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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: seahorse513 on December 29, 2012, 01:17:15 PM
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in May, over mother's day weekend. I have never been to NYC, but always wanted to go!!!
My action item is,,,,tourists trap, and bus tours.
Definitely Central Park, and the 911 Memorial, those were my 1st two choices.
Empire State building, and Rockerfeller Centre were mentioned.
Ellis Island
any other ideas?,,,,,
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Oh! Have fun!
I wouldn't be able to stay away from high end shopping districts and off the wall art galleries. Things that I definitely can't find here!
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A Broadway Show.
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9/11 Memorial.
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911 memorial is a definite. I have looking into the New York pass. it's 145 dollars.
http://www.newyorkpass.com/busTourPackages.aspx
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Little Italy to eat! Grab a cab to Mulberry St. Take a walk and your nose and eye's will guide you! I have never been disappointed!
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Central Park can be a little iffy! Best to just drive through IMO. Horse and buggy ride is best!
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Stay out of the subways!!! Really!
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Guy Fieri's restaurant (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html?smid=fb-share&_r=2&) in Times Square.
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When you are walking thru the "canyons" of Manhattan and you think of the horror of 911 it is truly frightening!
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A Broadway Show.
WAY expensive. Especially if you don't get them well in advance. Otherwise, you'll end up getting off-Broadway stuff at best, or going through a broker.
And you have to reserve tickets for the 9/11 Memorial itself, otherwise you just go through one small exhibit/gift shop. They've long since cleared the memorial fence across the street at St. Paul's, the chapel is still well worth the visit.
http://www.911memorial.org/
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WAY expensive. Especially if you don't get them well in advance. Otherwise, you'll end up getting off-Broadway stuff at best, or going through a broker.
And you have to reserve tickets for the 9/11 Memorial itself, otherwise you just go through one small exhibit/gift shop. They've long since cleared the memorial fence across the street at St. Paul's, the chapel is still well worth the visit.
http://www.911memorial.org/
Thankyou for mentioning this...Once I get everything confirmed, I will order the passes...
I realize May is far away, but Mother's day weekend might be really busy...
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Central Park can be a little iffy! Best to just drive through IMO. Horse and buggy ride is best!
Now THOSE can cost ya.
During the daytime the Park isn't bad, and the Metropolitan Museum would take DAYS to go through.
I'm almost tempted to make a trip down one of these days just so I can get Scoobie about 20 orders of the toffee nuts the street vendors everywhere make.
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Guy Fieri's restaurant (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html?smid=fb-share&_r=2&) in Times Square.
Wow, ouch.
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Wow, ouch.
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I liked the reader comment from "Red" in Minneysoda:
This is a fantastic article. Guy Fieri is a pox on professional chefs. I think the Donkey Sauce may be seasoned with the tears of Gordon Ramsay and Anthony Bourdain.
:rotf:
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I like Guy Fieri, but that article was the perfect combination of scorn and burn. As a former restaurant employee, I laughed my ass off at it. It looks like he was there on a busy night and got bad service. It happens. The best night to go "out" to eat is Monday or Tuesday when it's slow.
I've worked with "professional chefs"... guys who paid $30k for culinary school and found out what restaurant work was like after they got handed the bill.
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This one was surprising;
Walking out the door, I think I said something like, "Wow. That really sucked." But because I'm a fan of Guy and DD&D's, I didn't want to give up on him. So I went a second time. Would you believe me if I told you it was worse than the first time?
:lmao:
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I like the naked chef myself!!
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I like the naked chef myself!!
I'm not a fan of naked people in the kitchen. Too many grease burns.
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I hear there are some historic artifacts in the the Chrysler building. Also, it's taller than the Empire State building.
Walter Chrysler was an amazing person. Too bad his company didn't fare as well after his death. C'est la vie.
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I hear there are some historic artifacts in the the Chrysler building. Also, it's taller than the Empire State building.
Walter Chrysler was an amazing person. Too bad his company didn't fare as well after his death. C'est la vie.
The company I worked for was headquartered in the Chrysler Building. Miles and miles of stainless steel!
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Guy Fieri's restaurant (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html?smid=fb-share&_r=2&) in Times Square.
Yeah, that was a pretty brutal review. Frankly, there's not much I'd want to go to Times Square for as far as food goes. Scoobie and I made the mistake of sitting down in some deli just off there. $23 for a corned beef sandwich. JUST the sandwich. No slaw, no fries, no pickle, no shit.
