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Q: Traveling advice in New York

Hi guys, I believed that I post about travielng question here before but unfortunately I didn't go to NYC that time.

 

But I do not want to miss it this time after saved some money.

 

So which airport I should fly to? I want to be somewhere close to the city.

 

What if I arrived there very late at night, how can I get my hostel? By taxi? Is the taxi safe there? How much will cost me to take taxi? 

 

I think I will need to buy tickets in a day or two.

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believe it when I see it

 

October is not summer in New York

Viki87:

I will be in NYC between Sep 30 to Octorber 9. What clothes I should carry?

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wear some warm stuff...  pack little 1 bra, 2 panties and 1 sweater...   buy some good stuff when you get there

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Ah, so it's like autumn.smileyI worry that those clothes might be too expensive for me. I am not making American salary.

 

 

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Why are u going to The Big Apple?  Seems you would be looking for the most reasonably priced flight and therefore would have no say which airport u fly into.  But it'll be JFK or Newark anyway, La Guardia's more domestic flights.  Research getting into the city is good idea, but again if u are on a tight budget coach will be your answer.  Sure u can change money in NYC, but I would advise you get USD at your bank before your trip.

What do u have planned to do?  I recommend the following:

 

Broadway play (Phantom of the Opera if it's still playing)

Ride the subway

Hang out with the freaks @ Times Square

visit Liberty Island

go to Brooklyn and find an old Italian restaurant 

eat a Sabrett's hot dog from a street vendor,,,,, w/ lotsa spicy mustard

walk up and down 5th Avenue some and window shop @ Tiffany's

wander around Central Park 

 

hope u like walking, Manhattan isn't small, not even the tourist part is small.  Don't talk to panhandlers, don't give anyone money, don't wander away from tourist places at night. Keep your belongings safe, especially your passport.

 

Enjoy your trip and let us know all about it !

 

Marcos_Cisneros:

diverdude1, when was the last time you were in New York?

 

Viki, re the Italian restaurant part in Brooklyn, they used to be in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn but the neighborhood has gone heavily Chinese.

 

If you want Russian food, go to Brighton Beach.  If you want Turkish or Uzbek food, go to Sheepshead Bay.  

 

If you want Italian food, take the ferry from Lower Manhattan and go to Staten Island.  Anywhere and everywhere.

 

Little Italy on Mott Street is almost all gone.  It is now the new Chinatown and has been for years.

 

And contrary to what Diverdude writes, Manhattan, at least most of it, is very, very walkable.  You should be able to walk, safely, from anywhere in Midtown to Lower Manhattan in under 90 minutes.  And from Midtown to Harlem about the same.  Central Park is fine if not overrated.

 

Ambivalentmace mentioned about North Bergen.  That little bridge he is talking about is the George Washington Bridge and it is not so little.  And at most times, the traffic is horrendous. So you would have to shlep all the way across the George Washington Bridge, pick up the "A" train in Washington Heights, hardly the best of all neighborhoods and then spend all that time getting to Midtown or to the Village or the Lower East Side or to Wall Street.  Hardly worth it.

 

If you are going to think suburban, then go stay in Flushing, Queens, in the other Little Chinatown.  It is cheap, there is a lot to do, the food is great, and the 7 train will take you into Manhattan relatively quickly and right to MidTown.

 

Staying in North Bergen, New Jersey to visit New York is like staying in Hangzhou to visit Shanghai, but even worse.  

 

Sabrett's Hot Dogs -- that definitely identifies divedude1 as a non New Yorker.  If you want a good hot dog, try Papaya's.  But why go to New York to eat hot dogs? 

 

Also, New York is the safest largest city in the United States.  It has been that way for almost 30 years now.  There is more crime in Chicago or Detroit in one week than there is in New York in one month, if not more. 

 

There are tourist information centers all over Midtown, particularly at Time's Square.  And while New Yorkers can be gruff, they will give directions, unlike people in London or Paris who will simply brush you off. 

