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I will be attempting the Home entertainment show next week!
Any good dining around?
About night life?
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I'll be driving down from upstate Wednesday to the Hotel (I will be with Bobby P from Merlin with a car full of stuff for the Merlin suite... we will be staying/parking at the Hyatt). From what a friend has told me, the best way to get down to the hotel would be via the east side (i.e the FDR - which is cool I'll be comming from up north so I know how to get to the FDR form the Major Deagan).Any tips from the locals about were to best exit and get to the hotel with minimum of headaches on Wednesday afternoon??? Right now I am guessing FDR to 48th street to Lex down to the hotel, but I don't currently know what's up in regards to construction etc on the FDR and around Manhattan at present. Any tips/suggestions would be greatly appreciated! :-)
My apologies for going off topic! :-)
Happy Listening,
Rich Brkich
Retailer & Audio Asylum Industry Liaison
The proposed route will work but it will take you to the main street entrance on 42nd Street, not the vehicle entrance. The NYCPD will not let you park there and I do not know if you could get the speakers through the revolving doors. It also really depends on how/where you intend to park.If you continue South on the FDR to 34th Street and exit right, you can take 34th to Park Avenue. At Park, turn right (North) and stay in the left lane so that, at about 40th Street, you can merge up on to the elevated road that bypasses Grand Central Terminal. As you make the first (obligatory) right turn on the elevated roadway you will be directly facing the Hyatt's vehicle entrance.
All that said, I do not know if even that is ideal for unloading/parking, but I do know that it would probably be impossible to do on 42nd Street.
Thank Kal... The only stuff in the car will be small stuff (some PLCs, CD player, cables, literature etc - the big items like speakers, stands, room treatments etc are all being shipped in). Since we are checking into our hotel (sleeping not our show suite) room Wednesday (we can only start setting up and bringing stuff to our show suite on Thrusday as I understand it), I will be "Checking into the hotel as a guest Wednesday afternoon with baggage to bring to my hotel room", so we don't need a loading dock - just a porter to get our lugage and some boxes up to our room. :-)To make life easy for getting arriving/leaving for the show we plan on parking my car at the hotel for the duration of the show since we are staying there as well as showing there - so it sounds like Park Ave entrance is the one I want.
Happy Listening,
Rich Brkich
Retailer & Audio Asylum Industry Liaison
...pick up a copy of Time Out New York magazine as soon as you get to NYC. You'll find listings and reviews for just about everything happening in the city. Don't be afraid to use the subway to get around, it's safe, fast, and cheaper than taxis.
There is even, I'm told, the occasional theater performance.
Pick up a Zagat's guide, or a Lonely Planet guide to New York City, or both. NYC has far too many excellent choices, and you gave no parameters for your interests.
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And the best food there is the iron Skillet?
I pass;-))
Odyno
At least according to the late, great, Harry Chapin! He points out that they eat 20,000 lbs of bananas every day in Scranton, PA!
Try the soup dumplings.
One of the few foods that I truly miss after leaving the city (until I found out that the "soup" was actually some form of pork fat). Also, try Nonia in Little Italy if you like Thai food. You can have a nice cappucino and a pastry at any of the coffee shops nearby (but be cautious of any store with a stretch limo out front and two burly, well-dressed men in sunglasses manning the entrances.... it's temporarily occupied).
Some of the best steaks I've ever had. Not cheap, by any stretch of the imagination, but, hell, when in Rome . . .:) That place has probably shortened my life by a good 15 years. But, oh what a way to go! :)
I tried Argentinian,Brazilian, Mail order Filet Mignon et al.But the one I like best is at the corner above,prepared in front of you with the crowd from Macy's jostling around you,the lady behind me pushing,smell of garlic bread wafting in the air,the old $1.5 TAD steak now costing $5 with a coke.I had to ask around.The meat is Australian buffalo.Great chewable stuff.Siesta afterwards in the GMA speaker room.
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jazz and pizza. good wine, also.
go to Vincent's in Little Italy. It is casual and you can eat outside if you like. It is the best!
After the show, if the weather is nice, take stroll up and down third avenue. Many nice places to hang out, eat, drink and hear music, many with outdoor dining. I would say down as far as 28th street and up as far as 50th street. The Grand Hyatt is about one block west of 3rd avenue off Lexington.
... Niccola Paone a few blocks south (expensive).Generally, for good food, not expensive, you need to go east. Think Second Avenue.
