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Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:28 pm to FalseProphet
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Well, aren't you just an e-badass.
No, not my intent. I simply asked for some travel recommendations to a place I've never been, and you replied like an a-hole, so I treated you like an a-hole.
Nice face saving post BTW
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:28 pm to LSU-MNCBABY
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Buy a week pass and take the subway everywhere during the day, Uber or walk everywhere at night.
This is great advice if you are a vampire.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:34 pm to LSU-MNCBABY
Times Square worked for me. Caught a live show of the Impractical Jokers. The way the place lights up is neat to see if you have never been there. Would be worth going see a show there, just get tickets ahead of time. Easy walk to Rockefeller plaza area where Today Show and Saturday Night Live are.
This post was edited on 5/21/15 at 4:36 pm
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:37 pm to bhamtbone
Dave Letterman Show....
Wait, N/M
Wait, N/M
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:37 pm to bhamtbone
quote:
Nice face saving post BTW
It was posted before you ever posted yours, but apparently reading before spouting off isn't one of your strong points.
quote:
I simply asked for some travel recommendations to a place I've never been
Here's a lesson in asking for recommendations that may benefit you in the future. Listen closely, because this is very important. BE frickING SPECIFIC.
We don't know if you are a poor redneck from north Alabama who has no business being in a nice restaurant, whether we should be advising you to go hangout with all the other poor tourists, or whether culture might genuinely scare you.
You might also be an OT baller who would have no problem with eating at La Bernadin and dropping thousands. You might be able to afford a four star hotel in a nice part of town, or you might not be able to.
I have no idea if you're 18 or 80.
You might like art museums, and you might like history. You actually might want to go to the statue of liberty and Time Square, but for the love of god, I would never understand why.
If you want people to post serious responses, post a serious request for information.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:38 pm to tigerskin
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Times Square worked for me.
Yea, if someone has never been to NYC, then Times Square is a pretty cool thing to see. Now, I wouldn't spend any money there unless someone enjoys 3 story chain stores and restaurants, but it's worth a 20 minute stroll through just to see it once.
Once you've seen it, there's no reason to go back there though.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:39 pm to FalseProphet
Staten Island Ferry is a cool way to see the Statue of Liberty without having to go to it.
Just be warned...it is a mad dash to loop back around and get on the next ferry back to Manhattan. Be waiting by the door and run your arse off.
Just be warned...it is a mad dash to loop back around and get on the next ferry back to Manhattan. Be waiting by the door and run your arse off.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:42 pm to medtiger
quote:
Yea, if someone has never been to NYC, then Times Square is a pretty cool thing to see.
Yeah I def would not stay there or eat or drink there but if you have never been before 100% go by there and look around. Check it off your list for sure. It's something to see. I mean for fricks sake he's taking a trip to NY for the first time. If you get to go once go SEE Times Sqaure. Then leave. But to say to not even go by is crazy.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:48 pm to bhamtbone
Ride the subway
Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge around sunset
Ride the Staten Island Ferry
Walk around Central Park on a Saturday Afternoon
Visit the Museum of Natural History
Buy an Italian ice in Spanish Harlem
Guggenheim Museum
Walk around mid-town at night.
If you visit Times Square, go at night, after 10:00.
South Street Seaport
Bronx Zoo
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Go to an off, off Broadway play
Go to the corner of 34th St. and 5th Avenue and look up.
Go to a Jets game
Go to a Yankees game (October is a bit late for a Mets game)
Go to a Broadway play or whatever is playing a Radio City Music Hall.
Catch some live music in the Village.
Hang out in Washington Square Park for while.
Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge around sunset
Ride the Staten Island Ferry
Walk around Central Park on a Saturday Afternoon
Visit the Museum of Natural History
Buy an Italian ice in Spanish Harlem
Guggenheim Museum
Walk around mid-town at night.
If you visit Times Square, go at night, after 10:00.
South Street Seaport
Bronx Zoo
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Go to an off, off Broadway play
Go to the corner of 34th St. and 5th Avenue and look up.
