nyc: Looking at taking a trip to the Big Apple with our 5 kids in January for an extended weekend. Kids are in grades 4th thru 9th - boys and girls. This will be our first trip to NYC. Nothing too outrageously expensive. Any recommendations? |||lots of tours and attractions here http://www.citysightsny.com/|||My friend, I hope this list is helpful. Landmarks -Empire State Building -Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island -Rockefeller Center and the Top of the Rock Observation Deck -Times Square (no trip is complete without a visit to the"Crossroads of the World") -Broadway Show -Lower Manhattan/Wall Street Area -United Nations -Central Park -Brooklyn Bridge (you can walk across it too) -Grand Central Terminal (largest railroad terminal in the country) -A Ride on the Staten Island Ferry (its free and you can see the Statue of Liberty as the ferry crosses the harbor) -Sightseeing tour on a Double Decker Bus -Central Park Zoo Museums -Museum Mile (Fifth Avenue from East 86 to East 103 Streets) -Museum of Natural History and the Rose Center for Earth and Space (formerly the Hayden Platerium) -MoMa -New Museum of Contemporary Art -Madame Tussaud Wax Museum -New York City Fire Museum -New York City Police Museum -Transit Museum -Manhattan Children's Museum -Sony Wonder Technology Lab -New York Hall of Science -Bronx Museum of Art -Brooklyn Museum -Milk Gallery -American Craft Museum -Museum of American Folk Art -Museum of the Moving Image -The Paley Center For Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) -The Municipal Art Society Good luck Native New Yorker