New Yorkers

[seXieleXie]

well, people in/around new york city:

what are some of your favorite places to visit in manhatten? what are some of your favorite places to eat (think cheap)?

i need advice

 

[Pyper]

Your AV is representational of a woman.

*runs*

I'm sorry, I couldn't help it! It's been bugging me for days!

 

[Olivianna]

Cheap eats - good deals on ok Indian food in a funky part of town: a string of Indian restaurants on 5th St. (I think) between 1st and 2nd Ave.

 

[seXieleXie]

Your AV is representational of a woman.

*runs*

I'm sorry, I couldn't help it! It's been bugging me for days!

what is it with you and constantly correcting my titles?

 

[Pyper]

what is it with you and constantly correcting my titles?

I can live with the suave thing, but that av is representational and that's the final word!

 

[Pyper]

I like that title much better.

 

[seXieleXie]

I like that title much better.

i thought you might.




now, olivianna has one meal covered but i'm going to be there for more than one night. come on people, represent

 

[Mischka]

There's this place in Little Italy. The walls are covered in framed photos of famous people that have eaten there. It's been there forever. I think it has some stairs out front leading to the door. There's a cigar shop that rolls its own cigars a block away.

OK, that's about as accurate with directions as I get.

 

[seXieleXie]

There's this place in Little Italy. The walls are covered in framed photos of famous people that have eaten there. It's been there forever. I think it has some stairs out front leading to the door. There's a cigar shop that rolls its own cigars a block away.

OK, that's about as accurate with directions as I get.

heh. i'll be sure to keep an eye out for it.

 

[Problem Child]

I've inadvertantly stumbled onto the smart babes thread.

 

[Mischka]

Egad! Who let you in here? Go make fun of me some more on the stromtroopers thread.

 

[seXieleXie]

except for me.

 

[Olivianna]

Considering that Little Italy consists of a mere block now (eaten up by Chinatown), Mischka's cigaratoria shouldn't be too hard to find, actually.

If you like books, go to the Strand. If you like academic titles, check out the Labyrinth.

If you like Mongols, see the Genghis Khan show that is on now at the Met.

 

[Olivianna]

Agh, I just inadvertently walked into PC's misled impression of this thread.
I didn't mean it. Really.

Ok, go to Bloomingdales. Forget books - go look at squirrels in Central Park.

 

[Pyper]

I've inadvertantly stumbled onto the smart babes thread.

You can stay as long as Alan Alda's face stays right where it is. *shudder*

Sorry, lexie, I've been to New York, but the only good food I had was in my Italian host family's house.

 

[seXieleXie]

Agh, I just inadvertently walked into PC's misled impression of this thread.
I didn't mean it. Really.

Ok, go to Bloomingdales. Forget books - go look at squirrels in Central Park.

there are plenty of squirrels here at Second Rate University. thank you for your suggestions my friend is threatening to take me to the planetarium. have you ever been there?

 

[seXieleXie]

*bump*

 

[Gord]

cool chain that has a Scottish sounding name Mcdons or something - heard it is pretty cool

Monkey lounge is good - got drunk in there once

any where in the village / soho

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Holy crap. You want restaurant suggestions for Manhattan? You might as well ask for favorite Buddahs in Asia. You could eat in a different restaurant in Manhattan every night of your life and spend 80 years never hitting the same place twice.

The Olive Tree on McDougal Street in Greenwich Village between Bleeker and West Third. Good prices. Good humus. Fantastic burgers and mud pie. Slate tables with colored chalk. Charlie Chaplin film on the wall. Open 24 hours. In the middle of fucking everything.

The Pink Teacup. Also in the Village. Find it. Soul food. One room. You feel like you're in a Mississipi living room of a family down the street. Amazing food. Good prices.

Avoid Times Square, unless you really, really want to eat around there, then try Restaurant Row on 46th street west of 8th Avenue (off Times Square). Not cheap, but a nice block.

Tavern on the Green in Central Park. People will tell you to go. Don't. The food sucks and it's horribly overpriced.

Upper West Side, at around 72nd street, at the IRT entrance -- Grey's Papaya. Best hot dog in town. Get the pina colada to go with it (non-alcoholic). Order a couple and eat them while walking east to the park.

