Tips for survival for the MSG show!!!

U R A Crazy Breed

i'm from Boston and i'll be the first to say NYC is the shit.fuck all that rivalry shit.it may be fun as far as sports go but beyond that we are all humans and it's only man made imaginary lines that divide us.

I'm fucking hyped,this will be my first time going to MSG!!

NY PJ1

swallowedwords wrote:

Good for you! I'm yet to go to the Prudential Center. How is it?

ill let u know tom. lol

1st time for me

i hear its nice

and watching the postgame after wed. night

the female bartenders look amazing !!!!!!!!!

swallowedwords

NY PJ1 wrote:

ill let u know tom. lol

1st time for me

i hear its nice

and watching the postgame after wed. night

the female bartenders look amazing !!!!!!!!!

Yum, sexy female bartenders. Enjoy!

First goal, Dawes. 3-2 Rangers victory!

JaneNY

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

yeah but isn't there anything you want to do in any other city? I've been to NY like maybe, I dunno, 5 or 6 times? It's always been fairly boring- I feel like when you go to NY you're just going to do whatever it is you need to do there and get out. it's so big that there's not enough time to actually seek out fun things to do. obviously when you live there the plethora of stuff to do must turn out to be convenient. but for visiting...I've had much more fun in san francisco, seattle, denver, chicago, london, berlin, copenhaagen, paris, and boston. I've enjoyed the architecture and overall landscape much better in many of these cities as well.

If you like fashion, you can find almost any designer store, right in the city. As I haven't been to the other cities you name, perhaps that's true there as well, but my child has quite an interest in fashion,(almost 14 but has been a fashionista since about 8), so just walking on 5th avenue, looking in windows like Versace, Louis Vuitton, and the like sends her into paroxysms of joy.

I don't know. There's just something in the air in New York - it is very intoxicating. I can't explain it.

I am looking forward to being their for Pearl Jam, The Cure, and (for my kid, My Chemical Romance).

I really should get one of those I love NY shirts, even if they are touristy, because I really do love it. They can bury me there.

swallowedwords

JaneNY wrote:

If you like fashion, you can find almost any designer store, right in the city. As I haven't been to the other cities you name, perhaps that's true there as well, but my child has quite an interest in fashion,(almost 14 but has been a fashionista since about 8), so just walking on 5th avenue, looking in windows like Versace, Louis Vuitton, and the like sends her into paroxysms of joy.

I don't know. There's just something in the air in New York - it is very intoxicating. I can't explain it.

I am looking forward to being their for Pearl Jam, The Cure, and (for my kid, My Chemical Romance).

I really should get one of those I love NY shirts, even if they are touristy, because I really do love it. They can bury me there.

The intoxicating thing in the air is the exhaust from all that traffic

Bathgate66

NY PJ1 wrote:

ill let u know tom. lol

1st time for me

i hear its nice

and watching the postgame after wed. night

the female bartenders look amazing !!!!!!!!!

i hear there is a frozen bar there also.

GreenTeaDisease

NY PJ1 wrote:

i dont know what to tell ya ??
your def. in the minority on this one

that being said we have plenty of tourists so by all means book another city

well I'm just saying I don't get why everyone's always saying it's the most fun place to go (for visiting, I've never lived there, so I don't know what it's like to live there). seems to be an overhyped destination.

haha also, I've never been a "tourist" there. I've gone there for business, to visit people, for various events at columbia, and for pearl jam shows of course. Honestly I don't know what pure tourists do in most american cities. when people come to visit boston for the first time and say they want to site see, I'm at a loss even though I know there is plenty of site seeing. I'm like um...duck tour? freedom trail?

yosi1

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

It's always been fairly boring- I feel like when you go to NY you're just going to do whatever it is you need to do there and get out. it's so big that there's not enough time to actually seek out fun things to do.

