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Going to explore New York (city) for a week or two (starting ~now). Any advice on what to do? Anyone around and want to grab a beer?
Lived there all of my life. Moved away recently.
I assume you're already bombed with the usual touristy advice. My delta is NYC actually sucks at some food but its strengths are: Korean food, Jewish kosher deli food (bagels + fixins) and pizza. Though you might have to sample a few places as there's lots of scrubs trying to cash in on the name recognition. Also the median restaurant actually sucks because they're just "location" plays. It's astonishing how bad a lot of places are but they're still viable just because they are in a lucrative location. You have to worry about this a lot more in NYC, IMO.
Anyway, the usual stuff aside: if you're going to be in Manhattan proper the west side river path, from Battery Park City all of the way to Harlem is pretty much endlessly beautiful for walking or (rental) biking.
NY actually has nearby nice white sand beaches. You can take a ferry to a Jersey beach in no time and have a day of it.
There's also almost always multiple interesting things going on every night of the week, just think it and check a few lists. E.g. there's some amazing comedy nights that often have random celebrity comedians dropping in trying material and they're not even particularly crowded.
Do you like the idea of combining running and drinking in public while singing random dirty ridiculous raunchy songs? Try to find a Hash House Harriers group. H3 is a global phenomenon but there's several of these groups in NYC, should line up well with travel.
Out of curiosity which ones? Unless it's all
Mexican food can be pretty disappointing as a category in NYC. There are of course exceptional places and you can find extremely sophisticated low brow regional Mexican cuisine in Queens but I can't really say "go enjoy Mexican food in NYC".
Indian food is kind of like this too. Indian food should be top of its class in NYC but it surprisingly doesn't compare to the Indian food in London, for example.
Cuisine won't automatically be mind blowing just because it's in NYC, is my caveat.
Mmm fair. You can find good Mexican food in the NE but it sucks except for random places. Pretty much only in Texas/SW/Cali tho.
Indian wise that's an interesting point. Maybe blame Edison?
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