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48 hours in New York
December 17, 2007, 4:17 pm
Got 48 hours to explore New York over the holidays? Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help visitors make the most of the shopping and holiday attractions the Big Apple has to offer. Read the full 48 hours in New York City itinerary from... » View Article
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The Guggenheim: Revamping the vision of Frank Lloyd Wright
September 17, 2007, 11:29 am
Visitors wandering through the Richard Pousette-Dart exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum seem oblivious to the scaffolding and hard hats in their midst. But for the people behind the scenes, the work unfolding within the museum's curved white walls is as engrossing as the art displayed... » View Article
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Big Apple, Little Budget
September 10, 2007, 2:15 pm
Guess where the country's most expensive hotel room is located. Nope, it's not in Vegas—it's the Ty Warner suite at the Four Seasons, New York, which debuted this summer at $30,000 a night. That's not Manhattan's only record-breaker: At $20 a head, the Museum of Modern Art is America's most... » View Article
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Day Out Brooklyn
September 10, 2007, 2:06 pm
VISITORS to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn usually head straight for Bedford Avenue. It's the obvious choice — a thoroughfare packed with stores and cafes, and the scene of an increasingly congested parade of the neighborhood's would-be trendsetters. But those looking to find what made... » View Article
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New York: the City that Keeps Rocking All the Time
June 18, 2007, 3:59 pm
New York is a city of stunning views, surprises, and infinite possibilities. The remarkable thing about this great city is that it never sleeps. It’s full of life and fun. The city offers impeccable lifestyle with flavors of the wonders of nature, scintillating culture, skyscrapers, amazing... » View Article
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Arts Space in Brooklyn to Get New Digs
May 30, 2007, 2:10 pm
In a move that has greater symbolic significance than mere real estate hopscotch, Galapagos Art Space, the pioneering bar and performing arts space that helped put Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on the cultural map, is moving a few neighborhoods down the East River, to Dumbo. Galapagos, which has... » View Article
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I love NY
May 29, 2007, 10:32 am
Wow, what a great time we had in NYC last weekend. I think that possibly the best thing of the whole trip is that I didn’t think about work (or any other commitments) for the whole 5 days that we were gone, there was no time to! We were always on the go, made sure to pack as much as possible into... » View Article
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Hot Time, Cool Prices: Summer in New York City
May 21, 2007, 10:36 am
During the summer in New York City, the streets are less crowded and the wait is a little less at your favorite restaurants -- everyone's gone, off to the country, the beach, or the mountains to escape the heat, which on a humid day seems to roll off the streets in steamy sheets. Perhaps I'm not... » View Article
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Architecture at MoMA: Another look
May 15, 2007, 3:27 pm
Stepping into the large shoes of Philip Johnson, the founding curator of the Museum of Modern Art's architecture department, might have seemed challenge enough for Barry Bergdoll, who took on the position in January. But he also had to contend with a weighty anniversary: the department turns 75... » View Article
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Under the skin of The Big Apple
May 10, 2007, 2:28 pm
Stay away from the crowds with Sarah Maslin Nir's guide to New York, from abandoned railway lines to philosophical bakers New York City and the Sistine Chapel are both the victims of improvement. In 1999, when the five-year cleaning of the Sistine Chapel was completed, visitors walked into those... » View Article
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Greek, Roman art come out of hiding
April 23, 2007, 1:21 pm
Roman art may not have quite the crowd-pleasing cachet of impressionism or pop art. Offer museum visitors a choice between a marble statue of a Roman emperor and an Andy Warhol painting of, say, Marilyn Monroe, and the Warhol wins nearly every time. Still, no self-respecting encyclopedic museum,... » View Article
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The Bronx
April 5, 2007, 6:41 pm
Beyond the Yankees and the Zoo ARE you the kind of avant-garde tourist who lives to be the first outsider to find that charming little shop or try that new gem of a neighborhood bistro? If so, forget Manhattan. Unless you stumble across a place as the sign is going up, Google will show you that... » View Article
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Getting to know the Big Apple with little books
March 23, 2007, 4:27 pm
If the sidewalks of New York seem heavily populated with thoughtful, literary types consulting their Moleskines, don't be fooled. Some of the newest, and most useful, travel guides these days borrow heavily from those discreet black notebooks beloved of artists from van Gogh to Hemingway to Bruce... » View Article
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Enter Stage Left, With a Ticket
March 23, 2007, 11:55 am
IT doesn’t always take talent to be on a Broadway stage. Sometimes all you need is $31.50.At “Spring Awakening,” the rock musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, that fee, along with some courage, is all it takes to sit in one of 26 seats arranged on the sides of the stage at every performance.... » View Article
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NYC exhibit highlights Van Gogh's impact on German modernists
March 22, 2007, 1:16 pm
Vincent van Gogh's everyday scenes rendered in bold colors and stark brush strokes came as a revelation for early modern art. His impact on German and Austrian expressionists was especially profound, as shown in an exhibition of 80 works featuring some of van Gogh's most luminous... » View Article
