New York City is one of the most popular travel destinations in the entire world… but not for RVers. You won’t find any RV campgrounds in Manhattan, or the Bronx, or Queens, or Brooklyn or Staten Island for that matter… but it sure is an amazing place to visit.
Have you ever spent more than a day in NYC? Have you ever lived there at any point? We’d like to know! Leave a comment too and tell us what you think of the Big Apple.
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And I have no intention of ever doing so. Cities in general, and the Big Apple in particular give me the creeps…
Amen!!!!!!!
Preach to me, brother! When we used to travel more, we found that the farther east you go, the colder people act to you. We figure they’re miserable there so they make others miserable. Not everyone of course, but in general. Also, the traffic is worse the farther east you go.
Amen! When I was driving truck I hated to get loads going anywhere in the NE. The attitudes are basically bad, if you deliver early morning they’re mad because they had to get out of bed, mid day because they didn’t like their lunch and late afternoon because they want to go home and be with their cranky family. You can’t win in that part of the country.
“Behavioral sink” is the term researcher John B Calhoun used to describe what happens when too many mice (or people) live too close together. Look it up. His research explains a lot of what is happening today.
I worked with several different trucking companies over 33 years of driving. When I hired in I would tell them, “I don’t go east of Buffalo or North of Pittsburg and my preference is West of the Mississippi. If you can work with that I’ll hire on, if not we are wasting each other’s time.” It worked!
Had to drive through a few times and I was not impressed. I rank it right there with LA, Chicago or De-Toilet. I hate any city over about 50,000 people and avoid them as much as possible.
Amen to that brother!
Spent a week checking out all the sites of the city. Stayed at Liberty Harbor RV Park. It’s the closest place to camp at with easy access to water taxi or a short walk to subway. It’s not really like a real RV park, more like a paved parking lot with power hookups, there is a RV dump there too. There is an area for tent camping in a grassy area by the bathrooms, look out if it rains this area of grass floods. No real place to walk dogs inside the park, unless your dog will do its duty on asphalt. There is grass out front the park by the marina. Really enjoyed our week there checking out NY City.
We spent a week there.1 week before 911 memorial officially opened. That was very emotional. People were all around telling you all about it helping you so nice made me very proud. Went all over I felt very safe. Went to Statue of Liberty Wow the history. We love it.
Now you could not pay me enough to go.
Yes, several times. My husband dared me to include it on my 50 new things at 50 list for New Years Eve ball drop (don’t like flying or crowds), stayed several days that time. Drove out there for the 5 Burroughs bike ride later that same year and stayed a week! Took my mother for a long weekend and several other trips. Have enjoyed every trip to NYC!
I grew up on Long Island and only made day trips. It was fun in its day. (Late 60’s, early 70’s) Today, I couldn’t care less about visiting with all of the stupidy, authoritarian mandates etc. going on.
NYC. Modern Urban Slum. Liberal politicals have almost destroyed a very interesting city.
I have never spent more than an hour and a half, that was how long it took to drive the truck through it. When I see scenes on TV about the traffic and crowds of people everywhere that is my clue that I never want to spend any time there. If for some unknown reason I had the misfortune of traveling that direction in my RV I would go around the city. Too many nuts in that bowl.
I’m not a sway you more polls that are not rv related.This is such to be a rv site but. Seems to me it’s getting off track
I’m not going to answer any.
Is this English?
RVers don’t go to New York City, whether with or without their RV? (And don’t you just love your spellchecker? 😆 ) Take care, Tom. 🙂 –Diane
One of my wife’s law school roommates was from a New York City suburb and got married in New York City. My wife and I spent parts of four days and three nights in New York City attending the wedding. Aside from that visit, I was in New York City part of one day during a trip. We have never RV’d to New York City.
NO and I never will…
If a city is large enough to have a traffic report on the local radio station in the morning it is too large for me.
The radio station I listen to in the Seattle area, KOMO, is a 24-hour news station. It has a traffic report “every 10 minutes, on the 4’s.” I’m glad I live outside of the city limits and that I don’t have to commute to downtown seattle (20 miles each way for me) like I did 5 or 6 days a week for almost 45 years. Sooooo glad I get to work from home now. 😀 Have a great day,Vince. 🙂 –Diane
Have never been to New York City and never plan on going there either!!!!! Too much crime, too many weird people and too many liberal politicians.
You’ve “never been”. You know what you’ve been told.
Interesting how all the non-NewYorkers are full of nasty comments about nasty New York(ers).
Good Morning. Am writing this with smile. I was driving up the I5 to work & was close to the 53 when listening to Car Radio I just heard about 9/11. My Son & his Wife just moved there from South Africa & he was working out of the Twin Towers & they had a little guy born in NYC 5 months prior. So I pulled over & phoned my Daughter in Law & she told me my Son was OK as he was heading home & she & the little guy were ok.
So the following Spring I went to NYC & my Son took me down to the Twin Towers site. That was the day I said “STYLED” as in Say Thank You Lord Every Day!
Yes; Sports Fans, every day does start with a smile!!
When I was 8 years old we spent 6 weeks traveling from Fl to Mass, we spent several days in NY, that was 61 years ago.
You had cool parents to provide you with that experience
Parents brought my brother and I there in ’58! Too many people then and really now! Dirty as well!
Yes 3 days
I have my own “personal tour guide” in NYC in the form of long-time friend. She knows how to go anywhere in the city! I’ve enjoyed every visit.
My life’s goal is to NEVER set foot in NYC. So far, so good.
Had to spend 2 months there in the summer to finish my M.A. Never so glad to leave a place in my life.
