Official links for New York's pro sports teams

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 - Shea Stadium, Queens

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

National Basketball Assoc.
Knicks - Madison Square Garden
Nets - Meadowlands, N.J.

Women's National Basketball Assoc.
Liberty - Madison Square Garden

National Football League
Giants -Giants Stadium, N.J.
Jets - Giants Stadium, N.J.

Arena Football League
Dragons - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, N.J.

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

National Lacrosse League
Titans - Madison Square Garden

Major League Soccer
Red Bulls - Giants Stadium, N.J.

Women’s Professional Soccer (launching 2009)
Sky Blue - “soon-to-be announced stadium in New Jersey”

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

(Updated March 2008)

Angelika
Anthology Film Archives
BAM Rose Cinemas
Brooklyn Center Cinema
Brooklyn Museum
Cinema Village
Czech Center
Emerging Cinemas at Theatre Row
Film Forum
IFC Center
IMAX – AMC Loews Lincoln Center
IMAX – American Museum of Natural History
ImaginAsian
Irish Arts Center
Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater
MoMA film screenings
Museum of the Moving Image screenings
Paris Theatre
Quad Cinema
Scandinavia House
Sunshine Cinema
Symphony Space
Tribeca Cinemas
Two Boots Pioneer Theater

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New York City tours and tour guides (official links)

(Updated April 2008)

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
ARTalks
Open House New York
New York Transit Museum
Justin Ferate
Francis Morrone
Forgotten New York
Joyce Gold
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
South Street Seaport Museum
Brooklyn Historical Society
Plymouth Church
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Tribute Center – Ground Zero

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

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

General/multiple topics
Big Onion Walking Tours
Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
92nd Street Y
NY Like a Native
Walkin’ NY
Gray Line
City Sights NY
NY Party Shuttle Tours
Walkin’ NY
A1 NYC Sightseeing

Specialized
Ghosts of NY
PhotoTrek Tours
Captain Bob's Coney Island
NYC Cop Tours
East Village Walking Tours
Jewish Tours of New York
Hassidic walking tours
Museum of the Chinese in Americas
Audubon Society
"Wildman" Steve Brill
Algonquin Round Table Walking Tours
Shop N Strip lingerie tour
Surveillance Camera Outdoor Walking Tours
A Tour Grows in Brooklyn

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Links to the official websites for all Broadway shows

(Updated April 2008)

39 Steps
August: Osage County
Avenue Q
Boeing Boeing
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A Catered Affair
Chicago
A Chorus Line
Country Girl
Cry-Baby
Curtains
Glory Days
Grease
Gypsy
Hairspray
In the Heights
Jersey Boys
Legally Blonde
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
Macbeth
Mamma Mia!
Mary Poppins
November
Passing Strange
Phantom of the Opera
Rent
South Pacific
Spamalot!
Spring Awakening
Sunday in the Park with George
Thurgood
Top Girls
Wicked
Xanadu
Young Frankenstein

Official site links for upcoming shows scheduled (or rumored) for any of Broadway's 39 theaters, when available, after the jump.

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New York City hotels - direct links to NYC hotels

(Updated March 2008)

Here's a list of the official links to New York City hotels, listed alphabetically and by borough. (And as you may guess, it's not comprehensive.)

6 Columbus
60 Thompson Hotel
70 Park Avenue
Hotel 373 Fifth Avenue
Abingdon Guest House
Affinia 50 on E. 50th Street
Affinia Dumont
AKA Central Park
The Alex
Algonquin
Ameritania
The Avalon
Beacon
Hotel Bedford
Beekman Tower Hotel
The Benjamin
Bentley 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
Bryant Park Hotel
Buckingham Hotel

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

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20 essential New York blogs

Adding a new category to the New York links page:

There are thousands of bloggers writing about New York City every day; these are some of the most vital. For an extremely comprehensive list, try the NYC Blog Map, which has more than 6,000 organized by subway stop.

