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SHOP CENTURY 21

There is no good way to put this: Century 21 is a zoo. The department store downtown, famous for its deep discounts on designer clothes, the walls are packed with tourists, aggression, and the bad, bad karma. Walk in the case and, make no mistake: You will bend. You'll be barking. You will be lectured on store policies obscure. And you wait in lines for such a slow, disorganized, and the hostility they test the willingness of a Franciscan monk. You may find yourself going further with the spirit of the place, spending hours hunting for the contract of a fantasy, but the sad reality is that most of what you'll actually find will be dated or malfunctioning. If fighting vicious past, infernal appeal to buyers to you, or if you wake up one morning, itching to go a lot of unsorted unracked merch and unclean, you have found your Own Private Idaho.

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SHOP AT Lord & Taylor

lighthouse department stores in New York go, Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue at 38th Street (212-391-3344) is an elegant alternative to the major cities of retail madness. Its low quality interior (photo) appears to always impeccably clean, the staff is selling bonds less arrogant than the clerk or Bloomie Bergdorf, and cosmetics counters are staffed and without the crowds. Even if the shop is not really full of genteel elderly ladies navigation gloves and hat pins, the atmosphere of the old school can you believe that civilized shopping experience can still be in New York The store showcases chairs for early bird shoppers, retail and day always begins every morning with a warm interpretation of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Locals in the know make a straight line for the floor color (four) whenever drops wedding invitation. And sales here can not be beat, especially if you love your sandals Frye for 40% and struck by a smile, helpful Pro

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HAVE a party in the Meatpacking District

Once the haunt of prostitutes in New York tranny legendary, not to mention some seriously debauched bars and clubs are we remove a veil over the manhole, shall we? The Meatpacking District, the din of sounds weekend reeling, laughing girls; Left bars and clubs, and drunk "guys" in striped button-down. During the day, that's another story: We are more than happy to explore thankyouverymuch nabe good shopping (including stores beautiful Diane von Furstenberg), and we look forward to seeing how the High Line park will turn. At least there is a trace of the real meat processing industry left: A careless step from the sidewalk, and you could be the pin in the old New York.

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Head to the Lower East Side, and continue

The PRT was once as heinous as the MPD, attracting its share of the bridge and tunnel crowd. But now the neighborhood bound by Chinatown, South, East Village, north and west of Soho, is also high end (luxury Chloe 81 81 Ludlow St., 212-677-0067 ) or low-end (diving Home Sweet Home, 131 Chrystie St., 212-226-5708) that you want it. For those not averse to exploring further, get thee to Brooklyn Kings County was crowned the new ruler of the night life of this city. Take a taxi (yes, they have to take you), start on Smith Street in Boerum Hill or Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, and who knows where you might end up eating barbecue and drinking beer at 4:00 in the House Brooklyn ice (318 Van Brunt St., Red Hook, 718-222-1865) or establishment with a certain size bass in a corner of the Art Deco bar K & M (225 N. 8th St., Williamsburg , 718-388-3088).

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