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 Love Is in the Air: Three Days in New York
Taking the Kids: Three Days in New York
 Why You Need To Spend Three Days in NYC: For those who like to see the world more or less from a sitting position, look no further than New York City. And for those with limited mobility, consider renting a motorized scooter from ScootAround that will be delivered and picked up at your hotel, if need be. More than 4,300 city buses are equipped with wheelchair lifts, have a "kneeling" feature that lowers the front entrance of the vehicle to within inches from the ground for easy access, and include priority seating for seniors right behind the driver.
From lazy afternoons filled with harbor cruises that provide jaw-dropping cityscapes to day-long bus tours for taking in the must-see sights, New York offers more than enough to do practically 24/7 without breaking a sweat.
Show and Tell: Horse-drawn carriage rides; picnic lunches in Central Park; the Hayden Planetarium; theater on and off Broadway; Lincoln Center; Radio City Music Hall; cooking lessons at the French Culinary Institute; gospel brunch in Harlem; visitor's gallery at the New York Stock Exchange; sitting close enough to see the Tiffany altar at St. Patrick's Cathedral; lunch at the Delegate's Dining Room at the United Nations; workshops at the American Craft Museum; relaxing inside the majestic glass-and-steel conservatory at the Cooper-Hewitt; lunch at Sarabeth's inside the Whitney Museum; baseball Cruises to Yankee or Shea Stadium.
Amazing Freebies Worth Pursuing: The Staten Island Ferry; Shakespeare in the Park; live jazz at BB King Blues on Friday and Saturday evenings; quiet time inside the majestic St. Patrick's Cathedral; chamber music concerts at the Frick on Sunday afternoons; First Saturdays' musical performances and movie screenings at the Brooklyn Museum; personal shoppers at your beck and call at all the major department stores; tickets to The View and Regis & Kelly; Concerts at One on Mondays and Thursdays at Trinity Church and St. Paul's Chapel.
We've put together some non-daunting, easy-schlepping suggestions for your three-day getaway to get you started.
Home Away From Home:
-The Marriott Marquis at 45th Street because not only is it conveniently located in the center of everything (read: very little walking) and filled to the gills with escalators for getting around, the staff will provide you some excellent service.
-The Ritz-Carlton Central Park on 59th Street because they practically don't let you lift a finger. You can't beat the location (or the rooms with park views), and for those who need in-house pampering, they've got a terrific spa courtesy of La Prairie.
-The Kimberly on E. 50th Street because this hotel's incredibly priced suites come with fully equipped kitchens. Great for folks who don't like to get showered and dressed before breakfast.
Day 1
Sign up for a double-decker All Loops city tour with Gray Line Tours -- which can, by the way, accommodate wheelchairs. Each loop (Uptown, Downtown, Brooklyn, Night) is two to three hours, and your ticket is good for 48 hours. For Seinfeld devotees, Kenny Kramer himself -- who is the real Kramer after which the TV Kramer is modeled -- takes fans to see Seinfeld sites by way of the Kramer Reality Tour. Highlights include munching on Junior Mints while passing Roosevelt Hospital, where in one episode the same kind of candy wound up sewn into someone's operation, and stopping at Tom's restaurant for picture-taking.
Sign up for the afternoon with On Location Tours (with advance notice, they'll make sure the bus can accommodate a wheelchair) and you'll visit famous sites that turn up on TV like Monica's apartment building on Friends, NYPD Blue's precinct and the court steps on Law & Order. The Sopranos Tour takes you over the state line into New Jersey for a peek inside the Bada Bing and Satriales and Tony's pork store hangout. You'll also meet a cast member. After all that touring, head back to your hotel for a little R & R before dinner in the hotel (George O'Neil's Steakhouse in the Kimberly, The View at the Marriott and Atelier at the Ritz-Carlton).
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