Riya’s rec

• The Moth
• Tiny covered/cupboard

Next time

FARIDA - Central Asian Cuisine & Grill(646) 705-2261https://maps.app.goo.gl/yoDqAekf5PnLiYYG7

Lace museum

THEP Thai restaurant - purple dumpling, fried rice,

TKTS -

North to south

• Washington, DC (1-2 DAYS, July 7-9)
• Philadelphia, PA (1 DAY, 0 NIGHT)
• New York, NY (2-3 WEEKS)
• Boston, MA (4-5 DAYS)

Acela Train rapid trips between cities

https://www.thebrokebackpacker.com/east-coast-road-trip-usa/#h-boston-to-washington-d-c-1-week-east-coast-usa-road-trip-itinerary

Boston

https://www.boston.com/food/food/2018/08/31/classic-boston-foods/

Itinerary

Day 1

• Boston Common
• Public Garden
• Boston’s Freedom Trail (free, open access)
• Bunker Hill
• USS Constitution (free, open access)
• Quincy Market

Day 2

• Whale watching (morning)
• James Hook & Co - lobster roll

Day 4

• Duck tour (morning)
• Fenway Baseball Park Walking Tour (book online)
• Watch a Red Sox Game (night)

Day 5

• Tour Harvard
• Tour MIT
• Boston cream pie @Flour bakery & cafe

Food

• B3 Ice cream @Toscanini's Ice Cream
• Traditional clambake
• Yankee Pot roast

Other activities

• Blue Hills, rock climbing
• Boston Harbor Islands State Park (take a ferry)
• Black Heritage trail
• Middlesex Fells Reservation (free, 50 mins bus, paid boat rentals)
• JFK Library and Museum

Not doing

• Mapparium (closed)
• Prudential Center @(closed)
• Hatch Memorial she'll (no more events in July)

New York

• Taxi $70 flat fee and $10 toll

https://onedayitinerary.com/one-day-in-new-york-city-itinerary/

https://onedayitinerary.com/one-day-in-brooklyn-itinerary/

• Grand Central Terminal - rainy day

  • Whispering gallery
  • basement foodcourt has magnolia bakery
• Tram to Roosevelt Island lighthouse and smallpox museum
• Chrysler building
• Take Staten island ferry (sit on right side)
• Fearless girl statue
• 911 Memorial (free)
• Tenement museum
• Times Square (at night, go before 12am to see art display)

• Central Park

  • fishing in harlem meer
  • rent model sailboats - first come first serve (rental not available during covid, watch races on Saturday from 10-1pm)
  • strawberry field
• Brooklyn Bridge (come early in the day) - walk from Brooklyn to Manhattan

• Walk the highline (crowded mid-day → go in morning or evening during weekday)

  • can combine with Chelsea Art gallery on Thursday night and Chelsea market and eat taco at Those Tacos #1

• Walk around Greenwich and West Village in Manhattan

  • Washington Square Park
  • Live music
  • get pizza

• Statue of Liberty - don't go on crowded tourist boat

  • Take the free Staten Island Ferry and sit on the right hand side
  • go on statue of liberty
• American Museum of Natural History
• Little island
• Vessel
• Museum of the Moving Image
• Top of the rock

New York Explorer Pass (7 attractions)

• Madame Tussauds ($37)
• Top of the rock
• Central park bike ($54.44)
• Museum of sex ($20)

• Marvel & DC tour Walking tour - everyday 3:30 pm (2 hours)

  • Meeting place: United Nations Building Corner of 1st Avenue and 42nd Street

• NYC Slavery and Underground Railroad Tour ($20) - Wednesday & Saturday 1pm (2.5 hours)

  • Meeting Place: In front of the Museum of the American Indian [1 Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004]
  • End Point: Broadway [between Duane Street and Reade Street]

• Graffiti & Street Art Walking Tour of Brooklyn ($32) - everyday 10:30am

  • Meeting Place: 30 Wyckoff Avenue

Not doing

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (has many availability aside from Tues/weds)
• Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
• Ripley's Believe It or Not! Times Square
• City Reliquary
• Museum of illusions
• The Guggenheim (many floors shut down)
• The Transit Museum
• One World Trade's Observatory - fully enclosed
• 911 Memorial Museum
• Cooking Classes at Eataly (closed)
• Broadway show (closed)

