[Sidney Lanier]

One of our absolute favorite places to eat in midtown is at the Carnegie Deli on the west side of Seventh Avenue around 55th-56th Street. You can have deli sandwiches the likes of which you will never see anywhere else! World-renown Carnegie Hall (saved from demolition by Isaac Stern and committee back in the '60s) is just up Seventh Avenue on the corner of 57th Street, and two blocks north of that is the southern end of Central Park. Half price theater tickets are available in Duffy Square for same day performance; Duffy Square is the north side of Times Square, around 48th Street or so. If you have time for a museum, but not a full day, visit the Frick Collection (a former Gilded Age mansion) on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street, facing Central Park from the east side--small and doable in a couple of hours. The subways work fine and it's hard to get lost on them as you don't have to guess what station you're in when the train pulls in. (Buses can be confusing, and taxis are outrageously expensive.) Yankee Stadium is on the Jerome Avenue IRT line, 161st Street stop. Have a ball!