What are some cool things to do in NYC that most people don't know about, i mean besides the usual times square/empire state building etc.
What are some cool things to do in NYC that most people don't know about, i mean besides the usual times square/empire state building etc.
Do the Wave Hill- Cloisters-Run Vanny Triad
IMHO the view from the top of the bell-tower of Riverside Church is better than from the Empire State (and cheaper). Not sure if it's open to visitors anymore--I'd call them before going. Grant's tomb is the other side of the street, which is also worth seeing. PS1 in Queens is a bit of a mindf**k, if you like that kind of thing. Nothing like seeing creepy art in an equally creepy venue.
Go to the Upper East Side, find Karl Dusen at the Big Easy and punch him in the face!
-jf
You can go people watching in parks and on the sidewalks. You can also feed pigeons.
Hop on the Staten Island ferry in Manhattan and stay on it for the round trip. It is free and gives you a great view of Manhattan...
1. Visit Marble Hill, the only part of Manhattan on the North American mainland!
2. Visit The Cloisters, the only complete medieval monastery in New York City!
3. Run Van Cortlandt Park, including the Back Hills and Cemetery Hill!
4. See the original Winnie the Pooh at the Donnell Library on West 53rd Street!
5. Buy drugs in Tompkins Square Park (item may be out of date).
6. Shop at B&H Photo, buy a cut-rate camera from distracted Hasids!
7. Drink at the bar at Walkers in Tribeca.
8. Go bowling at Bowlmor Lanes.
9. Buy art supplies at Pearl Paint on Canal St.
10. Shop the junk-electronics stores and Chinese-knockoff shops on Canal, too.
Just got back from NYC a few hours ago.
Check out Bleacker Street in the village (lower east side) for some interesting restaurants and great live music.
Hudson Hotel has an excellent nightclub and lounge (at least on the weekend). Great place to stay (and cheap), but rooms are small.
Club on top of Hotel Gansevoort
And, as you said, there is the usual stuff...
Rockefeller Center, Chelsea Piers, St. Patricks Cathedral, NYSE, Knicks game, Madison Ave, Central Park, Ground Zero, etc.
When you leave PS ONE go one block west for some pasta at Manducatis then go up to Astoria's Socretes Sculpture Garden for big outdoors installations and cap you vist with a slice of coal oven pie at Sac's Place just up Broadway from the park. Then walk the mile to the allweather public track under the Tri-boro and get your repeats in.
go to the armory on 168th... track hall of fame
BTxc wrote:
go to the armory on 168th... track hall of fame
Boycott the track hall of fame, mary slaney is in there.
Lunch at Katz's Deli, Houston Street. "I'll have what she's having."
Visit Rosie O'Grady's....unofficial social center of NYC Marathon. Good food, better drinks.
Enjoy.
Definitely run Van Cortlandt Park - this week there is a 15k X-C.
See you there!
Definitely run Van Cortlandt Park - this week there is a 15k X-C.
See you there!
"Bleecker"
Oh, yeah: do your best to avoid looking like a tourist. Dress drably (some dark shade of jacket/pants). Pronounce Houston Street the way it's spelled (rhymes with "cow-stin," sort of). Buy a Metrocard from the machine, not from the token clerk (extra points if you choose the directions in a non-English language). If you're on foot, disregard the traffic lights (but *regard* vehicular traffic, including killer bicycles going the wrong way on one-way streets--and on sidewalks). When you spot a celeb (not as frequent as in LA, but you'll see some), ignore him or her--Whoopi Goldberg doesn't care how much you like her work (or maybe she does, but a true New Yorker would never find out).
Message: When you spot a celeb, ignore him or her--Whoopi Goldberg doesn't care how much you like her work (or maybe she does, but a true New Yorker would never find out).
I've seen Whoopi Goldberg nekked!!
Katz's is totally fun.
Benjamin Bratt's character on Law & Order said that Grimaldi's Pizza in Brooklyn is "the best in the five boroughs." It's true. And it's in a cool little area under the Brooklyn bridge, beyond the promenade.
But you have to go to Brooklyn to get there. Take the A train to Brooklyn Bridge. And there's a damned good view of the bridge from in front of the restaurant, down on the pier. Lots of car ads have pic.s taken from the location.
Speaking of piers, try Pier 17. If you like malls.
More Brooklyn: Prospect Park is very good running. Much better and less crowded than Central Park. The same dudes designed both parks, and while they hated Central Park, they considered Prospect Park a masterpiece. Roads closed to cars on the weekends.
Stay the hell away from 42nd street. Loud, crowded, nothing but tourists, bad expensive chain restaurants like Applebee's.
Little India, row of super cheap very small Indian restaurants on east 8th street, I think, between 2nd avenue and A, but I can't quite remember.
Mr Carter wrote:
Stay the hell away from 42nd street. Loud, crowded, nothing but tourists, bad expensive chain restaurants like Applebee's.
Yea, but what if you work[/] down there in that zoo?