I was there tons of times in my (adolescent, young adult youth), including driving around Manhattan weekdays and weekends (you have to be 18 to escape from LI in a car ('cept for the ferries to CT - if they still exist) and being in Times Square on New Year's Eve.
Oh, that’s too bad. I misread that you had never been in my great city.
Anyone here taken the Acela? The most wonderful “transportation” I have ever experienced! And, at that time, it was only a hundred bucks and I sat in the quiet section. Heaven!