Needless to say, we left in a hurry.
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Yeah, that was a pretty brutal review. Frankly, there's not much I'd want to go to Times Square for as far as food goes. Scoobie and I made the mistake of sitting down in some deli just off there. $23 for a corned beef sandwich. JUST the sandwich. No slaw, no fries, no pickle, no shit.
Needless to say, we left in a hurry.
How much is ONE slice of pizza now?
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How much is ONE slice of pizza now?
Depends...we ended up going to Ray's a couple of blocks away and they were selling slices (BIG slices!) for under $3.
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Depends...we ended up going to Ray's a couple of blocks away and they were selling slices (BIG slices!) for under $3.
At least the price hasn't increaded through the years. It was great pizza, too! How is this escaping Bloomberg's Food Police?
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If you like ice cream, go to Serendipity. Be prepared for a wait, however!
If you want to see a show, the TKTS booths can offer good prices, depending on what you want to see. http://www.tdf.org/TDF_ServicePage.aspx?id=56
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Been to NYC many times.
Where are you staying? That'll help in giving suggestions. For instance, I usually stay somewhere between the theatre district and Central Park.
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If you get a chance to get out of Manhattan, here's a very nice park for walks and/or bike riding in Queens:
Forest Park, Queens NY (http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/forestpark)
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*sigh*
It's a dirty job, but I guess somebody has to do it. BTDT, and I ain't going back for mo'.
I wouldn't voluntarily set foot in that hellhole if my life depended on it. Possible exception flying in or out of JFK.
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Been to NYC many times.
Where are you staying? That'll help in giving suggestions. For instance, I usually stay somewhere between the theatre district and Central Park.
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We are are looking at the Central Park area.. I can't wait!!
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We have friends who go to NYC every year for their anniversary. They manage a four day stay for about $3000.00. This is why I go to San Antonio.
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Times Square smells bad (says the chica with cow doodie on her boots). The memory of the odor and litter lingers.
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*sigh*
It's a dirty job, but I guess somebody has to do it. BTDT, and I ain't going back for mo'.
I wouldn't voluntarily set foot in that hellhole if my life depended on it. Possible exception flying in or out of JFK.
Amen--and if your potential travel plans involve either LaGuardia or Newark, pass. I've NEVER had a good/on-time experience in either place, especially LaGuardia. Something about the runways there that they must be in a bowl, because 2 drops of rain, and they're all flooded.
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Oh, and sea? Get used to a few realities regardless of where you stay in NYC, especially Manhattan:
Rooms are overpriced (think $300-plus a night. PLUS tax.)
Rooms are small (the one Scoobie and I stayed in was MAYBE 12X12, INCLUDING the bathroom.)
Accept walking or taking a subway. It's not that hard to get around, and unless the weather sucks, you'll enjoy the walk.
"Happy Hour" ain't. Not when you're paying $5 for a pint of beer. Normal price will run you about $6-7, unless you're at a nice place, then it's $8-10, depending. I got Scoobs a drink at the steak place we went to and it was $22. However, a lot of little places are nice to pop into just to check out the atmosphere and have AWESOME food (I'm still thinking about this one place that had beer-marinated wings.)
Driving might be cheaper than a bus/plane/train, but parking, even with coupon/Internet deals, will pretty much kill that ($40-45/day.) And Scoobie, while normally comfortable with my driving, absolutely HATED it in Midtown Manhattan. Hey, what can I say? When in Rome, etc., etc.
And longview--while winter is not the best time to find the Naked Cowboy, who knows if he'll be back come spring. While not my bag, she might like that. Who knows?
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Carnegie Deli, you can eat their pastrami and corned beef sandwich for days. It's not cheap but you can share it and still have leftovers.
(http://midlifebatmitzvah.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/pastrami.jpg)
(http://www.yi-ren.net/pics/2008/081219-CarnegieDeli/DSCF4260.jpg)
Like where this last picture came from, ME SO HUNGRY!
(http://www.mightysweet.com/mesohungry/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/01-carnegie-deli.jpg)
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Times Square smells bad (says the chica with cow doodie on her boots). The memory of the odor and litter lingers.
All of New York smells like rotten trash and you see rats everywhere. :puke:
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Oh god, you people are scaring me!!!
