How would you entertain first-time visitors to New York?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

Thinking over the course of my life, I have been to New York more than a hundred times. It isn't really a place I like, but it is intensely familiar to me. In a couple weeks I am going to have a number of colleagues visiting from South Africa. Four days in New York, three in Orange County and two days in the Bay Area. Then two of them are going home and the rest are doing two more days in Las Vegas independently. They're all in their late 20's and relatively worldly but only one of them has been to the US before and only went to Disney World when she was 13.

Looking over our schedule we have a lot of meetings and lunches and dinners that are set in stone, but otherwise we have roughly two days worth of time to kill between those commitments.

I was thinking USS Intrepid, Rockefeller Center/NBC, Wall Street and the spot in Times Square where my girlfriend got in an altercation with a smelly Cookie Monster but then as my mind wanders. I can think of a lot of things - but I'm a nerd and then it starts to feel like a school field trip and possibly a little patronizing. I thought Ellis Island was really cool, but they just might not.

So, what would you do with this group of people? They're 27 to 29 years old

[HERVEPA]

1. MOMA, MMA, Empire State Building, Central Park if weather is nice, The Village

[elleng]

2. Empire State for perspective,

museums if they're interested, music and theater if they're interested, Chinatown???

Good luck, and have fun.

[rug]

3. If you're going to be in Orange County, go to the west end outside Port Jervis and drive Rte 97.

If you stay on it a few miles you can cross the Roebling Bridge, where he perfected the suspension cables used in the Brooklyn Bridge.



It's a very pretty ride and balances Manhattan without leaving New York.

[jmowreader]

4. Dinner at New York's finest Italian restaurant, of course

[Laffy Kat]

5. Maybe a play? nt

[LiberalElite]

6. Which Orange County?

CA or NY? Bay Area in CA?