Bagels, Pizza, Hot Dogs and Race Tracks - New York City?

Oh, okay, I thought you were under the misconception that you would just walk out your door and be there in five minutes. I get it now.

If anything under 8 miles is comfortable walking distance for you, then all of manhattan is pretty much within walking distance from your hotel.

i often used to walk home from work --bleecker & broadway to 114th & riverside drive...

Wow, that's a long walk. It's the New York way though. Did you walk up Broadway the whole way? That must be a really nice walk. I walk to and from work in the summer a lot of days. It's only about forty blocks though.

I had a friend who used to walk to and from his office at 76th and Third all the way to his apartment in Sunnyside, Queens, EVERY frickin' day! That's probably even longer than your walk, Region. He would do it even in the middle of winter too. Crazy bastard.

That's my thinking. A good 2 to 3 hour walk every morning ... a nice prix fixe lunch ... something leisurely in the afternoon ... like a short stroll or tour or play or somethin' ... then drinks and nibbles ... then a facer into my mattress ... and repeat.

But, but, but we want you to see the beautiful views of the tunnels....

Take the 6 to the ferry.

Joe(walk more than 3 blocks, you're a tourist)Nation

I intend to be a total tourist.
Total.


But I won't wear Bermuda shorts. Not for anyone.

That's my way too....

i didn't always take the same route.
mostly it was bleecker to 7th or 8th ave, then straight up to broadway or west end ave.
i went at a pretty fast clip, so i was more concerned with taking as direct a route as possible, as oppsed to going for the scenic route.
i remember getting shin splints a couple times (no pain, no gain?).
it was more of a spring/fall activity.
a crisp, clear evening, no warmer than about 60 was ideal for the trek.
always stretched beforehand, and always had a walkman...

http://www.theeleganttightwad.com/treks.html#Garment


April 28, 2005
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Katy Payne: The Elephant Listening Project
American Museum of Natural History | Central Park West, New York, NY 10024 | 212-769-5100
Katy Payne, biologist and founder of the Elephant Listening Project at Cornell University, observes forest elephants in the Central African Republic and records their low-frequency sounds to better understand their behavior and family dynamics. Their protection depends on this understanding. A book signing will follow.



April 29, 2005
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Free Museum Fridays
Asia Society | 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street) | 212-288-6400
Each Friday evening at the Asia Society�s museum is free. From 6-9pm, visitors enjoy free admission to all exhibitions and other programs in the building. For information about what�s happening Fridays at the Asia Society and Museum, call (212) 288-6400 or visit www.AsiaSociety.org

April 26, 2005-
October 30, 2005
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Sol LeWitt on the Roof
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Fifth Avenue @ 82nd Street, New York, NY 10028 | 212-879-5500
This summer's installation by conceptual artist Sol LeWitt will include five sculptures & one wall drawing. A prolific artist since his emergence in the mid-1960s, LeWitt will show recent sculptures, called Splotches. With a palette of bold colors, LeWitt has created large-scale, painted fiberglass works.

April 15, 2005-
February 28, 2006
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Hudson River Paintings
New York Historical Society | West 77th Street, New York, NY 10024 | 212-873-3400
This exhibition showcases the extraordinary depth and richness of the New-York Historical Society's collection of landscape paintings by renowned artists of the Hudson River School. Rising to eminence during the middle decades of the 19th century, this loosely knit group of artists living and working in New York forged a distinctly American vision.
Manhattan


April 15, 2005-
August 14, 2005
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Maurice Sendak
The Jewish Museum | 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128 | 212-423-3200
Through original drawings, sketches, costumes, and sets, this exhibition will examine Sendak's art, his Jewish identity, and his latest work, Brundibar � a picture book and opera created in collaboration with Tony Kushner.

March 15, 2005-
May 15, 2005
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Byrdcliffe: An American Arts & Crafts Colony Exhibition
New York Historical Society | 2 West 77th Street, New York, NY 10024 | 212-873-3400
This exhibition will honor the centennial of Byrdcliffe, the colony founded as a center for artists & craftsmen in Woodstock, New York in 1902-1903. Paintings, photographs, prints, furniture, frames, textiles, & ceramics done at Byrdcliffe will be included in the exhibition, as well as documentation of the colony's unique architecture & materials.

March 11, 2005-
June 6, 2005
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Portraits of an Age: Photography in Germany and Austria, 1900-1938
Neue Galerie New York | 1048 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028 | 212-628-6200
This exhibition traces the history of photography in Germany and Austria over four decades through the photographic convention of portraiture. More than 35 photographers, covering a diverse range of styles and formats will feature their prints.
Manhattan

March 10, 2005-
June 10, 2005
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New York in the 70s Exhibit
Tribute: Celebrating New York City | 24 Broadway, New York, NY 10004 | 212-952-1000
A total 70s immersion exhibit that will flash visitors back to the era of pop art, hedonism, political cynicism, etc. as it brings award-winning photographer Allan Tannenbaum's work to life. The exhibit showcases hundreds of photographs examining fashion, music, politics, theater, pop culture and more via various media.