 

There are only a few cities worth visiting in the United States ... New York, New Orleans, San Francisco and Honolulu.  The rest of the country is just suburban overkill with mindless overweight Yanks. New York is a world class city.  New Orleans, even after the floods, is oh so special.  San Francisco is oh so gay and oh so yuppie.  And Honolulu is just paradise on earth.

 

Also the Immigration Officers at the New York Airports are the RUDEST in the world.  And Trump has made them even ruder.  So do not get yourself upset with them.  They are the worst example of America and they are perfect little Nazi Gestapo types, mainly to everyone.  Just answer their questions in a few words, don't lie, don't be nervous.

 

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It's been many years.  Hard to believe the old Italian places aren't still around in Bay Ridge,, hmm,,, maybe so.  Anyway have some Real Italian food no matter which borough,,, it's part of the NY experience.  As is eating a Sabrett's (never said it was the best). Walking 180 minutes in a concrete jungle is tiring for most.  One experiences the Park just because it's done, I hope the ice skating rink is still there....  good times.  

 

give u an idea how long ago I was there, well, you are talking to a guy who has stood atop the World Trade Center.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/20/texas-native-stabbed-to-death-in-brooklyn-in-front-wife.html

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Diverdude1,

 

Thank you for the answer....

 

Bayside is in Queens, not Brooklyn.  And Bayside is part of Flushing...once upon a time, Bayside was Greek and Italian.  And then the Italians moved out to Long Neck and Great Neck on Long Island.  The Greeks moved on to Whitestone and some back to Astoria.  For the last 30 years or so, Bayside has been nearly 90% Chinese, Korean and Japanese.  I can honestly say that I am not sure that there is even one pizza restaurant left in all of Bayside...but that being said, it has some of the best Korean and Japanese restaurants in the city.  The Japanese started arriving after their economy tanked in the late 1980's ... and it still has not really recovered.

 

I didn't criticize you re Sabrett's but it has faded with time.  As I said, the next time that you are in the City, try Papaya's at 72nd Street and Lexington.  It is on the new Second Avenue Subway Line.  Cheap and delicious.

 

Now, that being said, and with no caveats, if you want a real New York hot dog, a foot long hot dog, with all the trimmings, then go to the real Nathan's....not the franchises, not the clones, but the real, original Nathans on Coney Island beach.  Take the D train or F train to Coney Island, get off and walk the short block.  That is a New York hot dog and ride the Coney Island Ferris Wheel while you are at it.

 

And which ice skating rink are you referring to?  There is one at 30 Rockefeller Center that is really charming.  If you are referring to the Wollman Rink in Central Park, it is still there and it will always be there.  But 30 Rock is more intimate, more charming, and a far better experience.  Try it the next time.

 

https://therinkatrockcenter.com/

 

Thank you for the reference to Fox News.  Please forgive me but I believe 100% of nothing that I hear, read or learn from Fox News.  In most civilised countries, it would be shut down.

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diverdude1,

 

I just read the Fox article.  I feel terrible for the wife and of course for the husband.  Nonetheless, there is one big New York rule .. don't pick a fight that you can't win, particularly on the streets.

 

That being said, this happened in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on the G train.  Parts of Greenpoint are rapidly gentrifying, parts of Greenpoint are still incredibly rough and no goes, and parts of Greenpoint are 100% extremist Orthodox Jews who will beat the shit out of any and all Aryans, sad to say.  The Polish section of Greenpoint, which is gentrifying, but still very Polish, is exceptionally safe. The parts of Greenpoint that border South Williamsburg are very Puerto Rican, Hispanic, illegal immigrant, and are narcotrafficking centers. The police in that part of the borough are notoriously corrupt and problem crime is endemic, break-ins, etc.  But that is one small slice of the entire city and it is a small one, albeit a dangerous one.  Now we come to that part of Greenpoint that is extremely Orthodox Jewish.  No traffic on the streets on the Sabbath, Orthodox men in their long 16th century style clothes, women in their shawls and wigs with 10 babies, but worst of all, they are extremely intolerant of their Christian neighbors.  In this part of Greenpoint, they have rioted against Gentile shopkeepers, they have forced them to close, banks in this section are open on Sundays, not Saturdays, the Post Office is closed on Saturday but works on Sunday, etc., etc. There has been stoning and violence against Aryans in this section who disturb their Sabbath and slowly but surely the Orthodox Jews have successfully deAryanised an entire neighborhood, often semi-violently.  The city turns a blind eyes because they all vote.  That being said, in the drug controlled part, the weapon of choice is a gun and not a knife.  In the Hassidic part, the weapon of choice is a knife and a baseball bat.  And the article pointedly notes that this occurred on a Friday evening, their Sabbath, and that this Texan was staring at two oddly dressed men. So honestly, there is a lot that we do not know here.....

