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Threads about Manhattan/New York City

b2bailey

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I'm starting to plan a quick trip to NYC.
I enjoy reading what others have posted.
Trying to do a search that won't include so many off- (my) topic mentions.
Hints?
 
That's a broad question. What kind of hints are you looking for? Travel hints? Things to see and do? I've been reading a lot of the Trip Advisor forums for various locations. Since we visit NYC every year I've been popping in on the NYC one to get ideas.
 
A small Jean Genie snuck off to the city
Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers
And ate all your razors while pulling the waiters
Talking 'bout Monroe and walking on Snow White
New York's a go-go and everything tastes nice
Poor little Greenie
Woo-hoo


Broadway ? Opera ? Carnegie Hall ?
Dim Sum or Pizza ?
Walk in Central Park,
Subway to Soho - Housing Works Thrifting
Up the hill to the Cloisters
Unicorn Hunting
Down to the Bowery
Catch Johnny Thunders at Ballroom
Skating on thin ice Rockefeller Center
Slugging Manhattans in Alphabet City
804 bus upto 42nd
Time for a coffee and in bed by 10 am
 
Luanne said:
That's a broad question. What kind of hints are you looking for? Travel hints? Things to see and do? I've been reading a lot of the Trip Advisor forums for various locations. Since we visit NYC every year I've been popping in on the NYC one to get ideas.
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The hint I'm asking for is a "how to find prior TUG posts about NYC"
But I'll take a look at Trip Advisor also. Thx.
 
If you want to find prior TUG posts about NYC use the search function. You could try in the Travel forum or in the regions, Eastern States. That's where I would start.
 
I'm an old pro at visiting the city.

The problem is, what interests me about NYC is not what most people are looking for. I have always harbored a desire to trade places with a New Yorker for one full year -- February to February. Show up and leave at its worst weather. It would be a full year of delis, dim sum, museums, sporting events and jazz clubs. In return, the New Yorker gets to be a coffee farmer in Hawaii for a year.

My favorite things are:

1) Arthur Avenue in the Bronx. If not for the commute, I'd just live there and commute to the other stuff.
2) Deli culture. I wish that movie hadn't ruined Katz'. Thankfully, there are dozens which are just as good. Find one and eat there every day. Not good for your waistline. But you can't get that food anywhere else.
3) Moma, the Met, the Guggenheim, the Whitney
4) Baseball and football games -- New York teams aren't my teams. But I'm always up for a game.
5) Jazz clubs. Few cities have many of these left. Hard-bop on Friday and Saturday night until 2am. Yup. Every week.
6) Dim Sum. Not the best in the world. But a diversion from "the fresser platter."
7) A different record store every week. Probably two or three per week. I'd only visit one again if I scored a big haul.
 
ScoopKona said:
5) Jazz clubs. Few cities have many of these left. Hard-bop on Friday and Saturday night until 2am. Yup. Every week.
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I'm curious as to what jazz clubs you patronize?

Birdland is $60-70 per 1 1/2 hour show for cover and minimum food/beverage charge.
Swing 46 is $50-55.

We usually spend about $500 per day not counting Wyndham points for food and entertainment.

Crime is up over 30% since covid.
 
Would also suggest a search in a search engine like google for New York City [restaurants, night life, museums etc - whatever you want] TUG. Thanks to some suggestions about this on TUG I have found that using google with TUG in the query gets me much better results than the internal search on TUG.
 
Google free walking tours. Volunteers lead all sorts of tours and all we have taken were excellent. We got lost and missed the start of a tour, so be aware they will blacklist you if you are a no show (guide already had our contact info and went around the organized structure to contact us for our next tour; we tip very well on these free guided tours so we wondered if one of his fellow guides had told him that).
 
Roger830 said:
Birdland is $60-70 per 1 1/2 hour show for cover and minimum food/beverage charge.
Swing 46 is $50-55.

We usually spend about $500 per day not counting Wyndham points for food and entertainment.
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And? So?

That's worth every penny as far as I'm concerned. It's Manhattan, not Topeka. I don't expect things to be cheap. Dizzy's? Birdland? Village Vanguard? I'll gladly pay the cover charge and have some drinks.
 
I dont know how long you will be there, but on a hot nice day it might be worth a round trip on the Ferry to Staten island and back. Great views of the Statue of Liberty and southern manhattan.
A water taxi ride (from the seaport area) over to the Brooklyn Promenade(and back) late afternoon into the evening with nice views of manhattan. In the alternative you could walk over the brooklyn bridge for the trip out and take the water taxi back.
 
clifffaith said:
Google free walking tours. Volunteers lead all sorts of tours and all we have taken were excellent. We got lost and missed the start of a tour, so be aware they will blacklist you if you are a no show (guide already had our contact info and went around the organized structure to contact us for our next tour; we tip very well on these free guided tours so we wondered if one of his fellow guides had told him that).
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@clifffaith
How far in advance have you booked your tours? Any specific itineraries you would recommend?
 
mentalbreak said:
@clifffaith
How far in advance have you booked your tours? Any specific itineraries you would recommend?
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We booked tours a few days ahead, after we were already in the city. We just chose walks in areas (Little Italy) or subject matter (architecture) we were interested in.
 
