I was elated to know that I would be travelling to New York City. Immediately my friend Sam (who lives there) prepared a tourist guide. I would visit New York as someone of there!!
She told me the most cool thing is to know it as a Newyorker. The image that I had of the New York City, was the image that I had seen in the movies, for what as soon as I came to the city, I discovered that there are many interesting places for knowing, there are a quantity of places famous: The Central Park, the skating rink of the Rockefeller Center, The silhouette of the Empire State Building, the Italian Neighborhood or Little Italy or Chinatown. But there is a New York most excitingly that must be known for whom they go for the first time (or anytimes!) By the way of colors, flavors and smells that for the newyorkers it is the 'essence' of the city.
According to my friend the ideal way of crossing all the places of interest that must to know (the neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and Soho, the Empire State Building, the Rockefeller Center, Harlem, The Statue of the Liberty, etc) is buying a pass of 2 days (The second day is automatic free, when a pass is bought for one day, which takes a price of 40 dollars as adult and 25 for every 12-year-old minor child) of the buses of tourism of two floors of the Gray Line Or New York Apple Tours, which allows you to stoop and to be raised, in 65 ' stops designated ', and this way to know the famous places of the Island of Manhattan. And it was what we did!
The otherway to visit New York--very in the style of the newyorkers - is using the system of buses (but it is a system more slowly), or to go by subway (faster). Both services cost 1.50 dollars every route, but it is possible to buy a Metro Card of 24 hours with unlimited access.
In the subway I could verify the persons' quantity, mixings of races and prominent figures who exist in NY . The subway is a very interesting option, because it´s a sociological lesson, there is the opportunity to know many ethnic groups that integrate the city. The coaches are not clean or beautiful, as those of Caracas, London or Paris, but they take to you from an end to other one of the island, of a save form.
Walking is a good option to the moment to know New York, and sometimes using the bus or the subway. This way the different sites can be known. This one was the best way of knowing particular and curious places. One of the special place to walk is Greenwich Village, the Bohemian zone of ' 60 and ' 70 still very full of charme, with coffe houses, places where you can hear jazz and nice shops.
One evening we crossed the street Houston and then we crossed to the nearby neighborhood of Soho. It`s a fashionable neighborhood, there are shops and boutiques so chic. (Prada, louis Vitton, Calvin Klein, Shoes, Banana Republic, etc) Like other shops small and with original things. In Soho there are several galleries of art and a series of hotels like The Soho Grand and Mercer. And there are fashionable restaurants like Mercer Kitchen, Zóe, Balthazar, etc.
In Chinatown is a different world (do it after the 4 of the evening) I liked much, there there were shops that were selling imitations of famous marks to cheaper prices. They sells copies of famous purses (they say that the quality has gone down and that the more similar to the original ones are so expensive) I don´t know because I didn?t buy anything.
And then to two steps, we went away to the street Mulberry , located in the heart of the Italian Neighborhood and we have dinner in one of these restaurants. My friend told me In summer they places tables outdoors and the environment is very happy. In Mulberry st. there are cheap and excellent places, as the IInd Cortile in 125 Mulberry, the IInd Fornaio, Joe's Paesano, Angelo`s, etc.
Without mattering in that street of New York you are walking, maybe, in the expensive Fixth Avenue, close to San Patricio's Cathedral, or if you are in the zone of 'Time Square ' and the theatres Broadway (undoubtedly, now the heart of the city!!) You will be able to experience a custom very newyorker: to eat in the ambulant carts! It`s so cool!!
There are several carts, there is one that sells breakfasts, a coffee and a bagel for 1 dollar, or to have lunch in the cart of the hot dogs each one cost, depending, 1.25 or 1.50 dollars, or to eat in the cart that sells meat in rod of beast or of chicken that 2 dollars cost . Also there are carts that preparing tacos or 'falafels' Arabs. For 2 or 3 dollars.
And this way they were experiencing something very proper of New York.. If you prefer eating seated and comfortably, you can go to the sites that are called Diners, or coffe shops. They all offer a very complete menu, with special daily saucers. Also there are excellent places of snack food, (as the sites where they sell bagel with different landfills... Mmmm yami yami!)
I can see that in every block there is a Chinese restaurant and a pizzeria, which always deliveries do to domicile. Delicious restaurants to eat, Gabriela's in Amsterdam avenue, Thai Son (restaurant Vietnamese China) the ribs and the chicken to the BBQ of Dallas BBQ, in the street 43, closely together of Broadway, in Time Square.
Places that they must visit obligatorily: The Metropolitan Museum (that almost always the entry is free) the price for ticket this one suggested between(among) 6 and 7 dollars, but indeed you can pay what you want for entering (1 dollar, 2 dollars, which you want!!) and nobody will say anything to you. The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim (the architecture is brilliant!) to rise to the observatory of the Empire States. You must visits Bloomingdale's Saks and Macy`s. And, at least, to enter to the Jeweler's shop Tiffany and to cross its floors. To walk along the Central Park. To go very elegant when to cross each of the wonderful boutiques of Madison Avenue, of the street 59 to 79...
You can take the Tea to the Japanese way in Toraya (as we did). An event very newyorker, to visit the ' markets of fleas ' (where they sell clothes and secondhand articles) on Saturdays and Sundays, in the Sixth Avenue and the zone of the street 26 ... (there are everything which you want to buy and often cheaper, In addition you can see to someone famous.. not like me, I didn`t see anyone!)
If you want to know the NY's sight from the sea, you can take the tour of the Circle Line, are so cool. There are several tour, the short one of one hour and a half, and the length that gives the entire return to Manhattan of 3 hours.
Also you can cross the city for air, with the excursions for helicopter. New York is a mixing of sensations, cultures. Despite everything what is heard is not a dangerous city, there is a lot of safety, neither it is expensive, there are things that they can find to reasonable prices. With the exception of the hotels that if they are expensive, it?s better to come to New York with a package from ?all included?. The transport is cheap and in some attractions the ticket is free some days of the week. I was lucky to remain in house of a friend, and in addition I had her guide to visit the city!! Thanks Sam!

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