Don't forget to stop by our room, 1627. Bob Cordell, Darren Kuzma and I will be running a bunch of listening and measurements clinics.Explaining JA's amp and speaker measurements
Tube vs SS amp comparison
Peak power tests
Speaker comparison
Amp design clinic
Try the Garage - excellent food and live jazz.
Pack heat if you go out at night.
The mandatory minimum sentence for possession of a loaded illegal handgun in NYC is 3.5 years in prison. It is very difficult to get a permit to carry a handgun in NYC, so if you plan on bringing your "heat" to the city for the stereo show you might want to think twice.-Aaron.
Ever heard the story of Bobby the first kid in the neighbourhood to get a gun for Christmas?Bobby was the only kid in the neighbourhood to get an Easter bunny!
This society is becoming so afraid of locking up first time offenders
for Life were stuck with soaring crime.
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Have you had your head in the sand recently? NY is much safer than the big European capitals. Maybe some of the Scandanvian caps would be a bit safer, there has been more articles on this during the last 3 years than you can imagine.
those articles. how often are you in Europe and what do the Europeans have to say about this??
That's if you can let yourself face political incorrectness. Note too, were one allowed to remove one particular population segment from US stats, this country would look even better!
....\\\The United States has incarcerated 726 people per 100,000 of its population, seven to 10 times as many as most other democracies.///Further.... \\\ The rate for England is 142 per 100,000, for France 91 and for Japan 58///
The Justice Department also indicated “violent crime” had fallen in the US significantly since the early 90’s.
I readily concede that using statistics to rate “safeness” is open to vast interpretation.
I am not aware of many people advocating New York is a safer place to live than most European Cities. Maybe it is?
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Sox
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.....G’day,Of course, I don’t know the definitive answer to your question. Crime and crime statistics are a very complex subject and I don’t believe the definition of “crime” is even universally accepted. Higher arrest/conviction rates can be viewed positively or negatively depending on the context & perspective taken.
I have not been to New York but if I take a pragmatic view and relate it to the city in which I grew up (Sydney) I can imagine the real level of danger directly depends where in the city you happen to be. Many places in Sydney you can walk around at 3 am without any fear of being accosted. However, there are places in Sydney where if you did walk around at 3 am you are placing your life in danger. I suspect New York, London and other major cities around the world are similar in that respect.
I guess the most disturbing stat is the homicide rate in New York. Death tends to be rather final.
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Sox
A recent EU crime and safety survey showed that the crime rate in London is higher than in any other European capital city or New York. In fact the EU named the UK a "high crime country."
..... The stats seem to vary a little depending on the source. Though as far as I can tell the MURDER rate per 100,000 in New York is OVER 6.5 and the murder rate per 100,000 in London is UNDER 2.5.But hey, other stats say New York is the safest large city in the US.
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"But hey, other stats say New York is the safest large city in the US."I thought the safest large city in the US was San Jose, California, consistently for many years.
Kurt
According to the FBI San Jose's crime rate is a commendable 2.9 (65th out of the 68 cities with populations > 250K). Honolulu, which coincidentally has almost the same ~910K populaton as San Jose, has the lowest rate at 1.7. On the other hand how does one define "large city?" Is a "large city" over 1 million? By that standard only San Diego has a lower crime rate than NYC. Is a "large city" over 2 million? That cuts the group down to just NYC, LA, and Chicago, and New York's crime rate is a fraction of the rates in either of those cities.
read the post from Clark above- there's probably two separate murder rates in NYC- one in neighborhoods no visitor would ever venture and another for parts visitors would probably visit. I've always felt safe in NYC in last 10 yrs, and am always on watch for pickpockets in London!
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in the UK? kids would randomly go up to people and slap them upside the head. funny!wonder what the specific source data is (re your link). i'll have to look at it later. interesting though. flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
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... New York is one of the safest cities in this country. One the friendliest too... certainly more so than the judgemental intolerants that prevade in the midwest (Chicago being the exception).
You might be safer in New York than you are at home. New York isn't even in the top 25 US cities ranked by 2005 homicide rate, according to the FBI. It barely makes the top 50, coming in at number 49. Charlotte NC, not usually thought of as a dangerous burg, has a murder rate almost double New York's, for example, and even Omaha has a higher murder rate than NYC! Dallas, Phoenix, Detroit, Los Angeles, Houston, San Antonio, Philadelphia, and San Diego all have higher crime rates than New York.
I would pick NY any day.
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Hmm...NYC?
Good dining?
Night life?
Nah, just watch tv and order in a pizza, that is, if there are any good pizzas to be found in NYC...
Best regards,
Hey its NYC, not Boise...
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