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How
to get in, out and around …
I
don’t live in the city but I am a frequent visitor. I have been known
to actually drive in the land of the yellow cab – down Flatbush Ave
on a Saturday afternoon and once in a rental car. My favorite driving
in the city dodge is to drive to the ferry on Staton Island and park.
This only works on a Saturday or Sunday. Recently I have discovered
the PATH train from Newark. Speaking of alternative transport, check
out the tram from Roosevelt Island.
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Authority Maps
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of New
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Where to stay?
Chelsea
Lodge Suites - According to Susan and Julia the best spot to stay.
Read a recent NY Times article on hotels in NY City under $125.
The
Gershwin Hotel
Cheap, funky little hotel/hostel with lots of art work by local artists.
My new fave hotel in NYC the Washington Square Hotel. Its hard to get a room
but it is such a pretty little hotel and it is right off of Washington
Square. Don't miss the Dachshund Oktoberfest.
In my humble opinion, the place to stay if you have money to spend The
St. Regis Hotel.
The Old King Cole Bar has a Maxfield Parish from the old Knickerbocker
Hotel. Also, this is not a bad place to go for a ten dollar pot of hot
tea and cakes on a cold winter day after musuem hopping.
I
also reccomend the Murrey Hill Suites, friends of mine stay here often
and they always get great service.
The Star Hotel _ (from NY Timeout listing. 300 West 30th St at Eight
Ave (212-685-1616, 877-827-NYNY, fax 212-279-9018) www.starhotel.com.
Subway: A, C, E, B, D, N, R to 34th St. Dorm and private rooms from
$25. Common room. Internet access. Kitchenette. Rooftop deck. From hotsheets
to hostel, the Star Hotel certainly has a right to its name, considering
this was one of Madonna's first New York homes in its redlight days.
Her room is small and dismal with a less-than-stunning view of Madison
Square Garden, but you can spend the night in it for a mere $25. An
aspect of seediness still pervades in this refurbished old dive, but
it's all a part of the experience. New management, a roof deck, a brick-lined
dorm and a common room make this one of the best steals in the city
for hostellers and starstruck wanderers.
Where to eat?
Dumpling House (cheap and good)
118A Eldridge Street in Chinatown
Margon (Cheap Cuban food near Times Square) 136 West 46th Street
Favorite
neighborhoods and their haunts
Village
.. . The village is weird. On a Saturday night it fills like an upscale
version of Cancun’s spring break. Lots of wanna be disaffected well
dressed twenty-thirty something bar hoppers. But when the Disney atmosphere
is dampened you can still see ghosts of cool. But with the demise of
Bradley’s and the closure of Sweet Basils for renovations that leaves
the Blue Note, the Vanguard, and Smalls to hold up the Jazz torch. Forget
about finding reasonable food – although we do have a couple of secret
stops in the area.
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Astoria, Queens
Bohemian Hall and Park
29-19 24th Avenue, Astoria
(718) 728-9776
Brooklyn
bound... I love Brooklyn! Coney Island is very cool, as is the train
station at Brighton Beach, as is the knish bakery and the Russian deli
shops. I like Park Slope, that upstairs jazz club and the Brooklyn Museum
always floors me.
Celebrate
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brewery
Coney
Island and another
site on this spot .
Museum listing
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All that Jazz ...
New
York city and jazz go together like peanut butter and jelly, bagels
and cream cheese, yin and yang, acid and Dead shows ..... you get the
idea.
- Arthur's Tavern on Grove Street
- Bar next Door
- Birdland
315 West 44th Street
Phone - 212 581-3080
- Blue Note
131 West 3rd Street
Phone - 212 475-8592
Great club - worth the dough! Check out the Sunday brunch gigs for
even better value.
- Bradley's
Gone but not forgotten...
- Detour
349 East 13th Street
Phone - 212 533-6212
- Dharma
174 Orchard Street
Phone - 212 780-0313
- Fez
under Time Café 380 Lafeyette Street
Phone - 212 533-2680
- Firebird
363 West 46th Street Phone - 212 586-0244
- Internet Cafe
82 East 3rd Street
Phone - 212 614-0747
- Iridium Jazz Club
44 West 63rd Street Phone - 212 582-2121
... pretty much a clip joint. Les Paul can play like a madman too
bad he's such an evil individual.
- Izzy
Bar
166 1st Street
Phone - 212 288-0444
- Kavehaz
123 Mercer Street
Phone - 212 343-0612
- La
Belle Epoque
827 Broadway Phone - 212 254-6436
- Lennox
Lounge
288 Lenox Ave, between 124th and 125th Sts
Phone - 212 427-0253
- Londel's
Frederick Douglass Blvd.
Phone - 212 234-0601
- Metronome
915 Broadway
Phone - 212 505-7400
- Up
Over Jazz Cafe
351 Flatbush Ave Brooklyn, NY - D and Q subway (Seventh Avenue stop).
- Savoy
Lounge
355 West 41st Street
Phone - 212 947-5255
- St.
Nicks Pub
773 St. Nicholas Ave.
Phone - 212 283-9728
- Smalls
One of my fave spots but I can't think of the address right now. It's
right off Seventh Ave. in the Village. BYOB
- Sweet Basil
88 Seventh Ave South
Phone - 212 242-1785
- Swing
46 349 West 46th Ave.
Phone - 212 262-9554
- Jazz
Standard
116 East 27th Street
- Village
Vanguard
178 Seventh Ave South
Phone - 212 255-4037
- Zinc Bar
90 West Houston Street Phone - 212 477-8337 The Zinc Bar has good
jazz on Monday nights
- Zinno
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126 West 12th Street
Phone - 212 924-5182
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and Grotesques in NYC
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