Broadway review roundups for all 2009-2010 debuts

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May 4, 2010 7:02 AM Comments (0)

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NYC online shopping links - Artez'n to Shea to Zabar's

If you’re looking to simulate the New York shopping experience without the weather, the transportation or people, here’s the list of online NY shops you need. This year’s additions include the chance to buy pieces of Shea Stadium as it’s torn down, the sign from Barrymores and NYC manhole cover coasters.

The list:

Shea Stadium
Local Labels
Artez’n
NYC.gov’s CityStore
Strand Books
Pearl River Mart
Tiffany & Co.
Manhattan Portage
Flight001
Elsewares.com
Refinery 29
Kiehl’s
Bliss
CB I Hate Perfume
C.O. Bigelow Chemists
Caswell-Massey
Kate’s Paperie
FAO Schwarz
Abracadabra
Robot Village
Barneys New York
Bloomingdale’s
Bergdorf Goodman
The New Yorker store
Coney Island USA
“I Can’t Afford to (heart) NY” T-Shirts
Live Poultry’s Brooklyn Ts
Ciara Eland’s Queens Ts
Brooklyn Industries
Transportation Alternatives
Neighborhoodies
Juilliard Bookshop
Independent Booksellers of NYC

Food and drink

Junior’s Cheesecake
Irving Farm Coffee
Dylan’s Candy Bar
Veniero’s
Russ & Daughters
Citarella
Zabar’s
Fairway Market
Vintage New York wines
Kalustyan’s spices

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November 28, 2008 11:33 AM Comments (1)

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NYC's (mostly free) summer concerts and film series

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May 22, 2008 9:40 AM Comments (3)

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Official links for New York's pro sports teams

(Updated November 2011.)

These are the official links to the New York's pro sports teams -- plus the New York teams that play in New Jersey, the New Jersey teams that call themselves NY/NJ, and the semi-pro/farm teams that play in the region.

Major League Baseball
Yankees - Yankee Stadium, Bronx
Mets - Citi Field, Queens

Class-A farm teams of the New York-Pennsylvania Professional Baseball League
Brooklyn Cyclones - MCU Park, Coney Island
Staten Island Yankess - Richmond County Bank Ballpark at St. George, Staten Island

National Basketball Assoc.
Knicks - Madison Square Garden
Nets - Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. until 2012, then Brooklyn

Women's National Basketball Assoc.
Liberty - Prudential Center in Newark until 2013, then Madison Square Garden

National Football League
Giants - MetLife Stadium, in East Rutherford, N.J.
Jets - MetLife Stadium, in East Rutherford, N.J.

National Hockey League
Rangers - Madison Square Garden
Islanders - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, N.Y.
Devils - Prudential Center, Newark, N.J.

Major League Soccer
Red Bulls - Red Bull Arena, in Harrison, N.J.
In the works: New York Cosmos

Women’s Professional Soccer
Sky Blue - Yurcak Field, Rutgers University

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March 16, 2008 11:01 AM Comments (0)

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Official links for NYC's alt-cinema theaters and venues

(Updated March 2012)

Angelika
Anthology Film Archives
BAM Rose Cinemas
Beekman Theatre
Big Screen Plaza
Bronx Documentary Center
Brooklyn Center Cinema
Brooklyn Museum
Cinema Village
Czech Center
El Museo del Barrio
Emerging Cinemas locations
Film Forum
Film Society of Lincoln Center
French Institute films
IFC Center
IMAX at AMC Loews Lincoln Center
IMAX at the American Museum of Natural History
ImaginAsian
IndieScreen
Irish Arts Center
Japan Society
Light Industry
Korean Cultural Services
The Maysles Cinema
MoMA film screenings
Museum of the Moving Image screenings
Neue Galerie films
Nitehawk Cinema
Paris Theatre
Quad Cinema
reRun Gastropub Theater
Rubin Museum
Scandinavia House films
Sunshine Cinema
Symphony Space
Theatre 80
Tribeca Cinemas
UnionDocs
Whitney Museum

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January 19, 2008 12:52 PM

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New York City tours and tour guides (official links)

(Updated October 2011)

Here are some of the outfits offering walking, bus and bike tours of New York. Free stuff's at the end. (The subject grouping isn't an exact science, as some who focus on architecture, may also do food walks and whatnot.) See the New York calendar page for some of the upcoming tours, or go directly to the following sights for complete offerings:

Art/architecture/history
Municipal Art Society
MoMA’s before- and after-hours tours
Open House New York
New York Transit Museum
Justin Ferate
Jack Eichenbaum’s Public Walks
Forgotten New York
Joyce Gold
Afoot Walking Tours
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
South Street Seaport Museum
Brooklyn Historical Society
Plymouth Church
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Tribute Center - WTC perimeter
Urban Oyster
Gotham Sidewalks

