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Museums, zoos, ice rinks, clubs open Thanksgiving Day
In case you find yourself in New York City on Nov. 26, 2009 looking for something to do besides share a bird with your beloved family members, here are some places that will be open on Thanksgiving Day in NYC:
The Macy’s 83nd Thanksgiving Day Parade will begin at 9 a.m. at 77th Street and Central Park West. The new route this year starts out the same, traveling south down Central Park West to Columbus Circle. But this year it will skip Broadway,and instead turn onto Central Park South and then south on 7th Avenue. Once it reaches, 42nd Street, the parade will head east until it reaches Bryant Park at 6th Avenue. The parade will continue south on 6th (Avenue of the Americas) until it reaches 34th Street, where it will turn towards Macy’s at herald Square.
Restaurants open Thanksgiving Day
Radio City Christmas Spectacular - performances at 2, 5 and 8 p.m.
Cirque du Soleil’s “Wintuk” at Madison Square Garden - performances at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Broadway Thanksgiving Week schedule includes Thanksgiving Day performances of “Hamlet” at 7:30 p.m. as well as “Chicago,” “Oleanna,” “Phantom of the Opera” “West Side Story” and “White Christmas” at 8 p.m.
Big Apple Circus - 2 p.m. performance
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island - 9 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. (Although tickets to the statue’s crown are sold out through 2009, you can still reserve free pedestal/museum access with your ferry tickets.)
Empire State Building open from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. (Last elevator goes up at 1:15 a.m.)
Rockefeller Center’s Top of the Rock open from 8 a.m. to midnight (Last elevator goes up at 11 p.m.)
Socrates Sculpture Park - 10 a.m. to sunset
Discovery’s Times Square Exhibition featuring “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” and “DaVinci’s Workshop” from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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November 9, 2009 10:56 PM Comments (0)
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Yankee Stadium tours resume after World Series win
 Tours of the new Yankee Stadium resumed today, after a short hiatus for a little post-season play that resulted in the 27th World Series win for the Bronx Bombers.
The $20, 45-minute Classic Tour includes visits to the dugout, Monument Park, the New York Yankees Museum, and sometimes - the clubhouse.
The tours are offered several times a day through mid-March.
Image source: New York Yankees official website.
Earlier: Yankee Stadium behind-the-scenes tours begin today
November 8, 2009 8:56 PM Comments (0)
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Yankees 2009 ticker-tape parade pictures and video
 A massive crowd gathered in Lower Manhattan on Friday morning to celebrate the New York Yankees’ 27th World Series win.
How big was the crowd?
Probably somewhere between “hundreds of thousands” (New York Times) to 1.5 million (Major League Baseball.)
If you missed it, see NY1’s 97-minute parade video online.
Panoramas.dk sent photographer Jook Leung into the canyon to produce a couple Yankees Parade 360-panoramas. (Inset, upper right)
And thanks to @internetweek on Twitter, which pointed eyeballs to MDF’s “Most New York photo from parade.”
More parade pictures:
@nycmayorsoffice’s used Twitpics for the City Hall ceremony.
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November 7, 2009 7:22 AM Comments (0)
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Yankees to parade up Canyon of Heroes 11 a.m. Friday
 A parade honoring the World Champion Yankees will begin at 11 a.m. on Friday and head north up the Canyon of Heroes, according to a taped message on 311, the city’s official information service.
The parade will be followed by a ceremony at City Hall Plaza.
Update: An early-morning press release from the mayor’s office offered a few more details abut Friday’s ticker-tape parade.
The parade will begin on Broadway at Battery Place at 11 a.m. and continue northbound up Broadway toward Chambers Street. The parade will be followed by a ceremony at City Hall Plaza, at which Mayor Bloomberg will present the Yankees with Keys to the City.
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November 5, 2009 12:52 AM Comments (0)
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ING 2009 New York Marathon pictures and video
40,000 people from 105 countries participated in the 2009 ING New York City Marathon today, the 40th time the race has been run here. Meb Keflizghi finished the route with a time of 2:09:15, becoming the first American man to win the race since 1982. Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia, clocked in at 2:28:52, taking first place for the women.
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November 1, 2009 12:28 PM Comments (2)
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World Series game day: Times Square rally, free food
 Tonight at 7:57p.m., the New York Yankees host the Philadelphia Phillies for Game 1 of the 2009 World Series. Here’s the feed from the hype machine:
Times Square today at 12:30 p.m. will host a Yankees Pep Rally. The event will take place on Broadway between 44th and 45th streets. Be there or watch via the Times Square webcams.
