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Opened in 1930 as a vaudeville and motion picture theatre, the United Palace is one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres built in the 1930s in New York. In 1969 it was purchased and restored to previous glory and functioned as a house of worship. Now, it continues to serve as a venue for spiritual services and performances, as well as a venue for popular music, comedy and lectures.
Founded in 1863, the Brooklyn Historical Society, BHS, is a nationally renowned urban history center dedicated to the exploration and preservation of documents, artwork and artifacts representative of Brooklyn's diverse cultures past and present. BHS provides access to its unparalleled collection through extensive educational programs, exhibits, neighborhood history guides, community outreach and its distinctive Brooklyn Walks and Talks series. BHS's board and staff are dedicated to creating programming that helps Brooklynites young and old develop pride in their own cultural traditions while fostering an appreciation for their neighbors' differences and similarities.
Sky Rink has been New York City's most popular year-round indoor ice skating rink since opening in 1969. The twin-rink facility, located on Pier 61 at Chelsea Piers, operates seven days a week, welcoming skaters of all ages and ability levels for general skating sessions, figure skating, ice hockey, league play, birthday parties, special events and more. With its stunning architecture and expansive views of the Hudson River, Sky Rink is one of the premier ice skating facilities in the United States. Check website for schedule!
MOCA preserves the history, tells the stories, promotes the culture and celebrates the accomplishments of Chinese in America. Since its founding in 1980, MOCA has celebrated the living history of the Chinese experience in America by preserving and presenting the 200-year history, heritage, culture, and diverse experiences of American communities of Chinese descent. Founded as a community-based organization, MOCA has over a period of four decades maintained our community centrality while gaining a national following of visitors and members. Our museum strives to be responsive to the moment; tell nuanced and unexpected stories; spotlight politically conscious issues; and provide a platform for open dialogue and dynamic programs. MOCA contributes to a fuller and more nuanced and layered American narrative in highlighting the stories of this immigrant community. Visitors experience MOCA’s pertinent yet undertold history and content through four programming arms The curation of seasonal exhibitions representing multifarious Chinese American and immigrant experiences The documentation and collection of the largest research center of Chinese American artifacts in the United States The production of public programs featuring the stories of Chinese and Asian American milestones, challenges, achievements, and community activism The organization of a roster of educational initiatives for people of all demographic groups Ultimately, MOCA connects the past with the present and the future, bringing together the Chinese American community with the diaspora and people from all walks of life. Discover more about the Museum in their bilingual digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. Explore their permanent collection, get a behind-the-scenes look at our Responses exhibition, and more with exclusive audio content and commentary. Download the app in your phone's App Store by searching for "Bloomberg Connects."
The mission of the Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) is to inspire children and families to learn about themselves and our culturally diverse world through a unique environment of interactive exhibitions and programs. From its humble beginnings in a neighborhood storefront in 1973, CMOM has grown to a 38,000 square-foot 501(c)3 learning facility with outreach programs at 49 sites throughout New York City, and has become a destination for visitors from around the world. Each year, CMOM serves more than 325,000 people, which includes 30,000 children who visit the CMOM as part of a school group and more than 34,000 children served through offsite outreach programs. These outreach programs regularly serve children and their families from at-risk communities through partnerships with community-based organizations, schools and libraries. A key aspect of the strategic plan is to provide free or low-cost access to CMOM and its programs to low-income families. CMOM’s three priority areas flow from the strategic plan and are designed to meet specific needs within the community: early childhood education prepares children to enter kindergarten; creativity in the arts and sciences inspires creative and analytical thinking skills for lifelong learning; and healthy lifestyles programs provide a blueprint for a family's physical, emotional and environmental well being. These priorities are met through exhibitions, presentations by artists from authentic traditions, and arts and science workshops. CMOM connects the arts, language, science, math and humanities to the social and psychological needs of the child and family. Our programs and exhibits are designed to address the multiple ways children learn and to help parents understand and support their child’s development. CMOM’s philosophy is reflected in the recently opened PlayWorks™ exhibition, keyed to all of the skills children need for school; the