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Winter Holiday Lighting
December 6, 2009 3 - 5 pm
Ring in the Christmas season with the 13th annual lighting of the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center. Located at the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center (Inside the Park at 110th Street between Lenox and Fifth Avenues), the event is hosted by the Women's Committee of the Central Park Conservancy
Friday
NY Twitters
Here are some useful twitter addys
http://twitter.com/NewYorkology
http://twitter.com/Newyorkist
http://twitter.com/gothamist
http://twitter.com/NewYorkology
http://twitter.com/Newyorkist
http://twitter.com/gothamist
Wednesday
Improv Everywhere
See the archive on Gothamist, and try and get on their crowdsource alert. More fun cannot be had.
Friday
Performance you might want to pay for (not too $$)
White Oak Dance Project (Barishnikov)
LaMama
St. Ann's Warehouse
PS 122
Mannes/New School
Merkin
Joyce
Bargemusic (Music on a barge in Brooklyn)
LaMama
St. Ann's Warehouse
PS 122
Mannes/New School
Merkin
Joyce
Bargemusic (Music on a barge in Brooklyn)
Fun Favourite Free Things
Walk from 110th Street (Morningside Park W) through Central Park to Greenwich village or to Chinatown and over the Brooklyn bridge. Takes about 4-7 hours or so. Cut over to 5th, and then over to Broadway at the Flatiron (23rd)
Stop for food and bathrooms at the Met (pay what you can), the Mall, Rockefeller Center), Bryant park, Madison Park, Union Square, then it's East or West - Highline or Brooklyn Bridge or Canal, etc.
Circle Line Tour - get a coupon at the Tourist Center or look online - and take the 3pm one from 42nd street which is 3 hours circumnavigating the entire island. TAKE FOOD (it's terrible on board). Sunset coming home. Can't be beat.
Roosevelt island tram, (free) walk over the bridge to Queens to the Noguchi Museum (cheap). Or just walk around the island to the lighthouse.
Wagner Park - much nicer than Battery park - stunning views of the harbour and the Statue of Liberty. Walk around South Cove and up the Hudson.
Central Park - esp. the Northern End, much ignored. Fort Tryon Park (take the A train, and take the bus back from the Cloisters). Pay what you can at the Cloisters, keep your ticket, go back to the MET via 5th avenue and get in for free until 9pm on Fri/Sat.
Frick museum free from 11-1 on Sunday morning, right across from Central Park.
Morgan museum free on Friday nites from 7pm
Take the subway to Brooklyn Heights or Dumbo (A to High Street) then go through Cadman plaza and walk BACK over the Brooklyn Bridge - a better view.
Take the F to horrible deserted desecrated Coney Island and get great views from Smith Street. Walk to Brighton Beach and get Russian Food from the supermarket and have a picnic on the boardwalk.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Saturday morning - free, and then Pay What You Can at the Brooklyn museum and see Judy Chicago's Dinner Party.
Interesting restored tapestries at St. John the Divine - see the restoration after the fire. Have coffee and apricot pastries at the Hungarian Coffee Shop on Amsterdam.
Romaniote Synagogue in Chinatown
Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn
Central Reading Room of the New York Public Library
Stop for food and bathrooms at the Met (pay what you can), the Mall, Rockefeller Center), Bryant park, Madison Park, Union Square, then it's East or West - Highline or Brooklyn Bridge or Canal, etc.
Circle Line Tour - get a coupon at the Tourist Center or look online - and take the 3pm one from 42nd street which is 3 hours circumnavigating the entire island. TAKE FOOD (it's terrible on board). Sunset coming home. Can't be beat.
Roosevelt island tram, (free) walk over the bridge to Queens to the Noguchi Museum (cheap). Or just walk around the island to the lighthouse.
Wagner Park - much nicer than Battery park - stunning views of the harbour and the Statue of Liberty. Walk around South Cove and up the Hudson.
