nyc tourist traps are stupid, i remember taking a cousin to the statue and pretty sure it took 6hours to go up the crown. i mean you can still take the ferry to ellis island and take pictures, it's like 20bucks a ticket.
same thing for the empire state building, it's dumb, you pay like 30bucks to goto the observation on an elevator, and 20bucks more if you wanna goto the highest point on a different elevator.
times square also has the worst food
this is a link about which museums are free, which have "suggested admission" and which ones you have to pay no matter what.
Free and Discounted Admission at New York City Museums
don't walk the brooklyn bridge, i mean i guess you could, but if you start off in brooklyn, thats in metrotech and a really shitty place (went to college there) (i guess you can goto juniors for the cheesecake, but they have other locations in the city) and end up in city hall, nothing really touristy it's 10mins to the south street seaport, and then 10mins the other way to chinatown (used to work here, took nice lunches) (go from brooklyn to manhattan if you must walk it, b/c the brooklyn side is shit, lived here for 20 years, theres really only coney island and i guess williamsburg, which is being taken over by hipsters).
(when i say shit, i meant for tourists it's shit)