to ShawnOne:
As somebody from Brooklyn would say, "Beauty-ful!"
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I think the Marcel is the perfect place to operate from for your stay. Very close to the subways, close to NYUCD. Yep, you will be able to see the sights from there easily.
How to get to Rockefeller Center: #6 train uptown to 51st Street, change to the Downtown F-train (which at that stretch is really going crosstown), two stops to 47-50th Street/Rockefeller Center.
How to get to Ground Zero: I would walk west to 23rd Street and Broadway (one short block past the #6 train station on Park Ave. and 23rd) and take the Downtown R train to Cortlandt Street, walk over to the WTC site.
How to get to Central Park: Also take the R train at 23rd Street and Broadway, but go Uptown this time to 5th Avenue. It will put you right on Central Park South.
SoHo: Take the #6 Downtown to Bleeker Street and walk to SOuth of HOuston Street and there you are-- SoHo!
Nightclubs: As our intrepid colleagues noted, they are everywhere.
I still remember the 1980s when the subways SUCK... Run-down, filthy stations, graffitti-covered subway cars... These days, the subway is definitely a LOT more civilized!
UBTom's "Noo Yawker" picks of subway-accessible places to visit (includes some "best-kept secrets" out of towners usually don't know about):
Flushing, NY. A vibrant Asian American enclave full of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese restaurants-- Much more variety than Chinatown in Manhattan. Take the #6 train uptown to Grand Central Station, change to the Queensbound #7 train, and take it to the end of the line.
Fifth Avenue shopping district. Take the R train to 5th Avenue, walk south and windowshop.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art! One of the premier art museums in the world. Take the #6 uptown to 86th Street and walk over to 5th Avenue. The Guggenheim Museum is also there. I've never had breakfast at Tiffany's, but I LOVE having lunch at the MMA.
😉 One of the nicest things I've seen at the MMA: Chamber music concert with world-renowned musicians like Pinchas Zuckerman playing one of the Stradivarius violins in the MMA collection.
Austin Street in Forest Hills. Take the #6 train uptown to 51st street and catch a Queensbound E train to 71st/Continental Avenue. It's a shopping district, and behind the LIRR station overpass is a secluded residential neighborhood that looks NOTHING like New York at all-- Forest Hills Gardens, with lots of trees, winding streets, and English half-timber and Bavarian architecture-- Beautiful place for a nice stroll. My neighborhood!
This one is not subway-accessible but I love visiting the place even though the neighborhood is a bit rough: The USS
Intrepid. This warship is an 860-feet-long, 40,000-ton
Essex-class attack aircraft carrier with a 3-acre flight deck. The "Evil-I" is docked at 42nd Street and West Side Highway and has been converted into a floating museum. Go Navy!
Good luck with your trip to New York-- With all the guys on SDN over here in this city like Pi_Guy, Beagle, Pasha, Broc et. al., you are in good hands!
(insert Frank Sinatra song here)
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Random thought: Anyone noticed that Bugs Bunny has a Brooklyn accent?
