I forgot to mention Penn station. I was only there once and that was in 1967. Some guy in a plaid suit followed me all over the place as I tried to find a taxi stand. He followed from a distance picking up his newspaper as if to read it whenever I looked in his direction. Now that was surreal.
I've eaten probably a thousand Reuben sandwiches including the famous Rose's Jewish restaurant and deli on NW 23rd ave. near Burnside in Portland. The best Reuben by far is a Reuben made by my wife, an Asian lady. I remember eating a hamburger in Times Square that was overpriced and served by a waiter with a filthy hand towel tucked in his waist. The hamburger smelled bad and tasted of tainted meat. Really soured me at first on NY city.
What I loved was the excellent NY thin crust pizza you could buy by the slice on practically every block in Manhattan near Times Square.
I went to this pizza place in hells kitchen while i was there and it was alright. Chicago pizza is worlds better than new york IMO. I tried 3 pizza places in each and it wasnt even close. Though the one in the village was my favorite for new York.
Right? Everywhere you look. I was staying in Jersey City and I took the train from ellis island through jersey city and the breathtaking view of Manhattan as you took it in was amazing. I still get flashes of it randomly and remember my reaction.
So my next birthday trip is Hawaii in may. I am so stinking excited. And the airbnbs are super cheap when you factor in that its all ocean views!!
During my only 2 visits to NYC I experienced the best bagels and the best pizza I've ever had in my entire life.
I've done Ess-a-Bagel (long ass line) and Russ and Daughters for bagels. Planning on hit up old school Zabars this trip. I'm staying in midtown which is kind of a culinary dead zone. We'll see whats up.
Same here, I stayed 3-4 block South of Central Park. My moniker picture is from Strawberry Fields on my first trip in '02.
I've had the Rueben at Katz's, had it a Pennyfeathers, lots of places, North Beach, Chicago.....everywhere I go people say the good stuff is in New York City ...I was a bartender with another bartender working Duck games who was as New York as he could be....we had Rueben's on the menu and he laughed at the idea they were called that! I ordered one in Eugene and they didn't even know sauerkraut was an ingredient!
Yeah, never been in Central park. We're doing a tour where it goes to where Christmas movies were shot in NY and shows different sites.
Langer's Deli, Brent's in Northridge are pretty good here. There's another one that isn't bad. I may hit up 2nd Ave Deli on a reco from one of my friends of the Jewish persuasion.
Central Park was a whole lot more interesting than I thought it might be. I originally just wanted to go to Lennon's Brownstone and to Strawberry Fields but my wife and I decided to let one of the many "rickshaw" guys (it was actually a bicycle powered buggy) take us for the grand tour, and it was very informative...a lot of history there. If you have an hour to spare, trust me, it's well worth it. I learned a lot. From "The Top of the Rock" (atop Rockefeller Plaza) Central Park looks like a small patch of land from afar but when you actually get there you'll see that it is HUGE.
And oh, among other things I learned from my NYC visit is that we're not so different after all. Every Southerner should be required to experience what it's really like up North. The people there were very polite and not at all like the rude and obnoxious stereotypical caricatures I had been led to believe. And conversely, every Northerner should be required to visit the South so that they may discover that we're not all a bunch of bare foot banjo playing rednecks. ...Yeah, we may speak a little differently but other than that, we're simply "opposite sides of the same coin".
Ive been to all coasts and north/South enough to say that the only thing that is true is east is more hectic and west is calmer. Thats the only truth.
