New York City Visit / Recommendations Requested

Myself | 04/16/04 | Me

[TwoBear]

I'm surprising the wife with a surprise trip to NYC for our ten year anniversary next Friday. Neither one of us has ever been there so I'm looking for recommendations for places to eat, best way to see sights, etc.

We're staying in Midtown Manhattan at the Sofitel. Friday night we've got tickets to see Chicago at 8, and Saturday night we've got tickets to see the Blue Man Group. Besides that we're wide open.

So, if any NYC freeper experts would share their expertise it would be greatly appreciated!

[Gabz]

That should be enough to keep you up at night! ;D

Believe me it does.........but that's not why I'm still up tonight...........the weather has finally broke and I am in the midst of a full scale all out bout of allergy attack.....all I want to do is go to sleep, but I keep sneezing.....the actifed hasn't kicked in yet.

[Keltik]

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[Mears]

We had a ball in Concord. Came home with "Little Women" paper dolls and a great,easy book on the American Revolution.

Your farm trip was probably a lot more fun for you than you thought it would be,it usually is.

My daughter and her husband had a ball in NYC. They both have been there many times,but the weather was georgeous and they walked to everything.They are already planning another trip with the three kids,who have been there once.

Tomorrow is Boston Marathon Day which cuts right through Newton,where I live,so everything has to be planned in advance because of all the closed roads.A real,sweet,pain in the butt.The city is virtually cut in half for about four hours.

[firebrand]

Rangel was at a church on my block yesterday, ranting all the usual rants about Bush. What a sorry excuse for a representative from New York City he is.

When the Q&A period came, all anybody wanted to ask him about was services and housing and rats. He came to the wrong neighborhood if he wanted debate on anything above the extremely local level. He tried to pass the buck on the local stuff to his lackey Phil Reed of the City Council.

I just sat there taking notes, while my counterparts in the jackass party gave me wary looks, probably wondering what I was going to do with them. Well, here they are, in small part. Out came all the tired old cliches: deer in the headlights, oil, Saddam was once OUR bum, the National Guard members are too old and not fit to be sent anywhere, the enlistees just want a better life and are not patriotic, etc. etc.

[firebrand]

I forgot to mention: There he was in a church talking politics, and he criticized Bush for going to churches and talking about how he was saved.

[firebrand]

Just don't order a Reuben. They come with the Swiss cheese melted all over each half in a huge, inedible-looking mound. It doesn't even look like a sandwich. It isn't a sandwich. For a deli that isn't as expensive and is actually better, go to Barney Greengrass or the Second Avenue Deli.

[Tabi Katz]

the enlistees just want a better life and are not patriotic,

I'd like to send him off to Iraq to do a little Rangeling of his own.