answer:I can tell you that if you are not into the city, a great idea would be to stay outside the city and take Metro North into the city each day. It’s about a 40 minute ride from either White Plains or Tarrytown. If you stay in one of the area hotels, you can either walk to the station or the hotels will undoubtedly have a shuttle (or you can take a taxi to station for a few dollars). There are so many restaurants in NYC that to recommend one would probably hinder you, because you’ll probably be choosing based upon where you are at the time that your busy, traveling family decides is the time to eat. NYC has every type of ethnic cuisine and prices range from food truck hot dogs to the best of the best, world famous, Daniel Boulud and stuff like that. What do you like to do? Do you like museums? The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a great one. You can spend a week there or do it in a day. I believe it’s the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere. Everything from Tiffany glass to knights of armor to oil paintings you’ve only seen in art books. They have a Costume Institute that regularly has exhibits on famous designers or themes like rock clothing worn by Janis Joplin and similar stars. Do you like cruising? You can take one of the boats for a cruise around Manhattan for a few hours. Great photo ops. There’s a great free museum on 5th Avenue – The Forbes Museum. Small and charming but a little insight into the life and childhood of a very rich individual. I used to live right outside NYC and now, a bit farther north. A lot of what I do when I visit is not regular touristy stuff, but quirky stuff, like offbeat museums or Canal Street for shopping. A lot of what you do will depend on the weather. It will hopefully be beautiful. Right now it’s cold and rainy but is supposed to improve. I’m about an hour north and the whole region is rainy and crappy this weekend.