But when Rogue Wave frontman Zach Rogue lost his job, the subsequent trip he took to visit friends in New York proved productive.
For proof, visit Times Square in New York this weekend and behold the 30-some GMC Sierra pick-up trucks parked there in an NFL-related promotion.
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Finally, 15 of them will visit the Frick Collection in New York.
But he is leading a research team that plans to visit dozens of schools in New York City and around the state to investigate class size, curriculum, safety and other issues.
After the tour wraps up, Soon-Yi and Woody visit Woody's parents in New York City, both of whom are pretty gregarious considering they're in their late 90s.
Some analysts counted the number of visits to a website as a positive factor, rather than assessing the amount of money generated from that visit, an article in the New York Times claimed.
Mr. Slim was in New York City this week but he did not visit Newsweek and is not planning to up his stake in The New York Times as of now.
Today in Rochester, New York, I will visit with workers and employers at the city's Veterans Outreach Center, a program in partnership with New York State's Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), that has leveraged a Department of Labor grant to successfully train and place 90 percent of their graduates, our Nation's military veterans, into full-time, green technology jobs.
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"I just want to thank you, just for being you, " said Shariffe Fussell, a 33-year-old working at the Penn-Wortman Senior Center in East New York, as Mr. Barron whirled in for a quick visit this week.
She rented him an apartment in New York so he could visit their son.
In New York this week to visit the United Nations, Ahmadinejad spoke at a meeting on the rule of law Monday and is scheduled to address the U.N.
Then the mayor flew to Wall Street, which he boasted he would so impress with his forceful ideas that it would upgrade Miami's bond-rating from junk status. (It listened politely but remained unmoved.) It was then that a columnist, Carl Hiaasen, advised the mayor in the Miami Herald that, while in New York, he should visit Bellevue, an insane asylum of legend.
When I left New York for two weeks to visit bureaus in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where we assume that communications may be monitored, I was not to be copied on message traffic about the project.
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In 2001, he was caught up in the 11 September terrorist attacks in New York, witnessing the destruction during a visit to Wall Street 200 yards from the World Trade Center.
Secretary Donovan will visit public housing developments in the Rockaways and tour Breezy Point, New York, to hear from state and local officials and see first-hand the damage and recovery efforts there.
Hillary Clinton's outfit was just right for her visit to Little Rock, as it would have been in upstate New York, but never in Manhattan, where any colour will do, as long as it is black.
Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev appear in a photograph with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev taken in New York's Times Square during an earlier visit.
When he went overseas to visit New York star Cappie Pondexter, who is playing for Fenerbahce in the Turkish League, he also met with Ford.
Mr. Kelly said investigators in Boston and New York are looking into at least one visit by the younger Mr. Tsarnaev to New York last November, as well as possible subsequent visits.
City officials and alternative transportation advocates have said bicycle use has surged in recent years, as have the number of tourists who annually visit New York City.
In a statement, Lauder, 80, said his gift was for "the people who live and work in New York and those from around the world who come to visit our great arts institutions".
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New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has repeatedly urged lawmakers to visit the site in order to understand the scope of the disaster, and what help will be needed for recovery.
"This is a gift to the people who live and work in New York, and those from around the world who come to visit our great arts institutions, " Lauder said in a news release Tuesday.
In the last few weeks, I had a chance to visit both New Jersey and New York.
The Director-General took advantage of the discussion to provide certain details about her imminent visit to the United States and also to announce that the decision had just been taken in New York that UNESCO would be responsible for the secretariat of the Education First initiative, which both the President and the Chair welcomed.
Secretary Sebelius will visit with hospital workers, residents impacted by the storm, and local officials in Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York.
On February 12, 2006, the London Sunday Times reported that Denis Sassou-Nguesso, the President of Congo-Brazzaville, another former French colony in central Africa, had spent more than three hundred thousand dollars on hotel rooms during a visit to New York for a U.N.
We also visit the Peninsula in Hong Kong, currently celebrating its 80th anniversary, and find out what's changed at New York's Plaza hotel following its two-year revamp.
The BBC's Barbara Plett, in New York, says the Obama administration is very sensitive to accusations that the president is politicising his visit.
One claimed that he was going on safari to Africa, several that they were doing a career development course and two claimed that they were going to be in New York for the period, a plan which nearly came unstuck when friends and family promised to visit.
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