NYC any ideas, must see?
 

taking my first trip with wife to the big apple, she has a conference, we will have one extra day to play. OK, besides the 911 site or the statue of liberty, what are your recommendations as a must see? and of coarse where is a must eat....

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Keith get a map of the island, and then figure out where you are staying in relationship to that. Its bigger than you think. If the weather is nice and you are close to Central Park that is pretty nice. Grand Central is quite impressive, Rockefeller center also, but will be swamped with touristas. The retired air craft carrier is open again, and that is real nice.....Cab it all over the place and you will have a nice experience....the subway isn't all that much cheaper at all when you have two and its kind of a pain in the butt. Cabs take plastic now. Food it depends upon what you like. But it is tough to find a crappy meal. If you like museums you are in the place. Can't remember if we did the horse rides, but I did jog by the stables.

If you are driving, then pay the parking garage fees unless you can move the car on the street(assuming you find street parking). I got nailed with a $225 dollar ticket for too close(10 or 12 feet from a hydrant) And it goes without saying leave the dualie at home!

Note: Not cheap, and not on sale, but truly unique.

Have fun

Eric

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thanks, we are taking the rail in from Wilmington, i gotta ride the subway just to say i did it. we love museums and the aircraft Carrier sounds cool.

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Keith,everyone knows the usual tourist locationsHere's two places to eat you can't miss.
They're both in Greenwich Village,downtown Manhattan and within a 1/2 mile of each other.
Sevillia:Spanish restaurant,real Spanish not Tex-Mex crap.Located at Charles St and West 4th st.
John's Pizzeria-Real brick oven pizza,same family ownership since the 1920s.I grew up on this stuff.Located on Bleeker St south of 7th ave south.I think they're closed on Mondays.
The Village is very interesting to walk.You can spend a day plus nd still not see everything.
Enjoy your visit and I know it's not easy,but don't bring the car into Manhattan.The PT
(public transportation) will get you where you want to go.Check ahead of time for discounted travel deals.
Ther cabs,due to traffic,are not a fast/enjoyabe means of travel.They'll make you wish you brought your helmet/harness/neck collar etc. along.The subway,other than rush hours,is the best and fastest.

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Times Square at night. When it's all lit up. And it is now pretty safe there. Gulianni chased all the skells out. It's now tourist friendly.

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sounds like a lot of fun, leaving tomorrow, overnight stay, and a day to wonder around, thanks for the suggestions, keep em coming

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Pastrami sandwich from Katz's Deli.

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The real deal for Deli sandwiches is Harolds by Exit 10 (NJTP) They make Katz's look like finger food.

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I agree with Ed, see the village. Also we enjoyed the Circle Line Ferry, real nice informative trip.
We got to eat at Second Ave Deli, will always cherish that. Veniero's for cheesecake or cannoli's, but what would I know, I'm from Illinois!!!

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Hit the Waterfront restaurant in Brooklyn, then walk across the Brooklyn Bridge if you want to feel and touch NYC. Here's a pic from The Waterfront. http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/...rooklyn(2).jpg

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yes, i believe i will put that on my list, very nice! and a stop at katz's deli
thanks for the replys, heading out today by noon

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Yo Keith,you still with us????????????????????????





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Ed is the party at your house when you hit 5000?

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Ken is going to throw me a big bash at the next Div 1 race after the big event.And Jack will be the master of ceremonies.








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Count me in on that one Lol.

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well, just got back, what a time! in as little time as we had, we stayed at the paramount hotel, BTW, there was no thirteenth floor . went to times square, central park, rode a handsome cab (horse and buggie) rode subway everywhere, toured the statue of liberty and Ellis island, had a Ruben and a roast beef at Katz's (i did not know that was where harry met sally lol) hung out at the trump tower, and of coarse, wife took me to saks 5th ave. and now i realize that her shoes cost more than my first car! i will not feel bad next time i need that special go fast part. anyway, thank you all so very much for the ideas, we could have used more time, i would have went everywhere you guys suggested! again, we had a blast and thanks for the ideas

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When the wife and I went out to visit her relatives there several years ago, we found the folks there to be quite friendly (except when driving) and would go back anytime for a visit.

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I'm going to NYC the first week of July. This will be my first time also. We are riding the train from Jacksonville.

Thanks to help and advice from Art and Patricia Leong and S/ST racer Neal Vaccaro, my wife pretty much has everyday of our stay planned out pretty well. If it doesnt involve going to a race I usually don't get very excited about a trip, but I am looking forward to this experience.




Hey Dan Moore, you're #1. :D

RIP Mark Graham & WB Hutto

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They don't have all you can eat shrimp in NYC Joe! Jim

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What??? No "all you can eat shrimp"? Those people don't know how to live. Hopefully it's not too late to cancel the hotel reservations and get a refund on the train tickets. :mad:




Hey Dan Moore, you're #1. :D

RIP Mark Graham & WB Hutto

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If you can do nothing else , the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a MUST SEE .

