don't know where you should stay, but you should eat at Cafe Boulud. I just got back from NYC (stayed with a friend) and we ate there one night. I did a write up on my blog here.

Good stuff.

Macworld starts on July 12th in Boston. Only $20.

Drive down to Newark for a quality baseball game...

See a show. Broadway

I've been told to eat at Nobu but it's something like $120 per person, not including wine.


Doh! I'm coming back on the 9th. EDIT: Err... Boston. I'm going to NY.


Hmmm... No time for a show. We have tons in Toronto anyway.

Sadly, you're going to miss Restaurant Week.

There are some very moderately priced and funky Manhattan hotels. See here:
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/urban/g...avel/hotels.htm

How about being about 45 min to 1 hour away, getting a reasonable room rate, and not having to drive in NYC? Not to mention staying right next door to an Apple Store?

Whenever I go to NYC, I stay in Nyack. New York at a hotel called the Nyack Motor Lodge. $75 a night + tax. It's about a 45 minute drive to the New York Waterway Ferry in Weehauken/Port Imperial, New Jersey. Once there, you can park your car all day for ~$7 to $9, and round trip tickets (into midtown Manhattan) for each day are $11 ($5.50 each way). Once in NYC, you can buy a MetroCard which lets you use the subways and local bus system an unlimited number of times for $7 a day or $21 for a week (7 days).

Metropolitan Transit Authority (Buses/Subways)

About the MetroCard

New York Waterway

Port Imperial/Weehauken Ferry Route Info

To me, it's worth it, and I find that avoiding the hassle of driving in NYC is very worth it to me.

The Nyack Motor Lodge is right across the street from the Palisades Center Mall which is a HUGE 4-story shopping mall that has an Apple Store in it. Not to mention "over 270 Specialty Shops, 14 Restaurants, Unique thEATery Area, 25 Eateries, NHL-size Ice Skating Rink, 68 foot Ferris Wheel, Restored Antique Carousel, 21 stadium style Loews Theatres and a state-of-the-art IMAX Theatre"

Check out the mall

Nyack Motor Lodge
110 N Route 303
West Nyack, NY 10994
(845) 358-4100

Oh, and if you do stay there, there's a very nice Mongolian restaurant just down the street from the hotel called Khan's.

*All quoted prices are in US$.

If interested let me know (send me a PM on the board). I can give directions to the ferry from the hotel. I've stayed there 3 times now, and find the hotel to be nice. You can actually stay there for $65 a night if you take a first floor room, but the rooms are much nicer on the second floor and are only $10 more.

The room rates I quoted were those in May 2004, which was the last time I was in NYC.

Cool, good info. I'll definitely look into that. My GF wanted more of a hotelish place, but I kinda want to save a few bux so that motel sounds fine, esp. given the location.

What about staying near Weehauken?

I suppose you could. I'm not sure what's available there, but you could probably find out easily. The Nyack Motor Lodge is a pretty decent motel; definitely not your typical "hole in the wall" type place.

Let me know what you come up with. The main reason I stay at the Nyack Motor Lodge is that it's closer to the area where my main focus of business is when I go there. The fact that it's so easy to make the trip to New York City from there is a great bonus.

The 45 min to an hour takes the ferry ride into account as well. The drive from Nyack to the ferry is only about 30 minutes or so.

Actually if you find something in Hoboken, or Jersey City you can just pop on the PATH train and you're in downtown Manhattan in no time.


The Nyack option is interesting, but you will lose a tad more time on the transit. And to me a mall is a mall. The Apple Store is nice - my mom loves it. But then again you have the Apple Store in SoHo...

Get mugged.

Yeah, this is after you go to Times Square for a peep show and sex with a prostitute. And of course don't forget to go buy crack in the East Village, next to Tompkins Square Park, where all the homeless people live.

Oh and you'll be wanting to take in the World Trade Center while your at it...

Wow, you're actually taking the ferry from Toronto? Good for you. I hope it's running the day you want to take it.

