Posted July 23, 200816 yr So my Grandparents wanted to see the New York from above. We initially went to the Empire State Building, but my grandparent thought $35 to ride up in an elevator was too much. My grandfather in all his glory said, "Look at that line, I bet I could throw a rock in that line and not hit one American! Is there anyone in NYC who isn't a tourist??" So my best friend met us Rainbow Room and we went to the top of the Rock The plaza Thats our destination We reach the top. NORTH Harlem and Washington Heights (far right) THE UPPER WESTSIDE AND JERSEY My office THE UPPER EAST SIDE AND QUEENS SOUTHEAST AND BROOKLYN SOUTHWEST Times Square and Hoboken WEST Jersey SOUTH Empire State Building with the financial district in the background Watch your step Street level around Rock Center Radio City St. Patrick's My first office in NYC Time & Life Bldg. My former office ** sorry about the glare some pics were taken inside the glass areas **
July 23, 200816 yr Tell me about it. Today they went to the United Nations and Flushing Meadows park to see the Unisphere. Thank goodness my mothers parents leave for PR tomorrow so I'm not caught in the middle of which grandmother is the best cook.
July 24, 200816 yr I want Wash Heights photos! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 24, 200816 yr We initially went to the Empire State Building, but my grandparent thought $35 to ride up in an elevator was too much. I'm with your grandparents! Damn! How much to the Top of the Rock? btw, great pictures!
July 24, 200816 yr We initially went to the Empire State Building, but my grandparent thought $35 to ride up in an elevator was too much. I'm with your grandparents! Damn! How much to the Top of the Rock? btw, great pictures! Please my grandfather is just a cheap ass, besides I would have paid it's not a big deal. TOR is free for me. I think it's normally $20
July 24, 200816 yr The views from the top of the Rock seem MUCH better than those views from the top of the EBS. Although the ESB is the romantic night stop that you simply can't miss.
July 24, 200816 yr Great photos. Your grandfather sounds like quite a character. Thats putting it midly. He's a hoot! I had all four grandparents here. It been like baby sitting four teenagers!
July 24, 200816 yr The views from the top of the Rock seem MUCH better than those views from the top of the EBS. Although the ESB is the romantic night stop that you simply can't miss. It was so hazy in NYC this past weekend, so my pictures aren't as sharp or clear as I think they could have been. It's probably just me. I don't know how to adjust my camera. My nephew told me to keep it on "auto for dummies" setting.
July 24, 200816 yr Nice! Last time I was up top of the ESB it was $10. I agree with Rando the top of the Rock is better.
July 24, 200816 yr Nice! Last time I was up top of the ESB it was $10. I agree with Rando the top of the Rock is better. Everything in NYC has increased. That's the price I paid as well. There are so many tourist here now that the dollar is in their favor, all the "touristy attractins" have doubled in price.
July 24, 200816 yr The density is decent except for that huge useless green space you see when facing north.
July 24, 200816 yr I assume sarcasm was intended with the CP comment. I wonder how much success NYC would have had without Central Park. It offers that relief from the stone and concrete heaven that is NYC and probably prevented any slum-effect on tens of thousands of adjacent addresses. I LOVE The City... it truly is THE City. San Fran and Chicago are on my second tier as far as USA cities go. However, I could never live in NYC year round. But IF I had boat loads of cash, I would definitely buy an apartment in Manhatten and spend a couple months of the year there.