upcoming exhibit, Gods, Myths and Mortals: Discover Ancient Greece, designed as an introduction to art, science and literature; and the Healthy Living Programming produced with local hospitals and health providers to encourage positive daily health habits. This philosophy is also woven throughout its Professional Development Training provided to early childhood and school educators. More than 80 public performances with authentic performers and 3,000 public programs are offered free with admission, connecting children to diverse cultural traditions and the performing arts. These programs also uniquely engage parents to become more active and knowledgeable partners in their child’s development. Detailed learning objectives and curricula are developed and revised through evaluation and testing, ranging from research projects about how children want to learn about the Greek classics to professional evaluation of CMOM’s programs for families in shelters to early childhood curriculum used at CMOM and in the community. A current professional evaluation of early childhood programs at the museum reveals a distinct success in engaging parents in their child’s education and CMOM as a unique facility that values the remarkable breadth of cultural diversity of its visitors. Outreach Programs In today’s culture, childhood is compressed. Families have less time to spend with one another. Individuals, neighbors, and communities are detached. Those with different physical and mental abilities, as well as those new to a community, are asked to either assimilate or remain separate. Resources that educate, care for, and promote communities are stretched thin by demands to do more with less. In this environment, children’s museums stand out as unique places that bring children, families, and communities together for quality learning. In pursuit of its primary mission to bring innovative learning opportunities to children in the greatest need, CMOM partners with a wide variety of Community Based Organizations as well as City, State and National Government agencies, foundations, corporations and educational institutions to provide programs to over 400,000 children each year. These partnerships and the resulting programs have positioned CMOM as a leader in outreach efforts throughout the city, across the country and around the world.
Each year the Dumbo Arts Festival seeks to highlight Brooklyn’s commitment to and presence in the arts community by presenting the best in local, national, and international art amid the breathtaking backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline. The Dumbo Arts Festival attracts 200,000 visitors over 3 days with the participation of over 500 artists from a variety of disciplines, 100 studios, 50 galleries and stages and 100 programming partners. This year, the Festival will take place on Friday, September 27th through Sunday, September 29th. The official Festival hours are Friday 6pm to 9pm, Saturday 12pm to 9pm, Sunday 12pm to 6pm and sundown to midnight all three nights for all outdoor projections. Art revelers can enjoy: outdoor and indoor visual art installations and exhibitions, digital art and large scale projections, visiting artists in their studios or making murals on the street, musicians, dancers, poets, performance and circus artists throughout the neighborhood, on street corners, and in the park.
The Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York is an annual sporting and multicultural event held in August on Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York to celebrate the fifth moon (or the fifth month) of the lunar calendar. In addition to providing audiences with traditional Chinese foods and performances, the festival hosts over 150 dragon boat teams from across North America, making it one of the largest dragon boat festivals in the United States. Depending on the competitive division, teams compete for cash prizes, trophies and other prizes. Event buses provided at 7 train station at Willets Point
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, lived at this site from his birth on October 27, 1858 until he was 14 years old. The reconstructed house, built as a memorial after his death in 1919, contains five period rooms, two museum galleries and a small bookstore. Roosevelt started his political career as a New York State Assemblyman from 1882-1884. From 1889 to 1895 he was a member of the United States Civil Service Commission. After two years as President of the New York Board of Police he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1897-1898.
This church dates from the mid-1800's, and in the time since has become a bona fide historic landmark. The church's first pastor, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher (brother of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe), was an abolitionist and allowed the church to be used as a part of the Underground Railroad, through which slaves were given safe passage to the free states of the North. The building itself is a reserved—but beautiful—structure, covered in ivy and sporting the requisite stained class depictions of scenes from the Old and New Testaments. Tours are available from 10am-4pm from Monday through Friday.
Nestled against elevated tracks of the J/M/Z lines, and tucked amongst auto-body shops, Market Hotel is a bleeding edge venue that hosts dance parties and obscure bands. Bleeding edge, to cool to be hip, and if you are one that considers yourself of such ilk this is the spot for you!
