Where to Find Them
THERE WAS A minor item of note in the news last week when it came out that the mayor's personal top 10 list of tourist attractions for the GOP delegates included some incorrect addresses. It was a nothing story, and the problem was quickly corrected.
But a visit to the Republican National Committee's websitewhere the list had been postedactually revealed several lists regarding what conventioneers should do while in town. So we thought we'd save you some trouble and future misery by listing all the sites and restaurants these people are being sent.
What you do with the list is up to you.
Bloomberg's carefully crafted multicultural list suggests the delegates check out the Staten Island Ferry, the Met's Rooftop Garden, MoMA, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Sylvia's, the Bronx Zoo, the Brooklyn Promenade, Brawta Caribbean Cafe, Coney Island, Central Park, the Cloisters and El Museo del Barrio.
To that list, Pataki adds St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Roosevelt Island Tram, the Brooklyn Bridge, cheap Broadway shows and the museums on free night.
For his part, Ed Koch tosses in Katz's and the jazz clubsalong with filling the delegates' heads with unsupportable lies about the reaction they should expect from cabbies and New Yorkers in general.
Finally, and unsurprisingly, Giuliani suggests a bunch of restaurants few of us could afford anyway: Le Cirque 2000, Da Nico's, Fresco's, Del Frisco's, Frank's (in the Meat Packing district), Gargiulos, Goodfellas (the Staten Island pizza joint), Palm West, F&J Pine and, of course, Peter Luger.
Scanning the list, it seems the only places that will be safe those four days are Bed-Stuy, Chinatown andmuch to our surpriseGround Zero.