New York City

[guylesss]

Parks are theoretically nonsmoking. But the disneyfication of Times Square and eliminating traffic from many Manhattan streets to make pedestrian malls with chairs and tables may not be a bad bet near your hotel--especially early morning and weekday evenings. if you keep a reasonable distance from other people.

Brooklyn is a bit more relaxed and if you are feeling adventurous, you might take an East River Ferry (from East 34th Street) and explore the new waterfront promenades that now exist from Greenpoint all the south to Red Hook-- where you're sure to find find a comfortable spot on a bench where no one will much mind you smoking.

As for New York's current attitude to smoking, I will admit it's been mixed for a while. But I certainly don't feel I'm a pariah in anything like the way I did one evening in downtown Indianapolis, a few years ago, when I decided to light an after dinner cigarette on a stroll.

 

[J.Henry845]

NY’s alright…….if you like saxophones.

Did not expect a reference to Fear while browsing threads.

 

[PaulDM]

Of course people smoke marijuana anywhere and everywhere. Around Times Square you can't walk down a block without smelling it. But a pipe - no way!

Find a quiet spot in a park to smoke a pipe and should be ok (like Riverside Park in a quiet corner during a weekday). There are no pipe stores left other than Barclay Rex (and I guess Davidoff has some). It's a pipe wasteland (lots and lots of head shops if you need a bong or rolling paper).

Basically, the entire city is on the decline - it was always difficult in some ways, but crime and homelessness are on the rise and while restaurants and Broadway have bounced back it's just not the same.

As for firearms, since it was mentioned above - and avoiding politics - the facts are that technically it is now (after the Supreme Court Bruen decision -google if you'd like) i possible to get a carry permit, but there are lots of hurdles and wide swaths of the city are no carry zones even with a permit. Out of state permits are worthless. Don't even think about carrying without a permit. Criminals can get away with it but if you are a normal law abiding citizen you will go to prison for 3 years.

 

[RobNYC]

Did not expect a reference to Fear while browsing threads.

Gotta love it!

 

[jpberg]

Actually, this is when it started to sink.

ABOUT NEW YORK; A REFINED ERA PASSES AT DUNHILL'S HUMIDOR ROOM (Published 1985)

www.nytimes.com

 

[J.Henry845]

Gotta love it!

They played on SNL and a bunch of the NYHC scene started a pit and we’re going off. Apparently it caused Fear to be banned from SNL. I am prettysure they would not have been invited back anyway.

And funny enough I watched clue with my wife the day before I saw the original post. Lee Ving as Mr. Body

 

[RobNYC]

They played on SNL and a bunch of the NYHC scene started a pit and we’re going off. Apparently it caused Fear to be banned from SNL. I am prettysure they would not have been invited back anyway.

And funny enough I watched clue with my wife the day before I saw the original post. Lee Ving as Mr. Body

I remember that. I think that was the end of John Belushi recommending bands for the show! I completely forgot Lee Ving was in that. I think that calls for a rewatch soon.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

I pretty much smoke anywhere outside I want and probably due to me being sensitive to other people's space no one has ever said shit to me except once when some old timer was shadow boxing in some triangle shaped park like area when my smoke wafted over to him. I understood his complaint and moved along.