New York, New York

PutneyMatt · Wed 21 Sep, 2005 21.22

nodnirG kraM wrote:Good evening to you all.

I shall in three weeks be going to my half-sister's wedding in Montreal and on the way back stopping of in New York for about three days. So the question is: what shall I do while I'm there? We've had several threads on New York before, but I'm a lazy fellow and cannot rightly be bothered to trawl back through a load of bitching and James Martin mocks to find them!

So ... what shall I do in La Pomme Grande? What would I be a crazy fool not to do and see?

You can stalk Tanya Beckett

James H · Wed 21 Sep, 2005 21.25

please Matt, it's Tarrrrrrrrnya Beckitt

cdd · Wed 21 Sep, 2005 21.32

nodnirG kraM wrote:Good evening to you all.

I shall in three weeks be going to my half-sister's wedding in Montreal and on the way back stopping of in New York for about three days. So the question is: what shall I do while I'm there? We've had several threads on New York before, but I'm a lazy fellow and cannot rightly be bothered to trawl back through a load of bitching and James Martin mocks to find them!

So ... what shall I do in La Pomme Grande? What would I be a crazy fool not to do and see?

Three weeks... that's no time to experience NYC!!!!

Here a selection of the best in New York City (assuming you're going there)

Broadway

Times Square

MOMA (Museum of Modern Art)

Guggenheim Museum (The exhibits regularly change though)

Empire State Building (When I went it was under construction)

Pentop bar at the Peninsula

There's another world-famous museum which is wonderful but alas I can't remember the name... I think it begins with M.

Downtown NYC

5th Avenue

Grand Central Station... puts our quaint Train stations to shame, plus you can get wonderful food there!

I am jealous already! I really enjoyed my time there and you're bound to as well.

Pete · Wed 21 Sep, 2005 21.37

Ground Zero

oh don't say you're not nosy

James H · Wed 21 Sep, 2005 21.38

cdd wrote:
nodnirG kraM wrote:Good evening to you all.

I shall in three weeks be going to my half-sister's wedding in Montreal and on the way back stopping of in New York for about three days. So the question is: what shall I do while I'm there? We've had several threads on New York before, but I'm a lazy fellow and cannot rightly be bothered to trawl back through a load of bitching and James Martin mocks to find them!

So ... what shall I do in La Pomme Grande? What would I be a crazy fool not to do and see?
Three weeks... that's no time to experience NYC!!!!

Here a selection of the best in New York City (assuming you're going there)

Broadway
Times Square
MOMA (Museum of Modern Art)
Guggenheim Museum (The exhibits regularly change though)
Empire State Building (When I went it was under construction)
Pentop bar at the Peninsula
There's another world-famous museum which is wonderful but alas I can't remember the name... I think it begins with M.
Downtown NYC
5th Avenue
Grand Central Station... puts our quaint Train stations to shame, plus you can get wonderful food there!

I am jealous already! I really enjoyed my time there and you're bound to as well.

Are you thinking of the Smithsonian? The aircraft carrier?

Sput · Wed 21 Sep, 2005 21.50

James H wrote: Are you thinking of the Smithsonian?

That's Washington DC

Anyhoo I think you'll agree cdd that aside from the attractions, the main odour of New York is something akin to bacon fried in piss, no?

Be sure to check out New York cheesecake and The Late Show with David Letterman (on broadway if memory serves) if you're up early enough to get tickets - i missed out on Bill Clinton by not joining the now guttingly short queue as I was up early. And yes, if you get up early you beat a hell of a lot of queues.

All in all though, I didn't love NY, I felt only lukewarm to it

Apart from Time Square at night, utterly fabulous place that is! Ground Zero is weirdly fab in its own way - one of the few places that you can't buy something in that most capitalist of countries. You can also take the circle line ferry to Ellis Island (immigration stuff) and of course the statue of liberty which is kinda fab for the view of manhattan island. P

martindtanderson · Thu 22 Sep, 2005 15.15

If you are very interested in TV, you could always take the NBC Studios tour, near the Rockafella centre, but I didnt enjoy it personally, its basically NBC Staff saying how great NBC is.

Nick Harvey · Thu 22 Sep, 2005 19.22

nodnirG kraM wrote:I shall in three weeks be going to my half-sister's wedding in Montreal.

It's all right, you don't need to.

Tell her I can recommend a bloke in Newfoundland who'll do the video FAR cheaper.

Lorns · Thu 22 Sep, 2005 19.32

Surprised they've not been mentioned yet!

Macy's and Bloomingdales. You've got to come back from New york with preferably a Big Brown Bag

cdd · Thu 22 Sep, 2005 21.15

Sput wrote:Ground Zero is weirdly fab in its own way - one of the few places that you can't buy something in that most capitalist of countries. You can also take the circle line ferry to Ellis Island (immigration stuff) and of course the statue of liberty which is kinda fab for the view of manhattan island. P

Yes, the Statue of Liberty was (comparatively) recently reunveiled after September 2001. Alas I didn't go to see it in the paltry 3 days I had there!

Ever since about 10 years ago I'd really wanted to go up the Twin Towers -- I remember seing photos of it from the bottom. New York seems so out of place without them... and I'm really quite sad I never got a chance to see them "in real life". That's why I didn't feel inclined to visit Ground Zero. I was "hit" enough by going there to find them not there.

Overall the impression you get from New York is of a dynamic city but which has next to no positive "people" interaction. There's so much life there it sort of cancels out, and nobody cares about anyone.

Surprisingly for an American city New York is very good for walking around in. The grid system means at junctions between Avenues and Streets if you're travelling a semi-diagonal direction you can do minimal waiting for the lights.

The Empire State Building is quite something, but I felt a very slight tinge of paranoia whilst up there. This was especially since it was at the time of the G8 and the attacks in London only a day or so before. Therefore I didn't spend a great deal of time there. Also you'll find several "waste your time" points, just to squeeze the last pennies out of the tourists. You must, for example, have your photo taken next to a grotty digital copy of the Empire State Building, and queueing for the elevators takes an age - both up and down.

The impression one receives from New York is an odd one. Despite the glamour with which it is presented and the "capital of the world" (or whatever slogan has been attibuted to it), you actually get the feeling of a place that's quite run down. It's not immediatley noticiable as New York itself is somewaht upstaged by the massive coroporate buildings, but try and ignore those momentarily and you'll see a city which is in fact not wealthy at all.

You just can't beat it though... (If you're into it) the nightlife there is apparently something else.