Rent an apartment from Craigslist & get CityPass
by davequ
I think you can increase the quality of your NYC experience, good deals can be had and you can save money by:
- renting an apartment vs a hotel room;
- buying a CityPass
NYC / Manhattan hotels are mostly small and really expensive. Large nice ones (e.g. Grand Hyatt) can be $300-500/night in Manhattan.
Craigslist has apartments in the best neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, East Village, etc) for much less.
That is what I did & it worked out great.
I rented an excellent apartment in an upscale Greenwich Village brownstone with my own private terrace and full amenities for $150-175 a night.
Most of the apartment listings use PayPal for deposit & payment making it totally painless. I will never stay in a hotel again in NYC unless I want to and have bucks to burn.
Tip: Just make sure you screen the owner (if they are legit, they will screen YOU carefully), and don't pay full amount in cash upfront.
Most good Craigslist NYC apartment deals use PayPal or some other method to prevent both of you from getting ripped off.CityPass is available for about $65 and gets you into 6 NYC tourist sites, harbor cruises etc. without waiting in line.
If you know you're going to hit any three of these (imo a "no-brainer")
- Empire State Building Observatory (especially this one)
- Guggenheim Museum
- The Museum of Modern Art
- American Museum of Natural History & Rose Center
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters
- Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises
then CityPass is definitely worth it.
If only one or two, imo pay as you go and skip the pass. Aside from all the great food, art, music, nightlife & streetscenes, strolling the neighborhoods and just sitting & relaxing quietly on the deck of a Greenwich Village apartment overlooking the garden with an old friend,
resting up for the next foray into the city.
Hitting Paris and NYC back-2-back in fall of 2005 was for me a really hedonistic & amusing comparison of cultures & style, and I would recommend it to anyone.
%f%c Don't try to see everything...you can't%f
by Ulla58214
My favorite thing about New York is just the pulse of the city. There is always something going on and if you get bored there you might as well be dead. But the thing I miss more than anything is the food. Anything and everything from all over just about anytime of the day or night Some of my fondest memories of New York are going down to the beach during the summers. We always went to the beach because summer in the city is dreadful. We usually went to Long Island but I actually liked going down to Coney and Brighton Beach the best. Some other things are tea at the plaza, springtime in New York (There is a crispness in the air, everything seems more vibrant coming out of winter and it doesn't hurt that my birthday is around that time)
Walk... So many people in the...
by LeDragon
Walk... So many people in the streets walking to their work, to go shopping, to go to show...
They walk a lot, so they can enjoy the great architecture of this city. And meet all those people who sell food or whatever along the street !
Herebye : view of downtown Manhattan, from the Brooklyn bridge. Was a rainy day, but some people were walking on the bridge !
Helicopter Flights
by Mikebb
Whilst on our Circle Line Ferry Cruise as we passed the Financial District in Lower Manhattan we saw helicopters continually landing and taking off from the heliport at the edge of the river. It was interesting to watch the skill of the pilot.
For those wishing to take a flight contact Liberty Helicopter Tours, on 1 800 542 9933 or web site www.libertyhelicopters.com Pier 6 East River or their other locations.
Greenwich village
by kenadams
Once the home of artists and free spirits, the Village is now one of the trendiest places in the city, populated in large part by students of NYU and young Wall Street brokers.
Although boundaries are always hard to set, and they seem to expand when real estate prices in a neighborhood grow, I think the common understanding is that the Village is the area north of Houston Street, south of 14th and west of Broadway.
The notorious TV show "Firends" was a tribute to Village life: keep in mind that Monica and Rachel were able to pay rent because their apartment was on rent control: otherwise, hardly would people with those jobs be able to afford the rent in such a beautiful flat in Greenwich Village!
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