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[NYC] Upper west side
Is the area around 90th street and Broadway interesting ? I will be in
NYC in december and I'm considering staying at the Quality Inn on Broadway. I d'like to have some opinions about this area, including restaurants and bars. |
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"zinzan" wrote in message ... Is the area around 90th street and Broadway interesting ? I will be in NYC in december and I'm considering staying at the Quality Inn on Broadway. I d'like to have some opinions about this area, including restaurants and bars. Thats a good area. It's only a few minutes subway ride from Times Square etc. |
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The hotel is on 94th and Broadway.It is a good neighborhood and hotel
is 100 feet to the subway entrance. An express train takes about 8 minutes to get to Times Square FRom 90th to 95th from Broadway to Amsterdam Ave (one block east of Broadway) there are 4 Italian restaurants 2 Mexican restaurants 2 Indian restaurants And one each of the following : Thai. Tex Mex, Peruvian, Middle Eastern, Chinese/SPanish, Steakhouse (Kosher), a diner Two fast food places - MacDonalds and SUbway There is a very popular bar The Dive Bar - on Amsterdam and 96th Also on Amsterdam is one of the most popular restaurants in the area - Saigon Grill - Vietnamese - anytime you walk by there are at least 20 people waiting to get in. |
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If you like Gothic Architecture visit the largest cathedral in the
world, The Cathedral Church of St John the Divine . 112th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, one block east of Broadway. On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:19:46 +0200, zinzan wrote: Is the area around 90th street and Broadway interesting ? I will be in NYC in december and I'm considering staying at the Quality Inn on Broadway. I d'like to have some opinions about this area, including restaurants and bars. |
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:19:46 +0200, zinzan wrote:
Is the area around 90th street and Broadway interesting ? I grew up near there. It's a residential neighborhood with Broadway as the main business street. I don't think it's that interesting, but if you do stay there, the Natural History Museum/Hayden Planetarium complex is very walkable, at 77-81 Sts. between Columbus and Central Park West. Perhaps my favorite residential highrise in New York is the Apthorp, between 78th and 79th Sts. between Broadway and West End, and there's a companion to in between 86th and 87th between Broadway and Amsterdam. The Apthorp is truly beautiful and worth looking at. The Ansonia, on 74 St. and Broadway, is also striking if arguably not that beautiful, and worth walking past at least once. West End is an avenue of somewhat cavernous spaces, I now feel because I now live downtown among lowrises. These 12-to-16-story apartment houses mostly date from the first couple of decades of the 20th century and are not bad. Riverside and Central Parks are nice. But if you want nightlife and a good restaurant scene, you'd be better off downtown. However, the Upper West Side is way preferable to the Disney - um, I mean Times Square district. I will be in NYC in december and I'm considering staying at the Quality Inn on Broadway. I d'like to have some opinions about this area, including restaurants and bars. As I said, your best bet is to get out of that neighborhood for restaurants and bars. Go to the Lower East Side/East Village, Chinatown, the Village, and Hell's Kitchen. Michael If you would like to send a private email to me, please take out the TRASH, so to speak. Please do not email me something which you also posted. |
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Pan wrote:
I grew up near there. It's a residential neighborhood with Broadway as the main business street. I don't think it's that interesting, but if you do stay there, the Natural History Museum/Hayden Planetarium complex is very walkable, at 77-81 Sts. between Columbus and Central Park West. Perhaps my favorite residential highrise in New York is the Apthorp, between 78th and 79th Sts. between Broadway and West End If I'm not mistaken this building has a twin on 7th Ave at 116th (where I used to live, though up there we had a 4br with 2 baths, living room and formal dining room for $1400/month back in 1996). miguel -- Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu Site remodeled 10-Sept-2003: Hundreds of new photos, easier navigation. |
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zinzan wrote:
Is the area around 90th street and Broadway interesting ? I will be in NYC in december and I'm considering staying at the Quality Inn on Broadway. I d'like to have some opinions about this area, including restaurants and bars. In addition to the other good advice you have received, Symphony Space is just a block away, and has a full schedule of unusual performances. As well as a movie theatre that shows classic films. Larry -- Larry Finch N 40° 53' 47" W 74° 03' 56" |
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One of the Italian restautants in Gennero on Amsterdam and 93rd. Good food and reasonably priced but they have a $20 minimum per person. Always a wait unless you get there before 6:30. Carmines is another Italian restaurant. IF you go by the crowds waiting to get a table it appears to be a favorite of lots of people. Not mine - too noisy, too much garlic The middle eastern restaurant is called Cleopatra's Needle - Broadway between 94th and 93rd. Overpriced Periuvian - relatively new. Name is Sipan and is one the corner of 94th and AMsterdam. Good food and not overpriced.., The Chinese/Spanish is the Neuva VIctoria on the corner of 95th and Broadway. Ate in Pampa once - meat was too tough for my taste. Portions are huge as you pointed out. We agree on the Malecon if you don't mind smelling of garlic for a week after you eat there. My favorite take out meal. A whole chicken, yellow rice a container of red or black beans and an order of platinos meduro. Feeds four people and cost is $11 |
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