Stuck in New York:Having a blast
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Find tulip2lipservice on the NY thread in the personals section.
We get together all the time, and we won't hold the fact that you're from Canada against you ...lol
How long you here for?
We get together all the time, and we won't hold the fact that you're from Canada against you ...lol
How long you here for?
Dixon Carter Lee
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Pheonyx said:
New York doesn't have traffic laws, it has traffic suggestions.
I'll be there next month. Why don't you leave a marble or something for me somewhere hidden in Midtown, tell me where it is, and I'll try to find it. Then I'll leave it somewhere in Hollywood for Just Pet. Let's see if we can ge the sucker to cirumnavigate the globe.
Good hiding places are in the subways behind token machines, stuck with bubblegum under a mailbox, or in the Soup Nazi's lentil.
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I loathed every moment I was forced to spend there.
You shouldn't check out Hunt's Point.
You shouldn't check out Hunt's Point.
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Pheonyx said:
I think they play kickball in central park on Saturday?
Have a great stay!
(Oh, Muffin, Hunts Point is "the Island", not NY ...lol)
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Pheonyx said:
LMAO!
No, "the Island" is a NYers extremely incorrect way to refer to Long Island which is another borough altogether. Manhatten is an Island, but we always say NY as if upstate and everyplace else NY encompasses doesn't exist.
There's also Staten Island, which you don't want to go to either!
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Five boroughs:
Manhattan Island
Staten Island
The Bronx
Queens
Brooklyn
Brooklyn used to be a separate city, until the Brooklyn Bridge was built, and got swallowed up by New York.
Queens and Brooklyn are rarely referred to as part of Long Island (even though it is). The eatern/northern part of Long Island is "The Island".
Manhattan is "New York". Everything else is just what it's called, but when you say "New York" you really mean the Borough of Manhattan.
It's "Sixth Avenue", not "The Avenue of the Americas".
"Midtown" is 34th to 57th.
"Downtown" can be several places, depending on where you're standing when you say it.
"The Village" is the Village.
Clinton/Chelsea/Hell's Kitchen all fight over exactly where they stop and start.
"The Park" is Central Park. Other parks go by their names. Although no one ever says "I'm going to the Park" really. It's usually, "I'm going to the Delacourte" or "Sheep Meadow".
There will be a quiz Friday.
Manhattan Island
Staten Island
The Bronx
Queens
Brooklyn
Brooklyn used to be a separate city, until the Brooklyn Bridge was built, and got swallowed up by New York.
Queens and Brooklyn are rarely referred to as part of Long Island (even though it is). The eatern/northern part of Long Island is "The Island".
Manhattan is "New York". Everything else is just what it's called, but when you say "New York" you really mean the Borough of Manhattan.
It's "Sixth Avenue", not "The Avenue of the Americas".
"Midtown" is 34th to 57th.
"Downtown" can be several places, depending on where you're standing when you say it.
"The Village" is the Village.
Clinton/Chelsea/Hell's Kitchen all fight over exactly where they stop and start.
"The Park" is Central Park. Other parks go by their names. Although no one ever says "I'm going to the Park" really. It's usually, "I'm going to the Delacourte" or "Sheep Meadow".
There will be a quiz Friday.
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Re: Re: Re: Stuck in New York:Having a blast
That's right. I noticed that last year. Bastards.
lilminx said:
That's right. I noticed that last year. Bastards.
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pipercatt said:
What pressure?
You relieve pressure!
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Hunts Point is Da Bronx. Brooklyn and Queens though technically on Long Island are not part of "the Island", Nassau and Suffolk are.
And who in their right mind drives in Manhattan? My favorite word ....... TAXI!!
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I'll be in New York in about six weeks. I've been there once, for 20 minutes, on a train layover. We walked out of Penn Station to Seventh Avenue, barely made out the Empire State Building through the foggy afternoon, and then went back to catch our train.
The only problem is that we're only there for two days. What are the absolute things one must do when in NYC? I already have the Empire State and Ground Zero on my list.
TB4p
The only problem is that we're only there for two days. What are the absolute things one must do when in NYC? I already have the Empire State and Ground Zero on my list.
TB4p
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Little known secret. One of the best places to visit in New York is Wall Street. Nobody ever goes down there (except for those heading down to Ground Zero, I suppose).
There's the Stock Exchange, City Hall, and the Federal Building where George Washington was innaugerated President (there's a statue of him there). So there's lots of history, blah-blah, but the cool thing about the area is the architecture. This is the part of the city that inspired Fritz Lang to make "Metropolis". The tall, Greek-columned white buildings, sitting on streets layed out in the old winding, hodge-podge European fashion so that the area remembles a concrete Grand Canyon. Just walking around there gives you a sense of power, and a sense that you're plugged into the entire planet.
And if you go on Saturday there's not a damn person anywhere. Weekends on Wall Street are the only time you can hear pigeons flying in Manhattan.
There's the Stock Exchange, City Hall, and the Federal Building where George Washington was innaugerated President (there's a statue of him there). So there's lots of history, blah-blah, but the cool thing about the area is the architecture. This is the part of the city that inspired Fritz Lang to make "Metropolis". The tall, Greek-columned white buildings, sitting on streets layed out in the old winding, hodge-podge European fashion so that the area remembles a concrete Grand Canyon. Just walking around there gives you a sense of power, and a sense that you're plugged into the entire planet.
And if you go on Saturday there's not a damn person anywhere. Weekends on Wall Street are the only time you can hear pigeons flying in Manhattan.
