Never been, but a good friend of mine is taking me for the draft next month. Give me some cheap suggestions on places to eat, drink, buy CDs, etc. Is Ground Zero still a sobering place to see? I would like to go pay my repsects to the fallen.
We're going in mid-May. We have tickets to see Spamalot (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) on Broadway as well as Billy Crystal's one man show. Certainly not cheap, but I'd suggest Spamalot if you are a Python fan. You can split a sandwich at Lindy's. They are pricey but one will feed two. Also, the cheese cake is mighty tasty. EDIT If you will be there the 11th, 13th or 14th, the Astros are in town.
Send me your phone number...I've lost so many phones lately, it's getting ridiculous. You playing again anytime soon?
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I saw it a few weeks after 9/11 and it was overwhelming both physically and mentally. Nothing you could see on TV could compare to seeing the giant smoking pile of rubble. I was just there a month ago and it still is sobering but not overwhelming. Its been really cleaned up and there's new construction going up around and in it. It looks now like a big construction site with historical mementos around it.
It's easy - you used to be able to just show up. Not sure how it is these days but it's not a tough ticket to score (espeically day 2). It's mostly just drunken jets & giants fans from Jersey and LI.
and that busty woman who dresses in the gaudy red, white, and blue dress and statue of liberty crown.
I was just down at the WTC site two weeks ago. If you weren't there earlier it is still very sobering. The cross they erected from the 2 beams is still there. I love going to New York and just spending the day wandering. The last time I was there I estimated that I walked 12 miles 1 day. For the pure experience of it make sure that you walk through Chinatown (just remember that the cheap videos they are selling are copies made from small camcorders in theaters -- once in a while you will see someone walk by).
You must eat at the Carnegie Deli. Don't ask for substitutes, capiche. Buy a hot dog from a street vender, you can't go to New York without doing it at least once. Here are some places I saw on tv recently that I thought I should suggest. http://www.dumplingman.com/ http://www.doughnutplant.com/ I'm trying to remember a place, maybe Rocketman Tex knows, they make this big hamburgers, they don't pat the patty down, so it's real thick and while cooking, they cover it with a metal bowl to allow it to steam a little. It's supposed to be a diner. I hope the place I'm thinking of isn't in Jersey.
Only if you want to look like a tourist, and spend inflated tourist prices. Better delicatessens in NYC are the Second Avenue Deli (Second Ave. @ 10th Street) or Katz's (205 E. Houston Street, www.katzdeli.com). Either one beats the crap out of the Carnegie. Still looking for the burger place.... RM95....I know a great vinyl album store in Greenwich Village if you are into that sort of thing....
Sam, you should invite Rocketman over to your efficiency and take pictures! Hopefully Rocketman doesn't object to going over to Hoboken for this.
New York is highly over rated. Terrible traffics, rude people, dirty street, those nice looking stores on Fifth Avenue are too expensive for most people to buy. No parking place (unless you like to park in garages). I will be there this summer again to visit my Dad and my sister, guess I will live.
RM - the stage deli or 2nd ave (as someone pointed out) are just as good and cheaper/less touristy than Carnegie. The best moderately priced family style italian place you'll find is Carmine's...there's one uptown and one in midtown. Not much to see at Ground Zero...if you were able to see it back when it was still a pile of twisted metal, it was a sobering, thought provoking thing...but not so much now. Have fun and tell Beltran he's a prick if you see him.
Well, I haven't been to the Carnegie Deli, I was going on my mom's advice, but she hasn't been back to NYC since the 70's.
RM - I'll help you out on this one. I spent most of last summer shuttling between Boston and NYC. Most of my time was spent out on Long Island in Garden City, but I also worked in Brooklyn (Metro Tech Center) for a few intermittant spats. In the evenings when it's nice, I'd just head over to the West Village area. I went to a few places over there by Bleecker (sp?) street. One crappy Mexican place with a big yellow taxi out front was especially useful for getting smashed on their wide selection of margaritas. Fairly reasonably priced. There are tons of places where you can sit on the patio and drink. It's almost like a bigger Rice Village area, but with more people who are not just there from 10pm-2am. More young professionals, also. I could also name some clubs that I've been to, but the places I went to might not still be popular.
