Bronx Travel Guide
5/16/2008 at 4:00 PM
Tags: Missed Connections, Tourism Board Travel, Diners, Sports Travel (all tags)
Earlier in the week we needled the Bronx Tourism Council for not doing all they could to invite visitors to the borough. But because we are a loving, caring, sharing blog, we're going to throw them a bone this week in Missed Connections.
Maybe these tips will inspire online visitors to be a participatory tourist and date a local! Start at one of these borough hot spots:
Yankee Stadium :: Enjoy the classic home of the Bronx Bombers with all its sticky glory for one more year before they move, uh, across the street. 161st St. and River Ave.
The Rambling House :: We will not invoke the Show That Must Not Be Named, but it is possible to meet a cute fireman at this Irish bar and restaurant. 4292 Katonah Ave.
Tremont Diner :: Bust out your sundress where Rudy Giuliani and Robert DeNiro have been spotted chowing down. 3007 E. Tremont Ave.
Related Stories:
· Missed Connections coverage [Jaunted]
· Bronx Hotels [HC]
[Photo of lovebirds at the Bronx Zoo: steventom]
by egw
5/15/2008 at 12:30 PM
Tags: Tourism Boards, Tourism Board Travel, Websites (all tags)
Hyping the oft-ignored borough of the Bronx can't be easy when the tourist playground of Manhattan is just across the Harlem River. But when The New York Times checked up on the Bronx Tourism Council the other day, the newspaper found a miserable website full of busted links and outdated information. Calling the office wasn't much help either:
A voice-mail message for the council's marketing director and executive director was not returned. A call to the council's Bronx hot line resulted only in a recorded greeting: "Please join us for the Bronx's official tree lighting ceremony, Monday, December 17, at 5 pm at the Bronx County Building." That's December 17... 2007.
Turns out that getting slammed in the city's paper of record is motivational. A mere two days after the NYT report, the website has been revamped and is newly useful, though that's not saying much. To wit: There are five "Entertainment" options, four of which are multiplexes. Need lodging? You'll find two listings on the site.
How much longer till the Bronx Tourism Council starts a blog?
Related Stories:
· Bronx Tourism Council [Official Site]
· Bronx Hospitality, Unnoticed by the Tourist Guides [NYT]
· If the Bronx Builds It, the Tourists May Come [NYT, via]
· Tourism Board Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: calm a llama down]
by pbb
5/08/2007 at 11:45 AM
Tags: Baseball, Celebs, Sports, New York City (all tags)
As it turns out, we were at Yankee Stadium when Roger Clemens announced that the Bombers "Came and got me out of Texas." And though not everyone--like the entire city of Houston and this guy--will be clamoring to get tickets to the Rocket's debut, undoubtedly there are plenty of baseball fans eager to watch the overcompensated has-been superstar don the pinstripes one last time. And so, after the jump, our down-and-dirty guide to catching a game at the House that Ruth Built.
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by pbb
1/06/2006 at 8:29 AM
Tags: Museums (all tags)
One of the most coolest architectural and sculptural works in New York is also one of the most obscure. The Hall of Fame for Great Americans, designed in 1901 for what was then the uptown campus of New York University, was created by the architect Stanford White. This 630-foot open-air walkway of columns contains 98 bronze busts of American inventors, politicians, authors, and activists: Eli Whitney, Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, they're all here. It's like
Vanity Fair magazine, Victoriain edition. Many of sculptors are names in themselves: Daniel Chester French (Lincoln Memorial); James Earl Fraser (figures in front of the Supreme Court), and Frederick MacMonnies (reliefs on Washington Square's Arch). Now on the campus of Bronx Community Campus, the Hall of Fame remains open to the public: just have a talk to the security guard to see who passed for the cream of the crop a century ago.
Related links:
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Hall of Fame [Bronx Community College]
by johnrambow
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