One "must see/do" thing in NYC?

OU812 · 07-09-2014 3:40pm #1

Heading over with someone who's never been. I've pretty much seen everything I want to but what's one thing you'd recommend to see or do to someone visiting for the first time?

athtrasna · 07-09-2014 3:43pm

The Brooklyn Bridge walk across to Manhattan is one of my favourite things to do. Usually get the Subway to Brooklyn, have pizza in Grimaldis by the bridge and walk some of it off as we got across the bridge. It's most spectacular at dusk.

Enright · 07-09-2014 3:50pm

You will have some line (queue) for pizza at Gramaldis

Times Square - slack up the atmosphere
Go see a show - Matilda or http://www.broadway.com
Ground Zero
Statue Of Liberty
Night Tour by bus

To stick with OP question - Times Square

cena · 07-09-2014 3:52pm

athtrasna wrote: »

The Brooklyn Bridge walk across to Manhattan is one of my favourite things to do. Usually get the Subway to Brooklyn, have pizza in Grimaldis by the bridge and walk some of it off as we got across the bridge. It's most spectacular at dusk.

The bridge is been worked on at the moment and they have barriers up coving the view from the photos I have seen lately. They could be done with the work by now

athtrasna · 07-09-2014 3:53pm

Enright wrote: »

You will have some line (queue) for pizza at Gramaldis

It's a fake line though. Every time I've been there (10+) I've had to queue. Get in and there are loads of empty tables. I guess if there wasn't a line people would think it wasn't as popular as it always was. Anyway it's worth the wait IMO. One thing to note is it's cash only.

fiverfriday · 07-09-2014 3:53pm

Do the 9-11 memorial. Well worth the ques.

07-09-2014 3:54pm

For me it has to be "Top of the Rock".
My favourite views of the city ( especially of central park and the Empire State Building)

Dave1442397 · 07-09-2014 9:42pm

Deleted User wrote: »

For me it has to be "Top of the Rock".
My favourite views of the city ( especially of central park and the Empire State Building)

I agree with this one. If you go all the up to the third viewing platform there isn't even any glass to get in the way of your pics.

It's also spectacular at dusk and at night.

whitey1 · 07-09-2014 11:05pm

My 2 favorites have been covered......what about the Staten Island Ferry or a trip to McSorleys Old Ale House (it has a real Gangs of New York feel)

InTheTrees · 08-09-2014 3:04am

Deleted User wrote: »

For me it has to be "Top of the Rock".
My favourite views of the city ( especially of central park and the Empire State Building)

Agreed.

If you could only do one thing that would be it. There can be long queues though and when its cold its really really really cold up there.

When I fly back and forth between Ireland Seattle, I usually stop off in ny and take the bus in to Manhattan, have lunch at the restaurant connected to the new york public Library in Bryant Park and then head back to the airport for me connecting flight.

By the way, there's great public loos in the Library. NEVER try and use the ones in Grand Central Station.

jaymcg91 · 08-09-2014 4:05am

InTheTrees wrote: »

Agreed.

If you could only do one thing that would be it. There can be long queues though and when its cold its really really really cold up there.

When I fly back and forth between Ireland Seattle, I usually stop off in ny and take the bus in to Manhattan, have lunch at the restaurant connected to the new york public Library in Bryant Park and then head back to the airport for me connecting flight.

By the way, there's great public loos in the Library. NEVER try and use the ones in Grand Central Station.

I used the ones in Grand Central Terminal just last week, they were fine? Was I missing something ha?

Ninap · 08-09-2014 4:08am

athtrasna wrote: »

It's a fake line though. Every time I've been there (10+) I've had to queue. Get in and there are loads of empty tables. I guess if there wasn't a line people would think it wasn't as popular as it always was. Anyway it's worth the wait IMO. One thing to note is it's cash only.

Juliana's next door has arguably better pizza and shorter line

InTheTrees · 08-09-2014 6:49am

jaymcg91 wrote: »

I used the ones in Grand Central Terminal just last week, they were fine? Was I missing something ha?

Ha. My gf's experience wasnt so good. She's still traumatized.

:eek:

And it will always be Grand Central Station to me.

Day Lewin · 08-09-2014 6:55am

Walk the High Line. [Old elevated railway line transformed into long, narrow, high-up linear park]

yew_tree · 08-09-2014 11:41am

Have a steak at PJ Clarkes....I am hungry just thinking about it, delicious. Careful there are three of them and you must eat in the original on 3rd ave (55th I think). It is real old school inside with the chequered red and white tablecloths and old style jukebox. Jackie Kennedy used to bring the kids there and people like Sinatra used to be a regular.

jaymcg91 · 08-09-2014 3:00pm

InTheTrees wrote: »

Ha. My gf's experience wasnt so good. She's still traumatized.

:eek:

And it will always be Grand Central Station to me.

It hasn't been called that in 101 years though :P. If you're over 101 then props to you

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InTheTrees · 08-09-2014 5:18pm

jaymcg91 wrote: »

It hasn't been called that in 101 years though :P. If you're over 101 then props to you .

Oh absolutely, I know. There's a classic novel by Elizabeth Smart written in 1945 that was my old mums favorite called "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept" .
I also doubt there's many New Yorkers who would misunderstand you if you used "station":

"Although the terminal has been properly called “Grand Central Terminal” since 1913, it has "always been more colloquially and affectionately known as Grand Central Station", the name of the previous rail station on the same site, and of the U.S. Post Office station next door, which is not part of the terminal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal

Dave1442397 · 08-09-2014 7:12pm

jaymcg91 wrote: »

It hasn't been called that in 101 years though :P. If you're over 101 then props to you .

I've always known it as Grand Central Station too, I guess that's what everyone calls it.

jaymcg91 · 08-09-2014 7:45pm

Dave1442397 wrote: »

I've always known it as Grand Central Station too, I guess that's what everyone calls it.

Not "everyone", and it's incorrect, irregardless of what people call it.

OU812 · 08-09-2014 9:18pm

jaymcg91 wrote: »

Not "everyone", and it's incorrect, irregardless of what people call it.

From Wikipedia:

Irregardless
Irregardless is a word commonly used in place of regardless or irrespective, which has caused controversy since the early twentieth century, though the word appeared in print as early as 1795. Most dictionaries list it as "nonstandard" or "incorrect" usage, and recommend that "regardless" should be used instead.

It's "station" to me, "regardless" of what people call it

pgmcpq · 08-09-2014 11:09pm

Dave1442397 wrote: »

I've always known it as Grand Central Station too, I guess that's what everyone calls it.

Hummm ... to me it is simply "Grand Central" - until reading this I had never considered the final word. I think station as "Terminal" suggests the Port Authority to me.

My vote: Ellis Island - take he audio tour.

jaymcg91 · 09-09-2014 1:42am

pgmcpq wrote: »

Hummm ... to me it is simply "Grand Central" - until reading this I had never considered the final word. I think station as "Terminal" suggests the Port Authority to me.

My vote: Ellis Island - take he audio tour.

I actually think that's how I generally refer to it.

This thread has indulged my pedantry

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