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Ohhhhhh, October. I'd say Ranger game at MSG, but they aren't home until late October. Can't really think of anything good sports-wise within the city limits during that time period.
learn to subway next time?The only thing I enjoyed about my time in New York was the totally unknown medieval museum that is somehow a part of the Met. I think it's called The Cloisters.
It's part of the other museum, I think it's the met, so if you go to one you've purchased admission to both. It's a short subway ride and a fifteen minute walk to the far northwestern corner of Manhattan. I went there early on a winter morning and it was really sublime. The story is that one of the golden age barons of industry just went to Europe and bought a bunch of shit, including literal castles, monasteries and churches, shipped and assembled all that shit into a consolidated final product in NYC for kicks.
That's some serious fuck you money.
Anyways, I think I liked it mostly because nobody goes there. Upstate NY has some really nice parks and stuff, there's a road that goes through the Adirondacks that has some of the most ethereal frozen valleys I've ever seen in my life, but it takes quite a bit of driving to get there. I've never been so pissed off at the world as I was trying to get anything done in Manhattan, restaurants with no bathrooms or seating can go fuck themselves. I've traveled all over the world, and NYC has the worst fucking transportation system in the entire world, if it hadn't been for that embark NYC app I would have given up and hitchhiked back to Connecticut. The funny part is that you're even more fucked if you try to rent or bring a car. Getting anywhere in NYC takes 4-5X the time you think it would based off of raw distance, in my experience.
Bitches fucking love it, so I'll probably end up having to go back at some point. Just know now that it'll cost a lot more than you think it will in terms of time and cash, and you'll probably not get a lot for your money. There's a reason everybody goes to Jersey for the shopping. And don't even get me started on Jersey.
Yeah. They're called cars. Therefore any city where cars are inconvenient is also inconvenient.Yeah, man. NYC's public transportation is awesome. Are there teleporters where you live or something?
Cars are way more inconvenient in a city like Boston, where roads are still set up like the early trade routes they were originally intended as, over a grid... like NYC. Seriously, cars are not very inconvenient in NYC. I drive into the Upper East Side at least once a month from CT. Midtown can get a little congested and stay away from any of the tunnels during rush hour but the same can be said for pretty much any city. Maybe I just have rose colored glasses because I love NYC but I feel it's very easy to navigate and the Subway system is easy to understand for me.Yeah. They're called cars. Therefore any city where cars are inconvenient is also inconvenient.
Trains come every 5-10minutes (unless you're on the G, then it comes whenever it wants), which is fine and not slow. Unless there was an unplanned outage(some asshole offing himself for instance or a stalled train), every single line that has planned maintenance being done will have many notices posted throughout the stations, in multiple languages. I've never not seen this in my 7 years here. There's also giant fucking maps all over each station, so if you had trouble finding a new line, you're dumb. Of all of the mass transit systems in the US, NYC has to be in the top 3. 24x7 subways/buses as well as cabs? Not many cities in the world have that. Also, NYC is fairly cheap when compared to other metro/subway lines. Will agree it's not clean. They try at more touristy stations, but its hopeless.I wasn't living in CT.
Public transportation was easy, but it's a slow, painful and expensive nightmare. If you feel otherwise you really need to travel more. Nothing like walking into a subway station that's now reversed the line / closed with no notice / changed lines just because it's the weekend / third thursday of the month / past 9PM.
Out of a given list of major world cities with subways, NYC would be dead last in my book. Shit, even Mexico City's Total Recall contraption comes out ahead of NYC in every conceivable category, including cleanliness.
Ah yes, the classic reverse haggle. Double their asking price and hope they take pity on your retard ass. Are you sure you're really Chinese?4. she says ###
5. you say ###/.5
(i'm chinese, it's ok i know how they work)
Ya, the weapons and armor are pretty sweet. I lol'd at Henry VIII's armor when he was in his more "rotund" years. The one thing that surprises me about the Met is how damned close they let people get to paintings that are virtually priceless. "Oh hey, a world famous Van Gogh! Let me peer at it from inches away!"Any proper nerd should check out the arms and armor room.
Last time I was at the Met, I saw at least five different people straight-up touch some of the priceless classics. One Hispanic dude poked the fuck out of a Monet.The one thing that surprises me about the Met is how damned close they let people get to paintings that are virtually priceless. "Oh hey, a world famous Van Gogh! Let me peer at it from inches away!"