A Day in New York: The High Line, Hudson Yards, & Broadway, New York, New York

For our final day in New York City, we traded museums and park paths for a different side of Manhattan. We started with brunch at The View Restaurant & Lounge, then headed downtown to walk the High Line-one of the best ways to see how old New York and new New York overlap. From there, we made our way to Hudson Yards and Vessel before ending the trip with dinner and a night at Broadway seeing Chicago. It was the perfect final day-part relaxed wandering, part classic New York ending.

It was our last full day in New York-a Sunday-and with no brunch reservations and only dinner and Broadway plans later that evening, we kept the morning flexible. Staying near Times Square made it easy to look nearby, and after a few minutes of searching, we found The View Restaurant & Lounge, a revolving rooftop restaurant where we could still grab a last-minute reservation.

Arriving, we saw it was atop the New York Marriott Marquis and felt skeptical. Upstairs, we were pleasantly surprised: the food was very good, prices reasonable for NYC, and on a bright spring morning the city views made for a fun start to our final day. A few buildings blocked parts of the skyline, but the rotating restaurant still offered a fresh perspective. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).