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Once on the ground, check into a hotel in Long Island City. From there, you look directly across the East River at Midtown Manhattan. The R train gets you from your home base in Queens to Manhattan<\/a> in 15 minutes.<\/p>\n Your New York City<\/a> travel begins in your new neighborhood. Long Island City was once a manufacturing wonderland. The area is famous for the giant Pepsi sign that used to glow outside a massive bottling plant. Warehouses and production facilities have been turned into breweries, museums, restaurants, and performance spaces.<\/p>\n On this day, you can visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n After a day of art, kick back with food and beer at one of the many breweries in Long Island City that brew and pour amazing beers.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t forget to check out\u00a0JoinMyTrip<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0unique trips<\/a>\u00a0happening in New York City and around the world, to travel with\u00a0like-minded travelers<\/a>!<\/p>\n Now it\u2019s time for your New York City<\/a> travel to head to the water. Your choice depends on your level of adventure.<\/p>\n Now that you know where everything is, it\u2019s time to hit the streets. New York City travel must include shopping. The city has major department stores, Macy\u2019s, Bloomingdales, and Nordstrom. The massive ABC Carpet & Home is the place to go for everything to decorate your home. Lose an afternoon flipping through \u201c18 miles of books\u201d at The Strand bookstore.\u00a0<\/p>\n Insider Tip: International visitors immediately head to the customer service desks at Macy\u2019s and Bloomingdale\u2019s. After showing your passport, you get an 11% discount card that is good for the entire store.<\/p>\n Sneaker heads know that New York is the place for the latest and greatest kicks. Sneaker aficionados must head to:<\/p>\n After dinner, listen to a poetry slam or a new play at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.<\/p>\n You will tour the United Nations. Buy a ticket online to tour the headquarters of the United Nations at least a month in advance. Because of security concerns, you must show up an hour before your scheduled tour, which lasts about 60 minutes.<\/p>\n Grab lunch from one of the casual restaurants in Grand Central Terminal. After lunch, you\u2019ll take an audio tour of the station. Don\u2019t be afraid to grab a stranger to test out the Whispering Gallery. There\u2019s a grand archway in front of the Oyster Bar & Restaurant. You can hear what your compatriot in diagonally-opposed arches whispers. Put a decadent end to your Grand Central visit<\/a> with the perfect cocktail at the Campbell bar.<\/p>\n You are going to use your hands at a 4-hour pizza-making class. It\u2019s a great way to learn the secret to delicious New York-style pizza. You get a lesson, maybe make some friends and definitely eat great pizza at the end.<\/p>\n Explore\u00a0unique trips<\/a>\u00a0to New York City with\u00a0JoinMyTrip<\/a>, and join the world\u2019s biggest community of trustworthy travelers today! Share costs and memories while you just sit back and relax.<\/p>\n On this day of New York City<\/a> travel, you are going to visit some colonial landmarks in New York.<\/p>\n Federal Hall National Memorial \u2013 on this site, a building once stood where George Washington took his first oath of office, the location of the United States\u2019 first Congress, Supreme Court, and Executive Branch offices. Before it became a memorial and museum, it was a U.S. Customs House.<\/p>\n African Burial Ground National Monument \u2013 The largest resting place for free and enslaved Africans buried from the 1630s to 1795.<\/p>\n St. Paul\u2019s Chapel \u2013 This was built in 1766 as an annex of Trinity Church. When Trinity burned down, many worshippers joined St. Paul\u2019s. After Washington was sworn in as president of the United States he traveled down Wall Street from Federal Hall to St. Pauls, where he attended church service.<\/p>\n Bowling Green \u2013 New York\u2019s oldest park served as council ground for Native Americans and the place where Peter Minuit bought the island of Manhattan from the indigenous people of this area. This is also the home of the famous Charging Bull statue that most connect to Wall Street.<\/p>\n These are located at the tip of New York, where the city was born. A walk around the area will be an educational experience.<\/p>\n Fast forward in time and scope out dinner in Korea<\/a> town.