| If it was me...
Get up early and get a cab to the Empire State building on 5th Ave. It's a top tip for the Empire State Building - go *early* before the tourists get there and you won't be waiting in line for hours! It's a great view and definitely get the audio tour as it's $5 and really worth the money.
Then walk north on 5th from the Empire State Building a couple of blocks and on the other side is the Chrysler building, just by Grand Central Station. Stop for a coffee in the small market at the station and then go into the ticket hall and check out the decor. Beats Kings Cross any day!
Outside you can marvel at the Chrysler, then get back onto 5th and carry on North to 45th and then turn left (west) and head down to Times Square. There's not much there except shops, but it's the amazing array of bill-boards and adverts that you go for.
I would then head back onto 5th and carry on walking North up to Central Park, and go into there and have a coffee in the park cafe, by the Zoo. You can look outside over the lake and marvel at how green and quiet it is in the park compared to where you have just been. Look up at the skyline above the trees and the amazing tall buildings that line the park - it really is an amazing sight.
This sounds like a lot of walking, and to be honest it is, but you see so much more than sitting in a cab!  | 
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