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DesignFind™ answers the question: What Are Some New York City Attractions?
Each Friday, we like to showcase the latest design events and happenings. This week our venue is New York City. Take a look at what NYC has in store for the month ahead in the world of antiques, fine arts, architecture, design, and more.
2009 Winter Antiques Show
January 23 – February 1, 2009
Open Daily 12:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Sunday & Thursday 12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Park Avenue Armory
67th St. & Park Ave.
Daily Admission: $20 (includes catalogue)
The Winter Antiques Show marks its 55th year as the most prestigious antiques show in America, featuring the “best of the best” from antiquities through the 1960s. Founded in 1954 to benefit East Side House Settlement, the Winter Antiques Show has become America’s most prestigious venue for fine and decorative arts.
Annex / West 25th Street Outdoor Flea Market
29-37 W 25th St
New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 243-5343
As described by CitySearch:
Chelsea’s outdoor antiques and flea market offers antiques, decorative arts and collectibles.
This weekend outdoor flea market features up to 125 vendors selling antiques, collectibles and other types of vintage and retro decorative items. It’s just steps away from The Antiques Garage (an indoor flea market) and is located on the uptown side of West 25th Street between Sixth Avenue and Fifth Avenue.
Insider Tips
A special service shuttle runs between Hell’s Kitchen and The Garage for $1 per ride.
Broadway
The most famous theater district in the world. Check the New York Times for a current listing of shows: http://theater2.nytimes.com/venues/broadway.html.
Bryant Park
6th Ave. between W. 40th and W. 42nd Sts.
New York City, NY 10017
Tel: (212) 768-4242
Bryant Park is a haven for readers and anyone seeking respite from the city bustle. Take a stroll under the skyscrapers through New York City’s busiest, most beautiful park with Matthew Broderick as your guide.
Activities: Ice Skating
Central Park
Address: 59th to 110th Streets
New York City, NY 10021
Tel: 212-310-6600
As noted in Trip Advisor:
A great place for a stroll. You can start anywhere you’d like.Just walk in at 59th and wander in. Check out the local artists and their wares. Head over to the zoo. Check out the Dairy, which is now the spot for shopping. Ride the carousel or skate at Wollman rink. Stop by Strawberry Fields and at 72nd see The Dakota. You can do the usual horse-drawn carriage ride or ride a horse yourself. Sit for a bit along the mall and reminisce about all who sat there before you. Take in lunch at the boathouse or just buy food from the many vending carts. See the Obelisk at the back of The Met. Walk through the tunnels and emerge out to daylight and see the fountain. Continue on around the reservoir. And finally, reach the ducks on the pond.
Activities: City walk sightseeing, Walking, Cross-country skiing, Biking, Birdwatching, Tennis, Rock climbing, Inline skating, Getting married, Swimming.
The Cloisters
99 Margaret Corbin Drive
Fort Tryon Park
New York, New York 10040
Information: (212) 923-3700
Branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that was constructed out of sections of French medieval monasteries, offers an extensive collection of statues, paintings, stained glass windows and tapestries.
The Bonnefont Garden at The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
According to About.com:
The only U.S. museum dedicated to contemporary and historic design is open free to the public on Tuesdays from 5:00-9:00pm. Located on museum mile at 91st Street and 5th Avenue, the museum is open daily except Mondays and Federal Holidays. In addition to the permanent collection, there are changing exhibitions.
The Forbes Magazine Galleries
As featured in About.com:
Located at 5th Avenue and 12th Street, the Forbes Magazine Galleries feature Faberge Easter eggs, toys, presidential manuscripts and fine art. Entrance to the galleries is free. Hours are 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Thursdays are reserved for guided group tours, which must be reserved in advance. Call 212-206-5548 for more information. The works at the gallery serve as inspiration for The Forbes Collection.
Frick Collection
1 E. 70th St.
Fifth Ave. New York City, NY 10021
Tel: (212) 288-0700
Henry Frick once resided in this 18th-century French-style mansion; now its the home of his impressive art collection, which includes Titian, Vermeer, Rembrandt, El Greco, Goya, Whistler and more.
Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Walking Tour
January 30, 12:30PM to 2:00PM
Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
This weekly tour is sponsored by the Grand Central Partnership. Meet on 42nd Street in front of the Altria/ Whitney Museum across the street from Grand Central at 12:30 on Friday afternoon. For more information call 212-697-1245.
Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market
39th St from 9th and 10th Avenues
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 243-5343
As described by CitySearch:
Weekend flea market with eclectic mix of new products, antiques, produce and more from more than 170 vendors.
Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market’s 170+ vendors are in the heart of the fast-changing urban neighborhood known as Hell’s Kitchen South (“SoHell”).
Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market runs every weekend and serves anyone interested in decorative arts, including not only traditional Victorian-era antiques but Deco items and items from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
A $1 shuttle runs from the flea market garage to The Antiques Garage in Chelsea 10 minutes.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York, New York 10028-0198
Information: (212) 535-7710
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest encyclopedic art museum in the world under a single roof. Art from all periods and cultures is displayed. Recent renovations, still in progress, have enlarged the exhibition space without expanding the solid rectangular building. Its size might be noted by the fact that if stood on edge, it would be among the 25 tallest buildings in the world.
The main entrance of the museum is located at 82nd Street and Fifth Avenue. A ground level entrance is at 81st Street. The nearest subway stations are on Lexington Avenue at 77th Street (#6 train) and 86th Street (#4 and #6 trains).
The Metropolitan Opera
Located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, between West 62nd and 65th Streets and Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues.
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/
The Metropolitan Opera Company is the foremost opera company in the United States, founded in 1883 in New York City. The Metropolitan Opera performs a 26-week season each year from its home at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Take a look at what the Met has to offer this weekend.
Friday, January 30
8:00 pm, Eugene Onegin
8:00 pm, SIRIUS XM Live Broadcast Eugene Onegin
8:00 pm, Listen Live:
Eugene Onegin
Saturday, January 31
11:00 am, Opera Explorers: Lights! Camera! Opera!
1:00 pm, Toll Brothers-Met Opera Radio Network Broadcast: Rigoletto
1:00 pm, Opera Explorers: Lights! Camera! Opera!
1:00 pm, SIRIUS XM Live Broadcast Rigoletto
1:00 pm, Rigoletto
3:00 pm, Opera Explorers: Lights! Camera! Opera!
8:00 pm, Orfeo ed Euridice
New York Public Library
Entrance to exhibits at the four major Manhattan branches as well as borough branches is free. The various branches of the library are located throughout the city. Exhibits are as diverse as the libraries themselves—from Science, Industry and Business to Performing Arts and the Humanities.
The Review Panel: Review of Contemporary Art
January 30, 6:45PM
National Academy Museum
1083 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street
www.nationalacademy.org
Ken Johnson, Elizabeth Schambelan and Joan Waltemath gather to review contemporary art shows around the city, including Peter Doig, Mary Heilmann, R.H. Quaytman and Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Admission is $5 per person. Open to all. No reservations required.
Free for National Academicians, Friends of the Academy, and students.
The Review of Contemporary Art is part of The Review Panel, presented by the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, in conjunction with artcritical.com. This popular panel is moderated by David Cohen, art critic for the New York Sun and editor of artcritical.com. Each month, three prominent art critics join David Cohen in discussing four pre-selected exhibitions currently on view in New York museums and galleries, with time allotted for audience response.
This popular series fosters awareness of contemporary art through critical dialogue about exhibitions on view in New York galleries and museums. Guests in the 2008-9 Season: Svetlana Alpers, Dore Ashton, R.C. Baker, Carly Berwick, Phong Bui, Arthur Danto, Ben Davis, Lance Esplund, James Gardner, Vincent Katz, Joshua Mack, Stephen Maine, Linda Nochlin, Peter Plagens, Nancy Princenthal, Barry Schwabsky, Robert Storr, Gregory Volk, Lilly Wei, Linda Yablonsky, and John Zinsser.
Location: The Huntington Library. Enter through 1083 Fifth Avenue entrance. Admission: $5, free for National Academicians, and Friends members. Reservations are not required. Please come early to insure the best seating.
Rockefeller Center
Between 47th and 51th Streets from Fifth to Seventh Avenues
New York City, NY 10020
Tel: (212) 232-6868
Home to the Top of the Rock Observation Deck, offers shopping, dining and attractions. The attractions include the NBC Studio and the Rink at Rockefeller Center.
Activities: Ice skating
Staten Island Ferry
According to About.com:
Rumored to be “the cheapest date around” a ride on the Staten Island Ferry will cost you nothing for the hour long round trip from Battery Park (South Ferry Subway station) to the borough of Staten Island. During the trip you can experience some of the same fabulous views that the pricier trips offer, including the skyscrapers and bridges of lower Manhattan, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Check out the weekday or weekend schedules for the ferry and plan your free cruise.
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