Basically I am planning to visit the New York area for the first time in the summer, and I will appreciate some advice on how to have the best time while running on a tight budget. Just some details for you: I will be travelling alone from London, staying for a week or so, possibly staying with a friend but no guarantees yet. I am not that interested on shopping, but more interested in visiting interesting places and sights, if possible places off the beaten track. I am 26 years old, male and I'm fine with spartan living(within reason!)
Many Thanks :-)
2007-01-11 20:57:28 · 8 answers · asked by Double A 2 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ New York City
NY. City is a world full of worlds. Better wander along and find them all just like if it were an Inhabited Island. On sundays you've got Broadway's street market. Beware of your artichoke (purse) in some areas Downtown or Uptown, as you say you gotta few do-re-mi (money) or dough (id). About that, there are nice Bazaars near Central Station, but if you enter them you'd finish
by being fast with your potatoes (dollars) and phonus-bolonus flying oriental carpets are refused at the Airport. Don't get into a phonebooth, 'cause coppers or ojaras (there are sorta 50 ways to design the police) should take you for a dealer, any decent person carries his cellular. Don't fear poorer dumps, New York is not a telefilm scenario. But if you're blackish better don't go into a Country Joint, and if you're Caucasian try not no attend to an 'actual' jazz or blues after-hours or jam session. Don't be afraid of Bronx, they're nice and peaceful people if you don't try to take picks of them as if they were monkeys in the zoo. If you do so, ask before for OK, not after. Don't use too much yellow cabs, the jockeys will ask you where the hell is the street you're asking them to take you at. And if you argue, they say it's impossible to memorize all dumps in a labyrinth like this ******* village. If you have lunch in so-called Jap-Dishes, remember they don't cook the fish, that a fish is like your finger and that pots to season it are pricking like fire. Carry a 'spanglish' vademecum up to date.
But if you walk along the Forties in Manhattan and try to find better way to eat than Jap's, "Pomeranian pooches" are breed of dog. Better a burger or spaghetti in Little Italy. Be always on the proper caper, the right way, denie any "proposition" even if they call you a puppier (coward) and remember that 5th Amendment can be a double-edged knife for best citizens. But it's a question for a travel-paperback. Male as you are, Top Lesses are full of Peggy Joyces, sorta haybags, and in the entry a gorill is ready.
In a general way of speaking, you'll find it hotsy-totsy. Walk, don't run.
2007-01-11 22:08:59 · answer #1 · answered by Rafael Maria Castellano 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
search online for Ymca's or hostels if your plans don't work out to stay w/ friend. You want to stay in the mid-manhattan area or Anything below 100 st should be ok. Visit the usual Ellis Isl, Statue of Liberty, WTC site is also down there. Go to Riverside Church and Grant's tomb W. 122 st & Riverside Dr. Empire State Bldng., Go online try to get tix to David Letterman's show
2007-01-11 21:03:45 · answer #2 · answered by uknowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-30 21:45:44 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stay outta the Bronx and...
You just have to go to Coney Island and get a hot dog at Nathan's!
2007-01-12 07:16:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
take a gas mask!
and rat poison
Hostel on 103rd and Amsterdam has bed bugs :( Found out the hard way
2007-01-11 21:05:34 · answer #5 · answered by lukeee 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Carry your money or better yet, your whole wallet, in your front pants pocket!
2007-01-11 21:00:09 · answer #6 · answered by Life after 45 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't take any wooden nickels.
Keep your dukes up and protect yourself at all times!
2007-01-11 21:06:59 · answer #7 · answered by Bo Darville 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't take the train.
2007-01-11 21:00:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