New York

Pros: Beautiful building and good deeds together
Cons: none

Review Topic:  Sights & Attractions

For a different, quieter view of New York City, away from the hubbub of midtown, try a visit to the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine.

Spending an afternoon at the...

Pros: great food, great company, stout available, clean restrooms
Cons: poor quality toilet paper

Review Topic:  Events & Festivals

In the midst of preparing for my first child, doing everything necessary to move to Chicago from Kansas, and spend a weekend at my in-laws for my wife's baby shower, I decided to take a...

Pros: The hustle and the bustle, the action and the traction, the peeps and the creeps.
Cons: The hustle and the bustle, the action and the traction, the peeps and the creeps.

As I got into the car that would take me back to the Headquarters Plaza Hotel in Morristown, NJ, I heard my uncle say "Nice to have yiz visit" just before the door shut. From the hotel, I would be getting onto the shuttle to Newark Airport, and from...

Pros: So much to see and do!
Cons: A bit frantic-paced at times, crowded.

I just returned from a week in NYC, my very first visit. I’ll be honest, it wasn’t my choice of destination, my mother wanted to go to celebrate turning 70, and I wanted to go with her, so off we went. Left hubby home to fend for himself. I had a ...

Pros: See review.
Cons: See review.

It’s been almost a year since I’ve written for Epinions and in a touch of bitter irony, the last critique I wrote was the companion piece to this review: TOP TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT NEW YORK CITY: A NATIVE NEW YORKER’S RANT. I wrote it ...

Pros: Takes you virtually anywhere in New York City for $1.50.
Cons: Crosstown options aren't as plentiful as down/uptown options, at least within Manhattan.

For those who may be recent arrivals in NYC, as well as for tourists, I am going to do my best to unravel the mysteries of the NYC subway lines so that you will be less apt to get lost, and so you will also be able to reach your destination more quickly....

Pros: Variety of Products on 5th Ave, Chinatown
Cons: Horrible drivers, huge crowds, smells funny hehe

SPRINGGGGGGGGG BREAAAAAAAAKKKK! For spring break, my friends and I decided to spend a day up in New York City to go shopping and explore the city aside from landmarks.

Transportation

We got to NYC by taking NJ Transit and...

Pros: Provides a view of genuine neighborhood life in Manhattan.
Cons: Some may find the area intimidating.

(Please note that although the beginning of this review is verbose, there IS more specific information about West Harlem below...)

I recently moved to NYC, and it worked out that an available(!) apartment in good condition presented...

Pros: exciting, diverse, vibrant, eclectic, cosmopolitan
Cons: brutally urban, summers are hot & humid

Forget Nepal. Skip Alaska. For a truly adrenalin-pumping experience, pack your gear and head for NYC. I don’t just mean enduring the hotel prices, holding onto your cab seat, or slipping through a closing subway door; though locals claim these are ...

Pros: Breathtaking Scenery and Waterways, Major Cultural and Academic Centers
Cons: None

Forgive me if this review is sprinkled with a bit of bias...I grew up in a suburb of Ithaca, and no matter where I go, it remains for me one of the most beautiful and exciting areas of the entire east coast.

Located on the southern tip of...

Pros: It was a lot of fun...
Cons: It was over all too quick...

Review Topic:  Restaurants

Dooley Mac's Publick House (Irish Pub/Restaurant)
179 Mamaroneck Ave.
White Plains, New York
(914) 428-0211

Walking In -

This is my first Epinions...

Pros: Good to meet other epinioners and to hear what they have to say
Cons: Second hand smoke are killers of many.

Review Topic:  Sights & Attractions

I awakened Saturday morning, my first thought was, "Hey today is the day I get to meet some of those great writers from the epinions web site."

Although I went to...

Pros: activity, food, pace
Cons: dirty, crowded.....but hey! It wouldn't be New York if it wasn't!

Pros: an all around great dining experience
Cons: none

If you live in the NY Capital District, don't miss one of its great restaurants, the Dakota. Located just off of Northway Exit 6, it's really easy to get to and worth the trip from where I live in Clifton Park - and beyond.

The Dakota
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Pros: cheap ways to stay awake
Cons: ?

Note to reader: I'm not sure this is the best place to put this review, but it was the closest I could find...thank you for our patience...

I have two real vices in life, caffeine and tobacco (the legal kind). I love coffee. I drink...