<p>The best shopping for teen girls is Soho and Greenwich village-they will love it!</p>
<p>For a wild and wacky dining experience, you can try Jekyll & Hyde’s. D enjoyed the Motown Cafe because of the music and dancing.</p>
<p>Motown Cafe no longer exists in nyc. There’s a B.B. King Blues Club and Grill on west 42nd street.</p>
<p>nyumom–oh, well. The turnover of restaurants in NY can be astounding.</p>
<p>Will NYU and Columbia be the first colleges that your daughters have ever visited as prospective students?</p>
<p>For teenagers, I absolutely recommend that you see “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” at Circle on the Square Theater. The music is great and the script is hilarious…and everyone, kids and adults can identify. They even pick 4 people from the audience to join the cast in the spelling bee. Before the show, interviewers stop people in the lobby and ask them if they would like to be part of the show. They have a table where you fill out a form (They need to have at least one audience member who can actually spell). We had an absolute blast at the show this summer on our college tour.</p>
<p>patient,</p>
<p>since you are going to tour Columbia, you might as well cross the street and tour Barnard. You really do feel the difference between the 2 schools. Also try to take in Fordham which will be a straight shot on the # 1 train (66th street) Columbia /Barnard (116th street)</p>
<p>Thanks again to all, and a couple of replies: Aside from multiple trips to their brother’s college (Stanford), including time in the dorms with him on occasion and attending lots of performances, games, etc., summer camps there (both girls have attended resident camps at the school), and so forth, one of them has spent a week in the dorms at Long Beach State for a dance camp. But in terms of formal college tours, yes it will be their first. Someone else PMd me suggesting Barnard too and I think we will try to do that. I’m not sure how much time they really want to spend thinking about or visiting colleges, though, and I certainly have in mind that we may only visit one instead of two or three. The reason I chose the two I mentioned is that they have talked about the two of them. I am trying to keep it more in the vein of generic college than of having them think of specific schools–am I making a mistake?</p>