New York 5 days - Feb

We are staying at the RUI Plaza on Time Square.

Defo decided to try this place: https://trinityplacenyc.com/
Its a restaurant which is in a building that was once a bank, the vault itself is still there and is a major feature of the place. Seems very reasonable price as well.
Of course we will visit the twin towers memorial and my wife wants to visit maceys.
Rockerfeller rooftop is something I've alrerady been told is better than the empire state building so that is also on the agenda.
 
Rockerfeller is way better than Empire states.... Empire States is so cramped at the top, very little room to move. Also check out "The Edge" - that's also very very good/cool for bottom of the City views and I probably enjoyed that more than Rockerfeller.

Twin Tower Memorial is very good/moving and well worth a visit.

Staten Island ferry is free and you get a good view of the Statue of Liberty if you don't want to pay the prices to visit the actual statue itself. Just jump on the Staten Island ferry, go over, get off, walk round and get on the return ferry. All free.

Cabs are cheap and simple in NYC, Metro is fine as well, used it loads with the wife and kids. Brooklyn Bridge is a nice walk, be ware of the "tat" sellers.

Bus tours are decent as well - couple of days tour where you can hope on and off as you please... Good way to get around.

Central Park is a nice walk, the zoo is ok, but getting very tired/old.

Take warm clothes - can be very very cold in NYC this time of year.
We will use cabs a fair bit my wifes health is not the best, she has something called fibromyalgia which is a condition which affects nerves, thus meansing long walks can be difficult for her.

My wife has already used the cold weather as an excuse to buy some new winter clothes, she is all over that hahaha.
Nice tip for the Statue of Liberty. We will be going there one day for sure.

Thanks.
 
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So our trip to New York was excellent for my wifes 40th birthday, here are a few photos.

We visited the rockfeller roof top as recommended here, so glad we did the views were amazing.Here is one of my photos.
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Of course we visited Grand Central station.

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The 911 memorial was very touching and surreal, it felt quiet and tranquil even with a lot of people around.

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Sadly we didn't have chance to go inside and see the wonderful interior, but the outside was amazing to see.

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The famous outdoor ice-rink was nice also. Smaller than I expected.

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Our helicopter ride was awesome.

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So many photos from the helicopter, but I will just post 1.

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Trinity place bar was ace

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And finally I event treated my wife to a little gift from Tiffanys.

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Day 1 - We decded to just have a walk around Time Square and see what was about. Most the food joints there were standard chain places, Wendys, Hard Rock Cafe, TacoBell etc etc.
We decided to try applebys. The food was quite good, but fairly standard.
I had the tex mex, which was spicy rice, salad, sweetcorn, prawns cooked in a Pesto sauce etc.
My wife had the chicken and broccoli pasta and that dodgy looking thing on her plate was just a bread roll. LOL.

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Day 2 - We ate at a place called Trinity Place (the ex-bank with vault doors still in tact on my photos.)
I had a Wagu beef burger with blue cheese and some wedges.
My wife had Turkey burger with wedges, she also had New York cheese Cake and she said it was the best cheese cake she had even eaten.

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That evening we decided to try a late night pizza treat back to our hotel room with the pizza.

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Day 3 - We ate at a restaurant which was called Beast and Butterflies.

For starters I had a seafood medely, which was served on warm bread. It was great.
For my main I had steak and fries which was great also.

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My wife had ribs for starter and chicken ceasar salad for main.
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They gave my wife a dessert for her birthday which was presented nicely.

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Day 4 - we ate at Paul's Italian restaurant just off Time Square.

I had the ravooli, my wife had the breaded cheesey chicken and pasta.
We both had desserts, I had creme bruulee and she had yet another cheese cake.

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Day 5 - we ate Stardust diner on Time Square for brunch, my wife really wanted to go there, as it was in the TV show Glee (not that I know). The waiters and waitresses are all singing every 15mins too, they put on a decent show.
She had pancakes, and I had the breakfast burger.

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Day 5 evening - we found a BBQ place, and I had pulled pork with cornbread, mac&cheese and fries. She had the pulled beef and with the biscuits (she wanted to try them) and she then had chocolate cake (I'm not much of a dessert person.)

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Anymore information on the BBQ joint would be appreciated.
A quick google map check and I found it.

 
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