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Like Chicago, there's only one way anyone would get me within 125 miles of NYC: if I was in low orbit over the place preparing to release the nukes.
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Oh god, you people are scaring me!!!
I don't know if I would ever go back but I would divorce my husband if he ever got a job in New York and we had to move there. It was fun when we went for my 40th birthday, we stayed at a really nice hotel and saw a couple of shows. Went on a tour that shows you all the sites and tells you what is so special about them. Frankly, the only place we ate where I would like to eat at again is Carnagie Deli, there is much better food in Texas and CA for that matter.
You have to see a show, you will enjoy that. We saw Avenue Q and another one that I can't think of right now. Avenue Q was a little political (they bashed Bush) but it was fun. It's filthy and everyone is rude so try to ignore that.
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I don't know if I would ever go back but I would divorce my husband if he ever got a job in New York and we had to move there. It was fun when we went for my 40th birthday
So you're going there 11 years from now, and haven't been there yet?
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Oh, and if you like a nice quiet night--FUGGEDABOUTIT.
Yeah, it was nice ONCE. Give me a cabin in the woods with the kids fishing and me making steak tips on a charcoal grill every night.
I showed Scoobie the 2013 rates for the cabin we stayed at in July. She wasn't that big on it, considering it's six-plus months (if then) away. She'll come around if I tell her I've paid for another week over 4th of July there... :wink:
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So you're going there 11 years from now, and haven't been there yet?
I love you. :-*
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Oh, and if you like a nice quiet night--FUGGEDABOUTIT.
Yeah, it was nice ONCE. Give me a cabin in the woods with the kids fishing and me making steak tips on a charcoal grill every night.
I showed Scoobie the 2013 rates for the cabin we stayed at in July. She wasn't that big on it, considering it's six-plus months (if then) away. She'll come around if I tell her I've paid for another week over 4th of July there... :wink:
Life is an adventure, and I like adventures!!!
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When I was a wee lass I went to NYC with my family, traveled up from DC. I went to the observation deck of the WTC, and went to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Ate a hot dog from a street vendor. For me, that's good enough, I have seen all I needed to of that town. I'll take a cabin in the woods, thank you very much.
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Life is an adventure, and I like adventures!!!
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When I was a wee lass I went to NYC with my family, traveled up from DC. I went to the observation deck of the WTC, and went to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Ate a hot dog from a street vendor. For me, that's good enough, I have seen all I needed to of that town. I'll take a cabin in the woods, thank you very much.
And while it's been nearly a year now, I took Scoobie and the kids to the RV show on the other side of Manch-Vegas just to kind of see what they thought as well as price stuff out.
Yeah, it's definitely on the agenda to trade up to a full-sized pickup and a 24-foot camper. And when you think about it, that gives us a degree of freedom even nicer than the "cabin in the woods" bit because we can go to just about ANY woods, lake, tourist trap, etc. The only real limitation is our imagination and where we want to go and how long it takes to get from home to there. It's amazing how much stuff is within a day's drive of here if you don't mind doing a few long weekends versus a week or ten days.
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And while it's been nearly a year now, I took Scoobie and the kids to the RV show on the other side of Manch-Vegas just to kind of see what they thought as well as price stuff out.
Yeah, it's definitely on the agenda to trade up to a full-sized pickup and a 24-foot camper. And when you think about it, that gives us a degree of freedom even nicer than the "cabin in the woods" bit because we can go to just about ANY woods, lake, tourist trap, etc. The only real limitation is our imagination and where we want to go and how long it takes to get from home to there. It's amazing how much stuff is within a day's drive of here if you don't mind doing a few long weekends versus a week or ten days.
There are plans for a pop-up, and dreams of a teardrop in our future as well.
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Whatever you do, do NOT go into the M&M/Hersheys factory or whateverthehell it was.
I barely got out of there alive, and still have nightmares about it.
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There are plans for a pop-up, and dreams of a teardrop in our future as well.
The pop-ups are okay, but I'd think that they'd be pretty limited as far as seasons go. I mean hell, when we were in Pittsburg in JULY it still got into the 40's at night. I don't mind cooler weather, but even I have limits, and I like the amenities that a lot of the "regular" campers have these days. I mean, we saw one that was maybe 21-22 feet, but still had a queen sized bed up front, 3-burner stove and oven, microwave, fridge, decent sized bathroom, and a little bunkroom for the kids, and STILL came in at 4500 lbs (and more importantly, under $20K.)
