Next time you come, if you like let me know and I'll be happy to put together an itinerary to show you the NYC I love.
It won't involve Times Square. Times Square exists for tourists from the midwest to step out of the Subway into, get overstimulated as quickly as possible, see a stage adaptation of a cartoon movie for about fifty bazillion times much as it's worth, get back on the subway and go the fuck home before they can get out into the rest of the city and bother us.
It will involve museums, but they'll be smaller museums and it'll be clear that the admission is a suggested donation. It'll also be a museum dedicated to something you're interested in: we have a few hundred museums.
It will involve Greenwich village, and the several tiny little parks that can be walked through for some quiet in the middle of the day. It will involve little tiny, reasonably priced restaurants whose offerings involve rice (because you've indicated that's a priority for you), rather than the "Asian fusion" crap that was all we had to work with yesterday in the culinary wasteland that is the upper east side. It will involve Queens and ten thousand secrets never experienced by people who live in NYC but think only of Manhattan when they say that.
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Date: 2011-05-26 03:24 pm (UTC)It won't involve Times Square. Times Square exists for tourists from the midwest to step out of the Subway into, get overstimulated as quickly as possible, see a stage adaptation of a cartoon movie for about fifty bazillion times much as it's worth, get back on the subway and go the fuck home before they can get out into the rest of the city and bother us.
It will involve museums, but they'll be smaller museums and it'll be clear that the admission is a suggested donation. It'll also be a museum dedicated to something you're interested in: we have a few hundred museums.
It will involve Greenwich village, and the several tiny little parks that can be walked through for some quiet in the middle of the day. It will involve little tiny, reasonably priced restaurants whose offerings involve rice (because you've indicated that's a priority for you), rather than the "Asian fusion" crap that was all we had to work with yesterday in the culinary wasteland that is the upper east side. It will involve Queens and ten thousand secrets never experienced by people who live in NYC but think only of Manhattan when they say that.