# How to kill an hour or two in NYC

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-an-hour-or-two-in-nyc/822924>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 14, 2018, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-an-hour-or-two-in-nyc/822924 "2018-10-14T07:38:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-an-hour-or-two-in-nyc/822924/21 "2018-10-27T04:01:17Z")

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> [@Voyager](#):
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> Cool. What tour did you do at the Tenement Museum? We did Hard Times.

We also did Hard Times. Ruth was our guide. I can only imagine six people in those rooms. Especially before the windows were added.

Should have said before that when i said I don’t like crowds, what I really meant was I don’t like lines. So Times Square was ok, but Staten Island Ferry and Russ and Daughter were out.

Actually, my brother got picked out of the crowd in Times Square by a group of street performers. They pulled five or six guys out and had them line up and bend over so they could jump over them. What’s strange is that this has happened to my brother in South Beach and Boston as well. Same trick, different guys. And the next day at the High Line, a woman from Canada recognized him and asked if he was a plant.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-an-hour-or-two-in-nyc/822924/22 "2018-10-27T20:08:37Z")

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> [@Spiderman](#):
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> 9-11 Memorial & Freedom Tower observation deck.
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> **Hint:** Turn around & face away from the elevator doors on both up & down trips for a cool show. Yeah, others in the elevator may think you’re a bit weird, that is until they turn around & see it too.

Since I’m unlikely to do this, can you spoil it for me? You can use spoiler boxes.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-an-hour-or-two-in-nyc/822924/23 "2018-10-27T20:13:03Z")

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> [@ethelbert](#):
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> If you have nice weather, Central Park. I have killed many hours there.

> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Heard this in my head in Danny DeVito’s voice …

Me too! And “whores” instead of “hours.”

I second Central Park and the High Line. Have not made it yet to Prospect Park, but it’s from the same guys who brought you Central Park, and I understand it’s just as nice if not better.

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