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Alright, /trv/, I'm going to New York for 2 weeks this August. Here's the rundown:

-Staying in Woodside, Queens
-$1000 to spend
-Not interested in standing on top of landmarks, just bumming around and meeting people
-Won't be eating meals in restaurants
-Will be drinking, but mainly store-bought

I'd like to see a few bands, but aside from that my plans are nonexistant.

Any advice for me?
>> Anonymous
Nobody at all?
>> Anonymous
know where to go to find music you like? there's a thousand places in manhattan and a hundred in brooklyn worth checking out, depending on what you'll be into. 'Course, I haven't been to the city in a couple years, but I figure the staples (Irving Plaza, Bowery Ballroom, Knitting Factory, Tonic, etc etc) are all still there.

Probably getting the hell out of Queens as fast as possible, spending most of your "bumming around" time in Williamsburg/Fort Green, and getting into Manhattan for shows would work well.

Also I hear there are always art openings in TriBeCa and Chelsea over on the west side (10th-24th St.) and you can just swing in, check out art, load up on free booze, and swing out. Perfect.

Anyway, .02 for you.
>> Anonymous
>>41214

thanks! I'm into anything worth listening to. anything that puts on an engaging live show, also. neutral milk hotel played 'in the aeroplane over the sea' first at a little gig in NY, so I'm all starry-eyed at the idea of it.
>> Anonymous
bump
>> Anonymous
I would take advantage of the restaurants and at least eat out a few times. It doesn't need to be expensive to be good.
>> Anonymous
Anyone who goes to New York HAS to go to Gray's Papaya. It's a hotdog chain that's dirt cheap, it's awesome.

They have one location that's on the upper west side, right down the street from Strawberry Fields and the Dakota. I know you said no landmarks, but they're cool places. The Dakota was where Lennon died and Strawberry Fields is a memorial for him in Central Park, it's a really chill place.
>> Anonymous
>>41256
Gray's is amazing. I grew up in the 72nd street location.

OP, don't be a putz. Go eat out as much as you can. We have some of the best restaurants in the world and if you're worried about spending too much cash, pick up a New York magazine or something. They always have good, solid, and cheap restaurants. Just go into any ethnic neighborhood and go nuts.
>> Anonymous
>>41251
>>41256
>>41264

I'll do all of these things! I'd actually talked about living on hotdogs whilst there. May as well be gourmet hotdogs.
>> Anonymous
>>41322
if you want good vendor food, there's "chicken and rice" on 53rd and 6th. there's another vegan one near wall st. that's pretty famous (within nyc)

also pick up a village voice, their food section always has good cheap restaurants ($7-15)

there's www.ohmyrockness.com/ for indie shows. definitely should go to bowery, mercury, or music hall of williamsburg.
>> Anonymous
Oh god why queens, stay out of where you're staying as much as possible
>> Anonymous
you're close to jackson heights (indian), and kinda close to astoria (middle easter/greek). a bit further east is flushing (oriental)
>> Anonymous
>>41350

Fuck Yeah Flushing

you will be overwhelmed by the volume of cheap delicious food
>> Anonymous
If you'll be in NY between the 8th and the 22nd, you should go to the NYC Fringe Festival
>> Anonymous
>>41328
>>41350
>>41389

this is all good advice

>>41390

is it free?
>> Anonymous
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>>41214
> stay the hell out of Queens
> hang out in Williamsburg/Greenpoint
> I am trying to cover up for something
> mainly, my small dick and my lack of culture

Queens is probably the most interesting of the outer boroughs. It's culturally diverse, has great food for cheap, and is characterized by a general lack of douchebaggery.

Williamsburg and Greenpoint are full of hoodie-wearing posers trying to out-urban each other at all times, while desperately hoping that nobody will notice that they moved there from Kansas two months ago.

Seriously every time I have to go there I want to simultaneously puke out of all my orifices and start attacking people at random.

Of course, op might like it, because small cities across America look to Brooklyn as an example of what a shitty... I mean city should be. So it has all the tokens of "cool" by the standards of many a would-be hipster.
>> Anonymous
Williansburg/Greenpoint is fucking horrible and you should be ashamed you like it.

It is the spiritual center of all douchebaggery in north america.