Go to a Jets game
Go to a Yankees game (October is a bit late for a Mets game)
Go to a Broadway play or whatever is playing a Radio City Music Hall.
Catch some live music in the Village.
Hang out in Washington Square Park for while.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:49 pm to bhamtbone
Be careful not to trigger the local SJWs. I hear they can get rather violent up there
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:50 pm to bhamtbone
Go hoop it up at Rucker Park.
Get a Big Mick from McDowells.
Check out On Location Vacations if you want to try to catch some shows or movies being filmed.
See a Broadway musical or show.... or Shakespeare in the Park (during the summer and it starts next week)
I see nothing wrong with doing the touristy stuff if you haven't been there.
Get a Big Mick from McDowells.
Check out On Location Vacations if you want to try to catch some shows or movies being filmed.
See a Broadway musical or show.... or Shakespeare in the Park (during the summer and it starts next week)
I see nothing wrong with doing the touristy stuff if you haven't been there.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:51 pm to bhamtbone
Try the $30 Ground Zero hot dog
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:55 pm to bhamtbone
1. Bus tour, be sure you can get a seat up top. If you do the Grey Line tours, channel 2 on the bus is really cool jazz :)
--This is THE BEST WAY to see lots of things in a short amount of time in NYC. Period. If you've never done a bus tour before, here's how it works:
You buy a pass from that bus line. That pass is good for x hours (24, 48, 72) and can be good for just a specific route (ex: The Bronx), multiple routes or all of them (I've done all of Gray Line's tours in NYC over the years). You can then use your ticket to get on and off any of that company's buses on the routes you've purchased for that time period at will. Want to eat in Little Italy? Go ahead. Want to get off at Central Park and walk through it then catch another bus on the other side? Great!
2. DO GO TO TIMES SQUARE! Take in all of the billboards and sites, check out the network studios. After the 10 minutes that takes though, never go back (unless you want to try for cheap Broadway tickets from TKTS). Not going to Times Square your first time to New York is like going to New Orleans for the first time and not having a hurricane from Pat O's or a beignet. Sure you can get by without doing it, but it's like missing out on a rite of passage.
3. Empire State Bldg. This is a stop for all the tourist bus lines so it's easy to get to if you are doing point #1 ;) Get the VIP pass. It's a little more expensive but to be able to skirt around everyone else (and hear them bitch) and then have the employees stop the non-VIPs from getting on the elevator just so you can... that's fricking priceless.
4. If you time your Empire State Bldg visit just right, go around the corner to the back of the building and cross the street then look for Legends. This is the LSU alum bar (during football season this is where all the LSU folks go to watch the game, they play the band music, Calling Baton Rouge, etc during the games - tons of fun). If there's an LSU baseball game going, they may have it on.
5. Go see a play on Broadway. Any of them. You can't go wrong.
6. Have a picnic in Central Park.
7. Museum of Natural History (it's on a bus route - see how convenient those things are??). You don't realize how insanely big a brontosaurus was until you stand next to its skeleton.
8. Staten Island Ferry. The ferry goes right by the Statue of Liberty and it's FREE! Ride the ferry across, then follow the crowd out and around to the next ferry taking the trip back.
9. Cheesecake at Juniors (just off Times Square and in Brooklyn). The food is okay, the cheesecake is fricking spectacular.
This is your first time in NYC so don't be afraid to be a tourist and do touristy things on this trip ;)
Addendum: wear comfortable walking shoes. If you have a wife/girlfriend/daughter/whatever coming with you make sure she does the same (no matter how pretty and comfortable she thinks her flats or sandals are, they are going to suck donkey balls from all the walking you'll be doing).
Addendum 2: With the warmer weather, bring some water (especially if you do the bus tours).
--This is THE BEST WAY to see lots of things in a short amount of time in NYC. Period. If you've never done a bus tour before, here's how it works:
You buy a pass from that bus line. That pass is good for x hours (24, 48, 72) and can be good for just a specific route (ex: The Bronx), multiple routes or all of them (I've done all of Gray Line's tours in NYC over the years). You can then use your ticket to get on and off any of that company's buses on the routes you've purchased for that time period at will. Want to eat in Little Italy? Go ahead. Want to get off at Central Park and walk through it then catch another bus on the other side? Great!
