Bagels, Pizza, Hot Dogs and Race Tracks - New York City?

The idea of $1 - $4 samplings from some of those places ... wow!

There's just too too much going on. I'd almost forgotten that I want to try and see Camryn Mannheim in Romeo and Juliet in Central Park.

Angus McIndoe Okay. Ask to sit upstairs.
B.B. King Blues Club and Grill Drinks/ and music!!!
Becco -- extra extra ggggood/ bring money
Carmines HUGE PLATTERS of mediocre food
Cold Stone Creamery 5000 calories a cone and worth it,
Joe Allen Restaurant wait until the theatre crowd leaves 7:45
John's Pizzeria Sit upstairs THE best thin crust pizza


And where is 44 Southwest (44th and Ninth Ave) Italiano local family?


Joe(please don't come to NYC and eat at a chain. You can do that in Akron)Nation

three stages featuring




I wonder how Walter feels about swing dancing lessons in the middle of Times Square?

I regret I have to leave on Monday.

All street fairs are fun. Does anyone have preferences?

Yelper get-together (magicians practicing and the like) Monday night at Village Pourhouse

http://www.pourhousenyc.com/

Vegas Room (in the back, past the skanky frat boys )

after 6 p.m.

$1 beer til 7, 25 cent wings

these are within easy walking distance

(after Governor's Island on Saturday?)
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Saturday, June 9
Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Association Festival
Second Avenue from 14th to 23rd Streets

Saturday, June 9
Big Apple BBQ Festival
Madison Avenue from 23rd to 25th Streets & Madison Square Park

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Sunday, June 10
Christopher East Block Association Fest
Christopher Streets between 7th Avenue and Greenwich Avenue

Sunday, June 10
Tilden Midtown Dem. Club Festival
3rd Avenue from 23rd to 34th Streets


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and just in time for the Tranna contingent

For some reason I'm feeling a little psychically pummelled and not up to Deep, Informed Research.

Fortunately I have complete faith and trust in Eh-Beth's genius for constructing wonderful weekends.

This one is really something to see (that is eat through), competitors from all over come to share their chopped, chipped, marinated, unsaturated (hah), pulled, poked, smoked oozie-goozie BBQ treats.
(Of course, Blue Smoke is around the corner Jazz with Meats.


Most, not all, street fairs have become the same. Vendors with sausage sandwichs next to the same guy you saw selling underwear three weeks ago ten blocks away selling underwear. (sigh) Street fairs used to feature the local businesses, now they are most the same bunch of roving vendors.


Why has no one mentioned the Puerto Rican Day Parade. The loudest bands and a hundred thousand coochi coochi girls shaking it.

It's on Sunday. Fifth Ave by the Park.


Puerto Rican Day Parade

Joe(hey, what are you looking at?)Nation

thass why we need the locals to help us with this ... I can't find it if I don't know what I'm looking for

love and New York

Haven't some marchers/spectators of the Puerto Rican Day Parade turned very rowdy? Dangerously rowdy in a few cases?

aBout as rowdy as the Irish, but the boyos have to contend with the cold of March 17th.

The Puerto Ricans, 98 percent of whom are just partying, have done some bad things.

Joe(it's going to rain like hell anyway)Nation

(No, it's not)

Young men of all cultures have the potential to be drunken fools.

Current weather forecast for NYC 6/8-6/11 is highs of 79 to 80 and 10-30% chance of rain. Sounds perfect.

I have no great preferences for one of those street festivals over another. Not so sure about the parade, for more than a quick view anyway.

I think I'm glad that the Taste of Times Square doesn't start til I'm on my way out of town!

Mac--

Everyone else can Oooommmmmm.

I spend a lot of time whispering, "Get thee behind me, Satan," and retreating from temptation.

Just sending a short note that I will leave Chicago tomorrow morning and stay at first until Wednesday in New York. (Then Boston, arriving Friday at Penn Station).

Be careful on those trains, Walter!

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See you in, mmmmm, 5 sleeps! See all of you in 5 sleeps!

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If everyone's at the parade, that should leave the park and carriages to the Atookaians :wink:

I'll doublecheck the direction the train takes, promised

You'll be ok without CI (kidding, mostly...)

Joe is right about the street fairs. Seen one, you've seen 'em all. So if you want to go to one, I'd advise that you not spend your precious vacation time on more than one.

The Puerto Rican Day parade has hurtled into the number one position as my least favorite parade. (I live near where almost all the parades end.) The St. Patrick's Day parade held the title for many years, and still holds a place of honor as one of my least favorites.

The parade marches up Fifth Avenue. I don't know where it begins, but I do know where it ends. It turns east on 86th Street and ends at Third Avenue. I don't know whether you want to see the parade or not. Doesn't matter. I'm telling you this because the parade may affect your ability to get around. Fifth Avenue will be closed to all traffic. The transverses through the park will be backed up. Even on a Sunday. Don't ask what this is like when parades happen on weekdays. (There's an old joke in Noo Yawk: Tourist: What's the best way to get across town? Native: Be born there.)

I recall that you're planning something in Central Park for Sunday, Beth. My suggestion: Finish whatever it is you're planning before the parade begins or stay on the West Side.

It's not likely that north-south traffic will be affected. Also not likely that the West Side will be affected. All this is FYI.

Aside: I hate parade season. You'll be long gone. I still have the Steuben Day parade, the Polaski Day parade, the Israeli Independence Day parade, etc. to look forward to. (Ear plugs.)

Now this:Museum Mile Festival would be worth a couple of hours.

It's on Tuesday and close enough to Roberta's that you can use her bathroom.

Joe(don't thank me)Nation