New York City Trip
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KP, Manhattan Island may only be 24 x maybe 3 miles wide, but there are a ton of things to see and do. The Statue of Liberty is mostly closed, so skip it. You can only get into the base. http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.e2a1b26d9be35ff6a62fa24601c789a0/
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Broadway show tickets can be purchased inexpensively the night of the show, the park is wonderful to visit (Central park), Circle line in the eveing is a great short boat trip to party and meet people on.
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Broadway show tickets can be purchased inexpensively the night of the show, the park is wonderful to visit (Central park), Circle line in the eveing is a great short boat trip to party and meet people on.
Out east on the island, there are excellent places to tour and drink wine.
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rp23g7
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We went in 2009, Statue of liberty is open, and worth it, it reopened July 4th 2009, we had crown reservations and it is really interesting.
good site www.wirednewyork.com
my post on wirednewyork of our trip
Well, vacation is over, darn, I told a few of you i would post a full report of our vacation for future tourists to read and decide what to do. It may be a long post.
You may have seen my post before on what we did so far, but i have added some things to it.
We were in the city from Tues Oct 20, to the 28th, so we experinced a whole week with a weekend.
Our flight landed at 5 pm at JFK, and I had been told to take a Town Car instead of a cab, so i reserved a Dial 7 Town car.
It was rush hr when we got there, and the drive in to the city was harrowing to say the least, driver got in a beef with a random driver on a short cut, and was weaving in and out on the shoulder. It was the random driver and not the company, we took another Dial 7 back and had no issues on the way back. Luck of the draw i guess. We never did take a cab anywhere, we always walked or took the subway. A 7 day Metro Card is a must.
We stayed at the FairField Marriott Times Square, which is about 3 blocks from Times Square, between 9th and 8th on W 40th st. We had a double on the 10th floor, nice little room, flat screen tv, free wired internet. We Pricelined the room for $100 a day, i think the regular rate is $330. Yes, they did fix the sign outside. Everyone there was great and we had good service the whole week.
The A, C, E train is half a block away, and the hotel is right next to the Port Authority Bus Station.
We got to our room about 7, then left and walked around. There is a pizza place down the steet on the corner $1 a slice, dont know what is different but NYC pizza is awsome. We walked to Times Square, and checked it out for a bit. Total information overload at night. WOW. We walked down and around to Rockefeller Center and came back.
Went to the Times Square Subway station and bought 3 Metro Cards, $27 each, they pay for themselves.
We had already scheduled a bunch of things previously so we already knew what we were going to do on some days.
The next morning we had the NBC Movie tour planned, where they take you all over the city and show you movie and tv sites. Well worth it. Before that we went to see Tim McGraw at the Today show. Then went over to where the tour started.
The tour is 3 hrs, and you get to go see where they Filmed Taxi Driver, I Am Legend, Friends, Seinfeld, Borat, etc. Really interesting, as well as seeing other stuff on the way to the places.
After the Tour, we met up with Brooklynrider and and he gave us a escort to the Observation decks, both the 86th floor and the 102nd floor. Met Tony, the elevator operator and the guy that changes the lights, i forgot his name. Really fun, and a awsome thing for BR to do. Suprised that we didnt hear anything about it all day, but Paul McCartney was on David Letterman that day, and he played out on top of the Ed Sullivan marquee.
We left and walked over to the NY public library, Wow, really impressive inside, then walked down to Grand Central Station. We just happened to get there at rush hr. Yikes, dont stand still or you will be run over. Fantastic building, WOW. We went over and checked out the Chrysler Building, you can go in, but only to the side lobbys, i got some really good pictures though.
The next day, we had Statue of Liberty Crown reservations and Ellis Island tickets.
Security there is really tight. Airport style security areas in two places, plus a explosive sniffer/blower thingy. If you get crown tickets, be prepared for about 400 stairs, and a spiral stairway about 2.5 feet wide. I am a big guy, been working out 25 yrs, had to kinda walk up sideways. Really interesting to see the interior framework and the way they put it together. Lots of pictures.
Ellis Island was not as interesting as i thought it would be. There is a ring of 400,000 names you can look to see if yours is there, but they charge you to use the computers to look up any info.
We went back and walked through Battery Park, the sculpure from the WTC plaza is there with a eternal flame. Then we walked down Trinity Street to the WTC site.
The WTC memorial museum was closed, but looked really interesting. There are the people trying to sell you booklets of before and after pictures, but i didnt see any of the conspiracy people hanging around.
