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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SilverZ06 on June 16, 2014, 12:53:31 PM
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My wife is being sent to New York City next week for work for a few days. I am going to tag along with her. Neither of us has ever been to New York so if anyone has any MUST DO activities I am all ears. We will be there Wed-Sun next week. We are planning on the usual stuff so far (Statue of Liberty, Central Park, seeing a show on Broadway, Going up in the Empire state building (do they do that on weekends?), seeing Time Square, etc etc.) Please let me know what else we should do while there. Wed, Thur, and part of Friday I believe we will be in Long Island. The rest of the weekend should be spent in the city. Hit me up with some ideas please and thank you. :cheers:
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I suggest you go to the deepest and most inner part of Harlem and Brooklyn to experience the culture.
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I suggest you go to the deepest and most inner part of Harlem and Brooklyn to experience the culture.
Ill see if we can fit that in but I may pass on that suggestion if we run out of time. :aok
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Definitely take the tour bus, there are 2 areas covered ( 1 buss for each) . Walk Grand central station and have a cocktail @ the upper deck, then go to the Oyster Bar Lower deck. Walk Times square. Buy a hot dog from the street vendor. U like deli food, go to SECOND AVE DELI. WORLD FAMOUS. Visit the Theater area..
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LmPBPWHJu4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LmPBPWHJu4
:rofl :aok
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I suggest you go to the deepest and most inner part of Harlem and Brooklyn to experience the culture.
Actually he's part correct. I would definitely go to Brooklyn- Battery Park. Statue of Liberty tours and Water
Taxis, Helo tours. And it's not far from the new 9-11 memorials. Go to Times Square, walk to 134th St. and
go to the top of the Empire State Bldg. Great Pizza Shop across the street :aok
Walk up 5th Ave & Shop. I love NY. Especially walking.
:cheers: Oz
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Good thing to keep your wallet in a safe place other than your back pocket. Maybe have a 2nd wallet in your back pocket with a few bucks and one credit card only.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LmPBPWHJu4
I think this is mostly universal advice for someone visiting a city who's not a city person
East coast cities at least
God people eating at chain restaurants is the worst
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I'm here. You better call me you jerk. 516 859 7858
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I'm here. You better call me you jerk. 516 859 7858
Is that a phone sex line? :uhoh
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It's whatever you want it to be sweetie
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It's whatever you want it to be sweetie
Not sure that's possible, darlin'. :D
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You underestimate me good sir
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money clip in front pocket...
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I'm here. You better call me you jerk. 516 859 7858
Just may call that number and start heavy breathing.
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Please do.... could only imagine how sexy that must be.
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The art galleries...love NY.... I want to live there..... From my time there many years ago...these stand out to me...and I don't do art galleries as a general rule... oh yeah the other thing is the guys selling watches at battery park...not too interesting...till you see how fast they pack their stuff up and run hahaha... they have good eyes I give them that
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The art galleries...love NY.... I want to live there..... From my time there many years ago...these stand out to me...and I don't do art galleries as a general rule... oh yeah the other thing is the guys selling watches at battery park...not too interesting...till you see how fast they pack their stuff up and run hahaha... they have good eyes I give them that
How is the sex museum? My wife found it online and it immediately peaked my interest... :)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQIHBIljMAE
Go to 7:52
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How is the sex museum? My wife found it online and it immediately peaked my interest... :)
an eye opener.. it's like a stick mag that you can look at without getting in trouble....just don't whip it out....it is frowned upon and not classified as art
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The Intrepid museum, they got a space shuttle on her deck now and the 911 memorial. want a good steak the "Palm too" or the "Homestead" restaurant, Italian food "Josephs" in little Italy.
https://tickets.intrepidmuseum.org/default.asp?gclid=CJSQgNXhgL8CFapxOgodLnIAWA
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The Intrepid museum, they got a space shuttle on her deck now and the 911 memorial. want a good steak the "Palm too" or the "Homestead" restaurant, Italian food "Josephs" in little Italy.
https://tickets.intrepidmuseum.org/default.asp?gclid=CJSQgNXhgL8CFapxOgodLnIAWA
You write like Zagat's guide.
I live in Midtown. Hard to really say where to go, I've been here my whole life and I'm still discovering new places. If you wanna see a Broadway show I'd say go see Wicked. Intrepid Museum is nice but overpriced these days. Other aviation museums around the country have better collections.
Stay away from Times Square unless you wanna eat at Chili's. It's like an overcrowded outdoor shopping mall with chain restaurants. Really was better back before Giuliani.
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U haven't lived till U walk TIMES SQUARE & buy a hot dog from a vendor.
Cut this cow dung on sex, they are there for a visit, I lived there (NY) not now, best place NY is to visit not to live.WOW.
