![]() ![]() Claim your piece of beach real estate before noon - it gets crowded on weekends. Start with a stroll along the boardwalk, where you’ll find vendors serving everything from Venezuelan arepas to Peruvian-style burgers. ![]() This laid-back beach community offers swells for year-round surfers and a unique food scene all its own. It’s not a true New York summer without a day at Rockaway. The lights are trippy and the Tootsie Roll Pops at the front desk are complimentary. To quote my own personal favorite karaoke song: "At the love shack, we can get together." Gagopa is NYC's own personal love shack. The songs are your choice, the B is BYOB, and you can jump on the tables and couches with the reckless abandon of an '04-era Tom Cruise. There are many of these upper-level, sometimes hidden, Karaoke joints to choose from, but choose Gagopa. Unlike most karaoke experiences, the individual rooms guarantee you are only embarrassing yourself with people of your own choosing (because in true NYC fashion, fuck other people, right?). But nothing - let me just reiterate, NOTHING - can or will ever be as fun as renting out a private room in one of the many Karaoke clubs (bars? venues?) in the neon light-soaked, Blade Runner-esque urban canyons of Koreatown. ![]() In New York City, life-changing experiences are as common as dirty water hotdogs. Then, and only then, you can head out to midtown to eat a plain cheese pizza all by yourself. Or, embrace your inner Kevin McCallister, and befriend every pigeon-feeding derelict you can find under the park's many gorgeous bridges. Climb the rock formations that form against most bodies of water for photo-ops the guidebooks don't tell you about. Look for the hidden waterfall in the Upper West side quadrant (hint: It's by the public pool). Follow random trails in the Ramble, or inspect gazebos tucked inside the branches that line and wind around the Lake. Instead, do what every real New Yorkian does in the park: Get lost. Most tourist rubes wait in the standby line for Shakespeare in the Park (you aren't getting in!), take a horse-carriage ride (cruel!), or stumble around the underwhelming Strawberry Fields (Lennon would have hated it!). It's an 843-acre marvel of pastoral escapism inside the most prime real estate in the entire world. In reality, it may be the most New Yorkian spot on this whole damn list. Sleep No More at the McKittrick Hotel | Matthew Craig for The McKittrick HotelĬentral Park is no tourist trap. Start here, and let the city do the rest. These are the places we go to kick off our most memorable New York days and nights. Where to begin? We polled our friends and Thrillist colleagues, NY-lifers and recent transplants alike, for their favorite things to do in the city and deep-cut recommendations. By all means, see the tourist attractions listed in your guide book ( here’s how to know if they’re actually worth it), but don’t be afraid to strike out on your own. So while you’re here, try to experience New York as New Yorkers do. As John Updike put it, “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” But in a city this fast and frenetic, this magnificent and merciless, with infinite fun things to do and so much to miss out on, you’ll excuse us for being a little rushed. True, we may come off as a little, er, impatient - especially if you take too long asking for directions or slow us down on the sidewalk. New Yorkers get a bad rap when it comes to our relations with out-of-towners. ![]()
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