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An area of Brooklyn full of small retro clothes shops, record shops, cafes and restraunts. Great to wander around and get the feel of a New York neighbourhood. Try Galapagos for a night out, it's a cool indie club with lots of good live acts.
Take the L train over to Brooklyn.
This is a brand new theatre opening October 25, 2007 in beautiful Newark, NJ, just over the bridge from New York City.
Thur 10/25 & Fri 10/26 features My Chemical Romance opening for Bon Jovi. Check this out for a night of music enjoyment.
Tickets are available now at www.ticketmaster.com.
Prudential Center
165 Mulberry Street
Newark, NJ 07102
www.prucenter.com
Along Greenwich Avenue there's plenty of bars and food stops. Enjoyed a cheap Sam Adams during happy hour (forget the name but it was Irish!).
Bleecker Street seems to cater for every type of drinker so if you can't find a decent boozer there, something is wrong with you. Blind Tiger very popular and my sort of place with good range of ales.
The pace here is more laid back than midtown.
Greenwich Ave or Bleeker Street (between 8th Ave and 6th Ave)
Search out your own gem on any of the side streets
Notoriously it was once the most difficult velvet rope to negotiate in Manhattan and apparently they’ll soon be opening a sister venue in London. In it’s heyday, a key card was pre-requisite to gain entry. Whether this concept will work across the pond remains to be seen, and to be fair it’s the kind of place I’d usually avoid like the plague.
But when in New York, and when with a mate-who’s-mate’s-mate-knows-a-mate-of owner Amy Sacco, then why not.
Is it worth the effort? Well, the pretentious git in me did feel kind of smug at leaving the mere mortals behind on the sidewalk, but the place certainly didn’t blow me away.
Inside was “Beverly Hills themed” whatever that means. It was much smaller than expected, music was identikit hip-hop and R&B and there wasn’t a single celebrity du jour to gawp at. The only thing that blew me away was checking my Amex receipts in my wallet the following morning.
Chelsea, Manhattan
515 W. 27th St (between 10th & 11th Aves)
The best bar in NYC. Fact. Friendly staff, great food and well-priced drinks.
151 Bleecker St, Greenwich Village, NY.
Tel : (001) 212 260 9797.
www.redlion-nyc.com.
I've travelled a fair bit on my own and this is by far the safest and friendliest city I have ever been to.
Look at a map for less than a minute on any street corner and somebody will come and offer their help. I've never been one for going to restaurants on my own but sometimes it's necessary.
This city is the only place I have felt comfortable doing this, no matter what day it is or what time of day.
Most importantly I have never felt so safe walking around a city on my own at night. How can you not be safe in the city that never sleeps? If you are in any doubt there is always a shop open that you can duck into.
I've always stayed in Greenwich or Chelsea and have never had a problem walking around at any hour of the night.
Of course going on holiday is more fun with a friend, but if you are travelling on your own I would highly recommend a stopover in New York.
If you crave a night less ordinary in lower Manhattan, the Mehanata Bulgarian Cultural Club on Canal St and Broadway offers a wonderfully twisted and laidback alternative to Soho’s über-fashionable bars and clubs (you can smoke here for starters). The music is a seething hotchpotch of deep Balkan house and stomping folk beats while the bar serves up a strong Bulgarian punch and shows experimental eastern European cinema and Saturday night TV comedy straight from Sofia.
416 Broadway and Canal Street, www.mehanata.com
The downtown musci scene in all its gory glory. Great fun.
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