New York, New York, a helluva town, the Bronx is up and the Battery's down

[jaala]

The QMT trip to New York City is rapidly approaching. I've found some people with whom I can go sight-seeing, and yesterday we drew up a preliminary itinerary. It includes:

• places: Rockefeller Centre, MOMA, Times Square, Empire State Building (at night), Central Park and/or 5th Avenue (possibly including the Jewish Museum)


• shows: Avenue Q (the whole trip group is going to this), any matinee available at TKTS, attempting to get tickets to "The Daily Show"


• things others are doing that I may skip: Madame Tussaud's, Serendipity (as recommended by Oprah), the Chocolate Bar, shopping, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (17 people are going to this, which will probably not include me unless someone cancels)


• in favour of: the Cloisters, the Lincoln Centre, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum, Washington Square Park, Grand Central Terminal, Sweeney Todd, 228 Avenue of the Americas


Any other suggestions? Geek-related stuff?

NB: Damn! I'll miss The History Boys by one week and The Drowsy Chaperone by one month!

Comments

[waterstrider.livejournal.com]

My mother the artist recommends the Met instead of the MOMA, if you can only go to one. Sometimes I have dreams that I'm in New York or London or Paris and I don't know where to go first, so I ask people.

I am jealous.

[jaala]

Hmm. I am the only member of the small group who hasn't been before, so I'm guessing that they've probably seen the Met already. Still, if it's the better choice I may opt to go to it instead.

I visited Paris and London this past summer, actually, and they're also completely baffling when deciding where to go. It made me wish I could actually live in each place long enough to get a sense of what it's really like. (By the way, despite all this location-name-dropping, I'm actually not a very experienced traveller.)

[waterstrider.livejournal.com]

Well, unless you're bored by pre-20th c. art and totally love modern art xFOREVERx, in which case the MOMA is for you.

One time I was in Cheticamp and didn't know whether to go to the Rug Hooking Museum or the lobster restaurant or the K-Mart, so I totes know how you feel there.

[jaala]

One time I was in Cheticamp and didn't know whether to go to the Rug Hooking Museum or the lobster restaurant or the K-Mart, so I totes know how you feel there.

*snicker*

[forget-my-fate.livejournal.com]

When is the New York trip? I'm so jealous! I went to New York in the summer, but I only had one day there -- definitely not enough time! It would be really cool if you got tickets to the Daily Show!

Hmm... in terms of suggestions... the music geek in me would recommend the Metropolitan Opera House... and another thing I really liked was the Juilliard bookstore.

[jaala]

Yes, I'm certainly interested in the Met. The Julliard bookstore is an excellent suggestion too. Both organizations are part of the Lincoln Centre (er, Lincoln Center)--which is huge, of course, so it's good to narrow it down to a couple specifics.

[flutepicc.livejournal.com]

Well, Times Square is pretty much shopping. Or window shopping considering the priciness of many places in the area. Really it takes a couple minutes to stand and look at all the flashing lights and signs and think "Cool, it's just like in the movies, except more crowded!" and then that's about all there is. It was cool, but when planning take into consideration that it's not really something that takes long to see.

And Central Park is really neat. :) I was there in the summer but I imagine it's just as cool in a wintery way.

And I reccomend going up the Empire State building before night time. Even just before sunset. That way you can see the City sprawling in the light which is really amazing (Of particular note is Central Park from above.), see the sunset, which is also amazing, and then see the lights come on. I think when we went we got there a bit too early so we only stayed until just after sunset, before it got super dark. Still very neat. But I do deffinetly reccomend being there over sunset if you can.

[forget-my-fate.livejournal.com]

I agree about Central Park! It's beautiful and there's so much to see there, you could spend days wandering around there. I didn't get to go up the Empire State Building (the friend I was with said it would be over an hour standing in line, and we just didn't have the time that day) but I did get to walk past it!

Oh and I forgot to mention in my last post, I had a really good time going to Macy's on 34th Street! We walked down Fifth Avenue, but we didn't really go into any of those stores because I felt severely under-dressed in my casual summer clothes... I told my friend if we went into Tiffany's, security would probably ask us to leave. But Macy's was fun, and they still have the old wooden escalators.

[jaala]

But Macy's was fun, and they still have the old wooden escalators.

Ooh--I might go for the escalators alone!

[jaala]

Well, Times Square is pretty much shopping.

Ick. That'll hold very little interest for me beyond, "Ooh look, it's Times Square." Several of my companions will probably want to shop though, so I should probably think of something in the area I'd like to do on my own.

I do deffinetly reccomend being there over sunset if you can.

Neat! I'll see if we can manage that.

[forget-my-fate.livejournal.com]

Ooh there's a huge Toys R Us in Times Square! It has a ferris wheel inside, and there's a big candy store area. At least I think it's in Times Square... it was somewhere along the walk from Penn Station to Times Square anyways... ok sorry that wasn't very helpful.

[madrigalia.livejournal.com]

Avenue Q versus Putnam County...hard choice, but both are (supposedly) excellent. Have a great time!

[sherbear82.livejournal.com]

I'd choose Spelling Bee, but I do love William Finn.

[jaala]

It's not choice, you see. Everybody on the trip is going to Avenue Q; it was included as part of the set price. Spelling Bee is optional. Erick collected names of people interested in seeing Spelling Bee and then he bought enough tickets for those people. By the time I replied (because I had been hesitant about spending that much money), he had already bought the tickets. So I can't see the show unless someone else cancels.

Personally, I'd probably choose Spelling Bee over Avenue Q if given the free choice. (Actually, I'd probably choose Sweeney Todd over both of them, despite my annoyance at the elimination of the orchestra.)

[jaala]

Have a great time!

Thanks!