woodbutcher1963 @ post #3 gives a really good list of attractions for a short trip to NYC, confirming #2’s Yankee Stadium suggestion NOTE: when/if you go to the Met or MOMA (make it the Met a between the two, IMO) you do NOT have to pay $25/person. That is ‘suggested donation’ but not mandatory.
If you have time, get TKTS, half price tickets to Broadway shows; walk the High Line. At least once manage one of your subway rides to/from Queens that lets you off at Grand Central Station and walk its main hallway, it could be only a few minutes but a fabulous place architecturally (IMO).
If you have a half day, beyond the Staten Island Ferry, there’s the Circle Line boat ride around Manhattan Island.
Maybe your son should now go to grad school so you when he graduates you have a reason to return. There’s a TON of fun stuff to do in the Big Apple, and it truly is electric. I ALWAYS feel the electricity the second I emerge onto Manhattan Island thru a tunnel or across a bridge. Have a ball, and super congrats to your son.
“woodbutcher1963 @ post #3 gives a really good list of attractions for a short trip to NYC, confirming #2’s Yankee Stadium suggestion NOTE: when/if you go to the Met or MOMA (make it the Met a between the two, IMO) you do NOT have to pay $25/person. That is ‘suggested donation’ but not mandatory.”
The Met yes, MOMA no. MOMA’s admission is mandatory, not suggested. As you said, though, the Met is the better of the two anyway.