Anonymous wrote:What are the differences in the "vibe"/culture in the UES neighborhoods e.g. yorkville, carneige hill, etc?

yorkville’s the boonies - only the q train on the second avenue line and carl schurz park in the area, but there are a ton of restaurants and bars on 1st and 2nd avenue. Carnegie Hill has the museums, but it’s quite quiet and, even though there are a ton of restaurants and things, it’s just a bit removed. Lenox Hill has a few beautiful hotels (The Carlyle is one of the greatest hotels in the world), is in the middle of a nice area right by the park, there are a bunch of museums, etc. and transport is great. Great restaurants, too. But it’s also a bit boring.

I would say Chelsea is the best bet. A bit of everything, including the cobblestone roads, GREAT restaurants, the whitney, etc. You walk, like 10 blocks south, you’re in the heart of the village and down by NYU, you walk ten blocks north, youre almost in times square (which sucks, but for visitors, is fine).

Just don’t stay in brooklyn. everyone hates brooklyn now.

TIL, there is an actual place called Hicksville that is not a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the Financial District because it's affordable but there is stuff to do there like Fraunces Tavern, old New York, boats to Ellis/Liberty, Staten Island Ferry, WTC Memorial, some festivals.

I liked the Hotel Indigo Trinity Place. It had a rolling barn door for the bathroom but I don't think it was glass.

I've thought about staying in Brooklyn to begin to explore there but haven't convinced family to agree yet.

Fidi would be cute. Stone street is fun too. Dumbo is great.

I live in NYC and would never send someone to midtown unless it was for a business adjacent visit.

Stone Street is the B&T happy hour crowd. Definitely better than midtown but not much. It is passable in nice weather as it is good to sit outside. Wouldn't go there otherwise (I worked in the area for a number of years). But that area as a place to stay in general is fine as it is less chaotic than midtown but has easy access to all subway lines. But it depends on what they want to do.

Stone street is not the ‘B and T happy hour’ place. What in the world 30 year old tropes are you pulling out? You probably haven’t lived in NYC proper for years if you think that or use terminology like that. You just dated yourself.

Downtown is typically more fun. Brooklyn is much more fun but can be more overwhelming to navigate as a tourist. And midtown is a total snooze.
Unless you’re a first time tourist who just wants to see the park and go to a museum or two, there is no reason to stay there. It’s not a real neighborhood

Wow. Aren't we childish and nasty. I worked near Stone Street on and off for parts of the past 10 years. I have gone to countless happy hours there. It is a nice place to have an outdoor happy hour on a nice evening. But we mainly went there out of convenience. Of all of the neighborhoods in NYC, I would definitely not make a special trip to go there. You can definitely do worse, but you can also do a lot better. I certainly would not direct a tourist to go there unless they happened to be in the neighborhood for other reasons (and there are decent reasons to be in that neighborhood).

And I use the term B&T all the time as it describes a lot of people. I have lived in Manhattan for the past 20+ years so I think I know what it means. And the typical patron of those bars is a Fairfield alum who wears a Vineyard Vines vest and works middle office at a bank (but claims to be an "investment banker") then catches the train home to Hicksville. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

West Chelsea or Hudson Yards has been a hit for all id the out of towners we’ve hosted.