Getting Around New York as a Tourist

Every traveler has fears of getting around a new city and a place where life sits a bit differently. Traffic jams, yellow cabs that charge ridiculously high, streets overcrowded and filled with vendors, people with special plans and places to be. Everybody's heard that New York can be a bit chaotic, that New York is the city of dreams, that if you make it in New York you can make it anywhere.

However true or overly exaggerated that sounds, it might surprise you to find out that getting around New York is actually fairly simple. Most especially because their streets are named in numbers and avenues like a compass, and that you'll only have to know how to count simple Math--- 1, 2, 3…62, 63… 152nd-- so on and so forth. Clichéd but all you have to do is follow the numbers.

You can choose to take the subway, although if you're not going very far or don't have to be at a specific place at a designated time, the price of a ticket may not be worth it. After all, the New York experience is living it. That means walking through the crowded streets and basking in everything that makes New York New York. Taking a car or a cab is also not very ideal due to the intense traffic-- chaotic almost. The best drivers of the world probably live in New York too.

If you want to see every nook and cranny of New York, you can take one of the bus tours (again, it'd be subject to traffic). Another way of seeing everything New York has to offer is taking the helicopter tour New York City by Helicopter New York City. It's a 12 to 30 minute ride of pure thrill and adventure giving a lofty and top-notch sight of New York from the skies. See everything from a distance. Gather the whole picture. And once you're done, the best way to experience the city would always be to simply walk! Every street in New York is different-- quaint shops and theaters and tall buildings that house corporations and banks. There are parks and squares where people hang out, places to eat that are almost always full and expensive, small coffee shops and bakeries that waft the smell of baked goods enough to make your tongue linger.

The people can be a bit different too. The culture and the lifestyle. Don't miss on any of that. Get out and walk! As much and as far as you can. Be an explorer. Be safe, but also enjoy what makes New York so different. Be the best tourist there is-- through experience and learning and not just mere sightseeing. That's all there is to it to find in the appeal that is New York.

Also try renting a bike and paddling through the bicycle paths, especially along the vast Central Park. It’s difficult to walk through all of it by foot anyway.