6 months left in NYC area. What should I experience? (New York: amusement park, homes)

[GiantRutgersfan]

Suggestions for things to do? Planning on moving around this time frame, and want to as much as i can that is worth doing.

[Chava61]

The Bronx Zoo, The Bronx Botanical Garden, The Brooklyn Botanical Garden, The Museum of The Moving Image, a visit to Governor's Island, a walk around Roosevelt Island, walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and then visit the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.

[TheBoros]

Originally Posted by GiantRutgersfan

Suggestions for things to do? Planning on moving around this time frame, and want to as much as i can that is worth doing.

I'm assuming you mean off the beaten path since you've been in New York for a little bit... so.. I'll go with that


Manhattan:

Cloisters

Randals Island

Riverside Park

Jumel Terrace Mansion & Historic District

City College Area- Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic Districts

Strivers Row (139th street between 8th and Lenox)

Brooklyn

Coney Island - New Luna Amusement Park

NY Aquarium

McCarren Park

DUMBO, especially Jay Street (Take F to york and walk to water, amazing old school trolley tracks and cobblestone streets, bridge scapes.. amazing)

Greenpoint Historic District - A trip to poland Basically...

Ditmas Park & All the Historic Flatbush Neighborhoods, beautiful Victorian
and Queene Anne homes

Downtown Brooklyn & Brooklyn Heights as mentioned above

Mill Basin Marina

Park Slope / Prospect Park West

Queens

Astoria

Jackson Heights Historic District.. and shops on 37th Avenue

Queens Center Mall / Rego Center (new Century 21)

Forest Hills & Kew Gardens (near the LIRR and 71st ave) Planned english style tudor community still intact... beautiful. Shopping on Austin Street

Fort Tilden Park (Riis Beach) in the Rockaways Old war installation, has sand dunes that rival dubai, old cannons and relics... truly amazing.. Mansions in nearby Neponsit and Belle Harbor

Atlas Park Mall in Glendale

Forest Park & Park Lane in Woodhaven

Jamaica Center for some Flava lol

Douglaston Historic District

Bayside

Flushing Chinatown

Hall of Science

Flushing Meadows Park


The Bronx


Zoo & Botanical Garden

Bartow-Pell Mansion in Pelham Bay Park

City Island!!!! - Seafood Bonanza.. great in summertime

Wave Hill

Van Courtlandt Park

Fieldston Historic District

Little Italy/Belmont

Fordham Center (get your shop on)


Staten Island


Ferry

Zoo (which is dope btw)

St. George

South Beach

Any of the Historic Districts


I'll think of more...


New Jersey

The Shore (Wildwood, Seaside Heights, Point Pleasant, Asbury)

Six Flags Great Adventure

Red Bank

Montclair


Long Island

Jones Beach

The Hamptons

Oyster Bay

Long Beach

[Tony Of New York]

The Museum of the City of New York. This is perhaps the best way to spark interest in other parts and landmarks of the City including the little known. Also Ellis Island along with the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side. Anyone with long ago relatives who emigrated to America definitely passed through Ellis and likely lived in the Lower East Side for a time. Both Ellis Island and The Tenement Museum allow you to trace your roots and let you know just how easy we have it, thanks to the great grand folks!

[silverkris]

If you're in good health, like exploring various neighborhoods on foot, how about walking the whole length of Manhattan (north-south or vice versa) in a day? Before I left NYC (after finishing graduate studies at Columbia) I did this - started from Baker Field (northern tip of Manhattan), went through Inwood, Washington Heights, Harlem, then went down the east side of the island, skirting Gracie Mansion, the UN, down to the LES to Battery Park in the south. Took me about 7 hours to do on a weekend.

You can switch around neighborhoods whether the east or west side, depending on your preferences.