Hey there! Tourist from Memphis, TN coming in late May. We were considering the hop on hop off bus for daily travel, but were also thinking about the subway. Are the subways just simply too unsafe for travel at the moment? If so, is the hop on hop off bus route the best alternative? If not, are there things we can do to make it more safe for ourselves (safer stops, lines etc.)?

British tourist planning to Visit NYC for the full duration of my visa (3 months).

I’m a standup comic in the UK, it’s always been a dream of mine to visit NYC and have a good go at the standup scene there. Assuming flights/visa costs are already covered, could anyone estimate how much it would cost to live on the absolute bare minimum, hostel room, cheap food (Ramen/Rice), public transport alone for 3 months?

What is the absolute bare minimum one could spend living in NYC for 3 months?

I know this kind of post is annoying, thanks anyway.

I’ve always wanted to go to NYC around Christmas time. I was thinking of making a trip of it and bringing my kids, getting a hotel in the city and checking out the sights.

Would around NYE/NYD be an ok time to do this? Kids are 7, 12, 14. Would Times Square be impossible?

I'm from Georgia and had a thought— New York is the 4th biggest state in the country but has no notable public universities.

"But no!" you'll say, "We have the SUNYs!" But that's the thing— no one outside of NY has any idea what any SUNYs are. New York's flagship public university— SUNY Stoney Brook— has a name recognition of next to 0% outside of the state. Compare that to any other major state's flagship university (University of Georgia, U Cal Berkeley, Penn State, etc.) and it makes no sense how irrelevant Stoney Brook is. And Stoney Brook's irrelevance extends to academics. It's ranked #58 in the country, behind the flagship institutions of basically the top 30 states minus New York. Still an awesome ranking, but oddly low given the size of the state it represents.

Could any New Yorker take a stab at what's going on here? My only hypothesis is that the SUNYs don't have the sports culture that other public universities do, which lowers their name recognition (and perhaps their prestige). What do y'all think?

Hi,

I'm in NY for 10 days soon and would ideally love to cycle around the whole time rather than use public transport.

Does anyone have some advice on the best way to do this? I wouldn't mind buying a cheap beater and giving it away at the en, or is it cheap to rent an electric bike whenever I need it?

Or do you have NY versions of websites like Gumtree (Where people sell cheap bikes)

Thanks,

I was thinking the city for 5 days and then maybe off to another city for a few days and so forth until the end. But I’d love to know which areas are really must visits? I thought about Philly or Boston or NJ. But the. Wondered about upstate. What would you do? I love city life. I love commerce and moving around. Great coffee, great food, etc. not a huge outdoors guy.

I just got done with a hellish, pothole-pockmarked drive up the Taconic Parkway all the way from its beginning up to the Rossway Rd. turn in Pleasant Valley.

Any sign of crews repairing the hazardous road conditions? Of course not, but they sure are getting set to primp the entrance to the TasteNY shop on the median in LaGrange.

Which political hack decreed a glorified gift shop is a priority job, and safe roads aren’t?