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New York: NewYorkology: February Discounts at MoMA
http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/2/16/11127/7929
NewYorkology reports come to Jaunted courtesy of Amy Langfield.
Since the Museum of Modern Art opened in its new building more than a year ago, the place feels packed with crowds at almost all hours. One way to get some privacy is to book a private tour either before the museum opens or closes.
True it's more expensive, but the private MoMA tours are discounted during February. As per MoMA's website:
Tours for Two at MoMA This February, enjoy a romantic after-hours Tour for Two of MoMA's galleries! A special 50% discount is available on Tours for Two taking place in February, Saturday through Thursday, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. These private guided tours include collection highlights such as Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night and Henri Matisse's Dance (I). Call MoMA Group Services at (212) 708-9685 or e-mail groupservices@moma.org for reservations. Some restrictions may apply.
The before-hours tours regularly cost $50 per person, while the evening ones are $60 per person. A number of other institutions run private or backstage tours in New York landmarks, including Carnegie Hall, Yankee Stadium and City Hall.
If you're wondering when to plan a trip to New Your City, October should be high on your list to coincide with Open House New York--the 2007 dates were recently announced.
That's the weekend more than a hundred locations will open their doors for free, giving you access to spots such as the kitchens of the Waldorf-Astoria, the abandoned hospital at Ellis Island and one of the private roof gardens of Rockefeller Center. The precise locations for the 2007 peeks probably won't be released until August or September, but it's a safe bet the event is worth building a trip around.
2007 is the year for Brooklyn. At least that's the word from Lonely Planet in its new Blue List travel guide.
"Any New Yorker worth their street cred knows the new downtown lies just across the East River, over the stately 18th Century bridge sharing its name with its home borough, Brooklyn, the USA's biggest city-within-a-city," the book asserts.
But the problem is, Brooklyn's downtown probably isn't where you'd want to be. Its sights are sprawled across the borough and you're likely going to have to do more walking or bus navigating than you would in Manhattan. Cabs are hard to come by. The subway ride to Coney Island, for example, is a good 45 minutes to an hour from Midtown. I'm not saying don't go, just throwing in the caveat that seeing the stuff in Brooklyn requires a completely different strategy than across the river.]]> djk2007-01-26T13:08:37-05:00New York: NewYorkology: 'Tis the Season For Discounts
http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/1/5/9293/99948
We are happy to announce the return of NewYorkology to Jaunted for the weekly update on things to do in NYC, courtesy of Amy Langfield.
The holidays are finally over in New York, though you wouldn't know it by the freakishly warm weather that's supposed to last at least two more weeks. And with the crush of the tourists cleared out, the prices are coming down for hotels and the bargain mat is getting rolled out.
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http://www.jaunted.com/story/2006/12/22/124958/48
We are happy to announce the return of NewYorkology to Jaunted for the weekly update on things to do in NYC, courtesy of Amy Langfield.
Sure, New York City has say, a couple hundred really good restaurants, yet the same handful always seem to make it into the guidebooks - sometimes keeping open a place that should have shuttered a decade ago, other times merely flooding the place with tourists making it impossible to get a table.
The Spotted Pig is probably destined to remain in that second category for years to come. On a side street in the far West Village, it's got a patron pedigree including names like Mario Batali, Michael Stipe of REM, maybe Bono of U2, as well as some impressive folks actually working in the kitchen.]]> djk2006-12-22T13:45:01-05:0040.735611 -74.006642New York: NewYorkology: Who Ya Gonna Call?
http://www.jaunted.com/story/2006/12/15/134241/01
We are happy to announce the return of NewYorkology to Jaunted for the weekly update on things to do in NYC, courtesy of Amy Langfield.
Coincidentally, NewYorkology this week had two Ghostbusters references - both about how to get access to normally off-limits spaces, both of which were featured in Ghostbusters. And even more coincidentally, neither of the spaces was actually used in the filming of the movies.
Starting with haunting of the New York Public Library in "Ghostbusters," recall if you will the main branch and the cards flipping out of the now old-fashioned card catalogs. You get to see the exterior of the library building, but by the time they indelicately march downstairs to find their prey, the filming was actually done in the Los Angeles Public Library.
But those downstairs stacks in the NYPL are actually off limits to the public. If you want a book from the main library, you have to fill out a request slip, which travels by pneumatic tube downstairs. There, a librarian finds it amid several stories directly under the library, or in the stacks that stretch out under the whole of Bryant Park next door. (Currently, there's an ice skating pond on top.)]]> djk2006-12-15T14:50:03-05:00New York: NewYorkology: Ferry Entertaining
http://www.jaunted.com/story/2006/12/8/122229/194
We are happy to announce the return of NewYorkology to Jaunted for the weekly update on things to do in NYC, courtesy of Amy Langfield.
I was out on the ferry this week, not to get to the city's most isolated borough, but to get a better look at the decommissioned aircraft carrier, the USS Intrepid, as it cruised around the Statue of Liberty after finally getting pulled out of the Hudson River mud.]]> djk2006-12-08T14:03:02-05:00Search JauntedSearch Jauntedstring
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