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Bar, music returns to Top of Rock for February nights
Although the Rainbow Room remains closed, Rockefeller Center is bringing back high-in-the-sky cocktails - at least on four nights in February.
The observation deck at Top of the Rock will bring in live music and a bar on three Wednesdays — Feb. 10, 17, 24 - plus on the evening of Valentine’s Day, for its Starlight Music Series.
The bar will be open from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Wednesdays, and from 6 to 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 14. Although Top of the Rock has several outdoor observation decks, the bar and music will be indoors in the weather room (which has tall windows and great views.)
The music schedule:
Feb. 10 - Beledo Jazz Trio
Feb. 14 - The Joan Capra String Ensemble
Feb. 17 - Paul Meyers Jazz Duo
Feb. 24 - The Mark Berman Jazz Trio
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February 2, 2010 1:29 PM Comments (1)
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Geek drinks: Valentine's 101 at Hayden Planetarium
 The American Museum of Natural History on Wednesday will bring the birds and the bees to its monthly geek drinks cocktail event.
The theme for February’s after-hours SciCafe event is “Valentine’s Day 101: Why Humans Have Sex.” Evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss will be on hand to discuss why sex is used for more than just reproduction and pleasure.
The free event is held in the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space. There’s a cash bar and entry is over-21 only. Doors open at 7 p.m.
SciCafe started in October and is held the first Wednesday of each month.
February 1, 2010 11:23 AM Comments (0)
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Andaz Wall Street opens with rooms from $220
The Andaz Wall Street officially opens for business today, offering boutique-style rooms from $220 as well as a Hudson Valley-sourced restaurant, a bar that emphasizes Pullman-style mixed-at-your-table cocktails and a spa that will let you order services in quick 15-minute increments for $35.
 Without reeking of dollar signs, the David Rockwell-designed hotel evokes the neighborhood’s monied history in subtle ways: multi-sized bamboo panels in the lobby match the old lock boxes of Wall Street; arching woodcuts in the ceiling evoke watermark details from the dollar bill; and lamps in the restaurant resemble clusters of pearls (a la neighboring Pearl Street, originally named for the abundance of oyster shells left by Lenape Indians, according to “Naming New York”.)
The second-floor restaurant, Wall & Water, opens under the helm of Maximo Lopez who comes from the Park Hyatt Buenos Aires. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, the menu follows a “farm to table” concept drawing from relationships with Hudson Valley growers.
Bar Seven Five opens weekdays at 4 p.m. (when the market closes) and emphasizes Prohibition-style cocktails served in an open atmosphere meant to evoke a fancy living room rather than a bar.
The hotel rooms reach as high as the 17th floor (with condos on the upper floors.) As the hotel emerges from its soft opening, just over 50 rooms are open. All 253 rooms should be open soon, hotel spokeswoman Rachel Harrison told NewYorkology during a tour of the property last week.
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January 25, 2010 2:33 PM Comments (0)
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MoMA adds Thursday late hours with DJs, cocktails
 The Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday announced a new schedule of MoMA Nights when it will keep the lights on late, set up a bar with a speciality cocktail, serve prix fixe dinner and lead gallery tours.
The museum will stay open until 8:45 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month through June, compared with 5:30 p.m. on regular Thursdays. In July and August, the museum will stay open late every Thursday night, according to MoMA’s website.
The first event, Jan. 7, will feature DJ AJ Slim spinning house, rare soul, afrobeat, and funk in The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium. The At documentary “My Neighbor, My Killer” will screen at 8 p.m.
It’s not a free night; the regular $20 admission is required. (MoMA free admission hours, sponsored by Target, remain Fridays from 4 to 8 p.m. See the list of other NYC museums with free hours.)
Many other NYC museums stay open late on select days each week. Thursdays already offer a wide selection, including the New Museum, Museum of Chinese in America and the Museum of Arts & Design, which are all open until 9 p.m. with either free or pay-what-you-wish admission.
MoMA also offers private after-hours tours.
Image source: From the Gabriel Orozco exhibition at MoMA through March 1.
Gabriel Orozco. (Mexican, born 1962) Mobile Matrix. (Detail.) 2006 Graphite on gray whale skeleton 6’ 5 3/16” x 35’ 8 ¾” x 8’ 8 ¾” (196 × 1089 × 266 cm) Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City ©2009 Gabriel Orozco.
Earlier: ‘Speakeasy’ to open on Museum of City of NY terrace
MoMA stays open late on Thursdays through August
December 17, 2009 8:42 AM Comments (0)
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Lincoln Center to open its own discount ticket booth
 Starting Jan. 7, Lincoln Center’s new ticketing booth will start selling day-of discount tickets — for the likes of the Metropolitan Opera to the New York City Ballet — kicking off with $20 Tickets for 20 Days.
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, which Crain’s has already dubbed the TKTS for Lincoln Center, will officially open to the public Dec. 17 on Broadway between 62nd and 63rd streets. The atrium will have free wi-fi, restrooms, free performances every Thursday as well as a new ‘wichcraft location, which New York magazine notes will come stocked with a full bar.
As for the tickets, after the initial 20 days, the discounts will range from 25 percent to 50 percent off regular prices. Tickets will go on sale at noon every day and will be sold two per person. The Box Office will be closed on Mondays, so those tickets will be sold on Sundays. Inventory will change daily based on availability, and availability cannot be guaranteed, according to the Lincoln Center news release announcing the deal.
The atrium itself will be open 365 days a year, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays, and 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends. Lincoln Center tours will also begin at the new atrium.
Image source: Lincoln Center.
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December 14, 2009 2:33 PM Comments (0)
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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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