Did I open a PANDORA BOX??? :x :banana: :)
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Absolutely have to see the Fighting I -- USS Intrepid, CV-11
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/USS_Intrepid_1944%3B021125.jpg)
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And as for the rest of New York City, one should stay away from the CHUDs.
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I don't know what CHUD's are. :headscratch:
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The Intrepid is pretty cool went there a few years ago
Out on Long Island you could hit the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Uniondale
http://www.cradleofaviation.org/m/
My company rented out the place for a meeting. My boss knowing my love of aviation threatened to put a shock collar on me if I didn't stay put in the meeting. Let me see.... A meeting about property insurance or a museum full of aircraft....he shoulda put the shock collar on me, I missed most of the meeting :devil
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I don't know what CHUD's are. :headscratch:
A reference from a really bad 1980's movie that is now a cult classic. "CHUD" is an acronym for "cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller" (as well as the title of the film).
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I spent the last 2 years in school in White Plains which is only a 30 minute train ride into the city so I was in the city pretty often. First rule, either make sure you have pants/shorts on tight enough where you can notice if your wallet is in your back pocket or put your wallet in your front pocket. Dont put your hands on the railings in the subway. Subway is convenient enough to commute around the city and much cheaper than a cab. Its very easy to navigate. Street numbers increase as you go north in the city except if you are in the financial district, numbered streets run east to west.. Avenues are what run north to south.
If you have any particular food that interests you let me know. You can PM me. When everyone is drunk there is the famous Halal food cart on 53rd and 6th. There is also a very very good halal place in lower east. Anywhere around Times Square is going be expensive for food and drink. Any person that knows the city stays far far away from Times Square. Its a tourist pit and an absolute nightmare. There are good places to eat relatively inexpensive in Midtown west closer to Hell's Kitchen. Union Square is also a fun little area for food and drink. There are also some good places to eat and drink that arent expensive in lower east. Lower east is more of a dive bar feel area. Lower west is more the bar/club scene. After 90th street its mostly residential. The other boroughs are also mostly residential as well. There are some stuff to do in Brooklyn but not much. I actually prefer Battery Park over Central Park.
You can find a pizza shop on almost any street corner as well and almost all convenience stores have a deli. Most food places stay open until 4 am. Clubs and most bars stay open until 3 AM on the weekends (Th-S). Biergarden is very good its a traditional German beer place. The big one is in Lower west.
Contrary to what was mentioned above, I thought the sex museum sucked. Was forced to go as the girls with me wanted to go. It was terrible, waste of money.
The 9/11 museum is open now and Freedom Tower is almost done.
That is a blurb I could think of at the top of my head. Feel free to PM with more specific questions.
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Corned beef or Pastrami on rye. Carnegie or Katz's deli.
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The White Plains area is really nice. NYC not so much.
I don't like NYC, never have never will. I live on a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic. I feel more trapped and claustrophobic in NYC than I ever have here.
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See Rule #4
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My wife is being sent to New York City next week for work for a few days. I am going to tag along with her. Neither of us has ever been to New York so if anyone has any MUST DO activities I am all ears. We will be there Wed-Sun next week. We are planning on the usual stuff so far (Statue of Liberty, Central Park, seeing a show on Broadway, Going up in the Empire state building (do they do that on weekends?), seeing Time Square, etc etc.) Please let me know what else we should do while there. Wed, Thur, and part of Friday I believe we will be in Long Island. The rest of the weekend should be spent in the city. Hit me up with some ideas please and thank you. :cheers:
Don't be afraid of the Big Apple in fact, take a Big Apple bus tour, Statue of Liberty gets you down town in Battary Park. After that cut across town , World Trade Center 9/11, I was in tower II, head towards Wall Street and walk all the way down Wall Street to the East River, look at the old sailing ships, have Lunch, then head up town on the Number 4, 5, or 6 train to 34th street Empire State Building. Next a quick walk up Broadway towards 42nd Street and Times Square . That's a pretty full day . What ever hotel you stay in usually has a deal with Broadway shows if that's something you want to do as well.
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See Rule #4
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It looks like we are staying at the Roosevelt Hotel Wed-Fri and then the Hampton inn next to the empire state building fri-sun. We definitely want to check out a Broadway show but they are so damn expensive.
Quick question, Is battery park close enough to the Statue of Liberty that I could take good pictures of it or is it way off in the distance?
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It looks like we are staying at the Roosevelt Hotel Wed-Fri and then the Hampton inn next to the empire state building fri-sun. We definitely want to check out a Broadway show but they are so damn expensive.
Quick question, Is battery park close enough to the Statue of Liberty that I could take good pictures of it or is it way off in the distance?
You can see the Statue of Liberty from Battary park, If you just want pics of the Liberty and not actually go to Liberty island, you can take the Staten Island ferry to Staten Island, gets pretty close to Liberty Island, is a fun ride, At Staten Island, get on the next ferry back and you get all those great pics approaching the Battary.