Food

• Katz's Delicatessen - pastrami sandwich
• Miznon - pita
• Los Tacos No. 1
• Amy Ruth's (Soul food)
• Canal Street Market/ Joe's Steam Rice Roll - steam rice rolls
• Ferrara Bakery & Cafe (cannoli)
• Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao (flushing)
• Martha's Country Eatery (Astoria)
• Sarge’s Delicatessen & Diner (Jewish)
• Flor de Mayo (Cuban Chinese)
• Uluh
• Mamoun's Falafel
• Nam Wah - egg rolls
• Superiority Burger
• Caravan Uyhur Cuisine

• Bagels

  • Brooklyn Bagel & Coffee Company
  • Tompkins Square Bagel
  • Pick a Bagel (next to Central Park)
  • Russ & Daughters - bagels

• Dessert

  • Levain Bakery - thick cookies
  • Ample Hills Creamery - ice cream
  • The Original Chinatown Ice cream
  • Dominique Ansel Bakery - cronuts

• Pizza

  • Joe’s Pizza
  • Prince St Pizza - thick, spicy peperoni
  • Lucali - pizza
  • Vinnie's Pizza Brooklyn - pizza on pizza
  • Village Square Pizza
  • Rubirosa - reserve

Mavreen’s rec

• https://www.mariescrisiscafe.com/
• comedy cellar new york

Food:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cw-p7AiuaKK/?igshid=NzZhOTFlYzFmZQ==

• Food Trucks! Some are better than others, but have gotten some good food/snacks at them

• Breakfast

  • Sarabeths
  • Tompkins Square Bagels

• Lunch

  • Dorado Tacos
  • Braddahs BBQ

• Dinner

  • Tomi Jazz
  • Mizu Sushi
  • Frida Midtown - birria tacos

• Desert

  • Milk Bar
  • Grace Street Coffee & Deserts

Things to do:

• Definitely go to Broadway!
• I liked going to central park a lot, it is a really nice park and a nice bike path if you like biking
• I plan on going to the brooklyn bridge
• Grand central is cool to check out, but only if you are already in the area
• I liked seeing rockefeller center - where nbc is located, since I watched 30 rock
• Times square is really, really busy - it isn't worth a visit in my opinion if you are already going to broadway, you will see it on the way there. Keep valuables on hand at all times.

Transport:

• Take a taxi to and from the airport, it is much cheaper than uber/lyft
• I used the subway a lot. Google maps makes it really easy to get around, and it is sometimes faster than getting a ride. Just tap card/phone, no need to get a ticket.
• There are short-term bike rental stations all over, another great option to get around if you are comfortable biking in traffic
• Manhattan is very walkable, you can do a lot within 1 mile (~15-20 min walk)

Washington, DC

1-2 days

https://www.tripsavvy.com/washington-dc-travel-guide-planning-your-trip-4175990

https://onedayitinerary.com/one-day-in-washington-dc-itinerary/

• International Spy Museum ($25, reserve)
• The Whitehouse Visitor Center (free)
• US Capital + Interior (closed)

• National Mall

  • Lincoln Memorial (free)
  • Washington Monument (closed)
  • National World War II Memorial
  • Vietnam Veterans Memorial
  • Korea Memorial
• Smithsonian Museums
• Library of Congress (free, reserve, opens July 8 but booked that day)
• National Archives (closed)

• Night Tour Sightseeing Washington DC Monuments by Moonlight Tour by Trolley

  • Vietnam Veterans Memorial
  • Korean War Veterans Memorial (currently under renovation)
  • Lincoln Memorial
  • Tidal Basin
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
  • U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial

Food

• Balkan lunch @Ambar Capitol Hill - reserve on Google
• Laotian dinner @Thip Khao Restaurant - reserve on Google
• Turkish food @Agora - reserve on Google
• hot wings with mumbo sauce - Yum's or Henry's Soul Cafe (has sweet potato pie too),
• Ethiopian food, Maryland Crab
• Peanut soup & bread pudding at Mount Vernon (too far south imo)
• Cumin lamb Stir-fry @Chiko

Philly

https://www.tripsavvy.com/planning-your-trip-to-philadelphia-a-travel-guide-4590267

https://onedayitinerary.com/one-day-in-philadelphia-itinerary/

• Washington Square

• Independence Hall (tickets needed, comes with guided tour)

  • Liberty Bell / Liberty Bell museum (1 hour wait)
• Liberty observation deck - see city from above (closed)
• Philadelphia's magic gardens (reserve)
• Eastern state penitentiary prison (reserve)
• Rocky steps / Philadelphia Museum of Art / Fairmount Water works (can see fairmount dam, boathouse row) (reserve)
• The Mütter Museum at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Food

• Roast pork / Philly's steak@John's roast pork
• Lunch @ Reading Terminal Market
• Pastries, manouseh, kafta kebab @Surayas (reserve)
• Donuts @Federal donuts