And I highly recommend it! We stayed in a seedy hotel that we thought would give us easy access to Times Square. We were wrong! All the easy access routes were blocked off that night. Back to the hotel: The bathroom door wouldn't close all the way, there was a disco downstairs that, "thump, thump, thumped" through the night, and we had to jump on the elevator in order to move it to the point where we could step out. When we finally got to Times Square after walking blocks and blocks (it was probably 50 feet from our hotel, but we were forced to circumvent for security reasons, I guess), we were corralled behind crowd control cages in freezing temperatures for hours without a bathroom, while watching rich people dine in the warm restaurants 20 feet away. We joked with the cops, and they were nice enough to offer to make coffee runs for us. It took 2 hours to walk the long way around to get back to our hotel since all the shortcuts were blocked off. We saw some rowdy people that we tried to avoid, and saw an obnoxious guy who eventually ended up puking on the sidewalk. All in all, it was a great experience!
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