My neice and I are big theater junkies. We usually go for a week long stay in the summer (she is a teacher, so schedules are what they are). So far this year we only have a weekend scheduled. We have been doing this for about 15 years now. Do it most years, but we missed a few here and there, especially during covid. Went last year again for a full year, but doing a weekend in April. I also was working and lived in NYC in the late 1990s, so I don't feel like a tourist anymore.

We normally do Rush or Lottery is possible, TKTS is usually are place of last resorts, if all else fails.

We average about 10 shows in a full week, with an average ticket price of about $40.
 
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Sandy VDH said:
My neice and I are big theater junkies. We usually go for a week long stay in the summer (she is a teacher, so schedules are what they are). So far this year we only have a weekend scheduled. We have been doing this for about 15 years now. Do it most years, but we missed a few here and there, especially during covid. Went last year again for a full year, but doing a weekend in April. I also was working and lived in NYC in the late 1990s, so I don't feel like a tourist anymore.

We normally do Rush or Lottery is possible, TKTS is usually are place of last resorts, if all else fails.

We average about 10 shows in a full week, with an average ticket price of about $40.
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Would love to hear any show recommendations for family of 4 with 2 college-aged boys. It will be the kids first trip to NYC.

And by rush, does that mean you go to the theater on the day of? Are lotteries usually an online sign-up?

We are extremely lucky to have access to a strong Broadway series with season tickets (Six is part of this season, and 1776 make-up from the pandemic is on deck). Our boys have started joining us with student rush tickets.
 
callwill said:
I dont know how long you will be there, but on a hot nice day it might be worth a round trip on the Ferry to Staten island and back. Great views of the Statue of Liberty and southern manhattan.
A water taxi ride (from the seaport area) over to the Brooklyn Promenade(and back) late afternoon into the evening with nice views of manhattan. In the alternative you could walk over the brooklyn bridge for the trip out and take the water taxi back.
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Another person caused this thread to become active -- thought I would report back with Highlights of my October visit.

Yes, we did Ferry to Staten Island -- highly recommend. Caught some great photos. Not handy here, but will post if I find.
Walked the elevated park path -- former train track. Blanking on name -- highly recommend.
Lunched at Tavern on Green -- observing our mutual October Birthdates.

My only disappointment was not seeing a single Broadway show.
My friend lives in San Diego and had seen many of the shows there.
I wanted to see Hugh Jackman in Music Man. She said, no.
Only regret is not buying one ticket and going alone.
 
For some reason they were serving free champagne in lobby of Wyndham 45.
Grabbed a glass (plastic) on our way out to catch Uber to Tavern on the Green.
 

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b2bailey said:
I wanted to see Hugh Jackman in Music Man. She said, no.
Only regret is not buying one ticket and going alone.
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I saw the Music Man this past summer, Hugh was great. I was close enough I could see that sparkle in his eye. Sutton Foster was great too. I saw her in Anything Goes a few year back with a NYC trip with my Dad. I brough him to something more old fashioned, something he would might like. We sat in the one of the boxes, he enjoyed it.
 
mentalbreak said:
Would love to hear any show recommendations for family of 4 with 2 college-aged boys. It will be the kids first trip to NYC.

And by rush, does that mean you go to the theater on the day of? Are lotteries usually an online sign-up?

We are extremely lucky to have access to a strong Broadway series with season tickets (Six is part of this season, and 1776 make-up from the pandemic is on deck). Our boys have started joining us with student rush tickets.
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By Rush, yes I mean getting in line at the theater the morning of the show. Some shows you have to get there early. It is a way to guarantee a ticket, if you are willing to get up and kill 3 or 4 hours waiting. It used to be this was the way to get all tickets, but more have shifted to lotteries over the years. Now Lotteries are mostly online these days, only one that I know that is inperson is still Wicked. Show companies use different vendors for their lottery, or they create their own website, like Hamilton does. Good thing about lottery now, is that it is usually drawn the day before the show in most cases, or Hamilton is the week before the show. Rush and lottery are usually 2 tickets max that each person can request. Occassionaly lottery is 1 ticket only, but that is rare. You can only enter once, multiple entries kicks you out of the lottery. However you have two or four people, EACH person can but in for 2 tickets each. The lottery is also an option to buy NOT a force to buy, so often the lottery has second chance wins. Each person can put in for 2 tickets. You have a time limit to purchase them, and then it goes to the waitlisted person if you won but failed to purchase the ticket before the allotted time is up.

If the kids like rap, then Hamilton will be great, but expensive and hard to get 4 tickets. Moulin Rouge (based on the Baz Lurhman movie with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor) uses a lot of modern music mashups. So that may be something that works for college aged boys. Moulin Rouge might be easier to get tickets. Book of Mormon likely has humor college kids would like, but it may offend others.

I just won Moulin Rouge tickets for the performance in Houston 3 days ago. We sat in $200 seats that we paid $39 for with the lottery.

www.Luckyseat.com is one such site. It also does touring showing in different cities. www.Broadwaydirect.com is another. Simple answer is there is NOT a single website to find all lotteries.

Use this for NYC to get an idea of what available period. https://www.nytix.com/lottery
 
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