2. DO GO TO TIMES SQUARE! Take in all of the billboards and sites, check out the network studios. After the 10 minutes that takes though, never go back (unless you want to try for cheap Broadway tickets from TKTS). Not going to Times Square your first time to New York is like going to New Orleans for the first time and not having a hurricane from Pat O's or a beignet. Sure you can get by without doing it, but it's like missing out on a rite of passage.
3. Empire State Bldg. This is a stop for all the tourist bus lines so it's easy to get to if you are doing point #1 ;) Get the VIP pass. It's a little more expensive but to be able to skirt around everyone else (and hear them bitch) and then have the employees stop the non-VIPs from getting on the elevator just so you can... that's fricking priceless.
4. If you time your Empire State Bldg visit just right, go around the corner to the back of the building and cross the street then look for Legends. This is the LSU alum bar (during football season this is where all the LSU folks go to watch the game, they play the band music, Calling Baton Rouge, etc during the games - tons of fun). If there's an LSU baseball game going, they may have it on.
5. Go see a play on Broadway. Any of them. You can't go wrong.
6. Have a picnic in Central Park.
7. Museum of Natural History (it's on a bus route - see how convenient those things are??). You don't realize how insanely big a brontosaurus was until you stand next to its skeleton.
8. Staten Island Ferry. The ferry goes right by the Statue of Liberty and it's FREE! Ride the ferry across, then follow the crowd out and around to the next ferry taking the trip back.
9. Cheesecake at Juniors (just off Times Square and in Brooklyn). The food is okay, the cheesecake is fricking spectacular.
This is your first time in NYC so don't be afraid to be a tourist and do touristy things on this trip ;)
Addendum: wear comfortable walking shoes. If you have a wife/girlfriend/daughter/whatever coming with you make sure she does the same (no matter how pretty and comfortable she thinks her flats or sandals are, they are going to suck donkey balls from all the walking you'll be doing).
Addendum 2: With the warmer weather, bring some water (especially if you do the bus tours).
This post was edited on 5/21/15 at 4:59 pm
Posted on 5/21/15 at 5:10 pm to bhamtbone
I proposed to my girlfriend, now wife, in Central Park a couple of years ago.
Some of the highlights of our trip:
- PDT Bar (constantly ranked in top 5 bars in America; it's a prohibition style bar connected to a Crif Dogs, hot dog place that is also incredible, that you enter a phone booth and the back wall is the door to the bar; get there early for reservations)
- Eat a waffle from one of the many Waffles & Dinges food trucks.
- We enjoyed strolling through Central Park Zoo; it was small but nice to do something.
Some of the highlights of our trip:
- PDT Bar (constantly ranked in top 5 bars in America; it's a prohibition style bar connected to a Crif Dogs, hot dog place that is also incredible, that you enter a phone booth and the back wall is the door to the bar; get there early for reservations)
- Eat a waffle from one of the many Waffles & Dinges food trucks.
- We enjoyed strolling through Central Park Zoo; it was small but nice to do something.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 5:18 pm to GCTiger11
Bed-Stuy, Brownsville.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 5:38 pm to Slinky
grow a beard, wear sunglasses everywhere, and leave a bunch of black bags everywhere you go ...
you'll have a great time ...
you'll have a great time ...
Posted on 5/21/15 at 5:44 pm to Tigerwaffe
I stayed in Bed Stuy the last time I went. Rented an apartment in the same building that Biggie Smalls grew up in.
This post was edited on 5/21/15 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 5/21/15 at 5:55 pm to DWaginHTown
Spotted pig - burger
Ippudo - noodles
Mad for chicken - Korean wings
Ippudo - noodles
Mad for chicken - Korean wings
Posted on 5/21/15 at 5:55 pm to bhamtbone
I love the mid town/Central Park south area. If you can swing it, I'd definitely get a room with a view of CP
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