New York - Day Trip Suggestions?

[Groningen]

One option (don't know if it's actually viable) would be to see a New York Yankees game at Yankee Stadium. It would depend on if they're playing at home when you go and if you can get tickets

There is also the New York Mets. Located at subway 7; subwaystop: Mets - Willets Point Station. Also the LIRR calls there (although 400 meters south from the subway)! You walk over the maintanceyard of line 7.

Home games New York Mets in May (prices start at 14 or 18):
California Angels: 19, 20, 21
San Diego: 23, 24, 25
Milwaukee: 29, 30, 31, June 1

Home games New York Yankees in May:
Houston: 11, 12, 13, 14
Kansas City: 22, 23, 24, 25
Oakland: 26, 27, 28

My view is that early season not all games are sold out. Yankees attendance May 2 and 3 against Toronto was 30.000 and 36.000 (roughly). Enough seating left!

More information can be found here: https://www.mlb.com/

A single ride on the subway is 3 $; 7 day pass 32. Choice quickly made i would say!

 

[Taunton]

The ride up the Hudson is indeed scenic but the towns on the way don't really offer much, and you have to come back the same way. If you go all the way to Albany the station is on the wrong side of the river and the city is one of the USA's less inspiring ones.

I've always liked, for a day trip, going to Philadelphia, about 90 minutes by Amtrak, the city is quite different and busy, and it's got a whole range of different types of rail transit systems, every line seems to have its own unique rolling stock. There are streetcars of multiple types. A bit of research of the operator, SEPTA, will show what's available. There's also a touristy bit down by the river.

Shorter trip is to take PATH over to Hoboken and then the suburban electric train that goes out to Gladstone. It becomes a surprisingly rural, single track branch in the outer area, and the trains are hourly. An hour is enough for Gladstone.

Within NY City Coney Island is always of interest, choose one of the elevated subway lines to take you out there with a view. The subway car shops at Coney Island, which all the lines approaching there pass on one side or another, are huge. Buying hot dogs, walking along the beach, and riding the big old roller coaster are very New York things to do.

 

[iphone76]

There is nothing 'typical' about Greenwich, Connecticut...it is one of the wealthiest towns in the whole country, and its 'main street' is representative of that fact. I'm not saying it is a bad place to visit if one wants to get out of the city, but don't think of it as 'typical' of America in anyway whatsoever.

Sorry. I should have said it's 'typical' of the sort of place I visited whilst living there. I mean, who wants to visit any town which isn't one of the wealthiest in the whole country???