This guide on what to see in New York in 7 days or New York in a week, will take you to tour the most essential places of the city that never sleeps. After crossing out many of the things we include in the list of what to see and do in New York in the previous 6 days, this last day you can dedicate to make a route through the districts of Midtown East, Upper East Side and give a Walk around Roosevelt Island.
Guide of the first 6 days in New York
Route day 1: Times Square, Broadway, west part of Central Park, 5th Avenue, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rockfeller Center and Top of the Rock viewpoint. (More info here)
Route day 2: Contrast Tour (Bronx and Queens), DUMBO area in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge and viewpoints. (More info here)
Route day 3: 11S Memorial and Museum, Financial District, Helicopter Tour, Battery Park and Staten Island Ferry. (More info here)
Route day 4: Cruise through Manhattan, High Line, Chelsea Market, Greenwich Village, Soho, Tribeca, China Town and Little Italy. (More info here)
Route day 5: Harlem neighborhood + Mass Góspel, Central Park and Broadway musical or New York Knicks game. (More info here)
Route day 6: Bryant Park, Public Library, Empire State Building, Lower East Side, East Village, Union Square and Flatiron Building. (More info here)
Save money in New York
There are several cards that allow you to enjoy discounts and save time by skipping the lines of the most important attractions in New York.
- Booking the New York Explorer Pass allows you to enter 3, 4, 5, 7 or 10 of the main attractions with great flexibility being able to choose the tickets among the 58 available attractions, until the last minute.
Extended information in this post about the New York Explorer Pass: how it works, what it includes and prices. - Booking the CityPass allows you to enter 6 of the most visited attractions in New York at a price 42% cheaper.
More information in this post about the New York CityPASS: how it works, what it includes and prices. - Booking the New York Pass allows you to enter more than 80 attractions in New York, you can take the 1,2,3,5,7 or 10 days.
You can complete the information with this post about the New York Pass: how it works, what it includes and prices. - Remember that in order not to pay commissions and always have the current change we recommend you use the N26 card to pay and the Bnext and Revolut cards to get money at the ATMs. They are the ones we use, They are free and will save you a lot. You can find more information in this article about the best cards to travel without commissions.
- If you want to have internet in New York, a good option is to buy a Holafly SIM card, with which you will have internet from the moment you land, several GB of data, keeping your WhatsApp number and support service in Spanish. You can buy your Holafly prepaid SIM card here with a 5% discount for being our reader.
For more recommendations you can consult this post of tips for traveling to New York essential.
What to see in New York in 7 days
On this last day of the route in New York in 7 days you will visit places like the Grand Central Terminal, one of the most beautiful stations in the world, you will pass under some of the most famous skyscrapers in the city such as the Chrysler Building or the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, you will take a walk through Roosevelt Island and finally On the day you can choose to visit one of the best museums in New York such as the Metropolitan Museum, the Natural History Museum or the MoMa. An alternative for those who don't want to visit museums would be to go to a New York Yankees baseball game.
The first visit of New York in 7 days It is the spectacular Grand Central Terminal, one of the most essential places to visit in New York. It is a station always in motion in which its impressive hall stands out, stage of many films, in which its emblematic clock of the central part always appears. Inside the station there are many shops and restaurants, especially in the underground part, from a Shake Shack, a Magnolia Bakery with delicious cupcakes to Michael Jordan's The Steak House N.Y.C.
If you are staying near Times Square, like us at the Holiday Inn Times Square, it is easy to reach on foot, but the Grand Central Terminal is also one of the most important metro stops in the city.
One of the best tips for New York if you are going to be 7 days is to buy the Metrocard for a week. With this transport card in addition to saving you money, you will save time since you will not have to pay each ticket separately.
Grand Central Terminal
You can continue the route on foot by seeing one of the most symbolic buildings in the city, the Chrysler Building, where you can't stop looking at the steel eagles on the 61st floor keeping watch the city. Besides that you can enter inside to see its spectacular hall, on the way to get there, you will pass under other famous skyscrapers such as the Seagram Building, the Citigroup Center or the luxurious Waldorf Astoria hotel, an art deco style skyscraper.
Chrysler Building in New York in 7 days
The next plan will be a walk on the island of Roosevelt that is near the skyscrapers and where you can access with a cable car crossing the East River.
The cable cars leave every 15 minutes and are active from 05:45 until 02:30 in the morning, and to access you can use the metrocard. From the cable car and from the shore of the island you will have beautiful views of the Queensboro Bridge, the bridge that came out in one of the most famous scenes of Woody Allen's movie "Manhattan".
Roosevelt Island Cable Car
Roosevelt Island is perfect for walking and disconnecting from the noisy Big Apple. A good walk will take you from the lighthouse at one end to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, from where you can see the views of Manhattan on one side and Queens on the other. During the tour you will see some old colonial house, churches, or the Smallpox Hospital, a dilapidated hospital, a little gloomy, that housed smallpox sufferers. You can also see on the Queens side the famous Pepsi-Cola sign classified as a historical monument.
Pepsi-Cola cartel
Once the visit is over you can return to the center to eat one of the best burgers in New York at the Burger Joint, inside the Le Parker Meridien hotel. The restaurant is a little hidden inside the hotel hall, but don't worry, the queues of people that form reveal the entrance. The wait is usually half an hour, but the hamburgers deserve it.
Burger Joint
While you savor the tasty hamburgers with potatoes you can make the decision of how to finish this New York in 7 days. You have several options, go to the Metropolitan Museum, the MOMA or the Natural History Museum, all three can be reached on foot or by subway. But if you're not much of museums, a good alternative is to go to a baseball game of the most famous team in the city, the New York Yankees.
In order of preferences and having visited the 3 museums, the three enter with the CityPASS, we would opt for the Natural History Museum, the second best option would be the Metropolitan Museum and finally the MoMa.
The Natural History Museum is one of the best science museums in the world and our favorite in New York. Their reproductions of dinosaurs and the blue whale are impressive, although in general all the rooms leave you speechless. They open every day from 10 in the morning until 5:45 p.m.
Museum of Natural History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has some of the most important collections in the world. The halls of Egypt and Ancient Rome are the best. It is located in the heart of Central Park with a rooftop to enjoy the views and have a drink. They open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., on Fridays and Saturdays until 9 p.m. You can reserve the ticket without queues here in advance.
Metropolitan Art Museum
The MoMA is the most important museum of modern art in New York in the world. On the upper floors there are great works of painting such as The Starry Night by Van Gogh, Las Señoritas de Avignon de Picasso or The Persistence of the Memory of Dalí. There are also works by Jackson Pollock and the most famous Andy Warhol. We take advantage that on Fridays from 4 to 8 it is free to visit. A good option if you visit MoMA on another day of the week is to book this visit with audioguide in Spanish.
Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol
For non-museum lovers, a good option to spend the afternoon is to go to a New York Yankees game, one of the things to book before traveling to New York to get good seats.
The games are played in the Yankee Stadium, which is located in the Bronx, where it is very easy to reach by subway. There are about 6 games a week, so you have many alternatives to watch one, in addition the schedules are from 1:05 to 7:05 in the afternoon, so the options are very wide. You can also eat in the same stadium since the games can last several hours and of course, with a hot dog you will feel integrated in the typical American atmosphere.
At the end you can return by subway to Times Square, where if you want to dine in this area we recommend Marseille, a French restaurant with a good tuna tartare or Carmine's, an Italian restaurant with very good and large portions. Both have a good value for money.
If you have more days you can consult our New York guide in 10 days.
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