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

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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 November 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
Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
MoMA film screenings
Museum of the Moving Image screenings
Paris Theatre
Quad Cinema
Scandinavia House
Sunshine Cinema
Symphony Space
Tribeca Cinemas

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New York City tours and tour guides (official links)

(Updated August 2009)

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
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

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
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
NY Party Shuttle Tours
Levys’ Unique NY
Walkin’ NY
A1 NYC Sightseeing
All City NY
Gotham Walking Tours
Uncle Sam's NY
Inside Out Tours

Specialized
Ghosts of NY
PhotoTrek Tours
Photo Walk-abouts
Captain Bob's Coney Island
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 November 2009)

39 Steps
After Miss Julie
Billy Elliot
Burn the Floor - Ballroom Dance Concert
Bye Bye Birdie
Chicago
Fela!
Finian's Rainbow
God of Carnage
Hair
Hamlet
In the Heights
In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
Jersey Boys
The Lion King
Mamma Mia!
Mary Poppins
Memphis
Next to Normal
Oleanna
Phantom of the Opera
Ragtime
Rock of Ages
The Royal Family
Shrek
South Pacific
A Steady Rain
Superior Donuts
West Side Story
Wicked
Wishful Drinking

Official site links for upcoming shows promised (or hoped) for any of Broadway's 40 theaters when available, after the jump.

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New York City hotels - direct links to NYC hotels

(Updated July 2009)

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

6 Columbus
60 Thompson Hotel
70 Park Avenue
Hotel 373 Fifth Avenue
Abingdon Guest House
Ace Hotel
Affinia 50 on E. 50th Street
Affinia Dumont
AKA Central Park
AKA Sutton Place
AKA Times Square
AKA United Nations
The Alex
Algonquin
Ameritania
The Avalon
Beacon
Hotel Bedford
Beekman Tower 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
Bryant Park Hotel
Buckingham Hotel

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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

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New York City museums (official web sites)

(Updated September 2009)

African Burial Ground Memorial Site
American Folk Art Museum
American Museum of Natural History
American Numismatic Society
Asia Society
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Brooklyn Children’s 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
Discovery Times Square Exposition
Drawing Center
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

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