You are giving your personal opinion, I gave mine backed up by Zagat which has been rating restaurants for 30 years but I am done with this, not helping the OP out at all.
I wouldnt go to NYC and make a restaurant a priority. Im sure there is plenty of tremendous restaurants but I wouldnt go out of my way to go to one. If it was on my route then yeah sure, but there of plenty of other things to see/do.
If I'm such a troll or trouble maker how come I never got a warning from any mods? I've seen where you been ban before.
Stokes,,,,my brother actually did this quite some time ago,,,,but here's the funny part,,,he was working downtown at the time and needed to go to motor vehicle ,,,told his boss he needed 2 hours or so to go to dmv,,,,,he got out of dmv in record time , he said it was no longer than 15 minutes,,,,he did not want to go back to work right away it was a beautiful day so he went on the tour on the bus,,,,he said he wished he had taken the tour a long time ago because it was great ,,,,
Hmmm, the restaurant tangent got me thinking - maybe this could be a Common Core word problem: How many NY restaurants are over 100 years old? Eating three meals a day at each one, what is the minimum number of days a visitor must stay in New York to visit all of them?
Check out Prince Street Pizzeria in Soho area. Very good slices. Used to be the Original Ray's before it closed a few years back. Check out the East Village (especially St. Mark's area) for nightlife. Always a good time and a ton of places to go to. There are a number of speak easies down there, as well. In general, stay away from chain restaurants (common tourist mistake). They're usually much more expensive here. You're better off going to some place local, better food and prices. Definitely check out the High Line. Very much worth any crowd. You can also check out the art galleries underneath. They are free and usually empty during the summer because all the people buying the art left town for the summer.
Curious why you think the High Line is worth any crowd? Looks like a 1 mile raised walk way with a little bit of grass. I wasn't going to mention the "artwork" since what passes as art these days is worthless IMO.
When I entered this thread, I was hoping there was breaking news about a first time-traveler who is in NY.
I probably will check out the High Line, mostly just because I think the idea is kind of cool. Not really going to spend hours there but a quick walk through it seems like it would be interesting, just something different you don`t see everywhere. To give a bit of an update we ended up buying one of this City Pass things as it gets you in to a bunch of stuff: Empire State Building, Top of the Rock, a bunch of the museums, a boat tour to see the Statue of Liberty, etc. We also ended up getting tickets to a Broadway show, going to see Chicago which isn`t necessarily my cup of tea but my wife and sister both wanted to see it so I can live with it. Been kind of working on an itinerary and just hoping the weather cooperates. Honestly haven`t really figured out any specific restaurants I want to go to and I`m okay with that, just eating at random places is fine but I will probably pick at least one or two very specific places I feel like I must eat at. Only a bit over a week until I go so I`m pretty excited. I`ll let you all know how it goes when I`m back. Thanks again for all the suggestions!
There is a reason why it has gotten such attention. It is revolutionary in how it was able to convert the tracks into a public space, how into interacts with the city around it, the architecture it has inspired and the public art spaces on the High Line itself. If you go there during the work day, the crowds are not too bad. At the very least, it is a great way to walk from Chelsea to the West Village.
High Line Park The High Line between 14th and 15th streets where the tracks run through the second floor of the Chelsea Market building, with a side track and pedestrian bridge The High Line at 20th Street, looking downtown, an aerial greenway. The vegetation was chosen to pay homage to the wild plants that had colonized the abandoned railway before it was repurposed. The High Line runs under the Standard Hotel Urban theater at 10th Avenue and 17th Street: a window over the avenue provides unusual views http://www.thehighline.org
I know revolutionary means bringing about major change but in the context you use it wouldn't it mean a change never before thought of? I have no doubt it is nicer walking along than just down on the streets but just personally not something I would go out of my way to see. The art, meh, a Dali is art a washing machine drum or a commercial cooler not really.
