highland_lass

Can anyone help me please??

My teenager daughter is a fan of the TV show FRIENDS and watches it all the time on DVD.

When I am in NYC in October I would like to buy her some "FRIENDS" things for her birthday. I realise the show has ended and perhaps the interest in it has waned esp here in UK however I wondered if there was any stores or places I could go to buy her something in NYC. I mean posters , T shirts, mugs etc .....you know the kind of thing.

I am staying near Times Square for 4 days so I'd appreciate any help you could give.

Thanks

mclaurie

There are some Friends items at the NBC store in Rockefeller Center despite the fact the show is no longer on NBC.

nbcstore.com do a search for "friends" there

NeoPatrick

I haven't looked, but this sounds to me like what EBay is all about.

GoTravel

Ditto with mclaurie and Patrick.

The NBC store should be your first stop.

highland_lass

Thank you , I've already been down the e-bay route. I'll try NBC.

Sarah

I would look online. Don't recall seeing these items in network gift shops when I lived in NYC.

kenm26

Highland,
I was in NYC a few weeks ago and I visited the NBC store. I remember seeing quite a few "Friends" items....shirts, coffee mugs, etc. So you shouldn't have any problem finding something for your daughter. good luck!

missypie

I agree....quite a nice Friends section at the NBC Store.

mumser

Try calling the NBC store in Rockefellar Center. Several years ago they had everything you could imagine. May no longer be the case now that show is in syndication.

missypie

We were there in mid-July of this year and they had lots of Friends stuff.

nytraveler

FYI - although Friends was set in New York - it wasn't shot there - but in California - and was completely unlike what NYC really is.

NeoPatrick

What about the show was "completely unlike New York"????

I remember watching the shows in the early days and thinking the sofa in the coffee shop was so unreal -- then I happened into a coffee shop one day walking down lower Fifth Avenue -- and oh, my God, I thought I was in Central Perk -- it was so like it -- but not copied -- it had been there for ages they told me.
OK, the apartments were large -- had to be for filming.
But what else?

highland_lass

Thank you all for your help. I'll go to NBC and make a teenager very happy...

GoTravel

I think nytraveler is referring to the part about how they all have menial jobs but massive cool apartments.

missypie

That is rampant. I think the last show that was close to realistic about apartment sizes was the Honeymooners, and I find that too depressing to watch. I Love Lucy might have been kind of close, since he was a big time night club performer, but they didn't even have a dining room. My kids watch Full House reruns....that is totally a multi-million dollar house that they're living in. And how about Hannah Montana, with that big house on the beach (which one? Malibu?)

Margo_Chester

The building that was used as the outside of the "Friends" apartment building is in the Village on the corner of Bedford and Grove, your daughter might get a kick out of seeing it.