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ole_bjorne posted:Hello New Yorkers! quote:2. What to do in general - i.e. just roam around the city, or focus on visiting theaters, museums? You can go to a museum or show if you want, but really, with only 3 days you won't get bored just roaming and taking it all in. quote:3. Any particular must-see during this time? quote:4. We will probably stay on Manhattan, so we don't need car I assume No, definitely not. Just get metrocards and a subway map. Wear comfortable shoes.
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# ? May 21, 2024 16:34 |
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Hi Everyone! We are heading over from London on 17th Dec until 21st Dec and staying at the Hudson Hotel. Information has been great but can anyone advise: How likely are our chance to get discount theatre tickets on the 17th? We wanted to see Book of Mormon or Memphis but I assume its like London where you can get cheap deals (if not best seats) from third party vendors. Are there any particularly good areas for shopping? Department stores, outlets etc We want one seriously good modern American meal. I thought Per Se but we can't get in. On the same note where can we get a great brunch? We are probably going to go to Brooklyn Bowl as a friend in Stamford wants to try it out on Sunday - anything else around there worth doing? Sure I'll have more questions but gimmie answers! Thanks
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# ? Nov 24, 2011 20:51 |
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Hello NY thread! I just spent an amazing week in NYC. It was my first trip (of many I hope) and I stayed at Hotel Azure which is on Canal and Lafayette street in China Town. It was a great place for me, right in the action and right next to the subway so I could be anywhere in the city within minutes. My highlights were the Empire State building. The views really are amazing and I hit it about half past ten on a Thursday morning so my queue was only about half an hour. Riding on the subway, while I'm sure gets old for people living there, is fun and a really convenient way to get around for those of us that are just visiting. Plus there are some great buskers on the subway. I took a trip to the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn too which was kind of cool, lots of old head stones, some for people that died in the Civil War, plus has good views of the Manhattan sky line. The Spotted Pig in Greenwich Village has an awesome burger and super friendly service. I had to wait 45 mins for my burger (about 2pm on a Friday or Saturday), but the bar guy was really friendly and willing to shoot the poo poo, he even bought me a beer. Apart from that, as has already been said in this thread, just wondering around is so cool. There is so much stuff to see and experience. I spent a week there but I could easily have spent two had I enough money and time! Have a great time everyone!
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# ? Nov 25, 2011 19:20 |
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Hello fellow NY goons My girlfriend and I are flying out there for Dec. 28 - Jan. 03 to meet up with some of her friends and mine for a birthday. Was wondering if there are any fun activities going on for New Years that won't break the bank? Obviously seeing the ball drop will be on our todo list. Maybe looking for a lively chain of bars to hop around to since we both just turned 21. I checked to see about getting SNL tickets but that just seems out of the question now. Maybe a broadway?? Never seen one. Also! Cheap fashion?!? I know it's ironic but I'd love to go shopping for some clothes without buying $200 t-shirts. Does this exist anywhere in the fashion capital? Thanks to the thread already I have a pretty nice list of Museums and restaurants to visit! We also plan to go ice skating in Central park! Any help appreciated!
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# ? Nov 28, 2011 22:30 |
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1. You will have to get very lucky to find Book of Mormon tickets, but you can likely pick-up Memphis tickets at a TKTS booth. I recommend the one in South Street Seaport as there is hardly ever a line (http://www.tdf.org/TDF_ServicePage.aspx?id=56), but the one in Times Square is centrally located in case you'd rather not take the subway trip (I estimate that Times Square takes twice as long including the subway trip). Avoid buying tickets from scalpers unless you're feeling lucky/generous - New York has had a good number of fake ticket schemes that apparently never get old. 2. It depends very much on what you want to buy and your price-point: 2a. For higher-end/expensive clothes check-out SoHo (specifically the area approximately two blocks east/west of Broadway between Houston and Grand St.) and the fancy department stores on Fifth Avenue, e.g., Bergdorf-Goodman, Bloomingdales. 2b. For a slightly cheaper option try Macy's on Herald Square (a huge department store and not cheap, but it's not Bloomingdale's). 2c. For good clothes bargains I recommend UniQlo, a Japanese brand that recently opened a flag-ship store in New York. They have three stores in the city and offer cool, inexpensive clothes. Century 21 is another gigantic store, but offers some of the lowest prices - it's similar to Marshall's/TJ Maxx, but it's really a New York institution, PLUS it's right next to Ground Zero and Zuccotti Park (where Occupy Wall St occupied). 2d. For Camera equipment check-out B&H Photo or Adorama. 2e. For miscellaneous electronics head to J&R 3. There are tons of good restaurants in New York that offer great food. 11 Madison Park is one of New York's most highly regarded restaurants, but it will also be hard to get reservations there. If you're interested in finding a list of top-restaurants in New York, I recommend reading through the nymag.com and nytimes.com top restaurant reviews. One of my personal favorite restaurants (and possibly the cheapest single Michelin star restaurant) is Spotted Pig (http://thespottedpig.com/) PokerJoe posted:Hi Everyone!
