ArgyleDSL
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|  Ten things not to do in New York City/alternatives - a list
From Concierge.com - they listed some of the usual "tourist" places and present real NYer's alternatives.
For most I agree, although I still will live dangerously eating at a hot dog cart. 
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| I don't agree with half that list if you are a tourist.
Sure take the subway, avoid tavern on the green, and the carriage ride in the park may not be the best way to see central park.
But avoid the top of the empire state building? Come on give me a break. Should of said to go later in the day then during peak hours, and the 3D ride is pretty fun.
Macys is also fun to shop at and I have no clue what the writer is talking about. I've been there in crazy days and it wasn't messy, now during the holidays it is but what store isn't during the holidays.
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| If I had to choose the ESB over the Top of the Rock, I'd go to the Top of the Rock. Better views (you can see the ESB), shorter lines and I thought it was just a better place to view the city. Many people are allured by the fact that they're going into the ESB, which is fine.
Macy's on Thanksgiving is a mad house.. I highly recommend it to tourists (not for shopping though).
Hot dog from a hot dog cart? I'll watch my tourist friends eat that while I go get a slice of pizza somewhere.
Eat in Times Square? Not a chance... well, maybe Virgil's because they have good beer.
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As for the Tavern on the Green alternative, The River Cafe might offer a nice view, but one of the signature assets of New York is its wide variety of either very New York style restaurants and ethnic choices. Go dine on Vietnamese or Turkish, or go grab a pastrami sandwich at Katz's. The River Cafe offers what every other water-bordering city offers, and you can get it without paying a fortune for a meal.
The writer is a psycho deluxe for speaking bad about the hot dog carts. Even when I hated hot dogs, I would eat dirty water hot dogs. They offer a great bargain when its that magic hour between lunch and dinner, and you need something quick to tide you over while walking, which you do a lot of in New York.
I agree with HG about skipping the Empire State Bldg and Macy's. That's just blasphemy. Lord & Taylor is not nearly as iconic as Macy's is, and icons are a big part of tourism.
The Central Park, Hell's Kitchen, meatpacking district, and Upright Citizen's Brigade points are money. I took my ex to the UCB, and it was a frickin riot.
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Avoid Manhattan and come to the Bronx. |
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Boricua65
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When I visited NYC, I went to the ESB just to check it out. When I saw you had to pay to go the top, I said frakk that and went off somewhere else.
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| said by Boricua65  :When I visited NYC, I went to the ESB just to check it out. When I saw you had to pay to go the top, I said frakk that and went off somewhere else. Then you missed one spectacular view. It's well worth the money.
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| said by Dersgniw :Then you missed one spectacular view. It's well worth the money. Not when your tax rate on hotels cost me more than the plane ticket at that time  .
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I agree, the writer is a MORON, most of the stuff on that list is fine, with some exceptions, but to attack ALL hot dog carts!!! 
The BEST dogs are Sabrett's from a cart on or AFTER Tuesday, never want to eat them on a Monday, they MAY be left over from FRIDAY!!
We could make a list of thousands of things to do in NYC, that all of us would agree on was worth it, and we could probably do the same on things to avoid.
The thing is, we would all have different lists, with many similarities on them and many differences.
That is the great thing about NYC, EVERYONE can find something they will like to do here, and things they hated doing here.
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tax rate at the hotels here is a lot less than the tax rate at the hotels in PR. freaken additional 14% for what?
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I think the main point the writer is missing is that too many tourists form their idea of New York from movies like When Harry Met Sally or Sleepless In Seattle or even Sex in the City. When they come to New York they don't want to see places we feel are good, they want to see the places that are in the movies.
For them, a ride in Central Park, squealing in the street, or eating felafel while sitting on the curb in Times Square is exactly what they came here for. |
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There's no better venue than Katz’s Delicatessen for a classic, all-beef deli dog ($3.10) !
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Tavern on the Green is a rip..
They charged $750k to rent the place out for a holiday Christmas party! What a scam.
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The Dv8or
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ArgyleDSL
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| said by The Dv8or :Most of New York is a ripoff and a scam. A ripoff is getting a yearly tax bill for registered vehicles in CT!
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The Dv8or
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| said by ArgyleDSL :said by The Dv8or :Most of New York is a ripoff and a scam. A ripoff is getting a yearly tax bill for registered vehicles in CT! Yeah, that's true too. Connecticut's a pretty kickass place to live until you start dealing with the government's automobile management. Between car taxes and their hideous DMV system... yikes!
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Union, NJ | reply to ArgyleDSL
I thought the list was right on.
Bu the #1 thing a tourist should not do in NYC is: Wisit the WTC site.
It is overrun by tourists. If I was a visitor, I would feel ripped off.
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| said by avd706 :I thought the list was right on. Bu the #1 thing a tourist should not do in NYC is: Wisit the WTC site. It is overrun by tourists. If I was a visitor, I would feel ripped off. I completely disagree with this, and once this fiasco of a memorial is set up, I think it will be much better. I was in Oklahoma City last year and made it a point to visit the terrorist memorial there. VERY moving. It made me really sad how all the parties involved in the New York site cant get their shit together, but Oklahoma City got this done very quickly.
What I COULD do without at the WTC site is the trinket hawkers. There should be some kind of ordinance that no sales can be transacted within x feet of the site.
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avd706
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| said by The Dv8or :said by avd706 :I thought the list was right on. Bu the #1 thing a tourist should not do in NYC is: Wisit the WTC site. It is overrun by tourists. If I was a visitor, I would feel ripped off. I completely disagree with this, and once this fiasco of a memorial is set up, I think it will be much better. I was in Oklahoma City last year and made it a point to visit the terrorist memorial there. VERY moving. It made me really sad how all the parties involved in the New York site cant get their shit together, but Oklahoma City got this done very quickly. What I COULD do without at the WTC site is the trinket hawkers. There should be some kind of ordinance that no sales can be transacted within x feet of the site. There's nothing there. Its a messy, crowded construction site. I went to see the USS Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor and found it very touching. I would assume the same with OK City.
The temporary WTC memorial is in Battery Park, also a very touching site. There are also many war memorials there as well as the merchant marine one. All very touching in many different ways.
But the actual WTC site has not tourist value AT ALL.
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