Gothamist
Curbed
Flavorpill
Forgotten NY
Brooklyn Record
Gawker
Overheard in New York
Eater
The Food Section
Waiter Rant
The Morning News
Free NYC (free events)
What I See (pictures)
Express Train (subway pictures)
Brooklyn Vegan (music)
Towleroad (gay)
New York Hack (a taxi driver’s blog)
Gridskipper – New York
CityRag
Apartment Therapy

(Editors note for purists: True, they’re not all technically blogs, but it made more sense to leave the exceptions in rather than out.)

Update: And since there are other non-blogs on the list, Manhattan User's Guide should have made the list as well.

June 25, 2006 08:08 PM Comments (1)

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Links to New York auction houses

(Updated November 2007)

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

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New York City museums (official web sites)

(Updated April 2008)

African Burial Ground Memorial Site
American Folk Art Museum
American Museum of Natural History
American Numismatic Society
Asia Society
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn Museum
Bronx Museum
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
China Institute
Coney Island Museum
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Czech Center
Drawing Center
El Museo del Barrio
Eldridge Street Project
Ellis Island

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Online shopping guide to New York City goods

Preparing for the crush of holiday shopping, here are some links to some of New York's most iconic and interesting online options:

Strand Books
Pearl River Mart
Tiffany & Co.
Manhattan Portage
Flight001
Footlight Records
Elsewares.com
Refinery 29
Kiehl’s
Bliss
CB I Hate Perfume
C.O. Bigelow Chemists
Caswell-Massey
Kate’s Paperie
Barneys New York
Bloomingdale’s
Bergdorf Goodman
The New Yorker store
Kate Spade
Neighborhoodies

Food and drink

Junior’s Cheesecake
H&H Bagels
Irving Farm Coffee
2nd Avenue Deli
Veniero’s
Russ & Daughters
Citarella
Zabar’s
Vintage New York
Kalustyan’s
Li-Lac Chocolates
Murray’s Cheese
Sarabeth’s Kitchen
Rao’s
Guss’ Pickles
Fat Witch Brownies
MarieBelle
Dean & Deluca
Jacques Torres
Teany Cafe
Hamptons Honey
Eileen’s Special Cheesecake
Baked bakery
One Girl Cookies
New York Pizza
Little Pie Company
Happy Happy Happy

City stuff

NYC.gov’s CityStore
1940s tax photographs of every building in NYC
Coney Island USA

Home

Broadway Panhadler
Bridge Kitchenware
Mxyplyzyk

Kids

FAO Schwarz
Abracadabra
RockStar Baby
Robot Village

Museums, galleries and gardens

Museum of Modern Art
Met Museum of Art
New York Public Library
New York Transit Museum
New-York Historical Society
Guggenheim Museum
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Museum of the Chinese in the Americas
Jewish Museum
Neue Galerie for German and Austrian Art
Museum of Sex
Whitney Museum of American Art
Museum of the Moving Image
International Center of Photography
Asia Society
Frick Collection
Wave Hill
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx Historical Society
Central Park Conservancy
Intrepid Museum
Lincoln Center
Queens Museum of Art
Studio Museum in Harlem
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Biblical Art
The Morgan Library
The Drawing Center

Hotels

Waldorf-Astoria
W Hotels
Ritz-Carlton
The Benjamin

Related: Manhattan User's Guide 2005 shopping list Part I and Part II.

More gift guides:

A Daily Dose of Architecture
Eater gifts guides: Part I, Part II
A Williamsburg holiday shopping guide
A Park Slope holiday gift guide
Gadling’s guide to travel gift guides
Apartment Therapy gifts for wine drinkers and knife lovers
The Food Section guide to holiday gifts
Slavs of New York shopping suggestions

For discount codes on numerous web sites:
DealHunting.com
CurrentCodes
CouponCraze.com
StyleforFree.com
Epinions.com

November 21, 2005 08:48 AM Comments (0)

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