Walk from 110th Street (Morningside Park W) through Central Park to Greenwich village or to Chinatown and over the Brooklyn bridge. Takes about 4-7 hours or so. Cut over to 5th, and then over to Broadway at the Flatiron (23rd)
Stop for food and bathrooms at the Met (pay what you can), the Mall, Rockefeller Center), Bryant park, Madison Park, Union Square, then it's East or West - Highline or Brooklyn Bridge or Canal, etc.
Circle Line Tour - get a coupon at the Tourist Center or look online - and take the 3pm one from 42nd street which is 3 hours circumnavigating the entire island. TAKE FOOD (it's terrible on board). Sunset coming home. Can't be beat.
Roosevelt island tram, (free) walk over the bridge to Queens to the Noguchi Museum (cheap). Or just walk around the island to the lighthouse.
Wagner Park - much nicer than Battery park - stunning views of the harbour and the Statue of Liberty. Walk around South Cove and up the Hudson.
Central Park - esp. the Northern End, much ignored. Fort Tryon Park (take the A train, and take the bus back from the Cloisters). Pay what you can at the Cloisters, keep your ticket, go back to the MET via 5th avenue and get in for free until 9pm on Fri/Sat.
Frick museum free from 11-1 on Sunday morning, right across from Central Park.
Morgan museum free on Friday nites from 7pm
Take the subway to Brooklyn Heights or Dumbo (A to High Street) then go through Cadman plaza and walk BACK over the Brooklyn Bridge - a better view.
Take the F to horrible deserted desecrated Coney Island and get great views from Smith Street. Walk to Brighton Beach and get Russian Food from the supermarket and have a picnic on the boardwalk.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Saturday morning - free, and then Pay What You Can at the Brooklyn museum and see Judy Chicago's Dinner Party.
Interesting restored tapestries at St. John the Divine - see the restoration after the fire. Have coffee and apricot pastries at the Hungarian Coffee Shop on Amsterdam.
Romaniote Synagogue in Chinatown
Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn
Central Reading Room of the New York Public Library
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