New York City

[MCFC BOB]

Empire State Building
Schwartz
Macys.

All of them are full of win!

 

[Hollywood Blue]

I'll be visiting NY and NJ for the first time in a couple of weeks.
Looking forward to it, I'll be around for the Brum match if anyone can recommended any bars/pubs that show Prem matches.

 

[Mike N]

'Top of the Rock' is a must!

 

[Frank the Yank]

Frank,what does 'scrilege' mean?
not taking the mickey,by the way!!

-- Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:06 am --



I like you ;-)

From what frank has written he means sacrilege

Thanks for the correction TBoots!!!! I thought I got it wrong when I typed it in!!!<br /><br />-- Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:43 am --<br /><br />Hollywood I PMed you!!!

 

[tueartsboots]

From what frank has written he means sacrilege

Thanks for the correction TBoots!!!! I thought I got it wrong when I typed it in!!!

-- Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:43 am --

Hollywood I PMed you!!!

No worries Frank (I had to spell check so don't think I'm a smart arse ! ;))

 

[Uwe Rosler]

if i was you i wouldn't bother with 'little italy' on mulberry st.

if i was you i would head up to the bronx to arthur ave. its what little italy used to be like back in the day and doesn't have the tourist feel to it.......and check out the indoor market for some great meat sandwiches!!!

 

[stockholm blue syndrome]

I will be there in the beginning of september.We are staying at the hotel 17 on 17th street whats good around that area?and how far is that a walk to the Mad Hatter<br /><br />-- Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:03 pm --<br /><br />BTW what is the best steakhouse and pizza place in NYC?

 

[MCFCinUSA]

I will be there in the beginning of september.We are staying at the hotel 17 on 17th street whats good around that area?and how far is that a walk to the Mad Hatter

-- Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:03 pm --

BTW what is the best steakhouse and pizza place in NYC?

pfffftttt, there are probably a thousand answers to this question - AT LEAST!

if you like 'history' as well as steak, you might get mobbed-up at Sparks, which is the steakhouse that Big Paul got hit outside by Gotti in NYC. There are other extremely well-known and respected places to get your cow at, like Peter Luger's (although it's not in a fashionable area of town) and I'd also recommend Smith & Wollensky for a real bite of Americana.

I'm not even going to begin to answer you on the pizza - you should be able to get good slices pretty much anywhere in NYC; of course, I'd steer well clear of any of the franchise joints. Just enjoy popping in to whatever's local, and sample as many as you can as you're ambling around NYC; that's my only advice there... everyone has their own preferences, but I much prefer NYC style to Chicago. You should have plenty on your plate!

 

[Barcon]

I'm not going to have a pop at NYC but, living in Toronto myself and having been to both places, Chicago is a far better place to vist. I actually don't understand the appeal with NYC unless you have never seen a tall building and want to look up at one. Having said that, I got plastered in a little bar in Queens and the bartender bought every other round.

 

[MCFCinUSA]

I'm not going to have a pop at NYC but, living in Toronto myself and having been to both places, Chicago is a far better place to vist. I actually don't understand the appeal with NYC unless you have never seen a tall building and want to look up at one. Having said that, I got plastered in a little bar in Queens and the bartender bought every other round.

then I'll be forced to paraphrase Johnson at you:

"Sir, when a man is tired of NYC, he is tired of living"

and Chicago used to have the world's tallest building, the Sear's Tower (as it was then named) so I find your remarks a little unqualified, 'visitor' friend.

- I've lived in both places, and Chicago whilst a sprawling mass of people spread out in the Midwest, is nothing like the metropolis of NYC. There is only one Big Apple - and I think there's a reason Chicago is known as America's 'second city'.

Nothing on this planet is like NYC, which doesn't mean to say you have to like it - but you have to take your lumps if you're going to dismiss it as a collection of tall buildings. I don't think you had a very enlightened guide or schedule if that and a Queens bar were all you took from it.

Lastly, we are all entitled to our preferences, and our tastes will be different; even if I find your summation rather naive and flat. I'm sure if I ever came to Toronto and dismissed it in two sentences with reference to its skyline and a minor bourough's bar, you'd have similar words to say to me too, even though Toronto, nice and clean and Canadian (a big plus in my book) isn't likely to be considered by many to be one of the world's greatest populated cities and centres of commerce, the arts, and human activity.