Going to new york, things to do, and food recommendations

There's a place in the East Village which can be called a 'Hotel' if you're feeling generous. Actually, it's not bad at all, the rooms are clean if very basic and the clientele is bound to amuse you.

It's run by a bunch or Armenians. Double rooms were $80 a night, payable in cash. And in advance.

The biggest plus? Right in the middle of all the action. I can try and see if I still got the name somewhere. It's been a couple of years...

I'd recomment Katz's deli for amazing sandwhiches. And it's where Harry met Sally (apparently). And Apple Store Soho of course.

i can't remember the name of anywhere i ate, when i was there. ask some Noo Yoikers to give you the skinny on the pizza places, because if we find out you had Pizza Hut, you're a dead man!

oh, and PM Apple Pro Underwear, so you guys can hook up

Don't miss out on H & H bagels. I'm a Seattle resident, so I forget the exact address, but they are the best bagels in the world, from the scruffiest looking shop ever. I get a couple of dozen every time I'm there and bring them back. I even think that they are around 77th in Manhattan. We ate at the Manhattan Deli one tiem, too, pretty good food and if I remember correctly, right near H & H.

I haven't seen it, but my wife has and she recommends "Urinetown". Shakespeare in the Park is always good, if it is still running.

Don't forget to ride the subway. You'll have to get a MetroCard, but that's an easy process, and the subway is really the only way to get around. Try to find some place to sell you a token and put it on your keychain.

Ellis island is good for a whole day. It's worth it, but be prepared to spend the whole day there.

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i work on 57th street and 7th ave, if you want to hook up for a geek tour...let me know

Tads Broiled Steaks!!! it's a fast food steak place. It kicks major butt man

Have fun but NEVER EVER go on the Circle line (boat trip around manhattan). Yes the first 1/2 hour is great, but it lasts 6 hours! Instead, go on the Staten Island ferry...cheaper and u get the highlight...

indeed, god bless mad cow desease.

that's the advice I got before visiting NY, definately just take the ferry.

You could also go to Carnegie Deli as well. Pizza, Rays is definately good but almost anywhere in NY you go that has Pizza is good. Not Pizza hut though, as for Bagels Almost any bagel shop in the City is good. Nothing beats a NY bagel. Of course Apple Store SOHO is a Must see, Empire State, If you're into Museums NY has several good ones.

You could also Try BOLO one of Bobby Flay's resturant's. Visit Central Park, Chinatown, Little Italy.

Go to a Broadway show. You'll like it... If you need details feel free to ask.

If you're a photo guy:

B&H Photo/Video ... lots of fun

I saw The Producers two weeks ago, it was pretty amusing. Go see it if you get a chance.

Anyway, the Carnegie Deli rocks. Go there, too

Oh? did i miss something with that chain? It's been a few years since i've been to one.

Wow, I could go on for hours on this one...me & my girlfriend did about the same thing the first week in July of this year: a random week long trip to NYC, and honestly it was the greatest trip of my life.

I highly recommend "JG Melons" (should be around your street actually); it's a burger joint w/ a nice NYC atmosphere & some great eats. Also, visit Times Sqaure and the "Roxy Delciassan (sp?)" for some AMAZING bagels/pastries/etc. Then head one street over to a Starbucks, nab a frappacinnuo, and you've got a great treat. Also in Times Sqaure (around 49th & Broadway) there's a "Mama Sabarro's" w/ some killer pizza.

Go to ticketmaster.com now and reserve tix for the "Beauty & The Beast" boradway show @ the Lunt-Fontaine venue...WHOA! Amazinggg show, you won't believe the sets/props. If that's not your bag, see any broadway show, but I'm nearly 19 and it wasn't "childish" at all; very professionally done...live orchastra and everything.

Also, see a METS game...why not Yankees? I went to both, and Shae Stadium is about a million times nicer, cleaner, etc. than Yankee Stadium, plus, you won't be in the Bronx where a gazillion other people are.

Dedicate an entire day to just walking about Times Square/Broadway...you'll love it. And if you make your way near 60th street, you CANNOT leave w/o going to "Serendipity III" (they made a movie there a few years back) for the best desserts on the planet, and I'm not kidding. Get a "Peanut Butter Frozen Hot Chocolate" and you'll be spoiled for life. Check out www.serendipity3.com for directions. And of course, make your way to the SoHo Apple Store.

The view from the top of the Empire State Building at night is insanely good...GO!

Statue of Liberty isn't much now considering they won't let you go inside of it whatsoever.

And if you're a music fan, visit www.pollstar.com and search for events in New York, NY.

And most of all, ENJOY YOURSELF, it's honestly the greatest city in the world.

Nooooooooooooooo!!!!

I ate there when I was in NY, and that stuff gave me diarrhea something bad!

I had to stay at the hotel for the rest of that day, plus the day after. My brother found a 5-gallon bucket and told me I could carry it with me if I needed to use it (bastard!).

