So I just found out that I'm leaving for NY tomorrow morning and will be flying into JFK and I'm going to be there for 24 hours with absolutely nothing to do.

Any ideas?

 

Where are you staying? What do you like?

 

aghhh you're going to new york?? i wish i could go there!! go to that one place with the yummy looking desert in the movie serendipity. go to time square!! is there an ice rink there?.. don't mind me i'm just in awe that you're going to new york.. i want to go there.. *sigh* too bad i'm too poor.. whatever you do, make sure to eat all the yummy looking food, and do whatever looks fun! whatever hotel you stay at, ask them what they would recommend. that's what i do.. they should give you a brochure or something.. well.. HAVE FUN & don't get TOO fat!!! haha

 

Thanks! Its a random trip and its free, so I'm going to pretty much be a hobo in NY for 24 hours

my phone's GPS is going to get a thorough exercise.

I really want to have Italian food, cheese cake, and cheese steaks. I don't have much time there, so I may go on a tour or something? I really want to see central park and the statue of liberty

 

Why are you going to New York if you have nothing to do there? I can go for you if you want if that's the case

 

Walk around Manhattan and the Soho if you plan to shop. Hells Kitchen is a pretty cool area with great restaurants. It you're the site seeing/tourist type, you can check out Central Park, Empire State, Statue of Liberty, etc. One day is not enough to site see though.

 

The GF works for the airlines and she's going, and I get to tag along for free, so I'll be at the hotel chillin.

 

free, tickets,... LUCKY!

I wouldn't have the first clue where to go in NY.

 

since it sounds like your first time, let me find the reply I used previously for another post: depends on what you like to do - like any major city - since it's your first time, should probably stick to Times Square, Empire State, Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, Central Park, etc. - I go fairly often so I know a lot of details

more advice: when you exit the terminal, look for the bus to take you into the city - exit at the first station which is Grand Central - that is in midtown - you can walk to Times Square from here, or take the subways in the station to anywhere you'd like to go

 

Italian food: Little Italy.

Cheesesteak: Wogie's Bar and Grill is supposedly the best.

Cheesecake: Junior's on Flatbush in Brooklyn. Best cheesecake ever.

Not much to see in Central Park. Just a bunch of roads, some lakes and trees.

Statue of Liberty is cool, but they don't let you past the base since 9/11. The view from the top is awesome though. Also with the SoL, it may very well be an all day affair with the lines, boat rides, walking around, etc. Probably better to just go to Battery Park and see it from there. Half the fun was the walk up the spiral staircase to the top in this massive hollow body.

Let me know if you need anything else, I was born and raised in NYC so I won't steer you wrong.

 

I believe I have found some ideas

http://www.time.com/time/travel/city...843415,00.html

 

The TIME thing is cool, but you're going to be exhausted trying to do all that in a day. You'll get caught up in neighborhood shops and you'll make it to 2 or 3 of those tops.

Just pick whatever you want to see/do/eat and go from there.

 

OK best cheese cake ever... I have to do it!

Plus since this is going to be an epic 1 day journey I have to avoid lines, so battery park sounds like the better option.

 

What borough did you grow up in? I beg to differ regarding the park.
Wollman Rink should be open by now.

Also, they opened (whole) Statue to public access lately, although you only can go if you win the lotto for it lol.

 

Sorry for the OT nature of this post, but your threat title made me go out and buy a new york cheese cake, not joking at all. I saw "New York" and started thinking of cheese cake and had to go out and get one... lol