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Summer 2004 NYC CPian Get Together

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An article on a NYC get together

Introduction

This is an open article to try and gauge the interest and plan for a (possibly) early summer NYC CPian get together. If you are, or plan to be in New York City (terrorists be damned!) this summer, let us know and help plan a great together!

Location

Somewhere in Manhattan. The number of possibilities of are simply mind boggling so hopefully some comments will help give a general idea of what most people might be interested in.

Some possible ideas (none of these are necessarily mutually exclusive):

  • Visiting one of the many museums
  • Visiting one or more of the more famous NYC bars
  • Going to a big name movie
  • Visiting Central Park
  • Going to Central Park Concert
  • Jazz Clubs
  • Comedy clubs
  • Riding the subway and staring at people (it's Free and Fun - I promise!)
  • ????

When

Based one some preliminary responses, sometime after June 11 looks good. That weekend (Saturday or Sunday June 12/13) would be great. Other times are also possible if that proves too soon for people to manage or plan for.

Based on the comments below (as of Wed June 2, 2004) we have 2 votes for the weekend of June 12/13.

Getting here

Most international flights come in through JFK airport, but many also come into Newark, New Jersey. From JFK it's a taxi ride to Manhattan, and it's about $45.00 USD. Domestic flights usually come into La Guardia Airport, in Queens, though they also use JFK and Newark. Taxi fair is also around $45.00 from La Guardia. If you're driving in I believe it's fairly straight forward, just expect city traffic to be a madhouse.

The NYC Subway

Pretty much anywhere you want to get in Manhattan requires you do use the subway. Alternately you could also use my alpha version of a trans-dimensional matter transporter (it's written in Java - write once, transport anywhere!), but that's currently having some issues with garbage-collection...

Seriously the subways cost $2.00 USD each trip (i.e. each pass through the station turnstile). You can also get unlimited passes:

1-Day Fun Pass.... $7.00 USD
7-Day card....... $21.00 USD
30-Day card...... $70.00 USD

For more info on the subway : http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/maps/submap.htm

Here's a glance of the subway map:

Click images to see original, bigger images from external site

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Comments and Discussions

 
GeneralVoting over Pin
Jim Crafton12-Jun-04 16:49
Jim Crafton12-Jun-04 16:49 
GeneralVoting will end on Fri, June 11 Pin
Jim Crafton8-Jun-04 8:51
Jim Crafton8-Jun-04 8:51 
GeneralVote for weekend of July 10/11 Pin
Jim Crafton7-Jun-04 4:13
Jim Crafton7-Jun-04 4:13 
GeneralVote for weekend of July 3/4 Pin
Jim Crafton7-Jun-04 4:12
Jim Crafton7-Jun-04 4:12 
GeneralVote for weekend of June 26/27 Pin
Jim Crafton7-Jun-04 4:12
Jim Crafton7-Jun-04 4:12 
GeneralVote for weekend of June 19/20 Pin
Jim Crafton7-Jun-04 4:11
Jim Crafton7-Jun-04 4:11 
QuestionSo how many do we have now? Pin
Jim Crafton5-Jun-04 2:37
Jim Crafton5-Jun-04 2:37 
Generaland this would be priceless... Pin
mystro_AKA_kokie4-Jun-04 6:57
mystro_AKA_kokie4-Jun-04 6:57 
GeneralFew more links Pin
Kant4-Jun-04 3:48
Kant4-Jun-04 3:48 
GeneralJune 11/12 sounds good to me Pin
Eddie Velasquez2-Jun-04 0:53
Eddie Velasquez2-Jun-04 0:53 
GeneralSubway map Pin
Kant1-Jun-04 14:29
Kant1-Jun-04 14:29 
GeneralRe: Subway map Pin
Jim Crafton3-Jun-04 14:34
Jim Crafton3-Jun-04 14:34 
GeneralRe: Subway map Pin
Kant4-Jun-04 3:53
Kant4-Jun-04 3:53 
QuestionWhat is CPian?? Pin
armentage1-Jun-04 10:03
armentage1-Jun-04 10:03 
AnswerRe: What is CPian?? Pin
Colin Angus Mackay1-Jun-04 11:19
Colin Angus Mackay1-Jun-04 11:19 
A Citizen of Code Project. Also, EuroCPian[^] which is a CPian that live on the land to the upper-right of the Atlantic.


"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar

The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September

Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!


GeneralPlease post comments Pin
Jim Crafton1-Jun-04 8:02
Jim Crafton1-Jun-04 8:02 
GeneralRiding the subway and staring at people (it's Free and Fun - I promise!) Pin
Roger Allen1-Jun-04 1:39
Roger Allen1-Jun-04 1:39 
GeneralRe: Riding the subway and staring at people (it's Free and Fun - I promise!) Pin
James Curran1-Jun-04 4:01
James Curran1-Jun-04 4:01 
GeneralRe: Riding the subway and staring at people (it's Free and Fun - I promise!) Pin
Jörgen Sigvardsson1-Jun-04 8:50
Jörgen Sigvardsson1-Jun-04 8:50 
GeneralRe: Riding the subway and staring at people (it's Free and Fun - I promise!) Pin
Jim Crafton1-Jun-04 8:55
Jim Crafton1-Jun-04 8:55 
GeneralRe: Riding the subway and staring at people (it's Free and Fun - I promise!) Pin
Jörgen Sigvardsson1-Jun-04 9:32
Jörgen Sigvardsson1-Jun-04 9:32 
GeneralRe: Riding the subway and staring at people (it's Free and Fun - I promise!) Pin
James Curran1-Jun-04 13:34
James Curran1-Jun-04 13:34 
GeneralRe: Riding the subway and staring at people (it's Free and Fun - I promise!) Pin
Jim Crafton1-Jun-04 4:46
Jim Crafton1-Jun-04 4:46 
GeneralRe: Riding the subway and staring at people (it's Free and Fun - I promise!) Pin
Ellery_Familia1-Jun-04 10:44
Ellery_Familia1-Jun-04 10:44 
GeneralRe: Riding the subway and staring at people (it's Free and Fun - I promise!) Pin
Jim Crafton1-Jun-04 15:22
Jim Crafton1-Jun-04 15:22 

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