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Where to propose in New York

  • 22-10-2014 3:45pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭


    Hi

    I am going to New York in December and would like to propose to my girlfriend.
    Has anyone any suggestions where to do it and what time of day would be best.
    I have looked into The rockerfella plaza and the empire state, statue of liberty etc.
    Help.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Luke92


    Battery park is nice! Quiet with a magnificent view!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Johngoose


    Central Park,get horse and carriage ride


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,772 ✭✭✭✭fits


    Yep, central park for sure. Oh how nice!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 robbiepower77


    central park for sure


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,278 ✭✭✭x43r0


    I second the suggestion of Battery Park - Unbelievable view of the water down there


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 tkam2014


    This is like my dream proposal but I would want smack in the middle of times square !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,772 ✭✭✭✭fits


    tkam2014 wrote: »
    This is like my dream proposal but I would want smack in the middle of times square !

    ugh no. Although someone famous did that recently. Not my favourite part of new york


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭moonshadow


    If its December then you really need to do it at the ice rink under the huge New York Christmas tree , it's really beautiful there at Christmas .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,772 ✭✭✭✭fits


    moonshadow wrote: »
    If its December then you really need to do it at the ice rink under the huge New York Christmas tree , it's really beautiful there at Christmas .

    I wanna go now!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭bennyineire


    Top of the Empire state for sure, avoid the Statue if Liberty. The q's are ridiculous and you can't go inside it anymore since 9/11


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,772 ✭✭✭✭fits


    Top of the Empire state for sure, avoid the Statue if Liberty. The q's are ridiculous and you can't go inside it anymore since 9/11

    I would say to avoid the empire state also. Big queues and overpriced. Least it was in 2000 which is a while ago now I suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭lazeedaisy


    Top of the Empire state for sure, avoid the Statue if Liberty. The q's are ridiculous and you can't go inside it anymore since 9/11

    Oh please Sooooo Overdone, don't do it,

    Battery park or ice skating,

    At least it's more original


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 tkam2014


    moonshadow wrote: »
    If its December then you really need to do it at the ice rink under the huge New York Christmas tree , it's really beautiful there at Christmas .

    this is the one !!!! amazing ! do it , do it now !! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Johnnio13


    meself, I did it in front of the Rockafeller Christmas tree ...


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    moonshadow wrote: »
    If its December then you really need to do it at the ice rink under the huge New York Christmas tree , it's really beautiful there at Christmas .


    I see that a couple of years ago.. i think you can buy different level of packages
    The chap who did it had the rink cleared and did it in the middle with a huge audience! she said yes..

    I second battery park

    Or OP you could walk across the brooklyn bridge and do it with the skyline in the background


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 203 ✭✭MarieOC


    Top of the Empire state for sure, avoid the Statue if Liberty. The q's are ridiculous and you can't go inside it anymore since 9/11

    I wouldn't recommend proposing there due to the crowds but you can still go inside you just have to book in advance and there is now a lot of security screening (airport style)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭Broken Strings


    I was proposed to in Central Park so I'd highly recommend that :D

    I'm surprised he still asked considering I complained like a baby about having to walk 15 blocks in the blistering heat (we were already badly sunburned and I had no idea what he was planning) and then I got into a fight with a guy who kept trying to block our way and force us into a horse and carriage ride outside Central Park.

    Not my finest moment, but if he's willing to ask me 20 minutes after that fiasco then I figure he's a keeper :D

    And I can tell you there wasn't a single sunburn related complaint on the walk back to the hotel afterwards either! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Johnnio13


    and they say romance is dead. Not on Boards its not!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭whodafunk


    Top of the Rockerfeller Centre - less queues than Empire State building and fabulous views of Central Park.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭bee06


    OP, what kind of proposal would your girlfriend like? Would she like a proposal with people around or would she prefer it to be more private?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭Arbiter of Good Taste


    I take it you will be getting the ring in NYC? Lucky lady!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭sweetie


    my missus always loves Bryant park near enough to times square


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭Gatica


    Boat ride in Central Park.. It's romantic, it's private and if she says no you can push her in :P ah, just kidding....
    I really like the boat rides there.
    Maybe not as nice in the cold of December I suppose. Rockefeller Plaza would be my second pick, it's lovely there around Xmas.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    Does it have to be outdoors? It will be ruddy FREEZING in nyc in december. Carriage ride is painfully corny! Go for something less cliched.

