
The atmosphere is relaxed but not as mellow as Starbucks. Walking is best for discovering hidden shops, small parks, and other treasures but biking is essential if your trip is going to span more than a few miles.

New York has convenient tourist bikes you can rent for a few bucks located across the city. The first thing about New York City is that it is better to identify one or two areas in walking or biking distance and explore the city above ground, in the open. This is convenient, but can ruin a spontaneous and potentially event-filled day trip. You want to hit every location and take picture standing in front of the monument to get that successful feeling of "seeing New York." In order to do so you have to traverse more than a few miles of city space, but taxis are expensive so instead you head underground to the subways.

Central park, Rockefeller Center, Tiffanys, Fifth Ave, Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge. Here's how not a be a tourist next time you go to New York City.Ī typical trip New York usually includes a detailed map of the metro and how much time you're going to spend riding subways verse how much time you're gonig to spend at each of the tourist locations you've pinpointed. I think Emma Watson said it best: "The majority of the boys around me were like, 'Why did you do that? That's such an error.' And I was like, 'Well, honestly, I don't really care what you think!' I've never felt so confident as I did with short hair - I felt really good in my own skin." It's so liberating - and I've never felt more like myself. It almost felt like I was playing dress-up, playing this character of a girl with long hair for a very long time. I used it to cover my face or my acne or my ears, kind of like a security blanket. I'm not hiding behind my hair like I used to.
