Free Walking Tours New York City | NYC By Foot Welcome to Free Tours by Foot, New York City’s only name-your-own-price walking tour company. These interesting and informative tours will take you through many of the city’s most famous neighborhoods. Part New York food tours, part New York sightseeing tours, they’re one of the best free things to do in NYC. We also offer free bike and bus tours. We provide a platform for licensed, local, freelance tour guides to lead tours at no upfront costs, so that you may enjoy an interesting sightseeing tour for whatever price you like, even free. We also offer our guiding services for private groups where we can take you pretty much anywhere you want to go in the city. We offer: Private tours Food tours Student tours Guide service
The Skyscraper Museum The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device. Located in New York City, the world's first and foremost vertical metropolis, The Skyscraper Museum celebrates the City's rich architectural heritage and examines the historical forces and individuals that have shaped its successive skylines. The Skyscraper Museum is located in lower Manhattan's Battery Park City at 39 Battery Place. General admission is $5, $2.50 for students and seniors. Call 212.968.1961 for information on upcoming lectures, exhibitions, walking tours, and membership. SKY HIGH & the logic of luxury Open through May 11, 2014. April 29, 2014 6:30PM-8PM James Sanders Book Talk William W.
Looking, Moving, Gathering: Functions of the High Line New York's beloved High Line is a machine for generating three types of urban social activity: looking, moving, and gathering. The June 7 inauguration of the second section of the elevated park, designed by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, has doubled the length of the park to one full mile (1.6 km). Cutting an elevated, verdant path through West Chelsea, the High Line now offers doubly abundant opportunities for looking (at the city, at each other, at oneself), moving (aimlessly or purposefully), and gathering (with friends, with strangers, with one's thoughts). Separated by a chicken-wire fence until this week, the first and second sections of the elevated park now blur seamlessly.
Lincoln Ristorante - Jonathan Benno - Italian cuisine - restaurants Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City By Associated Press Published: 13:31 GMT, 24 April 2012 | Updated: 19:55 GMT, 24 April 2012 Almost a million images of New York and its municipal operations have been made public for the first time on the internet. The city's Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database. Culled from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the 870,000 photographs feature all manner of city oversight -- from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings. Always moving: Workers dig in Delancy Street on New York's Lower East Side in this photo dated July 29, 1908. A bridge too far? Genesis of a icon: In this June 5, 1908 photo, the Manhattan Bridge is less than a shell, seen from Washington Street. The main concourse of Grand Central Terminal, in New York, is seen from the Campbell apartment in this 1937 photo. 'We all knew that we had fantastic photograph collections that no one would even guess that we had,' he said.
New York by Land, Air & Sea Our Guide to New York by Land, Air & Sea So much to see, but how to see it best? We’ve taken the pain out of that decision by offering up this fine platter of products designed to see the iconic New York City sights from every conceivable angle! Don’t miss a minute of the action and save ££’s into the bargain… Our New York by Land, Air & Sea includes: Land - Top of the RockAfter years of renovation the 70th Floor of the Rockefeller Centre has re-opened to rave reviews and unbeatable views. Air - Big Apple Helicopter flight (12-15 minutes)There’s nothing quite like a Helicopter flight to appreciate the landscape of one of the greatest cities on earth. Please note that a combined Security Fee/Passenger Service Charge of $35 is payable upon check-in for your Big Apple Helicopter Tour. Sea - 2-Hour Semi-Circle Sightseeing Cruise Experience the grandeur of New York on a 2-hour city highlights tour. Cruise Schedule (subject to change without notice):
Statue of Liberty — Statue of Liberty History Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was commissioned to design a sculpture with the year 1876 in mind for completion, to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence. The Statue was a joint effort between America and France and it was agreed upon that the American people were to build the pedestal, and the French people were responsible for the Statue and its assembly here in the United States. However, lack of funds was a problem on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile in France, Bartholdi required the assistance of an engineer to address structural issues associated with designing such a colossal copper sculpture. Financing for the pedestal was completed in August 1885, and pedestal construction was finished in April of 1886. The story of the Statue of Liberty and her island has been one of change. Text courtesy of the National Park Service
11 septembre 2011 à New-York: cérémonies du 10e anniversaire Un 10e anniversaire symbolique attend les Américains le 11 septembre prochain avec les cérémonies commémoratives prévues pour les 10 ans de l’attaque terroriste d’Al Qaida contre la nation la plus puissante du monde. Pour mémoire, 4 avions détournés par 19 terroristes membres de l’organisation islamiste s’étaient écrasés sur les tours du World Trade Center à New-York en ce jour tragique, sur le Pentagone, et en rase campagne en Pennsylvanie, faisant près de 3000 morts dont 343 pompiers et 60 policiers. Un traumatisme psychologique vécu par l’Amérique et par le monde entier en direct, avec l’effondrement en live des Twin Towers de Manhattan, deux heures après l’attaque. A l’occasion des cérémonies prévues à New-York le 11 septembre 2011 en présence de Barack Obama et de son épouse, le Mémorial et le musée de Ground Zero, situés à l’emplacement même des tours du World Trade Center, seront inaugurés. Le Mémorial et le Musée du 11 Septembre : un site dédié aux 2952 victimes
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Free Things to Do in NYC for the Holidays A surprising number of events are free and open to the public all year in New York. There are free musical performances, readings by authors, kids' events, art galleries and even free theater performances and movies. A little digging reveals a whole zero-cost world of excellent entertainment and culture beyond the big-ticket items like Broadway shows and pop-star performances. Some museums in New York are free all the time, including the American Numismatic Society, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Museum of American Folk Art and the National Museum of the American Indian. It's also possible to join a free tour of notable places in New York.
New York City Skateboarding School – Skateboarding Lessons in New York City |Uptown Skate School Beginners – Intermediate Volley Ball Courts Closest Subway: 6 Train 77th/Lexington Street OR B or C Train 72nd/Central Park West 74th street entrance to, follow road to Central Park’s Naumburg Bandshell. The courts are in between the bandshell and Sheep’s meadow. Naumburg Bandshell Closest Subway: 6 Train 77th/Lexington Street OR B or C Train 72nd/Central Park West Follow 72nd street Transverse (Terrace Drive). East Side Bridge – Glade Bridge Closest Subway: The 6 Train (Green) 77th/Lexington Street From the Train: Walk West (uphill) three blocks to 5th Avenue. Great Lawn Closest Subway: B or C Train 86th St/Central Park West From the Train: Walk to 85th St and CPW the instructor will meet you on the NE corner. LES Street Course Skatepark High Beginner – Advanced Location: (Lower East Side) Monroe & Pike St Closest Subway: F train to East Broadway Street course skatepark View Larger Map TriBeCa Skatepark (Pier 25) Intermediate – Advanced Location: (TriBeCa) N. Chelsea Piers Skate Park (Pier 62)
New York on a Budget - Visitor's Guide Day One: MidtownJust because you’re trying to save cash doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy one of Manhattan’s pricier hoods. 9 a.m.: People-watch with pastries. Next door to its red-carpeted cousin Cipriani 42nd Street, the basement-level Cipriani Le Specialità serves up delicious mini-pastries starting at $1 apiece. 10 a.m.: Get a piece of the Rock. Noon: Hear classical music on the cheap. 1 p.m.: Pick up some street grub. 1:30 p.m.: Picnic in Central Park. 4 p.m.: Dust off for high art. 8 p.m.: Attend the Carnegie Hall concert you bought tickets to earlier. 10 p.m.: Enjoy a repast after the performance. 11:30 p.m.: Double your drinking dollars.