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Hi everyone,

I've been planning our NYC itinerary (see below) for me and hubby. All restaurant ressies have been made. We also bought the Mets and Shrek tickets online.

Day One: Mets game/Shake Shack/Ipuddo/Chickalicious
Day Two: Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island/Peter Luger/Walk Brooklyn Bridge/Greenwich Village/Otto Pizzeria
Day Three: Doughnut Plant/Kossar's bialys/Soho/Katz/Tenement museum/Chelsea market/High Line/John's Pizzeria/Shrek
Day Four: UN/Public library/Grand Centra/Jean Georges/Fifth Ave/St Patricks/Top of Rock/Balthazar
Day Five: Bouley bakery/Tribeca/Ground Zero/St Pauls/Wall St/Gotham Bar/Teddy Roosevelt/Flatiron/Coney Island
Day Six: Sarabeth/Central Park/Felidia/Met/Burger Joint
Day Seven: Staten Island ferry

I've done hopstop to get from each destination. If you have suggestions on a different grouping of sights/restaurants, please advise.

Thanks in advance.

CAdinks, do you really want to have all those sit down meals? It will be pretty time consuming plus it really could be a LOT of food!
Most people would be happier with a "nice" lunch OR dinner, not both in one day.

Some miscellaneous notes
Day 1. Shake shack has a stand at CitiField. Probably more expensive than the other 2 locations in Manhattan, but why go just for the burgers?
Day 2 looks exhausting. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island could be half the day. Sure you want to shlep aropund Brooklyn and then the village??
Day 3 is almost all food. (not that that's always a bad thing)
Cheslea Market is all food, snacking and sampling. Kossar's and Doughnut Plant and Katz on the same day and Pizza??

It may be too much food to do all this as listed, but your best bet would be to order small and share. And try spreading out the restaurants during the day as much as possible. Your eyes may be bigger than your stomachs in this case, though.

For day 3, as an example, start with Kossar's and Doughnut Plant getting one item each and sharing for breakfast -- these two don't have to be sit-downs. Visit the Tenement Museum next. Then have lunch at Katz's (do yourself a favor and get the pastrami sandwich, which is amazing there, maybe doing a split). Keep sampling to a minimum at Chelsea Market when you head there next. Hit High Line. Get the smallest size pizza you can at John's and share. See Shrek.

Thanks nyer and bachslunch for your input.

Hubby and I are the type who live to eat and when traveling, food is a top priority. Since we're going to NYC, we're gonna eat our way through the city.

We will pass through Chelsea Market to get up to High Line.

@ bachslunch: It's like you read our minds because we definitely plan to share when we can and just nosh/sample. We wanted to visit the Tenement museum after Doughnut Plant but the tour we want (Getting By) isn't offered until 1 PM so we'll walk around Soho first (with the idea of burning off the doughnuts/bialys) and then Katz and Tenement.

Thanks again.

You note on Day 4 - Jean Georges and Balthazar. Appears to be - J.G. for lunch and Balth for dinner. Check if your res at JG is for Nougatine - where they have a great prix fixe lunch (@$25) or for the main dining room at JG - more formal and expensive.

You need to drop Coney Island from Day 5.

Day Two, we have spent entire DAYS at Ellis Island alone. Keep in mind even with reservations, there are still many lines and the last time we went it took quite awhile to get through security. Also, you really don't want feel rushed in many of these restaurants to get to your next destination.

I think you have too much planned. You itinerary makes me tired just reading it. Slow down and enjoy.

PS Double check on the times for "Getting By" I went at 11:30 and it was offered every half hour or hour. I was a walk in, so your time may be an online reservation time. I loved the tour of this museum.

Start really really early for Ellis/Statue-lines get long and, yes, security is thorough. You can do both if you have the stamina!

Or go to Coney Island first and see how much time you have left for the other things. DH and I enjoyed the Aquarium there and got our Nathan's hotdog. It took almost and hour (from Carnegie Hall area) on subway each way. Something to consider.

Some Fodorite once suggested that one do the favorite thing first on each day then see how much time is left on the list! It's good advice.

Be flexible and come back again and again!

Even if you and hubby are big time foodies, unless you are eating lunch at 11AM and dinner at 10PM, your dining plan is too adventurous.

