The Anti-Tourist
 

In keeping with a companion topic what would a NY'er do, that a tourist may not necessarily do?

Wait patiently behind someone who was fumbling with his MertroCard or ATM card
Wait for the light to change
Take the Hop On bus
Eat at Carmine's, Ellen's, or Tavern on the Green

Sorry for not editing the introductory sentence correctly.

Good thread, Aduchamp1.
My contributions:
*Gawk at the Naked Cowboy
*Play 3-card monte
*Get up at 4 a.m. to get a good spot for the Today show

Go anywhere near Union Sq.

Worry about what they are wearing makes them look like a tourist.

Stand on sidewalk and meekly raise finger to hail a cab.

Complain loudly about prices.

Take a carriage ride through Central Park.

Stroll through Tiffany's with H/M shopping bags and ask salesman, "How much does that diamond ring go for, Bud?"

Go to FAO Shwartz and ask where the giant piano keyboard from "Big" is.

Eat at Lindy's or Rosie O'Grady's because their cousin ate there on a trip to NYC in 1972 and said they were great places.

Stand on E. 59th St and ask everyone who walks by if they know where Hard Rock Cafe is.

Fat Lady

Keep em coming, these are hillarious.

Stand still in the center of the sidewalk looking up

Try to walk 3 or 4 abreast

Go anywhere near Madame Tussaud's (unless under the age of 12)

Eat at a chain restaurant (not fast food - but the mall chains)

Make a dinner reservation for 5 in the afternoon, or eat dinner at 5 in the afternoon

Stand IN a line

Identify a subway line by color

Call 6th Ave the Avenue of the Americas

Ask what restaurants serve dinner late when you want to eat at 9pm

Wear shoes that you can't walk a mile in (unless with evening wear)

Go to How-stin Street

Think a Sara Lee Bagel is better than anything they have eaten here

Say on the subway, "We're like sardines in here." or at Grand Central Station, "This place is like Grand Central Station."

Try to visit the Bastille. (Sorry, wrong city.)

<i>Go to How-stin Street</i>

OK, I'm pretty NY savvy, having grown up there and visited since many many times. But I don't get this one. Isn't "How-stin" the correct pronunciation?

My idiocy. That is the NY pronounciation.

You-ston is the wrong one.

I was just evicted from my apartment for that one.

OK, I feel better now.

Refer to Rockefeller Center as Rock Center

Anyone wearing the original blue Levi's jeans with sneakers.

<i>Refer to Rockefeller Center as Rock Center</i>

Sorry, I don't agree with this one. Even the owner (Tishman Speyer) refers to it as Rock Center.

Then, I guess the owner of Tishman Speyer is a tourist!
Real New Yorkers never say Rock Center, any more than they say UES, UWS, LES, LWS, TS. etc., etc., etc.

Howard, I would certainly understand if you refused to call Rockefeller Center "RC" :-)

I can't think of anything more delightful than being a tourist in NYC and doing touristy things. I saw the architects of the renovated Alice Tully Hall on Charlie Rose. I hope I can get a chance to see it. Would or could I walk by on the way from Central Park W. to the Palace Theatre?

ita - why not? Walk over to B'way and 65th. Continue down B'way to the Palace.

(off topic - Aduchamp1 - ate at the Orchard - very good)

sf7307, guess I'm just an old fashioned guy! To me, saying "Rock Center" reeks of what I call "trendy phoniness".....or is it "phony trendiness"? (I never know which way sounds "right"!)
At least, it sounds like you agree with me about the use of initials instead of the "full" versions.