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Geek drinks at American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History tonight will kick off a new monthly cocktail party series called SciCafe, which promises music, drinks, and thought-provoking conversation.
Tonight’s theme is Exoplanets and the Search for Life in the Universe, featuring special guest astrophysicist Ben Oppenheimer.
The party starts at 7 p.m. in the museum’s Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth. It’s a cash bar, but admission is free. 21 and over only.
SciCafe will return the first Wednesday of every month.
October 7, 2009 11:40 AM Comments (0)
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Michelin adds Daniel to list of best NYC restaurants
The New York City 2010 Michelin Guide hits the shelves today, proclaiming Daniel, Jean Georges, Le Bernardin, Masa and Per Se the best restaurants in NYC.
One notch below, each with two stars: Alto, Corton, Gilt, Gordon Ramsay at The London, Momofuku Ko and Picholine. Forty-four other restaurants get one star.
The additional Bib Gourmand list (“Inspectors’ Favorites for Good Value,”) is available online.
The Michelin guide, now in its fifth year covering New York City, for this edition adds a symbol to denote restaurants with worthy cocktails or sake, expands its under-$25 listings, beefs up its Brooklyn and Queens coverage and adds a “small plates” classification.
October 6, 2009 2:52 PM Comments (0)
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Magna Carta at Fraunces Tavern Museum until Dec. 15
One of the four surviving original copies of the Magna Carta on Tuesday went on public display at the Fraunces Tavern Museum. Most likely it’s also the only copy reached via an elevator at the end of a bar.
The document, written in Latin, was forced upon King John of England in 1215 and is considered on of the foundations of modern democracy as it limited the power of the monarchy, giving some rights to the people.
The document is on loan from the Lincoln Cathedral in England, which obtained its copy of the Magna Carta on June 28, 1215. Fraunces Tavern spent $1.2 million to bring it to New York, museum president Charles C. Lucas said during a media preview on Tuesday.
The “Magna Carta and the Foundations of Freedom” will be on display through Dec. 15 along with a copy of the Declaration of Independence and other documents.
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September 16, 2009 10:07 AM Comments (3)
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Flappers, live jazz for final summer speakeasy tonight
 The Jazz Age reaches its finale this evening — or at least it’s the end of summer speakeasy nights at the Museum of the City of New York.
The Moonlighters will play music of the 1920s and ‘30s. The museum has arranged for a few ringers on the dance floor — professional dancers in vintage clothes — as well as Charleston dance lesson at 6:10 p.m.
Kevin Fitzpatrick, author of “A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York” and co-editor of “The Lost Algonquin Round Table,” will speak about the Jazz Age at 7 p.m.
Cocktails will be served on the museum’s front terrace. Vintage dress is optional.
Admission is $12, which gets you a free cocktail and entry into many of the museum galleries.
Picture credit: Dancers by Nadia Kitirath, provided to NewYorkology by The Museum of the City of New York.
August 26, 2009 3:24 PM Comments (1)
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Top of the Rock to pour wine for sunset concert series
The second-highest public perch in New York City — the observation decks of 30 Rock — will start serving wine and other refreshments at sunset in September for a new Starlight Music Series.
The Wednesday-night only series will mark the first-ever live music program for the Top of the Rock Observation Deck at Rockefeller Center, which reopened to the public in 2005.
Entrance to Top of the Rock is $20 for adults — rising to $21 as of Oct. 1. You can currently purchase time-specific tickets online in advance for $18. Access to the musical event is free with a Top of the Rock ticket, but drinks cost extra.
Wednesday drinks nights will run from Sept. 9 through Oct. 7 from 6 to 8 p.m.
The schedule:
Sept. 9 - Beledo, piano
Sept. 16 - The Joan Capra String Quartet
Sept. 23 - The Mark Berman Trio
Sept. 30 - Beledo, Spanish Guitar
Oct. 7 - Jeanne Koehler, harpist
Related: The Demise of Sky-High Dining (NY Observer)
Correction: This story originally said a regular adult entrance ticket is currently $18; that price is only available if you purchase online. The story has been changed to reflect the current $20 admission rate.
Picture credit: Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
August 19, 2009 1:15 PM Comments (1)
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'Speakeasy' to open on Museum of City of NY terrace
 The Met has its rooftop martini bar, and now another museum at Central Park plans to open a “speakeasy” on its terrace, complete with classic cocktails and “Roaring 20’s” dance music.
The Museum of the City of New York on July 15 will open The Speakeasy at 1220 Fifth. Admission — $10 for members, $12 for non-members — will include a free drink and access to current exhibitions. Bar food will be available for purchase.
The Wednesday-only club will operate from 6 to 9 p.m. and the whole joint will get busted up after August 26.
