Well, In all my 42 years I have never been to NY, other than flying through the airports. That is going to change on Sunday, I have a business meeting on Monday (my birthday coincidently) and will be in NY for Sunday night and possibly Monday night. I am in a bit of a catch 22.....should I stay Monday night and do some sight seeing on Tuesday (Which is 9-11 by the way), or should I just get the meeting done and head home on the late night Monday evening flight to avoid the 9-11 date? What is the neatest touristy thing to see in NY? Is it the Statue of Liberty? What? Thanks, DD
I haven't been to NY but just thought I'd wish you an early birthday. I wanna try a real NY pizza, just like going to Philly for their cheese steak.
Eat pizza at Patsy Grimaldi's in Brooklyn Eat deli at Katz's on the lower east side Visit my favorite record shop....Final Vinyl in Greenwich Village Or if you want traditional touristy....go to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Once of the greatest art museums in the world.
DD, what is your favorite kind of food(s)? Top of the Rock is pretty bad ass! 20 bucks but what a view. Not sure if the Yanks or Mets are in town but baseball in NYC is like football in Texas. Where is your hotel? I'll give you a good list of places to go after you reply on the food question. Oh yeah just walking up madison and 5th around the park is lots of fun and of course you have to do times square at night.
Maximize your time and skip the obvious stuff. See more of the real NY - Little Italy, Chinatown, Central Park & Midtown. Rockefeller >> Empire St Building: a fifth of the wait, less than half the price, almost as good a view. The NBA store's not far away. Definitely cab around a little - but that might be thorny with the strike. Get a slice of pizza at a Joe's or any place that gets a strong recommendation from a local. Evan
My vote for best tourist thing to do in NYC: Take the "circle line" boat that goes around lower Manhattan and back. There is also a longer tour that does the whole island, but I think it's overkill. The half tour, done around twilight, is awesome, and you can buy beer on the boat.
Get some pizza at Bleeker Street Pizza. There is also a street meat vendor at 45th and 6th who used to be the sous chef at the Russian tea room. Amazing lamb and rice for $7
I wouldn't give a 2nd thought about flying on 9/11.. I think you'd be better off staying around the city for that date and find something cool going on in memorial. Also, to me, the Statue of Liberty is a waste of time. Gotta go all the way out there, go up, come back.. during a relatively short trip, you can spend your time in better ways. For other NY advice, you'd get better details from other people, so I'll leave it at that.. but I agree, a baseball game in NY (or Boston) is like nowhere else. No matter what people have said, it's still different when you actually experience it. (Moreso the Yanks and Red Sox than the Mets...but Shea has its moments too)
Ok, Flying into LaGuardia on Sunday evening staying Midtown at the Courtyard Marriot. Looking for a place to get a late meal and have a talk with my biz partners. Suggestions most appreciated. I decided against staying a couple extra days and am leaving Monday night to avoid being there on the anniversary of 9-11. DD
Honestly that was one place I avoided last time I was in NYC. I was at the WTC just a couple of weeks before the attacks and then went about a year later. And I've been a few times after that. And ask any New Yorker, they stay the hell away from there. There's really nothing to see there outside of a huge crater and I still don't trust the air around there, even now. And when I went last time, some douchebag was throwing around flyers saying that 9/11 wasn't real. Now he can say what he wants but there were people clearly mourning there and it's never appropriate to start throwing that stuff around while people are mourning. Nonetheless, that might have been the closest I've ever been to committing a violent act.
NYC has the greatest motley crew of people, places, and things in a small area. In fact, I am moving to NYC in less than a month and a half. Get a all day pass for the subway and cruise all the famous stops. Visit Yankee and Shea Stadiums. See MSG. Chinatown is interesting. Time Square is a bit over touristy, but I guess if you have never been you should visit. Central Park and the apartment complex near Central Park where Lennon was shot is also good stuff. You could take a Seinfeld tour, if you are there on the weekends. Also you can check out the famous NYC streetball court- Rucker Park in Harlem.
You shouldn't go to Dallas downtown where JFK was shot either. There are alot of people who it seems make it their profession to talk about conspiracy theories all day long.
beautiful. Sorry to be obsessed, DD, but in all my visits to NYC, that little boat trip I mentioned stands out. They have a guy doing play-by-play the whole time, giving you the history, the details of different sections of town, even why certains areas can support skyscrapers while other areas can't. It helped me get a grip on the real layout of Manhattan... and it was just gorgeous. If you do the shorter one, it's a couple of hours I think. They even get you as close as you need to get to the Statue of Liberty. (As someone else said, the tour itself is boring.) Leaves on the West side, circa 42nd. Circle Line Tour
