New York City!?!
New York City, of course, is a great place to visit. (I must say, I could never live there, but its a great city to visit).
My wife Holly and I visited my brother up there this weekend. We decided to do it on Friday morning, left the airport (Goldsboro, NC) at 1:30, and we were in Manhattan by 5:30. RVs are awesome!
We flew up the east coast, over Virginia Beach and Norfolk, then along the coast to pass just west of Atlantic City, over McGuire AFB (watch out for the restricted area near there), and into Linden Airport (KLDJ), located a few miles south of Newark International. If you descend to <800 feet on your way in from the south, you stay under the Class B airspace and you don't need a clearance. Just fly up the river and enter a left base for Rwy 27 and land. There is a LOT of airline traffic, though, so keep your head on a swivel. They also do a lot of helicopter training there, so look out for those guys hover-taxiing down the runway.
They have a fair amount of transient ramp space. The tiedowns are sized for someting more like a 737 than an RV, so there are long ropes you can use to tie the aircraft down. Landing fee is $10, waived for 20gal or more fuel. Overnight parking fee is an additional $10. The friendly folks at the desk will call you a cab for the 1 mile trip to the Linden train station (about $6 plus tip). If you're in a hurry, call them on the UNICOM and they'll have a car waiting. Then you can take the Long Branch Line (I think that was the name..) to New York's Penn Station for $6 per person. The trip takes about 40 minutes. So from LDJ to New York City was just over an hour.
The one-night hotel stay cost more than the transportation budget, of course ($200/night - and that was relatively cheap!!).
We had to leave today to beat the big line of storms rolling in, or we would have stayed another night and flown around the Statue of Liberty and stuff the next day. Oh well, we'll go up there again sometime!
Cheers,