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ooops,,, Bay Ridge.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4805568/Husband-42-stabbed-death-wife-Brooklyn.html

 

I think every place is safe and dangerous.  It's mostly just fate,,, u can be a 7 year old UK kid walking around in Barcelona,,,, next minute your dead.   Or you can be a 100 year old WWII veteran that stormed the beaches of Normandy.  That said I just advised our dear Vikki not to go wandering off the beaten path at night.  I'd say that to most any tourist visiting most any big city.

 

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Diverdude1,

 

OK, the murder to which you refer occurred in the wrong part of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, along the section of Greenpoint that fronts the Gowanus Canal (one of the most polluted in the world).  This is drug dealer heaven.  It is home to a large illegal Dominican population, a large Salvadorean illegal population, etc.  It is rough.  Period.  Lots of tenements (I think in England you call them estates), lots of abandoned factories, etc.  It is a no man's land.  It is not gentrifying, no matter what the article says.  It is this small sliver to which I referred previously.  The park where this occurred is known as a drug dealing park ... Monsignor something or other park. Rents are cheap in that area but danger is high.  It is probably one of the two or three flashpoints in the entire city.  It is not easy accessible by public transport so most tourists, if not all, would have no easy means of getting there.  And I understand that the man was from Texas, and he was not savvy New  York street wise, but no one but no one in New York would walk into an isolated park, in a slum neighborhood, late at night, and not expect trouble.  I can only wonder if this was a drug deal go wrong.  

Next Bayside, thank you.  Parts of Bayside are still very Italian and the larger homes on the bluff are home to New York's infamous Mafia families, particularly the Genoveses and the Gambinos.  That being said, an extremely large influx of Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Egyptians, and Chinese have radically altered the rest of the landscape.

 

With good reason.  New York City has very strict do not reveal laws about illegal immigrants.  It will not cooperate with the federal government in ferreting out the illegals, it will not hand them over to Immigration, it shields as much paperwork as it can from the federal government on this matter, etc., etc.  It is rumored, with reason, that as much as 30% of all New York residents are illegal, undocumented aliens.  They are granted social assistance, they are provided with a taxpayer identification number that takes the place of a social security number, and they have access to all of the services to which ordinary New Yorkers have access.

 

And there has been a noticeable side effect.  Firstly, the population of New York City actually has been growing for the last 20 years.  Secondly, all of these new immigrants, particularly because they are illegal and do not seek interface with the police, have caused the New York City crime rate to drop to its lowest levels in recorded history.

 

Now the Hispanic but second generation gangs on Long Island are another matter.

 

There you have it, Diverdude1

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Reportable crime is down when you might get hauled away for no papers, however that does not mean that actual crime is down. If I wanted to be a good liberal, I would say that the Republican mayors did not lower crime but fudge the numbers like all rotten people on the right really do because we don't like immigrants anyway and the new democrat mayor is alienating the New York Police and causing crime to go back up to it's real numbers again. After all a republican would never actually care about the citizens of New York City, that's just not possible. Welcome to fake news, after all Trump lived in New York City all his life and did business with liberals and unions and immigrants and he was secretly a southern, sexists, racists, homophobe piece of shit there all his life and fooled everybody. New York is full of gun toting rednecks just below the radar, it's so nice to finally hear the truth, Trump probably has a terra cotta army in the basement of the Trump tower.

