8 Years Ago

What I Learned In New York!!

First thank you to everyone who commented on my going to New York thread!!

The most important thing I learned is if you are planning on taking the Queens Plz. subway to anywhere don't use the elevator on 21st. to get to the subway, turns out it is someone's urinal!

I learned that the subway system can take you anywhere you want to be, and some places you don't!

You can't take a tripod into Yankee Stadium, but for $10.00 there is a place near by where you can leave it!

According to one of New York's finest you can't get good pizza in Manhattan, if you want good pizza you have to go to Brooklyn, but if you weren't from New York you wouldn't know the difference!! He did confess that he was from Brooklyn.

Times Square is a must see, there is an energy there that you can feel the minute you step onto the plaza, and the New Your strip steak at the Hard Rock cafe at Times Square is freaking awesome!!! (never even seen a Mcdonalds)

The 9/11 Memorial, and museum is a must see, I don't care how long the line is you need to go there!!

Every single person I had an opportunity to talk to, ask for directions, or bought things from in stores, or on the street corner (hoodies) were way helpful, polite, and friendly!!

And you DO NOT plan a trip to New York during the hurricane season!!! The light sucked for the most part, and it rained...a lot!!!

...I loved it in spite of the rain, and wind, never really got any good photos though!!!

TL Mair
http://tlmair.com

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Bob Galka

8 Years Ago

N.Y.C. is a different experience every time you visit. I am glad you enjoyed your visit.. even though the light sucked LOL

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

you lucked out, we did have rain, it was a nor easter, but not the hurricane they were talking about. october is a really iffy month to go any place planned. nor easters bring flooding, winds, cold weather and its just bleah. in the winter it brings ice storms.

funny thing is, it seemed like you went there during the one time it did rain. we hadn't had real rain in weeks. we don't call it bad light - we call it dramatic clouds and lighting. i do anyway.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Harold Shull

8 Years Ago

Hiya TL,

I lived and worked in Manhattan for over 25 years. There are over 20,000 restaurants in NYC. I ate in quite a bit of them because one thing about NYC is no matter what kind of food you like you don't have to walk more than a few blocks to find them. Although you can spend a lot of money in NYC, NYC also offers you the most FREE things to do than any other city. I don't know this for sure but I think there is more money floating around NYC than any other city in the world. Any entrepreneur who knows anything can make a better living in NYC than any other city and as the saying goes, "If you can make it in NYC you can make it anywhere." That is so true.

But TL, there are so many landmarks in "The Big Apple" you could spend a month there and not see them all. Of course my very favorite place in the big city was and still is The Metropolitan Museum Of Art. I hope that was on your list of things to do. The museum alone would occupy quite a bit of your time. I lived on 79th street for nearly one year and I stopped in the museum for a couple of hours nearly every night when I went back to my apartment. But TL, Times Square, the Staten Island Ferry, The Statue Of Liberty, The Bowery, Greenwich Village, Central Park, etc - man but I could go on and on. You're just going to have to come back again. :)

See My Photos

8 Years Ago

Thanks for the report!

Newwwman

8 Years Ago

lol

Diana Angstadt

8 Years Ago

Actually, TL..... I WANTED to go to Times Square the night of the heavy rain and capture the reflections of all the lights in the puddles! But couldn't make it there that night!

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