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New York's Playground
New York City is a vertical playground for adults, an urban city-slick epicenter of cultural buzz. The city combines the high and low brow in every respect. There is exquisite art, dance, theatre, eating, shopping, history and scenery, and also hot dogs, pizza, neon lights and trash on a vast, mixed-up scale. And it's all compacted neatly into 22.7 square miles.
The obvious things to do include viewing the spectacle that is Times Square, which is now relatively clean and safe; checking out Chinatown, seeing a Broadway musical, eating at a traditional Deli and seeing dance or classical music at the Lincoln Center. There are also excellent movies screened at places like the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Film Forum and small independent theatres, check the web for exact listing obviously, but they often screen rare prints and older films that you could not see anywhere else.
The best neighbourhoods to check out for nightlife are in the East Village, Lower East Side, Brooklyn, West Village, and Manhattan's Meatpacking district. If you are going to make it out to Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Fort Green, and Green Point are the prime destinations. There is a caf worth visiting in Fort Green, where you can power the blending of your own mojito on a bicycle.
Drinks and food can get pricey in certain 'hoods. The Upper East Side's Madison Avenue will include some posh nosh. Kai Restaurant is a good restaurant for highbrow cuisine, if you don't mind paying for it. There is little or no need for this however, because there are some very affordable restaurants around New York City. Head out to Astoria for Czech or Greek food; for Italian food you'll find decent places dotted all over the city. On the Lower East Side, Freeman's is a niche restaurant, adorned with stuffed deer heads and flying swans. A must-see for those with a taste for the eccentric; they serve dishes like boar terrine and stewed plums at reasonable prices.
For a memorable place to stay there's the much talked about Chelsea hotel. It has a lot of history, leant itself to the title of a Leonard Cohen song, and is very centrally located. Other options include the Sohotel, which has an unbeatable location on the Bowery. There are also some very affordable hostel / hotel options on the Upper West Side, which is a very safe and cozy neighborhood and from which one can easily get a subway downtown to go out for the evening, or grab a drink in the neighborhood.
For flights to USA, try cheapflights.co.uk.
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