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My wife dragged me there a few years ago and in one of the rooms there were small paintings from the 13th century.I couldn't help myself and just has to touch a few of them,
thinking that these things have survived for 800 years.It's a mind boggler.There was a larger painting there,in black and white,that was a true 3 D effect.It was pots and pans in a kitchen.
And the topper was seeing the Mona Lisa.Needless to say I couldn't get close enough to touch it.


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Sorry Keith, I don't frequent the lounge often. Hope this helps Joe.

Personal preferences.

Subs:
Dafontes in Brooklyn by the tunnel has the best subs around, especially if you like rare roast beef with fresh mozzarella and egg plant or classic italian.

Little Italy:
Da'Nico's 164 Mulberry St between Broome and Grand
Fiore's on Grand near Mulberry

BBQ:
Blue Smoke
116 E. 27th between Park and Lex

255 Vesey St between West and Northend Ave in Battery Park City

Wildwood BBQ
Park Ave south between 18th/19th street

Burgers:
Jacksonhole Burgers
521 3rd Ave at E 35th street. There are many more of those around the city

Pizza:

Grimaldi's
1 Front Street
Brooklyn
down by the water

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Chinatown, plenty of god places.
B&H Dairy restaurant 2nd Ave near St Marks Place (8th St), next door is the best egg cream sodas on Earth.
Museum of Modern Art.
Museum of Natural History, planetarium is a mind blower.

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Joe, i hope you have as much fun as i had, way too much to see, wife wanted to go to china town, and i wanted to go to the top of the empire state bld. ran outta time, we will go back sometime, and i am going to print this list out as a guide!

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If any of you go to Chinatown One of the best places to eat (if they are still there? haven't been there in 10 years) is 69 Bayard street They are open 24/7 and all and I mean all the celebrities eat there. You can see the pictures on the wall. No atmosphere just great food.

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Wo Hop on Mott st is 24 hours too. Near Chatham square. Just tons of great places, many all night or late. Shanghai Snack bar is a dumpling place. REALLY great. In a little mall off Elizabeth St right near the police precint.

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Hey Artie,did you ever notice there were never any cats walking around near the restaurants down there?Plenty of rats though around 3 am.
And the old Fulton St fish market,I could tell stories that would make people non fish eaters.:>):>):>)

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I worked in the market for 7 years. Matter of fact many times I would bring the race car (Challenger) to work then leave to go to a race from there. When we won the Summernats. The next day I got to work late I told my boss he was lucky I was there at all.
The next week we won the Molson Grandnats. And I quit.

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Smells like a fishy story to me.





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All of the cat stories are pure bull****. Rats because of all the food garbage. I saw places in the subway where there were loads of garbage dumpsters that were ALIVE with rats.

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Welcome to NY.If the cat remark needs explaining you wouldn't understand.:>)







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I lived in Brooklyn for 50 years. The nonsense about Chinese restaurants killing and serving cats has been going on since the 19 century. There is not ONE instance of this being proven. Not one. When ever i hear this I ask "was this in the newspaper?" Often they say yes but can never produce a paper or a link of any sort to a news story.
The other response is "My cousin's brother's best friend's roommate was one that:
Cleaned it up and saw the cat carcasses
Knew the story
or some other BS.
I know the deal very well and it is nonsense.

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Oh boy,now let me explain it to you.I lived in NYC a bit longer than you and from the time I was a kid that story was always said in a rhetorical way.It was never meant to be taken as fact.
Maybe it's just a culture thing between Manhattan and Brooklyn.I think Artie,who's a Brooklyn boy,saw it in the context I typed it in.
Anyway how about watching where you dove into the Hudson River?Had to be careful your head didn't get stuck in an old milk can.(That was another NYC urban legend).



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Cats in Chinese restaurants are just another urban myth. But I did get a cup of pork stew from a bodega once and I found a piece of meat with hair attached I think it was rat.
Right now we are heading to Alaska for some reindeer sausage and some moose stew.

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The Cat-Chinese restaurant garbage was nationwide and goes back for well over a hundred years. It is still spread in places like small town PA where i live today. People still believe it absolutely. City people too. Ignorance is powerful.

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i don't know about nyc and cats in chinese food but in jersey, about 10 years ago my cousin who was a sergeant on the hillsborough pd, around 1 am came upon a obvious hit and run scene in front of a small strip mall on rt 206 , a massive blood trail led through the parking lot and around the building, what he saw was 2 asian gentlemen dragging a full size deer which obviously had just been hit by a rather large vehicle through the back door of their chinese restaurant!!

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Hey tough guy,knock off hittiing the liquor cabinet when the wife isn't home.




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Ed, you should get a free class racer t-shirt. with MR. 5000 on it...
BTW, i love cats, they are delicious!