i go to 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

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

or you could just drape a tarp over two citibikes

not just great, probably the best two hoods to walk around in the city

i had a look at airbnb, there were some entire places for about £100 a night, i think, and a friend is coming with me. we just don't want to crash with my friend who lives there for the entire ten days, bit much.

there are loads of places in the east village, which seems like it'd be a decent base. bit more expensive but not massively so. there aren't loads of airbnb options in williamsburg from what i could see.

xpost there are more places peripheral to wburg alright, quite a few.

xxposts i live pretty near london's disgusting avatar for global youth culture, this is what attracts/repels me from wburg.

it's pricey for airbnb but i'm guessing still way cheaper than any other option.

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?

We should switch log-ins and see who notices first.

as a recent tourist, if east village places are affordable then i would go there. i airbnbed in clinton hill last year and it was great, and i would love to live there, but i'd been to new york several times and had a hunch i would be moving here soon, so i wasn't necessarily looking for The City. if you wantnew york 101 and you like food, bars, etc. then the e village is a good bet.

xp ha!

ya if you want to be in the shit prob stay in the e village if you want to be some place nicer but more peripheral but not that peripheral + w access to all the trains stay in ft greene

I suggest either Yonkers, Scarsdale or connecticutt

e village and w'burg also among the best people-watching in the city, which is all i ever really want to do anyway

mill basin

yeah east village seems to have a lot more airbnb options. bout 120 a night which between two isn't bad.

college point -- it's an awesome area where all the college students hang out that's why it's called that

thanks for this advice btw.

mill basin looks ideal.

there are actually loads of places in wburg if i/we share with people - and they're cheaper. kinda tempted to roll the dice on this and ruin my holiday see what happens.

it might be kinda fun to try and figure out which of the shared places like to party

meet some people you know see what happens

stay in a loft w 8 residents or w/e

williamsburg is a pretty good option -- I'd actually stay there over the east village personally, not a big fan of the east village. OTOH back when I lived there there were often weekend L train problems, which kind of strands you in Brooklyn. Don't know if that has died down.

it will never die because the L train has no express track

If you get stranded just go north and enjoy pierogis and borscht it's nbd

yeah there are a lot of big loft places like that i think. i'm sure the chances are it would be fun. esp if i have a friend's place to crash in as a backup, just in case.

if you stay in the East Village you will probably get a tiny shoebox bedroom. All of the apartments in the East Village are like that. All of them.

hilarious the amount of wburg places on airbnb that say "a retreat for artists" etc - like europeans booking their holiday dreaming they're going to finally make that sculpture they've been seeing every day through the holes in the excel spreadsheet.

xpost that's how the east village pics appear, living room/kitchen with a bed in it.

yeah that is for sure true

If you stay in wburg you will probably stay in a sick modern condo build in 2010

and end up in a sex dungeon

Yeah it seemed like every time I ate at a friend's place in the EV you'd have to get up from the table so the person next you could get over to the bathroom. If they were gutsy enough to use a bathroom that was three feet from the kitchen table everyone was sitting at.

and end up in a sex dungeon

this would be fine except if it's also the kitchen.

its also the kitchen

I'm going to open a loft hostel in East New York and market the area as "The East Berlin of New York"

its hard to have a bad time in ny if you just want to go out to bars and shop for shit and people watch

Garda, if you're here for one of our elections you might get paid to vote

some stores in soho will let you spend euros but prob not pounds sorry

pounds? you can't even buy kilograms.

its hard to have a bad time in ny if you just want to go out to bars and shop for shit and people watch

dunno if all europeans get this but last time i was there i was completely blown away, like there's a buzz you get on the street that is kind of a culture shock, i guess it's the same in other major world cities. perhaps london is too close to dublin and too culturally similar to have had that effect on me.

i used to get that going from brooklyn to manhattan no joke

i worked at home tho

Otm to the extent that spending time here over the last few years has definitely opened my eyes to the appeal of London more

Some parts are like that other parts are just like philadelphia

I've been taking my 18-month-old daughter into Manhattan twice a week from Queens and she kind of bursts into excited yells when we get out of the subway elevator on Lexington. There's definitely an energy to the place, even in Midtown.

ha awesome