rncheryl

Here's the deal: 3 college roommates from the 60's on a reunion trip to NYC. Will arrive on a Thursday in late March.

First day, get settled, have dinner.

Wishes: WTC memorial, The King and I Friday night, Greenwich village food tour, Tenement Museum tour, Sunday brunch.

Any suggestions as to how to encorporate all of this. I am unsure of transit times, etc.

Sunday brunch suggestions? I found a web post that suggested the 10 top brunch places: the ones that looked interesting were Brasserie 8 1/2, Maysville and Morandi. Any comments?

NeoPatrick

Brasserie 8 1/2 is a buffet, but excellent.

nytraveler

New York is best seen on foot - but at time the distances can be too great and you will need to use the subway. To get detailed information on getting from one plae to another go to hopstop.com and enter any two spots. It will give you all the alternate routes with time and cost (foot, subway, cab or bus).

nytraveler

Sorry - people can give specific routes once you tell us where you will be staying.

elberko

I did a number of the things you would like to do in October. Perhaps that would help:
http://www.fodors.com/community/unit...ding-a-gtg.cfm

~Liz

DebitNM

Is the Morgan Dining still good?

http://www.themorgan.org/sites/defau...BrunchMenu.pdf

doug_stallings

So do those things, but tickets to The King and I are selling briskly so best buy those now. It's a great theater, so even if you're on the back row on the side there's no bad seat in the house.

rncheryl

I don't think I posed my initial question very well. We have already purchased the theater tickets. We will probably be staying at the Hilton Garden Inn at 790 Eighth Ave. The food tours are at ll:30 and 12, lasting 3 hours, so it seems unlikely that we could fit much more in that day. Is it overkill to see the 2 museums (Tenement and WTC) on the same day?

Would like your thoughts.

sf7307

The Tenement Museum isn't really a museum, it's more like a historical recreation, like a living diorama.

maxima

You should definitely buy tickets to the King and I now. The theater is at Lincoln Center. It is relatively small and there are no really bad seats, the upstairs is not far from the stage. People who are members of Lincoln Center Theater get advance notice of the productions and many have already purchased tickets. so be flexible if you want to see this show.

You can buy tickets in advance at the Tenement Museum website. There are a variety of programs, and you can select the one that interests you the most. If you don't want to get advance tickets, the website will let you know how many tickets are available for each program/tour.

mclaurie

I think you need to clarify what days you're doing what and what speific help you want. You mention one food tour and then two. Are they both on the same day?
As for the WTC, there's the 9/11 Memorial which takes about an our and requires not ickets, the 9/11 Museum which apparently takes 2-3 hours and should be purchased in advance and the Tribute Center tour which takes about 60-90 mins.

Here's a website that might help with a brunch choice. http://brunchcritic.com/. It would be a good idea to decide what else you're doing on that day. Are you talking about Sat. Or Sun.? You don't say when you leave.

elberko

mclaurie, those are 2 starting times for the same food tour.

doug_stallings

It sounds as if you have a pretty busy weekend planned already, so I'm not sure what else you might want to add. I think you could easily see two museums in a single day, and combining the Tenement Museum with the 9/11 Memorial makes some sense since both are in lower Manhattan (albeit not within easy walking distance of each other). You probably have time to add at least one more daytime activity on Saturday depending on your interests. You'd also have time to do another show on Saturday night if you wanted, and you could wait and get discount tickets closer to your dates of travel.

For dinner before the theater, Lincoln (at Lincoln Center) is a wonderful upscale Italian restaurant, or you could check out Boulud Sud.

Given where you are staying, Brasserie 8-1/2 may make more sense for Sunday brunch. You're not going to want to travel all across the city to get to a restaurant then back to your hotel to pick up bags. I would not consider a place in the Village. You could go to Central Park in the morning and then to brunch since both are nearby. Norma's in the Le Meridien Hotel is also popular and in the same area.

Or if you want to go to Maysville, then do the Highline that morning followed by brunch (to me, that is a better use of your time, though I have never eaten at Maysville).

rncheryl

Doug, just the post I was waiting for.

Arriving Thursday, walk around, nice dinner.

Friday: Food tour, King and I

Saturday: 9/11 Museum/Tenement museum.

Sunday: brunch, leave for home.


Will get with the others about Central Park/Brasserie 8.5 vs Highline/Maysville.

Traveling companions have suggested instead of a play Saturday night to check about piano bars. Any suggestions. Also, has anybody eaten at Maysville?

http://maysvillenyc.com/pdfs/maysville_brunchmenu.pdf

doug_stallings

Don't Tell Mama is relatively close to your hotel if you want a Broadway-style piano bar, but you probably won't see any Broadway stars on a Saturday night ... at least not until after midnight. They mostly drop by on Sundays and Mondays when theaters are dark.