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Everybody Hates a Tourist: New York City

everybody hates a tourist theme: create a list of places in a given city that tourists most often go to; places that locals would probably not go to as part of their normal routine are especially encouraged. please contribute: tourists - where did you go? or where do you want to go? locals - where do you take out-of-towners when they visit?

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Central Park
New York State : New York City : Manhattan

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The best planned part of the Manhattan grid, you can almost forget the sprawling metropolis around you when you enter certain parts of it

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12 votes

Statue Of Liberty National Monument
New York State : New York City : Upper New York Bay : Liberty Island

Liberty Island
(212) 363-3200
http://www.nps.gov/stli/

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The #1 coolest thing the French ever gave anyone. (The second coolest was film)

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12 votes

Rockefeller Center
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown

30 Rockefeller Plz
(212) 632-5005
http://www.rockefellercenter.com/

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Home of NBC. Contains the GE Building, 30 Rock

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11 votes

World Trade Center Complex
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Lower Manhattan : Financial District

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WTC

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10 votes

Times Square
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown : Theater District

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The center of the universe. 42nd Street, Manhattan.

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10 votes

Chinatown
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Lower Manhattan

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We go downtown to Chinatown

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9 votes

Empire State Building
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown

350 5th Ave Ste 3210
(212) 736-3100
http://www.empirestatebldg.com/

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Even King Kong is a fan

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8 votes

Brooklyn Bridge
New York State : New York City : Brooklyn : Downtown Brooklyn

(212) NEW–YORK
http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org

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From Manhattan, walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to see a view of the Statue of Liberty, then see Brooklyn Heights Promenade and have pizza at Grimaldi’s

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7 votes

Times Square Advertisements
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown : Theater District : Times Square

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Big and Bright, it’s Times Square

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6 votes

Metropolitan Museum Of Art
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Uptown Manhattan : Upper East Side : Museum Mile

1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
212-535-7710
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

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Half of the world’s archaeology is here.

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6 votes

Little Italy
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Lower Manhattan

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Little Italy used to be a decent size but Chinatown ate it up. A larger Little Italy exists up in The Bronx

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6 votes

Theater District
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown

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There’s no business like show business.

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6 votes

Grand Central Terminal
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown

E 42 St And Lexington Ave
(718) 330-1234
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/index.html

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Can you find The Whispering Wall and The Kissing Room?

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6 votes

New York Public Library
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown

42nd St & 5th Ave
(212) 930-0641
http://www.nypl.org/

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6 votes

Radio City Music Hall Marquee
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown : Radio City Music Hall

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Museum Of Modern Art
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown

15 W 53rd St
(212) 247-6105
http://www.moma.org/

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A stunning collection

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5 votes

SoHo
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Lower Manhattan

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Home of Marvel Comics’ Amazing Spider-Man and Kiki’s loft from Martin Scorsese’s film After Hours

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5 votes

Greenwich Village
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Lower Manhattan

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That’s pronounced Gren-itch, not Green Witch.
Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan made it so famous, most of the Lower East Side is now called the East Village.

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5 votes

Macy's
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown : Midtown South

151 W 34th St
(212) 695-4400
http://www.macys.com

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The ORIGINAL Macy’s!

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5 votes

Columbus Circle
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Uptown Manhattan : Upper West Side : Lincoln Square

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In Ghostbusters, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man can be seen terrorizing Columbus Circle.

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5 votes

Twin Towers : 1-2 World Trade Center
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Lower Manhattan : Financial District : World Trade Center Complex

1 World Trade Center

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1 World Trade Center, 2 World Trade Center 1970-2001

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4 votes

St. Patrick's Cathedral
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown

460 Madison Ave
(212) 753-2261
http://www.saintpatrickscathedral.org/

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4 votes

NBC Studio
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown : Rockefeller Center : GE Building

30 Rockefeller Plaza
(212) 664-7174
http://www.nbc.com/

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Home of Saturday Night Live

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4 votes

Columbia University
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Uptown Manhattan : Morningside Heights

W 116th St. & Broadway
+1 (212) 854-1754
http://www.columbia.edu/

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This campus is like an oasis in the city… epic and beautiful.

