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A Cultural Guide to West 57th Street: A Walk and a Map
It began in 1891 with the opening of Carnegie Hall, the symbol of music world success that Andrew Carnegie paid people to construct on 7th Avenue between West 57th and West 56th Streets. A year later, the Art Students League moved into the new Americ...
Some Serious Wi-Fi: The Edna Barnes Salomon Room at the New York Public Library
Needing a change of work space other than my own living room, one with more gravitas than a place where dogs bring me squeaky toys, I went uptown to the main branch of the New York Public Library this afternoon. I mainly wanted to try out the new wi-...
Finding Balance in MoMA's Sculpture Garden
The goat you see in the picture is Pablo Picasso's She-Goat (1950), a bronze sculpture the artist crafted out of discarded objects, and its grazing area is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at The Museum of Modern Art. On most days when t...
From The Great Gatsby: Nick Carraway's Walk, A Slideshow and A Map
The New York zeitgeist this summer seems interested in revisiting F. Scott Fitzgerald's acclaimed masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, first published in April 1925. Director Baz Lurhmann has bought the rights to make a new film version, the radio program ...
After Walking, A Place to Sit: Greenacre Park, E. 51st
Strolling may be the best way to see New York, but after shopping, walking, or other forms of exertion, it feels great to sit down. Sometimes, while out and about the city, it's absolutely necessary to find a quiet spot to take a time out, make a pho...
The New York Hotel That Looks Like It's in Miami
From Spring 2009I've walked by the Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel in Midtown on Lexington several times, and I always say to myself something like "Kinda wild. Kinda groovy. Très tropicale!" I would prefer to sound like Baudelaire in my head, but the...
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on East 52nd Street
"-S'il vous plaît… dessine-moi un mouton!"Like many others, I learned French in school by reading Le Petit Prince, the charming and thoughtful story written and illustrated by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. So I was delighted, even in a child-like way,...
Shhh, Don't Tell: Quiet Modernist Escapes in Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan can seem overwhelming at times. The density created by the tall buildings, the crowds flocking to Rockefeller Center and Radio City, the flagship stores along Fifth Avenue, and the general mayhem that ensues on a day with parades or...
The Walking Arcades of Midtown
Those of us with a flâneur sensibility go into throws of sophisticated excitement at the very sight of an arcade. I'm not talking about a shoot 'em up palace of games, but the kinds of passageways first built in Paris in the 19th century. Here, let ...
Chester A. Arthur's Neighborhood, and A Hint of Vindaloo Masala
While walking through the northern section of Madison Square Park, you may have encountered the striking statue of Chester A. Arthur (1830-1886), the 21st President. The VP in James Garfield's administration, Arthur assumed office upon the tragic dea...