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# ? Nov 29, 2011 05:32 |
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I went to ny almost a year ago (spent last christmas+new year there, it was my first time going) and loved it. One thing I recommend, but probably it's more for non-us residents, is going to a NY Knicks game, even if you don't care much about basketball. I like basketball so I knew I wanted to go to an nba game if I had the chance. My girlfriend doesn't really care about it so she was just "meh" about it, but I managed to convince her to go. She left MSG loving it. It was really fun, it seemed like a huge show which also had some dudes playing basketball.
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# ? Nov 29, 2011 13:43 |
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ole_bjorne posted:Hello New Yorkers! It's tourist season. No way in hell people are going to be closed unless it's literally Christmas Eve. I personally think Flushing's Chinatown (take the 7 "purple" train up into Queens) is one of the better Chinatowns in the country and is very worth seeing. Bring cash (no credit cards) and an appetite.
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# ? Nov 29, 2011 15:24 |
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I'll be in NYC for the Pinstripe Bowl and plan to stick around for NYE. I'm looking for something along the lines of the Deadmau5, Avicii, Laidback Luke shows that are that night but with tickets in the $100 range. Any recommendations?
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# ? Dec 5, 2011 03:36 |
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cheese eats mouse posted:I don't have archives so can I bump for things to do around New Year's Eve? Is it worth the headache to go to Times Square for the ball drop? It's sort of a bucket list thing for my boyfriend and I. We're staying with my cousin in Manhattan and cooking meals at her place, bringing our own booze/pre-gaming, and taking Megabus so we're doing this cheap. The boyfriend will have about $200-300 and I will have about $400-500. Not much, but we'll probably end up staying most nights in since we're not big bar/club people (will probably be too tired to walk anywhere at night anyway). You drat near described my exact situation. My girlfriend and I are staying at a friends in Brooklyn Dec/29 - Jan 4 Looking for record shops and would like to see some live performance that doesn't break the bank. We are for sure going to MOMA and Kiddingaround toy store. I know my gf is gonna wanna shop for some cheap designer clothes as well so this should be fun >< Also ice skating in Central Park would be ideal!
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# ? Dec 14, 2011 01:58 |
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emtoor posted:
They might still be doing ice skating in Bryant Park as well if Central Park gets really crowded (which it probably will).
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# ? Dec 14, 2011 15:47 |
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Anyone have any good Hungarian restaurant recommendations?
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# ? Dec 15, 2011 23:47 |
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I have noticed that there are quite a few couples traveling to NYC. If you are willing to try or already like Egyptian style cuisine, then I must highly recommend having a meal at Casa La Femme. http://www.casalafemmeny.com/ For the romantic dinner, reserve the white tents for dinner. Trust me, you will not regret it. You can get a 4 course meal for $55.00. The food is wonderful!! There is also an A La Carte menu, but you cannot reserve the tents for that. To compliment the meal, the atmosphere is just incredible.
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# ? Dec 16, 2011 01:21 |
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Maximusi posted:Anyone have any good Hungarian restaurant recommendations? Korzo Haus in the east village has excellant Hungarian burgers
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# ? Dec 17, 2011 03:02 |
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Perhaps an unusual question for this thread - what is the good place to buy good ski jackets/pants in NY? We will be staying in Manhattan.
