And the implicit: go to New York before dying
1. Listen to 'New York, New York' sung by Sinatra when the Yankees win the game at their stadium in the Bronx.
two. Warm up to that moment by having a few beers (Budweiser or Bud Light, this is something very American) in the bars around the yankee stadium . Entering the stadium late (because... who can stand the four hours that a baseball game could last?) and continue drinking beer, but this time 'soaked' in a bucket of fried chicken.
3. **Believe you Woody Allen **, sitting on one of the benches in Sutton Place looking towards Queens and the Queensboro Bridge and talking about how much do you love manhattan.
Four. See Woody Allen. On the street, with luck, or at the Carlyle Hotel, on Mondays, when he plays the clarinet with his band.
5. Whispering secrets or nonsense in the Whispering Gallery , built by Valencian Rafael Guastavino at Grand Central Station.
6. Believe you a Mad Men sipping on oysters and martinis at Grand Central Station's Oyster Bar.
7. Make a shame . Flirting with someone on the subway, like Michael Fassbender did in the movie that he discovered all his talents. Or at least exchange goofy looks with someone.
8. Shout until you're heard on the other side of Manhattan when a fearless rat cross between your legs.
9. Photograph the mountains of garbage bags accumulated in the street and say: “this is new york too”.
10. Take a gastronomic tour of the world in seven blocks along Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside : 30 meals from 27 countries and five continents.
New York, New York...
eleven. Waiting an average of two hours at Roberta's to eat one of the best pizzas in the world... And while waiting to examine Bushwick's hipster wildlife.
12. Eat a $1.5 slice of pizza at any pizzeria throughout Manhattan. Without queuing. And ask yourself which one tasted better to you.
13.**Sing your favorite musicals around the piano from Marie’s Crisis**. Score a solo or accompany the experts on Broadway.
14. After singing, play shuffle board, foosball, pool or ping-pong in the fat cat while listening to live jazz and drinking $3 canned beers.
fifteen. **Have a lobster from Chelsea Market's Lobster Place **. Hopefully sitting on the rare and requested chairs and tables. You will most likely end up fighting the delicious critter standing in some corner of this old slaughterhouse.
16. When you finish it... Stroll the nearby High Line and lie down in one of the wooden hammocks to watch the sun go down on the other side of the Hudson River, behind New Jersey.
17. Outwit all the tourists and stroll the High Line first thing in the morning. Only.
18. Eat some giant Alaskan crab legs on the terrace (in summer) or in the observation room (in winter) of brooklyn crab in Red Hook, where you'll almost think you're in a New England seaside town a la Dawson's Creek.
19. Reserve space to end the meal and the excursion with a Key Lime Pie in Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pie , sitting on a bench on the Louis Valentino Pier with a view of the Statue of Liberty.
twenty. Explore Central Park by bike . From top to bottom, not just the part closest to 59th Street.
twenty-one. Ice skating during the Christmas season on the Rockefeller Center track or on the Bryant Park track (the Central Park track is left to the Trumpists) .
New York in autumn, an incomparable postcard
22. See Central Park in the Fall . His best moment.
23. Stepping on the freshly fallen snow in Central Park.
24. Do a picnic in one of its meadows , while watching a Shakespeare play, a movie or listening to the New York Philharmonic.
25. have a picnic in Prospect Park in Brooklyn because it's cooler.
26. Queuing to get a photograph alone and lying on the ground, above the circle in which it says “Imagine”, in homage to John Lennon.
27. Skip the line and photobomb the photo to a group of Japanese, Americans or Italians.
28. Eat a hot dog from the street.
29. Eat a hot dog from the street with chili and melted cheese.
30. choke on a pretzel of the street.
31. Feel like a lady (or lady) from the Upper East Side in Sabarsky , the cafeteria of the Neue Galerie, and, like them, eat a apple strudel a la mode (with cream) without remorse.
Prospect Park: the most familiar and less crowded option
32.**Pay one dollar per person at the Metropolitan**, even though the suggested admission is $25. (I am spanish, spanish, spanish) .
33. Visit the Metropolitan, without getting lost, and end up on the terrace drinking cocktails.
3. 4. Eat that hot dog or a halal in the MET stairs.