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Vicki if you want to avoid hostels and still not spend a lot of money, you can get a room at the Howard Johnson in North Bergen, New Jersey. It's 3 minutes to the bridge into New York City, hotel has shuttle vans and bus service right out front. Rooms run about 70 dollars a night walk in, less if booked online, unless there is a major event in town like baseball or football games the rate will be 30 percent higher.

 

I stay there every time I travel to New York, have a good trip. Some nice boat rides, some with dinner are available 1 block from the Chinese embassy in NYC also. If you get homesick for Chinese food, some black taxi hustlers are usually outside the Chinese embassy offering a ride back in a packed van to Chinatown (Flushing, New York) for all the Chinese that are doing business at the embassy, usually charge 5 dollars a head, this will better that a regular taxi fare to get there.

retiredinchina:

Some users may not like North Bergen, but they are many hotels in New Jersey just outside New York city for 70 dollars if your on a budget, rather than 200 to 300 dollars for a hotel in New York City, hostels in New York city are about the same as a room in New Jersey. The express buses don't get hung up with traffic on bridges with toll express lanes for public transit. The last time I was at the Chinese embassy, there was a great bowling alley across the street with three dollar draft beer.

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There is NO Chinese Embassy in New York City, save for the Chinese Embassy at the United Nations. The Chinese Embassy is in Washington.

 

There is, however, a Chinese Consulate General, located on the West Side of Hell's Kitchen, not far from the carrier Enterprise. It is located in an ex-warehouse building and it is truly ugly.  I wasn't aware of any bowling alley in the vicinity but then again that part of town is not somewhere I would venture voluntarily.

 

And you can find yourself a very, very decent room in a hotel / motel in Queen's, in Flushing, on the 7 train for USD 50.00 per night.  Just look.  And the ride into Manhattan on the 7 still beats the trip over the bridge and the transfer to the A train anytime.  New York doesn't have many bad neighbourhoods anymore but Washington Heights / Fort Tryon Park is hardly recommendable after hours.

 

 

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If its a consulate, i stand corrected but I had to go there for my z visa from Georgia because Washington DC would not process the paperwork. I also had to go there to process my 2nd wife a renewal of her Chinese passport, not Washington DC, again would not process the paperwork. I actually liked the area, prices were reasonable.

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Ambivalentmace,  It is indeed a Consulate.  It always has been and it will be. http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgny/eng/

 

The Chinese Embassy in Washington will only process your visa if you live in one of the following states, with proof of residence. If you live in another state in the Mid Atlantic or New England region, you must go to New York City.  If you are in the Midwest, etc., Ohio, Arizona to California.  Then again, as a tip to you, you should have used an overnight visa service.  It would have cost you money but they would have it done in the area that you requested at a surcharge.  It still would have been cheaper than the trip to New York, but then again, your wife needed a renewed passport.  I am glad that you liked the area around the Consulate General.  Most New Yorkers avoid it like the plague.  It has improved, indeed, but it has a long way to go.

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I was slightly perturbed that I had to drive by the embassy in Washington DC from Georgia and keep going all the way to Yankee land (New York) to take care of documents, but after living here, I completely understand, nothing is ever logical and the first rule is there are no logical rules. It all makes perfect sense now..

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I used to have a GF in New York. She was Puerto Rican, and lived in the Bronx with extended family. When I went over I would fly a national flag carrier to JFK. The budgets would go to Newark, but flag carrier airlines at that time were actually cheaper than budgets.

 

This is back in 99, 2000.

 

Hotels. Stayed in Baychester. Cheap hotels. Can't pre book them cos they made their money by doing hourly rates. I remember having to check out every morning so the room was free for lunchtime trade.

 

Dont overlook hotels in the city too. I stayed in the Eddison a few times.Between TImes Square and 10th Avenue. Found a great bar on tenth that I became a regular at. 

 

Had a mixed feeling new year there once.  New year 2001. All the streets around Times Square were closed, but when the ball dropped, the hotel opened the side doors and we tumbled out into the empty streets. The cops allowed us up to the barriers.

 

Yup. I saw a united USA that night.

 

Opps I digress. Use trip advisor to find a cheap hotel.

 

As a matter of interest, the daily mail done an article this week about photos of New York. Well worth looking up.