Need any help with directions? I've done that trip from Rochester many times, but I usually go to visit family, do I don't know where the best places to stay are. Definitely do not even think about driving in Manhattan; I haven't since I took driver's ed there. New Jersey sounds like a good option. The commuter rail system is pretty good, and if you do your planning taking where the PATH trains are into account, you'll do fine. (the only advantage to staying closer in Jersey is that you might be able to take a cab back if you had to, but the PATH trains are definitely cheaper.)

Definitely take advantage of the all-day Metrocard pass so you can visit multiple areas in one day. If you were smart enough to buy a Mac, you can figure out the NYC subways, which really aren't that complicated. (just remember that Express trains don't stop at every stop, and you're golden.) And they're really not all that scary anymore, honest. And it's pretty darn fast to get around town. My advice: avoid buses unless you're on one side of Central Park and want to get to the other. There's usually a subway stop within a few blocks of where you are, anyway.

As for what to do, well, what would you like to do? Odds are, it's available somewhere in the city. Too bad the Mets won't be in town...

All the peep shows moved to the area near Port Authority once Times Square got "Disney-ified". But there's still plenty of substances to be had in the Village, some things never change.

I never understood why "Ground Zero" is such a tourist attraction. Personally, I have no desire to see it. I'll go back after they rebuild.

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It would have been tragic if he couldn't show his GF where the peep shows are, after all.

Only one place to stay in the city:

http://www.heraldsquarehotel.com/

Get the biggest room they have. We paid 120 a night for two beds and a decent view. It's three blocks from penn station and right by a bunch of subway openings.

As long as you get one of the bigger rooms you will love it.

Hmmmm... Sounds interesting. The reviews sound pretty mixed though. Some say it's crap and some say it's reasonable. I'm wondering if it's the small rooms that are the crap ones. There are $119 rooms available.

When I walked by, there was a family taking pictures in front of it. The dad was like, "Hey, Everybody Smile!" What an idiot. That's like taking fun family photos at the Nazi death camps.

My wife and I just went down to NYC a few weeks ago for a friends wedding. We jumped on Priceline and bid on a four star hotel for a few nights and got the Waldorf-Astoria for 125 a night. excellent location, old world elegance, beautiful room(marble bathroom), great service and limes available at 2AM. We used Hotwire for a trip to Puerto Rico a few months back. We landed a 4 1/2 star resort for 115 per night. The rack rate was 650. I heard of a forum where people who use the sites post the minimum bids they grabbed deals for on all sorts of stuff. I'll try to find it on post. I think we could've beat these prices since they were our first bids.

go to TekServe! Great Mac store. (i'm an intern there this summer, and I'm always surprised at how nice everyone is there)

Yea, I was put off at first by the mixed reviews also. But when it came down to it they all said basically the same thing; "rooms are too small". So if you end up going with the herald square make sure you are clear that you want the larger room.

Hope it works out for you.

::Edit:: Or as an alternative I can throw out some sleeping bags and you can crash on the floor. So long as you don't mind a bunch of 22 year olds playing beer pong till pretty late

You gotta go here:

http://www.zumschneider.com/



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Gosh, does you GodFather dictate your whole life

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Eug, there's been a few threads about what to do in NYC. Do a search and check it out ('cause sometimes we can't remember what's worth doing 'round these parts).

"A mall is a mall..." hehe. I may not know too much about malls, but having grown up in central Ohio, I can say that NO mall I have ever been to compares with the Palisades Center... How many OTHER malls do you know of that have a 65 foot ferris wheel, a restored carousel and an NHL-size ice skating rink in them???

Granted I've been to the Apple Store in SoHo... on a Saturday. The place was so packed it was hard to go from one end to the other (or even climb the glass staircase), and the day I was there, there were lines stretching all the way across the store for the registers. Let me tell you, it was a beautiful sight

Hoboken or Jersey City would be a good option too, I'd imagine. (A million ways to skin a cat, I suppose). The only reason I brought up Nyack was that I stay there because the main business I have in New York is mostly done in a tiny place called Florida, NY , which is, itself about 45 minutes away from Nyack in the opposite direction from NYC. But, the way I see it, if I'm going to go to that area, I might as well take time away from my business and have some fun in NYC.

Hmmm...

Complaints ?



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