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Rudy's Music in Soho. A stunning display of vintage D'Angelico and D'Aquisto arch tops on the upper level. http://rudysmusic.com
Retrofret in Brooklyn. http://www.retrofret.com
Carmine Street Guitars. Home of luthier Rick Kelly and his awesome reclaimed pine guitars. http://www.carminestreetguitars.com
TR Crandall Guitars. https://trcrandall.com
Rivington Guitars. https://rivingtonguitars.com
Matt Umanov Guitars. https://www.umanovguitars.com
If you like jazz,
Smoke. Uptown. Check out Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet on Tuesdays for some of the best Hammond organ playing. It's guitarist Peter Bernstein's regular gig when he's at home. If he's not on the gig, it'll be another monster like Dave Stryker or Paul Bollenback.
Bar Next Door at La Lanterna. Intimate room that books great guitarists most nights. Can't go wrong with anyone there, but Jonathan Kreisberg and Peter Mazza are both there regularly.
55 Bar. Legendary bar with a couple of bands every night. Mostly leans towards jazz, fusion and blues. Popular room with guitarists. Wayne Krantz and Mike Stern both have regular gigs there if they're in town.
Smoke and Mezzrow are both run by the same team and across the street from each other. Two of the best rooms for jazz in the world.
The Village Vanguard. Legendary jazz venue.
Jim Campilongo plays every Monday night at Rockwood Music Hall. If he can't do it on a Tele, it can't be done!
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Empire State Building but spend the extra on a fast pass to save queuing for two hours. If it doesn't have to be the ESB then the view from the Top of the Rock is just as good but less crowded.
If you plan to use the subway a lot then an unlimited MetroCard could be worthwhile. Can also be used on SOME other local transport systems.
Gray Line bus tour of the city.
Grand Central Station. Look out for the 'whispering' arches.
Grimaldi's Pizza - a bit of a local institution. You will queue though.
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I much preferred Top of the Rock to the ESB. Plus if you go up the ESB at night do not expect to get a decent view or to be able to move, it was ridiculously busy when we went up around 7pm.
Guitar wise I only went to Sam Ash and Rudys. Sam Ash was brill, much like what we have over here with a lot of high end stuff. Rudys was amazing but I never really got to look at anything properly, asked a few questions of the staff and was given short shrift. I’d still go and have a look though!
Not mentioned yet is the huge Guitar Center in Times Square. I've not been but it looks awesome. Just be prepared for a thousand tourists and teenagers all widdling at once.
Obviously check out Central Park. It's huge and beautiful and peaceful, right in the middle of the city. While you're there, stop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ("the Met") and/or the Natural History Museum. Both are up there with the very best museums in the world.
If you're into food, some of the top restaurants do great lunch offers - you can get michelin-star food WAY cheaper than in the evening.
Also Chelsea Market and the Highline are brilliant for an afternoon of shopping, eating and wandering in a nature-ish reclaimed railway sort of way
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The shop itself is pretty small but their stock is huge. Great place. But in (at least when I went) a really shitty part of the city.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
Flipping cold mind. Tomorrow is meant to be minus 12 in the day!!
There are quite a few people living on the streets here that I have noticed. Not as many as some cities, but I can't imagine what it will be like for them tonight here.