Excluding getting there and back (we’ll do Acela from Boston to Penn Station, which is easy to cost out 
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I am wondering how prices of ordinary tourist things differ between Boston & NY.
Boston is an expensive city to stay in a hotel, but I assume not on the scale of NY. The only hotels we’ve stayed in in NY have been chain hotels at conference rates, or a really sketchy place the husband stayed at in Brooklyn near Grand Army Plaza on a business trip. Not knowing the neighborhoods, I have no idea how to pick a non-sketchy hotel on a non-sketchy block without paying $600 a night.
I get the feeling that restaurant meals are pricier in NY than in Boston, but I am not sure how much pricier. A dinner out for us here in Boston can run us anywhere from $20 per person at a cheap place to $70 per person at a nicer but not uber nice place. We only do uber nice ($100+ per person) a couple of times a year.
So, assuming we’re there Saturday noon through Tuesday morning in the fall, prefer to take the subway (cabs are not cost effective in Boston so we don’t have a taxi habit), might do one Broadway show, want to do a couple major museums, Empire State Building, maybe Statue of Liberty, a couple of really good dinners, the rest of the meals casual middle of the road or even a hot dog on the street, what do you think a NYC trip might run us?
