Visiting New York late April 08, for 5 days whats the best sights and shopping?

Never been to New York before = there will be five in our party, four girls and one guy 20-30yrs

The best sites shopping in New York City.

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 and take horse carriage ride through the 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
-Yankee Stadium

Museums

-Museum Mile (Fifth Avenue from East 86 to East 103 Streets)
-Museum of Natural History and the Rose Center for Earth and Space
-MoMa
-New Museum of Contemporary Art
-Madame Tussaud Wax Museum
-Milk Gallery
-American Craft Museum
-Museum of American Folk Art
-Museum of the Moving Image
-Museum of Television and Radio
-The Municipal Art Society

Shopping

-Macy's (West 34th Street and Broadway in the heart of Hearld Square)
-Bloomingdale's (Lexington Avenue at East 59 and East 60 Streets)
-The shops along Fifth Avenue (just don't max out you credit cards)
-FAO Schwarz
-Toys "R" Us in Times Square
-Lord and Taylor (5th Avenue at East 38th Street)
-Chinatown/Canal Street Area (if you want to go on the cheap for the stuff you can't get on Fifth Avenue)
-NBA Store (for the basketball fan - 5th Avenue at East 52nd Street)
-The Apple Computer Store (East 59th Street and Fifth Avenue)
-The Time Warner Center (West 59th Street - Columbus Circle)
-Hershey Store (for those with a sweet tooth)
-Grand Central Terminal (for the shopping)
-H&M
-Century 21 Department Store (Church and Cortlandt Street)
-forever 21

Restaurants

-Second Avenue Deli
-Carnegie Deli
-Stage Deli
-Junior's Cheescake (home to their World Famous Cheesecake)
-Mickey Mantle's Restaurant

I hope this information is very helpful. If you have any question or need travel directions while in town, just drop me a line by clicking on the avatar and the e-mail icon in the profile. Good luck and happy travels

Best places with groups you should go to
Cloisters Museum- same day admisson to Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of City of NY
American Museum of Natural History
Girls properly would love to visit "Fashion Museum at FIT.

Tours
Big Taxi Tours: $25 per person and chip than other tour buses.
NY Splash Tour- $29 per person. If you like to get wet.
New York Water Taxi Hop-On Off
Day Pass $20
2-Day Pass $25

Shopping Area
Old Nays
Gaps
Model's
Strawberry
Manhattan Mall
JC Penny
Century 21
Place
Queens Center Mall
Staten Island Mall
Green Acres Mall, Nassau County
Roosevelt Field Mall, Nassau County
And many more.

Cheaper way to explore is by buses, subways.


Best Sights
Ridding Staten Island Ferry (FREE)
Inwood Hill Park at daytime (If you go there, some part of that forest makes you feel like you're in ADIRONACK MT!!

Also, you may also visit Galleria Mall of White Plains, NY for shopping, well as Palisade Mall in Rockland County, NY!!

1. Macys
2. go to a broadway show
3. time warner
4. ice skating in wallman or lasker rink in central park.
5. times square
4. hersheys store
5. m n'm world.
6. Pintales Pizza (best pizza in the world, and i've been all over the world)
7. Gennaros(best italian food, i've been to italy too) 91st and columbus?

go to "the top of the rock" (the ge building) its less crowded than the empire state building. plus you get a great veiw of the empire state building and centeral park. There are alot of good places to shop and many more things to see. See a show they're always good! :):) Have fun.