Did you go to Mandolin Brothers on Staten Island? If you didn't, then you missed the reason to go to Staten Island. One of the world's best stringed instrument shops.
My “tour guide” in NYC was jaded, and a cheapskate, so I got to see things I shouldn’t have and didn’t want to see, not to mention starved while I visited.
And I got blisters on my feet...*hmpf*