Nathan is making his first trip with me to New York today. I'm looking forward to all that I get to show him around the city. We have many good ideas so if you have any that you think a 9 year old would like to see, please give some input.
update: We've made it to NYC and found ourselves very whooped after getting unpacked and cramming some fragments of food into our mouth after not eating all day. Nate is loving NYC so far and can't wait to see what it looks like in the daylight.
Thanks for the comments, more input if you think of anything more or different. We are going to just go down and see what looks interesting to him with the week we have here.
update 2: A new Map at Wayfaring to keep track of it all.
update 3: If Your trying to find an address in NYC, Google Maps is obviously the best solution.
If you are trying to find your way from point A to point B in NYC via Subway then the Interactive Transit Map is the best solution.
If you want to Mark these places off so you can best plan a course of travel around NYC, Wayfaring is the best solution.
I just really wish someone would combine these great tools into one. Seems like it's not a hard stretch since they all use the Google Map API.
OOO the Hayden Planeareum.
The cloisters (its a castle)
Central Park Zoo
Coney Island
The Shark boat ride (goes really fast)
Trapeeze on the west side highway
Chelsea Ice Skate Rink (chelsea peirs)
The Subway!
Empire State Building
China Town
Bronx Zoo
Staten Island Yankees Baseball Game (really cheap too)
Scores (the strippers are nice and they serve near beer and candy ciggarettes)
American Museum of the Moving Image (astoria queens)
OOOOOO Sony Wonder center. its free and REALLY COOL WITH TECH STUFF THAT YOU PLAY WITH AND ITS SO MUCH FUN! http://wondertechlab.sony.com/
Yeah Sony is the coolest place. Very Very COOL and TECHY!
Staten Island Ferry
Belvedere Castle
The hall of fame of great americans
Lazerpark ( top ten in US )
Rosevelt Island Aerial Tram
South Street Seaport
Greenwich Village/Washington Square
Times Square
Museum of Natural History
How much time do you have?
Hmm... your heading sounds like a book being illustrated. I should have you advertise.
Take him to the Mars 2112 on Broadway (and 51st?) Cool place that my kids went to last year-food isn't great but the ride in the space ship into the restaurant was. Kinda like the LAX version but better. (hey you said that he can be a little tekky nerd not me)
Food Places:
Dylan's Candy Bar
Grimaldi's Pizza (across the Brooklyn Bridge)
Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory (also across the Brooklyn Bridge)
Jacques Torres Chocolate Factory (also across the Brooklyn Bridge)
Junior's
Katz' Deli
Magnonlia Bakery
Other Stuff:
Bethesda Fountain in Central Park
That place in Central Park near the Boathouse where you can race mini boats
Coney Island (check out Shoot the Freak)
Planetarium
Museum of Natural History
Chelsea Hotel (he's not old enough to appreciate the salacious history, but it's a really cool lookin' place)
Chelsea Piers
Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island (tix are on their way)
Little Italy
Chinatown
Seriously (referring to the waypoint/google API comment)! And we really really need to have built-in GPS in cameras in the future so we can just download to Flickr and then interface with a new tag program that displays our photos on a map. How amazing would that be?? I've been bugging Pat to write that one for a while now.
American Museum of Natural History. Take care of my munchkin up there.