I'm an oyster bar fan generally but the staff has been v rude the last couple times I was there and I'm not usually someone who gets uppity about that
like my wife went there first and was trying to save us a spot until I got there to meet her, she sat down at an open seat at the oyster counter (that had several people eating at it) and the server pulled out a little placard sign that said "counter closed" and just sat it down in front of her and walked away, didn't even say shit. that's lame
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Thursday, 22 December 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
then the bartender in the saloon gave us the gasface
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Thursday, 22 December 2011 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
why is it so fucking hot
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 December 2011 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
gods gift to mei ate at pearl oyster bar tonight and the chowda and crabcake combo is what that shit is about
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 December 2011 06:06 (twelve years ago) link
New York Burger Co.
not to be slept on. although I always worry they will go out of business.
― chinavision, Thursday, 22 December 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I don't know why that place doesn't do better - maybe it's a marketing/atmosphere problem, or maybe there's just burger saturation and they haven't distinguished themselves.
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
I vote for marketing/atmosphere... it's not really very "chelsea" in there. kinda feels like it got misplaced from union square or something.
― chinavision, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the one I've mostly gone to is near Mad Sq Park but I've been to that one too.
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
oh shoot, I didn't realize there were multiple locations!
― chinavision, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.newyorkburgerco.com/location.html
Yeah I guess looks like they have 3, all kind of bizarrely along the same parallel.
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
hay guys, we've had 50 million tourists this year.
GTFO of my way
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
o morbsy
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
I like tourists, they are too slow to get subway seats
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
some girl I knew from years ago moved to new york some months ago and on fb she complained about how she hated tourists cause they were making it so hard for her to enjoy her favorite parts of the city: times square, going up the empire state building, seeing the tree at rockefeller center
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
rimshot
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
I find tourists on the subway really entertaining and sweet -- they get all excited and nervous about the little things you come to take for granted
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
only time I resent tourists is if when they stand on the left side of an escalator, but non-tourists do this too
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
if/when
love this sign in front of the woolworth buildinghttp://www.deadprogrammer.com/files/u1/tourists-are-not-permitted.jpg?9d7bd4
― mizzell, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
my fave tourist quote of the year was from a Broadway showgoer on the night of Occupy Times Square. "The riot on Wall Street has moved up here!"
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
Plus I sort of enjoy the game of instantly recognizing tourists and then analyzing what tipped me off - khakis, columbia sportswear, etc.
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
could've sworn it was "stand on the right side of an escalator." Oh well, adapt and zigzag.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
you can't zigzag two people standing next to each other!
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
you're supposed to stand on the right, walk on the left
― flexidisc, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
pretend the escalator is a highway
and your ass is a car
have never driven
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
that's when you break out the "SCUZE ME" spoken with the same intent as "FUKKEN MOVE"
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
driving is a lot like being an asshole pedestrian in grand central, except sometimes you get to kill people
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
^pretty sure i saw this on the wall at Bubba Gump's Shrimp in Times Square
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
anyway, the cardinal sin is ppl walking 3 to 7 abreast on a midtown street. Go to Paree if you wanna fucking "boulevard."
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
people who walk three abreast, people who stop--stop!--at the top of the subway stairs, people who walk slowly: all will see the guillotine blade when i am made premiere
― max max max max, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
i do like tourists, without them how would you be able to think of yourself as a new yorker
by living off the coast of America for 20 years
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
that's true of people in nassau county too tho
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
hmmm, Nassau is existentially on the mainland.
the 1% in NYC has 34% of the income, compared to 19% in USA:
http://lbo-news.com/2011/12/12/nyc-more-unequal-than-brazil/
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
someone in the comments mentions that the middle class are in the suburbs, which is true to some degree and doing it w/ the metro area would prob even it out a tad, though it would also include westchester, connecticut, rich parts of jersey while also newark etc on the other side
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
The New York subway, for example, is an extraordinary resource for beggars. A homeless man who collects 50 cents per car panhandling on an eight-car subway train can make $4 in an hour–enough for a meal at McDonalds....
Disclaimer: No, I am not touting entrepreneurial panhandling as a solution to the problem of homelessness. I support ruinous taxation of the rich and a guaranteed income for all. Equality is better than inequality. I’m just saying.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw I have never lived somewhere that didn't have a large homeless population and I'm always surprised at how generous nyers are on the subway, esp if you're willing to pick up a musical instrument.
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
I like tourists like in august walking through soho and it's all people speaking euro, it's like wow, makes u think
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
tbf I think panhandlers on the subway make a lot more than $4/hr, ESPECIALLY the ones with instruments. I usually see half-decent ones get what looks like $4-5/car and it doesnt' take an hour to cover a train.
I sort of gaved up on the speechmakers and stopped giving - they always seem to have such absurdly contrived spiels that they can't be true ("My wife died in a fire, I lost my job, AND I have this inexplicable limp, and also I talk like I had a stroke even though I didn't mention one.") I hate to think I might be wrong about that, and also sometimes I think that they must be hard up enough anyway that it doesn't matter. Other times I also wonder if they're unfortunate patsies of some crime ring, the way it turned out the *deaf* people with those sign language cards were. For a while I noticed that the kids who sold candy always gave nearly verbatim the exact same speech ("I am not doing this for a basketball team" etc.) which to my paranoiac mind seemed like a sign, combined with the fact that they have candy in wholesale boxes. Anyway.
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ the universal affectless speechifying style agreed upon by the hard luck subway storytellers union
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
If someone just has a sign that says "homeless vet" or something like that, I'm apt to believe them. Cuz there are a lot of those.
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
all beggars are drug addicted welfare cheats who live in mansions, everyone knows
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
the basketball team stuff is clearly bullshit but I like how they're kinda entrepreneurial
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I'm assuming they are not part of a crime ring and just some kid who bought a box of peanut m&ms?
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
lol one time I talked to one of those kids for a while all like 150 thats a lot for a jersey he had this whole spiel like yeah its embroidered we play in such and such league im a point guard until finally i just bought some of his candy, had to respect the prep work
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 22 December 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
instead of making individual decisions on every panhandler I just give money to City Harvest and never give to anyone on the street or in the subway ever.
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Thursday, 22 December 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
nah they def. get the candy from some central location I think. don't they?
I'd give it like 50% it's a ring, 50% they just share tips and go to costco
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link