You can walk around the whole site on the 2nd floor mezzanine's of the Financial buildings, and walk through Wintergarden, which is really impressive inside. The American Express building has a memorial called 11 Tears for 11 employees that worked on the 95 floor of one of the towers.
Next day, Friday, was the NBC Studio tour at Rockefeller Center. RC is really neat inside, murals on the ceiling and walls, art deco interior. The sets are smaller than they look on TV, saw Jimmy Fallons set, SNL set, the control room for one, Football night In America set, Went down to Canal Street after that, i am not a shopper but my wife got some deals on some things.
It was raining on Saturday, we ended up going to Central park, took the subway to 72nd street, and checked out the Dakota, and walked back to 59th st.
Went meandering through, checked out the icerink, the zoo, and the Mall, there was a Halloween festival going on. After 5 hrs it was getting late, and we had only made it to 81st street, so we headed back, it was starting to rain harder also, What a neat park though.
Sunday was clear again, we had already bought the Loop tours, Uptown, Downtown, Brooklyn, and City Lights. These tours are a must also, I think the Brooklyn and the City Lights tour are the same, except the light tour is at night.
We did the Uptown tour, it takes you up the west side first, into Harlem, then back down the east side.
Harlem was awsome, we ate lunch at a soul food place, i forgot the name, but its on the corner of 125th and Lennox? I will post the pictures either on Facebook or photobucket. AWSOME food. Went and checked out the Apollo Theater too, and walked around a bit, such a neat area.
We did the Downtown tour after that, it takes you back down to the city hall area, so we got off and walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. The rest of the tour takes you through the area we had seen so we took the subway back and did the night tour, which takes you across the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn and down by Prospect Park and back. Tried to get some good night shots, some of them came out ok.
Monday we kinda did our own thing, wife went shopping, i went walking around town, found Studio 54, its a Broadway theater now, took a few pictures, went out and walked down 42nd street that night, got some good pictures of GCS and United Nations, i thought it would be all lit up, but it wasnt.
Tuesday was raining too, we went out in the morning, to the Today show, but left got tired of standing in the rain. We had David Letterman tickets for that afternoon. We had to leave the next day so we packed and went to the Ed Sullivan theater at about 4.
Really neat old place, especially if you ever watched Ed Sullivan with your parents. Courtney Cox was there, and it turned out her mom was having a birthday, and was sitting right across the aisle from me. I havent watched the taping yet, but i may have been on tv. I will need to watch it.
Awsome vacation, need to come back to do the other things we didnt get to do.
To all the New Yorkers out there reading this. Your city if friggen awsome, so many nice people, and so many diverse things to do. And always a way to get there and do it. Everything i thought about New York City before was blown away, complete night and day difference.
To all the people who may go to New York City, The people are great, friendly and polite. I was one of those "all i know about NYC is what i read or saw in the movies" people.
Completely night and day difference. We spent a week there, in all the travels i didnt hear one rude word. There are police all over. At least 1 or 2 on every 3 or 4 blocks. We went out at all times, pretty much everywhere in Manhattan, i didnt feel uncomfortable or threatened in any way anywhere.
The food is great, we didnt go to and real restaurants. We had awsome deli food, the street food is awsome, pizza is awsome. You can eat as cheap or expensive as you want, i didnt have any bad food anywhere.
Let me know if you have any questions,
i will post pictures, for the people without Facebook i will post the pictures on photobucket when i edit them.
For you facebookers i am under steve brogren.
Pictures here
http://s572.photobucket.com/albums/ss161/rp23g7/New York City 3/
http://s572.photobucket.com/albums/ss161/rp23g7/New York City/
http://s572.photobucket.com/albums/ss161/rp23g7/New York City 2/
good site www.wirednewyork.com
my post on wirednewyork of our trip
Well, vacation is over, darn, I told a few of you i would post a full report of our vacation for future tourists to read and decide what to do. It may be a long post.
You may have seen my post before on what we did so far, but i have added some things to it.
We were in the city from Tues Oct 20, to the 28th, so we experinced a whole week with a weekend.
Our flight landed at 5 pm at JFK, and I had been told to take a Town Car instead of a cab, so i reserved a Dial 7 Town car.