Pick up a New York Magazine and look through the Cue listings in the back. They list restaurants by neighborhood. You will choose your restaurant by where you're going to be that night. No one runs across town just to eat. The city's too big, and there are too many good restaurants along the way. Decide on where you're going first, then pick a spot.

Have fun.

God I miss real food.

 

[seXieleXie]

They list restaurants by neighborhood. You will choose your restaurant by where you're going to be that night. No one runs across town just to eat. The city's too big, and there are too many good restaurants along the way. Decide on where you're going first, then pick a spot.

Have fun.

God I miss real food.

lol. you don't know my friends and i we decided where we want to eat, then find things to do in that neighboorhood. last time i visited we went all the way to the bronx for thai food (don't ask me why, i was just along for the ride).

thank you for the suggestions, dix. what about stuff to do? we usually go to museums, movies, and try to get last minute tickets to shows, but i'm always interested in trying new things. as much as my friend likes to pretend he is a new york guru, two years at NYU and two summers on long island do not a guru make

 

[peachykeen]

Mamoun's Falafel, just off the southwest corner of Washington Square park.

Veselka - a russian place in the east village.

Stingy Lulu's, end of St Marks place at Tompkins Square Park - not particularly cheap, but the transvestite waitresses are worth any price.


Plus, everything Dix said.

ps if you buy from a hot dog vendor make sure they are using Sabretts hot dogs, the other ones are crap.

 

[greybeard]

see the Genghis Khan show that is on now at the Met.

Genghis Khan is in town?......................some guys never give up..............always heard you could see everything in New York...........

greybeard

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Mamoun's Falafel, just off the southwest corner of Washington Square park.

You're never going to believe this, but I actually know Mamoun. He owns quite a bit around there, including the Olive Tree I mentioned earlier.

Things to do?

Ice skating in Central Park at Wollman's rink. The magnificent park and the buildings surrounding you as you skate in the crisp New York air...Ah, I can smell the pretzles.

The Planetarium right next to the Museum of Natural History on Central Park West (around 81st street.) Nice, because anywhere you walk from there is charming.

For an unusual, gorgeous and meditative museum experience, try the Cloisters WAY uptown (take a subway, not a taxi) and look at medieval tapestries while listening to ancient intstruments.

Ride the Staten Island Ferry, for no reason. It's a great boat ride with a fantastic, up close view of the Statue of Liberty. Get yourself some coffee, stand on the deck, and on the way back to Manhattan try to imagine you're an imigrant coming into the harbor for the first time.

Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. It takes a long time, but halfway there, turn around. The absolute, bar none, best view of New York in New York.

"Don't Tell Mama's" is a broadway piano bar/cabaret on restaurant row (46th between 8th and 9th). Things start happening after the shows let out, around 11pm, but the real show starts later, around 1am, when it's just locals. The waitresses and bartenders all sing. You can sing, too, if you want, just ask. There's a cabaret in the back, and if it's a weekend there's usually someone worth seeing. But I like the bar.

On Sunday, go to the Wall Street district. It's the only time and place in Manhattan where there are no people. Walk around and look at the enormous white Federalist architecture, which gave Fritz Lang his inspiration for "Metropolis". Walk towards Chinatown, so you can get something to eat when you're done, because on Sunday there is nothing open anywhere around Wall Street. The best spot is on the steps of Federal Hall where Washington was innagurated President and the Bill of Rights was adopted.

 

[peachykeen]

Don't be afriad to do some of the typical touristy things. It is totally worthwhile to go to the top of the Empire State Building, for example.

If you have the time and the weather is decent, Ellis Island is also well worth a visit. (Skip the Statue of Liberty though; the way it looks as you pass it on the boat is striking enough, you really don't need to get any closer to it.)

Again, if you have decent weather, going on one of those double decker tour bus things is pretty neat. I recommend even that natives so this at least once: it is amazing how much more architectural detail you get to see when you are just that bit higher (kind of like when you put on a pair of shoes with big heels and suddenly your whole perspective is different, know what I mean?)

And of course this time of year, you really only need to walk around and look at the Christmas window displays.

 

[seXieleXie]

i don't like tall buildings. my friend tried to get me to go to the empire state building the first time i visited and i flat out refused.


dix, peachy, thank you so much for the suggestions. i'm even more excited now, if that's possible. i've decided this is going to be my best thanksgiving, ever