Pick either a big lunch or a big dinner but you'll be miserable with both.

I've eaten my way through NYC and your itinerary gave me a stomache ache by day three.

@jroth: I checked our ressie. It's for JG and they also offer a 2-course $29 lunch special.

@Anonymous: You're not the first who told us to skip Coney Island so I've crossed it off the list.

@debsnj & TDudette: We have the crown reservations at 8:00 am which is the first trip out to the statue that day.

@MichelleY: I checked Tenement museum website for the date we're going and they only offer "The Moores" in the morning. I think we'll enjoy strolling through SoHo that morning.

Thanks for your input everyone and for your concern that we'll overeat and combust and/or pass out from exhaustion. LOL. I think we'll be fine. We've definitely got the stamina and we will tackle the great food offerings in moderation. :-)

I'm surprised that tourists still factor in a visit to Coney Island even though they just have a few days in the city. For what? Coney is hardly the attraction it was in days gone by - and I mean really gone by. So travel an hour each way for a hot dog? In the old days if you lived in Brooklyn and not too far away you'd hop into your car and go to Nathan's for hot dogs. Cars were double and triple parked. And that was the only place you could get a Nathan's hot dog. Now - aren't those hot dogs the same as the ones in Nathan's all over town?

SoL and Ellis Island will take 6 hours more or less - including ferries to and fro - so you really need to allow more time for that.

Do not waste you time in Coney Island - it has practically nothing to see/do for adults and is at least an hour trip on the subway. I would substitute the Met or MoMA or another quality museum.

Also - can;t imagine how you will do all those big meals - and what's the point of going to a great place and just eating a salad. Plus - you need to figure 2 hours for a decent meal in any of the name places - if not more. Do you really want to spend 4/5 hours a day just eating.

(We really like good food and make a point of going to one excellent restaurants in every city we visit - but many of the other meals -lunch esp - are just a salad or sandwich or small something in a casual place you can spend an hour in.

And I think you've underestimated the time it will take to do several things, as well as the time spent traveling from one to another.

I agree with the others regarding food, it is too much and I love most the places you list with the exceptions of Felidia and Balthazar, which are both over rated. You can call it a food crawl, becasue that is what you will be doing.

The UN is the biggest snooze in town and a trip to Coney Island off season will not be rewarding.

I took the tour of the UN earlier this year and thought it was interesting, esp some of the exhibits as well as the many unique gifts from various nations. However, I don't think it's a must-see, esp for a first-time visitor with limited time. If the OP is more interested in seeing the beautiful Chagall Peace Window at the UN, they can see it in the lobby without taking the tour. See this for more info:
http://www.fodors.com/community/unit...-at-the-un.cfm

I like your plan, looks like you plan to do a lot of walking, which is a great way to see NYC. Do you plan to take taxis or the subway on your trip?

E.g. Going to Doughnut Plant (cash only) which is not really a sit down place, then walk over to Soho which is about a 20 min walk depending on your pace then walk back to the LES for the tenement museum. Hotstop tells you to take the F train and the trip will take 18 mins-it will not, it is a lot of walking. Plus the F train will put you in Nolita-Lafayette and E Houston. Soho is between Canal and West Houston, so you'll have to walk west, then south to get to the hear of Soho.

Day two, I'm assuming you plan to go to the Brooklyn Bridge after Peter Lugers, you can't do that by subway without going through Manhattan, so you may need to take a taxi unless you've built in time for an extra. I know you can take the "J" or "M" train and I'm sure hotstop makes it look straightforward but I wouldn't recommend that for a visitor to NYC. The J and M trains run infrequently.

Things to consider in terms of your sequence: The original Shake Shack is in the Flatiron district in Madison Square Park diagonal from the Flatiron bldg.

Brooklyn Bridge is close to Ground Zero and Tribeca.

West Village and Chelsea are on the same side of the City. John's pizzeria I'm assuming you mean John's of Bleeker St is in the Village and only sells whole pies and is cash only. To get from John's to Shrek you'll have to take the A train to 42nd and 8th.

Balthazar is in Soho.

To get from the tenement musuem to Chelsea market requires multiple train changes not sure if it is possible. But you could get from the Tenement museum to the Village on the same train line in about 10 minutes.