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Big Apple Greeters
March 15, 2007, 3:46 pm
We have been to New York City many times before, but never have we experienced it quite like this. Let us explain. We started our journey on the Internet before our actual arrival in the "Big Apple." We do lots of research before we leave to maximize our time there to make certain that we know our... » View Article
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Admiring art while waiting for the next train
March 12, 2007, 1:37 pm
NEW YORK: Agift was always waiting for me last summer at the 14th Street subway station in Manhattan, of all places. Emerging from chemotherapy infusions every other week at St. Vincent's Comprehensive Cancer Center nearby, I felt as if a toxic pall had descended on me. The pall would lift a... » View Article
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A quick bite of the Apple
March 12, 2007, 1:12 pm
New York City has plenty to pique the curiosity and palate NEW YORK CITY // This is a West Side story, a chance for a 24-hour romance with Manhattan. Yes, I have been here many times -- and the Port of New York's cruise terminal at 55th Street and the Hudson River isn't in the most scenic part... » View Article
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Hip-hopping around Harlem
February 6, 2007, 1:13 pm
Think hip-hop began with Run DMC? Think again. Vicky Baker gets back to the roots of the cultural movement in New York's Harlem district, on a tour led by Grandmaster Caz... » View Article
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Metropolitan Opera rewards Wagner fans with a 'Meistersinger' to treasure
March 5, 2007, 5:18 pm
NEW YORK (AP) - Like a beloved friend who faithfully comes to visit every few years, Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" has returned to the Metropolitan Opera, as welcome as ever even if beginning to show the effects of age. Wagner's melodious comedy won a prolonged... » View Article
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Visiting New York City with Kids
March 2, 2007, 11:00 am
In 2005, tourism in NYC revitalized to pre- 9/11 levels. I visited recently with my eldest son... We stayed in a Creativity Suite; did dim sum, Tavern on the Green, and lunch next to Ringo's drums; saw Van Gogh, Mammuthus, and Spamalot... Check out our itinerary. See also: Top... » View Article
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19 New York City Museums That Won't Cost You a Dime
February 26, 2007, 12:55 pm
By Ethan Wolff February 23, 2007 Museum admission prices in New York are working their way skyward, with inflation running higher than even our outrageous movie tickets. The big institutions are no longer shy about stepping over the $10 barrier -- the MoMA has stepped right up to a $20... » View Article
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New York City With Kids: Top Picks for Cold Days
February 20, 2007, 12:26 pm
By Holly Hughes February 13, 2007 New York City may be frozen right now, but that hasn't kept the visitors away. To cram the most into one day while exposing your family to as little frostbite as possible, start out at the American Museum of Natural History; then scoot across Central Park on... » View Article
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CityPassing
February 20, 2007, 12:17 pm
Written by Christina, Valley Stream Whenever I pass the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company in Times Square, I grit my teeth and loudly complain that it’s my least favorite block in all of New York City. Why? Because that's the place where people always, always, ALWAYS stop dead in the middle of the... » View Article
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New York City, take two: Scenes to last a lifetime
January 29, 2007, 7:02 pm
By Charlotte Safavi For The Inquirer 'What does New York mean to you?" I ask my husband, as we sit in a knot of traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike. He stops drumming the steering wheel. "Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live, Woody Allen," he says, then pauses and adds, "Walt Whitman." My 6-year-old... » View Article
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Snapshots in Central Park
March 14, 2006, 6:55 pm
In the center of the bubbling mass of concrete and human activity that is Manhattan lies a calm refuge of constructed natural preservation. Central Park, the emerald oasis in a buzzing metropolis, is a favorite destination of tourists and natives alike. Like jumping into a lake, the park... » View Article
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All Aboard! Next Stop Chinatown New York City
January 11, 2007, 5:40 pm
Dazzling lights and sounds of Time Square and Broadway! Art-Deco glamour and pre-Depression architecture at the ChryslerBuilding! "Dirty-water" hot dogs with kraut and diced onion at 42nd and 'Lex'! Cristo's draping of Central Park! The stately and inspiring Statue of Liberty! Beaux-Arts styled... » View Article
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NYC's MoMA features outdoor film exhibit
January 29, 2007, 2:00 pm
From USA Today.com By Marcus Franklin, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — A new exhibit was unveiled Tuesday at the Museum of Modern Art — or rather on the Museum of Modern Art. The new public art installation by artist Doug Aitken turned the museum's facades into a drive-in movie theater... » View Article
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Rare Greek antiquities go on display in New York
January 29, 2007, 1:55 pm
From  USA TodayBy David Minthorn, The Associated Press NEW YORK — Warned that the barrage of Persian arrows would hide the sun at Thermopylae, the Spartan hero Dienekes replied with cool bravado, "It will be pleasant to fight in the shade." Known for their terse, unflinching... » View Article
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Insider's Guide To New York City
January 29, 2007, 1:38 pm
The season's hottest shows, restaurants, shopping, and more.From Consierge.com. Start Spreading the News In the annals of popular music, there are few songs more true, more moving, than Kander and Ebb's "New York, New York." Although it was written as a bittersweet valentine—in 1977, when... » View Article
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