 

Fantastic city.

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@ambivalentmace just for your information, the jurisdictional boundaries for the boundaries for Chinese consulates in the United States are NOT determined by the Chinese Government.  They are determined by a joint consular commission.  China delimits the jurisdictional relevance of US consulates in the PRC and the Department of State does the same for the USA.  But if you were Special Forces, as you claim, you should know that.  The Chinese consular jurisdictions in the US are totally hacked and you only have the State Department to blame for that.  In China, on the other hand, the Chinese joint consular commission was much more logical.  The Consulate in Shenyang serves all of the DongBei.  The Embassy in Beijing serves Beijng and the Heartland and the western provinces.  The Consulate in Shanghai serves the Atlantic Coast down to Fujian.  The Consulate in Guangzhou serves the Southern Provinces and Hainan.  The Consulate in Chengdu serves the southwesten provinces and Tibet.  So thank Washington for the ill logic with the Chinese consulates in the US.  And thank China for the logical consular distribution in China.

 

With some exceptions.  Washington decided that permanent resident applications from Chinese citizens from anywhere in China can only be lodged in Guangzhou.  And births, deaths, and adoptions can also only be done through Guangzhou.  The Chinese, and I know this for a fact, 100% so, were stupefied by this decision but they let Washington do.

 

So it was incorrect of you to blame Beijing.  Blame the US Joint Consular Commission and its overseer, Senator Corker of Tennessee, another redneck Republican Southern Nazi.

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Special forces, what in the hell are you talking about, I served in the French Foreign Legion, for the IDF, Israel Defenses Forces and paid independent for some other countries but I have no affiliation whatsoever with the US military. I prefer to win wars not hang around in limbo forever. I may have inadvertently worked for a defense contractor for America without my knowledge but it had to be cash in advance.

 

You can hurl any insults you want at me, but call me a military man for America in any fashion is insulting, hell I'd rather fight for the Russians and would but they don't pay very well or on time and even contract soldiers for America get paid 90 days late. Killing is a cash business, because you may not live to see the payment. The French, Israelis, Saudis, all pay well and on time, daily or weekly, and the French give you better food than billionaires, caviar and champagne in a rain forest jungle is an experience you will never forget. Since you such an expert on this diplomatic bullshit that I really don't give a rat's ass about. Why do I have to see Chinese people in my US embassy in Beijing instead of US Marines that I would drink with in countries in Africa like Liberia and Guinea when Conte was in power. I have no problem with Chinese soldiers at a Chinese embassy or consulate in America, Is this cost cutting or some goodwill gesture.

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I saw a woman get run over by a truck waiting in line in the early morning hours at the Chinese Consulate. She survived...ran off screaming into a pizza joint that she had been run over by a truck...it was pretty shocking to see.

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Guys, you are all being very very helpful. Thank you so much laugh

Marcos_Cisneros:

Dear Vicky, try to see if you can't find a nice New York guy when you are there ... a permanent one .... you might like the change after Shanghai and getting married is still the easiest way in, without a doubt.

 

Otherwise, just enjoy yourself.  Most of the subway lines are safe day and night but I will give you a few exceptions.

 

On the West Side, do not ride the subway above 125th Street at night.  Particularly as an Asian female.  The A train and C train are perfectly safe from 125th Street all the way to Kennedy Airport, day and night.  Above 125th Street, however, it might be dangerous in the evening.

 

On the East Side, the same thing. 4, 5, 6 are all safe up to 125th Street.  After that, don't even try it.  You can ride them from 125th Street all through Brooklyn with no problem. The L is not running these days, it's down for repair.  The No. 7 from Flushing to 42nd Street is perfectly safe day and night.  The same for the F, G, Q, and R trains that run between Queens, through Manhattan and onto Brooklyn.  They are safe and well policed.

 

You will see armed police on many of the subway cars.  Do not be alarmed.  This is standard procedure since 09/11 and the Boston Bombing.  

 

Almost all of the buses are safe in New York, day and night, but the subway is still the quickest and easiest way to get around.

