I visited NYC regularly in the latter 20th century, for business and pleasure. It's a place that you couldn't pay me to live in or near, even if I had one of those $50 Million skyscraper penthouses above Central Park. But it's a place that every American should see at least once in their life.
It's been decades since I've been to NYC, and I've been thinking I need one last visit before I become a drooling fool in a rocker. Somehow I never made it to the Guggenheim Museum, and I really need to see that. I think I need to pause for a moment at the 9/11 Ground Zero monument as well and say a prayer four our nation. I also would like to take the tour of the UN Building as that architecture and its interior design has always impressed me, if the actual activities of the assembly within are less impressive.
And I can easily imagine that even in its current state, the city is still rather beautiful and bedazzling at Christmas.
I've got a cruise schedule in Autumn '25 that would line up nicely with a 48 or 72 hour stopover in NYC. It can happen.