Went to NYC a couple weekends ago

[J Shuttlesworth]

What a fun city :applause: So much culture and energy there. Tempo is so different than Cali. The jazz scene is amazing as hell. So many spots to eat/drink and do things, it's insane. Hotel was in Manhattan/Hell's Kitchen. Who from ISH lives in NYC? I envy you

[Goro]

NYC is cool, but who cares about jazz?

[fiddy]

NYC is cool, but who cares about jazz?
People who actually like good music? :confusedshrug:

[Goro]

People who actually like good music? :confusedshrug:

Please post this good jazz you speak of.

[fiddy]

Please post this good jazz you speak of.
I am more a smooth jazz head, have no clue what OP has listened to in NY

[Goro]

I am more a smooth jazz head, have no clue what OP has listened to in NY

Ok, so boring music that is best served as a quiet background music.

[KevinNYC]

What a fun city :applause: So much culture and energy there. Tempo is so different than Cali. The jazz scene is amazing as hell. So many spots to eat/drink and do things, it's insane. Hotel was in Manhattan/Hell's Kitchen. Who from ISH lives in NYC? I envy you
There's an LA punk song called New York's ok if you like saxophones

[masonanddixon]

NYC is cool, but who cares about jazz?

People who enjoy real music.

[J Shuttlesworth]

NYC is cool, but who cares about jazz?
Most of the people in NYC.

I'm as actually a jazz guitarist and had the privilege of taking a lesson with my favorite guitarist while I was there..... One of the main reasons I went

[Lebron23]

Any pictures from your New York Trip??

[J Shuttlesworth]

Any pictures from your New York Trip??
Yup. I'll post em up tomorrow

[Lebron23]

Yup. I'll post em up tomorrow

:cheers:

I love to visit New York someday.

[nathanjizzle]

Jazz is for boring people doe nah?

[J Shuttlesworth]

Was staying pretty close to Times Square
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Walked almost all of Central Park:
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Biggest highlight of the trip for me was having the opportunity to take a guitar lesson with my favorite guitarist, and watching his live performance after

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This is a legendary jazz club. I've listened to a ton of records that were recorded here, particularly a lot of Charlie Parker and Art Blakey
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[J Shuttlesworth]

Shake Shack :bowdown: Gotta say this was the bomb. Double Smoke shack w/ fries and chocolate milkshake. Everything was good, except for the price
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Some pics from the empire state building. It was cloudy, so the view wasn't as clear as it could have been :o
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Cruise to the Statue of Liberty:
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Cousin took this really nice shot of the new WTC
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[KyrieTheFuture]

Who's your favorite guitarist? And how did you get a lesson?

[InfiniteBaskets]

OP I live in NYC right now. It is a very fun city to live in, if only for the population density.

Someone already mentioned the cons of a crowded city (stuffed in subways, crowded sidewalks, trash on streets, homeless loiters). But the pros are more visible here than any other super dense US city I've been to, including SF which is probably as close in density as you can get.

NYC elite talent or service consumption (NBA games on MSG, Broadway Musicals, famous clubs/rooftop bars/restuarants) will be more overpriced than what it's worth. But for extremely wealthy folks, that's not a problem.

For the extremely large middle class here in NYC, the draw is the relatively cheap consumption of very good to great talent. Often times the singers in off Broadway or off-off Broadway plays are extremely close or better than the ones that have been comfortably famous for a while. Hungry artists often produce the best raw performances and you just aren't exposed to as much variety and quantity as in a city like Minneapolis or Austin.

You can also get extremely good burgers / pizza / any other type of street food here that you won't find anywhere else. It sounds like you've already done the typical tourist sightseeing trips, glad you enjoyed your time here. :cheers:

[BigNBAfan]

eh portland>

[Marv_Albert]

I went there, never again. WAYYYYYYY too overpriced.

[Draz]

I live in Queens NY. About 30 minutes away from the city with the train.

I'm not a huge fan of the city. I haven't even seen the new WTC building yet.

[Thorpesaurous]

I'm in CT about an hour and twenty minutes out. It looks like you stuffed one hell of a trip in. You did all the cool touristy stuff and still were able to take in some of the smaller personal stuff that makes the city incredible. Whatever your into, weather it's Jazz, or whatever hobby, or type of food, or anything, there's alost always some high end subculture that you may not even know exists just waiting there.

