make sure you start your queue for Empire early enough if it's for sunset (or any speciifc target time) You can be 2-3 hrs in line getting to the elevators
we got lucky when some tourists in the NYer lobby gave us their unfinished NY passes--bus, subway, grey line ddecker and harbor cruise--freeeeebies!!
to do:
tube steak
manicure (if you have a femme w/you)
central park (see my nephew riding around on a maint vehicle--he's a grounds super--tell him I said HI!)
staten island ferry is still cheap!
all the usual stuff, of course--Rockefeller Cntr, skating, balducci's mkt
I love Porto Rico Coffee in the Village (I think they have a satellite store, too!)
Rice to Riches--every kind of rice pudding you can imagine and then some!