Going to NYC for the first time

floridadad55
Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:47:07 +0000

My son went to college in Scotland, and flew to London, then to Edinburgh, and then took a bus to his college at St Andrews, all by himself.

At first, it seemed to me to be unthinkable, but as you said, if you do get into NYU, you will be roaming around New York City every day starting in September.

You might want to go on some organized tour bus to visit the tourist sites.

Also, you should divide the city into different sections, and concentrate on seeing one such section of the city each day.

If you can afford it, you can take cabs everywhere. Then you won’t get lost.

Also, you can bring a GPS with you. They work even if you are walking, rather than driving.

Also, buy a travel guide at a Barnes & Noble. They basically spoonfeed you. They say, “walk here, then walk there”.

This is really no different than if you were visiting Rome or Paris. You wouldn’t know those cities either.

At least your friend lives in Manhattan. That will make things much easier for you, than if he/she lived in Brooklyn, Queens, or the Bronx.

Suggestions: Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. Got to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Walk around the park at NYU. Walk around both the East and the West Village, so you will get an idea of what it is like to live near NYU.

Walk up and down Columbus Ave and Amsterdam Ave, on the Upper West Side.

Go to the Planetarium, and the Museum of Natural History.

Walk around Times Square.

I would not go to the top of the Empire State Building. The lines are incredibly long. It literally takes hours and hours.