[Draz]

It's cool to be a tourist. But, to live here it's not THAT cool. At all. All the fcking hobos. The streets are dirty. The rats. The homeless on every St. The expensive life style and everything here sucks tbh. Even the people lol. What keeps NY together is the pride. The sport teams. That's pretty much it. I'm a proud new yorker don't get me wrong. But it's as bad as good.

[imdaman99]

Draz, you haven't even seen the city and you're gonna say it sucks? :facepalm

I have grown up here, also in Queens but literally 15 mins from the city and I love it. Couldn't imagine myself living anywhere else, have turned down job opportunities in other big cities. I guess the familiarity is why I always stayed, but I love NYC.

[JohnnySic]

NYC is awesome; there's no other place like it.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

What a fun city :applause: So much culture and energy there. Tempo is so different than Cali. The jazz scene is amazing as hell. So many spots to eat/drink and do things, it's insane. Hotel was in Manhattan/Hell's Kitchen. Who from ISH lives in NYC? I envy you

Cali has it's perks too!

NYC has its up and downs. Manhattan is a rough town if you can't handle it.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

You can find a lot of hidden gems in term of food in NYC especially Manhattan. Ethnic food in Queens is great too. Long Island has a lot of random small isolated restaurants that are surprisingly really high quality. Just takes some research and looking to find them in the suburbs. Not so much in NYC. Food trucks in NYC aren't great though in my opinion compared to other cities (outside of a few Manhattan/Queens Halal Food trucks.. some are really high quality despite being a little sketchy in terms of health/safety, the smart thing to do would be only eat there once a month. It's really unhealthy but tastes amazing and fills you up). That's the only place I can really think that they lack in. 53rd and 6th in Manhattan is legendary for their Halal food truck after 7pm. It wasn't totally uncommon for people to randomly hit each other in the suburbs and say lets drive to the city for an hour just for their $5 platters. Although, I heard they made it a restaurant now and the quality has went down by quite a bit. I feel besides those, I don't really see any unique food trucks in NYC while when I lived in Philly, it was full of unique food trucks like Thai food trucks, Brazilian food trucks, Italian food trucks, French food trucks, etc. The halal food in Philly is pretty atrocious. It's no where near as good as NYC's Halal. Despite that, they still get a lot of business.

[32jazz]

Ok, so boring music that is best served as a quiet background music.

Because you don't know jazz?

Jazz is some of the liveliest ,most life affirming music ever created.


It was called " hot" & was described by Hesse as a " lively jazz music , hot & raw as steaming flesh"( Herman Hesse / Steppenwolf).



Nothing boring or background music about Louis Armstrong or Charles Mingus.


All Jazz isn't " smooth Jazz" or elevator music although I admit that Classical influence & formal Jazz studies sometimes have rendered Jazz more subtle.

[Draz]

Draz, you haven't even seen the city and you're gonna say it sucks? :facepalm

I have grown up here, also in Queens but literally 15 mins from the city and I love it. Couldn't imagine myself living anywhere else, have turned down job opportunities in other big cities. I guess the familiarity is why I always stayed, but I love NYC.

See there's the pride I'm talking about. I've been to the city just haven't been lingering around it too often. I have the pride too. I just actually like being brutally honest about it. No need to hide the negativity like other people do with their state and cities. We're going to act like nyc isn't dirty? Over populated and full of people who aren't all about themselves?

I feel the same way about Queens. There's no other place I can live. I'll get home sick. But I'm not oblivious to the negativity.

[ThePhantomCreep]

I went to Birdland back in 2011, my friend got the tickets from Groupon. Knew next to nothing about jazz at the time, but I was hooked immediately. Since then, I catch a show every now and then at the LA-equivalent, The Baked Potato.

"Kind of Blue", "A Love Supreme", "Getz/Gilberto", etc compete with the best rock albums of all-time.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

See there's the pride I'm talking about. I've been to the city just haven't been lingering around it too often. I have the pride too. I just actually like being brutally honest about it. No need to hide the negativity like other people do with their state and cities. We're going to act like nyc isn't dirty? Over populated and full of people who aren't all about themselves?

I feel the same way about Queens. There's no other place I can live. I'll get home sick. But I'm not oblivious to the negativity.

