A Trip To New York is an independent guide to New York City. It is written and maintained by Samer Alqaisi, and it is the sister site to A Trip To Istanbul and A Trip To Madrid, which have been running for over a decade.
What this site is trying to be
There is no shortage of New York content. Most of it is either a list assembled from other lists, or a booking site with articles attached. What is harder to find is a guide that tells you which of the four observation decks is actually worth the money, which direction to walk the Brooklyn Bridge, and that the Staten Island Ferry gives you a better view of the harbour than several paid cruises.
That is the gap this site is written into. The aim is specificity: not that a place is worth visiting, but what to do when you get there, what time to arrive, what it costs, and when it is not worth it.
How it is researched
On foot, first. Every place written up here has been walked. Where a page describes a queue, a view or a route, that is a first-hand description.
Checked against the source. Opening hours, admission prices and addresses come off the venue’s own site or the relevant public authority — the MTA for transport, the Port Authority for airports, the National Park Service for the federal sites — and are dated on the page with the day they were verified.
Dated, or absent. If a price or an opening time is not on a page, it is because it has not been checked recently enough to be worth printing. A travel price with no date on it is not information. This is why some pages carry a practical panel and some do not.
New York reprices its museums and observation decks most years, and several run dynamic or timed pricing that changes by the hour. Anything quoted here should be treated as an indication and checked before you budget around it. There is a note on any page whose prose quotes a figure.
How it is funded
This site carries advertising and some affiliate links — mainly hotel and flight search. If you book through one of those links, the site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
What that does not buy: no venue, hotel, tour operator or attraction has paid for a mention, a review or a position on this site. There are no sponsored posts, no paid placements in any list, and no press trips. Nothing here has been written in exchange for free entry.
Where a paid attraction is not worth the money, the page says so.
Corrections
Things change. Museums move their late nights, restaurants close, a subway line gets rerouted for two years.
If something here is wrong, out of date, or missing, please say so — the contact page goes to a person and corrections are made quickly and acknowledged. Specific corrections with a date or a link are the most useful kind.
The author
Samer Alqaisi writes and maintains this site. He also runs A Trip To Istanbul and A Trip To Madrid, and works in software outside of it.
More at sameralqaisi.com.
Getting in touch
For corrections, questions, or anything else, use the contact form or write to [email protected].
Press and partnership enquiries are welcome but will not result in coverage. That is not a negotiating position; it is the only thing that makes the rest of the site worth reading.