Wednesday, December 28, 2011

What to Visit on the First Day in New York

All right. Let’s say you’re visiting New York. Let’s say it’s your first time visiting New York. You’ve never been here before and you have a ton of different things to go see and do and all of that. But you have no idea where to start.

Well, here’s what you shouldn’t do. You shouldn’t go to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building or the Chrysler Building. I mean, you should go there, but you shouldn’t try to do it all at the same time. Those places are tourist traps. They exist to shill you out of your money and they take forever. On top of that, all the tourists go there. Not only will you be stuck with lines and hours of waiting, but you’ll be stuck with every family’s idiosyncracies the entire time.

It’s not cool. I know this.

Instead, to start with, I’d probably go with places that are well-traveled that don’t have an admissions line to get in. I’m talking Central Park, Time Square, the Metropolitan, Grand Central Station, places like that.

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