[_tunic_]

hey!

a couple of times a year my favourite band Low will perform some special Christmas shows. For some reason it's always in December. So just out of curiosity I checked the air rates yesterday for a trip from Amsterdam to New York in early December: it's only $199 via Icelandair! So now I'm really hard thinking about seeing Low twice next month. I just can't wait until February (Brugge (Belgium) and hopefully more dates will come), and I don't think they will ever do one of their Christmas shows somewhere here.
So can anyone on this board give me some tips? I've never been to the Eastcoast, apart from the New York airport, so I'm pretty much clueless here. So I'll need still:
- a cheap place to stay. How cheap/expensive is a week
in New York?
- other things to do while I'm there
- some other tips perhaps that I'm now not thinking
about
- how's the weather in early december

There's only limited availability on these flights still, so I have to hurry if I want to book. I'll probably fly in on November 30 and return on December 8. I'll have to be home by the 10th since I already have tickets to see Sonic Youth on the 12th :-)


thanks!
jan-willem


P.S.: Low plays at the Bowery Ballroom, on December 5 and 6.