 

Since you are a tourist, do NOT use an ATM machine on the street.  In China, no problem.  In New York, use an ATM machine that is inside a bank.  Most are inside banks and are open 24/7.  Just do what the New Yorkers do.

 

Of course you should go to the top of the Empire State Building.  Everyone in New York does it once.  And go stand inside the Main Hall at Grand Central Station and look up at the ceiling and paintings on the wall.  Maybe even have a drink on the Second Floor Mezzanine.  Grand Central Station is the last of the great American train stations.  Go spend an evening in the West Village, particularly Christopher Street and West 4th.  Buy yourself a coffee and go spend 15 - 20 minutes just watching people in Washington Square Park.  It is a New York occupation.  If you want to see some of New York history, take yourself to Gramercy Park and do a walking tour of the neighbourhood, particularly all of the houses from the 1850's the line the park (it's New York's only private park so you won't be able to get in).  Times Square is crowded, full of tourists and overrated.  A quick walk through will suffice.

Manhattan women really know how to dress ... they put the rest of America to shame.  So go watch some Manhattan women, and their clothes and then go shopping. Spend USD 15.00 and have your nails done in Chinatown, and your hair as well. 

Then for something unusual, take yourself on a FOOD trip to Zabar's, 80th Street and Broadway.  It is the New York version of the Paris Fauchon, but not as classy.  They make every kind of bread on the face of the earth, and they have every kind of tea that comes off a green plant, and they have cheese and sausage like you will have never seen.

 

If you would like a feel of Shanghai, the French Concession, 1920 style, then please try Le Colonial but go at lunch when it is not so expensive.  The food and service are exquisite and you will feel taken 80 years back in history.  You will be served in either French, or Chinese, or English or Vietnamese at your choice.

 

http://www.lecolonialnyc.com/

 

All the best dear Vicki87.

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yep, how in the world did I forget to mention Empire State Building.  I guess it's still open to the tourist thing,,,,, haha,,, but last time I went up they wouldn't let us go on to the top. You used to go up to the circular floor,,, 101st if I remember correctly,,, last time I was there they stopped at 86th, and that was it.  Still, I'd do it even today,,, there is only one Empire State Building ~

Beautiful building and represents when humanity still had something to offer.

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Is Grand Central Station a train station or subway station?

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I booked a hostel in Mahattan(Chelsea International Hostel, 251 West 20th Street, New York, USA )

I want to go around by subway. Will the subway be open for 24 hours?Is it safe to go around by subway alone as a young asian female? 

I will arrived at JFK at 10:15pm, so where in the airport that I can take safe taxi? In Shanghai hongqiao station station, the safe taxi from those taxi companies will lined up in the station with the police guarded, so I know it is safe and I only took those if I arrive at Hongqiao train station late at night. But I have no idea about New York.

Where in the airport that I can get a US mobile SIM card?

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Do not wander around alone at night. stay where there are lots of people and pay very close attention to your surroundings

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Interesting.

When brits come to China, especially first timers, I usually send them an email telling them what map apps to downoad, what translation app works and so on.

A chinese sim card works abroad. And if you sign up for the data deal for a few rmb a day, it is actually cheaper than a foreign sim.

But your Chinese phone will still be crippled according to Chinese law.

Oh vicky... I am in dreamland after reading your posts. Thinking of American internet. British Internet. Youtube, facebook... blah blah blah. Fast internet. no censorship.

I could do a week in JFK with my android phone and apple ipad, wired into free wifi.

The freedom will amaze you.

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My flight will arrive at JFK airport in New York on Sep 30, 2017. How's the weather like during the time? I will stay in New York for 9 days. Is it fine to just bring summer clothes right?
Where can I download traveling map and transportation map of New York. I will be living in Mahattan

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believe it when I see it

 

October is not summer in New York

Viki87:

I will be in NYC between Sep 30 to Octorber 9. What clothes I should carry?

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BHGAL:

wear some warm stuff...  pack little 1 bra, 2 panties and 1 sweater...   buy some good stuff when you get there

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Viki87:

Ah, so it's like autumn.smileyI worry that those clothes might be too expensive for me. I am not making American salary.

 

 

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