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NCJohnnie said:

BBGuy800 -

Your head must be spinning from all the suggestions. I lived for 42 years in New York (Flushing), 16 in central New Jersey and the last 14 in North Carolina (Mooresville). They are all nice places although if I had my druthers (I probably won't lol) I'd stay in NC.

We are headed up to NY (Queens) for a memorial service at the end of November and are staying at the above Best Western in Bayside. Decent hotel in a very convenient location with a very nice old school Spanish restaurant on the ground floor and 4 blocks from all the restaurants and bars on Bell Boulevard - somewhere between $250-300 per night. It is also only a four block walk from the Long Island Rail Road station where the train will take you directly into Penn Station right below the Garden in 25-30 minutes, a very relaxing ride. It is an easy Uber to and from LaGuardia. We have one daughter in Brooklyn and one in Weehawken and until 2021 also had one in Jersey City so we do the NC to NY/NJ trip 3 times a year and I stopped flying into Newark airport two years ago as LGA is just so much nicer but that's just me.

You have lots of good options. If this is going to be your second trip to the Big Apple, I'd recommend trying to see a bit of it when you're in there. Agree with BrookJerseyRedmen on Keens being a great place for a pre or post game meal if you are willing to splurge a little.
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I had my engagement party at Marbella 30 years ago.
 
Andrew said:
I had my engagement party at Marbella 30 years ago.
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Still serving great traditional Spanish food with a guy playing the cello while you eat. My wife and I ate there when we were up for my godmothers funeral mass in 2021.
 
Eric said:
Was surprised he wrote that being we are in New York and a good amount of redfans are Yankee fans.
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Have you ever been outside of New York? To southerners we are all Yankees, with New Yorkers just about the worst of them. Nothing to do with the baseball team, silly.

Honestly though, I never really knew about all that love till I did business in the South.
 
NCJohnnie said:
I don’t think Beast’s reference to Yankees had anything to do with the baseball team lol.
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That’s quite possible after u bringing that point out and rereading it but it’s not clear fully.
 
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Beasts of the East said:
Have you ever been outside of New York? To southerners we are all Yankees, with New Yorkers just about the worst of them. Nothing to do with the baseball team, silly.
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Um yea I think I may have ventured outside the state a couple times.

Your point wasn’t clear obviously as both myself and Delaware both saw it differently. If stated differently like what you posted above yea I get your point.
 
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Beasts of the East said:
Good job guys. I'd much rather us have a reputation as great fans who are welcoming to visitors than damned Yankees who are AHs.

I want us to be every opposing team college fan's 2nd favorite team. Small kindnesses help.
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NCJohnnie said:
I don’t think Beast’s reference to Yankees had anything to do with the baseball team lol.
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That reference had nothing to do with the baseball teams but how some southerners refer to those from the North. The abbreviated version of Yankees, Yanks, is how some in England (at least in the not so distant past and some might still) refer to those of us from across the pond in the States.
 
Beasts of the East said:
Have you ever been outside of New York? To southerners we are all Yankees, with New Yorkers just about the worst of them. Nothing to do with the baseball team, silly.

Honestly though, I never really knew about all that love till I did business in the South.
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I’m actually shocked people don’t know that. The, expression “Damn Yankees”didn’t originate because of a Broadway musical about the hatred of the baseball team but originated much further back and the distrust/dislike/hatred the South had for Northerners.
 
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