Well, now that I think of it, I really should it balme it all on Tad's. I did have like 2-lbs of honey roasted peanuts from the local vendors.

Agreed. I took this trip and conincidentally my g/f started her monthly round while on this INSANLY LONG BOAT TRIP and was not a good time whatsoever. Way too long.

Oh yeah, I forgot a greatttttt place to eat! "Olive Garden" in Times Square...wonderful Italian food!

Man...I wish I was still in NYC...

Flirt with some cook's cute daughter waiting tables in Little Italy. I don't even remember what she looked like, but I miss her.

I grew up on LI. We had this goofy friend who always raved about how "You gotta go to Canal Street! You can get anything for $10!"

We'd mention ANYTHING we wanted and he'd yell "$10 on Canal Stree." So we humored him and went. And we laughed our asses off because, lo and behold, you really could get anything for $10. We'd randomly come up with a simple or ridiculous item to buy and look around. Within 5 minutes there was a display of the coveted product. It was hysterical. Kept us busy for 20 minutes when we realized we couldn't outsmart the laws of supply and demand.

Mind you, the joke was that it was all super-cheap crap, used, "fell off a truck"...etc. You yell "Barry Manilow" and you'll soon lay eyes on a scratched up LP from the 70's. But you'll get it cheap.

I'm sure it's up to $15 or $20, now. But it was a poor man's shopping mecca last I checked. Haven't been in 10 years, though.


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Pizza...there are several good places. Patsy's has several locations, but I think the only really authentic one is at 117th and 1st Ave. There's one that's pretty good on something like 69th and 2nd, too.

As for a bagel, H&H is the best. Go to the West Side one, not the East Side one. It's on 80th and Broadway. You might want to get some cream cheese or something beforehand, because they ONLY sell bagels...no butter, no cream cheese, no nothing.

As for a Kosher sandwich, I dunno ... there are a bunch of good sandwich places though. You could ask for a sandwich that has only kosher ingredients. There's one right near H&H on 78th and Broadway called Bruno's. It looks like a tiny Italian deli but they make incredible sandwiches with high quality ingredients.

The funny thing about the pic APU posted is that there are about 250 Famous Original Ray's Pizzas throughout the city.

I find most Broadway musicals really annoying. I'm only able to tolerate a select few ... Phantom is a good show, but I think most people have seen it now. Les Mis was the best one, but unfortunately it's closed now. Beauty and the Beast is OK...I went to it around 6-7 years ago and don't remember it that well. Haven't seen the Producers, but if the movie is anything to go by, it's not -that- good.

What I would recommend instead is seeing A Long Day's Journey Into Night. It's a play, not a musical, but it's one of the most distinguished productions of one of the 20th century's great plays: Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Dennehy both won Best Actor awards for it, if that's anything to go by. Dennehy is a big O'Neill nut and is experienced with the material, and Vanessa Redgrave is, well, Vanessa Redgrave. Philip Seymour Hoffman is in it as well. The acting is some of the best you will ever see. Anywhere. Ever. The one thing to watch out for is that it is *LONG*! It's about 3.5 hours of play, and 4 hours with intermission, so you'll be booked from 7-11 (it starts at 7). More, if you count transportation. It is right in the middle of Times Square though, so you'll be able to get stuff to eat easily before or after. Times Square is interest at night anyway. You could go see a musical if it's more up your alley though. Long Day's Journey Into Night is a difficult, dark, heavy, depressing play, and if you're really not in the mood, maybe skip it.

Um...what else? Circle Line is ass long. Forget it. Ditto what other people said. Olive Garden has decent food, but is a bit touristy, being in Times Square. It's really strange though...for some reason, when I went there, I didn't see a single white person in the entire restaurant. *ONLY* black people. Haven't been able to figure it out. It's not a big deal or anything, obviously.

You could go see a baseball game. That's fun enough if something good is on and it's easy to get to Shea by subway (take the 7). Haven't been to Yankee Stadium in a while, so I don't remember that as well. I was at a subway series game a few weeks ago at Shea, though, and it was amazing.

If you like steak, you could try Peter Luger's. It's one of the more famous steakhouses and it's supposed to be absolutely incredible. Supposedly the best steak in America. CAUTION, though, it's EXPENSIVE and you have to pay *cash*. If you're going with two people I'd bring about $200 just to be safe...I've never eaten there so I dunno what the prices are. Book well in advance and I believe the Porterhouse Steak for Two is highly recommended. Also, don't ask for your steak well done. I don't think they like it. Even if you don't normally take steak rare, I think that's the way it's recommended at Peter Luger; it'll just end up being better. It's in Brooklyn, incidentally. Anyway. I've never been there, so this is purely based on reputation and comments from people I know.

Carnegie Deli is well known. Famous for corned beef, pastrami, and cheesecakes, I believe.

