i go to new york

you're traveling on labor day weekend which ups the clusterfuck by 10

seriously. good luck.

bolt > greyhound express > mega imo

but i mean tbh they are all more or less interchangeable (though bolt has rewards program!)

The Greyhound Express is good?? I thought all Greyhounds were equally crap. This is good to know.

DC2NY also good if DC is where you're headed.

Greyhound Express is their Bolt/Mega competitor which means cheaper + outlets + wifi + nicer seats w/ more legroom!!

never again

try a train once and see if you feel the extra money was well spent

definitely train next time

train is literally 3x-10x the price depending on what time you buy.

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