Lower Manhattan

• Little Italy
• Chinatown – Mott Street
• SOHO
• The Oculus at the World Trade Center
• World Trade Center Observation Deck
• WTC memorial pools
• WTC memorial museum
• Exchange Place, Jersey City – From WTC, take PATH train one stop for amazing view of NYC Skyline.
• Brookfield Place, formally called the World Financial Center
  • Shopping and Dining
• St Paul’s Chapel...The oldest US church in continuous use. It’s celebrating 250 Years and George Washington worshiped there.. https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/about/stpaulschapel
• South Street Seaport https://southstreetseaportmuseum.org/visit/
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/vietnam-veterans-plaza/
• City Hall Park (Building secured tighter than the White House since 9/11)
• Municipal Building – exterior (one of the largest government building in the world)
• NY Supreme Court Building (exterior)
• Walk over the Brooklyn Bridge or at least half way.
• Federal Hall …It housed our first congress, supreme court and presidential office and Washington inaugural address was there. https://www.nps.gov/feha/index.htm
• Take a free ride on Staten Island Ferry for the view of New York Harbor, Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan – It’s free so avoid the scammers selling tickets. Not much to see on Staten Island near the ferry terminal unless you’ve rented a car, but you can see “Post Cards” the Staten Island WTC memorial near the ferry or take the free ride back.
• NYSE Building – exterior. (I don’t know if they offer tours)
• Wall Street Area – Charging Bull statue and the Fearless Girl
• Trinity Church and Cemetery (Hamilton is buried there) https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/about/trinitychurch
• Battery Park – walk around to see war memorials. Castle Clinton is also there and the location to buy Liberty/Ellis Island ferry tickets.
• National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian) http://nmai.si.edu/visit/newyork/
• Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island (don’t buy ferry tickets from Street Vendors who will greet you at the subway). You need a separate ticket to enter the statue. Do that in advance. Their website says, “pedestal and museum or going to the crown require special tickets and even more advance planning” but doesn’t say how.

Flatiron District/Madison Square Park

• Madison Squre Park https://madisonsquarepark.org/
  • Met Life Tower located at 1 Madison Avenue
  • General Worth Monument. The guy that Fort Worth Texas is named after is buried there. http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-general-worth-monument
  • Flatiron Building
  • View north up Fifth avenue to see Empire State Building

• Eataly – Italian Resturants and shops. Operated by Lidia Bastianich, and Mario Batali. Located on 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue https://www.eataly.com/us_en/stores/nyc-flatiron

• National Museum of Mathematics – http://momath.org/. Might be of interest for retired accountants 🙂 or maybe not. From their website:

MoMath has innovative exhibits that will engage folks from 105 to 5 years old (and sometimes younger), but with a special emphasis on activities for 4th through 8th graders.

Located at 11 East 26th Street, between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue.

• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace https://www.nps.gov/thrb/index.htm Located at 28 E. 20th St
• Worlds best looking Home Depot (Exterior) in the Original Strauss Department Store Building. Located at 40 West 23rd Street
• Cemeteries of Congregation Shearith Israel – The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. http://www.sephardicstudies.org/csi11.html
  • Shearith Israel was the first Jewish Synagogue in NYC, dating back to 1682. They have three cemeteries nestled between buildings. The plots can be viewed through the fence from the sidewalk. The third cemetery is in this area and located at 21st Street between 6th and 7th Avenues and was in use between 1829-1851.
  • The other two are located at:
    • 76 W. 11th, between 6th and 7th Avenue, in use 1805-1829 (Ten blocks away)
    • 55 St. James Place, opposite Chatham Square, in use 1682-1828 (not in the area, but Chinatown)

Washington Square Park/Greenwich Village

• Washington Square Park
  • http://washingtonsquareparkconservancy.org/visit-us/
  • Washington’s Arch
  • Hangman’s Elm – the oldest tree in NYC at 300 years old https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/the-hangmans-elm-of-washington-square-park/
• Jefferson Market Library. Looks like a castle and built in 1877. It was once a courthouse and woman’s prison. It is now a branch of the NY Public Library and located at 425 Avenue of the Americas https://www.nypl.org/locations/jefferson-market
• Walk around the streets of Greenwich Village from the Library.
  • Christopher Street
    • Stonewall National Monument https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
    • Walk to Hudson Street for larger selection of small restaurants
    • Continue down Christopher to the Hudson River and relax in park
      • https://www.hudsonriverpark.org/explore-the-park/map#search=activities
  • Bleecker Street – some restaurants in the direction of Our Lady of Pompeii Church (click to see interior).
  • The narrowest building in NYC is located at Number 75 1/2 on Bedford Street. It is 9 1/2 feet wide. It was once the home of Cary Grant as did John Barrymore and Margaret Mead http://thevillager.com/villager_54/narrowhousewide.html
  • Many Small resturants along Hudson Street near 10th Street

Midtown

• Top of the Rock Observation Deck at 30 Rockefeller Center https://www.topoftherocknyc.com/
• St Patrick’s Cathedral
• Central Park
• Grand Central Station
• Chrysler Building (exterior)
• The Empire State Building (ESB) observation deck, which I think is an overpriced ride to the top and prefer Top of the Rock (Pay for ESB ticket in the building and not sidewalk vendors.)
• St Thomas Episcopal Church to see its 24m high reredos. (53rd and 5th Ave)
• The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum https://www.intrepidmuseum.org/
• The Highline http://www.thehighline.org/ – The High Line is an elevated freight rail line transformed into a public park on Manhattan’s West Side. It is owned by the City of New York, and maintained and operated by Friends of the High Line
  • Access to the High Line is possible via any of the access points listed below:
    • Gansevoort Street and Washington Street (elevator access)
    • 14th Street (elevator access)
    • 16th Street (elevator access)
    • 18th Street
    • 20th Street
    • 23rd Street (elevator access)
    • 26th Street
    • 28th Street
    • 29th Street (elevator access)
    • 30th Street
    • 34th Street (ramp access) – open 7 a.m. to sunset
• Roosevelt Island
  • Take the Roosevelt Island Tram at 59th street and 2nd Avenue. It only accepts Full Fare Metrocard for the fare (Unlimited Weekly Metrocard will not work )
  • Printable copy of complete Bus & Tram Schedule. RIOC Red Bus is free on the island to get you to the following sites:
    • FDR Four Freedom’s Park http://www.fdrfourfreedomspark.org
      • Open 6 days a week 9am to 7PM, closed Tuesdays
    • Roosevelt Island’s Smallpox Hospital ruins
    • Roosevelt Island Lighthouse
• New York Public Library Main Branch
• Time Square