Empire State Building is cool. Night views of Manhattan are neat. I guess IMAX 3D is cool if you've never seen it before. Some tourists who come stay with us enjoy it.

I've heard of Serendipity3, but never eaten there.

One thing I would strongly recommend doing is going to a comedy club. New York has perhaps the best standup circuit in the country, and at some of the top clubs, you can get lucky and be treated by a drop-in from a really big-name comedian like Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, George Carlin (way more rare), and so on. You could go to Carolines on Broadway, which is bigger and a bit more touristy (in Times Square), but it's one of the premier comedy clubs in the country and almost everything you see there will be excellent. Gotham Comedy Club is further downtown (around 23rd and 7th, I believe), and is known for being one of Seinfeld's favorite haunts. He's never scheduled, of course, but you could get lucky. There's also Stand Up NY on 78th and Broadway, and they get pretty good people, but the club itself is kind of dirty and not that nice. Cramped like sardines on a busy night, too. I'd try one of the others. Check their websites for scheduling...if you go on the wrong night you'll be in for a painful few hours of bad entertainment. Carolines is probably the best bet during the week. Avoid New Talent Showcases like the plague. Sunday at Gotham is the professional showcase, so that's a good night to go. If you like standup at all, totally worth it. Not that expensive...$15-25 cover charge per head and then a two drink minimum, which generally comes to about $8-10 per head if you get the cheapest drinks (Coke or something). Book in advance and you have to arrive about 30 minutes before the show.

Walk around in Central Park. It's a really beautiful park, especially in early evening during a weekday, because it's almost empty. The views of the city are incredible in some parts, and it's just a very nice place to walk around.

A funny thing to do is going semi-bar hopping at fancy Madison Avenue boutiques. At the really expensive places, they offer you drinks when you come in, so you just get something to drink, look around for a bit (they always have some stuff that's interesting to see because it's so retardedly expensive), and then go on to the next one. Only if you're in a silly mood.

Anyway, I think with all these suggestions and the ones other people made you'll have more than enough to do ... which is the way it always is in New York.

I've been to New York a few times, but I'm moving there to go to school in two weeks.

Just thought I'd gloat

A friend of Mine is going to be Attending Columbia this year. I also hear Columbia has some good Apple Discounts.

Yep, the discounts aren't too shabby. Pity I already bought my TiBook last winter. I still love 'er

I didn't read the other suggestions, but I'll add a couple of things that I thought were enjoyable.

Get on one of the Blue Line boat tours for a few hours. Endless cityscape photo opportunities while you sit on your butt and enjoy the breeze. You'll learn a little bit about the city, too.

Take a walk in Central Park at night. Heck, walk around anywhere at night. The city is a different place when hardly anybody else is around. I felt safe enough doing this in midtown Manhattan late at night.



sexy redhead on Blue Line boat tour. drool.

Can't BELIEVE I left this out! We went & saw the Philharmonic Orchastra there in July and it's SUCH a beautiful park. Media always depicts the city-life of NYC, but the nature there is unbeatable...great photo locale.

Les Mis was one of the best shows ever to hit Broadway. Phantom is not very far behind it. If you havn't seen Phantom, go see it now. If you live in London or are visiting, go see Les Miserables. I don't really have any interest in seeing Beauty and the Beast or The Producers. Also, RENT is a very good show (although Gzl thinks otherwise ). RENT is worth seeing, imho.

Gzl: I never thought about going to a comedy club. Good idea, next time I'm in NY I think I will visit one. Thanks!

1. go to the top of the Empire State building at dark. (avoid the line at sunset though)..go around 10 p.m.).

2. DO NOT go to the statue of liberty...big waste of time. Take the Statin Island Ferry as suggested before on this forum. its free and very fun...and a nice view of the statue how real new yorkers see it.

3. Best chinese: Sammy's Noodle Shop at 10th street and 6th avenue. (get the Vegetable Dumplings..best dumplings in the United States).

4. New York pizza sucks in my opinion...avoid the hotdog stands as well.. the hot dogs taste good, but your stomach ALWAYS regrets it afterwords. New York pretzels purchased from vendors are hit or miss.. sometimes hard as a rock and cold... really try to stay away from street vended food.

5. Hit the apple store in soho..bring your laptop..they have free internet access there which you can use while sitting at the upstairs theater area.

6. Ground Zero (World Trade Center).. its a very solomn experience.. I ride my bike down there all the time along the Hudson River park.

7. Intrepid Aircraft carrier at 45th street on the hudson river. WW2 aircraft carrier..nice views on top of it of manhattan.

those are my suggestiosn anyhow..have fun..
times square is great a night to look at all the neon and people..have fun!

Nice thought, but DO NOT do this alone, and stay towards the edges of the park in the well-lit areas. Central Park is wonderful, but there are some bad places, especially deeply within.

Oh, I forgot to mention this. Go to Toys-R-Us. It's great and it brings back a lot of memories.

Take the subway, just to say you have.