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Whatever you do, do NOT go into the M&M/Hersheys factory or whateverthehell it was.
I barely got out of there alive, and still have nightmares about it.
I can vouch for that. Even I was getting claustrophobic, it was that freakin crowded. And it was the M&M store.
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there is much better food in Texas and CA for that matter.
Amen! I was so disappointed in the "glorious" food I had heard about my whole life.
Dining in Dallas is just as abundant, much better, and a tad cheaper.
(The same goes for the food in Philly -- I had better "Philly food" in Austin.)
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Sea, in all seriousness, you're gonna have to go to NYC once.
Only once.
Then you'll have it behind you, you can say you've been there and done it, and you'll be ready for your next adventure someplace else.
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in May, over mother's day weekend. I have never been to NYC, but always wanted to go!!!
My action item is,,,,tourists trap, and bus tours.
Definitely Central Park, and the 911 Memorial, those were my 1st two choices.
Empire State building, and Rockerfeller Centre were mentioned.
Ellis Island
any other ideas?,,,,,
I hope you have a BLAST! I did. Didn't go to Central Park, or Rockafeller Centre, but I did go to the Memorial. Also went to the ESB as I showed in my NYC thread. Do not miss going to Times Square at night. Absolutely beautiful. Some of the homeless people and just people wanting to make a buck play sax, and stuff on the street. Many suck, but some are pretty good, and deserved a buck as far as I was concerned.
Awesome place. Lot of sirens, and traffic to get used to though. As they say, the city never sleeps. Have fun!
I don't know if I would ever go back but I would divorce my husband if he ever got a job in New York and we had to move there. It was fun when we went for my 40th birthday, we stayed at a really nice hotel and saw a couple of shows. Went on a tour that shows you all the sites and tells you what is so special about them. Frankly, the only place we ate where I would like to eat at again is Carnagie Deli, there is much better food in Texas and CA for that matter.
You have to see a show, you will enjoy that. We saw Avenue Q and another one that I can't think of right now. Avenue Q was a little political (they bashed Bush) but it was fun. It's filthy and everyone is rude so try to ignore that.
That's the wholel point of the show, BEG! :lmao:
All of New York smells like rotten trash and you see rats everywhere.
No it doesn't. It certainly does have a unique smell that I've never smelled before, but I kinda got used to it. Call me nasty, but I didn't mind it.
Oh, and I only went on the subway during the day, so can't speculate for the other 12 hrs, but it wasn't all that bad when I was down there. There certainly are some seedy people even I saw down there though. Best to at least keep one's eyes peeleld.
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Depends...we ended up going to Ray's a couple of blocks away and they were selling slices (BIG slices!) for under $3.
By the Hotel Pensylvannia? Cause "Ray's" sounds familliar, and I got a BIG slice from a pizza joint right on the street for around $3 bucks. HUGE sausage disks on it, and it was delicious.
By the way, I clicked the link for the Fox News studio thing, and couldn't find the info for what time they tape their shows...
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(http://exterminatorsnyc.com/images/rat_5_manhattan_exterminator.jpg)
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Carnegie Deli, you can eat their pastrami and corned beef sandwich for days. It's not cheap but you can share it and still have leftovers.
(http://midlifebatmitzvah.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/pastrami.jpg)
(http://www.yi-ren.net/pics/2008/081219-CarnegieDeli/DSCF4260.jpg)
Like where this last picture came from, ME SO HUNGRY!
(http://www.mightysweet.com/mesohungry/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/01-carnegie-deli.jpg)
Good call on that one. I had a piece of cheesecake there that was ENORMOUS. Not to mention delicious.
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Sea, in all seriousness, you're gonna have to go to NYC once.
Only once.
Then you'll have it behind you, you can say you've been there and done it, and you'll be ready for your next adventure someplace else.
I agree. Even though I've been more than once. But, go at least once.
"Naked Cowboy!" I'd put him on the fencing crew just for laughs. He'd be finding some britches and footwear pretty quick.
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We are are looking at the Central Park area.. I can't wait!!
