boston

Thinks they're as great as New York City...but they go to NYC every month or so and New Yorkers go to Boston every 10 years or so.

Attractions in Boston:
Freedom Trail: Tours are given by 20-30 somethings that repeat the same lines every few hours and hate their job. They are not historians.
The Aquarium: Cute, for kids
College Tours: For prospective students

Attractions in NYC:
I bet you can think of 5 off the top of your head. But for the lesser known ones:
-Free walking tours in Central Park, Downtown, Brooklyn, etc guided by people who are actually enthusiastic and enamored by the city's development and rich culture
-Free ferries (staten island, Ikea) and that red trolley to Roosevelt Island as seen in Toby McGuire's Spiderman 1 where spidey fought gobby at the bridge- though the fare irl is $3.

-Diverse and delicious food
-Diverse and unique neighborhoods- one minute you're in soho shopping high fashion, then you're in Little Italy on Mulbury St, a block or two later you're in chinatown. All in about a 10 minute walk.
-A night life with comedy clubs, bars, anything in the village really
-Studio tapings for John Oliver, Americas Got Talent (when they hosted in Radio City), Daily Show, SNL, Fallon, etc
-had to stop cuz of char limit

We explored Boston in half a day! I saw a lot of dunkin donuts in the downtown area!

We explored NYC in a week and haven't seen anything yet!

Oh I just went to NYC last month to see a concert.

Oh! I went to Boston on a middle school field trip, haven't been there since.