Dror's USA

Old memories from:

CAMBRIDGE:

Davis Square:

• Johnny D's: jazz brunch

Harvard square:

• Harvard's campus, library and cybercafe
• The Sanders Theater
• The Brattle: cinema
• The Harvard Square cinema
• The Regattabar: jazz club

• Au bon pain: light food
• C'est bon: fast food
• Bartley's: good hamburgers
• Ice creams
• Pizza Uno
• California Pizza Kitchen
• The Border: mexican restaurant
• The Greenhouse: greesy spoon
• Grindel's: cheap restaurant
• Indian restaurants
• The house of blues: blues club and restaurant
• Algiers: cafe and light restaurant
• Casablanca: bar

• Out of town news: International newspapers
• Urban Outfitters: clothes and stuff
• Bookstores (Harvard Bookstore, Wordsworth)
• The international bookstore
• The revolutionary bookstore
• CDs (Newbury Comics, Tower records, HMV)
• Bootleg CDs

Inman square:

• Ryles: jazz club

• Portuguese Restaurants
• S&S: restaurant and brunch
• Jay's cafe: sushi and korean food
• Dali's: spanish restaurant
• Ice cream
• Indian restaurant
• Haitian restaurant

• Feminist bookstore

Central square:

• Picante: mexican fast food
• Au bon pain: light food
• Green street grill: expensive restaurant
• Indian restaurants
• Carberry's: bakery
• The MiddleEast: bar, restaurant and alternative music
• The Miracle of Science: restaurant
• Bertucci's pizza
• Cezanne: breakfast and snacks
• Mary Chung: chinese restaurant
• The Cantab: bar and music

• Cheapo's: CDs
• Revolutionary bookstore

One Kendall Square:

• Cinema

• Cambridge Brewing Company: food and beer
• Sazarac grove: food
• The Blue Room: expensive food
• Thai restaurant

BOSTON:

North End:

• Italian atmosphere and food

Quincy Market:

• Fleet center: concerts

• Quincy Market
• Sea Food

Financial District

Chinatown

Beacon Hill:

• Charles street
• Other nice little streets, up the hill

Boston Garden and Boston Commons

Comm. Av.

Boylston Av.:

• Copley square: shopping
• The Top of the Hub and the Marriott: Brunches

Newbury street:

• Berkelee school of music

• Bookstore + cafe
• Armani's: food (excellent Tirami Su)
• TGI Friday: tacky american restaurant
• Sonsie: pricy but good restaurant
• Greek and other restaurants
• Ice creams (JP Licks, Ben & Jerry...)

• CDs (Tower records, Newbury Comics, CD Spin, Mystery Train...)
• Urban Outfitters: clothes and stuff
• Patagonia: sportswear
• Waterstone: Big Bookstore
• Agnes b.
• shopping
• Nomad: ethnic gift shop

Kenmore square:

• Clubs on Lansdown street: Venus, Axis, Europa, Mama Kin...

• IHOP: pancakes

South Station:

• Les Zygomates: french restaurant

Mass. Av.

• Wally's: Jazz club

Museums:

• Museum of Fine Arts
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and garden

Jamaica Plain:

• JP licks: ice cream
• Sushi, Thai, Mexican, Vegetarian restaurants

CHARLESTOWN:

• Olive's: expensive restaurant
  

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NEW YORK:

South Manhattan:

Not the most interesting part but:
Wall street
Chinatown
Little Italy
Jewish neighborhood
Bridges and Brooklyn
Ferry for Staten Island


The last remaining decent CD store (for how long?):
J&R, 23 Park Row (accross the street from City Hall Park)

Villages:

The best parts:
Soho
Tribeca
Geenwich village
Chelsea
Lower east side
East village

Nice streets: 
Houston, Greene, Spring, Prince, Canal, Broadway, Broome, Mercer, Washington square, Bleecker, Christopher, Mc Dougal, Grove


Food:
Olive tree cafe, 117 Mc Dougal street (1-212-254 3630), eat the bortsch
Cafe Reggio, 119 Mc Dougal street, eat the sfogliatelle
Freeman's, Freeman Alley, off Rivington street, between Chrystie and Bowery, kind of french
Katz, 205 E Houston (254 2246), jewish deli



Cheap Hotel: Sohotel, 341 Broome street (corner with Bowery av), (800) 737-0702 or (212) 226-1482

Music:
Jazz clubs
Nightclubs (Limelight, 20th st & 6th av, a club in a former church)
CD stores in the village and lower east side (St Mark's Place = 8th street and 2nd avenue)

Jeans and clothing, on Broadway between Houston and Canal, for example:
OMG: 428 or 542 Broadway

Midtown:

Places:
Gramercy park, Union square, Times square, Madison square,
Empire state building: 5th av et 34th street


Luxurious shopping:
Rockfeller center: 52nd st & 5th av
Trump tower: 56th st & 5th av
Tiffany's 57th st & 5th av

Hotels (cheap but OK):
Herald square, 19 W 31st street & 5th av. (800) 727-1888 or (212) 279-4017
Wolcott, 4 W 31st street & 5th av. (212) 268-2900

Museums:
MOMA: 11 W 53rd street (entre 5th et 6th av)
Whitney: 945 Madison av et 75th street

Uptown:

Central Park: between 5th and 8th avenues / 59th and 110th streets
Harlem
Cloisters: Subway 190th street


Upper east side:
Luxurious appartments on Central Park
Poor neighborhood in Spanish Harlem


Upper west side:
Luxurious neighborhood
Nice restaurants


Music: 
Lincoln center, MET Opera: Broadway et Columbus


Museums:
Guggenheim: 5th av et 89th street
MET: 5th av et 82nd street

Manhattan subway map:

http://www.mta.info/