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There is a lot of great stuff to see in the outer boroughs.
If you like to eat there are many great, inexpensive restaurants underneath the 7 train in Queens on Roosevelt Avenue.
Prospect Park in Brooklyn is very beautiful. The Brooklyn Museum is there as well and the Transit Museum is not far away.
Yes, there is a lot to see in the outer boroughs, and Prospect Park (designed by the designers of Central Park) is one of the most beautiful parks in the world. The Brooklyn Museum is one of the foremost museums in the world and the Transit Museum is a well known specialty museum... Under the elevated trains on Roosevelt Avenue (around Jackson Heights) is not so interesting (and it's dark, and dirty, and noisy) but a few blocks away can be found the remnants of a very lovely historic area including one of the very first cooperative apartment houses in NYC. Just walk north along 82cnd St. until you come to 34th Ave.
Take my advice though -- as a born and bred New York City boy who spent over sixty years living on the upper east side of Manhattan until moving to Colorado in 2001 -- DON'T GO TO ANY OF THOSE PLACES UNLESS YOU ARE PART OF A LARGE GROUP!
My friend, Louis, was mugged at knifepoint in Queens one day and, after giving the mugger everything of value except his wedding ring, asked if he could please keep it since his wife had died several years before and it held great sentimental value for him. "Senor," said the mugger, pressing the knifeblade against lou's finger,
"the ring or the finger!."
Why not one of the New England states? Vermont is very nice.
Yes, there is a lot to see in the outer boroughs, and Prospect Park (designed by the designers of Central Park) is one of the most beautiful parks in the world. The Brooklyn Museum is one of the foremost museums in the world and the Transit Museum is a well known specialty museum... Under the elevated trains on Roosevelt Avenue (around Jackson Heights) is not so interesting (and it's dark, and dirty, and noisy) but a few blocks away can be found the remnants of a very lovely historic area including one of the very first cooperative apartment houses in NYC. Just walk north along 82cnd St. until you come to 34th Ave.
Take my advice though -- as a born and bred New York City boy who spent over sixty years living on the upper east side of Manhattan until moving to Colorado in 2001 -- DON'T GO TO ANY OF THOSE PLACES UNLESS YOU ARE PART OF A LARGE GROUP!
My friend, Louis, was mugged at knifepoint in Queens one day and, after giving the mugger everything of value except his wedding ring, asked if he could please keep it since his wife had died several years before and it held great sentimental value for him. "Senor," said the mugger, pressing the knifeblade against lou's finger,
"the ring or the finger!."
Why not one of the New England states? Vermont is very nice.
There are many places in the other boroughs where you can venture safely alone. Yes, even by the El of the 7 train in Queens, where there are some really wonderful restaurants featuring Colombian and Asian cuisines. And it's quite inexpensive, too. You can get held up and assaulted ANYWHERE. Even in Colorado.
You can get held up and assaulted ANYWHERE. Even in Colorado.
Yes you can. It could even happen in the Vatican I suppose... But it's far more likely to occur in New York City.
Please give the poor tourists a break. Tell them what dangers await. The subways; racially explosive neighborhoods where they do not belong; Run-down areas which harbor gangs and the drug trade. PLACES WHERE THEY SHOULD NOT GO ALONE (OR AT ALL)!
Yes you can. It could even happen in the Vatican I suppose... But it's far more likely to occur in New York City.
Please give the poor tourists a break. Tell them what dangers await. The subways; racially explosive neighborhoods where they do not belong; Run-down areas which harbor gangs and the drug trade. PLACES WHERE THEY SHOULD NOT GO ALONE (OR AT ALL)!
I don't know the last time you were in NYC, but I think you're being overly alarmist. We'll just have to disagree. I still live here and I would have no misgivings, as a female, going to most of these areas.
Did he say "racially explosive neighborhoods where they do not belong"??? Run down areas that harbor gangs and drugs? Hmm...are we talking about L.A.? I think this poster is being extremely alarmist and going on sterotypes of NYC, and I suspect this poster has never BEEN to NYC (at least not in the last 30 years). Ercillor please stop getting your "information" about NYC from West Side Story , and we promise to stop getting our information about Colorado from COPS: Live from Boulder. Deal?
Yes you can. It could even happen in the Vatican I suppose... But it's far more likely to occur in New York City.
Please give the poor tourists a break. Tell them what dangers await. The subways; racially explosive neighborhoods where they do not belong; Run-down areas which harbor gangs and the drug trade. PLACES WHERE THEY SHOULD NOT GO ALONE (OR AT ALL)!
What is this 1977. Granted all thos things exist to a degree your making it sound like were in the 70s.
.......Yes you can. It could even happen in the Vatican I suppose... But it's far more likely to occur in New York City.!
Wrong! The statistics show that it is less likely to happen in NY than in any major city in the US and probably the Vatican too.The one time in my life that I actually got mugged was in Rome right outside the entrance to the Vatican.
P.S. No offense but I don't believe your " Senor,your money or your finger story" story either .
It fascinates me to read about people who categorize one neighborhood or another as "dangerous," then use that as an excuse not to go there. Stop and think about it: something horrible could just as easily happen to you on Park Avenue in the 70s. But, of course, this is an extremely wealthy part of town and so you don't have to avoid it.
If you don't feel safe, then wherever you are is dangerous. There are people who won't set foot anywhere in New York City, because they view the entire city that way.
If you don't feel safe, then wherever you are is dangerous. There are people who won't set foot anywhere in New York City, because they view the entire city that way.
I guess you must be acquainted with some Long Islanders. Many are too terrified to go into the greatest city in the world right on their doorstep.
Wasn't that an old urban legend that NY'ers used to tell tourists back in the day when scaring tourists was considered good fun?
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