Tag: New York City
You can tell that the people who designed the layout and exhibits at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum were inspired in part by a very well done monument to …
A friend of mine is heading out on her first trip to New York City, and she’s feeling quite overwhelmed by all of the different things to see and …
There is a place in New York City where you can dangle above the East River in an aerial tramway, enjoying spectacular views, then land in a quiet, park-like …
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is not a place that you can whiz through in a short time, even though I’m (somewhat embarrassed) to be the author …
It is a must-do in the Big Apple: visiting those New York icons the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. You can do it the easy way, though, or …
I should have known better than to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge this past Sunday, which was probably one of the best days of this New York City summer. …
If a bug lands on me, I’m just this side of hysterical at absolute best. I wrote that sentence last week in this space, and I thought of it …
I haven’t been to the Bronx Zoo in years — for no good reason, really, other than it has always seemed to me like something you do with kids, …
Construction workers were all set to place a spire atop One World Trade Center yesterday, which would have made it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. The spire, …
One of the nice things about using an iPhone is the Photo Stream. I take pics with my phone, and bam, without any further intervention from me, they’re in …
Paper Like Skin, an exhibit by the artist Zarina, is not the flashiest on view at the Guggeheim at the moment, but in a quiet way, it got at …
“There was an…incident…in the steam room.” So said the all black clad, very toned lady who works at my oh-so-fancy gym in Manhattan. She was stopping me from re-entering …