It was rush hr when we got there, and the drive in to the city was harrowing to say the least, driver got in a beef with a random driver on a short cut, and was weaving in and out on the shoulder. It was the random driver and not the company, we took another Dial 7 back and had no issues on the way back. Luck of the draw i guess. We never did take a cab anywhere, we always walked or took the subway. A 7 day Metro Card is a must.
We stayed at the FairField Marriott Times Square, which is about 3 blocks from Times Square, between 9th and 8th on W 40th st. We had a double on the 10th floor, nice little room, flat screen tv, free wired internet. We Pricelined the room for $100 a day, i think the regular rate is $330. Yes, they did fix the sign outside. Everyone there was great and we had good service the whole week.
The A, C, E train is half a block away, and the hotel is right next to the Port Authority Bus Station.
We got to our room about 7, then left and walked around. There is a pizza place down the steet on the corner $1 a slice, dont know what is different but NYC pizza is awsome. We walked to Times Square, and checked it out for a bit. Total information overload at night. WOW. We walked down and around to Rockefeller Center and came back.
Went to the Times Square Subway station and bought 3 Metro Cards, $27 each, they pay for themselves.
We had already scheduled a bunch of things previously so we already knew what we were going to do on some days.
The next morning we had the NBC Movie tour planned, where they take you all over the city and show you movie and tv sites. Well worth it. Before that we went to see Tim McGraw at the Today show. Then went over to where the tour started.
The tour is 3 hrs, and you get to go see where they Filmed Taxi Driver, I Am Legend, Friends, Seinfeld, Borat, etc. Really interesting, as well as seeing other stuff on the way to the places.
After the Tour, we met up with Brooklynrider and and he gave us a escort to the Observation decks, both the 86th floor and the 102nd floor. Met Tony, the elevator operator and the guy that changes the lights, i forgot his name. Really fun, and a awsome thing for BR to do. Suprised that we didnt hear anything about it all day, but Paul McCartney was on David Letterman that day, and he played out on top of the Ed Sullivan marquee.
We left and walked over to the NY public library, Wow, really impressive inside, then walked down to Grand Central Station. We just happened to get there at rush hr. Yikes, dont stand still or you will be run over. Fantastic building, WOW. We went over and checked out the Chrysler Building, you can go in, but only to the side lobbys, i got some really good pictures though.
The next day, we had Statue of Liberty Crown reservations and Ellis Island tickets.
Security there is really tight. Airport style security areas in two places, plus a explosive sniffer/blower thingy. If you get crown tickets, be prepared for about 400 stairs, and a spiral stairway about 2.5 feet wide. I am a big guy, been working out 25 yrs, had to kinda walk up sideways. Really interesting to see the interior framework and the way they put it together. Lots of pictures.
Ellis Island was not as interesting as i thought it would be. There is a ring of 400,000 names you can look to see if yours is there, but they charge you to use the computers to look up any info.
We went back and walked through Battery Park, the sculpure from the WTC plaza is there with a eternal flame. Then we walked down Trinity Street to the WTC site.
The WTC memorial museum was closed, but looked really interesting. There are the people trying to sell you booklets of before and after pictures, but i didnt see any of the conspiracy people hanging around.
You can walk around the whole site on the 2nd floor mezzanine's of the Financial buildings, and walk through Wintergarden, which is really impressive inside. The American Express building has a memorial called 11 Tears for 11 employees that worked on the 95 floor of one of the towers.
Next day, Friday, was the NBC Studio tour at Rockefeller Center. RC is really neat inside, murals on the ceiling and walls, art deco interior. The sets are smaller than they look on TV, saw Jimmy Fallons set, SNL set, the control room for one, Football night In America set, Went down to Canal Street after that, i am not a shopper but my wife got some deals on some things.
It was raining on Saturday, we ended up going to Central park, took the subway to 72nd street, and checked out the Dakota, and walked back to 59th st.
Went meandering through, checked out the icerink, the zoo, and the Mall, there was a Halloween festival going on. After 5 hrs it was getting late, and we had only made it to 81st street, so we headed back, it was starting to rain harder also, What a neat park though.
Sunday was clear again, we had already bought the Loop tours, Uptown, Downtown, Brooklyn, and City Lights. These tours are a must also, I think the Brooklyn and the City Lights tour are the same, except the light tour is at night.
We did the Uptown tour, it takes you up the west side first, into Harlem, then back down the east side.
Harlem was awsome, we ate lunch at a soul food place, i forgot the name, but its on the corner of 125th and Lennox? I will post the pictures either on Facebook or photobucket. AWSOME food. Went and checked out the Apollo Theater too, and walked around a bit, such a neat area.
