New York City

This isn't a topic bragging about the city, but a semi-serious one asking for advice.

I'm not exactly sure what kind I'll recieve here, but since GFF has a rather diverse body of members, I'll entertain this notion of a thread.

The thing is, I'm starting college in a week in New York City. I don't want to seem like a total immigrant, well, I'm not one at all... considering I was born/raised/ and live in New York. Rather close to NYC- on Long Island. I visit the city somewhat often, like 5-6 times a year. When I go I usually go to Times Square, Chinatown, and Soho.

I pretty much love the city, from my experiences being there and everything, and I'm excited about living there. It has so much to offer, and I want to know of all of the things I should see there. Various clubs, events, etc.

I'd also be delighted to see if anyone here has visited or lives in the city [not that I want to meet you guys in a rapish way] and can give me some ideas and 'advice' on living here. By the end of these four years, I want to be a complete pro and know the city's innards like the back of my hand. Anyway, expound, people..

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When I go to the city, I usually use the subway system anyway. But I only know how to take the F train to like Times Square and shit. I still need to master it, heh.

Has anyone heard of 'chicken & rice' ... on 53rd and 6th? That kind of food I love more than anything in the city, and I just hope to find one around Greenwhich Village. Oh yeah, that's where I'm going to live [if I forgot to mention it] so any especially cool things around there?

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Originally Posted by xSummonerYUnax

Hey, I live in NYC. It's great and really convenient By the way, which college are you attending? I'm guessing NYU since you’ll be living at Greenwich.

Yep.

I love haggling. I learned it from my mother, who's an expert in it. Obviously you can't go far with haggling in actual franchised stores, but with street vendors and businesses that are all cash anyway, it's the best thing to haggle. I usually have the amount of money I'm willing to pay out there in my hand, so the vendor can only think of getting that money into his hands as fast as possible, so they usually cave into my request.

me: hey, how much is a gyro?
vendor: $6
me: :looking skeptical: how about $5?
vendor: alright, $5
me: :getting out money: ohhh, i only have $4 [flashing it in his face... somewhat subtly]
vendor: alright, alright, $4 [grabs money]
me: thanks

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Hah, no offense to Boston but I've always hated the city. I've been there a couple of times, mainly to Harvard on Model United Nations trips. But I just grew to have such a distaste for the city. For one the road system is just FUCKED up, and the people there seem to have some deep seated insecurity for not being in Harvard or MIT. It's pretty much a college city, and that's why I didn't want to go to college there and turned down BU and BC. I didn't want to leave class and see other classmen all over the city.

That's why I chose NYU and NYC. Because it's just THE city. Such a diverse body of people, and I wanted to leave my classes and feel what life really has to offer. Rather than living sheltered in a campus or something, I just wanted school to be school and the rest of my life integrated with everything else.

Heh, I must also say I disagree with the city's leniency towards drugs. After the draconian Rockefeller drug laws, the city's really been cracking down. A friend of mine got 7 years for getting busted with a kilo of pot... 7 years. O_O

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Hah, it's funny because my roommates are all from like Ohio and shit. I'm the only one from NY, I don't want to seem like a n00b in my own state.

But yeah, the only way to really find out is by experiencing everything myself.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Ultima

Yay, more GFF members in NYC. I've lived in New York my whole life, in Valley Stream and now in Brooklyn. I'm surprised that 5 to 6 times a year is a lot to you, when I lived in Long Island I went to the city almost every day. I still do living in Brooklyn.

Anyway, us NYC GFFers need to have a meet or two and chill a bit sometime, there's a lot for us to do but we never have meets.

Cool, Brooklyn. Today was my last day working in Brooklyn, at my dad's shop. Flatbush Pharmacy, you may have heard of it? Man, I'm gonna miss the place. Brooklyn, everything is ridiculously cheap. I'm really gonna miss the delis and shit nearby.

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We should all meet at Chicken & Rice, at 53rd and 6th.

That's the one place I know I'll see all my HS friends atleast 99% of the time I go.

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