Went with AB to New York for three days and this is what we did/saw/ate, in rough chronological order:

Korean barbecue at Antoya, Natural History Museum (including new Gilder wing and finally re-opened Northwest Coast hall, my favorite), belly lox from Zabar’s eaten at Riverside Park, Little Shop of Horrors revival, bubble tea, slice at 2 Bros, breakfast at Katz’s (people, if you can stomach a 3/4-pound pastrami sandwich at 10am this is absolutely the way to beat the line), the Strand, shake at the original Shake Shack, The Play That Goes Wrong, observation deck at Top of the Rock, MUJI, Churrascaria Plataforma, breakfast at Junior’s Cheesecake, the Intrepid museum, the Staten Island Ferry (why is this free?), old high school friend, old grad school friend, Korean fried chicken at Turntable Chicken Jazz, one final bubble tea.

Transportation note: we didn’t take a taxi or Lyft the entire time. I understand why almost no US city can have a subway and bus network this thick and this good, but boy is it nice. (Maybe relevant is that we didn’t leave Manhattan the entire time except for the two-block radius around the ferry terminal on the Staten Island side.)