And because it’s a museum, the official announcement of the club’s opening features a gallery-quality historical factoid:Prohibition, which lasted from 1919 to 1933, gave rise to drinking establishments that were illegal and for the most part secret. Under Mayor Jimmy “Beau James” Walker (1926–1932), New York’s speakeasy count grew to some 32,000 establishments.
Plenty of other New York museums are in on the cocktail game to lure more visitors. Also along Central Park, Cocktails@Cooper-Hewitt begin this Friday in the Arthur Ross Terrace of the design museum operated by the Smithsonian. The jazz trio Ed Fuqua Group will play each party, held Fridays from 6 to 9 p.m. through Aug. 14.
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July 8, 2009 8:03 AM Comments (0)
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Zagat '09 bar guide says NYC drinking less, cheaper
 Call it the trickle down theory of Wall Street’s hangover.
The Zagat 2009/10 New York City Nightlife guide hits shelves today, along with the rather expected news that people are going out less frequently, and when they do, they’re ordering less and staying on the cheaper side. A mere 16 percent of the 6,000-plus “local nighthawks” surveyed by Zagat said the weakening economy “hasn’t affected my nightlife habits.”
The survey pegs the Lower East Side, Meatpacking District and East Village as the city’s hottest nightlife neighborhoods. Yet the Meatpacking District, LES and Chelsea are also dinged as the most over-hyped nabes. the typical survey respondent drinks wine on the weekdays, mixed drinks on the weekends, ever-so-slightly prefers a DJ to live music and 44 percent of them “expect the best bars, clubs and lounges in NYC to have their own signature drinks.”
Among the trends spotted in the new guide is the favor for the underground (instead of the rooftops of ‘08.) “Underground” includes basement bars such as BEast, Chloe, Macao Trading Co., RDV, 675 Bar and Southside, as well as “secret bars” such as Cabin Down Below and Bleecker Heights Tavern.
The new guide rates 1,315 nightspots and is also available at ZAGAT.com and with ZAGAT TO GO™, Zagat’s mobile application for iPhone, BlackBerry and handhelds.
June 17, 2009 4:06 PM Comments (0)
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Eye candy: South Street Seaport Water Taxi Beach
The South Street Seaport Water Taxi Beach is indeed open for business at Pier 17 this summer.
More than 5,100 golf balls have been hit at the 9-hole mini golf course since the course opened on May 23, “and so far and NONE have ended up in the drink,” a spokeswoman for Harbor Experience Companies, which operates the beach.
Access to the beach itself is free during the days, though cover charges sometimes kick in at night if there’s live entertainment. In addition to the mini-golf, there is food and drink (including Brooklyn’s Sixpoint Ale on tap,) skeeball and ping-pong tables. (And if you enter by the old fish market, you’ll miss most of the touristy mess near the main entrance to the mall.)
The original Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City is also open for the season and the new Governors Island location is on track to open for the July 4th weekend.
Picture credit: Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
Earlier: Water Taxi Beach approved for South Street SeaportNew Water Taxi Beach location: Governors Island
June 11, 2009 3:18 PM Comments (0)
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Do-it-yourself Obama date night: $515 + helicopter
 The First Couple’s trip to New York City this past Saturday for a “private” date night can be re-created for about $515, based on reports of where the Obamas wined, dined and saw a show.
If you want to arrive in Manhattan the way they did, you can take a helicopter from JFK Airport to the Downtown Heliport near Wall Street on US Helicopter. The price is $159 per-person one-way.
The Obamas dined at Blue Hill at 72 Washington Place. President Obama reportedly ordered the “Farmer’s Feast,” five-course tasting menu inspired by the week’s harvest. The price is usually $72, but the cost varies depending on the week’s ingredients.
He reportedly ordered the wine-pairing, but since that price varies as well, for comparison, use the price for a bottle of wine that another source said they ordered. The Hirsch Vineyard & Blue Hill, A Special Release 2007; Pinot Noir; Sonoma Coast, California is priced at $88 on the restaurant’s wine list.
If you want something akin to presidential-motorcade on standby, try a car service to cover the trip from the heliport to Greenwich Village for dinner and then to Times Square for your Broadway show. A two-hour luxury-class car booking is about $90.
Orchestra-level tickets to the Tony-nominated Lincoln Center production of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” on Broadway are $96.50 each.
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June 1, 2009 11:43 AM Comments (1)
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Meatpacking District Design Week features freebies
 The Meatpacking District Design Week will be in full force this weekend, with free tours, panel discussions, cocktail parties and gallery exhibitions on display in the rapidly changing neighborhood.
Among the sights to see, the Diane von Furstenberg store will be showing the Renzo Piano Building Workshop-designed model for the planned Whitney Museum of American Art on Gansevoort Street.
Design Week headquarters is at the new Standard Hotel, where you can pick up an event guide from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Sunday.
Related: Forgotten NY’s profile of the Meatpacking District
May 15, 2009 10:48 AM Comments (0)
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