The Empire State Building tonight and Thursday will light up blue and white for the Yankees.
There will be free Yankees cupcakes today courtesy of Crumbs and the Cupcake Stop Truck.
Free cheesesteak sandwiches — courtesy of the Greater Philadelphia Marketing and Tourism Commission — today at Shorty’s on Ninth Avenue from 4 p.m. until game time at 7:57 p.m.
First Lady Michelle Obama and the vice president’s wife, Jill Biden, will attend tonight’s game, NY1 reports.
FishBowlNY has pictures of the morning’s front pages, featuring plenty of trash talk.
Ticket brokers say resale prices for World Series tickets are going lower, the Associated Press reports.
Image source: MLB’s official The Emblem Source 2009 World Series Fall Classic Official Patch.
October 28, 2009 10:03 AM Comments (0)
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NYC ice skating rinks reopening for cold season
 You’re already bundled up, now lace up. The ice rinks are opening.
Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park opened for the season today, while The Rink at Rockefeller Center, Abe Stark Rink at Coney Island and the Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink in Clove Lakes Park opened earlier this month.
Opening dates for the city’s other seasonal ice rinks:
Trump Lasker Rink on the north end of Central Park - Oct. 24
Prospect Park’s Wollman Rink - Nov. 26
The Pond at Bryant Park - Nov. 6.
Riverbank State Park - mid-November (Skate office: 212-694-3642)
Year-round indoor ice skating is available at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan, Aviator Sports in Brooklyn and the World Ice Arena at Flushing Meadows, Queens.
Two of last season’s new outdoor rinks will not be returning for 2009-10. Neither Seaport Ice at the South Street Seaport nor the faux-ice Polar Rink at the American Museum of Natural History will reopen, officials said.
Update: One more , thanks to the reminder from the Mommy Poppins blog: City Ice Pavilion in Long Island City.
Picture credit: Rockefeller Center by Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
October 20, 2009 12:46 PM Comments (0)
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New York gets an F-15 flyover for finals of U.S. Open
Without too much advance notice, New York City got a military flyover this afternoon.
The Notify NYC alert stated: F-15 Flyover, US Open
from Notify NYC
Notification 1 issued 9/14/09 at 3:15PM. Today at 4pm, U.S. military planes may be performing a flyover in conjunction with the start of the finals for the US OPEN in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. You may see low flying aircraft in the area.
(Thanks to NYCAviation — via @NYCAviation on Twitter — for the early warning.)
Picture credit: Taken from the NY Water Taxi. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
September 14, 2009 5:04 PM Comments (0)
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NY400 delivers free orange bike rentals for downtown
As part of this week’s NY400 events, the Dutch have delivered a set of bright orange bikes that can be borrowed for free through Saturday evening.
The bikes can be picked up at the temporary New Amsterdam Village at Bowling Green Park (located just in front of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House.)
The bikes are available up to four hours on a first-come, first-served basis from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., with the last bikes rented at 5:30 p.m., according to the hand-written signs on site. (Printed material for NY400 Week incorrectly says the rentals will run until 7 p.m.) The bikes come in both adult and child size. (The child bikes are pictured above.)
In addition to the NY400 program, there are other free bike programs in the city. Governors Island offers free bikes every Friday through Oct. 9. The Downtown Alliance also offers free bike rentals daily through Sept. 30.
NY400 celebrates the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival in what would become New York City.
Picture credit: Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
Earlier: Mini-restaurant week for NY400: Taste New Amsterdam
September 9, 2009 3:24 PM Comments (0)
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Free Water Taxi rides to US Open from E. 35th Street
 Sorry 7 train, but match point goes to the Powerade Zero ferry, which will be providing free rides to the U.S. Open next week.
Reservations are required for the ferries, which will run from Aug. 31 through Sept. 6. A New York Water Taxi — wrapped with a Venus Williams Powerade ad — will depart Manhattan from the East 35th Street Marina and land at the World’s Fair Marina with a bus connection directly to the tennis gates.
The ferry will make multiple trips each day, with the first Manhattan departure at 9:30 a.m. and the final World’s Fair Marina departure at 11:45 p.m., a NY Water Taxi spokesperson told NewYorkology today.
Reservations: (212) 742-1969 ext. 0.
Non-ferry directions to the US Open.
Earlier: Serena, Venus to play ‘center court’ at Bryant Park
August 26, 2009 2:14 PM Comments (2)
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