Oh cool. I didn’t know that.

I second the tenement museum. Really great for New York history.

Local here:

If pizza is on your list then I suggest Lombardi’s in Little Italy. Classic New York pizza you can get anywhere but Lombardi’s makes a more Neapolitan style using the only coal oven still allowed in NYC so it’s totally unique. It also likely the oldest pizzeria in city. Gets kind of busy but worth it.

As others have said, take a commuter ferry. Staten Island ferry is cool but the east river ferry takes you under the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges and offers good views of lower Manhattan.

DO NOT under any circumstances walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. A lot of tourists think that sounds cool but that is the problem. Waaay to many tourists think that. It’s a nightmare.

Definitely ignore the guy that said stay close to Times Square. It is tourist hell and gives you absolutely no insight into what New York is really like. Unless you like huge crowds and chain stores then by all means. There’s plenty of locals in this thread with much, much better advice. Listen to us.

My ex made me carry a window unit air conditioner someone was throwing away to the subway, take two trains then carry it home. She was visiting from New Orleans and didn’t believe me when I said people leave shit like that on the sidewalk all the time in New York. It was fall. I could very well find another one closer to home.

The process is the point

OJ trial. Every single day.

And the Springsteen version very clearly says deuce which means Manfred Mann had to deliberately change it.

I thought that Controversy by Prince was actually called Electric Pussy. Which, for Prince, actually tracks.