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Friday, April 04, 2008
Fred Dust discusses the IDEO Eyes Open guide to New York City, which promotes "experiential" travel.
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ok heres what he looks like
thick black glasses, bald, turtleneck, pet monkey on his shoulder, monocle...
Going to the Upper West Side to see the balloons being blown up the night before Thanksgiving!
Off the G train in Brooklyn in Clinton Hill, there's a Jewish bakery that emits a sweet Waffle cone smell all day long, for a six block radius. I have lived here for 10 months, and still have yet to find the source. Is there a smell section in your book?
Ride the elevated subway lines...best way to see the city.
And of course...ride the 7 train to the Queens Museum of Art and check out the panorama of NYC
How about Sundays in Central Park all the open air music but especially the traditional Cuban rumba players are as good as anything coming out of Cuba! You can also hear traditional Cuban rumba on 179th St. and Amsterdam Avenue on a Friday night when the weather is good.
taking the bus (or walking) up an empty Madison Ave. late at night to see an empty street lit up by the luxury shopping store fronts.
oh Brian...
I love to check out all the ladies and their shopping bags which are loaded with their daily needs.
especially amusing is the number of victoria's secret bags carried by women who normally would shop at goodwill.
I've lived here for over 20 years and for the first time last summer I took the sailboat tour from south street seaport and it was the most amazing way to enjoy the city at dusk. you're on a sailboat so there is no engine sound and you're at water level so it's not like being on a "tour boat". You are on the boat with only about 20 people max. You can bring your own bottle of wine -- and it is FABULOUS!
One thing I have liked to do is spend a half hour on the subway, in the dark tunnels, with my head buried in a foreign travel book- Bucharest, Tokyo, Stockholm, whatever. Get off the subway at some random stop and you're in that foreign city, for at least a few minutes. Your head is filled with the expectations of new, foreign experiences and details, and you get them!
Sea Food shopping in china town & Kam Man market.
Secondly: Saturday morning shoppers in Chelsea Mkt.
Watching people walk off the Brooklyn Bridge on a really nice day.
Also, the first warm sunny day in spring is madness. Everyone comes out of their shell.
One thing I have liked to do is spend a half hour on the subway, in the dark tunnels, with my head buried in a foreign travel book- Bucharest, Tokyo, Stockholm, whatever. Get off the subway at some random stop and you're in that foreign city, for at least a few minutes. Your head is filled with the expectations of new, foreign experiences and details, and you get them!
It may not be NYC but if you do a guide on Florence, recommend a walk thru the streets late at night in particular the area around the cathedral to see the dome at night, it seems to dominate the city even more than it does in the daylight and is a magnificent sight. The city itself is so quite and truly a museum in itself, which it is anyway. Firenze di notte...Florence by night.
I'd like to know how one presumes to know that individuals normally shop at Goodwill...
Head to the waterfront in DUMBO, brooklyn- buy an ice cream cone and check out the endless string of bridal parties getting photos taken with the new york skyline behind them. Happy brides, mean brides, and a fashion parade like none other. Wedding photos tend to bring out the best and worst in people...
i'm proud of you
let us not ignore the tourists at Canal --new tennis shoes, i love new york t-shirts and purses wrapped around their bodies like a may-pole
MY! GOD! FAIRWAY! The mecca of rude disfunctional behavior. Stay out of the way and watch
another early morning event are the bike races in Central Park. You can watch them between 5:45 am and 7:30/ 8:00 am on Saturday mornings from April through September.
If you want to be surrounded by true New Yorkers, unadulterated by tourists, check out the veterinary offices. Nary an out-of-towner among them. This is also an opportunity to see New Yorkers fretting, in extrimis, or freely communing (about their pets).
Pre Thanksgiving Day preparations are fascinating.
1. Of course, one can see the balloons being inflated the evening before the parade.
2. Around 2 to 4 a.m. Thanksgiving Day morning one can watch many of the bands rehearsing their routines up front and personal right in front of Macy's.
If you live on the East Side and have out of town visitors, wake up on a Sat morning and stroll through Central Park, weaving westward so you pass around Bethesda Fountain, and wind up at the Bway & 74th St. Fairway. Forget shopping, but go up to the cafe on the 2nd floor for lovely pancakes. Then walk up to Zabar's and buy your smoked salmon for Sunday's breakfast, and stroll back to the East side via the 79th St. path that takes you around the Delacourt Theatre.
Lunch hour walks in Battery Park, all year long. The seasonal changes, the view of ships and boats transiting the harbor, the war monuments, the vendors, the tourists in line for tours of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, viewing of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island from the park, all free and continually changing.
Please change "Pleven" to my last initial "P" in my comments above. Thank you.
I love many of these ideas, and will do the Dumbo visit, the Battery Park lunchtime walk, and the sailboat tour from South St. Seaport as soon as I can manage.
I would also urge people to check Conservatory Gardens as they come to life in the next few weeks. Try to go during the week when events are unlikely to be taking place.
Linda P
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