Chinatown in New York
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Just come back from NY and was wondering for those who have visited what your thoughts were on Chinatown. Personally i thought it was the biggest s
thole i've come across this side of Merthyr. We (me and the missus) got dropped off and felt uncomfortable more or less straight away. It wasn't the lovely gated community id been led to believe it was. Instead it was 'downtown' in every sense of the word, on every block we must have got asked "handbag handbag you buy rolex?" about 10 times, not too bad in itself but Chinatown is huge. We got to the end of one block and decided that if we'd gone any further we'd either get mugged or worse so turned back.
To compound matters we eventually
got a taxi out of there, the first questioned asked after "where to?" (Wall St) was "do you know how to get there?" great i thought, a taxi driver in New York who doesnt know where Wall St is. He proceeded to drive us around for 20 minutes, stop and ask complete strangers for directions, twice, then dropped us off on the same corner we got in at and said (in his pakistani accent) "i don't know how to get there..."
All seemed better when we reached a lovely bar in Manhatten called Thunderjacksons and had some lovely food, put my card behind the bar and got absolutely blotto...
Anyone had any other whimsical experiences with the place?
p.s. rest of NY, amasing...
thole i've come across this side of Merthyr. We (me and the missus) got dropped off and felt uncomfortable more or less straight away. It wasn't the lovely gated community id been led to believe it was. Instead it was 'downtown' in every sense of the word, on every block we must have got asked "handbag handbag you buy rolex?" about 10 times, not too bad in itself but Chinatown is huge. We got to the end of one block and decided that if we'd gone any further we'd either get mugged or worse so turned back.To compound matters we eventually
got a taxi out of there, the first questioned asked after "where to?" (Wall St) was "do you know how to get there?" great i thought, a taxi driver in New York who doesnt know where Wall St is. He proceeded to drive us around for 20 minutes, stop and ask complete strangers for directions, twice, then dropped us off on the same corner we got in at and said (in his pakistani accent) "i don't know how to get there..."All seemed better when we reached a lovely bar in Manhatten called Thunderjacksons and had some lovely food, put my card behind the bar and got absolutely blotto...
Anyone had any other whimsical experiences with the place?
p.s. rest of NY, amasing...
ok gated was probably a bad choice of words (not even an inch is given on here is it) i was thinking more along the lines of London where you get the nice, well, gates leading into the district and its clean and nice etc.. Interesting hearing the other opinions though, maybe i should have given it a bit more of a chance, the boys have been there and absolutely loved it, maybe it was so built up by them i was always going to be dissapointed. Plus i was with the missus so may have been a bit more en guard...
Darn i also meant taxi to manhatten. My bad, but not wearing trainers i wanted to get a taxi to the end of the block such was the size of my blisters.
PH - the pursuit of the perfectly constructed narrative continues...
Darn i also meant taxi to manhatten. My bad, but not wearing trainers i wanted to get a taxi to the end of the block such was the size of my blisters.
PH - the pursuit of the perfectly constructed narrative continues...
I'm feeling like i missed out now to be fair most reviews are coming back good for the place. The only place we found to eat was Dunkin Donuts (how ironic) and that had a crazy old black man in it asking for a bite of everyones food. Maybe i just had a bad experience on the day. I must admit i felt more safe in New York generally than i ever have in London though..
to be fair most reviews are coming back good for the place. The only place we found to eat was Dunkin Donuts (how ironic) and that had a crazy old black man in it asking for a bite of everyones food. Maybe i just had a bad experience on the day. I must admit i felt more safe in New York generally than i ever have in London though..I thought Manhattan was a district covering Chelsea and Grenwich Village, thats how it was explained to me. Manhattan is the whole island? Wikipedia says
"Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.
New York County, which has the same boundaries as the Borough of Manhattan (and which should not be confused with New York City), is the most densely populated county in the United States" blah blah blah.
The bit in brackets is the important bit in this sentance me thinks.
So no, manhatten isnt the whole island
"Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.
New York County, which has the same boundaries as the Borough of Manhattan (and which should not be confused with New York City), is the most densely populated county in the United States" blah blah blah.
The bit in brackets is the important bit in this sentance me thinks.
So no, manhatten isnt the whole island
Edited by squareflops on Wednesday 8th April 17:00
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