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Oyster festivals set for September, October in NY
It looks like September 25 is going to be the big day for oysters in New York City for 2010. That’s the day for oyster festivals in Midtown at Grand Central Terminal and downtown on Stone Street.
The annual Oyster Frenzy at the Grand Central Oyster Bar, from noon to 6 p.m., will feature 16 varieties of oysters, a professional shucking championship, a slurp-off eating contest and chef demos. Admission and some samples will be free.
In Lower Manhattan, the Stone Street Oyster Festival will start at noon on the same day. It will feature live bands and lots of beer.
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August 31, 2010 1:01 PM Comments (0)
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$20 'Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson' Broadway tickets
 The box office for the rock musical “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” will open at 10 a.m. today, selling $20 tickets for the show’s first Broadway preview on Sept. 20.
That’s a Jackson for Jackson.
The historical musical, a Public Theater transfer, mixes fact with fiction to an emo rock soundtrack. Off-Broadway, critics loved it.
The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre is located at 242 W. 45th St., map. There’s a limit of two-per-person for the $20 tickets, which are good for the first preview only.
Regular tickets for the show will sell for $51.50 to $131.50. Premium seats are priced $171.50 to $251.50.
Opening night is scheduled for October 13. Tickets are on sale through Jan. 9.
“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” isn’t the only Broadway show with cheap seats to previews this season. $10 Broadway tickets are available to the first previews of “Brief Encounter” and “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.”
Image source: Public Theater’s Off-Broadway logo for “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”
August 23, 2010 7:13 AM Comments (0)
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OHNY 2010: free hard-hat tours of WTC1, new High Line
The 8th annual openhousenewyork weekend — set for Oct. 9 and 10 — this year will allow free access to more than 300 sites and programs, including hard-hat tours of 1 World Trade Center, the newest but unopened section of the High Line park, and the Louis Kahn-designed Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island.
 The old Atlantic Avenue Train Tunnel will open for free tours, along with a sludge boat, an MTA substation, Diane von Furstenberg’s studio, the lobby of the Chrysler Building, cheese caves, the artist studio of Tom Otterness, the Grand Lodge of the Masons and Richard Meier & Partners Model Museum.
New to the OHNY list will be access to the Upper East Side’s Islamic Cultural Center, which was designed by Skidmore Owings and Merrill in 1991 as the first mosque and religious center to be designed specifically for New York City.
“This year we will be touring places and opening doors to sites that span the history of New York – from Staten Island’s Conference House, the only pre-Revolution manor house still standing to contemporary public and private spaces including The Centurion, a midtown Manhattan residential building designed by Pei Partnership Architects with I.M. Pei,” Renee Schacht, executive director of OHNY, said in a statement announcing the preview list of participating sites.
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August 17, 2010 3:54 PM Comments (0)
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Yankees same-day discount booth opens at Times Square
The New York Yankees today will get their own TKTS-style same-day discount ticket booth in Times Square, Modell’s Sports announced.
The same-day ticket booth will sell seats for up to 50-percent off face value when available. Tickets will go on sale at 8 a.m. when there’s a day game, or at noon when, (like today,) it’s a night game at Yankee Stadium.
The booth will be located in the Modell’s Sporting Goods flagship store at 234 W. 42nd St., map.
Image source: NY Yankees official logo.
Earlier: Free Water Taxi rides to all Mets, Yankees home games
August 16, 2010 11:15 AM Comments (0)
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Free Early Show tickets for Usher and David Gray
Although the free summer concert season is slowly winding down, a number of morning shows still have a few on the schedule, including the free (but ticketed) CBS “The Early Show” gigs.
On Aug. 19, David Gray will play “The Early Show” at 10:30 a.m. Usher plays Aug. 20 at 11 a.m. Tickets are available through 1iota.
Both “Good Morning America” and “Today” each have three more Friday morning concerts scheduled. No tickets are required.
“Today” free concerts at Rockefeller Center.
Aug. 13 - Ke$ha
Aug. 20 - Daughtry
Aug. 27 - Katy Perry
GMA concerts in Central Park
Aug. 13 - Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato, Camp Rock 2
Aug. 20 - Rihanna Usher
August 27 - Lady Antebellum
Update as of Aug 17: Free tickets for the Usher concert are sold out, according to the 1iota ticketing. Update as of Aug. 20: Those CBS Usher tickets are once again available, according to 1iota. Also, Rihanna has disappeared from the “Good Morning America” schedule on Aug. 20 and has been replaced by Usher.
