4 days in New York
A complete 4-day New York itinerary with 23 places, arranged so each stop is open when you arrive and the walking between them stays sensible.
- Days
- 4
- Places
- 23
- Time in transit
- 585 min
Why the stops are in this order
Most itineraries you find online are a list of places worth seeing, left in whatever order the writer thought of them. That is the part that falls apart on the day: you arrive somewhere at 17:40 and it closed at 17:00, or you cross the city twice because two neighbouring sights sat on different days.
This plan is sequenced instead of listed. Every stop below is checked against the opening hours of the place itself, and the gaps between them are real door-to-door travel times, not straight-line distance on a map. The visiting windows shown are what is actually achievable in a day.
Across all 4 days this route spends 585 minutes in transit — that number is the point. Reordering the same 23 places carelessly can easily double it, and that time comes straight out of your trip.
Day 1
Central station
09:00–09:00
74 min by public transport
Statue of Liberty
10:14–12:14 2 hr
38 min walk
Harry's
12:52–13:22 30 min
10 min walk
9/11 Memorial and Museum
13:32–15:32 2 hr
36 min by public transport
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
16:08–19:08 3 hr
10 min walk
Central Park
19:18–21:18 2 hr
Day 2
Central station
09:00–09:00
13 min walk
Rockefeller Center
09:13–10:43 1 hr 30 min
14 min by public transport
Empire State Building
10:57–12:27 1 hr 30 min
9 min walk
L'Adresse NoMad
12:36–13:06 30 min
22 min walk
Times Square
13:28–14:28 1 hr
14 min by public transport
Museum of Modern Art
14:42–17:12 2 hr 30 min
30 min by public transport
One World Observatory
17:42–19:42 2 hr
20 min by public transport
Washington Square Fountain
20:02–20:47 45 min
Day 3
Central station
09:00–09:00
60 min by public transport
American Museum of Natural History
10:00–12:30 2 hr 30 min
37 min walk
La Grande Boucherie
13:07–13:37 30 min
48 min walk
Guggenheim Museum
14:25–16:25 2 hr
43 min by public transport
The High Line
17:08–18:38 1 hr 30 min
Day 4
Central station
09:00–09:00
7 min walk
SUMMIT One Vanderbilt
09:07–10:37 1 hr 30 min
19 min by public transport
Edge
10:56–12:26 1 hr 30 min
12 min walk
Oscar Wilde
12:38–13:08 30 min
15 min walk
Top of The Rock
13:23–14:53 1 hr 30 min
10 min by public transport
Madame Tussauds New York
15:03–17:03 2 hr
21 min by public transport
Seaport District
17:24–19:24 2 hr
23 min walk
Battery Park City Promenade
19:47–21:17 1 hr 30 min
Make it your trip
The schedule above is built for a generic 4-day visit. Open it in the planner to set your own dates — the timings recalculate against the opening hours for those specific days, which matters more than it sounds when a museum closes on Mondays. You can drag stops between days, swap anything you are not interested in, and the rest of the day re-sequences around the change.
Open the New York plan