1.Continental airlines into Newark is the way to go.
2.Dial 7 works great, efficient clean and friendly.
3.Empire Hotel is in a great location, decent rooms.
4.The hotel restaurant (Center Cut) ia just horrible.
5.Buy a coffeemaker and coffee for your hotel room.
6.Ask the hotel to empty the minibar frig.
7.Buy juice, fruit, milk and eat bfast in the room.
8. yes go to top of the rock
9. yes go to grand central station for lunch
10. yes shop canal street for junk
11. magnolia cupcakes are just OK
12. bring great shoes and warm socks
13. spend a few hours walking in central park.
14. Skip MOMA and go to the MOMA store only
15. Mario Battalis restaurants are overrated
16. Maria Pia is a good restaurant
17. Hummus place is good and funky cheap
18. Nanoosh is not
19. Go to Zabars, at least once
20. shop all day at century 21 then go to Bendels
22. the village is sad
23.eat hot nuts from the street vendors
24.I don%26#39;t want to, but I like Pain Quotidien
25. Read the NY Post everyday
26.say good morning to people..good fun
27. take the subway, but cabs for 4 are cheaper.
28. Get off at random manhattan stops and walk
29. skip chinatown
30. skip little italy
31. Shun Lee is awful and laughably expensive
32. go to the small bookstores and bead shops
33. eat a bagel
34. pastrami sandwiches at Carnegie deli are $22
35. don%26#39;t gawk at Keanu Reeves. like me
36. Take alot more money than you think you will need
Thats all I%26#39;m sayin. DKEL
one liner trip report
Ok, why is the village sad?
I%26#39;m just sayin!
one liner trip reportLove the report! Did you see my question to you on the subway thread?
Tam
the village is sad because there were lots of empty store fronts, I remember a vibrancy that was gone, dog poop everywhere including my shoe, and for the lovagod a Marc Jacobs outlet store across from a coach store across from a Juicy Couture store. DKEL
No tam will go there now.
Glad you had a good time. Thanks for the recap.
I guess you didn%26#39;t get the memo that the same fame and mystique that made Magnolia Cupcakes a ';must'; destination and tourist trap also turned Bleecker Street and much of Greenwich Village into a soulless, high-end shopping mall, poseur playground, gawk-fest and hence, tourist trap. Without all the bohemians, anti-establishmentarians and revolutionaries, it looks just like it does on TV now.
You can%26#39;t bite the hand that feeds you overrated celebrity cupcakes. ;o)
Just for clarification for future visitors, Canal Street is part of Chinatown, so if you liked the cheap souvenirs, you were enjoying Chinatown.
Re: Carnegie Deli: Did you read the prices in the window menu and leave? Or did you pay that anyway? Did you like it?
For future reference, you can see prices in advance (give or take $1 or 2) on www.menupages.com. Next time, go to the 2nd Avenue Deli. It%26#39;s cheaper and, IMHO, better.
%26lt;don%26#39;t gawk at Keanu Reeves. like me%26gt;
How could you not gawk at such a face? He%26#39;s so easy on the peepers I%26#39;d just have to take a long lazy look.
I looked and stuttered and kind of gasped at the hotness of him..not my finest hour.
And yes I did eat at carnegie. Just like Magnolia we were hungry and cold and in front of them with no lines. Carnegie food was good but with a 20 PLATE minimum per person and 22 dollar sandwiches we were stuck ordering more food than we wanted. And magnolia was fine..just a cupcake. I am a baker by trade so merely ';honing my craft'; to the tune of 7 lbs in one week in Ole New York. DKEL
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