# What's so great about New York, anyway?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-new-york-anyway/309080>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 20, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-new-york-anyway/309080 "2005-06-20T17:32:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-new-york-anyway/309080/41 "2005-06-22T18:44:10Z")

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> [@faldureon](#):
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> And I love NYC because it keeps **msmith537** the hell out of funfax.

Funfax? :dubious:

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-new-york-anyway/309080/42 "2005-06-22T19:07:11Z")

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Broadway.

MOMA.

Nobu. (and Little Yokohama, because I’m not made of money).

Finding a statue of Samuel Morse in Central Park, and then spending a day in the Conservatory Garden.

Chimis from a sidewalk cart in Washington Heights. (Hey, I married a Dominican; whaddya want?)

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-new-york-anyway/309080/43 "2005-06-22T19:22:38Z")

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> [@faldureon](#):
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> And I love NYC because it keeps **msmith537** the hell out of funfax.

I like NYC because it keeps faldureon in RandomPutdownThatNoOneElseGetsTown.

> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#):
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> However, I’m not going to go to the city with a universe of choice in restaurants and go to Chevy’s or Red Lobster. Personal choice, opinion. Clearly, you’ve given yours, now let everyone else have theirs.

First of all you need to not be so uptight about people badmouthing no one in particular. Secondly, I think you get my point about going to a city with the best restaurants in the world and choosing to eat at a place you can find in any shopping mall parking lot in the country.

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**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-new-york-anyway/309080/44 "2005-06-22T19:43:38Z")

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And, you miss my point that people go to those restaurants for exactly that reason.

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**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-new-york-anyway/309080/45 "2005-06-22T22:02:47Z")

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> [@Neurotik](#):
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> Funfax? :dubious:

Well obviously you have to know where to go for the town to live up to its nickname.

> [@msmith537](#):
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> I like NYC because it keeps faldureon in RandomPutdownThatNoOneElseGetsTown.

You are correct. I visited NYC exactly once and what I saw has kept me away from there to this day (and yes while barhopping I did stop by that Fridays).

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