Help - please !! I'm going to NYC in several weeks. I'm staying near Radio City. It seems most museums don't open until 10:00 or 10:30 and I'd like to find things to do (if possible) before they open. Any ideas?

Also, I'm leaving NYC at 2:00 PM from Laguardia. Any ideas on something good to do that morning and still have time to get from Radio City to the airport?

Any help will really be appreciated.

Do you have any interest in the Today show? You can walk over to Rockefeller Center and watch the hosts in the plaza, maybe stop into Dean & Deluca for coffee and a pastry? If you go to D&D and it looks very crowded, there is an upstairs seating area.

You could also go for a nice walk through Central Park, or Window shop along 5th Ave.

thanks Margie. I LOVE Dean & Deluca (unfortunately)

The Metropolitan Museum opens at 9:30 a.m. A stroll through Central Park heading towards the museum would be a good way to start that day.

You could always take the Staten Island ferry out to see the Statue of Liberty. Also- I think some of the around Manhattan boat rides start early.

If it's good weather rent a bike and take a ride in Central Park.

Head down to Balthazar in Soho and have a great breakfast. In fact, that's really what you can do every morning. Pick a different neighborhood to visit, have breakfast and then have a walk around.

If you're going to be here before the end of the month, I think the hop on/off water taxi will still be running. Take a boat ride early. Maybe head over to Brooklyn and walk the Brooklyn Bridge. (have breakfast at Bubby's in Brooklyn first).