The "new" Whitney Museum opens May 1st, near the Highline. Looks wonderful!!
http://whitney.org/

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The Radio City Music Hall tour was GREAT! Our friends won tickets at a school fundraiser and gave them to us. I wasn't expecting much but we LOVED the tour. The private apartments. The tour of the hydraulics and the stage. Seeing Rockette costumes and photo op with Rockettes. It's a wonderful tour. If you haven't been to the Top of the Rock, definitely go up for the view.

The Wicked tour is the Behind the Emerald Curtain tour and is held on Saturdays. If you like the show, you'll love the tour. 1/2 is seeing the costumes up close and hearing about the details from original cast members. The other 1/2 is in the theater and includes fast forward videos of setting up the set and the hopscotch traveling sets for the tour shows. Great Q&A. I really enjoyed it. You also have time to browse the exhibits in the upstairs public areas, including Rita Moreno's shows from the original West Side Story.

If you haven't been to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, it's a must see - IMO. Wander around the LES. If you saw the movie, Crossing Delancy, go see the Pickle Guys. Or just go see them anyway.

That's how I'd spend six days in NYC with Broadway shows at night.
Well, that's how I did spend days in NYC with Broadway shows every day/night.
If you haven't been to the Union Square Greenmarket, you should. You could also visit Eataly and drop in at my favorite store, Fishs Eddy.

If you haven't been to the Cloister, you should do. Perhaps stop by St. John the Divine on the way back south. Maybe even take a vertical tour.

Definitely walk some of the High Line and eating at Chelsea Market is an option. A Fodorite and I couldn't decide on a restaurant and walked completely through - and stared at Colicchio & Sons while we decided what to do next. We decided to cross the street and had their fabulous tasting menu in the Dining Room. Highly recommend.

My favorite museum is still the Frick. Small, intimate space. Incredible artwork in a fabulous private residence built to serve as art museum after the residents' deaths. It would be lovely to have that kind of money. Collect fabulous art and build the fabulous space to display it - and then live in it until you're gone.

My husband went on the Madison Square Garden Up Close tour a few months ago and really enjoyed it.

Like NYC, this thread is approaching the overwhelming stage pretty fast but that's OK because we've always thought there is a lot to do in this city. Thanks again for all the wonderful ideas and recommendations.

In terms of which performances: Masked Ball and the Cav and Pag at the Met (and no, we have not the backstage tour and in fact, this is our first time AT the Met since for years our opera outings have pretty much been confined to European stages); it will be interesting to compare the "Masked" production to the one we saw in Verona last summer. Also, On The Town, Gentleman's Guide, and The Audience.

Gone are the days when we would come to New York and see two shows every day. I remember when I was so tired I actually walked out of the originally Sweeney Todd (with Angela) because I was falling asleep yet I was on another occasion kept wide awake by Charles Busch and B.D. Wong in Shanghai Moon.

I am typing this as the day dawns perfectly cloudless and that hugh H+M insignia is directly across from and slightly higher than my hotel room on the other two 48th floor in the Hyatt described by one person as a "bunch of shoe boxes piled up on each other."

Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

After a walk on the high line, Del Posto offers a +/-$30 lunch that's worthwhile.

Just as a follow-up, we cabbed to the office 9-11 Museum which we visited after staring for quite a while at the two "foundation fountains" where the two buildings once stood. The last time we were on this spot was when we were staying at the Marriott hotel which we periodically used on trips to the city. God knows what we would have done had we been IN the hotel on the day of the attack. I always wonder if we would have had the presence of mind to get out of the building and run for our lives.

The museum is extremely well-done IMO and it brought back many many memories. In a few ways it reminded me of the museum at Hiroshima.

We are getting ready to leave for the "Masked Ball" performance at the Met now. I checked on the possibility of doing the backstage tour later this week but unfortunately it is completely sold out.