35. Spending more time in the MoMA store than in MoMA.
36. Discover that there are museums beyond MoMA and the Met: the Frick Collection, the Morgan Library, the Cloisters, the Brooklyn Museum…
37. Cross the Brooklyn Bridge, but from Brooklyn to Manhattan , because that's the pretty view. At sunset. And when it's not too windy.
38. Faking an orgasm at Katz's, under the sign that reads: "Where Harry met Sally... We hope you'll have what she had. Enjoy!".
39. Less faking that orgasm after trying the Katz's Pastrami Sandwiches.
40. Try at least five of the best hamburgers in the city, those that are on all the lists and be able to recommend judiciously: ** Minetta Tavern , 5 Napkins Burger , shake shack , PJ Clarke's , ** Corner Bistro , The Spotted Pig , DuMont, Hard Times Sundaes , Salvation Burger…
41. Be surprised by the smell of greasy hamburger **in the lobby of the hotel Le Parker Meridian ** : the least secret secret burger joint: the Joint Burger.
Chumley's 86 OR THE DELUSION
42. Eat a steak (fillet) at Peter Luger and congratulate yourself for being a happy carnivore.
43. Steal someone's taxi . And if that someone is a New Yorker, you get more points.
44. Regret having stolen that taxi because of that mix of smells from the underworld.
Four. Five. ride on it Cyclone from Coney Island. To think that this mountain from the twenties is harmless and to discover in the first fall how wrong you were. Your screams compete with the creak of wood .
46. Eat a hot dog at **Coney Island's original Nathan's**. One? Or 125, like the biggest hot dog eater.
47. Spend New Year's Eve in New York and drink the grapes at six in the afternoon (12 in Spain) and again at 12. And avoid Times Square.
48. Bathing in the Atlantic, in the Coney Island Beach, with "the oldest winter swimming club" on New Year's Day.
49. Wear two shells as a bikini , a fishnet as a skirt and parade in the Mermaid's Parade as a homemade mermaid.
fifty. Savor the first cappuccino in the city in the Cafe Reggio in Greenwich Village .
51. follow the MacDougal Street and love Café Wha? , where Bob Dylan sang for the first time and one of the few living places on the folk scene.
Lena Dunham waking up at Coney Island
52. Cross in the cable car to Roosevelt Island , set foot on Roosevelt Island and take the cable car again.
53. The same but with Staten Island Ferry : take it, step on Staten Island and ride again to see Manhattan and the FREE Statue of Liberty.
54. Touch the eggs of the Wall Street bull, that to take a photo with the face there is too much queue.
55. Dance like crazy at the Bulgarian Bar (her official name is Mehanata), while drinking that strange Bulgarian sangria.
56. Pay $20 and enter the Ice Cage at the Bulgarian Bar : dressed as a Russian military, you have two minutes to drink up to six shots of vodka.
57. See the Great Rockefeller Christmas Tree.
58. Go up to Top of the Rock before sunset, and take a photo every five minutes until all the city lights come on.
59. Do not go up to the Top of the Rock, but to ** Bar SixtyFive at Rainbow Room **, that is, to the rooftop bar one floor below the Rockefeller lookout: enjoy the same views, but without paying admission, and with a cocktail in hand and a plate of sushi in front of you.
60. Go up to empire state , even if you have been insured and find that the view is better from the Top of the Rock: you are a romantic with Something to remember.
61. Find your Great Gatsby over afternoon tea in the Plaza's **Palm Court**, dressed appropriately and surrounded by three-tier trays of sandwiches, scones and fine pastries.
62. Go to 66 Perry Street to photograph the stairs of Carrie Bradshaw's house.
Find your Great Gatsby over afternoon tea at the Palm Court
63. Go to the corner of Grove and Bedford and sing "I'll be there for you..." in the building where the friends lived .
64. Go to the fire station North Moore Station and Sing “Ghosbusters, boy, boy, boy” at the headquarters of _ The Ghostbusters ._
65. Go to Morningside Heights and photograph Tom's Restaurant, or as you actually know it, Seinfeld, the Monk's Cafe.
66. Entering at least one speakeasy, such as Please Don't Tell, Angel's Share or Bathtub Gin, believing that Prohibition still exists.
67. **Drink a Manhattan, like Carrie Bradshaw **, and because Manhattan was invented in Manhattan.