Basically what you're saying is, there is so much to do, I just can't choose and sit bored at my hotel. :rolleyes: Next time, just choose to do some of those things. Just cause you can't do it all, doesn't mean you should do none of it.

GreenTeaDisease

JaneNY wrote:

If you like fashion, you can find almost any designer store, right in the city. As I haven't been to the other cities you name, perhaps that's true there as well,

hmm, I dunno. definitely paris and london. definitely not true in boston (well kind of, there's some of that stuff but not a whole lot). but I'm not big into fashion and/or shopping so I haven't really noticed.

GreenTeaDisease

yosi wrote:

Basically what you're saying is, there is so much to do, I just can't choose and sit bored at my hotel. :rolleyes: Next time, just choose to do some of those things. Just cause you can't do it all, doesn't mean you should do none of it.

no that's not it...maybe it's just because if you live as close by as boston the only reason you go there is to take care of something specific. the one time I had a lot of time to kill there was for the MSG '03 shows. There wasn't much to do during the day. I didn't like just wandering around aimlessly there as do in other cities.

yosi1

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

There wasn't much to do during the day. I didn't like just wandering around aimlessly there as do in other cities.

Like I said. Pick something to do if wandering isn't you're thing. There are a million things to choose from. You just weren't looking.

Get_Right

NYC

lets not forget that smell

cant find that anywhere

newspapers exhaust and urine

IM HOME!

Bathgate66

oh and incidentally Green-Wood Cemetary is the 2nd largest Graveyard in the world- second only to some other larger one in France.
It is also a registered National Landmark.

You have to go out and cease the opportunities as they befall you-
dont wait around and expect these things to come to you- they are there for the taking.


enjoy.


The only thing anyone needs to prepare themselves for is shaking the stage again as we did in 2003 , for the likes of only Grateful Dead, Iron Maiden , Bruce Springsteen, and of course, Pearl Jam .

Bathgate66

Get_Right wrote:

NYC

lets not forget that smell

cant find that anywhere

newspapers exhaust and urine

IM HOME!

maybe in your neck of the woods-
nothing but breezy salty ocean air out by me !

InHiding19

singularity wrote:

you'll be fine.

my only suggestion is to pick up booze and pregame in your hotel room. the bars can be a little pricey in midtown.

edit: you don't have a hotel yet. stay in jersey and take the path to 33rd street.

great tip, buying beers in the city is like paying for gas upstate

Get_Right

Bathgate66 wrote:

maybe in your neck of the woods-
nothing but breezy salty ocean air out by me !

That would be the differnce between the rockaways and GCT/midtown!

URthekey

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

well I'm just saying I don't get why everyone's always saying it's the most fun place to go (for visiting, I've never lived there, so I don't know what it's like to live there). seems to be an overhyped destination.

Bars are open until 4am..... that would be my guess.

elevation622

I think I'd be more scared to go to Kentucky! just kidding

Crazyworm

Allie wrote:

I got mugged in broad daylight but that was almost 10 yrs ago. I got my purse snatched in the village on Broadway.

but, and Im guessing the OP is a guy, you sound guy-ish, I think guys don't really have a problem

and it's magnitude...not magnatooooood

here this might help:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04102008/entertainment/how_to_pass_for_a_native_new_yorker_105910.htm
there are 'cheap' places to eat over there by 34th Street, where MSG is. There's a Chinese buffet. I don't know how healthy it is but it is 'affordable'

and for God's sake, I would not recommend for someone to stay in Jersey

HAHA, you cracked me up..Some words I get stumped on so i just sound them out!!

Chrissident

Didn't read all the posts but I just got back from NYC.

If you fly into JFK, take the Airtrain/Subway into the city. $7 and a good experience.

Also, for cheap thrills I suggest taking the Staten Island Ferry back and forth. It is free and they sell 16 oz. cans of Beck's for $4. You get to see the city from the water, see Lady Liberty, and have a reasonalbly priced can of suds.

Safety is not an issue.