Manhattan

Sales this week in New York City.
There’s always a lot of sales in NYC, here’s a listing from New York Magazine and Manhattan Users Guide.
Through 5/11 - Women’s and men’s clothing from Zanella, 681 5th [53rd/54th] 4th flr….

  • Sales This Week - through May 13th

    • From the press release
    Dr Pepper, MTV, and Epic recording artist Cartel are giving music fans more of what they want this summer … a first-time, real-time look into the making of the band’s newest album during Dr Pepper Band in a Bubble….

  • Band In A Bubble - Cartel

    • New York City isn’t cheap and going out for drinks at a bar is definitely not cheap. Save some money and get drunk by visiting MyOpenBar.com. MyOpenBar.com is “your guide to free booze” in New York City and lists all upcoming open bars in the city….

  • Free Drinks in NYC

    • Ice skating at Bryant Park is free through January 15th. The Pond at Bryant park returns as the centerpiece of Fêtes de Noël, which also includes the fifth annual Holiday Shops at Bryant Park….

  • Free Ice Skating in NYC at Bryant Park

    • The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrived today from Connecticut. This year the tree is an 88 foot Norway spruce from the home of Rob Kinnaird. Each year helicopters scout the area for a tree, the minumum height being 75 feet tall….

  • Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree

    • Do you think opera in New York City is too expensive? The Metropolitan Opera is now offering 200 orchesta seats every weeknight for just $20. Tickets, which normally sell for $100, go on sale two hours before showtime….

  • Cheap New York City Opera Tickets

    • If you lived in the New York City area when A Chorus Line first opened you might remember the original television commerical. Ahh the memories… kind of like the Milford Plaza commerical….

  • A Chorus Line - Back on Broadway

    • The Rockefeller Center ice skating rink opened this year on October 7th. Skating under the lights of the Rockefeller Christmas tree is a unique New York City experience. The rink is 122 feet long and 59 feet wide and 150 skaters can be on the ice at a time….

  • Rockefeller Ice Skating

    • One of the first terrorist attacks to take place in America took place on September 16, 1920 at 23 Wall Street. From the Wikipedia article on the subject:
    “At noon, a horse-drawn wagon passed by lunchtime crowds on Wall Street, in New York City….

  • Wall Street Bombing Reminents

    • The Federal Hall National Memorial reopened on October 6th after an 18 month restoration project. From the nps.gov website:
    “Here on the corner of Broad and Wall Street, General George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States….

  • Federal Hall National Memorial reopens

    • One of the most visited sites for tourists in New York City is the World Trade Center and the symbolic cross made by a T-beam found in the ruins. Please note that as of October 4, 2006 the cross has been relocated one block north to St….

  • Symbolic World Trade Center Cross temporarily moved

    • Peak Fall foliage in Central Park runs from about the second week in October to the first week in November. It’s not to be missed if you’re visiting during that time!…

  • Central Park Fall Foliage - Don’t Miss It!

    • Ending October 29, 2006 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

    “Contemporary Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang, known for his elaborate sculpture installations and gunpowder projects, was invited by the Metropolitan Museum to create this site-specific installation for the Iris and B….

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Cai Guo-Qiang on the Roof: Transparent Monument

    • The Roosevelt Island Tram is a great way to see a unique view of the city and it only costs $2.00. The trip is a short 4 1/2 minutes (each way) over the East River with fantastic views of the east side of Manhattan and the 59th Street bridge, the same bridge from the classic scene in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan”….

  • Roosevelt Island Tram

    • What? The greatest city in the world didn’t have a beer festival before 2004? Apparently that was the case so someone decided to fix the problem and started Brewtopia.
    “The Brewtopia Great World Beer Festival was first conceived in late 2003 by a beer lover who asked himself “I go to a lot of beer festivals around the country, but why is there not one in New York?…

  • Brewtopia October 20-21

    • Bowling Green is New York City’s oldest park. According to tradition, this spot served as the council ground for Native American tribes and was the site of the legendary sale of Manhattan to Peter Minuit in 1626…

  • Bowling Green Park - New York City’s oldest public park

    • Don’t miss this FREE 90-minute guided walking tour, weaving together history, events, architecture and people of Downtown - the birthplace of New York, the financial capital of the world, and the hottest new neighborhood in the city.

  • FREE Wall Street Walking Tour

    • Downtown Alliance offers free wireless Internet service (WiFi) at 8 different locations in downtown New York City. Click below for the Google map with better detail of the locations

  • Free Internet access Downtown

    • Charging Bull (or the Wall Street Bull) on lower Broadway is a bronze sculpture created by Arturo Di Modica. In December of 1989, Di Modica secretly dropped off the 7,000 bull in front the of New York Stock Exchange as a response to the rebound of the 1987 stock market crash….

  • Wall Street Charging Bull

    • The Cloisters, in the northern most section of Manhattan, has a great collection of medieval art including the Unicorn Tapistries, frescoes, stained glass, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, metalwork, and panel paintings. The collection, which includes a small chapel and various artifacts incorporates elements from five medieval French cloisters: Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Bonnefont-en-Comminges, Trie-en-Bigorre, and Froville….

  • The Cloisters Museum

    • During the early to mid 1800s, the South Street Seaport was the largest shipping port in the country. Back then merchants and sailors turned this area into a city within a city complete with brothels, saloons, and boarding houses…

  • South Street Seaport

    • Now is the time to visit the Fulton Fish Market before it moves. The 184 year old market is a classic New York institution that is worth checking out, and the looming Brooklyn Bridge in the background makes for great photographs…

  • Visit the Fulton Fish Market before it’s gone

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