My favorites are bold. Most are things I've done / seen / eaten and loved in NYC. Things I Haven't Done Yet are exactly that.
- Bike in Central Park
- Boat to IKEA
- Cruise around Manhattan
- Ice Skate in Central Park
- Midnight Yoga at Laughing Lotus
- Run the Brooklyn Bridge
- Run in Central Park
- Run the perimeter of Manhattan
- Staten Island Ferry
- Walk the Brooklyn Bridge - for fun, for exercise, to get to a meeting, to visit a bookstore, to visit friends, to get a shower when your apartment doesn't have power, etc.
- Babbo
- Burger Joint at Le Parker Meridien
- Candle Cafe
- Caracas Arepas Bar
- City Bakery - hot chocolate! deliciously intense + has a gigantic homemade marshmallow on top
- Grimaldi's
- Harry's Cafe for brunch, and for steak
- Ivo & Lulu - be sure to BYOB
- Jean Gorges
- Magnolia cupcakes
- The Met rooftop bar
- Peacock Alley brunch at the Waldorf Astoria
- Piccolo Cafe
- Peter Luger's
- Shake Shack - Madison Square Park, Tribeca, Brooklyn, anywhere really
- Sylvia's
- Broadway show
- Concert at Webster Hall
- Coney Island
- Grant's Tomb
- McSorley's - especially if you're a lady because you've only been allowed in there for a short time -_- and if you miss frat houses
- Madison Square Garden - Knicks game + footlong hotdogs + beer preferred
- Marriott View
- Museum of Sex
- Museum of Modern Art
- Museum of Natural History
- Off-Broadway show
- Opera at Lincoln Center
- Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
- Rooftop Bars - as many as you can find, e.g. Empire Hotel, 230 Fifth, the Met
- 9/11 site & Memorial
- St. John's Cathedral
- The Strand
- Village Tour of Dangerous NYC Women Who Shaped History
- Bike the Five Boroughs
- Boat in Central Park
- Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
- Brooklyn Brewery
- Governor's Island
- Hack the Met tour
- Prospect Park