Hey!
Planning an extended weekend trip to NYC from PA for me any my wife's first wedding anniversary. The plan is to arrive late Thursday June, 25th and leave Monday, June 29th. We both have only visited NYC once or twice as kids. This is also generally the first "big trip" I've ever planned so forgive me for being an amateur at this.
We are not Type-A planners. Typically I like to set a few of the big things (show tickets, food reservations) and just have a loose set of things we *could* do in a general area. But I need some help just filling in some gaps, and I'd love to know if I am missing anything big or underrated.
As of now we plan to stay in Hotel 57.
Friday:
-Walk through Central Park
-The Met, The Guggenheim
-Uber to Rockefeller Center.
-Nintendo Store (We're both big Nintendo fans) + Shopping + MoMA (unless we are museum'd out by that point)
-Broadway show at 7pm.
What are the best lunch / dinner options in this general area?
Saturday:
-Planning to get tickets to Blue Note Jazz Bar for dinner around 8, so figured it would be good to stay in the general Greenwich area?
-Color Factory (is this cool or a tourist trap?)
-Joe's Pizza probably after the Jazz Bar
-I Wanted to check out Chinatown (She is Chinese) and Little Italy (I am Italian). I figured it would be best to start here and gradually work our way through to Washington Square Park where Blue Note and Joe's are. But is there enough to do in that area to fill a whole day? I think maybe it would be better to go somewhere else (even outside of Manhatten) and then make our way to Greenwhich towards the evening. Does that make sense? Options I was considering are: New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Coney Island, Staten Island Ferry). Honestly might be worth it to just go to the Met again tbh I doubt we'd see everything in one go.
Sunday:
-Our anniversary itself. Any advice on best dinner spots? I don't mind paying a little extra $$$. One year anniversary and all that.
Other than that... I'm at a loss! There is just so much to do and ground to cover, its hard to know where to start. Like I said, I don't need to have every second of every day blocked out, but I like to know what I'd like to see most before I go. Any advice is appreciated!