It’s enough to make you hungry. The Big Apple’s famous NYC Restaurant Week begins Monday, Jan. 25, and luckily for us, runs for two weeks, not one, through Sunday, Feb. 7. It’s a spectacular opportunity to have a three-course lunch in 266 of the city’s best restaurants for $24.07 or dinner for $35.00. Plus beverages and tips, of [...]
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There’s no reason to spend $150 or more for a champagne dinner in a fancy restaurant on New Year’s Eve when plenty of places are offering open bars and nibbles for $50 or less per person. Here are three affordable last minute suggestions from New York Magazine for partying your way into 2010: Bondi Road, Lower Manhattan, has a three [...] New York City’s most public monument to its role in slavery in the 1700s and 1800s is the African Burial Ground National Monument in Lower Manhattan, where some 15,000 men, women and children were buried. This is the place to honor them and celebrate Kwanzaa, the the weeklong holiday that begins on December 26 and commemorates African-American heritage and [...] Mini Manhattan by model maker Michael Chesko How long do you think it would take to make a wooden carving of Manhattan, in miniature? Ask Michael Chesko, a model maker who lives in Arizona, who has donated two remarkable wood models of lower Manhattan and midtown to The Skyscraper Museum, where they are on permanent exhibition. Thousands of [...] New Yorker writer David Owen calls The Big Apple the greenest place in the United States. New York City residents use less electricity and generate greenhouse gases at a level far below the national average. Thanks to our subway and bus system, New York City also ranks last among major cities in gasoline consumption, and we are first [...] Sip, sample and shop the best wine, cheese, and other food items produced in New York State, at City Winery on Sunday, December 6. More than three dozen wineries in the Hudson Valley, Long Island and Finger Lakes wine-growing areas will be pouring. Artisanal food producers include cheese, ice cream, and New York State’s famous big apples. [...] |
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