July 25, 200816 yr I assume sarcasm was intended with the CP comment. I wonder how much success NYC would have had without Central Park. It offers that relief from the stone and concrete heaven that is NYC and probably prevented any slum-effect on tens of thousands of adjacent addresses. I LOVE The City... it truly is THE City. San Fran and Chicago are on my second tier as far as USA cities go. However, I could never live in NYC year round. But IF I had boat loads of cash, I would definitely buy an apartment in Manhatten and spend a couple months of the year there. When I first started living in NYC, I thought I could handle it since I'd previously lived in London, but it's soooooo different to visit NYC, than it is to live here. On Fridays at 12 PM I was out of NYC and wouldn't return to NYC until Monday at 12 PM. I rarely stayed on weekends, unless I had a work event, because it was all too much I needed to come home on the weekends to detox with my nephews and nieces. By the way its MANHATTAN. :wink: and trust me, today, it's to expensive to buy in the city proper. Area's that were perceived as bad a decade ago, like Washington hts., Bedford-Stuy., Williamsburg and Coney Island are turning over. When the Village, SoHo, Chelsea, Hells Kitchen, Carnegie Hill or Grammercy Park took up poor people were pushed uptown or far away Brooklyn, the Bronx or Queens. Middle class folks remained or moved to those area's. Now those area's are expensive as hell. Today I saw a listing for a brownstone near me for 3 Million. It's crazy. My best friend insists that I should move downtown. I have 4k sq. ft. here, if I sold, I might be able to get an apartment with about 1,300 sq. ft and in addition I'd have to pay a ridiculous HOA fee. Only the super rich can afford to buy a home in Manhattan these days. Also, 85+% of the apartment homes in Manhattan are Co-Ops. Which are even harder to get into than a condo building. My best friend, before moving into the apartment his partner bought him, bought his apartment on the UES. "Client 9" is one of his neighbors. The hoops he had to jump throw to get that apartment were exhausting. I never want to be in a co-op. The apartment my best friend and his partner live in was bought for a lil over a million is not worth almost 4 million. Regular people cannot afford that. I know that I will never be able to afford anything else in Manhattan, that fits my needs, than what I have now.
July 25, 200816 yr Almost everyone in our NY office doesn't live in the city itself. I mean yeah, you expect Jersey, etc., but one guy lives in PITTSBURGH and commutes every day. Is the money really that much better? Like, why wouldn't he just work in PA? I thought that was super weird. Great pix by the way.
July 25, 200816 yr Almost everyone in our NY office doesn't live in the city itself. I mean yeah, you expect Jersey, etc., but one guy lives in PITTSBURGH and commutes every day. Is the money really that much better? Like, why wouldn't he just work in PA? I thought that was super weird. Great pix by the way. One of my staff members live just south of Princeton, in Southern NJ and one in New Haven, CT. I previously have a staff member that lived in Philadelphia and one that live in the Berkshires. These are people making at least 6 figures. The cost of home ownership is just too high. It's actually starting to hurt NY. Service oriented employees, retail and those needed to do building work live further and further away from the city. This segment of the population is shown to be moving away from NYC while the white collar and rich continue to move in.
July 25, 200816 yr Almost everyone in our NY office doesn't live in the city itself. I mean yeah, you expect Jersey, etc., but one guy lives in PITTSBURGH and commutes every day. Is the money really that much better? Like, why wouldn't he just work in PA? I thought that was super weird. Great pix by the way. Do you mean Philadelphia? That is impossible 13 hrs round trip + 8 hour work day.
July 25, 200816 yr Almost everyone in our NY office doesn't live in the city itself. I mean yeah, you expect Jersey, etc., but one guy lives in PITTSBURGH and commutes every day. Is the money really that much better? Like, why wouldn't he just work in PA? I thought that was super weird. Great pix by the way. I think you mean Philly...I hope, unless he flies. Pitt is about a 6 hour drive in no traffic to NYC.
July 25, 200816 yr Almost everyone in our NY office doesn't live in the city itself. I mean yeah, you expect Jersey, etc., but one guy lives in PITTSBURGH and commutes every day. Is the money really that much better? Like, why wouldn't he just work in PA? I thought that was super weird. Great pix by the way. Do you mean Philadelphia? That is impossible 13 hrs round trip + 8 hour work day. I thought that as well. If in fact he does live in Pitts, is it possible he flies in on Monday stays in the city until friday and returns to Pitts. Two of the guys I work with in two of our divisions, fly in and stay Monday thru thursday or Tuesday thru Friday. When I first started working at Warner Music, thats how my contract was worked out. Mondays or Fridays I would work in the office in Middleburh Heights and then be in NYC the remainder of the week.
