Brooklyn Heights Promenade is great for photos. Roosevelt Island, too. With a bike you can easily hit the Promenade, Brooklyn Bridge Park, & Dumbo. South St. Seaport has nice views, but otherwise mostly a tourist trap. Great pier a block south of it that’s been redone into a nifty little park. Battery Park is being worked on; I live in Battery Park City, which is very pretty on the river side. Decent food now at World Financial Center—PJ Clarke’s, Shake Shack, Blue Smoke, etc. Fantastic pizza place near Battery Park called Inatesso—it’s in a league with Lombardi’s, but without the crowds. If you want to see the 9/11 Memorial, just prepare yourself for crowds.