how much would a 4 person trip to Nyc take?

It's really hard to say because so much of this varies considerably by dates of travel, what you choose to do, exactly where you choose to eat, etc.

If you want to stay in Manhattan, you'll be hard pressed to find a hotel room for 4 for under $200 a night; $250-300 is a more reasonable estimate. But again, this varies by your dates of travel. I'd plan high, and estimate $300 each for hotel expenses.

I would suggest eating cheap for 2 meals each day and splurging on another. Give yourself a daily food budget of $50-75 (more if you plan to drink alcohol with your meals). Again though, this can vary SO much. You can get a nice lunch at at a pretty nice place for $25 or $30; there are nice dinners that can cost you well over $100 alone. Eating lunch at nice places can save you a lot of money over eating dinner at those same places (not all are open for lunch though).

Attraction prices also vary considerably, but you can roughly plan on $25-40 for each one. So plan for $50-80 a day for those.

I'd suggest using the subway, which will add a nominal cost each day.

So my guess, including airfare, is that you should plan for at least $1,000-$1,500 per person. You can certainly do it for less, by eating more cheaply and choosing less expensive attractions.

if you found a hotel for 150 a night, each person would be paying 37.50 a night (if u stayed in one room with double beds) so in total it would be 150 a person for the hotel, 350 each person for the flight (don't forget luggage prices/how your getting to and from the airport), if you went to 2 tourist attractions that were 30 dollars each a day that would be 240 for the tourist attractions in total, for cheap food for 4 days that would be about 50 dollars and expensive food for one day is around 150. and just logically i would add in about 10 dollars a day for a taxi each.

so all in total it would be around: $940 each, this sounds high but remember its just a rough estimate, you could find a cheaper hotel, not spend as much money on tourist attractions or food, etc. so just plan everything out and find good deals (check groupon too!) and figure out the exact pricing!!!

Hotel rooms will be your biggest expense. Need to check them out first before deciding. And eating cheap is not that easy there- even fast food places are expensive, and not many of those. Mostly deli type places to eat. So figure nearly $10 per meal. Certainly go if you can, and try to stay in Manhatten if you can afford it.