Monday i begin my vacation in new york.. clap your hands and say yeah

[Logiola]

Can't explain how excited i am getting.. for a small city prairie boy, it is going to be amazing.

one thing i am doing for sure is going to the free Clap your hands and say yeah concert with devotchka (seaport music festival) on august 10th.. can't wait for that.. anyone else around here going? also got my yankee tickets..would of also loved to the go the pga championship round.. but tickets are like 100 bucks

any more last minute suggestions? and thanks for all the previous..

[BrainRants]

1. Do you get 5 weeks like the chimp?

[Logiola]

2. haha.. actually, pretty close.. but will only be in new york for 7 of them

days that is.. not weeks

[Hissyspit]

3. New York state or New York City? n/t

[Logiola]

4. city

[Hissyspit]

5. Well, damn, there are a billion things to do...

get some guidebooks and read them before leaving. The D/K book is really good.

[Logiola]

6. yeah, got some guide books

more interested in off beat suggestions that people around DU enjoy in the great city.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

7. Chinatown !!

If you like Chinese food, ya gotta get dim sum in Chiniatown!

And don't miss the Village, Greenwich that is. There's a great comedy club there.

[Hissyspit]

8. Read this thread from back in February

especially my post at the very top.

[Logiola]

9. cool, do you have a link?

people in this group have givin me some fantastic ideas.. haha, they are probably sick of me posting in here by now :D but i thank you

[Hissyspit]

11. Oops. Hold on...

[Hissyspit]

12. Here's the link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3188126#3188135

[Hissyspit]

10. Here's my list:

Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Museum of Modern Art. Guggenheim Soho. New Museum of Contemporary Art at 538 Broadway (You can look at some of the original mid-Victorian cast-iron facades while you're down around there, Greene Street mainly.)

Ground Zero.

Tom's Restaurant on West Side - inspiration for Suzanne Vega's song and establishing outside shot for Seinfeld restaurnat.

St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Walk Across Brooklyn Bridge (or not).

Bleeker Street and Greenwich Village at Night.

Hip Record Stores.

Go See Something Off-Off-Broadway.

See a First-Run Independent Movie in any Old Theater With Real New Yorkers.

Tramway to Rockefeller Island - doesn't take too long, not high priority, though.

Walk by U.N. Building.

Restaurants!
Lombardi's - supposedly the oldest still-operating pizza parlor in the U.S. Great Pizza.
One If By Land...
Cafe des Artistes.
Balthazar's
(Something) Moon Diner. (sorry forgot full name; guy who wrote Rent used to work there)

Visit Bill Clinton in his office in Harlem. Apollo Theatre.

Place In Front of Dakota Where John Lennon Was Shot. Then to Attone for Your Morbidity Across the Street to Strawberry Fields.

Grab a copy of Sexy New York City 2005.


There's all kinds of hidden stuff in the city, too. I can't think of some of these things, offhand, maybe some New Yorkers will tell you. Those love-bird hawks (eagles?) nest somewhere on the Upper East Side near the Metropolitan Museum, not sure where exactly, but I saw one of them flying once.

[Princess Turandot]

13. Staten Island Ferry..

quick walk from the WTC site, and you can just stay on for the return trip. It takes abt 20 minutes or so each way. Nice view of the harbor & Miss Liberty.

Ellis Island is more interesting than I expected it to be. I went there for the first time a few years ago.