Bucket List NYC

This is what I have, until I modify it and make my own. . . coming shortly! :D

Queens Museum of Art
Staten Island Museum
American Girls Tea Mommy Daughter Day
Staten Island Children's museum
Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty  (find relatives, maybe)
FAO Swartz



Mommy Poppins has a great one--I've pasted it below:

  1. Visit the NY Hall of Science
  2. Go on an audition just for the heck of it
  3. Wave to the cameras on The Today Show (2007)
  4. Have tea at the Plaza
  5. Ride the Shark Boat
  6. Climb the Statue of Liberty
  7. Ride the row boats in Central Park
  8. Go to Dylan's Candy Bar
  9. Go to Economy Candy
  10. Get locked up at the Police Museum
  11. Go kayaking on the hudson
  12. Take the ferry to Sandy Hook beach
  13. Ride a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park
  14. Have dim sum in Brooklyn's Chinatown
  15. Go hiking in the Staten Island Greenbelt
  16. See the new Liberty Science Center
  17. Go fishing in the East River
  18. Go on a fishing boat from Sheepshead Bay
  19. See the money train at the Transit Museum
  20. Go to the Brooklyn Children's Museum
  21. Get a taste of country life at the Queens Farm Museum
  22. Ride on a tug boat
  23. Sail on the historic schooner Pioneer
  24. Sail in the hudson
  25. Take a helicopter ride
  26. ride the Cyclone before it's gone
  27. Grab the ring at the Coney Island carousel
  28. Spend my wad at Dave and Buster's Arcade
  29. march in the Mermaid Parade (no thanks)
  30. Go to a Brooklyn Cyclone's game
  31. Fulfill a child's wish through operation santa claus
  32. See the ballet
  33. Watch a dress rehearsal of an opera at the Met
  34. Sleep over at the Bronx Zoo
  35. See the unicorns at the Cloisters
  36. Go horseback riding
  37. Go sledding in Central Park
  38. Cross-country ski down a city street (no skis)
  39. Bike across the Brooklyn Bridge and get ice cream at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
  40. Take the Roosevelt Island Tram
  41. See the piano dancers at FAO
  42. Visit the Sony Wonder Technology Lab
  43. Children's Museum of Manhattan
  44. Children's Museum of the Arts
  45. Sketch at Metropolitan Museum of Art
  46. Stargaze at the Hayden Planetarium
  47. See the rest of the AMNH after the dinosaurs and mammals
  48. Visit the top of the Empire State Building
  49. Take an art class at the MoMA
  50. Chinese Scholar's Garden in Staten Island
  51. Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  52. Holiday Train Show at NY Botanical Garden
  53. Check out the Queens Zoo
  54. See the wandering wallabies at the Prospect Park Zoo
  55. Watch a movie under the stars
  56. Madame Tussauds
  57. Try all the flavors at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory (they only let you try 2)
  58. Look up relatives in Ellis Island
  59. Visit new waterside playground in Chelsea
  60. Get colonial at the Fraunces Tavern Museum
  61. Do a medieval workshop at Cathedral of St John the Divine
  62. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum
  63. See the rollerbladers perform in Central Park (just West of the Sheep's Meadow)
  64. Fly a kite on the Sheep Meadow
  65. See Shakespeare in the Park
  66. Going biking on Governor's Island
  67. Find the secret Downing Street Playground in the Village
  68. Explore Battery Park City Parks from the South Cove to Penny Park
  69. Ride the Staten Island Ferry
  70. Have knishes and egg creams at Yonah Schimmel's
  71. See the giant buddha in the Mahayana temple
  72. The Skyscraper Museum
  73. Play vintage video games at The Museum of Moving Image
  74. The Museum of the American Indian
  75. Buy comic books at Forbidden Planet
  76. Free concert in Madison Square Park and Get lunch at the Shake Shack
  77. Buy flowers from the flower district
  78. Buy wholesale toys in the wholesale district (27th and 6th)
  79. Swing Clubs at the Chelsea Piers Driving Range
  80. Climb the rock wall on Broadway
  81. Visit the Science Barge
  82. Visit the Intrepid
  83. Test out the Whispering Gallery at Grand Central
  84. Coney Island Arcade
  85. Cook our own food in a Korean restaurant
  86. Sail boats on the boat pond in Central park
  87. Billy Johnson Rustic Playground in Central Park
  88. Explore Belvedere Castle
  89. Medieval Festival in Fort Tryon Park
  90. Ride the carousel in Bryant park
  91. See the to scale panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum of Art
  92. Get Egyptian at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
  93. See the new Greeks and Romans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  94. Go ice skating in Prospect Park
  95. Riverbank State Park carousel
  96. See the holiday lights in Dyker Heights
  97. Take a trapeze lesson
  98. See the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade balloons get inflated (I want to see them deflated--to skip the crowds)
  99. Watch the circus elephants march into town
  100. Swim in the floating barge pool     
Mommy Poppins also has a great "free" list.

Just for the record I think Mommy Poppins is an amazing resource for all NYC parents.  Seriously, those people know their stuff and then they make it all look like it cannot be missed.  Some day I want to meet them and thank them personally--with a warm hand shake for all their listings and ideas!  Thanks--Mommy Poppins-ers. 
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