    How about you take her for a frozen hot chocolate in Serendipity 3 on the upper east side. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity_3 That was in a few films, it's a memorable place.

    What new york films/tv does she like... bring her to a cafe or landmark from one of those maybe.

    Did she like seinfeld? I think Tom's Restuarant is still there up near columbia university.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭messrs


    +1 on Bryant park , love that park


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Tease her!

    Take her to the top of the Empire State and tie your shoelaces, the top of the Statue of Liberty and find a quarter on the ground, do the carriage ride in Central Park, the ice-skating etc.

    Then get a friend to put up a "will you marry me sign/balloons" just inside the hall while you're away so she'll think you've been taking the piss the entire time just to arrive home in a foul mood to a propoasl!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭smallerthanyou


    There's an Irish famine memorial near battery park. They pulled up an Irish famine cottage a few yrs back n rebuilt it in new York. Its green quiet n lovely. You could propose there on a little bit of Ireland in new York.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    Top of the Empire state for sure, avoid the Statue if Liberty. The q's are ridiculous and you can't go inside it anymore since 9/11

    Top of the Rock at night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    whodafunk wrote: »
    Top of the Rockerfeller Centre - less queues than Empire State building and fabulous views of Central Park.

    Agree!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


    I proposed in NYC. Had a surprise limo pick us up with her favourite tunes playing for a 2 hour tour of the city with a couple of bottles of bubbly. Dropped us off at Central Park where we visited the imagine mosaic and then went for lunch at the Tavern on the Green. Plan then was a carriage ride followed by ice skating, then up the Empire State and finish the evening in a cosy Italian in the Village.

    Plan all fell apart after lunch cause we got a bit pissed for skating and the temps were below -10 so the horses weren't out.

    We ended up walking off the drink around central park, looking at the inscriptions on the benches. It was the best part of the day and cost nothing. We did make it up the Empire State and had a romantic dinner which rounded it nicely.

    I had no idea when I was going to propose but ended up doing it in the back of the limo as soon as we got in. I just got too nervous and reckoned she'd cop anyway.

    I'm just sharing the story to give you an idea. It's a great place to propose. Best of luck and hope she says yes !!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭Kathnora


    Wrap up very well if taking a carriage ride in Central Park. I know of two couples who honeymooned in New York at that time of year and the trip was somewhat spoiled by the fact that the temps were so low...may not happen every year in New York but you need to go prepared!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭percy212


    Central Park. Go to the boathouse restaurant. Do NOT go to Battery City unless you are inside a limo. The wind down there in December is ICE COLD and being freezing is not romantic. The Christmas tree at Rockerfeller is really nice too.

    http://thecentralparkboathouse.com/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,772 ✭✭✭✭fits


    This thread so makes me want to go. And New York beats the hell out of Paris for a proposal. Way more romantic and interesting to me at least.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 patricia7396


    I was proposed to under the Christmas tree at the Rockafeller centre and it was amazing!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭chocaholic04


    Just back from honeymoon in NYC. NYC would be a great place to propose. Your proposal depends on what she likes, for me my OH knows I don't like cliche and not with a lot of people around, so Empire State Building would be out along with Times Square.

    I would go with Central Park or the Rockefeller Christmas Tree. As someone said unless you are prepared for the cold don't go with Battery Park, it was 14/15 degrees the first day we were in New York and we went down there and it was bitterly cold, my hands were going numb.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    +1 for Top of the Rock.

    On a more private note, there's a bar with a rooftop that has really comfy blankets etc. and fantastic views of the Empire State, it's a bar with no name in the sense it's just called after the street, I think it's 55th and 5th but I could confirm that for definite if it was an option.
    You could have the champagne sitting ready to go.

    Alternatively what about going across to Brooklyn and doing it with the entirety of Manhatten in the background?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭Kevin the Kid


    tkam2014 wrote: »
    this is the one !!!! amazing ! do it , do it now !! :)

    where is that....do i just walk around and look for a big for a big xmas tree. Do you mean the Rockefeller center others are talking about?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Raven Runner


    The Bowery


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭yellow hen


    For something different, I think the highline in the meat packing district is pretty amazing.


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