Central Park - esp. the Northern End, much ignored. Fort Tryon Park (take the A train, and take the bus back from the Cloisters). Pay what you can at the Cloisters, keep your ticket, go back to the MET via 5th avenue and get in for free until 9pm on Fri/Sat.
Frick museum free from 11-1 on Sunday morning, right across from Central Park.
Morgan museum free on Friday nites from 7pm
Take the subway to Brooklyn Heights or Dumbo (A to High Street) then go through Cadman plaza and walk BACK over the Brooklyn Bridge - a better view.
Take the F to horrible deserted desecrated Coney Island and get great views from Smith Street. Walk to Brighton Beach and get Russian Food from the supermarket and have a picnic on the boardwalk.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Saturday morning - free, and then Pay What You Can at the Brooklyn museum and see Judy Chicago's Dinner Party.
Interesting restored tapestries at St. John the Divine - see the restoration after the fire. Have coffee and apricot pastries at the Hungarian Coffee Shop on Amsterdam.
Romaniote Synagogue in Chinatown
Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn
Central Reading Room of the New York Public Library
Coupon Hunt
Go to the Times Square visitors center (and check your email for free) and ask for the "Two-fers", a book of coupons at the desk, which have "2 for 1" tickets for shows, opera, ballet, etc.
Also pick up the little wallet-sized coupons for discounts on Top of the Rock, the Morgan Museum, Boat tours, museums and various arty places. They are sometimes out of this stuff, so also check the other tourist office up on 7th.
Also pick up the little wallet-sized coupons for discounts on Top of the Rock, the Morgan Museum, Boat tours, museums and various arty places. They are sometimes out of this stuff, so also check the other tourist office up on 7th.
NYU events calendar
NYU seems to have revised its websites, and now it's hard to sort out the concerts and lectures. NYU CALENDAR
A bit hard to navigate, but you can find free art exhibits and lectures and concerts
Here's a blog for the public which doesn't seem to be updated since October, though.
Better to check the music, theatre, art division individually. Here's music:
NYU Steinhardt
Such as:
Barnes & Noble/NYU Steinhart Conversations in Jazz Series, Hosted by Dr. David Schroeder. Interviews and performances with jazz legends, NYU Jazz faculty, and students
Oct. 30, Lenny Pickett 7pm
LOCATION: Barnes & Noble Booksellers
ADMISSION: Free Fridays from 7 to 8 pm
Hint: Look through Barnes and Noble for author events - we've seen Richard Dawkins, Garrison Keillor, Anthony Bourdain, and just missed Jimmy Carter.
A bit hard to navigate, but you can find free art exhibits and lectures and concerts
Here's a blog for the public which doesn't seem to be updated since October, though.
Better to check the music, theatre, art division individually. Here's music:
NYU Steinhardt
Such as:
Barnes & Noble/NYU Steinhart Conversations in Jazz Series, Hosted by Dr. David Schroeder. Interviews and performances with jazz legends, NYU Jazz faculty, and students
Oct. 30, Lenny Pickett 7pm
LOCATION: Barnes & Noble Booksellers
ADMISSION: Free Fridays from 7 to 8 pm
Hint: Look through Barnes and Noble for author events - we've seen Richard Dawkins, Garrison Keillor, Anthony Bourdain, and just missed Jimmy Carter.
Cheap theatre tickets
Sign up for free, and PRINT OUT THE COUPON CODES and go to the Box Office for best seats. You get better seats than lining up in Times Square.
Broadway Box
TheaterMania
Playbill.com
Broadway Box
TheaterMania
Playbill.com
Free and Cheap at Miller Theatre, Columbia Univ.
An alternative to the crowded Julliard concerts: a good variety, as in:
Miller Theatre, e.g, Marty Ehrlich Rites Quartet Oct 24. $7-20.
Bach: Keyboard Partitas free lunchtime concert, Oct 28
Miller Theatre, e.g, Marty Ehrlich Rites Quartet Oct 24. $7-20.
