I'm The Tour Guide

[jazzy_dave]

You have an out of town guest for 24 hours and you have the day off. They've never visited you before. Where do you take them? What do you do and what sights do you see?

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[penpusher.livejournal.com]

Contingent on weather, the places would have to include Central Park* and maybe Riverside Park if it isn't too cold and windy... parts of Broadway - possibly Times Square if it's not ridiculously overrun... we'd have to ride the Subway of course, get down to the Brooklyn Bridge, maybe walk across it... Then down to the Battery for a look at the Statue of Liberty. If there's an interest, we could ferry over, or take a tour of Ellis Island... are we stopping for lunch? Chinatown, Little Italy, maybe some Indian on 6th Street? Back up to Grand Central Terminal, swinging past the Empire State/Chrysler on the way, And then it depends on budget and interest... we might see a play at the Public Theater... or some live music at a Soho venue... or see the Knicks play at Madison Square Garden... or the Yankees play at Yankee Stadium... or catch one of the late night talk shows at 30 Rockefeller Plaza or over at the Ed Sullivan Theater... Then dining - if we went to a sporting event, we'd likely eat there - otherwise we'd find another place to wrap up.

*Central Park really could take the entire day, if we covered the whole of it. Between the various gardens, the Metropolitan Museum of Art situated right in the park, we could spend hours in that venue alone... and The Museum of Natural History/Hayden Planetarium, The Guggenheim Museum just across the street from the park, well, that really would be three days worth of tour. There's also the Great Lawn/Delacorte Theater where Shakespeare in the Park happens each summer, Free entertainment! There's the Sheep Meadow, the Imagine Mosaic in Strawberry Fields - and the Dakota, where Yoko Ono still lives...

Obviously, 24 hours would not include sleep time as you know, it's the city that never sleeps!