Guest Activities: Guest activities will be available.
See upcoming meeting announcements and the local meeting website.
New York City and the metropolitan area offer a huge variety of activities for every taste.
Shopping Tours: The L.O.C. has arranged with ShopGotham to offer a custom group tour to SoHo on Thursday morning July 29. Click [SoHo-details.pdf] for tour information, and link to a story about ShopGotham. Please book directly by calling 917-599-6650, and mention MetSoc2010. Contact person for this tour is Kimberly Taylor (taylor at lpi.usra.edu).
Street Fairs: These are common on weekend days in the city. See a schedule.
Sunday July 25th, The 52nd Association Jazz Festival (on 52nd Street from Lexington - 7th Avenue)
This is very near the meeting A description from http://www.festivalfinder.com reads: A re-creation of Bourbon Street in Manhattan celebrating the birth of jazz on Swing Street. More than 400 international food, restaurants, art, craft, antique and merchandise exhibitors create a midway along 52nd Street from Lexington to Seventh Avenue. Several pocket stages feature jazz and entertainment for all! Admission is free. See also http://www.bigapplejazz.com/festivals.html.
Friday July 30th, Manhattan Youth Fair(on Greenwich St. from Barclay - Chambers Street)
Saturday July 31st, Festival of the Americas (on 6th Avenue from 42nd - 56th Street)
Sunday August 1st, The C.O.R.E. Health Expo(on Broadway from 47th - 57th Street)
Green Market and Flea Market: Every Sunday at Columbus Ave. and 77th St. (across from the AMNH)
Special Exhibitions: Selected items.
Asia Society, Arthur Ross Gallery: Rivers of Ice, Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya
Museum of Modern Art: Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917
New York Historical Society: Greatful Dead, Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society
(the NYHS is located directly south of the AMNH, across 77th Street)
NOTE: The subway and bus fare is $2.25 regardless of distance. It is very easy to purchase a fare card for cash or credit. One transfer between bus and subway is included per fare.
The bus does NOT accept paper money! Bus ONLY accepts quarters (9 of them) or fare cards.
Taxis accept credit cards. Tip 10-15%.
General Items
City Pass (bargain group of tickets to prime venues)
Sites of Interest (direct links to live google maps and websites of places)
(map link) To the Cloisters from Park Central Hotel
(map link) To Tenement Museum from Park Central Hotel
(map link) To South Street Seaport from Park Central Hotel (sail on Pioneer schooner!)
Tour Lincoln Center
Rockefeller Center (French bookstore, dining)
New York Public Library (with the lions)
Music Venues: Jazz (direct links to live google maps and websites of venues)
(map link) To Birdland Jazz Club from Park Central Hotel
(map link) To Village Vanguard Jazz Club from Park Central Hotel
(map link) To Zinc Bar (jazz) from Park Central Hotel
(map link) To Blue Note jazz club from Park Central Hotel
(map link) To Smoke jazz club from Park Central Hotel
Music Venues: Classical (websites)
Mostly Mozart festival (July 27 - August 10)
Popular Shows (direct links to live google maps and websites of shows)
(map link) To Dave Letterman Show from Park Central Hotel
(map link) To Jon Stewart Show from Park Central Hotel
Museums (websites)
ALL New York City museums (comprehensive list)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
Museum of Sex
International Center of Photography
Guggenheim Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
American Museum of Natural History
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rubin Museum of Tibetan Art
The Tenement Museum
Active Touring (websites)
Walking tours (movies, celebrities, literature, landmarks..)
Central Park: stroll, rent a rowboat! rent rollerblades!
Walk the Brooklyn Bridge
Coney Island ride the Cyclone roller coaster!
Film (websites)
Independent Film Center
High Places (websites)
Empire State Building (go early in the day!)
Rockefeller Center 'top of the rock'
On the Water (websites)
Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty (Circle Line, or Staten Island Ferry)
Ferry boat to Sandy Hook seashore, in New Jersey
Sail on the Pioneer sailing schooner (sunset is best! bring wine & cheese & bread)
Ride the Circle Line around Manhattan Island
Destination: Lunch (websites)
Katz's Deli 205 E Houston, (212) 254-2246
Sylvia's Soul Food, 328 Malcolm X Boulevard (212) 996-0660
Destination: Steak Dinner (websites; two of the very best)
Keen's Steakhouse 72 W. 36th St (at 6th Ave.), (212) 947-3636 (takes reservations... since 1885)
...has an EXCEPTIONAL selection of single malt whiskeys, and a New York, clubby atmosphere.
Gallagher's Steak House, 228 W. 52nd St. (off Broadway), 888-819-6107 (takes reservations... since 1927)
...very near the PCHotel, but a bit touristy. It has a very cool meat locker for aging steaks, in the front of the place.
Shopping! (websites)
Astro Minerals (best rocks outside the museum!)
shopping tours (See also the 'excursions' page!)
See upcoming meeting announcements and the local meeting website.
New York City and the metropolitan area offer a huge variety of activities for every taste.
Shopping Tours: The L.O.C. has arranged with ShopGotham to offer a custom group tour to SoHo on Thursday morning July 29. Click [SoHo-details.pdf] for tour information, and link to a story about ShopGotham. Please book directly by calling 917-599-6650, and mention MetSoc2010. Contact person for this tour is Kimberly Taylor (taylor at lpi.usra.edu).
Street Fairs: These are common on weekend days in the city. See a schedule.
Sunday July 25th, The 52nd Association Jazz Festival (on 52nd Street from Lexington - 7th Avenue)
This is very near the meeting A description from http://www.festivalfinder.com reads: A re-creation of Bourbon Street in Manhattan celebrating the birth of jazz on Swing Street. More than 400 international food, restaurants, art, craft, antique and merchandise exhibitors create a midway along 52nd Street from Lexington to Seventh Avenue. Several pocket stages feature jazz and entertainment for all! Admission is free. See also http://www.bigapplejazz.com/festivals.html.
Friday July 30th, Manhattan Youth Fair(on Greenwich St. from Barclay - Chambers Street)
Saturday July 31st, Festival of the Americas (on 6th Avenue from 42nd - 56th Street)
Sunday August 1st, The C.O.R.E. Health Expo(on Broadway from 47th - 57th Street)
Green Market and Flea Market: Every Sunday at Columbus Ave. and 77th St. (across from the AMNH)
Special Exhibitions: Selected items.
Asia Society, Arthur Ross Gallery: Rivers of Ice, Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya
Museum of Modern Art: Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917
New York Historical Society: Greatful Dead, Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society
(the NYHS is located directly south of the AMNH, across 77th Street)
NOTE: The subway and bus fare is $2.25 regardless of distance. It is very easy to purchase a fare card for cash or credit. One transfer between bus and subway is included per fare.
The bus does NOT accept paper money! Bus ONLY accepts quarters (9 of them) or fare cards.
Taxis accept credit cards. Tip 10-15%.
General Items
Sites of Interest (direct links to live google maps and websites of places)
Music Venues: Jazz (direct links to live google maps and websites of venues)
Music Venues: Classical (websites)
Popular Shows (direct links to live google maps and websites of shows)
Museums (websites)
Active Touring (websites)
Film (websites)
High Places (websites)
On the Water (websites)
Destination: Lunch (websites)
Destination: Steak Dinner (websites; two of the very best)
...has an EXCEPTIONAL selection of single malt whiskeys, and a New York, clubby atmosphere.
...very near the PCHotel, but a bit touristy. It has a very cool meat locker for aging steaks, in the front of the place.
Shopping! (websites)