March 8, 2005-
May 30, 2005
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Diane Arbus Revelations
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Fifth Avenue @ 82nd Street, New York,NY 10028 | 212-879-5500
Diane Arbus (1923�1971) was one of the most original and influential American artists of the 20th century. This retrospective exhibition, the first in more than 30 years, will present the artist's signature images�such as Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1962 & A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y., 1970.
Manhattan

March 5, 2005-
May 22, 2005
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Paradise and Plumage: Chinese Connections in Tibetan Arhat Painting
Rubin Museum of Art | 150 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011 | 212-620-5000
Beginning in the 14th century, there were regular exchanges between China and Tibet of painting styles and motifs. The exhibition illustrates this artistic interchange by juxtaposing paintings and objects from China and Tibet of the 14th through 18th century.
Manhattan

March 4, 2005-
September 4, 2005
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Hella Jongerius Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection
Cooper-Hewitt Nat'l Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution | 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128 | (212) 849-8400
As the second guest curator of an installation in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery, renowned Dutch designer Hella Jongerius will focus on the Museum's unparalleled collection of samplers � embroidered notes made by needlewomen, used as a means of recording and transmitting designs, knowledge, and skills.
Manhattan

March 4, 2005-
July 10, 2005
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The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and their Salons
The Jewish Museum | 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128 | 212-423-3200
The exhibition will examine representative salons from Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London, New York, and Milan, their hosts, participants, and the art that flourished as a result of the contacts and conversations that took place there. It will unfold through portraits of salon hosts and their guests; related works of art, literature, and music.

February 7, 2005-
February 7, 2006
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Stags, Smokers, and Blue Movies: The Origins of American Pornographic Film
Museum of Sex | 233 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 | 212-689-6337
Until the late nineteen sixties, the predominant form of pornographic film was the short, usually black and white, anonymously produced film known variously as the stag film, blue movie, or "smoker," so called because of the smoke-filled rooms where men would gather for clandestine screenings.

January 1, 2005-
June 30, 2005
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Have You Eaten Yet?: The Chinese Restaurant in America
Museum of Chinese in the Americas | 70 Mulberry Street, New York, NY 10013 | 212-619-4785
An exhibition that caps the Museum's food and restaurant-themed season. Often the first introduction to Chinese culture for many Americans, the Chinese restaurant has functioned since the nineteenth century as a site of cultural exchange, and traces the Chinese restaurant's origin and growth in America.

October 30, 2004-
July 5, 2005
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Totems to Turquoise
American Museum of Natural History | Central Park West, New York, NY 10024 | 212-769-5100
A landmark exhibition of more than 500 pieces of dazzling contemporary and historic Native American jewelry and artifacts, Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest celebrates the beauty, power, and symbolism of modern Native jewelry arts.

Orienting Yourself
New York City has five boroughs � the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island � that are linked by a series of bridges, tunnels, and ferries. Manhattan is an island; the Bronx is north of Manhattan and on the mainland; Queens and Brooklyn are on the Western tip of Long Island, which stretches east into the Atlantic Ocean. See Maps & Neighborhoods for more information.

Find any address with the NYC Street Finder.

Streets in Manhattan (13.4 miles long and 2.3 miles wide at its widest), run east-west and ascend in numerical order going north from Houston Street. Below Houston, streets have their own names.

Fifth Avenue divides Manhattan into East Side and West Side; street addresses increase with their distance west and east from Fifth Avenue, usually by 100 per block.

Midtown is Manhattan�s main business district. Downtown (below 14th Street) contains Greenwich Village, SoHo, TriBeCa, and the Wall Street financial district. Downtown can also mean south of wherever you happen to be at the moment; uptown refers to all points north. If you�re at 14th Street and your destination is 50th Street, you�ll be traveling uptown to get to Midtown.

Approximately 20 north-south blocks equal a mile.

As a general rule, traffic is one-way going east on even-numbered streets, one-way going west on odd-numbered streets. Main east-west streets are two-way and some smaller streets don't follow this rule.

Sixth Avenue is formally named Avenue of the Americas; both terms are used.

http://www.nycvisit.com/home/

i can't lose track of chez josephine

tooooooo many good reviews

http://www.chezjosephine.com/lunchPF.html

and how could i not look at a place called osso buco?

http://www.ossobuco2go.com/

and the far side of organic

http://www.caravanofdreams.net/#




and this is funny - wanted to look up mario batali's pizza offerings in new york - google's 3rd hit brought me back to this thread

http://ottopizzeria.com/index.html


good lord, it looks sooooooooo good

on ossobuco, be careful. Some of us cooks screw it up on occasion...

(me in Albuquerque.. we threw it out....)



Hmm, I gave kicky a link on the ital wine thread for a place that looked good, past the wine. But, eh, who knows?

Ehbeth, we need to compile all these ny threads in some list, for people like us from the hinterlands visiting with enthusiasm...

What about using the A2K Portal as a Master List?

this is the portal that sorta matches, but i'm not sure how vacation planning threads really work with this

http://search.able2know.com/Travel/Destinations/United_States/index.html

i mean, the stuff i'm looking up is of interest to me, but, well, i'm just not sure

obviously

I've made some contributions to the portal. Tell the Mods that you're going to have more than three recommended websites and you'd like to start an NYC Tourist category.

I'm impressed with your research and think it ought to be both shared and immortalized.

And I would have been interested in your research when I went, ehBeth, and still am interested. I noticed you didn't name the last best hotel choice, at least that I saw.

Though I have more personalized stuff in mind than clear cut recommendations ... maybe since a2k has a great search function, I'd just look up New York (hotels, food, walking in, museums, whatever) and see what it brought up.