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There are 8-quintillion things to do in NYC. Why, oh why, would you waste your time doing that when you can be at any of 50 or so "Blarney Stones" in Manhattan, having a "Traditional Irish Breakfast," and drinking/sharing stories with "Sandhogs" aka "the guys digging the newest NYC Subway line down 2nd Avenue"??!!
Seriously, those guys get all the credit in the world, but live a little while you're here, don't waste your time at one of those shows. Just a thought.
Are you serious about "wasting time" visiting the 9/11 Memorial?
It is my intention to see the 9/11 Memorial and find some of the fantastic places that guys like you recommend. I'm more likely to skip NYE at Times Square, maybe visit Times Square earlier in the day.
What else do you think would you recommend so that we can have an authentic NYC experience?
Oh, then I concur. I can't even recall the last time that I have even watched the show.
I just scrolled up to see the last post by CysRage and read about the 9/11 Memorial. Glad to hear that he isn't discouraging us for going to it.
Knowing NUTS, yeah, he was referring to the Today Show.
To experience a little of the Irish culture, definitely hit one of the Blarney Stones. For the Italian, Little Italy along Mulberry St., between Canal and Broome. While I think they are a little touristy, the 2nd Ave. Deli is a great place for corned beef on rye the Jewish way. Katz' Deli on Houston St., pronounced How-stun, is a better.
But like the Huey Lewis and the News song goes:
New York, New York, is everything they say
And no place that I'd rather be
Where else can you do a half a million things
All at a quarter to three...
To experience a little of the Irish culture, definitely hit one of the Blarney Stones. For the Italian, Little Italy along Mulberry St., between Canal and Broome. While I think they are a little touristy, the 2nd Ave. Deli is a great place for corned beef on rye the Jewish way. Katz' Deli on Houston St., pronounced How-stun, is a better.
But like the Huey Lewis and the News song goes:
New York, New York, is everything they say
And no place that I'd rather be
Where else can you do a half a million things
All at a quarter to three...
FYI, from the Scarlet Nation forum, it sounds like this will be a big crowd (not the least because Rutgers is giving tickets to students). It sounds like it might be close to a sellout, particularly if the weather is nice.
Take a cab and sit in traffic for 45 minutes to travel half a mile.
When you reach your destination, forget something of great monetary and sentimental value in the back of the cab.
Buy something that you don't want or need simply because you desperately have to use a store's bathroom.
Go to a trendy club and wait on line for an hour only to suffer the indignity of being rejected at the door.
Get hit by an ******* on a bicycle who's riding in the wrong direction on a one way street.
Those are all authentic New York experiences! In fact, if you manage any three of those while you're in town, you can just go right ahead and consider yourself an honorary New Yorker.
What are you trying to do to these people? LOL. That practically sums up the second or third lecture in Don't Go There You Silly Tourists 101. I admit that I took a couple of out of town friends to Katz's once, but when I couldn't persuade them to order pastrami I had to suffer their indignation over just how disgusting and overpriced the rest of their menu is. And most of the food there really is bad.
Those are all authentic New York experiences! In fact, if you manage any three of those while you're in town, you can just go right ahead and consider yourself an honorary New Yorker.[/QUOTE]
You have not had an authentic Iowan in NY experience if it doesn't include some of these things:
You have not had an authentic Iowan in NY experience if it doesn't include some of these things:
- Getting sneers from locals who you bump into because you are watching something we don't have in Iowa (big buildings, stretch Hummers, pimps, etc.).
- Riding a train or bus in the wrong direction (especially in a subway) and then panicing about how to get off and turn around.
- Trying to figure how much to tip a street musician (nothing unless you hang around and watch the show).
- Thinking that we are actually doing something good when we give a dollar (or our doggy bag) to someone who stands outside a good restaurant and asks for train fare or money for a hamburger. These guys probably make more money than we do (or just use it for booze).
- Having to explain that Iowa is not Ohio or Idaho. Or some variation, such as explaining that we don't grow potatos in Iowa. I will be so delighted if the game announcers never slip and call us OhIowa State.
- Being told "where to go" by a pushy local who is really just being helpful but it will feel totally overbearing.
- Spend several hundred more dollars than we budgeted (and getting far less than we expected).
- Doing a really bad version of saying "fuhgetaboutit" and experiencing a local not being very impressed by it.
You have not had an authentic Iowan in NY experience if it doesn't include some of these things:
- Getting sneers from locals who you bump into because you are watching something we don't have in Iowa (big buildings, stretch Hummers, pimps, etc.).
- Riding a train or bus in the wrong direction (especially in a subway) and then panicing about how to get off and turn around.
- Trying to figure how much to tip a street musician (nothing unless you hang around and watch the show).
- Thinking that we are actually doing something good when we give a dollar (or our doggy bag) to someone who stands outside a good restaurant and asks for train fare or money for a hamburger. These guys probably make more money than we do (or just use it for booze).
- Having to explain that Iowa is not Ohio or Idaho. Or some variation, such as explaining that we don't grow potatos in Iowa. I will be so delighted if the game announcers never slip and call us OhIowa State.
- Being told "where to go" by a pushy local who is really just being helpful but it will feel totally overbearing.
- Spend several hundred more dollars than we budgeted (and getting far less than we expected).
- Doing a really bad version of saying "fuhgetaboutit" and experiencing a local not being very impressed by it.
Heh. I've done more than half those things and I grew up 20 minutes from Manhattan. Just remember that there's a decent chance that the people being rude to you moved here from somewhere like Iowa a couple of years ago!
Heh. I've done more than half those things and I grew up 20 minutes from Manhattan. Just remember that there's a decent chance that the people being rude to you moved here from somewhere like Iowa a couple of years ago![/QUOTE]
Got any other good ones?
I highly doubt that.
Highly.
Whenever I've been in NYC or any other major city...its always the "I've lived here for..." crowd that is rude to everyone else.
Dont lump former Iowans into your cesspool that is the everyday typical rudeness of NYC people.
Not grumpy...just sick of the 'New York...big city" attitude already.Been dealing with them for a week trying to find a decent spot for a big tailgate. They think everyone from Iowa is a big hick with nothing to offer.
Time for me to lay off the messageboard.
Time for me to lay off the messageboard.
Sorry, I quoted the wrong post! I mean "The Today Show"!! Trust me guys, I worked across the street from the WTC at the time, I sure as hell would hope that you all visit!
Hang in there. We appreciate your efforts on the tailgate. I find that most New Yorkers don't appreciate it when I talk to them in the same way they talk to me. After all, I'm only from Chicago. The guys who have posted on CF so far have seemed pretty cool.
