New York City Help

phil- not $1300 month, $1300 for two months. (actually i'm hoping less, because i also need to buy food and pay for transportation with that money...yeah. probably not happening.)

but yeah, its like south 4th and union, across the street from this place that makes good stewed chicken and fried plantains

So I'll be in New York in a couple of weeks (A COUPLE OF WEEKS! FANTASTIC!) and I need some relatively specialised advice. Here's how it is:

My aeroplane is scheduled to touch down at JFK 11.55am on Thursday 15th June. There is a game of our soccer which I would very much like to see, and that game kicks off at noon that day. Now I reckon my chances of seeing the whole game are something like my chances of being called up at the last minute to play in the team, but I think and hope I can catch some of it. So I am looking for a recommendation for a bar (or similar) which will:

(a) be open at noon on the 15th
(2) be showing the World Cup of footballsoccer at noon on the 15th
(iii) be easy and relatively quick to get to from JFK, either by public transportation or in an cab taxi vehicle
(d) be the kind of place where a blatant Englishperson or two could safely and sensibly watch an England game on the telly without being robbed or otherwise molested.

My good friend Tim is hoping to join me, he'll be in NYC already, staying in Greenwich Village. He'll be able to travel in time for kick-off, but somewhere sensibly navigable from the Village would be superperfect.

Am I asking for the moon on a sticky stick?

I hope also we will drink, NYC, but that question is for another thread and perhaps even another day.

http://www.soccerbars.com/modules/soccerbars/

Eppy, I'm hoping to find somewhere nearer to JFK, rather than go into Manhattan, largely for time reasons. Thanks for the recommendation though!

I've no way of telling whether the bars cited in Brooklyn / Queens in the link mookie posted are likely to be dangerous or not. It's not so much that I mind for myself, because I can always chicken out of going in somewhere if it looks shady, but it would be bad to arrange to meet a friend somewhere on the dodgy side.

Work account would be perfect, thank you! (Thank you all!)

Just to give another option, you should come to Floyd's. It's in Brooklyn so will take slightly less time to get to. It's an English stylee pub so you'd be right at home, plus there's a greasy chip shop (called Chip Shop) next door. Then after the match you could walk down to the Promenade and see the lovely view of Manhattan.

Or McCormack's is good if you want to save some money on transportation, although the bus takes longer. Oh, and I can guarantee that Nevada Smith's will be showing the match and will also be completely packed.

there is a place in w'burg on near the graham stop called harefield road which will be showing all games and has a large selection of beer.

The relative time taken to get around the place is something I don't know enough to judge, it's all very tricky.

take the airtrain to the A - take the A toward manhattan to nostrand ave - take the C 2 stops toward manhattan to clinton/washington - walk four blocks north. the whole trip should take about 45-50 min. as others have mentioned taking a cab that time of day is a crap shoot but probably wouldn't take any longer than the subway, cost: $40 - $50.

directions - http://tinyurl.com/ptc2z

242 DeKalb Ave.
Brooklyn , NY 11205
Phone: (718) 783-8519

the clinton/washington stop is of course on fulton not atlantic.

Tim saw an hour of the game and is very happy.

Tonight, we are going to Northsix for Saturday etc&. Show is at 9 p.m.
Now we are going to Pies N Thighs and will report accordingly.

Tim brought this and other non-yummy things from Waitrose:

http://www.thefoodhall.es/images/dry_goods/angel_delight_strawberry.jpg

Don't Matos and Paul Eater have a regular bridge night?

So I've been up for 24 hours and am feeling suitably scrambled, especially given the fistful o' Brooklyn lager I took medicinally (for the nerves innit) just past noon, by which time I'd been up for 13 hours or so already. So don't be expecting much in the way of sense from me.

I had to buy some non-greasy sunblock in an attempt to prevent my rapidly balding pate from looking like a tomato, or perhaps a baked bean in tomato sauce. Definitely something tomato related.

Friday plan: tootle around NYC I guess, take in a little art in Chelsea maybe, get the ferry in the late afternoon. I'd post my mobile telephone number but I'm not that sleep deprived, yet.

SATURDAY SOUNDS GOOD too.

That wasn't much use, was it? Sorry.

Say hello to them all for me. Of course, I could do that on this thread, but its not the same is it?

It seems that the choice of champions for tomorrow (Saturday) night is Daddy's (I'm more of an HP sauce man myself but the sacrifice will be small). It seems we are going to see some cricket or rounders tomorrow evening (feel free to come with) so in all likelihood I won't be at yer Daddy's until 11.30 pm or thereabouts. I hope to see drunk ilxors when I get there. Please?

Lee Ann Womack rules.

When I said cricket or rounders, I meant baseball, in this case the Mets. Sorry.

Clarity's overrated anyway.

I'm afraid I have no idea about the timings involved in planning the days. Things just seem to happen by magic. Perhaps one of our helpful friends will clarify.

So yr going to Daddy's postgame? The 7 to the G should get u there in 60-90 mins.

One red flag was raised in the third inning, when Benson touched Martínez for the first home run by an Orioles pitcher since 1972. At the time, Anna Benson was outside the women's bathroom, smoking a cigarette. When family members found her and shared the news, she told them, "Shut up, he did not."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/sports/baseball/18mets.html

So, NYC took good care of Tim and we wish him the best on his voyage throughout the Northeastern United States!

FYI: Tim does not like Mr. Met at all and if given the choice between having to spend an hour alone with Mr. Met and being forced to grow a Williamsburg-style cop moustache for 1 month, Tim would rather spend an hour alone with Mr. Met, but only because he could beat him up.

Too bad I got to Daddy's at 2:30! Glad some of you were still there...

letham's rant on the atlantic yards (which i live 3 blocks away from) didn't really do anything to change my feelings on the thing - still v mixed.

the argument that most confounds me is It's the scale, stupid - as if this isn't new york. the krazy quilt of different architectural styles and sizes is a big part of what gives it charm, no? the fact that people look at brooklyn's brownstone neighborhoods and see architectural harmony speaks to the pervasiveness of the disarray. in ft greene (where i live) there are brownstones hard against prewar apartment buildings 50 years newer and three times as tall. there's 20+ story projects across the street from single story retail strips. there's a building made out of trash. there's old carriage houses and even a few mansions. from my window i can see a bunch of buildings over 20 stories. there is no architectural consistency and it's quite lovely.

the general shitty ghost-town quality of most huge urban projects and the blade runner feel of this one's design argue better against it than any weird preservationism.

I loved the Paul Etienne Lincoln show

http://www.alexanderandbonin.com/images/PEL-04-SC-032_glass.jpg

and it was wonderful sharing Tim's appreciation of the NYC skyline from UD Row V at Shea, even if Pedro didn't have his best stuff.

Joel, sorry to miss you too. Hope the bachelor party was fun.

FR: I seem to recall my appreciation consisted mainly of incoherences along the lines of "cor, check it out" and similar, sorry. I blame it on the feat that that ballheaded FREAK was going to pop up like Mephistopheles and start troubling me.

TNS:AS: I didn't, though I ended up buying one of these:

http://www.georgejones.com/store/images/large/50years_blacktee_LRG.jpg

which got me into a couple of conversations on the aeroplane home.

Is Marchand de Legumes (Japanese novelty store) still in Nolita? I walked by where I thought it would be on Elizabeth Street between Houston and Prince but I didn't see it. And wasn't there another store that sold Marchand de Legumes products somewhere else in Nolita? My NYC is rusty.

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What church is at 1:44? I don't think it's Riverside.

And where are they on horses at 1:50? SW part of Central Park?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7CIgWZTdgw