I'M GOING TO NEW YORK CITY!!!

Okay not til next week, but yes, that's still very SOON!!

I'm leaving NEXT THURSDAY JULY 23rd.

Please ladies, suggest me places that are a must go! I need your help!

I'm looking for:

1) Best/favorite vintage shops to get clothes/accessories/shoes (affordable please...)

2) ***Where to buy Japanese skincare and makeup! I can't travel to Mitsuwa in NJ so I'd love to be pointed in the direction where to get these stuff!

3) Overall any other shops that are a good buy for clothes, such as Winners (i'll look up that location later...)

4) Any must-go restaurants that aren't tipping over $25 a plate? (for nights to spend a lil extra)

5) Any cheap-priced restaurants around $10? (for nights to save some money)

6) Sightseeing. Where to go? I've already been up the Empire State Building.

7) Where on earth is the Today/Good Morning America? I don't want to participate in it but it'd be nice to stroll past it to see what's going on

8) Any museums that I just need to go to because its really awesome and interesting?

9) Oh, i DID hear of a place that's very similar to Mitsuwa-type store but, I don't know what's the name, or whether I'm hallucinating that such a store exists, but if there is, please tell me!

10) Any tips or anything you think I'd need to know when walking around or buying things or finding places?

11) ...I might update this list if I figure out more questions to ask, but for now, please do help me out for those of you who are native New Yorkers or those who visit frequently and know the place. I'll be in Brooklyn and Manhattan mainly.

Name and address of the location would be greatly appreciated! I'll try my best though to figure out where they are, but I wont have internet at all when I go there unless I head to a public library to find out addresses.

Thank yall!!!! Please please do help me out T.T



P.S. Any bloggerettes wanna meet up when I'm up in NY? shoot me an email. Please..no random stalkers :( I dun wanna get lured into some stranger at a random location XD. I'm gonna be with my friend so I'd have to ask her first if it's okay, but I do have time during the day while she's at work where I can enjoy the environment on my own, so maybe I can finally meet some of you bloggers! If not, then that's alright :) I'll be staying a week there so maybe one or two days when I stroll alone we can hang out. But, just to let yall know, I dont' particularly drink alcohol, not cuz I'm a prude, but I never have had the situation to drink any and what not so please don't expect me to go all out or to have any at all XD...i kno i sounded very stupid saying that but..i guess I should just say it anyway.

EDIT:

If we do have some form of meet up, in a way I'm a bit scared haha. I am not rich by any means and after looking through photos of Pow-wow's and such, everybody spends like $30-50 on each person or something for exchanging gifts and then another $50 on food and I guess I just want to be honest straight up that I can't afford that at all. I know you get presents in return, but it's still very expensive, and on top of that, I'm allergic to 90% of the stuff out there so it'd be too much of an inconvenience for people to read every nasty label for the words "sulfates" or "sulfous" or "Sulfite" etc (for heaven's sake I can't even drink Dasani water or Nestle Pure life water and some other waters because they have magnesium sulfate...). I wasn't particulary expecting like a huge "pow wow" or whatever, but if it happens then that's alright really to me. Sure I have enough money to spend in NY for food, transportation, and some shopping, but I can't be splurging by any means. I'm talking like, if I'm going shopping, I'm looking for $10-20 stuff or less. I'm using my parents money, that they earned so I can't squander their money because its' not my money. If I had a job then I'd be able to spend more.

ok sorry i know i said all that and there might not even be any meet ups haha. but I just wanted to get that off my chest because the Cali and NY pow wows seems so glamourous and expensive from the pictures i've seen. I'm just a TX girl and if anybody's been to TX in Houston, it's like...so freakin affordable literally hobos have the money to just go up to our restaurants to eat and easily buy some stuff at Goodwill and housing is 1/10 of anything NY or Cali or Boston is up for.

..eh....i kno im getting caught up in this so im sorry for ranting about it :( i'm just concerned of any expectations that might ensue.