Give a price range of what you want to spend for a hotel per night. Nobody can help you with that because we don't know how much you can or can't spend.
There are bus tours that go around the city, if you want a general idea of what it is like. Recommended if you have never been there before.
There is also The Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art if you are into that sort of thing.
There are lots of great parks too such as Central and Bryant. I also personally like Madison Square Park. It is right near the Flatiron Building too.
You can go up the Empire State Building or Rockefeller Center as well to the observation decks. They do tours of Rockefeller Center as well.
If you start looking and requesting now, you might also be able to score free tickets to get into the audience at various television shows that film there in front of an audience. Ones I can think of off the top of my head are The View, Live with Kelly and Michael, Rachael Ray, Jimmy Fallon, and probably others. I think some of these have standby as well, which you do day of.
There are just so many things to do in NYC. This is just a short list.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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