We did the Downtown tour after that, it takes you back down to the city hall area, so we got off and walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. The rest of the tour takes you through the area we had seen so we took the subway back and did the night tour, which takes you across the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn and down by Prospect Park and back. Tried to get some good night shots, some of them came out ok.
Monday we kinda did our own thing, wife went shopping, i went walking around town, found Studio 54, its a Broadway theater now, took a few pictures, went out and walked down 42nd street that night, got some good pictures of GCS and United Nations, i thought it would be all lit up, but it wasnt.
Tuesday was raining too, we went out in the morning, to the Today show, but left got tired of standing in the rain. We had David Letterman tickets for that afternoon. We had to leave the next day so we packed and went to the Ed Sullivan theater at about 4.
Really neat old place, especially if you ever watched Ed Sullivan with your parents. Courtney Cox was there, and it turned out her mom was having a birthday, and was sitting right across the aisle from me. I havent watched the taping yet, but i may have been on tv. I will need to watch it.
Awsome vacation, need to come back to do the other things we didnt get to do.
To all the New Yorkers out there reading this. Your city if friggen awsome, so many nice people, and so many diverse things to do. And always a way to get there and do it. Everything i thought about New York City before was blown away, complete night and day difference.
To all the people who may go to New York City, The people are great, friendly and polite. I was one of those "all i know about NYC is what i read or saw in the movies" people.
Completely night and day difference. We spent a week there, in all the travels i didnt hear one rude word. There are police all over. At least 1 or 2 on every 3 or 4 blocks. We went out at all times, pretty much everywhere in Manhattan, i didnt feel uncomfortable or threatened in any way anywhere.
The food is great, we didnt go to and real restaurants. We had awsome deli food, the street food is awsome, pizza is awsome. You can eat as cheap or expensive as you want, i didnt have any bad food anywhere.
Let me know if you have any questions,
i will post pictures, for the people without Facebook i will post the pictures on photobucket when i edit them.
For you facebookers i am under steve brogren.
Pictures here
http://s572.photobucket.com/albums/ss161/rp23g7/New York City 3/
http://s572.photobucket.com/albums/ss161/rp23g7/New York City/
http://s572.photobucket.com/albums/ss161/rp23g7/New York City 2/
rmchrgr
Skate And Destroy
Don't do touristy stuff or set foot in a chain restaurant. You can go to a mall, it would be the same. I try to avoid Times Square, it's not representative of our city at all. Maybe just to see it but I wouldn't spend any time there.
I highly recommend the "High Line" on the West Side. Take a stroll towards downtown, check out the Standard Hotel, maybe have a drink there. When you get to the end, you'll be in the West Village.
Check out Brooklyn. Walk over the Brooklyn Bridge from the Financial District.
There's the Staten Island Ferry (as long as the captain is not loaded) for great views. There's a great bar with a pool table within walking distance of the S.I. terminal.
Ride the subway Uptown, you can check out 125th Street and maybe The Cloisters.
There's Chinatown and Little Italy, the Lower East Side an the East Village/Alphabet City.
There's lower Broadway, Union Square and Canal Street.
Don't forget Central Park!
Take a ride to one of the outer boroughs and ride the elevated train. I never got tired of being on the elevated lines.
Ground Zero might also be a good place to check out, the memorial is open I think.
Do yourself a favor, check out the Time Out Guide to Eating and Drinking, it's a reliable source. I can also give you suggestions on where to eat if you know what you want...
Manhattan is all Euro trash these days, pay them no mind.
Above all and again, don't do touristy stuff or go to chain restaurants!
I highly recommend the "High Line" on the West Side. Take a stroll towards downtown, check out the Standard Hotel, maybe have a drink there. When you get to the end, you'll be in the West Village.
Check out Brooklyn. Walk over the Brooklyn Bridge from the Financial District.
There's the Staten Island Ferry (as long as the captain is not loaded) for great views. There's a great bar with a pool table within walking distance of the S.I. terminal.
Ride the subway Uptown, you can check out 125th Street and maybe The Cloisters.
There's Chinatown and Little Italy, the Lower East Side an the East Village/Alphabet City.
There's lower Broadway, Union Square and Canal Street.
Don't forget Central Park!
Take a ride to one of the outer boroughs and ride the elevated train. I never got tired of being on the elevated lines.
