Page 14-Saturday, April 14, 1979-The Michigan Daily big apple (Continued from Page 3) Avenue of the Americas, then Seventh Avenue: no Sixth. Positive we'd missed it, we looked again. Finally, we sum- moned the courage to ask a policeman, who informed us that Avenue of the Americas was Sixth Avenue. In the immortal words of Timothy Leary, "Bummer!" But now that I've lived through the tourist phase - ignorance and all - and have seen the World Trade Center, the Statue of Liberty, Radio City Music Hal' Times Square, CBGB's and other Gri t American Landmarks, I can you that it's more fun to blend in with the i.y crowd. If that be your desire, her- are several things you'll want to av,: Cabs, excessive museum- hopp;ing, seeing more than one Broad- waxy show (Broadway's good, but not 4 that good), going to Elaine's, and checking out the disco scene. Above all, refrain from staring at bums on the Bowery. True, they are put there for your amusement, but good New Yorkers know how not to be rude about such things. In general, New York grows more pleasant the more one adheres to its rites and ways. Greenwich Village, for example, is essentially asleep until noon; but it stays open till the wee hours: it is not like Ann Arbor, where a major social avenue like State Street is as dead after dinner as it is at midnight. If you plan on spending much time in the Village (and if you're going to New York, you ought to), don't get up at the crack of dawn like a professional tourist who crams as much hard-core vacationing into his week as possible. Sleep in till all hours, then stroll (don't run) down MacDougal Street, and take in the leisurely pace of it. A CCOMMODATIONS can be a help tor hindrance in becoming a cer- tified New Yorker-for-a-week. The YMCA, as the Village People tell it, may have everything, but it's one hell Bite the. Big The Michigan Daily-Saturday, App] Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG A MAJOR tourist attraction of New York is the recently-built World Trade Center. The 11-story edifice is the second largest building in the world. of a dreary place to come home to at night. If you have friends in New York, that's a start. If you have friends of friends, that's even better - you'll have a place to stay, without fulfilling any fraternal obligations or having to ac- count for yourself every minute of the day. Last spring, my travel-mate and I stayed with a brother of a friend in his - spacious (if unelegant) loft. Living in what is basically a barely-furnished basketball court, we had all the essen- tials-a bathroom, two mattresses, and five cats, to insure that none of our little rodent friends made their rotting way onto the premises. Finally, you have to learn to look like a New Yorker, I'm not talking about how you dress, although that may come into play, but in how you cultivate that jaded, stoney stare, that same knowing gleam Dashiell Hammet must have my dewey-eyed Midwestern stare to the sundry sellers of God-knows-what who lined the avenue. -Rather, I crouched low in my army jacket and sauntered through in an unabashed attempt to out- sleaze them all; I convinced myself I could look as capable of mauling one of the passers as anyone. So if you should hit New York this summer, remember - the natives will Daily Ph One can't visit New York without crossing over one of the most popular landmarks of the city, the Brooklyn Bridge. The famous attraction i that extends across the East River connecting Manhattan Brooklyn. 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At the totally pathetic end of the spectrum, you can 1 behave like Jon Voight at the beginning of Midnight Cowboy, who sidles up to a hardened Manhattanite and says, "Ex- cuse me, ma'am, but could you direct me to the Statue of Liberty?" In other parts of the country (i.e., the Midwest, the South, and most of the West) this approach proves highly workable. In New York it may get you 1 to your destination, but almost cer- tainly"entails undergoing excessive amounts of humiliation, depending on the buffoonery of the provocation. No one, of course, wants to be shown up as a stupid, drooling Okie. I can assure you of that, because it's I happened to me an astounding number. of times in my few visits to New York, and it ain't fun. Once, I walked into a kosher delicatessen and ordered a cor- ned beef sandwich on white. What did I know? 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