For a week, kids will punt, pass and kick while their parents shop for replica jerseys in locales where bankers and account executives usually gobble down lunch. It won't be the only place on an already crowded spit of land where jaded New Yorkers trade elbows with their guests. As many as 200,000 out-of-towners will be cast in the role of Jack Lemmon in the movie of the same name, dazzled by the goings-on and trying not to get fleeced by savvy hoteliers and street vendors.
Already, reports are circulating about prices being tripled, with modest hotel rooms in Midtown jacked to $1,000 a night,Wholesale Hockey Jerseys, and even more modest accommodations across the Hudson River in New Jersey, close to MetLife Stadium, offered at the princely sum of $600. That's on top of what's already the highest ticket prices ever 鈥?ranging from $500 to $2,600 鈥? a hike the NFL candidly acknowledged was intended to make life tough on scalpers. |