Ground Zero might also be a good place to check out, the memorial is open I think.
Do yourself a favor, check out the Time Out Guide to Eating and Drinking, it's a reliable source. I can also give you suggestions on where to eat if you know what you want...
Manhattan is all Euro trash these days, pay them no mind.
Above all and again, don't do touristy stuff or go to chain restaurants!
goldfish65
Well-Known Member
Lombardi's Pizza. Arguably the oldest pizza place in the city. They use a coal oven. Everyone who I've suggested to go there has loved it.
The Metropolitan Museum. I guess it qualifies as a 'touristy' thing but it is amazing. You'll only see a fraction of it so decide what part you're most interested in.
The memorial at Ground Zero.
Shop a little, buy a shirt or a nice pair of jeans, the stores in Chelsea and the Village carry all sizes and the salespeople actually help you, and there's no sales tax on clothes, so it can be cheaper than shopping at home. It'll be fun later on when someone says 'that's a nice shirt' and you can say 'oh, thanks, I got it in New York.' Also the small shops and street corners are great places to buy unusual Christmas gifts that people will love.
The Museum of Sex is very interesting and well done.
The Metropolitan Museum. I guess it qualifies as a 'touristy' thing but it is amazing. You'll only see a fraction of it so decide what part you're most interested in.
The memorial at Ground Zero.
Shop a little, buy a shirt or a nice pair of jeans, the stores in Chelsea and the Village carry all sizes and the salespeople actually help you, and there's no sales tax on clothes, so it can be cheaper than shopping at home. It'll be fun later on when someone says 'that's a nice shirt' and you can say 'oh, thanks, I got it in New York.' Also the small shops and street corners are great places to buy unusual Christmas gifts that people will love.
The Museum of Sex is very interesting and well done.
abodyjoe
Well-Known Member
if you have never been there before you have to see time square at night. its cool as hell how busy and lit up it is..
the wife would probably like the shopping in soho
was there a couple months ago and got an awesome foot massage in china town.
if you need an emergency room NYU at 30th and 1st is great. took care of my little girl and we were in and out..
the water front you have the intrepid (air craft carrier) museum.
we went for a bike ride along the river and then through central park.
here is a nice map with a bunch of points of interest. http://www.citimaps.com/manhattan/maps/full_manhattan.pdf
the wife would probably like the shopping in soho
was there a couple months ago and got an awesome foot massage in china town.
if you need an emergency room NYU at 30th and 1st is great. took care of my little girl and we were in and out..
the water front you have the intrepid (air craft carrier) museum.
we went for a bike ride along the river and then through central park.
here is a nice map with a bunch of points of interest. http://www.citimaps.com/manhattan/maps/full_manhattan.pdf
SirDan
Well-Known Member
Times square is just lit up advertisements and shops with crappy tourist nic naks.
There is crap loads of museums, excellent rainy day activity.
IMHO most people in the city have no manners and just want you to get the F out of their way. Just don't let that bother you.
I would also highly recommend washing your hands after riding the subway. :thumrigh:
nothing like catching a cold to ruin your vacation.
There is crap loads of museums, excellent rainy day activity.
IMHO most people in the city have no manners and just want you to get the F out of their way. Just don't let that bother you.
I would also highly recommend washing your hands after riding the subway. :thumrigh:
nothing like catching a cold to ruin your vacation.
rmchrgr
Skate And Destroy
How about riding the F train out to Coney Island? Grab a dog at Nathans and cruise the boardwalk. There is no other place like Coney Island.
You might also check out Astoria for Greek Food and the Hungarian beer garden.
Like has been said already, most everything is accessible by subway or on foot, you can get to several places within minutes.
Only rich people and business types take cabs.
KP, have you ever been to the city? What do you want to do? How long are you staying?
You might also check out Astoria for Greek Food and the Hungarian beer garden.
Like has been said already, most everything is accessible by subway or on foot, you can get to several places within minutes.
Only rich people and business types take cabs.
KP, have you ever been to the city? What do you want to do? How long are you staying?
dodge freak
Well-Known Member
goldfish65
Well-Known Member
You're so right rmchrgr, a few years ago we took the subway there on a Sunday in September which was supposedly the final day before the amusement park was to be shut down forever. A very fun thing to do. It was a magical place, really cool to see all ages, sizes, shapes and nationalities enjoying themselves in one place. Bought a snow cone from an old Asian man.
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