New York City General Tips by GUYON

Favorite Thing: see the George Washington Bridge.
Long by 600 feet, it is built in 1931 to link NY to the New Jersey.

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Favorite Thing: buy a reduced price ticket (25 to 50 pct) for one musical of the current evening at TKTS (Times Square - Broadway & 47th St). Ordinarly, very crowed. Open from 3PM to 8PM - Monday to Saturday. Sunday : noon to 8PM.

Fondest Memory: There was an other TKTS in the World Trade Center.

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Favorite Thing: breathe the air of Central Park.
It is a green island in the middle of the city and the border between Midtown and Harlem. The purposes to be there can be numerous : walk, jogging (remember Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man), ride a bicycle, do roller blades, eat quietly a hot Bagel sit on a bank, take a breackfast in one of the restaurants, visit the zoo, listen music, and a lot of other things.
In spite of the human intervention in the setting up of the Park, the nature is everywhere and it is a greatful site.

Fondest Memory: MORE ON THE TRAVELOGUE.

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Favorite Thing: climb to the top of the Empire State Building at the corner of 5th Av & 34th St. (Station : 33th St)
Open from 9:30AM to Midnight. The lift goes to the 80° floor, an other lift brings you to the 86th and a third one is necessary to reach the 102°. An other way is to climb on the frontage as King Kong.
The sight seeing is marvellous especially the Sunday in Spring ans Summer (less fog).
15.000 people work here but when it was built, in 1929, there were difficult to find tenants and the first nick name of the tower was The Empty State Building.
The photo was made during a visit in 1971. At this date the Empire was the highest building in the world ; the twin towers of the World Trade Center were under construction.

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Favorite Thing: attend a base ball match at the Shea stadium.
If you are a foreigner (like me) see a specialized website to know the rules.
Shea Stadium is near Flushing Meddow and La Guardia Airport. It need 40 mn of direct subway to go there from Manhattan downtown.
No reservation is necessary. I remember to be well sit for 12.75$. The NY team (it is not the only one) is the Mets and on the photograph, made 30 July 2000, they met the Cardinals of St Louis. The duration of the game was 2:30 hours (including the lunch : see the cultural tip)


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Favorite Thing: Spend some hours at Times Square in the Middle of Manhattan.
The buildings are illuminated by neons and huge screens. For this reason, it is better to go there on the evening.

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Favorite Thing: go to the Madison Square, 5th Av from 23rd to 26th St (station : 23rd St). It is a pleasant stop when you walk on the 5th Av. Nearby there is the first skyscraper of NY : The Flatiron Building at the corner of Broadway & 5th Av. (see the article dedicated)


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Favorite Thing: The phone is subject to a surcharge in the hotel. Buy a phone card can be not a cheap solution. And we had never a sufficient number of quarters to call France.
So we used the Carte France Telecom.
We dial a number for USA (there are several), then a code, then our private phone number in France and finally, the number we want to call.
So the cost of the call is on our personal phone bill in France and we do not need to pay any thing in USA.
But it is not the good way to call in USA because the cost of the call would be the same if we phone from Paris.

Fondest Memory: The picture wazs taken in the Rockefeller Center, just in front of the Radio City Hall.

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Favorite Thing: Beautiful flowers close to the highest buildings of NY.


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Favorite Thing: In Summer, we can have a drink there.
In Winter, there is a skating rink.


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