When are you coming here?

If in te next couple of weeks - I highly recommend a show I saw last night, Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage. It's at the Abrons Theatre on the Lower East Side. It's a brilliant and funny - but also powerful - presentation of the Beowulf story. Lots of music.

You could have dinner in that neighborhood and walk to the theatre. I'd spend a few hours wandering around there if you've got any interest in little shops and cafes.

Restaurants - The Fat Hippo is nice. Fancier, needing more time - Kitchen Club is brilliant Asian fusion, run by an interesting Dutch woman.

In Brooklyn - check what is playing at St Ann's Warehouse in Dumbo - whatever is there is probably worth the trip. Walk one way across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Also check what is at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music). These two are "it" places with great theatre often.

PS I didn't have any trouble at all forming an idea of what you meant by your request.

Elizabeth, Thank you! When I was a little girl my dad use to take me every year to the Oakland A’s stadium to see the Yankees play. After I got married my husband started taking me. This year the Yankees are playing Oakland in NY on my 40th birthday and this is the reason for our trip.
I have never walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and would like to do that this trip. The show you suggested will be over. Even though Wicked is playing in San Francisco right now I think I might want to see this.

Can you help me refine my itinerary? We will land Monday at 7am and take the train into the city and drop our bags at 7th and 53rd. Our flight will leave Wednesday at 6pm. Here are the things I would like to do:
Monday
7am arrive
Central Park
Sex Museum
Walk through Chelsea, Greenwich and Soho before the game
7pm Yankee game
Tuesday
12:30pm Tango lessons at Cannon’s Walk at the South Street Seaport
Walk the Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Flutes 5-8 Champagne Happy Hour Midtown 205 West 54th Street
Our last night in the City…maybe go listen to live music? We love everything but country
Wednesday
Guggenheim
Central Park * want to see the Cloisters(if there is time)
Must be at JFK at 4:30pm

Thanks for your help!

I'll look at this again later but -- I think you need a map!!

BAM is only worth going to if there's an event - at night - you'd like to see -- check their schedule - but I don't see a point in visiting it in the daytime, unless there is some daytime show you're planning on.

Can't be at a happy hour in Manhattan & shoe in Brooklyn same night!!

You will not have time for the CLoisters, if you need to be at JFK at 4:30 and do the other stuff.

Here are a couple of things that might interest you:

Dizzy's Coca Cola Club - for jazz - it's in the Time Warner building - check out their web site for schedule and artists, They get the top jazz musicians. Get thyere about a half hour or so before the set starts and order a hamburger (good) or something like that - and enjoy.

A visit to the Metropolitan Museum with these in mind:
Gubbio Studiolo - a room from a palace in Gubbio (15th century) that is made up of intarsio - a truly magic room where the artisans create the illusion of three dimensionality with small pieces of wood of all shapes and hues. You peer into "closets" consisting of the interests of the Duke - books, musical instruments, scientific instruments, and more.

Models of Meketre in the Egyptian wing - one of the startling finds in Egyptian archeology. Atual models (over 4,000 years old) showing all sorts of everyday activities in Ancient Egypt.

Damien Hirst's shark.

It looks to me like you should reverse your days. You can't take a tango lesson at 12:30 downtown and then expect to do all of that stuff in Brooklyn and be at a happy hour in midtown west from 5-8 (or even any part of 5-8).

Monday.
Head downtown and walk across Brooklyn Bridge. Have lunch, then see the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Cab back to your hotel to freshen up, then train to Yankee Stadium.

Tuesday
Sex Museum
12:30 tango lesson (these two go together, no?)
walk around Chelsea, Greenwich Village
then head north (you're already on the west side) to Flutes

Wednesday
Central Park
Lunch
Guggenheim (if you can fit it in)
then off to JFK

nstevey;
re that bike ride to Nyack and back, I did it (and loved it) a few times when I used to ride a recumbent- I think you should warn folks about the "back" part! As in All Up Hill!

Thanks everyone for your help. I found www.timeout.com a very useful resource and listtemac helped me get my barings. I have a lot of great ideas and will keep my options open and see where the city takes me!