OP you’ll have to update us on what you did, once you’ve made the trip. Maybe I’ll get some ideas for our next trip to NYC.
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Per ao fan’s advice to shift east of Bryant Park, I changed my mind on the hotel. I got tired looking at a bazillion hotels and ended up booking the Costco package (airfare, hotel, transfers) on Lexington Ave in Murray Hill.
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Any casual food recommendations? (We’re only bringing casual clothing.) My son doesn’t have a particularly adventurous palate, but he’s open to the “authentic” NY food experience. He’s not a fan of bagels, but I said they’re supposedly much different in NYC, so he’s willing to try. He loved cannoli in Boston and is hoping to have some in New York, too. Pizza recommendations?
Dumb question: Would there be anything to see/do at Coney Island in March? He was asking about it.
It opens March 23.
In case you go earlier than hat:
6 Fun Things You Can Do in Coney Island in the Off-Season - Revona Properties.
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We liked Juliana’s pizza beneath the Brooklyn Bridge (on the Brooklyn side - Dumbo). Sometimes it has a very long line, so you might want to go outside of regular meal times. The owner has been making pizza since 1941. It has a wiki page. They also make cannoli (rated 2nd in NY in 2017) but I haven’t tried it. They’re one of the few pizzerias that are still permitted to use coal-fired ovens.
Here’s their website -
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ao fan says, “For pizza in New York, nothing beats Little Caesar’s. Pizza Pizza.”
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She ACTUALLY says this place is great: http://nypizzasuprema.com
And for bagels: https://www.ess-a-bagel.com
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I miss ao fan. Maybe you could be so kind as to provide an ao fan says “…” every now and then.
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Top floor of MoMA has some amazing works (Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Dali’s Persistence of Memory, Monet’s Water Lilies, and more). I love it just for that.
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I’ll second NY Pizza Suprema. It’s amazing.
For bagels, I love https://bestbagelandcoffee.com/
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My favorite coffee shop by a mile; they make it in a ‘triple ristretto’ style (less water, faster), leading to a downright sweet pour of espresso https://www.cultureespresso.com/
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OK, I’ll concede that a few pieces are nice, but the weird, avant-garde stuff is just 
!!!
Also Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World (although I can’t remember which floor it is on).
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My favorite experience at MoMa was one day my wife and I went and when we were leaving we saw a woman in a box, and a bunch of people were standing around watching. I asked my wife, 'Is that Tilda Swinton?" “No, it couldn’t be.”
and… Photos: Tilda Swinton Is Sleeping In A Box At MoMA This Year - Gothamist
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If you push your trip out to 2026 you can go to the world cup.
Is your son over 21? If he is then go to a rooftop bar one night
Also, definitely hit up a Broadway show
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Well played NA, well played. 
(She really did recommend the other place.)
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That’s the day we head back home, but my son likes aquariums, so that might be am off-season possibility.
That might be a good possibility when walking the Brooklyn Bridge.
I think my non-bagel-loving kid would appreciate the Oreo cream cheese.
I’ll keep that in mind. I feel like we should go to an art museum, but I’d be okay if we zipped through.
Alas, he’ll have just turned 20 the week before, so no bars this trip.
I’ve thought about this, although I’m not sure how keen my son would be. He seems to mostly be interested in walking around the city, and I can see him grousing about going to a show if he’s tired. Maybe we can get a same-day deal to something fun.
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I’m trying to decide how much of a pain it’ll be to go to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
If you don’t want to go to Liberty Island itself, an alternative is the free Staten Island ferry to get fairly close to see the Statue of Liberty (I went on it years ago when I still had the movie Working Girl fresh in my memory). I just caught the ferry over to Staten Island and then got on the next one back to Manhattan.
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