Scots Taffer on 10/5/2009 at 06:09
:thumb:
Awesome, Faf.
I'm not doing the road trip anymore. Not sure what the go will be for the entirety of the Thur-Mon yet as my Mother-in-law and Sister-in-law arrive for that exact same period and I'll need to do some family catch-up stuff. Still, I'm figuring Fri-Sun festivities to feature largely.
Monday is my wedding anniversary so I imagine I'll be indisposed anyway. :D
Stitch on 18/5/2009 at 01:25
Airfare purchased, arriving early Thursday evening and taking off Sunday afternoon.
Still sorting out hotel info, the fact that I know fuck all about New York isn't helping.
Scots Taffer on 18/5/2009 at 01:44
Actually, I don't know why you bothered, it's not like we do anything other than expensively bar hop, make public nuisances of ourselves and offend everyone with our overt wang humour. I honestly don't know if I get anything out of it at all.
Stitch on 18/5/2009 at 02:50
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
it's not like we do anything other than expensively bar hop, make public nuisances of ourselves and offend everyone with our overt wang humour.
a formula that can be applied to any new location with stunning success :cool:
Scots Taffer on 27/5/2009 at 02:47
ohshi
(still in adelaide, haven't packed, haven't thought about this yet)
fett on 27/5/2009 at 03:07
God I want to go so bad. Next year, when I have money...:(
Fafhrd on 27/5/2009 at 03:09
Do we even have a roll call for this? Or is it just going to be Scots and Stitch making out while I take pictures and RBJ drives?
Rug Burn Junky on 27/5/2009 at 17:59
Don't forget (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1849692#post1849692) Sypha! (No, seriously Sypha, get here).
Anyone else who's up for coming, the more the merrier. In the meantime, PM me with contact info - Cell #, where you're staying, and when you arrive/leave.
We've got three nights to fill with drinking, so the areas I'm strongly leaning towards are Williamsburg in Brooklyn for Friday night, and the Lower East Side/East Village for Saturday night. Both areas are great for barhopping, and have tons of different options, and short of the NYC velvet rope attitude elsewhere in the city. We're going for hipster dive bars and top of the line pussy all the way. I'm leaving aside the Meatpacking District (so that we don't have another Ruby Skye disaster), and leaving Thursday open, since that'll be determined by when/where/how we all meet up.
At some point I'd love to get us in to (
http://nymag.com/listings/bar/pdt/) PDT, (
http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/tailor/) Tailor, (
http://nymag.com/listings/bar/little_branch/) Little Branch or (
http://nymag.com/listings/bar/death-and-co01/) Death & Co, though they're all tough to get in to at prime hours (except Tailor, where I'm somewhat of a regular). All great speakeasy cocktail bars, with casual atmospheres but amazing drinks. Best for a drink or two early in the evening, not a full blown night.
For daytime touristy activities, I'm going to leave all of those decisions up to you guys. Roughly speaking, we can break it down into 4 or 5 areas:
Downtown: Wall Street, Battery Park, Ground zero, South Street Seaport, Statue of Liberty (keeping in mind that if you do want to go to the statue, you have to get to Battery Park obscenely early, or wait on an hour+ long line to catch the ferry).
The Brooklyn Bridge connects to that area as well, and a walk over there to the promenade gives you the best views and the best pizza in the city. We're Doin' It!
Greenwich Village/Soho/Chelsea/East Village/L.E.S.: Not much specific to see, but all cool areas with lots of shops, bars and restaurants. Oh, and tattoo parlors, so we can all get matching TTLG ink.
Central Park/Uptown: Park's got a ton of sights, from the Alice in Wonderland statue to Strawberry Fields. There are museums at all four corners (Natural history, MoMA and the Met - my GF is a PhD candidate in Art History, so we've got the best museum tourguide you've ever met at our disposal), and usually music going on (TV on the Radio is there Friday night, but that's "Sold Out"). From there we can walk down Fifth Avenue to Rockefeller center pretty easily on the east side, or Lincoln Center on the west.
Times Square/Broadway/Midtown: It's crowded, the food in the area is overpriced, the stores are all crass commercialism run amok and since Disney took over, you can't find decent crack or transsexual hookers any longer, but it is pretty iconic, so it's on the table. From Times Square, it's not too bad of a walk to Grand Central and the Empire State Building - same caveat goes for the ESB, that you have to get there early or deal with a long line. Similar views are available from the Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center, with no waiting, though I could understand the desire to go with the ESB on that one.
I haven't made any decisions on dinners, figuring that it depends on where we are at any given point.
Since I'm out of work at the moment, I'm available 24/7, other than the early morning hangover recovery periods.
D'Juhn Keep on 27/5/2009 at 22:13
On a beer weekend to Poland I saw Auschwitz during an early morning hangover recovery period.
But yeah, New York is probably more harrowing
Scots Taffer on 28/5/2009 at 04:07
I'd love to see his pasty hypochondriac
ass self drunk with us merry gentlemen.
Someone make this happen.
Also, I'd devote more time to talking about anything here but I'm still coming off a 4 day bender and am trying to wrap up everything at work before I leave and it's a fucking nightmare.
I'll pm the relevant people.
I'm available for drinking through the first two weeks of June. :cool:
