All itinerariesNew York in 5 Days — Midtown, Downtown, Central Park, and a Brooklyn Day
Five days of New York one borough-cluster at a time: Midtown, downtown and the ferry, Central Park, Brooklyn, and a west-side finish.
≈ $800 per person
Copies all 37 stops into a trip of your own, on your dates.
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Scored by our reviewer at publish time — traveler ratings replace it at 3.
Five days built the way New York actually works — one borough-cluster per day, almost no backtracking, and everything walkable once the subway drops you off. Midtown's icons and a sunset deck; a downtown day that gives the Statue of Liberty ferry the half-day it genuinely needs before the 9/11 Museum; Central Park into the Met and the Guggenheim; a full day across the river in DUMBO and Williamsburg; and a west-side finale from the High Line to Katz's to a Broadway curtain. Watch two closure days when you pin dates: the Met is closed Wednesdays and the 9/11 Museum is closed most Tuesdays — the two days are easy to swap. Budget assumes the OMNY weekly fare cap, one steakhouse splurge, and one full-price Broadway ticket; strip those and the total drops by a third.
Day by day
Day 1 — Midtown: Beaux-Arts halls, modern art, and a sunset deckMidtown: Beaux-Arts halls, modern art, and a sunset deck
Day 2 — Downtown: the harbour islands, Ground Zero, and the oldest streetsDowntown: the harbour islands, Ground Zero, and the oldest streets
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Every venue was checked against current public sources — hours, prices, closures — before it was published. Walks and transit legs are not in the count.
checked against yelp.com · artvisitguide.com · 911memorial.org · nyctourism.com · nypl.org · statuecitycruises.com + 22 more
2 more flagged venues on the days beyond this preview.
How we check
Anything with a kitchen or a ticket gate is verified individually: the official site where one exists, plus recent traveler reviews. Public squares, parks and viewpoints get an existence check. A venue we can’t confirm is flagged below rather than quietly kept, and the whole itinerary is re-checked on a cadence — past 12 months without one, the checked claim is dropped and the date above stops being a promise.