Food and drink
Institute of Culinary Education
Nosh Walks
City Food Tours
Chocolate Zoom
Literary pub crawl
Brooklyn Brewery
Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour
Scott’s Pizza Tours
Enthusiastic Gourmet
Food on Foot Tours

Music, movies and TV
On Location Tours
NBC Studio Tour
"Wicked" - behind the Emerald Curtain
Hip-Hop Hush Tours
Harlem Hip-Hop Tours
Big Apple Jazz Tours
Harlem Spirituals
Apollo Theater
Rocks Off Rock n Roll History walking tours
Carnegie Hall
Met Opera
Lincoln Center
Radio City Music Hall

General/multiple topics
Big Onion Walking Tours
92nd Street Y
NY Like a Native
Gray Line
City Sights NY
OnBoard Tours (formerly NY Party Shuttle)
Levys’ Unique NY
Walkin’ NY
A1 NYC Sightseeing
All City NY
Gotham Walking Tours
Uncle Sam's NY
Mike’s NYC Tours
Inside Out Tours
SideTour


Specialized
Ghosts of NY
PhotoTrek Tours
Photo Walk-abouts
Jewish Tours of New York
Hassidic walking tours
Made in Brooklyn Tours
Mafia Tour
NYC Mob Tour
Museum of Chinese in America
Audubon Society
"Wildman" Steve Brill
Algonquin Round Table Walking Tours
Mark Twain’s New York
Surveillance Camera Outdoor Walking Tours
A Tour Grows in Brooklyn

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Links to the official websites for all Broadway shows

(Updated May 2012)

Anything Goes
Book of Mormon
Chicago
Clybourne Park
The Columnist
Death of a Salesman
Don’t Dress for Dinner
End of the Rainbow
Evita
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Ghost The Musical
Godspell
Gore Vidal’s The Best Man
Harvey
Jersey Boys
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Lion King
The Lyons
Mamma Mia!
Mary Poppins
Memphis
Newsies
Nice Work if You Can Get It
One Man, Two Guvnors
Once
Other Desert Cities
Peter and the Starcatcher
Phantom of the Opera
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical
Rock of Ages
Sister Act
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
A Streetcar Named Desire
Venus in Fur
War Horse
Wicked

Official site links for upcoming shows promised (or hoped) for any of Broadway's 40 theaters when available:

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November 8, 2006 4:23 PM Comments (0)

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New York City hotels - direct links to NYC hotels

(Updated January 2012)

Here's a list of the official links to many New York City hotels, listed alphabetically and by borough.

6 Columbus
Hotel 41
60 Thompson Hotel
70 Park Avenue
Hotel 373 Fifth Avenue
Abingdon Guest House
Ace Hotel
Affinia 50 on E. 50th Street
Affinia Dumont
Affinia Gardens
Affinia Manhattan
AKA Central Park
AKA Sutton Place
AKA Times Square
AKA United Nations
The Alex
Aloft Harlem
Hotel Americano
Ameritania
Amsterdam Court
Andaz Fifth Avenue
Andaz Wall Street
Beacon
Hotel Bedford
Beekman Tower Hotel
Belvedere Hotel
The Benjamin
Bentley Hotel
Best Western Bowery Hanbee Hotel
Best Western Convention Center on W. 38th
Best Western Hospitality House on E. 49th
Best Western President on W. 48th
Best Western Seaport Inn
Blue Moon Hotel
Bowery Hotel
The Bowery House
Bryant Park Hotel

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October 3, 2006 11:45 AM Comments (0)

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Links to New York auction houses

(Updated December 2008)

Christie’s
Sotheby’s
Swann Galleries
Doyle New York
Phillips de Pury & Company
Bonhams & Butterfields
Stack’s Rare Coins
Robert A. Siegel
Richmond Galleries

Related: How to bid and buy guides from Christie’s and Sotheby’s

February 28, 2006 10:50 AM Comments (0)

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New York City museums' official web sites

(Updated April 2012)

9/11 Memorial Preview Site
African Burial Ground Memorial Site & Visitors Center
American Folk Art Museum at Lincoln Square
American Museum of Natural History
American Numismatic Society
Asia Society
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at Building 92
Bronx Museum
Center for Book Arts
Children’s Museum of the Arts
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
China Institute
City Island Nautical Museum
Coney Island History Project
Coney Island Museum
Conference House Museum
Czech Center
Discovery Times Square Exposition
Drawing Center
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
El Museo del Barrio
Eldridge Street Project
Elevator History Museum
Ellis Island

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