Cracking the New York code

[Fenian_Bastard]

OK, Ragu, c'mon over to the stoop. I got the radio, and I already laid in two quart bottles of Rheingold, and the Dodgers are playing the Giants at the Polo Grounds tonite.

 

[User 1019]

If they've invited you, they'll tell you their cross streets. I've been to NYC many times. Mapquest stuff. Or call anyplace you want to visit. Most will have cross streets on their Web sites.

I've never known there was a formula. I feel so left out!

We used a combination of Google maps and the transit authority's site to figure out most of our whereabouts for our New Year's trip. And we bought a Garmin to help out, just in case we get lost.

I looked at the formula in our Frommer's book, but my forehead started smoking.

 

[Moderator1]

One thing I've learned over the years is to look for the numbers on the building and walk in the right direction!

There's a jeweler at 366 Fifth Ave. that has a watch we seek.

 

[dreunc1542]

Getting around NYC is really not that hard. There are much worse cities to try and get around in. And I want what jgmacg is smoking.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

I think I have entered the twilight zone. Now I know why I don't live anywhere near New York.

Geography? Let's start with the Saturn which struggles to get out of the driveway. :)

 

[dooley_womack1]

RUN HIM OVER! SPARE ME!

 

[GB-Hack]

I think I have entered the twilight zone. Now I know why I don't live anywhere near New York.

Because you can't figure out the cross street for your apartment?

I can figure it out but that formula is just mind boggling. Although, I have been told that I do have the attitude to live in NYC.

You are courteous, kind and forgiving?

Yeah, that's it.... ::)

;D

 

[PaperDoll]

I think I have entered the twilight zone. Now I know why I don't live anywhere near New York.

Geography? Let's start with the Saturn which struggles to get out of the driveway. :)

What is this driveway thing of which you speak? And isn't Saturn a planet? ::)

Sounds like the chipmunk would be perfect for NYC! After all, she's already crazed! And there's no car required in most parts of the bright lights, big city.

 

[GB-Hack]

I think I have entered the twilight zone. Now I know why I don't live anywhere near New York.

Geography? Let's start with the Saturn which struggles to get out of the driveway. :)

What is this driveway thing of which you speak? And isn't Saturn a planet? ::)

Sounds like the chipmunk would be perfect for NYC! After all, she's already crazed! And there's no car required in most parts of the bright lights, big city.

In ways you can't even begin to comprehend.....

Seriously, I'm kidding honey.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Too late...now you'll have to take her for more shopping.

 

[GB-Hack]

Too late...now you'll have to take her for more shopping.

And we'll have to go to every shoe and purse store in the mall and everything.

 

[crazedchipmunk]

I think I have entered the twilight zone. Now I know why I don't live anywhere near New York.

Geography? Let's start with the Saturn which struggles to get out of the driveway. :)

What is this driveway thing of which you speak? And isn't Saturn a planet? ::)

Sounds like the chipmunk would be perfect for NYC! After all, she's already crazed! And there's no car required in most parts of the bright lights, big city.

In ways you can't even begin to comprehend.....

Seriously, I'm kidding honey.

Dead. To. Me.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[crazedchipmunk]

I think I have entered the twilight zone. Now I know why I don't live anywhere near New York.

Geography? Let's start with the Saturn which struggles to get out of the driveway. :)

Hey, now my Saturn is perfectly peachy. That is, until I run your ass over.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

"It's right near Duane Reade" is perfect for anything in Manhattan, and probably truthful.

Actually, if you type "366 Fifth Avenue New York" into Google, it will give you a map with a green arrow pointing right to the location.

I think you can also click on that for street view, but I'm not sure about that.

 

[The Big Ragu]

"It's right near Duane Reade" is perfect for anything in Manhattan, and probably truthful.

Actually, if you type "366 Fifth Avenue New York" into Google, it will give you a map with a green arrow pointing right to the location.

I think you can also click on that for street view, but I'm not sure about that.

You and your fancy Google. Are you too good for an abacus?

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Can't miss it. It's right near Ray's Pizza.

 

[writing irish]

Just for the record, the citizens of Cow****istan, collectively, have no idea that there's a place on earth where address numbers correlate with cross streets. Were you to tell us, some of us might not believe you. We're less urban in our sensibilities. In fact, here in the capital city of Bullflopibad, the downtown area is an ongoing theater of overwhelmed drivers. Wrong way on a one-way is sadly common. Even for those who understand arrows, the mere presence of one-way streets is enough to destroy one's confidence in God's creation. One-way streets are effete, Frenchified, a Yankee conceit, an open invitation to atheism and ass-buggery.

Other downtown-driving phenomena include stopping where there's no stop sign, disregarding existing stop signs, stopping to turn, menacing pedestrians and finally- good, old-fashioned stopping in the middle of the road for no reason. Usually, that's a symptom of psychic meltdown caused by the combination of one-way streets and the proximity of a few low-rise office buildings.

Y'all motorists don't fergit to scare the **** out of that boy on the bicycle by honking frantically to say "hello" to your friend in the other gigantic truck two lanes over (that you just saw at the cafeteria 15 minutes ago)!

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Went to NYC in '99 and someone tried to explain the formula to me.

But I come from a small hick town which struggled when our beloved downtown square was changed to a roundabout.

 

[hockeybeat]

Can't miss it. It's right near Ray's Pizza.

Ray's, Famous Ray's or Original Ray's?

 

[jgmacg]

Famous Original Ray's?