Originally Posted by
RooseveltL
Good Enough To Eat is a combination of pub and good food. Afterwards, walk down to 79th Street and head west towards Riverside Park (Manhattan's other park) and can get to the pedestrian/bike adjacent to the Hudson River.
I like the look of that. Good Enough To Eat for breakfast, then a walk around the Upper West Side.
Originally Posted by
RooseveltL
Monitor your dates as if early November you might be in town during the NYC marathon.
The penny has now dropped!! I'm arriving late night 11/3 and departing afternoon of 11/4, which I now see is the day of the marathon. That explains the lack of (anything but expensive) hotel rooms in Manhattan....
I quite like the idea of breakfast, followed by a walk Upper West Side, followed by seeing the finish of the Marathon. I'll have to check properly the likely elite finish time, but suspect this will be do-able. I'm sure what this does mean though is that I'll need to take public transportation (subway/bus), rather than cab/car service back to LGA from Manhattan not long after mid-day, to be sure of making my 15:30 departure from LGA.
Edited to add:
Looks like professional men start at 09:40, meaning approx 12:15 finish at Central Park South. If I plan to get the N train from 57th St by no later than 13:00, followed by the M60 bus at Astoria, will that likely get me back in time to a LGA hotel and to LGA in time for a 15:30 flight, even with the heightened crowds etc?
Thanks for your advice.