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I suggest you go to the deepest and most inner part of Harlem and Brooklyn to experience the culture.
and it will be a very nice experience, Brooklyn has become the new Manhattan as far as desired locations for housing. The same thing that happened to Hell's Kitchen (10th Ave. West Side) has happened to Harlem, that is, you can't afford to live there anymore.
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SECOND AVE DELI :aok
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Corned beef or Pastrami on rye. Carnegie or Katz's deli.
:rock
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Corned beef or Pastrami on rye. Carnegie or Katz's deli.
You beat me to it! Katz's was where we went when we dropped into town for about half a day and we weren't disappointed! :banana:
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I live in Midtown. Hard to really say where to go, I've been here my whole life and I'm still discovering new places. If you wanna see a Broadway show I'd say go see Wicked. Intrepid Museum is nice but overpriced these days. Other aviation museums around the country have better collections.
Stay away from Times Square unless you wanna eat at Chili's. It's like an overcrowded outdoor shopping mall with chain restaurants.
Agreed on all points. Much depends on how much time you have.
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Figure out the subway system before you go. You can get map online: http://web.mta.info/nyct/maps/subwaymap.pdf. It is the only practical way to get around. Cabs and buses are too slow because of traffic congestion. The city blocks are longer than you expect them to be, as is the amount of time spent walking along them.
We always tried to get our friends to see at least this much:
- Fifth Avenue from 59th Street down to the high-40s. St Patrick's Cathedral is along there, along with Tiffany's and the toy store I can never remember (from one of the "Home Alone" films).
- With the World Trade Center gone, Empire State Building is probably your best view of NYC. It really brings home how much is there. Plus you might get to see a gorilla.
- If time permits, take the boat to Liberty Island and Ellis Island. It's sort of a round trip thing. With summer tourist season you might need to get tickets in advance. Ellis Island was a real surprise for us, and the museum in the base of the Statue is excellent.
- Chinatown, especially if you haven't been to San Francisco's.
- I'd put in a plug for the South Street Seaport Museum, which is close to Chinatown, but you may not have enough time.
- Intrepid maybe, but it takes awhile to get to it and it can be underwhelming, depending on expectations.
Eat anywhere. Some places (Times Square, upper 50s on Fifth Ave) will be pricier than you think (as will most of NYC). Chinatown, Little Italy are good but out of the way. Battery area has more there now than it used to have, but still slow at night.
- oldman
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The White Plains area is really nice. NYC not so much.
I don't like NYC, never have never will. I live on a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic. I feel more trapped and claustrophobic in NYC than I ever have here.
After spending the past 2 years in the White Plains area (the school was in Valhalla), I hated the area. Its all residential and really nothing to do. Everything closes early. Its mostly just for people that work in the city to live in my opinion. If one wants to actually do anything, the train into the city happens more often than not.
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Be advised, the bus tours are $50 +
That's why I love walking New York.
You can go where you want at your pace.
Is 7th Ave still hootchieville?(Used to be a lot of Prostitutes roaming 7th Ave). LOL
:cheers: Oz
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Make sure you take the Yellow amusement ride. :old:
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I was sure we were going to crash at every intersection. :uhoh
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After spending the past 2 years in the White Plains area (the school was in Valhalla), I hated the area. Its all residential and really nothing to do. Everything closes early. Its mostly just for people that work in the city to live in my opinion. If one wants to actually do anything, the train into the city happens more often than not.
I'd take that over the conjested dirty dilapidated mess that is NYC.
I go to the White Plains area (actually a bit north of WP) to visit a buddy who lives there. We shoot, hunt (fox and birds), play golf, ride horses (he plays Polo) etc. Beautiful place.
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I'd take that over the conjested dirty dilapidated mess that is NYC.
I go to the White Plains area (actually a bit north of WP) to visit a buddy who lives there. We shoot, hunt (fox and birds), play golf, ride horses (he plays Polo) etc. Beautiful place.
I just on the other side of the TZ bridge :noid
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I'd take that over the conjested dirty dilapidated mess that is NYC.
I go to the White Plains area (actually a bit north of WP) to visit a buddy who lives there. We shoot, hunt (fox and birds), play golf, ride horses (he plays Polo) etc. Beautiful place.
Is that Franklin county then? I have a couple friends up in Mahopac. That is 45 min north of White Plains and is nothing like White Plains. They arent even in Westchester county. Wouldnt call that White Plains area lol.
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We shoot, hunt (fox and birds), play golf, ride horses
Heh. Most of that you can do in Central Park as well.
- oldman
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For anyone that remembers the obscure Chris Elliot show Get A Life, be careful or you might get slipped a mickey and end up like "Wallet Boy".