Bach: Keyboard Partitas free lunchtime concert, Oct 28
Jazz at Lincoln Center
sorta cheapish - but not really, still, fun to go once
Jazz at Lincoln Center $20 cover
Perhaps a better bargain, more crowded, at SMALLS, in Greenwich Village $20 for the whole evening
Jazz at Lincoln Center $20 cover
Perhaps a better bargain, more crowded, at SMALLS, in Greenwich Village $20 for the whole evening
NYC Parks Calender of Events
NYC Parks Calendar of Events
Sometimes silly, sometimes funky.
INWOOD ASTRONOMY PROGRAM
GHOSTS of MANHATTAN
Sometimes silly, sometimes funky.
INWOOD ASTRONOMY PROGRAM
GHOSTS of MANHATTAN
Free Lunch Concerts
CUNY Music in Midtown
Miller Theatre, Columbia
ARTEK, Early Music @ St Barts Wed. @ 1pm.
Juilliard concerts
Miller Theatre, Columbia
ARTEK, Early Music @ St Barts Wed. @ 1pm.
Juilliard concerts
Free museums - Part 1
This is NOT a list of free days at the biggies - you can find a link over on the right column to figure that out. This is "always free" museums.
Free and Funky:
FORBES GALLERIES
Great location at 5th avenue and 12th, just up from Washington Square, which you should go and see - it's all renovated, but it's being recolonized by the locals. Forbes was crazy. See his tin soldier and toy boat collection - he sold lots of stuff when the market crashed, though. Free, and good bathrooms. They have changing modern exhibits.
The Forbes Galleries
62 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street)
New York City
Tuesday – Saturday
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
FIT Museum, Chelsea
Great Free museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, 7th Ave @ 25th street.
Also lectures, as in
"Ruben Toledo’s Art: From Fashion to Literature"
Thursday, October 29, 6 pm
Ruben Toledo talks about art, fashion, his wife Isabel, her influence on his work, and why “collaboration is the name of the game” for this Cuban-born artist.
ONASSIS gallery in Midtown - usually great stuff from the National Museum of Greece.
(but the big exhibit on Mycenae just left - a modern exhibit now installed. Free, in midtown, right behind the Trump Tower. lovely oasis of peace)
Hispanic Society Museum Weird and wonderful. Totally free. Goyas and Roman glass and Victorian genre paintings and wonderful antiquities. Next to Trinity Cemetery at 156th street, which has lots of mausoleums with stained glass.
"The collections of the Hispanic Society are unparalleled in their scope and quality outside the Iberian Peninsula, addressing nearly every aspect of culture in Spain, as well as a large part of Portugal and Latin America, through the twentieth century"
of course you can catch NEW culture at the Museo Del Barrio on 5th avenue (being renovated)
Free and Funky:
FORBES GALLERIES
Great location at 5th avenue and 12th, just up from Washington Square, which you should go and see - it's all renovated, but it's being recolonized by the locals. Forbes was crazy. See his tin soldier and toy boat collection - he sold lots of stuff when the market crashed, though. Free, and good bathrooms. They have changing modern exhibits.
The Forbes Galleries
62 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street)
New York City
Tuesday – Saturday
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
FIT Museum, Chelsea
Great Free museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, 7th Ave @ 25th street.
Also lectures, as in
"Ruben Toledo’s Art: From Fashion to Literature"
Thursday, October 29, 6 pm
Ruben Toledo talks about art, fashion, his wife Isabel, her influence on his work, and why “collaboration is the name of the game” for this Cuban-born artist.
ONASSIS gallery in Midtown - usually great stuff from the National Museum of Greece.
(but the big exhibit on Mycenae just left - a modern exhibit now installed. Free, in midtown, right behind the Trump Tower. lovely oasis of peace)
Hispanic Society Museum Weird and wonderful. Totally free. Goyas and Roman glass and Victorian genre paintings and wonderful antiquities. Next to Trinity Cemetery at 156th street, which has lots of mausoleums with stained glass.
