My FIL used to live right next to Yankee stadium. I remember one morning on I-95 in the Bronx seeing an '86 Gran Prix with T-tops broken down on the side of the road. When we came back the other way late in the day, the car was completely stripped and the rear axle was being hoisted up the side of the hill it was parked next to! T-Tops and interior gone, tires and wheels gone, sitting on rocks/blocks, unbelievable!
We usually fly into Newark as the car rentals are less expensive and if not staying with relatives, stay on the Jersey side too. Still trying to visit Floyd Bennett Field and would like to see the stern counter of the USS Enterprise CV-6 at a little league baseball field in Jersey about 20 minutes from the USS Ling. Wouldn't mind visiting Lake George and Fort Ticonderoga.
you need to go on the enterprise to get a good feel for it, its huge. ive not been on it since long before it was rehabbed, but i used to be able to drive my 24 foot boat right up to it pre 9-11, talk about feeling small.
you can park in NJ take the ferry over buy your tickets at the ferry take the blue buss's for free all over the city with your ferry ticket too.
the uss ling is no longer open, the land they used was sold out from under them, they had a one dollar lifetime lease that the dead owners son reneged on so they could build condos or some crap. comes to money in his pocket. the sub its self they say is stuck in the mud and the river is no longer deep enough to float it back down. so thats a issue right now, only thing saving them from not having to scrap it now is the sub is in the river, not the land, so theres not much the land owners can say about that part. it just might sit and rot to hell. i live like 5 miles from the USS ling. went on it when i was kid. that thing is tiny lol
lake george is super nice in the summer time, if you need a week of nothing to do, rent a house on the lake bring your fishing poles, theres only the one side of the lake thats busy, where all the shops are, if you have a boat at your house, (i towed mine up there, rented a house with a dock) you can take your boat there and dock at the public dock and go shopping.
they also have islands for camping, only way to and from is via your boat.