Manhattan: Where is everyone?

[Anonymous]

Have been in Manhattan/ues/Chelsea last several days and it's kinda empty...easy to get reservations. Do people leave the city this time of year?

[Anonymous]

Yes, kids are done with school for the summer and people start leaving town for summer homes upstate, Long Island, MV or ACK, etc.

Summer share house season started on Memorial Day weekend so lots of the younger white collar workers are gone Thurs - Mon. They are in office Mon-Weds and don't go out on those days.

[Anonymous]

Hamptons? Upstate?

[Anonymous]

Work? Walk over to canal street, you'll find all the tourists.

[Anonymous]

Even before Covid a lot of companies in NYC had Summer Friday hours. Summers are so much nicer than the rest of the year, even with the heat!

[Anonymous]

It is always quiet this time of year.

[Anonymous]

NYC public schools are still in session until the 26th, so most kids are still in school. The public school kids did have Thursday and Friday off last week, so a lot of our friends with families were out of town for the 4 day weekend.

Didn’t notice that it felt empty yesterday, though - lots of people out walking around last night enjoying the perfect weather.

Although, judging by the unpleasantly packed trains so far this week, every single person in NYC decided to cram themselves onto the Q and F trains during the morning rush hour.

[Anonymous]

It’s never that hard to get reservations unless you’re trying to go to frog club or carbone or something

[Anonymous]

Still impossible to get last minute reservations at Dorcia, though.

[Anonymous]

Hamptons byes people leave the city in the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still impossible to get last minute reservations at Dorcia, though.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even before Covid a lot of companies in NYC had Summer Friday hours. Summers are so much nicer than the rest of the year, even with the heat!

when i moved to DC after a stint in NYC, my boss had nothing but contempt when I inquired about the Friday summer hours policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still impossible to get last minute reservations at Dorcia, though.

HA, amazing.

[Anonymous]

yep

when I was a broke twentysomething, my vacation used to be going to NYC and staying in friends' apartments when they were on vacation

much emptier than other times of year

[Anonymous]

Memorial Day to Labor Day Manhattan is all “bridge and tunnel” crowd and tourists.

I lived in Manhattan 13 years other than a wedding and wisdom teeth removal I was only in Manhattan 2 weekends over 13 years in the summer.

I was in the Hamptons all 16 weekends of summer ever summer and everyone I knew from Manhattan was there.

I left my car at my Hamptons house all summer and I sat 90 percent of time someone gave me a ride or took jitney or train. Sometimes just someone I met or guest at house.

Then you have Fire Island crowd, North fork crowd, shelter island crowd, even upstate NY crowd and even poor people hit Poconos.