i go to new york

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

for sleepiness, come to my nabe and watch old Ukrainian men play dominoes outdoors.

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

this could be the next username gimmick. trade passwords with someone and see how long you fly under the radar.

airbnb syncs with yr facebook, lots of places i look at are hosted by friends of ilxorz itt.

and also tim sweeney.

werid, like is that even useful

you could ask your shared friend if the airbnb person is a douchebag

i feel like asking would be almost embarrassing. i guess the truth is most people are probably fine to stay with, and this is prob just a way for people who doubt that to convince themselves.

How is getting from Clinton Hill to Manhattan? I am guessing I will be at Lincoln Center most of my stay, but airbnbs in Manhattan are too pricey, plus my wife needs somewhere to work during the day so we're looking for something bigger than a studio. Also, again, street parking would be great. Maybe I look in Queens too...?

Also - I need to do some shopping, clothes mostly. What are your favorite new york places in which to make this kind of acquisition?

prob take you like an hour c train to columbus circle then walk a few blocks

in Queens LIC or Astoria would put you close, otherwise it might be a trek, plus the wildcard of track work rerouting...

if you stayed somewhere closer to the atlantic ave stop you could get there a lil faster

yeah that's what I thought. As I said, I haven't been to the city since 2000, and I've never been to Brooklyn + have people to visit there, but I also pretty much intend on rinsing my access to the festival so won't have much time to walk around and look at stuff. I hope to back soon though. All the people I know seem to live in Fort Greene, I don't know, these places are pretty much abstract to me. But it might be nice to be in a good neighborhood for morning walk around and look at stuff.

What kind of clothes shopping do you want to do? All the brand name and luxury stuff you could want is in midtown (5th, madison, lex, etc.). Soho, the LES, Williamsburg and Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill all have a lot of hipper, boutiquey stuff (still largely expensive). BTW if you're looking to buy shoes, Soula is amazing imo (one I think in Park Slope and one in Carroll Gardens). Century 21 downtown is pretty interesting for an outlet shop and a big tourist destination, although it seems like women have better luck there than men. There are still lots of good thrift and vintage shops dotted around Brooklyn. I don't really buy clothes anymore except an occasional new work shirt in a BR or BB sale, so I'm probably not the best guide.

I would really recommend staying in Fort Greene, it's great, and I think the slightly longer ride to Lincoln Center would be worth it. Staying in a nice neighborhood makes a travel experience like 10x better imo.

I assume Fort Greene has clothing boutiques too, I just don't know them as well.

not really. has like 2

Thanks! I probably can't afford "luxury" but you know, I need to dress like an adult a little more than I used to and probably have to spend a little more accordingly. Shoes are particularly important so I'll look at those places.

And yes, I might just deal with the longer ride and look in Fort Greene. I'm actually okay with long transit rides now that I live in a small town - they're exotic! And temporary

just go to soho they got all the stores there

OK!

I'm excited to go to new york

yeah Soho also has all the chains (Uniqlo, Gap, BR, J Crew, American Apparel, Levis Store etc.)

you may want to try Century 21 in lower manhattan, good place for discounted luxury stuff. some of it is STILL expensive but you can get, like, $200 shirts for $75. I usually only come out of there with one or two things and you need to leave yourself a lotta time to browse but the stuff I get there I'd never be able to afford if I just went to that brand's store in soho or whatever.

I've gotten some pretty sick ties at Century 21 (Brioni and the like) for good prices -- you have to dig a bit for the ones that aren't ugly or weird colors, but you can find steals.

feel like i havent found something i liked at century 21 in so long

it's usually a fuckin mess in there but I went last week and they've changed around the men's floor a lot and dialed back the chaos

yeah i was gonna rep for century 21. their shoe store is good too

oh didn't see that Hurting already mentioned C21

although it seems like women have better luck there than men

maybe in general ... my wife hates the place though ... never finds anything, won't really go there anymore.

I mean I haven't been in a while, but there's a lot of weird sort of eurofashion-looking stuff there that might technically be a good deal but is just way outside my style.

it was somewhere on ilx that someone described it as the place where you go, get into some good deals, and then discover you just walked out with a bunch of shiny shirts.

but it's not bad for some stuff, true

lol otm

I bought my most colorful sweater ever there, and some otherwise awesome-fitting jeans that had what I could only describe as a silvery Hugo Boss "plaque" on the belt line on the back, but as long as you didn't tuck a shirt in you couldn't see it