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As a night owl who lives in nyc I gotta disagree that the whole city is poppin after midnight. The outer boroughs are kinda dead for the most part... Upper Manhattan too (yeah, you can get fast food takeout but there are very few 24 hour diners/sit-down restaurants or other businesses up here above 96th st). There are definitely neighborhoods that come alive at night but they're all in midtown and downtown Manhattan.
And yeah, I don't think the fact that bars are open til 4 is particularly meaningful 'cause they usually stop serving food at an earlier hour.
They're not all in midtown or downtown. Astoria is ripe with life all night long. Roosevelt Ave. as well, which is really not my type of thing, but it's there. I'm sure there's other places as well.
flatbush brooklyn is also pretty live 24 hours. it really depends what part of the city you're at. some neighborhoods have that hustle and bustle, even outside of manhattan.
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I was having problems with my Mac late at night. I decided to hop on the train and go to the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue (which is open 24 hours). As it was 4:00 in the morning I thought I could just waltz up to the Genius Bar and get some help. Wrong. The place was packed and I had to wait nearly 45 minutes to see someone. I thought the 24 hour Apple Store was a marketing gimmick. It's not, they do tremendous business at all hours.
This would also be a good place the lament the passing of one of my favorite restaurants, Florent in the Meatpacking District. It was a 24 hour French bistro designed as a classic American diner. They food was really great; the perfect place to get steak frits after a night on the town. It was a New York institution and will be deeply missed by countless night owls. RIP.
You can still get a glimpse of "old New York" in a restaurant 4:00 in the morning: that oddly egalitarian collection of hookers, club kids, artists, drag queens and investment bankers, all with blood-shot eyes, hungry and huddled around one last whisky and a bite to eat. The kind of people Lou Reed writes songs about.
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