Where there is a queue, there is joy
A BATHING APE
Tail location: 91 Greene Street
Tail Tolerance: bearable with a coffee and music
Although it has been on the market for a few years (almost a quarter of a century), this Japanese clothing brand continues to increase its legion of customers on the sidewalks of SoHo. Founded by the Nigo designer and taking the film Planet of the Apes as inspiration for its logo, the signature (which the coolest people simply call BAPE ) popularized the camouflage print (with an ape hiding in the pattern) and there were fights over his sweatshirt with a shark's head drawn on the hood.
During the launch of limited editions of her garments the queue in front of her only store in New York has to be fenced off and controlled by security guards. Waiting is rewarded t-shirts with his logo printed for 75 dollars and sweatshirts of up to 400. Of course, we guarantee that everything is "very cute".
COOKIE DO NYC
Location: 550 LaGuardia Place
Tolerance: Maddening
This establishment has disarmed the widespread belief that ice cream is only desirable in summer. Cookie DO NYC opened in the middle of January, traditionally the coldest month in the city, and has revolutionized the sector by combining creamy ice cream with no bake cookie dough based on pasteurized eggs and flour to be consumed without risk to health.
But to try them, again, we will have to wait. And a lot. The great demand has forced to set up the queue on the opposite sidewalk , where there is a small urban park. The most normal thing is to think that people wait for the bus because there is nothing around them but the greedy customers religiously wait for their turn given by an employee who wastes the day in the street.
BLACK TAP BURGERS AND BEER
Location: 248 W 14th Street
Tolerance: heavy and noisy
Sweets are usually one of the main causes of queue ritual in New York . And one of the establishments that do not let up is this restaurant whose name highlights only its burgers and beer but where the real interest is in the dessert menu. Their multicolored smoothies and hypercaloric (1600 calories in each glass according to unofficial calculations) continue to overflow the capacity of the premises.
In the Chelsea neighborhood, the queue of the Black Tap Burgers and Beer many nights it is confused with that of the popular disco Up&Down which is right next to it. It will be casual, but the double plan is not even painted because burning everything that has been eaten when leaving is almost an obligation.
These crazy shakes create long queues in Chelsea
TKTS
Location: W 47th Street & 7th Avenue
Tolerance: Slow and dazzling progress
to see a broadway musical you have to scratch your pockets and help them ticket office in times square with discount they can get us out of a good trouble. Tickets go on sale at half price (or nearly so) and are for same-day performances only. It sounds good but there is a big but: you will not find the most popular musicals in the list of offers because they fill up every day. So don't look The Lion King, Aladdin, Hamilton, Wicked, Book of Mormon nor the most recent Tony Award winner, Dear Evan Hansen.
In a scarce and always busy space, queues are organized like in amusement parks. If by now you're sick of them, we'll tell you a secret. The Times Square box office is the best known, but there are three other much less crowded locations that open earlier in the year. Lower Manhattan, Lincoln Center and Downtown Brooklyn.
The 'cultureta' tail
SUPREME
Location: 274 Lafayette Street
Tolerance: tedious
The fashion victims they have another headache in this aseptic store in the neighborhood of Nolita . The most stressful moment is the Thursday of the start of the season , when you renew your collection. Fed up with complaints from passers-by, those responsible for Supreme New York had to establish a system of online lottery that guarantees you a gap in the queue, even if it is up to chance if it is closer to the finish line or at the back of the crowd.
All this tension to get hold of the articles of this brand founded in 1994 by James Jebbia specialized in clothing for skaters. Their basic t-shirts and sweatshirts sell for more than $100. And on the second-hand market they can exceed their original price. You have experience in this Unique Hype Collection , a store in Chinatown that replicates the original store down to the lines.
MoMA
Location: 11 W 53rd Street
Tolerance: bearable with food (see next point)
Looking at art in New York doesn't always have to be expensive. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History admit, so far, the will. Other centers choose to offer free tickets for a few hours, one day a week. In none of them will you find more queues than at MoMA.
On Friday afternoons, and well before four in the afternoon, when access is free, the line goes up Sixth Avenue . The crowding is such that the museum often allows you to enter a little earlier in order to decongest the sidewalk. The best thing to do is try not to be the first. . The museum closes at 9 at night and the queues loosen the closer that hour approaches.
THE HALAL GUYS
Location: W 53rd Street & Avenue of the Americas
Tolerance: agile with possibility of snoring in the stomach
Curiously, in front of the MoMA, a mirror effect is produced because there is another type of queue. In that corner, the one on 53rd Street and Sixth Avenue, Halal Guys have survived since 1990. These pioneers in importing the flavors of Middle Eastern cuisine and adapting it to the North American palate have since grown exponentially to open two restaurants in the city.
The wait to get one of his famous gyros or a traditional chicken and rice dish is desperate at lunchtime, when many of the office workers around you come downstairs hungry. So it is best to eat early or late to skip the queues and devour the dish on the same street.
The Halal Guys
THE TACOS No1
Location: chelsea market
Tolerance: syncopated and fragrant
Although they say it themselves, it is not false advertising. The tacos at this Mexican food stand are the best you'll taste in New York . So say the most refined food critics and so does the queue that usually winds through dried fruit and spices at Chelsea Market. Tacos No. 1 opens daily stealthily at 11 in the morning when a spontaneous queue has already formed . When you try them you will understand why.
The dough, wheat or corn, is made by hand and the ingredients are plentiful. The price moves between 2.50 and 3.50 dollars, depending on the filling. If you keep us a secret, It has recently opened another establishment very close to Times Square that is much less well-known..
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Location: 30 Rockefeller Center
Tolerance: unbearable
New York is very proud of its late shows television and there are many opportunities to see them (fake) live. Since Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon a The Late Show with Stephen Colbert going by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah . But perhaps none arouses as much interest and (you guessed right) queues as Saturday night Live.
The legendary NBC network show takes 42 years on the air and 120 television awards in the bag . The program is broadcast live, of course, on Saturday nights at Rockefeller Center and admit two shifts, one for the dress rehearsal and the other for its broadcast. To guarantee a place in the stands of the study, those who have achieved it warn that you have to arrive the day before, Friday first thing in the morning, and spend the night on the street. Arriving later increases the risk of being left with the doors in your face.
The best tacos in all of New York
ELLEN'S STARDUST
Location: 1650 Broadway
Tolerance: tedious and with unavoidable conversations
Another place with a lot of claim (especially among tourists) is this restaurant that combines two great passions of this city: music and food. Ellen's Stardust is set like a typical diner of the 50's and does not forget any classic, from hamburgers to pancakes.
To make eating lighter, the waiters, many of them aspiring musical actors, spontaneously sing and dance turning the restaurant into a stage. To the do not accept reservations , the most impatient are already in formation at the door to the 7 in the morning , when it opens. It is not the ideal place to have intimate conversations but if your priority is food in quantity and soundtrack to Broadway, you will find this Eden at the end of a long queue.
Ellen's Stardust