Archive for December, 2007
New Zealand Consulate in New York City
The New Zealand Consulate in New York City is located on 41st. Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, very near the UN Complex in Midtown. The nearest subway stop is the 4, 5, 6, or F trains stopping at 42nd Street/Grand Central Station.
If you see a fellow there who looks like he’s spending time managing a novelty band, his name is Murray. Please report any unusual activity to the New Zealand Embassy in Washington DC.
New Zealand Consulate-General
222 East 41st St, Suite 2510 (between 2nd & 3rd Aves)
New York, NY 10017-6702
Tel: (212) 832-4038
Fax: (212) 832-7602
Hours: Monday - Friday 9 a.m. …
Date: December 13th, 2007 |
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British Consulate in New York City
The British Consulate-General in New York City is located on 3rd Avenue, near 51st Street. Not surprisingly, it’s near the United Nations Complex. The closest subway line is the 6 at 51st Street, but this is a crowded part of Midtown, which is easy to reach from most subway lines with only a short walk.
The New York consulate covers all citizen service issues for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Fairfield County in Connecticut.
Here is the official site of the British Consulate in New York City.
845 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Tel: (212) 745-0200
Fax: (212) 754-3062
Date: December 13th, 2007 |
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7B - a highly recommended East Village bar
When I first moved to New York City in 1990, my friends and I were a bit scared to walk into Alphabet City, and you really couldn’t blame us because out-in-the-open drug deals were some of the least frightening things about the neighborhood. Of course, through the 90s things changed drastically. Now it’s not only safe, but rents are far out of most of our price ranges as well.
But even back then the one place that would motivate us to run the gauntlet was simply known as 7B, since it’s on the corner of 7th Street and Avenue B. The real name of the place is Vazac’s Horseshoe Bar, but no one calls it that. The city’s easy-to-use grid system is made just that much easier by names like 7B, where even the dumbest or drunkest person knows exactly where they are.
Date: December 13th, 2007 |
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Time Out New York - just get it
The best advice I can give to anyone who is considering coming to New York City, especially for the first time, is to get at least one copy of the weekly entertainment and culture magazine - Time Out New York.
Actually, it’s well worth it to subscribe for a year, but we’ll get to that later. Time Out is a London-based publishing outfit that does weekly guides in over 20 cities worldwide, and they also churn out a reliable group of travel guidebooks. Time Out New York launched in 1995, and the city has never been the same.
Date: December 7th, 2007 |
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Canadian Consulate in New York City
The Canadian consulate in New York City handles citizen services for those traveling or living in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Bermuda. The office is located on Sixth Avenue (which is annoyingly called Avenue of the Americas) and 50th Street at Rockefeller Center. It’s in the heart of Midtown Manhattan and the closest subway is the F at 47-50th Streets (one stop has that name), but it’s walking distance from Times Square and most everywhere in Midtown.
Canadian Consulate General in New York
1251 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10020-1175
Consular/Passport fax: 1 (212) 596-1666 Consular Tel.: 1 (212) 596-1759
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Date: December 13th, 2007 |
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Australian Consulate in New York City
The Australian consulate in New York City is on 42nd Street near Lexington Avenue, right next to Grand Central Station and down the street from the UN complex. It’s walking distance from Times Square, and nearly every subway line stops on 42nd Street, so it couldn’t be easier to reach the place.
Australian Consulate-General in New York
150 East 42nd Street, 34th Floor
New York NY 10017-5612
Tel: (212) 351-6500
Fax: (212) 351-6501
Here is the official site of the Australian Consulate in New York City.
Date: December 13th, 2007 |
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Celebrity spotting - with a delay
One of the few fun things about living in LA and one of the many fun things about living in New York City is that crossing paths with famous folks becomes a regular occurrence. Go ahead and act like it’s no big deal if you want, but when you are buying beer at a bodega standing right next to Parker Posey or John Krasinski, it can add a nice zing to your evening.
But of course these sightings are always totally random and unpredictable. You can drastically increase your chances by spending a lot of time in Downtown Manhattan, but still on any given day you won’t recognize anyone.
Those pretentious dropouts who run gawker.com are mostly useless, but a couple years ago they started an interesting webpage/service. It tracks celebrity sightings on a map, usually with attempted-humorous captions and sometimes interesting random photos. It’s gawkerstalker, and I’ve been following it since it debuted in 2005.
Date: December 10th, 2007 |
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