A great place to practice your neuro linguistic programming skills in New York is at the
NLP Meet Up group. The group meets regularly (generally every other Wednesday evening) and caters to experienced NLPers as well as those just starting out. Membership of the group is free, just go to meetup.com and sign up. Most of the meetings are either free or have a nominal charge, depending upon the location.
The group organizer is Joel Elfman, who is well known in NLP circles in New York. Joel is always ready to steer people to the appropriate
NLP or Hypnosis training in New York and is well worth knowing.
Joel also organizes weekend workshops to help people in the meetup group further expand their skills.