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4 votes

Rockefeller Center at Christmas
New York State : New York City : Manhattan : Midtown : Rockefeller Center

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kelm00
Montclair

errrr...

um.. I don’t know if you’ve actually lived/worked in the NYC area, but ~~-and please take no offense~~- the majority of the stuff on this list are just illogical selections for the them. Take your other list, for LA,for example. You have the actual entirety of LA County as a tourist cliche, that the locals themselves wouldn’t even go to? Hunh?LOL you can’t have all five distinct burroughs of NYC as a tourist trap. Debateable? Sure. Appropriate and helpful? Not at all.

Jul 22, 2006, 06:11PM PDT
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kalavinka
Los Angeles

I suppose the title and such is more about humor...

Not really so much about tourist traps and cliches but everyone is welcome to add the traps and cliches. My personal take is that traps tend to be more on the activity side than the destination side, (like taking guided tour bus rides).

I tried to start off with the city/burroughs/county of the place, then the airport, and work from there. I did it this way, especially with huge metro places like LA and NYC, because it was plotting the point of entry for a tourist and because someone may go to one section of the city and that would count as a visit to the larger city as a metro area, for the purpose of this list. Next, I figure major amusement parks, museums, and other points of interest are places tourists are likely to go to. Not to say that locals never go to such places, but it’s not part of one’s normal routine to do so, unless one works there. I especially tried to focus on places mentioned in tourist web sites as “top places to see”.

Does that make sense? or does it still seem illogical? I started off making the LA one because I have long since realized that no one I know that is from LA has ever been to the Hollywood sign nor knows how to get there! From there, other major cities also deserve such a list. I mean, if you ask a tourist who went to one of these cities, and they told you where they went, it’d probably be nothing but places on the list. Maybe I simply should’ve put a better description for this list theme! I just wanted it short and sweet. And actually the entire county of LA is a tourist trap. hahahhaaaaaaaa

Jul 26, 2006, 12:00PM PDT
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kalavinka
Los Angeles

description modified!

I hope the new description does not give a sense of “traps”.

Jul 26, 2006, 12:30PM PDT
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rangutan
München

I love tourists

The title of this theme should be “Jealous Locals that cannt travel: New York”. Do a they really hate foreigners or just themselvelves for not taking time to explore and discover another world? All the places listed here seem to be important historical or interesting highligts. I’m sure that locals have also visited these places, if not, they should not call themselves good citizens, perhaps they never travel themselves? Why hate people that come from afar to admire your city. Please create a list: “We hate tourists” and see how many members enter their name there?

NY and SF may be well-off cities. Worldwide, tourism is an idustry and offen a large part of the GDP. A lot of poorer countries could not survive without tourists!

[If the title should be changed, I will delete this message]

Rudi :-(

Sep 28, 2006, 07:52AM PDT
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kalavinka
Los Angeles

copied and pasted from SF list:

please don’t take the title of the list so literally—it is more (my odd?) sense of humor and to be different/catchy rather than have a boring/bland title. i often lift titles from a song lyric, which is where it came from. if you want to look deeper into it, locals may hate tourists during tourist season due to increased traffic or perhaps the burden of showing around out-of-town friends/relatives, etc. plus, there is also the neglectful tourist whom lacks respect and may offend locals and also there is a negative view of tourists who come in and out just to see the highlights but never really learn the people/culture/etc. that is why some say that they are travelers, not tourists. in short, if you don’t like a list, don’t add it, leave it be.

Sep 28, 2006, 03:26PM PDT
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danimatian
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everyone is a tourist

Everybody Hates A Tourist is a hilarious name, you people are taking tourist bashing far to personally.

You can be a tourist even if you live down the street. Cool places to check out can be found on almost every nook and cranny of this nation. The images of people gawking with cameras crowding intersections and spending money on silly things is something one might say everybody loves to hate.

I think its an awesome title for a list, so I created 5 more lists just like this for
Boston,
Chicago,
Detroit,
Michigan

and the USA itself.

Feb 24, 2007, 11:52AM PST
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kalavinka
Los Angeles

glad to run into someone who got the humor… and thanks also for creating more lists! i was hoping someone might like this kind of list idea and make more for other cities.