NYC - Recommendations what to do etc...

Transport
Hop on Hop off bus
Circle Line around Manhattan
Music
Roxy Hotel - 2 6th Ave Lower Manhattan
55 Bar & grill - 55 Christopher Street, Lower Manhattan
 there is a little new's paper called the voice that will tell you what is happening music wise. 
Village Vangurd - Jazz bar - 178 7th Ave S - Greenwich Village 
Eating
Hot dogs from vendors in the parks
great bagels from corner vendors in time square
Rouge Tomate 
Broadway
Ellen’s Stardust Diner - 1650 Broadway
Carmines - Italian - huges meals -2450 Broadway
Brooklyn
Reuben sandwich - Court Street Grocers - 485 Court St., nr. Nelson St., Carroll Gardens 
Grimaldis Pizza is the best pizza ever! you will only need one slice. - 
Under the Brooklyn Bridge
Le Fanfare 1103 Manhattan Avenue
Midtown
Bryant Park Grill s - meet Julie for dinner
Plaza Hotel - food hall underneath like David Jones
Lower Manhattan
Cafe Gitane - 242 Mott St, Lower Manhattan
Balthazar for lunch - 80 Spring Street Lower Manhattan
Katz deli - 205 E Houston St, New York, NY 10002 - Lower Manhattan
Robert De Niro's restaurant the Tribecca Grill - 375 Greenwich St
Blue Bottle Coffee shops - all over 
Roof Top Bars
230 FIFTH Rooftop Garden Bar - 230 FIFTH AVE
    (corner 27th street Manhattan NY 10001
Roof Garden Cafe and Martini Bar - top of the MET museum - 1000 5th Ave, Fifth Floor (great views over Central Park to city - feels like in the trees)
Drinking
Brooklyn Brewery
Greenwich Village - Cool bars
Museums
Museum of Modern art is free on Friday nights between 4 and 8.
MoMA is great and you can get free entry 4-7pm Fridays
Guggenheim
The Frick
Sept 11 memorial
Statue of Liberty
The staten Island Ferry is a great way to get a good view of the Statue of Liberty and its Free:)
Art
Chelsea is the best area for art mostly in the 20s streets between 10th and 11th avenues again they are all free and check the Gallery Guide
Central Park
South east part - the roc / pond / stone bridge
Visit Belveders Castle
John Lennon Memorial - Strawberry Fields
Walks
High Line
Brooklyn Bridge to Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Flatiron Building - Madison Square Park
Ground Zero
Grand Central Station
Views from Above
From top of Rockerfellor Centre over Central Park
Helicopter Flight - No doors
Liberty Helicopters
Empire State building - at sunset
Top of the Rock - first thing in the morning
Shopping
Woodbury common for outlet shopping
Century 21
Macy’s - 34th Street - show passport to get taxes off
Other Attractions
Space Shuttles, there's one on display on the Intrepid Aircraft Carrier

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