does new york close with rain?

There are plenty of great museums - I never get tired of the Metropolitan, and it takes more than one rainy day to begin to cover it all! Same with the MoMA.

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If you like shopping, Bloomingdale's is always a good place to spend a few hours. Get mom to take you to lunch at Le Train Bleu, up on the 6th floor. And, from the Metro level, you can get right into the Lexington Avenue station on the N or R train, which will take you to 49th Street & Broadway, 3 short blocks to the August Wilson Theatre, where JERSEY BOYS is playing.

If you are into bargain hunting, there is a department store, Century 21, located on Broadway & Cortlandt downtown that is amazing. Take the R or W train to Rector Street.

Lastly, the Museum of Television & Radio is on 52nd between 5th & 6th. They have special screenings every day, but the fun part, for me, is to go to the library and find an old television program with a favorite performer and watch it on one of the personal screens. Want to see the famous Mary Martin/Ethel Merman duet? How about Barbra Streisand on the Judy Garland Show? Curious to see the Tony Awards from 1989? All that and a million more things are available for viewing. It's a favorite place of mine to kill a few hours on a rainy day. Have fun and don't let the rain dampen your spirits.

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Shopping, museums... I'd recommend MOMA and The Museum of Natural History.

I love the New York City Library. It's amazing. You can spend hours there and not get bored.

NYC is awesome in the rain. Just do NOT wear your expensive white Tommy Hilfinger jeans Yes I speak from expierience... They still have dark spots on the hem

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Yeah, what the heck is THAT about??? All week long I've been hearing "it's hot!" so I'm packing tank tops and summer dresses... and now it's RAINING??? Do I just throw in an umbrella or do I have to start making room for winter clothes (winter clothes by L.A. standards that is)??

There's always something to do in NYC..even the year of that big blizzard I still made it around the city going shopping, and eventually made it to the matinee I was interested in. Rain doesn't really effect things that much - just makes walking a bit more uncomfortable, but other than that, the millions of people in the City don't get scared of a little rain :)

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Exactly, New York isn't Los Angeles, where they interrupt every TV channel with "We're on STORM WATCH" if it trickles with rain.

Also add Macy's to the list. Big and fun. The museums of Fifth Avenue, especially the Guggenheim and super-especially the Cooper Hewitt, which is an amazing museum of design and techgnology, both across the street from The Metropolitain Museum of Art. Start at 82ns St. Wow.

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allofmylife---The tragic part about L.A. is that the city DOES screech to a halt with a trickle of rain. It's such a bad joke.

Everything is spread out via freeways and streets that have the world's worst drainage system.

A trickle of rain out here = Gridlocked traffic, mudslides, flooded neighborhood streets (seriously, from not much more than a TRICKLE).

The water just SITS there with no where to go. Brilliant city planning.

It's mass hysteria. And NOBODY out here knows how to drive in it. They all get shell-shocked and move 4 mph on the roads.

*end of rant*

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Updated On: 6/24/06 at 12:26 PM

Laurel Canyon in the rain... now THERE is a joke. It was closed for weeks and traffic redirected the last two "storms" we had. The biggest pain in the butt EVER!

Sybil - thanks! I was going to repack but sounds like I wont have to repack all that much. I don't mind the water, just didn't want to be cold.

Check out these to find out what to do in NYC.
https://www.timessquare.com
https://www.nycvisit.com
https://www.corinescorner.com
Have fun. New York is a great City. It is the City that never sleeps or stops for anything.
Have fun,
Corine

Updated On: 6/24/06 at 12:57 PM

Buy a $5 umbrella on any street corner in NY when it's raining and keep on doing what you want to do!