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Holiday in New York, October - any family accommodation recommendations?

  • We are coming over to New York in October and would like some accommodation recommendations - apartments or hotels of good quality, somewhere central. Got two children and want a treat. Any Tips, info, good restaurants, things to do - anything New Yorkie? Thanks Guys!

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    My friend, I hope this helped. 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") -Catch a Broadway show -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 -Conference House (scene of the only Peace Conference during the Revolution, Lord Howe versus John Adams and Ben Franklin) -Bronx Zoo/New York Botonical Garden -Yankee Stadium (big year for the Yankess Baseball team. This will be the last year their playing at the Original Yankee Stadium) Museums -Museum Mile (Fifth Avenue from East 86 to East 103 Streets) -Museum of Natural History and the Rose Center for Earth and Space -MoMa -New Museum of Contemporary Art -Madame Tussaud Wax Museum -New York City Fire Museum -New York City Police Museum -Transit Museum -Manhattan Children's Museum -Sony Wonder Technology Lab -New York Hall of Science -Bronx Museum of Art -Brooklyn Museum -Milk Gallery -American Craft Museum -Museum of American Folk Art -Museum of the Moving Image -Museum of Television and Radio -The Municipal Art Society -Jacques Marchais Tibetan Museum (only Tibetan museum in the USA) -Alice Austen House (one of the first professional women photographers, many of her prints are on display, and her home had an absolutely unbelievable view of the harbor) -Snug Harbor (nation's first and only home for retired mariner, its now a museum complex) Other Attractions 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) -Grand Central Terminal (for the shopping) -H&M -Century 21 Department Store (Church and Cortlandt Street) -forever 21 -Barneys New York (660 Madison Ave) Restaurants -Second Avenue Deli -Carnegie Deli -Stage Deli -Junior's Cheescake (home to their World Famous Cheesecake) -Mickey Mantle's Restaurant Good luck Native New Yorker

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This site has listings of apts/condos for rent: HomeAway.com. For guides to NY, go to your library or bookstore, or go to Fodor's or Frommer's on-line site. When you go to NY, you might want to check on this site: CityPass.com. It has a "package" for admission to many sights in NY, but you'll need to calculate whether or not it would be a good deal for you. Buy a MetroPass for getting around Manhattan. [See the Transit Authority website.] Familiarize yourself with the essentials of the subway/bus system. In Manhattan, it's very easy. One free thing you might want to do [and you can do it in lieu of actually going to the Statue of Liberty] is to take the free Staten Island Ferry. You get a nice view of the downtown skyline and the Statue [though not up close]. When you get to SI, get off and get right back on. Don't do this during rush hour! You get the ferry at South Ferry station on the subway lines. A walk across the Brooklyn Bridge is also neat. Take the subway to the first stop in B'lyn [I think it's "Brooklyn Bridge"] and walk back across to Manhattan. It might be cold to do this in October, but if you bundle up, you'll be OK. [We did it in March and it was pretty cold/windy, but we loved it!] Re restaurants: they're cheaper at lunch.

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