August 12, 2010 2:11 PM Comments (0)
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Best street food vendors to vie Sept. 25 for Vendy Award
On Sept. 25, some of New York City’s best street-cart food sellers will gather on Governors Island to determine the 2010 winner in the Vendy Awards.
The winner will be decided after a cook-off from noon to 5 p.m. on Sept. 25. Tickets, which include food, start at $85.
 The five finalists were announced earlier this week:
Bistro Truck - Yassir Z. Raouli
Moroccan-Mediterranean Bistro
5th Avenue between 16th and 17th streets, Manhattan
Monday-Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
El Rey de Sabor - “Rosa” Ofelia Cardoso and “Vilio” Viliulfo Cardoso
Puebla-style Mexican
49th and Park Avenue, Manhattan (additional locations: 60th and Third Ave, 43rd and 6th)
Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
King of Falafel and Shawarma - Fares “Freddy” Zeidaies
Middle Eastern
30th Street and Broadway, Astoria
Hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday
Patacon Pisao - Liliana Velasquez and Adolfo Gonzalez
Typical Venezuelan street food
413 W. 202nd St. between 9th and 10th avenues, Manhattan
7 p.m. to 6 a.m., 362 days a year (Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years)
Schnitzel & Things - Oleg Voss and Gene Voss
Austrian cuisine with a new American twist
Location varies
Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Related: Many NYC street-food vendors are on Twitter.
Earlier:
Brooklyn’s Country Boys named best street food vendor (2009)
Vendy Awards names best sweet street vendor finalists (2009)
Biryani Cart, Rickshaw Dumpling among Vendy finalists (2009)
Calexico named NYC’s best street food vendor for ‘08
Vendy Awards picks NYC’s four best dessert trucks (2008)
Best street vendor: Washington Sq. Park ‘Dosa Man’ (2007)
Sammy’s Halal crowned best street cart vendor (2006)
Bratwurst cart at 54th and 5th wins Vendy Award (2005)
August 12, 2010 10:42 AM Comments (0)
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Free Pop-Tarts until noon today at new Pop-Tarts World
 Pop-Tarts World officially opens on 42nd Street this morning and will be celebrating by giving away free Pop-Tarts until noon, a spokesperson for the store told NewYorkology today.
The shop, located at 128 W. 42nd St. between Broadway and 6th Avenue, map, will be open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
August 10, 2010 8:17 AM Comments (1)
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Summer Streets closes 6.9-mile stretch to cars for 3 days
Saturday Summer Streets begins today, with nearly 6.9 miles of streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park closing to traffic to make way for dumpster swimming pools, biking, jogging, street theater and other free events.
Expect to press the repeat button on Aug. 14 and 21.
The streets will open for the free-for-all from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The urban swimming pools — “clean, stylized Dumpster-style containers” donated by Macro-Sea — will be set up near the Grand Central Viaduct.
Resources: Architectural Highlights Along New York’s Summer Streets (Walking Off the Big Apple)
Weekend street closures list (NYC Dept of Transportation)
Map source: NYC DOT
Update: The schedule for Aug. 14 and 21 has been posted at the DOT.
August 7, 2010 4:15 AM Comments (0)
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Chariot arrives at King Tut Times Square exhibition
After months of delay, King Tut’s chariot today will finally make its U.S. debut in the Discovery Times Square Exposition Center.
The chariot, which has never before left Egypt, is intended to give extra media exposure to the exhibition, and thus boost ticket sales, Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said when the Tut exhibition first opened in Times Square in April.
The chariot is believed to have been used by the boy king, and historians recently have speculated that an accident may have caused an injury that led to the ruler’s early death. “Maybe it was possible that King Tut died while he was riding in this chariot,” Hawass said at the April opening.
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August 3, 2010 7:06 AM Comments (0)
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New multi-media tour bus The Ride coming to Midtown
 There are no more PartyBikes or the NYC Ducks tours in Midtown, but come fall it will see The Ride, “a multi-media, multi-discipline production that moves guests through midtown Manhattan on custom-built vehicles, while an ever-changing show featuring actors, performers, and everyday citizens unfolds on the streets before them,” according to the news release sent to NewYorkology.
The custom-built 45-foot-long vehicles will feature “audio, video, and wireless technology that together provide mind-boggling environments to enhance both the external vistas and the content of each performance,” according to the press release. “Powerful directional speakers and exterior lighting allows on-board performers to make everyone on the street part of the experience. “
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July 22, 2010 11:31 AM Comments (0)
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