July 25, 200816 yr ^ one guy lives in PITTSBURGH and commutes every day. Again, that seems strange. Are we sure its Pitts and every day?
July 25, 200816 yr My bad, it must have been Philla, it was awhile ago. Whatever it was, it seemed FAR.
July 25, 200816 yr My bad, it must have been Philla, it was awhile ago. Whatever it was, it seemed FAR. LMAO! It's probably philly. It's only 1:15 to 1:25 minutes travel time on Amtrak.
July 25, 200816 yr I assume sarcasm was intended with the CP comment. I wonder how much success NYC would have had without Central Park. It offers that relief from the stone and concrete heaven that is NYC and probably prevented any slum-effect on tens of thousands of adjacent addresses. Yes, maximum sarcasm on both the "decent density" and "useless greenspace" comments for those who didn't realize it due to lack of an emoticon.
July 25, 200816 yr Almost everyone in our NY office doesn't live in the city itself. I mean yeah, you expect Jersey, etc., but one guy lives in PITTSBURGH and commutes every day. Is the money really that much better? Like, why wouldn't he just work in PA? I thought that was super weird. Great pix by the way. as for the money it depends. if you work in business, as my spouse does, the money is generally much, much better. however, if you work for the city, like me, the money is actually worse. i would be making more if i had stayed in ohio (or if i worked in a suburb of nyc). re the commutes. i work with several people who commute from the freaking pocanos in pennsylvania. they drive daily, can you imagine driving around dark mountain passes in the winter after a long hectic I-80 commute? just nuts. also, i work with someone who lives in port jervis and a couple i know who live way out on long island, but at least they can take the train if they want. one other thing to note is is there are a lot of people who commute daily from dc and boston via these amazingly fast bus-like commuter flights like the laguardia delta shuttles.
July 25, 200816 yr Almost everyone in our NY office doesn't live in the city itself. I mean yeah, you expect Jersey, etc., but one guy lives in PITTSBURGH and commutes every day. Is the money really that much better? Like, why wouldn't he just work in PA? I thought that was super weird. Great pix by the way. as for the money it depends. if you work in business, as my spouse does, the money is generally much, much better. however, if you work for the city, like me, the money is actually worse. i would be making more if i had stayed in ohio (or if i worked in a suburb of nyc). re the commutes. i work with several people who commute from the freaking pocanos in pennsylvania. they drive daily, can you imagine driving around dark mountain passes in the winter after a long hectic I-80 commute? just nuts. also, i work with someone who lives in port jervis and a couple i know who live way out on long island, but at least they can take the train if they want. one other thing to note is is there are a lot of people who commute daily from dc and boston via these amazingly fast bus-like commuter flights like the laguardia delta shuttles. That reminds me, I've got a poconer as well. Those people on the Metro North or Long Island railroad think that commute is "normal" I think its crazy! Well the Delta/American/US Air shuttles are getting hammered and Amtrak is marketted heavily to take away market share. 9/11 made the "fast" shuttles painful.
July 29, 200816 yr When I was a teenager in the mid 80's we could take Metro North from Poughkeepsie into the city for about $10 round trip. I think it's double that now. Plus, back then you could park your car right next to the station, or on one of the side streets and walk to the station. Last time I was there (about 2 years ago) there was a 4 deck parking garage, and all the surrounding streets were pay lots. Of those, probably 75% were monthly permits. This is a good 2 hrs from Grand Central if you're taking the local. The express shaves maybe 20 minutes off that. More and more people are moving upstate to get away from the crazy prices of NYC proper and Westchester.
July 30, 200816 yr When I was a teenager in the mid 80's we could take Metro North from Poughkeepsie into the city for about $10 round trip. I think it's double that now. I just went to NYC for the 4th and took the Metro North from Poughkeepsie it was 25$ per person. We drove into new york and that's where we got rid of the car before going into the city.
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