<\/p>\n You\u2019re going to do some stargazing at the American<\/a> Museum of Natural History\u2019s Hayden Planetarium. With its dinosaur skeleton reproductions and dioramas, the main part of the museum is a bit old-fashioned. The museum\u2019s Rose Center for Earth and Space is a cutting-edge institution. There are lots of interactive ways to look at the world around us, including a cool planetarium and a dynamic presentation of the creation of the universe. (The admission price is \u201csuggested donation,\u201d so you can pay whatever you can afford.)<\/p>\n Before you arrived, you booked tickets for a taping of an American late-night talk show \u2014 The Tonight Show, The Late Show, or Late Night. On this day, you are going to the taping. You must line up an hour before the recording, so you must arrive around 4:00. Soon after, you are going to sit through an approximately 90-minute recording.<\/p>\n This day of New York City<\/a> travel starts when you hop the subway over to Brooklyn. You are going to visit the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where you can see more than 18,000 plants, trees, and flowers in 21 hectares for free. The garden, Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Museum are physically joined together. A casual walk through the garden should take about 90 minutes. Afterward, you have two options:<\/p>\n Participating in one of the activities at the LeFrak Center at Prospect Park, such as roller-skating or ice skating (depending on the season), boating, or biking.<\/p>\n Experiencing the Brooklyn Museum. The Brooklyn Museum \u2013 like the borough it\u2019s named for, this museum is like a hipper cousin to art museums in Manhattan. Special exhibitions that examine pop culture pair nicely with an institution with strong ancient Egyptian art and modern American works.<\/p>\n Dine at one of Brooklyn Heights\u2019 rooftop bar and restaurants.<\/p>\n You can learn about Harlem during an audio tour. Experience Harlem Renaissance or Civil landmarks in different tours.<\/p>\n If you are a fan of hip hop fan, you can visit important spots in this genre\u2019s history in the Bronx and Harlem instead.<\/p>\n This afternoon is your chance to see brilliant art in an amazing setting. The Museum of Modern Art has free admission Fridays from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. A lot of people try to avoid the $25 admission fee, so you should be in line by 4:45; people aren\u2019t allowed in if the museum is past its capacity.<\/p>\n Then, chill with a drink or two at one of the bars that line Ninth Avenue.<\/p>\n Are you ready to start leading your own trip and share your travel experiences with other like-minded travelers? Become a\u00a0TripLeader<\/a>\u00a0and start\u00a0leading<\/a>\u00a0your very own trip today!<\/p>\n Relatively few New Yorkers own cars. To bring the country to them, the local public transportation system, the MTA, has dozens of excursions on its buses, commuters trains, and subways. You are going to Long Island\u2019s North Fork to sample some of the country\u2019s best wines (New York<\/a> state is the third-largest producer of wine in the union.).<\/p>\n You must buy your ticket by Thursday evening to take a Saturday or Sunday tour. Tickets can be bought from a gray, green, or blue ticket machine. You\u2019ll hop on Long Island Railroad from Penn Station in the morning with a guide and other travelers. During the full-day trip, you will visit three wineries, where you can sample and purchase wine; eat buffet lunch, and have the opportunity to buy fresh food from a farm stand ($119.25 [110\u20ac] for everything).<\/p>\n This day is devoted to Chinese<\/a> Americans. You are going to start with a trip farther into Queens. Flushing is ripe with Chinese restaurants and cultural centers and stands and stores with the produce and fish this cuisine requires. After soaking up the atmosphere, you are going to ingest authentic Chinese food, not the deep-fried, salty dishes that most slurp down without a thought.<\/p>\n After lunch, it\u2019s time to learn about an integration story at the Museum of the Chinese in America. Chinese American\u2019s real life objects and real stories explain the true experience of Chinese immigration and integration in the United States.<\/p>\n You are going to see a professional New York sports team in action. Depending on the time of year, that can be the Mets or Yankees; the Knicks or Nets; Rangers or Islanders; or Jets or Giants. Of course, you will buy your ticket in advance.<\/p>\n There you have it. Your New York City<\/a> travel guide will help you take a small bite out of the Big Apple.<\/p>\n No trips planned yet? Check out\u00a0JoinMyTrip<\/a>. Here you will find like-minded\u00a0travel mates<\/a>\u00a0and many cool yet unique trips.\u00a0Join<\/a>\u00a0already planned trips or\u00a0lead<\/a>\u00a0your very own trip!<\/p>\nDay 1<\/h3>\n
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