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# ? Dec 19, 2011 07:05 |
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REI is what I'd suggest - http://www.yelp.com/biz/rei-manhattan
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# ? Dec 19, 2011 22:59 |
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brijacked posted:REI is what I'd suggest - http://www.yelp.com/biz/rei-manhattan Great, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
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# ? Dec 20, 2011 17:45 |
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There's also a Patagonia shop and an Eastern Mountain Sports in SoHo. And Paragon Sports near Union Square.
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# ? Dec 20, 2011 22:25 |
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About 15 years ago, I was living in Maryland and was offered a job to tear down some communications equipment from the roof of a building in NYC. That was my first and only trip to NYC, and I wasn't the driver, so I had no idea where in NYC I was. I have two pictures from that trip and would be thankful if somebody could pinpoint which building I was on. Here is the first one: This one is taken 90 degrees to the left of the first one. I have no idea which direction either of these pictures was taken, but if the first one was facing south, then this one would be facing east. I'm not at all familiar with the buildings of NYC, so this my be kind of dumb, but is that the Empire State building just to the right of the New Yorker building in the fist picture? What is the other tall building just to the right of that?
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# ? Dec 21, 2011 16:39 |
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SkunkDuster posted:About 15 years ago, I was living in Maryland and was offered a job to tear down some communications equipment from the roof of a building in NYC. That was my first and only trip to NYC, and I wasn't the driver, so I had no idea where in NYC I was. I have two pictures from that trip and would be thankful if somebody could pinpoint which building I was on.
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# ? Dec 21, 2011 17:42 |
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dominator posted:First picture is facing southeast somewhere around 35th and 10th Pretty sure you're on this roof. Google Earth 3d buildings makes this super easy for New York pictures (but dominator's hint helped a lot). That was fun and I kinda want to do more!
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# ? Dec 21, 2011 18:08 |
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SkunkDuster posted:
Yes, that is the empire state building. As for the other, if you're talking about the tall building in the background where you can just barely make out the spire, that's the Chrysler building. If you're talking about the boxy building closer to the foreground with the ambigram of "1" in red, that's One Penn Plaza.
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# ? Dec 21, 2011 21:55 |
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bam thwok posted:Yes, that is the empire state building. As for the other, if you're talking about the tall building in the background where you can just barely make out the spire, that's the Chrysler building. If you're talking about the boxy building closer to the foreground with the ambigram of "1" in red, that's One Penn Plaza. Are you sure that's the Chrysler? Looking East from the West side, wouldn't the Chrysler be to the left of the ESB? It's about 10 blocks to the north after all.
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# ? Dec 21, 2011 22:27 |
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Erwin posted:Pretty sure you're on this roof. Wow, you nailed it! I remember those triangular things up on the roof. That second picture was a repeater on the north corner. Thank you very much!
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# ? Dec 22, 2011 04:55 |
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CaptainPsyko posted:Are you sure that's the Chrysler? Well I'm not sure any more
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# ? Dec 22, 2011 15:47 |
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# ? Dec 25, 2011 08:05 |
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I think you'll probably get better answers in this thread http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3032497&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 plus someone there will probably show you around, quite a lot of those guys meet up weekly.
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# ? Dec 25, 2011 21:23 |
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A friend (and fellow goon) is hosting my boyfriend and I for about a week in January. She lives near the Hewlett stop on LIRR. I was thinking I was just going to pick up a 7-day metro pass and that would be that, but apparently it doesn't work on LIRR What's the best route fare-wise to go, assuming we'll be going to and coming back from the city at least 5 times during our trip there and going all over the place in the city?
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# ? Dec 26, 2011 18:43 |
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C'mon, guys! Give me some advice!
