One of their complaints used to be that it was full of tourists. Tourists understand this better than locals, who love to complain about Midtown. There are many New Yorks, but Midtown is the place to go when you want to eat and drink in New York, New York. He had just one night, and he wanted to see the city. After hemming and hawing, he admitted that he had been hoping for a martini at the King Cole Bar in Midtown Manhattan. Once, when a friend who lives in a small town had an overnight layover at Kennedy International Airport, I came up with what I thought was a cool idea: I would pick him up and drive 20 minutes or so to a waterfront bar in the Rockaways for cold beer.