Going to NEW YORK !!!!

As a NYC resident, all I can say is avoid the tourist cliches (for photography) and have fun making photos... there is plenty to photograph on almost every street... for real.
 
ARI_1969 said:
and the "don't go there", it seems your feedback is a bit mixed... dont go to the Bronx... not problem to go there... just as dangerous as the Elsass...
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One might thing that quaint Elsass is safe. I've gotten beaten, mugged and harassed more times there (in Strasbourg) than I care to remember.

Bronx is fine. Far East Brooklyn can get weird. As someone else said, it's all a state of mind, either you attract trouble or you don't.

Staying in LIC or Queens could be fun. You get to see the Sunrise/Sunset on the skyline which you can't when you stay in the city (Subway line #7 is the best for that). Or any of the parks on the riverside in Brooklyn.

Roosevelt Island might also be worth a short trip. Weird place. And they have a "Seilbahn" connection to the big island...(They shot Dark Water there, there are some interesting moody buildings on the southern tip of the island and great views of the skyline.

Anyways, I wouldn't over think it. Pick a few neighborhoods according to which New York you want to see and get lost in them. Also pick a few things you want to experience (for feeling of achievement 😀).

I don't think there are any wrong places to be in New York. Every neighborhood has its unique essence. Either you like it or you don't (Either it fits your concept of what NYC is/should be or it doesn't). That's NYC: everything and then some more...
 
ARI_1969 said:
Thought walking would help me to see more of the city... but if you say take the subway to see the more interesting places, I kindly will follow your best advice. But as I said, I do not mind walking 15 to 20 kilometers a day...
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subway itself is also very interesting from a photographic point of view:

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Don't miss it!
 
As you can see NYC is far too big a place to get to know in one trip or even one lifetime. Come, walk around. Take the subway and have fun! Then do it again next year...

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Let me sum this up...
my current mind set is:

  • go there in may.
  • arrive on sunday, leave next saturday morning.
  • avoid the holidays.
  • spend around 150$ per night for the hotel.
  • "feel the area" by walking, return home with the subway.
  • dont forget eating korean, chinese, whatever food while you are on the street.
  • dont be too much dissapointet from the staff at Luger's steak hose, just enjoy the food.
  • dont forget the wide angle lens!
  • dont go to much north
  • see the tourist things but do not forget that you are in new york and probably any place, at any time of the year during night and day is worth to see and go for.
  • and finally: DO NOT MAKE TOO MANY PLANS !!!
Many thanks to all of you !!!!!!
🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Achim (will give the Bronx a try )😀
 
ARI_1969 said:
Let me sum this up...
my current mind set is:

  • go there in may.
  • arrive on sunday, leave next saturday morning.
  • avoid the holidays.
  • spend around 150$ per night for the hotel.
  • "feel the area" by walking, return home with the subway.
  • dont forget eating korean, chinese, whatever food while you are on the street.
  • dont be too much dissapointet from the staff at Luger's steak hose, just enjoy the food.
  • dont forget the wide angle lens!
  • dont go to much north
  • see the tourist things but do not forget that you are in new york and probably any place, at any time of the year during night and day is worth to see and go for.
  • and finally: DO NOT MAKE TOO MANY PLANS !!!
Many thanks to all of you !!!!!!
🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Achim (will give the Bronx a try )😀
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Everything except do not go too far north. If you want a guided tour above 96th street I am sure a RFF member will be happy to escort you...
 
scottwallick said:
This may have been reasonable advice in 1982, it is rubbish advice now. My sister-in-law lives at 125th and Amsterdam. Vibrant, alive neighborhood. I live in Queens. Most friends live in Brooklyn. Bronx Botanical Gardens and the Cloisters are wonderful places to shoot.

As someone who lives here, there's a nasty subtext to the statement above I don't even want to bother with.
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As someone spent a lot of his youth in Brooklyn: some of the other neighborhoods have their charm and character, but for someone who stated he doesn't want to take a taxi or the subway, do you really want to send a first time visitor, on foot, into an area where:

A) you have to be familiar with the nice areas and the bad areas.. and those areas can change within a couple blocks.

B) There's nothing for there for a first time tourist to see. The Bronx Botanical Gardens and the Cloisters are nice, but they are for a 2nd or 3rd time visitor. He's never been to New York, has got 5 days. Besides the normal tourist destinations, if he wants to see interesting or quirky neighborhoods that have vibrant oddities, there is Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, Soho, Chinatown, Little Italy, and the Meat Packing District to name a few. They're certainly a lot closer to get to on foot.
 
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