Isaac

Hello,
Thanks to every who responded to my previous post.
1. Do as anybody know of any good tours to take while in manhattan.
2. I want to see a play, what is TCKTS people keep referring to.
3. I huge baseball fan especially a dodger fan, since I’m from L.A., Do you know if there is a museum of ebbets field in brookyl, or dodger museum. How far is cooperstown from here.

Can’s wait leaving on Monday, for 7 nights and 8 days, do you think that is enough time to see everything.

Leslie

Take the circle island boat tour around Manhattan.

aMom

You should check out the Baseball in America exhibit at the Museum of Natural history (items from cooperstown). Also, you may want to investigate a Brooklyn Cyclones game. I think only bleecher seats are available. All the good seats sell out early on. It's a new Mets farm team that plays in a very nice, new little ballpark in Brooklyn, near coney island (near Ebbetts). I haven't been but I hear it's great. check brooklyncyclones.com for more info.

TKTS is a discount ticket facility that sells day-of tickets at 25-50% off. It involves waiting on a line for roughly about an hour. Discounts are good if you have the time to wait. For more info on that check http://newyork.citysearch.com/feature/34843/. There are also websites where you can register for free, and they offer discounts for advance ticket sales (www.playbill.com, www.theatermania.com, www.hitshowclub.com). You will not find discounts for the very popular shows like Producers, Lion King, etc. but there are still many good choices. You may also consider a Mets or Yankees game. Both stadiums are easy (and safe) subway rides away. Cooperstown is about 4 hrs away, not exactly a day trip. You can also check out Mickey Mantle's restaurant, the food is nothing special but there's lots of baseball memorabelia.

Enjoy!

x

A lot of people like the grey line bus tours.

It is a way to get tickets for that days productions. Lines are long but tickets are cheap. If you search for postings on theater, a lot of people have explained this process.

Howard

aMom has given a fairly thorough and accurate response to your questions.
As an obvious baseball fan, I would think you'd want to see historic Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. I believe they have tours even when the Yankees aren't playing.

Sharon

Don't know anything about tours; TCKTS has been covered; don't know anything about museums...but suggest ESPN Zone in Times Square for fun, sports-related time/environment. I'd imagine 7 nights/8 days plenty of time to really feel like you've experienced NYC.

Owen O'Neill

1) Gray Line has bus tours with open top double decker bus - you can get on and off at various points and ride all or part of the day. Great way to get oriented to the layout of the city and if you have a good guide on the bus they may relate some interesting historical facts and trivia about the city. There are some good walkign tours that specialize in certain neighborhoods or facets of culture, history etc. - perhaps someone can point you to info source for these. The Circle Line boat tour is great but I advise taking one of the shorter tours - the one that goes all the way around the island (3 hours) is quite boring in parts with little to see.
2)TKTS is a half price ticket booth for Broadway and off-Broadway shows. Tix are for same-day only (you may be able to get Sunday matinee tix on Sat afternoon - not sure on this). Typically it is the highest price tix only and they are front loge or orchestra seats. With discount and service charge most shows end up costing $42-50 per ticket. A few are only 35% discoutn but most are 50% - I have always gotten good to very good seats this way. Lines can be very long - requires patience. If you're flexible show up at around 7:15 PM and sometimes a few extra seats are released late and lines are short. The main TKTS is on Braodway at or around 45th St in Times Square.
3) Don't know about baseball museums in NYC but Cooperstown is a good three hour drive from NYC. There is no convenient public transport to C'town but Greyhound may go there via Albany. If you really want to go the best bet is to take the 192 NJ transit bus to Lyndhurst (just west of Giants Stadium) and rent a car from Enterprise. The bus leaves you right by their rental office at Ridge Rd (Rte 17 South) and Rte 3 intersection. Realistically, you'd need to stay overnight in C'town and there's not much else there to see/do except the Farmer's Museum and possibly take in a performance at the Glimmerglass Opera (said to be very nice).

7 nights and 8 days is plenty of time - you could stay longer and see more but you can really see all the major spots and also expereince the flavor of the neighborhoods with this much time available.

rqf

The Brooklyn Baseball Gallery just opened at the minor league stadium at KeySpan Park in Coney ISland. ADmission is $1.
There is an article about this in today's NY times. Go to www.nytimes.com. Article is titled "Broolyn Royalty Comes Home Again" by George Vecsey

Cooperstown - 240 miles, a 5 hour trip

TKTS - sell most tickets at a 50% discount. Booth is at 47th St and Broadway. Opens at 3pm and sells tickets for a performance that night. Only take cash.

r-travels

There's a non-profit group called something like "Apple Greeters", who will (for free) give you a guided walking tour and introduce you to the bus/subway system. You might find more info at the other travel site that begins with "Fr"

Suzy

I was very disappointed with my experience with Big Apple Greeters. They sent me a guide who knew nothing about any of the neighborhoods I was interested in, she gave me a very cursory tour of one of the neighborhoods I had requested, then took me places I had said I didn't want to go. Finally I just told her I had to go do something else.

Maira

Seven days nor seven years is enough all there is to see about this amazing city! If you are a huge baseball fan and you are coming to NY it would be a shame that you would not make it to Cooperstown. It would be a nice respite to take a couple of days to do Cooperstown, a quaint, beautiful upstate New York village. You could rent a car for a day, and start very early if you only have a day to do it. To Albany is about three hours, and it's about 1.5 hours from Albany. Think about it. For any baseball fan, the museum is just unbelievable.

J. Carson

Since you're going to a big city, I suggest that you visit Chicago instead. The skyline is prettier, the streets are cleaner, its easier to get around. Both of the city's two major airporst have 24 hour subways, the entire city is on a grid map. Lake Michigan is much prettier than the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean of NYC. Michigan Ave beats 5th and all of NYC's avenues hands down in the beauty category. There's less visitors. And the suburbs are easy to access for cheaper lodgings.