About NewYorkology
NewYorkology LLC is an independent news, event and travel site about NYC. Founded in 2004, it serves New Yorkers and frequent visitors. There is a beginner's New York section, but the emphasis is on what's new. See the NYC calendar of upcoming event, plus the list of new exhibitions, performances and deals in NYC now.
NewYorkology is for people who do things; it's not about gimmicks or payola. Don't expect to see a list of the Top 25 Things in NY that's a disguised list of our advertiers or business partners. Our writers do not attend fam trips, take free "review" meals at restaurants or accept discounts or freebies at hotels. We do attend legitimate press previews, such as at museums, and our theater writer accepts review tickets to some performances, (which is in line with the ethics policy of the New York Times .)
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Awards: Three Lowell Thomas medals from the from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, a best-destination blog award in the Travvies, and best Internet travel lists including ones from the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, London's Telegraph and the Washington Post.
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Submitting calendar items NewYorkology's calendar format encourages readers to click to the origin website for event details. E-mail a short summary of the event, location, time and URL to Amy at Newyorkology dot com. NYC events only.
Book excerpts NewYorkology does not do book reviews, but we will sometimes publish full-chapter excerpts of select books with a very strong NYC connection. Contact Amy at newyorkology.com to request submission guidelines.
Who does this stuff?
Amy Langfield is the editor and publisher of NewYorkology LLC, as well as a reporter and photographer for the site. Previously, she was a reporter, editor, and producer at media outlets including Reuters, ABCNews.com, the Los Angeles Daily News and Prognosis, Czechoslovakia's first English-language newspaper. As a freelancer, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, NBC New York and the Online Journalism Review.
Contributor Sam Meyer has a journalism night job, edits Cocktailians and explores NYC by day. He's especially interested in the infrastructure, transit, architectural wonders, drinking establishments, and hidden corners of the greatest city in the world. His NewYorkology stories include treks inside the abandoned Ellis Island hospital and 21 Club's speakeasy-era rooms.
Cinema columnist Tim McGonagle also writes for the "Noir of the Week" film website. His NewYorkology stories include extensive Tribeca Film Fest coverage and the best of the revivals, such as "The Panic in Needle Park."
Contributor Francis Morrone is a historian, lecturer, and tour guide who has published several books about Manhattan and Brooklyn architecture. His NewYorkology stories include the must-see list of NYC's newest important architecture and eight myths about New York.
Theater reviewer Alexandra Farkas is also the director of John Fleming's "The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley" at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center. Her NewYorkology stories include reviews of "Next to Normal" and "Billy Elliot."
Contributor Christina Ziegler-McPherson is a public historian with a specialty in American immigration and social welfare policy. She's the author of the book "Americanization in the States: Immigrant Social Welfare Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity in the United States, 1908-1929." Her NewYorkology stories include New Tenement Museum tour of the Lower East Side and Washington's and Lincoln's New York City haunts.
Contributor Moses Gates is an urban planner, part-time tour guide, and full-time Gothamphile. His NewYorkology stories include Bank of New York's Red Room and Out on the balcony at 14 Wall St. for Access Restricted.
Photographer Steve Duncan is an urban explorer whose extensive NYC photography can be seen at UnderCity.org. His NewYorkology stories include Out on the balcony at 14 Wall St. for Access Restricted.
Contributor Jane Berger is a professional landscape designer working throughout the Northeast and is the editor and publisher of Garden Design Online. Her NewYorkology stories include Orchid Show goes Brazilian at NY Botanical Garden.
Contributor Anna Links has been sizing up some of the newer tours on offer in NYC, including the Staten Island pizza tour, the Photo Walk-about and the once-a-month free Bronx Trolley culture trek.
Contributor Heesun Wee works as a video segment producer for Yahoo's Tech Ticker. She’s also writing a screenplay entitled "War Photographer." Her NewYorkology stories include At the Guggenheim, Cai will make you believe and Summer's photo finish with Atget, Evans, Kikai, Fusco.
Contributor Usman Chaudhary is a New Jersey-based web developer and frequent New York City visitor. His personal blog can be found at whoisusman.com. He reviewed the software at NYC & Co.'s official Midtown tourism center for NewYorkology.
Baseball columnist Scott Ross covered in-season Mets and Yankees news.
Nichelle Stephens, a co-founder of the Cupcakes Take the Cake blog, was the desserts correspondent for NewYorkology. By day, she works as a bookkeeper. Her NewYorkology stories include Ice cream goes organic at Boerum Hill's Blue Marble and Making whoopie cookies with Brooklyn's One Girl.
Contributor John Rambow is a travel writer and editor based in New York. He's worked for Gridskipper, Zagat, and Fodor's Travel Guides. For NewYorkology he wrote Where to see Asian art treasures in New York City.