In that case you're right near a bunch of things. Rockefeller Center, Trump Tower, Radio City Music Hall, The Ed Sullivan Theater, Macy's. You might want to take a day and walk down Broadway from Central Park down to around 34th Street (you're in the area of Madison Square Gardens and the Empire State Building) and then cut over and walk back up 5th Avenue. Just seeing the sights on that walk would take in a whole day. It may sound like a long ways, but in NYC the blocks are short blocks, so walking 20 blocks isn't like walking 20 in a different city.
And don't be overly concerned about the cost. Yes, it's high. But you're in NYC!! Have fun! Spend the money to see and do the things you've always heard about. You'll be glad you did.
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You should definitely go to the Empire State Bldg. That would be cool!
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I have always wanted to go there, just to see it. I don't think I would ever want to live there.
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I still do even though I'd have the insufferable Bloomberg as my overlord.
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Aerial views of the Chrysler Building are used in almost every, if not every, broadcast of "CSI - New York."
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From what I've been told by a NYC "native" friend (who FINALLY escaped from the city a year ago this month), rats aren't the real problem; it's the raccoons that are the scariest. They get into everything and have evolved into HUGE animals in the city -- he's seen some that have been almost the size of a medium-sized dog.
(http://cdn.ph.upi.com/sv/i/UPI-47271311787821/2011/1/13117888966910/New-laws-address-NYC-raccoon-problem.jpg)
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/27/New-laws-address-NYC-raccoon-problem/UPI-47271311787821/ (http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/27/New-laws-address-NYC-raccoon-problem/UPI-47271311787821/)
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From what I've been told by a NYC "native" friend (who FINALLY escaped from the city a year ago this month), rats aren't the real problem; it's the raccoons that are the scariest. They get into everything and have evolved into HUGE animals in the city -- he's seen some that have been almost the size of a medium-sized dog.
(http://cdn.ph.upi.com/sv/i/UPI-47271311787821/2011/1/13117888966910/New-laws-address-NYC-raccoon-problem.jpg)
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/27/New-laws-address-NYC-raccoon-problem/UPI-47271311787821/ (http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/27/New-laws-address-NYC-raccoon-problem/UPI-47271311787821/)
I used to have one named "Remington". She was so sweet.
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I used to have one named "Remington". She was so sweet.
A coon from under my neibor's house attacked me three times. I finally said, "**** it," got my rifle, and dropped it 5 feet from me atfter putting 8 shells into it. I bagged it, took it to the vet, and the county said had the most virulent form of distemper.
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I used to have one named "Remington". She was so sweet.
Raccoons are major carriers of rabies. Definitely don't want to mess around with a wild one.
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Raccoons are major carriers of rabies. Definitely don't want to mess around with a wild one.
That's what I feared with the one I described above.
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That's what I feared with the one I described above.
Whoa, I hadn't seen that post. Yeah, that kind of attack could definitely cause problems -- but according to this article, distemper is not a problem for humans.
The coon's BITE, however, could have been a big problem.
Many of the symptoms displayed by an animal with distemper are very similar to symptoms displayed by a rabid animal (only testing of brain tissue can determine if an animal is rabid). Although distemper poses no threat to humans, any one bitten or scratched by a raccoon must contact their physician immediately.
http://www.tn.gov/twra/distemper.html
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Have one in our neighborhood. A real nasty one, it hisses at you and charges. Unfortunately, it only seems to appear when everyone is unarmed. That won't always be the case for Rocky. :whatever:
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Have one in our neighborhood. A real nasty one, it hisses at you and charges. Unfortunately, it only seems to appear when everyone is unarmed. That won't always be the case for Rocky. :whatever:
We had no attcks last year, but I took our 2 small coons in the daytime. They're not supposed to out then.
Three years ago we killed 13 woodchucks during a groundhog invasion.
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Stay out of the subways!!! Really!
I second that. DO NOT USE THE SUBWAYS!
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Ya know, you can have lots of fun by simply buying a 44 oz drink in a plastic cup out of state. Fill it at the hotel and walk around taking sips.
Find the occupiers and ask to use their bathroom...of wait, they don't have one!
Toss popcorn to the rats.
Try not to think about the rats living INSIDE your restaurant...Hope you don't step on one at your hotel-at night-barefoot.
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Don't shower the week before you go. No one will know you're a tourist.
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I love big cities. I have never been to NYC but would love to some day.
I used to love my monthly visits to Chicago that were work related and several visits that were not about work, just about fun.