My best memory of New York was a trip on the river which passed the Statue of Liberty. I did not realise she was green!
I had visualised white marble from something I recalled in a book written by P.G. Wodehouse where a character says that the statue reminded him of a girl (Honoria Glossop?) in her debutante gown.
I hope it is a very enjoyable trip for them.

THE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM at 45 West 53rd St. is always very interesting.

Also , if she hasn't already done this, the NBC tour at Rockerfeller Center is great. You get to visit a few of the studios where shows are taped and she can see the SNL set as well.

If she has the time she can also attend a taping of the David Letterman show in the old Ed Sullivan theater, which is close to both of these as well.

We saw Trinity Church last fall on a Philadelphia-NYC-New England family trip. It is located at 74 Trinity Place,
NY 10006, Subway: Wall Street. Sorry I didn't know to look for your family! Your daughter could see Wall Street while in the area. There is a huge statue of a bull just outside the NYSE that seems to be a favorite photo shot.

IMO, a visit to the South Street Seaport is a waste of time. Evidently the city is proud of it--it's listed everywhere as a tourist attraction. We did a guided city tour, which took us to the American Express building where you are just across from the Twin Towers site. Our guide spent what we felt was an inordinate amount of time on it; I suppose they get a lot of questions.

Vee --

I'm sorry I didn't visit this site earlier, so that I could give advice ... since I live in NY City !

Anyway, Trinity Church is waaaay downtown; but, since your daughter's friend works on Wall Street, she'll know exactly where to go -- and I'd assume -- how to get to it. Trinity Church is usually open -- so maybe your daughter could go inside and find someone connected w/ that church who would know about a map of the graveyard -- something which shows the names of all the people buried there, and where their gravestone is placed.

West 83rd Street is a very lovely residential part of the upper west side of Manhattan. It's right by Central Park ... and only 20 blocks north of Lincoln Center - home of the Metropolitan Opera, the NY Philharmonic, New York City Ballet (of George Balanchine fame)).

The weather this weekend is going to be sublime - it was 72 degrees today! -- So your daughter couldn't have picked a better weekend! ...

I would definitely recommend a long stroll through Central Park -- maybe even rent a row boat on the beautiful tree-lined lake ... Afterwards - go to the nice restaurant that overlooks it ... right next to the boat rental.

If she loves art -- besides the Museum of Modern Art -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... On the fabulous upper East side -- most posh part of Manhattan. This museum is set into Central Park. There's everything there -- Ancient Egyptian to European Old Masters to Abstract. My personal favourite -- the Medieval Hall w/ armor, chapel rooms imported from Europe and reconstructed, etc. Oh -- almost forgot -- in far-upper Manhattan is the fabulous Cloisters Museum -- an adjunct to the Metropolitan Mus. It's totally Medieval. Really beautiful old castle brought over stone-by-stone by a Rockefeller -- Sits atop a hill overlooking the mighty Hudson River, facing the magnificent Palisades across ... the setting inside the lush verdant (this time of year) Inwood Park is fabulous!

I could go on and on, but these suggestions (not just mine, but everyone else's) are enough for one weekend! Let us know what she saw and did ... I'm curious.

Skip the Empire State Building and go the top of Rockefeller Center. St John the Divine Church near Columbia. Still incomplete, it's like the great Cathedrals of Europe that took so long to build. New immigrants were taught stone carving to give them a trade in the USA. Houses around the church have decorations that they practiced on. Also, Madeline L'Engle used to be the librarian there.

Thank you everyone. Glad to hear about the weather. We have some Spring sunshine here in the UK but 72F . . . that would be hot summer for us.;-)
Lauriemarie, I have found a website for Trinity Church and amazingly there is a plan of the graveyard with that particular grave noted. I think it would be worth me contacting Wall St friend and asking her to photograph it when she has time.
OT. To me it is surprising that I find it easier getting information about my US ancestors then my much bigger UK 'lot'. Is it because information about people arriving in the US was better kept while their English 'cousins' just got on with their dull daily grind? Are records better preserved in the US? Is it that people over here just take all that 'old fashioned history' for granted?

Maybe it's because the U.S. is so comparatively young that roots matter more to us? My own family history stops cold at arrival in Virginia in the late 1600s. Who were these people, and where did they come from? Oral family history says Scotland on one side and Alsace-Lorraine on the other, but no one has found written records.

I have no advice to give on New York attractions. My only visit for four days in the summer of 1981 with my husband and young children was surreal. The kids were too jetlagged and overwhelmed to do anything but sit in a rowboat in Central Park, alternating with play with plastic dinosaurs on the beach, for the first two days. After that we managed to cram the National History museum (more dinosaurs), the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and a toyshop (for a few more dinosaurs) in the two last days before leaving for Wisconsin. I think it's time for me to go back for a grown up visit to the Cloisters, MoMa, Brooklyn Botanic, etc. New York is very popular with Swedish tourists at present because of the cheap dollar.

I, too, would like to return to New York for a proper visit. My business trip in the mid nineties did not go well. My husband and I, as his PA, went there to interview actors from the Royal Shakespeare Co. He was given incorrect info regarding recording facilities and I spent most of the week in the hotel or at an off-Broadway backstage sorting out that mess. It was unseasonably hot and with little time to shop for lighter clothes, spent the evenings doing laundry! The streets smelled due to a garbage collecters strike!
I got some 'me time' at the weekend so managed to take in some of the sights.
I enjoyed the experience in spite of all the problems but I would like to see more than I did.

Trinity Church is extremely historic and located in the greatest city in the US. That is why the burying ground is so well documented, as you report. That is not the case with most graveyards and cemeteries in the US. In fact, Manhattan is built on the bones of many old burying grounds, as are other cities, just because they were forgotten over time or not fully excavated when the space was needed for other purposes. That is true all over the world.

Oh, and don't forget the African slaves burial site -- unearthed only 3(?) years ago when a bulldozer was digging a basement for a new building -- down in Wall St. area. Construction had to be stopped till authorities decided what to do about the bones and the site.