Contributor Alex Salkever has written a series of NY business-class hotel reviews for NewYorkology. Alex, a former resident of NYC while an editor at BusinessWeek.com, now runs Hawaiirama.com, a Hawaii travel blog. He reviews included the Fitzpatrick and the Waldorf.
NewYorkology a Top 5 NY Website - MommyPoppins
 MommyPoppins, a great guide to navigating the city with interesting kids, is running a series of year-end lists and NewYorkology is delighted to make it onto one of them.
The Top 5 New York Websites of 2008 includes NewYorkology.
Click through to MommyPoppins for the other lists that have already come online, including Top 5 daily and weekly New York email newsletters and Top 5 New York Openings for Families 2008.
Earlier: Museum sleepover dates added for January, February
Broadway Review: Gotta dance with ‘Billy Elliot’
December 30, 2008 9:23 AM Comments (0)
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Call for New York City Mini-Neighborhood Guides
Yesterday I was in funky only-in-New York-type of shop in Dumbo and the owner mentioned his sales have tanked so badly in the past two months that he suspects he may close and go web-only soon.
I suspect you too have a number of favorite shops, restaurants and bars that have just closed or you fear they’re about to.
So it seems high time to finally Call for Neighborhood Guides. No more of this business about hoarding the best stuff in your neighborhood for fear the crowds will ruin it. You’re gonna kick yourself if they go out of business instead.
The concept is easy — just write about the very best stuff in your neighborhood. Think of it as a note you’d leave for a friend house sitting for you. Where do you get breakfast and what do you order; what’s the over-hyped place to avoid except if you go before 8 when Vinnie’s working; where’s the best free wi-fi; look for the old faded ad sign that just showed up before a condo rises. Add pictures, link to the business if they’ve got URLs and feel free to throw in video or maps as well.
The idea is to highlight the good stuff and create a series of micro guides for people who already know New York, but just not your nabe as well as you do.
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December 5, 2008 2:24 PM Comments (0)
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NewYorkology nod in Telegraph's best travel blogs list
 London’s Telegraph gave a little plug to NewYorkology in its story about the world’s best travel blogs.
Other sites mentioned include National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel, business travel site Road Gladiator and Perrin Post at Condé Nast Traveler.
Image source: Detail from Telegraph illustration.
November 10, 2008 8:14 AM Comments (1)
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Follow NewYorkology on Twitter for the latest, briefest
 If you’ve got a free Twitter account, please be sure to follow NewYorkology.
It’s where you’ll find little snippets of news — in 140 characters or less — usually so time-sensitive that it might never make it onto the main website. Or it’s a bite of the news before it turns into a story. Or something entirely different.
Here are a few of the folks NYology’s following:
Waffletruck
Rickshawtruck
Treats Truck
Travel Zoo
JetBlue
SeatGuru
Virgin America
Marriott
American Museum of Natural History
Rubin Museum
Brooklyn Museum
NY Times Arts
NY Times CityRoom
WNYC
NewYorkist
Obscene NYC
Vidiot
Oh That Laura
Broadway World
American Buffalo
Filming in Brooklyn
Racked
John Hodgman
Rooftop Films
Murph Guide
Earlier: Treats Truck tracking now on Twitter
October 19, 2008 3:35 PM Comments (0)
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Terminal 5, taxi stand fix, fried truth wrapped in bacon
 NewYorkology’s back from the longest vacation in the site’s history (since August 2004) as I’ve been off in Europe for a few weeks. Arriving into JFK last night, New York City felt a bit broken by comparison. We had very long waits on the plane last night, including 25 minutes parked between two runways so busy that air traffic controllers couldn’t be bothered to tell our pilot how long we’d be stuck there, he told us. And yes, I am aware there were two near-misses on JFK runways while I was gone.
And then there was the shameful taxi situation. Of course we were confronted by a dozen men offering (illegal) taxi service before we got to the long, official line for taxis. Tons of taxis, but the problem was the two official busy-bodies who felt the need to chat/lecture every taxi driver and every passenger, one-by-one. You couldn’t get past these guys. At the London train stations, you hit the front of the taxi queue and a guy points to a number painted on the ground, you stand there, and about six cabs are filled and once, thank you and goodbye.
Another thing that would be nice to see here: free wi-fi on trains, like England’s regional National Express does.
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July 21, 2008 12:29 PM Comments (2)
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A note from the editor on upcoming changes
 Hi NewYorkology fans, I thought it would be a good time to offer a big picture on a few things I'm hoping to get done this summer and for fall. You may not know, but NewYorkology is just a small, independently owned travel website. I'm the editor, and my background is all in straight news (newspapers, a wire service, and a dot-com stint for a TV network,) plus a not-so MSM job at Czechoslovakia's first independent English-language newspaper, the unfortunately named yet sorta-legendary Prognosis.
