Posted on 02/01/2006 4:24:51 PM PST by Licensed-To-Carry
Hello my fellow Freepers. My wife, daughter, son-in-law, and me are going to NYC tomorrow for the first time for a weekend get-away. I would like some recommendations on some good restaurants and things to see and do, nothing to fancy, but nice.
We are staying at the Waldorf Astoria and the only thing on our schedule is a Broadway show on Thursday night.
If any NYC Freepers can recommend something, I would appreciate it. I will definately go to Ground Zero and say a prayer.
I hope the locals can understand me, after all I have lived in Texas all my life. But I have been practicing to say "How yoooo dooooiin". Thanks in advance.
If you go to the WTC you are a short walk from Wall Street. There is also Rockefeller Center with Saks, Radio City Music Hall and St. Pat's nearby. You might also consider a Grey Line tour of Manhattan [I never did this but I have in other cities and it's a good overview quickly]. At the Waldorf, Grand Central Station is nearby. At the Theatre, Times Square is there [just do say you were there but the Broadway view at night is terrific]. If you can't get away from horses, there is a great ride through Central Park. Have a good one.
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Best Italian Restaurant Outside of Italy: Il Mulino, West 3rd near MacDougal Street.
Best Coal Over Pizza: Arturo's on Houston near MacDougal.
Any other questions?
I know. I wasn't kidding. Tokyo is also very expensive. Paris, London, etc. Big bureaucracies need big money to operate. Organized crime takes its bite in many ways. Competition for living quarters, food and other services makes prices higher. Lunches are high because rent for the restaurant is high. It goes on and on.
Not that they aren't fun places to visit with lots to do.
Mmmmm... Calzone...
Upstate is loaded with Italians. Used to be able to go into little hole in the wall Italian restaurants with THE BEST FOOD I EVER ET!!
Sadly, outside of Frisco, good Italian is hard to find on the west coast.
My recommendation is to take a walk through Central Park. First you should have a cab take you to the boathouse cafe. It is a PERFECT place for lunch, right on the lake, and you can take your family for a rowboat ride afterwards.
Make sure to walk Madison Avenue from 60th to 80th. This is the HIGH END shopping district of the city.
Also on the East Side are the Metropolitan Museaum (you LOVE the armor and weaponry section, and the Egyptian tomb), and the Whitney Museaum (home to the largest collection of my favorite painter, Edward Hopper). DON'T go the the Guggenheim, as the exhibits usually s-ck.
On the west side, make sure to hit the Museaum of Natural History. Afterwards, head to Zabars near 82nd and Broadway, and cross 82nd for H&H bagels, the best bagels in the world.
For nighttime entertainment, make sure to have a reservation at the Village Vanguard, the most famous Jazz Club in the city. Every seat is near the stage, so you've got great sightlines everywhere. It is located at 7th, between Perry and Greenwich.
If you have time, even though its a little out of the way, you can take a shuttle bus from the Met to the Cloisters in upper Manhattan. This is Rockefeller's importation of an entire French medieval cloister, stuffed with the largest collection of medieval art in the world. It is located in a beautiful park looking over to New Jersey's palisades.
Those are my recommendations for a full weekend in the city. Feel free to freepmail me so I can give you my number in case you need assistance.
Correct. Italian food in Seattle is pretty much egg noodles and Prego sauce. Yeech.
vinnines on the bowery
My wife is a big fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Is the area where Ebbets Field used to be a daylight friendly area?
Never been to New York, closest I've ever been was McGuire AFB and Philly Airport.
Hey, but I learned how to cook!
When I do lasagna, we're talking a two day project. One day to shop, the next day to cook. No holds barred! At least 5 trays of lasagna(It's impossible to make one and have it come out decent).
I have a two gallon pot for the sauce and an 18 gallon pot for the noodles.
Probably 75 bucks worth of lasagna.
I just ate and I'm gettin hungry again.
If it wasn't SB weekend I'd do lasagna.
Lasagna sounds like good Super Bowl food to me. Yum!
Lotta work to do it right. Preparation and making sure you have all the right ingredients. I usually make two different sauces, one spicy and one sweet. Then you can mix and match the sauces with the cheeses and the sausage.
There is nothing but a little brass plaque where Ebbets Field used to be. The area is safe during the day, but all that's there is low-income housing project.
Ahhh...that's sort of what I had heard, thanks for confirming it.
Go down, take a picture, get out fast. hahahah
Lucky, lucky you. :) I was born and raised in NY and miss it a lot.
First stop- WTC site. It's like a kick to the stomach to see it. And a reminder of what we are doing in Iraq, is right. :)
2nd stop- Central Park. If you happen to be a NY Yankee fan, visit "Mickey Mantle's" restaurant on Central Park South. Not that great food, but GREAT ambience.
There are just SO many things to see. I always loved to just walk around Grand Central Station to see the historic architecture. I loved to sit outside of Museum of Modern Art to see all the freakazoids that walked by. lol
Go to Brooklyn- walk the promenade. At sunset, it's breathtaking.
Enjoy
Hey, are you supposed to tip the doorman who hails the cab for you. How much is the customary tip amounts?
I love Corona beer and C.A.O. or Fuenta cigars.
I heard the mayor Bloomberg has outlawed smoking. Will I get arrested?
Yes, a couple of bucks should do fine.
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