Originally Posted by
themicah
the one thing they ARE good for is a tour of Central Park.
Not even! They're limited to the roadway, so can only point at sites in the distance. And that's only if they actually know the landmarks, they seem to make stuff up as they go along. The most obvious is that they always tell tourists that the Cherry Hill fountain is the one from "Friends."
I miss the old, pre-commercial Central Park. You could sit on a bench and listen to birds instead of vendors hawking tourist tat, and you could stroll along without being solicited every few minutes by "tour guide" pedicabs. I can't bear the park on weekends any more.