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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...
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New NYC tours take to the water
July 19, 2007, 11:45 am
New sightseeing cruises are sailing the rivers around Manhattan, one focusing on history, one on architecture.
Both are offered by NY Waterway Tours.
The history cruise, developed in collaboration with the New-York Historical Society, takes a "then and now" approach to four centuries of New...
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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,...
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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...
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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.
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Cucina Paradiso in the Bronx
January 29, 2007, 6:54 pm
People visit the Bronx for all kinds of
reasons. Some come to see the zoo, others to catch a baseball game at
Yankee Stadium. The spectacular Botanical Gardens draws people from all
over the world, as does Poe Cottage, the restored house that was the
poet Edgar Allan Poe's last home. My...
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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.
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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...
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