I intend to NEVER go to NY, unless surrounded by security. It’s a cesspool. Every person I’ve ever known who had to live there for work spent the entire time trying to transfer OUT. People I’ve met on the road who were raised in and like NY have a set of values, or lack there of, that I find repulsive.
Nope and I never will.
I went to FIT back in 1968 and lived there a year. It was too much for me considering it was the first time I was on my own. I wasn’t used to crowds, cat calling and non-friendly people. I still don’t like cities😄 I was from western NY.
Went with my SIL and my daughters for a long weekend in 2002. Saw ground zero, Empire State Bldg, Central Park, and rode the subway. I didn’t find the people to be any different than people are everywhere. I’m very glad I went.
No I have not spent a day nor plan to. I have lived in or stayed a week or more in major cities, Phoenix, Denver, Chicago, Boston, St Louis, Los Angeles, San Diego, Dallas, Sydney Australia, Madrid, Brussels, Paris the list goes on. Give me the countryside and others can have the rat race. Nothing against NY or NYC or people just older and interest in those big city adventures are gone.
I was born and raised on LI. Took a few field trips when I was in elementary school back in the 60s, even climbing up to the statue of liberty’s crown. Got a job driving a truck in 1979 that took me into Manhattan and New Jersey five days a week, even driving past the world trade center. Most of the people that live there are nice. Knowing your way around there and what times the traffic is flowing in or out is key to not getting stuck in a traffic jam. I currently live in northeast NY but have family there so I make a trip or two a year, usually with the motorhome. My biggest complaint is the what they charge for bridge tolls.
Never stayed overnight and I could never live in such a crowded area in a cubicle.
My wife and I have not -yet. But my son and daughter were flown there to be interviewed by John Stossel, on his show.
Just spent a week there. Stayed across the River in a New Jersey RV park and took the ferry in daily. This was my third trip to NYC, and I’ve always found the people to be just as nice as anywhere else.
I personally haven’t nor do I even care to visit. I just don’t like crowds so it would drive me up the wall. That’s the same reason I don’t shop in malls and avoid WalMart except for mid-week, mid-day, and middle of the month.
Yes, spent a week in Manhattan a few years ago and had a wonderful time. There’s so much to see, fantastic food (Junior’s Deli New York cheesecake!), amazing architecture, history and culture everywhere. We all loved it and can’t wait to go back.
Hopefully people won’t confuse the rest of New York, with NYC. The state is beautiful. So much to see. Went to NYC for business in the 90’s when subways were clean & safe. We stayed weekend to take in a couple of plays, see the sights. Later, knew a work friend that lived in the city. Seemed exciting. Thought I might like to live there maybe for 6 months just to experience. No longer. Doesn’t seem like the city it was in the 90’s.
Spent a week there after Gulf War 1 during Fleet Week. Wish I had taken the time to go to the party they threw at ‘Windows on the World’, but Navy history fan-boy that I am, I spent most of my time on the USS Intrepid Museum.
My wife and I grew up in Brooklyn and went to school and work in NYC in the 60’s. The city has changed a lot. The Times Square area was always a cesspool until cleaned up in the 90’s. It seems to be heading back down again.
We live on Long Island and used to go in to see Broadway shows, Holiday decorations, etc.
Haven’t been back in over 5 years. The city is not the same.
Yes. I never wanted to but our daughter really did. We four spent a couple days in summer 2011 and liked it so much we went back in 2012. Didn’t see nearly as much as we wanted. The people were soooo nice. I want to go back and see what we missed (Central Park, for one).
as a newborn only. i would like to go but feel it’s just too dangerous. we live in the chicago ‘burbs and won’t go into that city or the closer-in suburbs, either.
I answered no, because I have never been there and have no desire to ever go there.
Too big to crappy.
Took day tour from campground near there.Enjoyed leaving the driving to bus driver
As city’s go, that would be the absolute last one I would ever visit. Years ago, wanted to visit a famous deli located there. It has since closed, and NYC has nothing I would ever want to see except the Statue of Liberty, and liberals are going to tear that down if they get their way.
Tear it DOWN…………Really?
I wouldn’t want to stay there more than one day. Tying with California, they are the two screwiest states in the US
Not just NO but HELL NO!
We took a field trip to NYC. Yes a field trip with our daughters choir to sing at Carnegie. They were invited there. That was one heck of a trip. Just me and my mother as chaperones because the other parents bailed. The choir director was a trip as well. Try chaperoning 20 high school choir students was a learning experience in of itself. But we did tour the city and let me tell you its an adhd experience. Was so glad to get back to my quiet midwestern town. So if you go? Be prepared for an experience like so other.
The 1964 Worlds Fair counts, yes? So a week for that with my folks and older brother. During The Summer of Love I spent time in Greenwich Village NYC and Georgetown, DC. I spent some weeks at a high school debate team workshop at Georgetown University and met another girl my age who lived on LI and she played hostess to me a couple of times I “ran away” from DC to NYC during the era of the Eastern Shuttle- an airplane every hour on the hour. Also took the Greyhound a couple times when I was a little lower on the pecuniary scale. I tried to incorporate NYC into the summer trip I took with my 14 and 8 yr old grandchildren- we spent the month of June driving north with the spring- wound up not going to a lot of places I had wanted to go to. BTW if I was to travel pet-less I would definitely stay at the AYHI (Hostelling INternational) in a coed dorm. You guys have NO idea how loud and petty girls can be.
I’ve stayed in town overnight, also have set up camper in a waterfront RV park in Jersey City and ridden ferry across to Manhattan.
Worked in Bergen County, N.J. and stayed in the New Yorker Trailer City (long gone, now a transit facility, halfway between G.W. bridge and the Holland tunnel.
Fondly remember Conlon’s diner, Shoprite, and a small bodega just up the street.