re: Headed to NYC, recommendations?

Ride the subway
Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge around sunset
Ride the Staten Island Ferry
Walk around Central Park on a Saturday Afternoon
Visit the Museum of Natural History
Buy an Italian ice in Spanish Harlem
Guggenheim Museum
Walk around mid-town at night.
If you visit Times Square, go at night, after 10:00.
South Street Seaport
Bronx Zoo
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Go to an off, off Broadway play
Go to the corner of 34th St. and 5th Avenue and look up.
Go to a Jets game
Go to a Yankees game (October is a bit late for a Mets game)
Go to a Broadway play or whatever is playing a Radio City Music Hall.
Catch some live music in the Village.
Hang out in Washington Square Park for while.