Look into on/off trolley tours. This would allow you to get around the city on a trolley tour, which is narrated, and get on and off wherever you choose. Chinatown is a madhouse but, if you go, Wo Hop on Mott Street (downstairs Wo Hop, not upstairs) is an institution. There are many different museums - the Museumm of the American Indian on Bowling Green & Broadway is one. The Museum of the City of New York is uptown and fascinating. They used to have one of the largest dollhouse collections in the country (in addition to being a NYC history museum); there's also The Frick Collection, Guggenheim and MOMA. Stay away from all the touristy chain restaurants in Times Square as they are overpriced and generally awful. You can have a nice lunch overlooking Rockefeller Plaza, which is acoss the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral. I'm a Queens Girl, but I love Manhattan.
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