of the Rock
• Edge at Hudson Yards

• West Village loop start at Washington Square Park, end at Hudson River Park piers
• SoHo architecture and galleries
• Chinatown food crawl
• Tenement Museum tour, then Lower East Side food crawl
• Lower East Side or East Village bars and late food
• DUMBO plus Brooklyn Heights then Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens
• Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens brownstone streets and relaxed dinner energy
• Flushing food crawl for Chinese
• Jackson Heights Queens crawl focused on South Asian and Latin

Central Park loop

• Gapstow Bridge
• The Mall and Literary Walk
• Bethesda Terrace and Fountain
• The Reservoir or Great Lawn

West side

• High Line walk Hudson Yards through Chelsea
• Hudson River Greenway walk
• Little Island
• Pier 57 rooftop

Water and skyline

• Staten Island Ferry round trip at sunset for Statue and skyline views
• Roosevelt Island Tram skyline views, then riverfront walk to Four Freedoms Park
• Walk Brooklyn Bridge into DUMBO then Brooklyn Bridge Park at sunset
• Brooklyn Bridge Park
• Brooklyn waterfront walk
• Brooklyn Heights Promenade
• DUMBO cobblestone streets and Washington Street view
• Washington Square Park start line for a West Village loop

One "big three" art stop

• The Met
• MoMA
• Whitney

A second, more focused museum

• Tenement Museum
• Museum of the City of New York
• Guggenheim
• The Met Cloisters plus Fort Tryon Park
• Museum of the Moving Image Astoria

Food experiences

• New York slice crawl
• Joe's Pizza
• L'Industrie
• Patsy's
• Bagel plus lox
• Russ & Daughters
• Katz's
• 2nd Ave Deli
• Chelsea Market
• Time Out Market Brooklyn
• Essex Market

Where to eat

Manhattan, priorities first

• bōm
• COTE
• Pranakhon Thai
• Bánh Anh Em

Manhattan, the rest

• Cotta
• Redeye Grill
• Patsy's
• Blue Hill
• Le Relais de Venise
• Minetta Tavern
• Nakamura
• New Wonjo
• Gottino
• Malatesta
• Cafe Mogador
• Corkbuzz
• Los Tacos No. 1
• The Old Homestead Steak House

Queens, Long Island City

• Rice Thief
• Meju

Queens, Flushing, dim sum

• Asian Jewels
• Royal Queen

Queens, Flushing, hot pot

• Haidilao
• Chongqing Lao Zao

Queens, Flushing, skewers

• Chubby Skewers

Queens, Flushing, anchors

• New World Mall food court
• Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao
• White Bear

Brooklyn

• Roberta's
• Forcella
• Emmy Squared
• Peter Luger

Night in the city

• Broadway show
• Jazz club
• Village Vanguard
• Smalls
• Blue Note
• Smoke Jazz for jazz plus dinner

Rooftop or skyline cocktail

• Overstory
• The Press Lounge

Cocktails and speakeasy nights

Can't miss

• Double Chicken Please
• Sip & Guzzle
• BARBAM
• Attaboy

Classic speakeasy hits

• PDT
• Employees Only
• Angel's Share

Optional add-ons. Do them if the day leaves space.

• DUMBO plus Brooklyn Heights then Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens
• Flushing food crawl for Chinese
• Jackson Heights Queens crawl focused on South Asian and Latin
• The Met Cloisters plus Fort Tryon Park
• Museum of the Moving Image Astoria

• Live sports at MSG or Yankee Stadium or Citi Field
• Holiday season for Fifth Avenue windows and Rockefeller tree
• Photo walk in autumn or after snow in Central Park