NYC beyond the regular sites.
 

My friend and I will be in the city for three days at the end of FEb. We go every year. In the evenings we will go to Broadway shows and Birdland. We are looking for day time activities. We have done the bus tour, several food of NY tours, central park,9-11 memorial . Any suggestions? Thanks for your time.

Cloisters, Frick, Cooper-Hewitt, Highline, looking at residential architecture in the West Village, walking the Jewish Lower East Side, visiting Flushing , Queens with its Asian culture, Green-wood Cemetery, Woodlawn Cemetery, Brooklyn-Dumbo-Cobble Hill,

That's a start

Tenement Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim, MOMA, Museum of the City of New York, Museum of Natural History (and I'm not even a huge fan of museums!!)

St. Patricks's, Fifth Avenue, Bryant Park, the NY Public Library, Grand Central Station, Greenwich Village, Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty.

(You can do all that when you're done with IMDonehere's list)

I'm in your same situation. DD and I have a trip coming up in May. My 6th, her 5th. We've done all the typical tourist things, some more than once, and wanted something different.

A few new things for us will be Cloisters, Frick Collection, Morgan Library, Chelsea Market, Highline, and Eataly.

Here's a link to my recent post. There are some great suggestions from others, and at the very bottom, our revised itinerary.

http://www.fodors.com/community/unit...-and-plans.cfm

I am not a big fan of Eataly, although they do make a wonderful bread, the rustic orange. But if you want to see NY, not a recreation imported from Milan, go to Raffetto's on Houston Street where they make their own pasta and cut it on a machine they stopped making 75 years ago. Opened 1906. Go to Veniero's for pastries, opened 1898. And the best Italian provision store in the city, which is the baby of the group opened in 1925.

We have done a few of the "Made in Brooklyn Tours" and found them really fun and interesting.

Might be worth exploring some of the attractions in the boroughs beyond Manhattan.

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York Transit Museum. In nicer weather, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Coney Island, Prospect Park.

Queens: Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, American Museum of the Moving Image, P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Louis Armstrong House.

Bronx: In nicer weather, Bronx Zoo, New York Botanical Garden, Wave Hill. And Arthur Avenue is home to the non-tourist trap version of Little Italy.

All of the above...NOTE: I've lived here for 40 adult years and I do more exploring than most and there is still plenty on my to do list.

A Guide Named Sue

Lincoln Plaza Cinema, Angelika Cinema, Film Forum, the Quad for arthouse films.

Neue Gallery on 5th Ave. Visit Cafe Sabarsky afterward for Viennese treats and coffee.

Thin