Having grown up near Queens and have worked there a few times, it has a nostalgic effect on me. So much culture, it's unbelievable. I saw probably the best looking women I've ever seen walk to a Dunkin Donuts while I was at a traffic light in Queens. A lot of blue collar people yet it's not uncommon to see rich areas in Queens that have city type of mansions. NYC is definitely dirty. Parts of Liberty Avenue in Queens are very dirty.

I like Queens and Manhattan but I feel most of it is dirty. I really haven't met many people who had Queens pride to be honest. Most Queens dudes I've met, try to move out to the Manhattan or nice parts of Brooklyn rather than find a nice place in Queens.

Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan are like the future hubs of getting even more populated down the line.

Having lived in West Philly, I feel the "safe" parts of it weren't even nearly as dirty the "safe" areas in Queens.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

It's cool to be a tourist. But, to live here it's not THAT cool. At all. All the fcking hobos. The streets are dirty. The rats. The homeless on every St. The expensive life style and everything here sucks tbh. Even the people lol. What keeps NY together is the pride. The sport teams. That's pretty much it. I'm a proud new yorker don't get me wrong. But it's as bad as good.

I totally agree with this :applause:. Although I think you are exaggerating the hobos/homeless.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

I live in Queens NY. About 30 minutes away from the city with the train.

I'm not a huge fan of the city. I haven't even seen the new WTC building yet.

I've seen so many funny things on some of the Subway lines when I go to Manhattan :oldlol:. I've never seen a fight but I've seen weird performances and all.

[Draz]

Having grown up near Queens and have worked there a few times, it has a nostalgic effect on me. So much culture, it's unbelievable. I saw probably the best looking women I've ever seen walk to a Dunkin Donuts while I was at a traffic light in Queens. A lot of blue collar people yet it's not uncommon to see rich areas in Queens that have city type of mansions. NYC is definitely dirty. Parts of Liberty Avenue in Queens are very dirty.

I like Queens and Manhattan but I feel most of it is dirty. I really haven't met many people who had Queens pride to be honest. Most Queens dudes I've met, try to move out to the Manhattan or nice parts of Brooklyn rather than find a nice place in Queens.

Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan are like the future hubs of getting even more populated down the line.

Having lived in West Philly, I feel the "safe" parts of it weren't even nearly as dirty the "safe" areas in Queens.



LOOOOL BRO I live a block up from Liberty Avenue. :roll:

[Draz]

I mean tbh. When I was 2-6 I was in Brooklyn. Then moved to Queens. My entire life was spent in Queens. I hate the people here they all suck. But I STILL favor Queens over any borough. Although, when I go to Brooklyn, I remember my mom just telling me while we were driving by, how people in Brooklyn mind their own business. Something Queens natives don't do. Everyone in Brooklyn on nice days are outside chilling with one another, tabled and chairs, bbq, games, just all neighbors but treat each other like family.

You know where I live dude. Neighbors are ****ing jealous as fck. We're stuck between two of the worst neighbors ever. I can go on and on.. But I can say I do live in a nice house which isn't THAT common here where I'm from.

Houses are crazy expensive. You gotta make a good living to pay off a mortgage

[NBAplayoffs2001]

Yeah I feel rumors spread like wildfire in Queens. It's pretty annoying to hear them too at times because a good amount of time it's exaggerated and the truth is bent. Not sure if it happens as often but i remember that some queens neighborhood still do summer block parties. I remember talking to people who've said parts of liberty avenue gets rough late at night on weekends because people drink too much and get aggressive. Not sure if it's still rough but I remember being told it's fine for like 80% of the avenue. It's only in some neighborhoods it crosses through. I know a lot of Queens kids who lied about being from the suburbs so they could go to a way better high school. I remember being told some of the public schools are rough especially if you happen to stand out and people start bullying you. Apparently some high schools share it with some rough areas from east Brooklyn like East New York and Brownsville even if the high school was in a relatively safe Queens neighborhood.

[Draz]

Well, the thing about queens is it's not any different than any other borough not named Manhattan. It can be better or worst. It's very culturally diverse too. I love it here and can't live it anywhere else. The people ruined it though. At night you do have to be careful because there's several bars located on the avenue but unless you're a female you're fine. They don't approach men.

[pinhead]

I am visiting NYC in December.

America sucks but New York has always seemed quite cool so looking forward to it.

And there is no chance I am tipping 20%.