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# ? Dec 28, 2011 04:41 |
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A buddy and I will be visiting NYC for 2.5 days in early-mid January. Both of us have never been and do not want to visit the touristy stuff (I can do that later in life). We are both college bros who want to experience the cool poo poo of NYC. Any suggestions? I'll be browsing through this thread for cool stuff.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 00:11 |
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bobula posted:A friend (and fellow goon) is hosting my boyfriend and I for about a week in January. She lives near the Hewlett stop on LIRR. I was thinking I was just going to pick up a 7-day metro pass and that would be that, but apparently it doesn't work on LIRR mta.info N32 bus to Central & Mott, walk .07 miles to the A train station. $2.25 total and takes about 90min. Or you can take the LIRR and pay $10 and it only seems to save 20min or so.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 17:45 |
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two_beer_bishes posted:mta.info See, telling the MTA site to find me a route gave me a 45 minute trip from Hewlett to Penn via LIRR for $7-something and no alternate routes. Cost isn't an issue, within reason, but time is (I may die spending hours on the train per day) so I think I may get an unlimited week Metro card and a 10-trip LIRR card and spend about $85 on transport for the week. Do transfers count as another trip?
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 18:11 |
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bobula posted:See, telling the MTA site to find me a route gave me a 45 minute trip from Hewlett to Penn via LIRR for $7-something and no alternate routes. Cost isn't an issue, within reason, but time is (I may die spending hours on the train per day) so I think I may get an unlimited week Metro card and a 10-trip LIRR card and spend about $85 on transport for the week. Do transfers count as another trip? I don't know about the LIRR, I've only taken it a few times. Usually transfers between the bus and subway are free. If you go to the MTA website you can change how it routes you, depending on time, cost, or number of transfer. Also remember that once you're on the subway you can get all over Manhattan and Brooklyn (well, the entire subway system) for the cost of one fare, where you are limited on the LIRR by those stations (not many on Manhattan or Brooklyn compared to the subway).
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 20:07 |
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Potentially going to NYC for three days, four nights in March. 75 dollars a day for food and drink is feasible isn't it?
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# ? Jan 5, 2012 15:57 |
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Rankine Over Gash posted:Potentially going to NYC for three days, four nights in March. 75 dollars a day for food and drink is feasible isn't it? Dear god, I hope so. I'm planning on spending less than half of that @_@
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# ? Jan 5, 2012 19:16 |
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I was in NY for three days on Christmas. Your advices, guys, were great. Thank you. I really enjoyed the city. As for $75 - from my experience it is very feasible. You can always go to any deli buffet or some snack shack and have good amount of reasonable quality food for $14-20 pp.
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# ? Jan 5, 2012 19:32 |
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Anyone have recommendations for a decent Mexican place in Greenpoint? Thinking about maybe either Vamos Al Tequila or Calexio. Thoughts? edit: ended up going to Vamos Al Tequila - good and cheap SHARTING BEAR fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Jan 7, 2012 |
# ? Jan 7, 2012 01:28 |
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Anyone know any good open mic (music) venues in NYC? I have a list of possibles via Google but I'd rather some recommendations from human beings.
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# ? Jan 13, 2012 22:08 |
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Going from JFK to the Sheraton Brooklyn (228 Duffield Street), it looks like I can: Take the AirTrain to Jamaica Station, take the LIRR to Atlantic Station and be a 10 minute walk from the hotel. Can anyone verify if this is worth it (cost < $10) versus just taking a cab ($45)? And is it safe?
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# ? Jan 22, 2012 05:21 |
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roop posted:Going from JFK to the Sheraton Brooklyn (228 Duffield Street), it looks like I can: You could also take the airtrain to Howard Beach and hop on the A train to Jay Street, probably save you a few bucks. Don't forget that in addition to the LIRR fare you're stuck paying $5 to get off the airtrain at Jamaica and Howard Beach. Is it safe? Yeah, I take the A train from howard beach all the time and used to take the airtrain every day for work and I've never had problems. Walking around Jay street area will be no problem either.
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# ? May 21, 2024 16:34 |
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two_beer_bishes posted:You could also take the airtrain to Howard Beach and hop on the A train to Jay Street, probably save you a few bucks. Don't forget that in addition to the LIRR fare you're stuck paying $5 to get off the airtrain at Jamaica and Howard Beach.
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# ? Jan 22, 2012 20:22 |