"The collections of the Hispanic Society are unparalleled in their scope and quality outside the Iberian Peninsula, addressing nearly every aspect of culture in Spain, as well as a large part of Portugal and Latin America, through the twentieth century"
of course you can catch NEW culture at the Museo Del Barrio on 5th avenue (being renovated)
Free Museums - Part 2
More FREE museums, not FREE NIGHTS -
Library of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Fantastic exhibits
National Museum of American Indian (NY) Customs House, Battery Park. Most of the collections are now in Wash, DC, but travelling exhibits are here, in this great building on the waterfront. Free, calm, good gift store.
Rose Museum Carnegie Hall
More than 300 items recall the concerts, lectures, and other events that have appeared onstage at the Hall, along with the history of the building itself up through the 1986 renovation. Also on view are materials related to notable tenants of the studios above the stage, including Leonard Bernstein and Marlon Brando. From the silver trowel with which Mrs. Andrew Carnegie laid the cornerstone in 1890, to batons of Toscanini and von Karajan, Benny Goodman's clarinet, and an autographed program of the Beatles' landmark 1964 concert at the Hall, the display suggests the changing tides of American musical and social history." (not sure it's still free - check before going)
Library of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Fantastic exhibits
National Museum of American Indian (NY) Customs House, Battery Park. Most of the collections are now in Wash, DC, but travelling exhibits are here, in this great building on the waterfront. Free, calm, good gift store.
Rose Museum Carnegie Hall
More than 300 items recall the concerts, lectures, and other events that have appeared onstage at the Hall, along with the history of the building itself up through the 1986 renovation. Also on view are materials related to notable tenants of the studios above the stage, including Leonard Bernstein and Marlon Brando. From the silver trowel with which Mrs. Andrew Carnegie laid the cornerstone in 1890, to batons of Toscanini and von Karajan, Benny Goodman's clarinet, and an autographed program of the Beatles' landmark 1964 concert at the Hall, the display suggests the changing tides of American musical and social history." (not sure it's still free - check before going)
Ongoing Lecture series: CUNY
CUNY's got lots of free things. Get on their list
CUNY concerts and conversations - or the Women's Center Just had Gloria Steinem, or the Gotham History Center, which is having the charming broadway music historian Jerry Silverman on Oct 20, or for theatre people, Martin Segal Center
Here's a fun example of stuff from CUNY's Science and Art center
The Theory of Everything
"Encompass New Opera Theatre's The Theory of Everything has music by John David Earnest and a libretto by Nancy Rhodes. The opera, a work-in-progress, is a scientific and metaphysical search into other dimensions and alternate universes.
Saturday, November 14, 2:00 pm Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY concerts and conversations - or the Women's Center Just had Gloria Steinem, or the Gotham History Center, which is having the charming broadway music historian Jerry Silverman on Oct 20, or for theatre people, Martin Segal Center
Here's a fun example of stuff from CUNY's Science and Art center
The Theory of Everything
"Encompass New Opera Theatre's The Theory of Everything has music by John David Earnest and a libretto by Nancy Rhodes. The opera, a work-in-progress, is a scientific and metaphysical search into other dimensions and alternate universes.
Saturday, November 14, 2:00 pm Elebash Recital Hall
Random acts of acting and the Brooklyn Flea
Improv Everywhere
get on their radar
sorry, the Trachtenbergs are on tour - they just left. (they're in MY state now)
(they write song lyrics based on postcards they find in flea markets and set to music to slide shows from the 50s -)
Find your own relics under the Brooklyn Bridge
the brooklyn flea market under the bridge on sundays
get on their radar
sorry, the Trachtenbergs are on tour - they just left. (they're in MY state now)
(they write song lyrics based on postcards they find in flea markets and set to music to slide shows from the 50s -)
Find your own relics under the Brooklyn Bridge
the brooklyn flea market under the bridge on sundays
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