So one reason for this note is that in July I'm actually making my first visit to Prague since 1994. It's part of a trip that will have me out of New York around the first two weeks of July. And while NewYorkology has a handful of contributors (and will be looking for more when I return,) the day-to-day is pretty much all me.
Since this site launched in August 2004, it's been updated almost every day. Even on weekends I'm at least grinding out content for the calendar. (I'm actually looking for a good way to automate that so readers can add events, but still discourage the PR folks from crossing the line. Suggestions welcome.)
Starting at the end of June, daily posting at NewYorkology is going to slow down to put the site in a more static "July in New York" mode. Post-holiday I'll get back to the daily schedule, I think. I've got some silly big ideas of what I'd like to do with the site later this year, but it would take a chunk of money and more importantly, a partner with the tech-knowledge to pull it off and keep it running while I stick to editorial.
But before all that, I will be looking for more (unpaid) contributors and I'm going to make a solid effort to finally launch the neighborhood guides. (Two years ago I talked to a few bloggers about writing mini-guides to their neighborhoods. Paul Frankenstein stepped up faster than I could have expected ... and then with too many balls in the air, that was the end of that.)
The coming months may be a bit of a roller coaster with highs and lows, and hopefully a redesign. Apologies in advance for the disruption. -- Amy Langfield
June 14, 2008 10:47 AM Comments (5)
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2008 Travvies seeking best travel blog nominations
 The nomination period is open for the second annual Travvies awards, which seeks to find the best travel blogs on the web.
Last year, NewYorkology was named the best destination travel blog, and was a finalist for best travel blog overall.
The awards are organized by the Upgrade: Travel Better blog, which is accepting nominations from the general public for a few more days. In the next round, a panel of judges will select four finalists in each category and then voting opens up again to the general public to vote for the winners.
April 3, 2008 10:42 AM Comments (0)
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Budget Travel's 'Trip Coach' chat with NewYorkology
 Budget Travel magazine next week will feature an online chat with NewYorkology editor Amy Langfield as part of its Trip Coach session.
The New York chat is scheduled for Tuesday, February 5 from noon to 1 p.m., Eastern Time - but you can submit questions through the Budget Travel website now.
To see how these go, check their September archive for the New York chat with Manhattan User's Guide editor Charlie Suisman.
Update: Read the full transcript here.
January 30, 2008 8:51 AM Comments (0)
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NewYorkology's on Facebook
 NewYorkology spent part of the long weekend exploring this thing the kids call Facebook. So now you can be New Yorkology's Facebook friend, and check out some of the cool things there:
Maritime Hotel light graffiti video - A guerrila artist uses a light show to turn the Chelsea-neighborhood hotel into a temporary game board/art canvas.
The Brooklyn Museum ArtShare project - Add this application and you can create your own rotating gallery of artworks for your pge from the Brooklyn Gallery's collection. Not everything in the museum is available, but there are a number of pieces from its extensive Egyptian collection (though not the mummified cat,) as well as the new feminist galleries. Artshare also lets you choose from London's Victoria & Albert museum and Australia's Powerhouse Museum. Plus: "If you are an artist, upload and share your own work using this app."
Video clip from "The Cruise" - See Timothy "Speed� Levitch explain why surrendering to Manhattan's grid system = failure. And did you know he has his own webpage - Speedology.
Whitney Museum's upcoming events - Including but not limited to gallery talks, architecture dialogues and pay-what-you-wish Whitney Live parties.
And one logistics note -- just to emphasize our newbie status, you'll have to make sure you sign up as a friend of New Yorkology (two words) and not merely a fan of NewYorkology (one word.) As a fan, you can only see the shell of the Facebook site we briefly set up in November. Somehow the two pages did not merge into one. (And if you know how to fix, please drop a line.)
January 21, 2008 2:19 PM Comments (0)
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Page Six confirms Greenwich Hotel reservations
 NewYorkology made it onto the pages of The Post's Page Six today - and it doesn't have anything to do with having sex with, supplying drugs to, or getting sideswiped by the likes of Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan or George Clooney.
But it does involve DeNiro.
Page Six gives NewYorkology credit for the weekend scoop on Robert DeNiro's Greenwich Hotel going live with its website and taking reservations (with $725 rooms,) starting April 1.
The paper adds a confirmation from a hotel rep: "We are taking reservations, although we have not announced an opening date yet."
For a little backstory on the anticipation over this hotel, note that in December 2006 the New York Times called it the "most hyped hotel in the country." That was a mere month after it landed on About.com's list of Top 10 New Best Hotels for Romance for 2006.
January 8, 2008 7:50 AM Comments (0)
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