68. Have a Bloody Mary at the St. Regis hotel bar, where they still serve the original that her bartender introduced to the city in 1934. ** You pay for the story ($25) **.
69. see a musical , even if you don't understand English well, and make a “door” at the exit waiting for the protagonists.
70. Stay with your mouth open watching the Manhattanhenge: four days a year, the sun aligns with the streets of the island.
71. Be silent with the fountains of the 9/11 Memorial. And surprised before the immense hall of the Calatrava station.
72. Stroll down the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, cool off in Brooklyn Bridge Park and ride the ponies of the jane's carousel.
73. Try the ramen burger , the slow roast beef from Lonestar Empire or Fletcher's BBQ or the latest sensation, the Wowfulls (waffles in the shape of cones and filled with ice cream and everything you want) … and all the hipsters imaginable in Smorgasburg, the flea market Williamsburg food.
74. **Going up at night to the terrace bar of the Wythe hotel**, eating at its restaurant and understanding why it's cool to be a hipster in Williamsburg.
Prepare to queue if you want to access their terrace
75. Climb the edge of the East River from Williamsburg, get to Greenpoint and find out what's coolest about being a hipster in Greenpoint.
76. try at least five local and craft beers , starting with the one that started it all: the Brooklyn Lager (at Williamsburg).
77. Go bowling at the Brooklyn Bowl or, better yet, The Gutter. Or the giant shuffleboard at The Royal Palms, and while you're at it, take a spin on the latest in Brooklyn, Gowanus.
78. **Lose track of time in the Strand ** and its huge corridors full of new and old books.
79. Do not exit the car at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall stop on Line 6 and see the old abandoned station from 1904.
80. "It's showtime, ladies and gentlemen!" . Attend a show of hip hop, acrobatics, dance... of kids in the subway car.
81. Satisfy your cinephilia at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria.
82. Pay homage to the great Louis Armstrong at his home museum in Corona, Queens.
83. Visit the authentic Little Italy, in the Bronx , near the zoo, where he ate lunch and dinner and bought cigars James Gandolfini.
84. Go blind with the lights of Times Square , greet yourself on one of the giant screens and run away from people dressed as Hello Kitty and Sesame Street.
85. But take a picture with him Naked Cowboy or the Naked Cowgirl.
86. Read what your guide says (and steal wifi) from the Fifth Avenue Public Library in the grandiose reading room on the top floor or in a chair Bryant Park.
87. Rest in Washington Square listening to a pianist who brings his grand piano there every day.
Naked Cowboy, the 'monument' of Times Square
88. Get a manicure for less than 10 dollars . And the manicure and pedicure for $25.
89. Dare to eat a variety of dim sums in the shopping centers of Flushing, the Chinatown of Queens, where everything is in Chinese.
90. Try the house chicken from the Congee, the biggest restaurant in Chinatown (in Manhattan).
91. Try the roast chicken with foie at the restaurant nomad hotel . And cry with pleasure.
92. **Write “I
Sylvia's Waffles
99. Suffer torticollis the whole trip from so much looking to see the end of the skyscrapers.
100. stumble on the cobblestones of soho when you were trying to go as a model or you got lost looking at models.
101. Try the tacos from Café Habana, Tacombi, Tacos Morelos or Los Tacos nº 1 and when you come back, make yourself interesting by saying: “The taco is the new hamburger in New York”.
102. Skip the cronut, the giant milkshakes, the colorful bagel and eat a donut, as God intended, at the Donut Plant, at Peter Pan Donut & Pastry; and a bagel, proper, at Russ & Daughters.
103. Attend the ballet or opera at the Metropolitan.
104. Buy a suitcase to be able to put all those jeans and sneakers that you have bought.
105. Or regret not being able to do it, because the dollar, my friend, is in such a good moment. It will fall, already.
106. Eat the menu tailored to the movie you see at Nitehawk Theaters in Williamsburg.
107. Avoid eating a croissant in front of Tiffany's or shout “Cat” through the alleys when it rains. You're not Holly Golightly.
108. Go to New York Sunday mass: **the brunch**. The more boozy (alcoholic), the better.
109. Go back to New York. Again. And discover it to someone: parents, children, siblings, friends, boyfriend, girlfriend .
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* Article initially published on 02.09.2014 and updated
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