i go to new york

earliest fap notice ever but in november i go to new york. think mid-november though still confirming dates. would be fun to meet some of you all. might use this thread to pick brains about all the bars i need to go to as the time nears... and other questions.

from the NYFF thread but bears repeating:

OK I'm trying to book for Views weekend and maybe I will try to see some other stuff then too. Anybody know of a reasonable hotel within easyish distance of your Lincoln Center? Is there a particular part of Brookyln that I could look at for getting in to festival stuff easier? (I've never been to Brooklyn and it's been 14 years since I was in New York)

maybe airbnb?

Yes, probably.

Somewhere with street (or off-street) parking would be, I guess, desirable. I decided not to mess with the train this time.

messing with a car is probably a worse decision!!

Angeleno habits die hard.

if yer gonna drive into the city and stay somewhere (brooklyn?) with street parking, that's one thing. but if you're planning to drive to screenings/drive around manhattan etc, you're really better off taking the subway.

would be fun to meet some of you all. might use this thread to pick brains about all the bars i need to go to as the time nears... and other questions.

cool. I'd be up for a drink.

and yeah, what ian and max said. you can't really stay in Brooklyn but drive into Manhattan and park around Lincoln Center. or at least I wouldn't recommend it. if you want to avoid the subway the best bet would be to find some Manhattan hotel in walking distance of Lincoln Center I think.

i will drink with ronan

how are you finding nyc in general caek
(vague possibly untrue recollection that you are one of those english ilx posters not from london who doesnt care for london)

☰☰☭☰☰

No I wasn't thinking I would drive IN the city. I just want to drive down from here and have somewhere to leave my car for 5 days.

When I said train I meant the Amtrak Vermonter or whatever it is called, not the subway

Do you guys really call the subway "the train"?

yes bcz it is the only train we get on unless we are unlucky enough to have family in Jersey or New England.

C'mon you can do better than that

yeah i don't love love london, and on visits to new york i've always found it even more of ordeal for kind of the same reason: a worse london. but i find nyc a lot better when i have my own apartment to go to though. beats munich that's for sure.

the train is a cool understated thing to call the subway

'take the a subway' as billy strayhorn said

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY

what i can't fathom is since l***** is sweet as pie (as always), shouldn't she be caek?
and shouldn't the astronomer be in orbit?
other than that nice having a pint the other week/month.

where do i buy a used bike that isn't craigslist? are there stores/coops/whatevers that do this?

How does it beat Munich, caek?

That depends on how badly you want to buy a used bike that you know for sure isn't a stolen used bike.

I used to be more involved with Recycle-A-Bicycle, they're pretty cool and what their youth work is great. They have an East Village location on Ave C.

has anyone fucked w citi bike

i did it for a week. was not bad, i kind of meant to sign up for the full year but ive been lazy and out of town

seems like itd be cool for one way trips and not having to worry abt where to put a bike

what happens when you pull up to a station but all the spots are full

does it tell u where the closest other citiracks are

yeah, theres a map on all of them, theyre mostly just like 2 blocks away, plus if you have the app you can look ahead of time

it was really useful basically to take from a block away from my apt to a better train. could see it being good for tooling around brooklyn too tho there arent any stations south of atlantic yet

but i was thinking it would be really perfect for going from my apt to like williamsburg eg

its also a heavy bike. i rode it from my office in soho all the way back to ft greene one day, the bridge wasnt too bad but ft greene is on a dang hill and the last few blocks were too much

what happens when you pull up to a station but all the spots are full

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throw it in the river iirc

damn

a return to the old gritty new york

caek i can't vouch for the quality of their refurbs but Bike Store - 437 E 6th St, New York, NY 10009

you could make an afternoon of bike shopping, record shopping at A1, and banh mi in one go

caek i can't vouch for the quality of their refurbs but Bike Store - 437 E 6th St, New York, NY 10009

you could make an afternoon of bike shopping, record shopping at A1, and banh mi in one go

that sounds p dope

I don't go to A1 enough. I always forget about that place.

you could make an afternoon of bike shopping, record shopping at A1, and banh mi in one go

sold. thanks for the tips sanskrit and in orbit.

i don't mind if it's actually stolen, as long as i don't know it's stolen.

no citibike north of 59th st :-(

what do you all think about where to stay for a 10-day holiday? i'm thinking like brooklyn or whatever and will prob stay with a friend there for some days and then airbnb it, so i could see some diff parts of the city. i don't want to just go to hipsterville for the sake of it but i suppose i'm likely to want to spend time in that sort of place, for good beer/restaurants/clubs/record stores, so maybe brooklyn is best.

beyond those limited interests i am sure there is tons of shit i want to see but don't really know where to start, last time i came was 2006 and i didn't really have a sense of my interests besides techno...

part of me just tends to consider seeing a city as going out a lot v late.

really conscious of me not having a clue about size/centres etc in my above post.

i mean i kinda hate to say it but for all those things + easy access to more of those things, williamsburg probably is your best bet? no clue what an airbnb room will run you

u shd stay in manhattan tho

For pleasanter street experiences tbh I wld say try to stay in Fort Greene, you can cab it to Wburg from there easily/cheaply and it's nicer walking around, but ymmv.

ft greene is the most beautiful and mellow, e village approximates some sort of lost ny gritty artiness, w village is realistically representative of new yorks current gilded age, williamsburg is a disgusting avatar for global youth culture: these are my recomendations

walking around in ft greene (my hood!) or c hill is great but the restaurants/bars aren't as good tho maybe cheaper