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Should I Go Running in Central Park, or Visit Stack's Instead?

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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    This is worth a run over

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  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    Run through the park on your way to Stacks (even if it isn't on they way) image
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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    I reckon you don't need the coat now


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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Au contraire Tom!

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    I'm bi coastal and we have a showroom on 6th and 56th. I find Stack's boorish but worth at least one visit. MJ
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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    A duel ! image Never been but heard about it.

    I did have a barely cooked rare burger ( how rare? Leave it with a good Vet and it'll get up and run from the table ) at Flanigans in Wellington ( no not that wellington ) last week. I think they said it was 10 oz's.

    Hmmm



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  • QuarterCollectorQuarterCollector Posts: 1,384 ✭
    After eating that you will need to go on a very long run.
  • tychojoetychojoe Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭
    Stack's is just a block or two off the south end of Central Park. But if you had time for only one or the other, you'll probably get a lot more out of your run in Central Park than a visit to Stack's. As a visitor to Central Park, my times there have always been kind of magical. As a visitor to Stack's, I never got there during open hours. But plenty of members have posted here in previous threads that there wasn't much to see once they got inside anyway. Those members did say, though, that Stack's will let you look through what's on hand, if you have something specific you want. Tell me if I've told you something you didn't already know!
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  • mumumumu Posts: 1,840
    Good burgers can be had anywhere. Get a Shawarma instead.
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Been there, done both, but Central Park is an amazing oasis and really, given a choice I would go there.
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The park for sure.... one can visit shops any time....Cheers, RickO
  • CB2597CB2597 Posts: 3,042
    You should actually do both. Why not? Just don't go to that shop a few doors down or up depending on your way to Stacks...that shop that sells watches/coins and other memorabilias because in that shop when you buy/sell something to him it feels like you took a "bath". image
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Run...but you knew I would say that.

    Sure, you could get mugged in Central Park, but that is not half as bad as getting Stacks'ed. image
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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,549 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Central Park.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i> Just don't go to that shop a few doors down or up depending on your way to Stacks...that shop that sells watches/coins and other memorabilias because in that shop when you buy/sell something to him it feels like you took a "bath". image >>



    I remember asking if they had paper money and the guy throwing me a stack of junk paper money. I left and went to Stacks, where I was treated a lot better.
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I stayed in Manhattan when giving a teaching workshop last January. I had a blast running in the city (usually around 5 am) and was amazed at how alive the place was at that hour! I ran to and then through Central Park (not at 5 am!) and enjoyed it a lot. So...Stacks or a run in Central Park? That's easy...run in Central Park.

    As an aside...it was funny to see a lot of the places I had only heard about on Law and Order!

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  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,432 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hit the Guggenheim instead.
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    A colleague is here from Peth, Australia, and will be in the Big City over the weekend. Perhaps you can take him to Stack's and show him the place!
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  • abitofthisabitofthatabitofthisabitofthat Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭
    Going to Central Park can create some nice memories. Going to Stack's will end in disappointment.

    merse

  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I stayed in Manhattan when giving a teaching workshop last January. I had a blast running in the city (usually around 5 am) and was amazed at how alive the place was at that hour! I ran to and then through Central Park (not at 5 am!) and enjoyed it a lot. So...Stacks or a run in Central Park? That's easy...run in Central Park.

    As an aside...it was funny to see a lot of the places I had only heard about on Law and Order!

    Lane >>



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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,186 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>A colleague is here from Peth, Australia, and will be in the Big City over the weekend. Perhaps you can take him to Stack's and show him the place! >>


    If I didn't know better, I'd think Longacre is trying to recruit Coinosaurus to be a minion.
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  • CoppercolorCoppercolor Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭
    I've visited Stacks twice. Both times the people watching was ten times better than the coin watching. I HIGHLY recommend a visit.

    There seems to be a constant parade of rif and raf being buzzed in with insane assortments of junk coins, gold etc and the staff is brilliant at handling them. FUN to watch!

    IMO
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  • edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    Might get robbed at either.
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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,639 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for all the great suggestions.

    I think I will run around the Onassis reservoir in the park, and later walk over to Jackson Hole for my monthly burger image
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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Sure, you could get mugged in Central Park, but that is not half as bad as getting Stacks'ed. image >>


    I was going to say that!

    BTW, say hi to my daughter. She often runs in Central Park (starts in E. Village)
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Hit the Guggenheim instead. >>



    Not for me, the Met is my haunt in NYC.
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