The Hamilton Grange is presently closed and will reopen in late 2009. The National Parks service is undertaking a complete restoration of the home now that it has been moved from its old site to nearby St. Nicholas Park. After restoration, the house will again have its front and back porches that were removed when the Grange was brought to its present site in 1889. Alexander Hamilton commissioned architect John McComb Jr. to design this Federal style country home on a sprawling 32 acre estate in upper Manhattan. Completed in 1802, it is named "The Grange" after the Hamilton family's ancestral home in Scotland. Alas The Grange was inhabited by Hamilton for only two years before he was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. Given the Hamilton Grange's present condition, we recommend you visit some of the other nearby neighborhood attractions. Walk around beautiful Mount Morris and Strivers Row, admire the architecture of the City College campus, and visit the Riverbank State Park, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture or the Studio Museum in Harlem. Don't miss our walking tour of Historic Harlem!
Under the artistic vision of Music Director Robert Spano, the Brooklyn Philharmonic has emerged as one of the nation's premier music ensembles and continues to be a vital presence in the cultural life of the New York metropolitan area. For over four decades, the Brooklyn Philharmonic has played a leading role in the presentation of innovative and thematic programming, receiving 19 ASCAP Awards for "Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music." Since its inception in 1955, audiences have embraced the Brooklyn Philharmonic's commitment to the concept of the orchestra as a contemporary performance ensemble, emphasizing, as in the decades of Beethoven and Brahms, important present-day music.
Located at the southernmost tip of Manhattan next to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, Battery Park is where the first Dutch settlers landed in 1623 and where a "battery" of cannons was erected to defend what was then called New Amsterdam. Since that time, the area has been known as "The Battery" and is why the Park is so named. Battery park is one of New York City's oldest public open spaces, and encompasses 23 acres of waterfront parkland. The park's main attraction is Castle Clinton which was built in anticipation of the War of 1812. Although it was mostly demolished in 1941, it is now the beneficiary of an ongoing restoration project. If you are planning on visiting the Statue of Liberty or Ellis Island, the tickets for the Ferry may be purchased here. New to the Battery are the Gardens of Remembrance designed by renowned Dutch garden designer, Piet Oudolf. The Gardens pay tribute to those who perished on September 11th, 2001 as well as the the survivors of that day. Also continuing the expansion of Battery Park is the Staten Island Ferry-adjacent Peter Minuit Plaza, named after the man who bought the island of Manhattan for the Dutch, and its new open-air public space, the New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion.
Founded in October 1988 by Kathleen Schneider, the Children's Museum of the Arts is one of the oldest children's art museums in the world.The Museum employs an artist-in-residence format whereby teaching artists work directly with children and their families. At CMA, children and families have access to the creative tools that promote self-expression and esteem through the visual and performing arts, honoring the artist in every child through hands-on art programs taught by trained, working artists; through an on-going collection and exhibition of children's art; and through partnerships with diverse community organizations that celebrate life and the arts in New York City.
Coney Island USA’s Sideshows by the Seashore Theater, located at Surf Avenue at West 12th Street, is home to the last permanently housed circus sideshow in the United States. A beloved Coney Island institution, Sideshows by the Seashore presents family-friendly performances featuring classic sideshow acts and contemporary cirque-style feats. Audiences can expect sword swallowers, fire eaters, glass walkers, aerialists, and variety artists drawn from some of New York’s most daring and talented performers. The show proudly carries forward the great traditions of the American sideshow, while giving them a distinctly modern, inclusive, and postmodern twist. With a diverse cast and crew, Coney Island USA wants every guest to know: everyone is welcome here. So step right up. They look forward to seeing your smiling faces this season in their air-cooled theater by the sea.
The Van Cortlandt House Museum is a private, non-profit institution founded in 1896 by the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, a licensee of the City of New York. Van Cortlandt House was built in 1748 for Frederick Van Cortlandt and was the focal point of an expansive and prosperous wheat plantation. The interpretive period of the Museum House is from 1748 - 1823 when Frederick and his two eldest sons, James and Augustus, owned the property. The Museum collection contains Van Cortlandt family materials and furnishings appropriate to this interpretive period. The Van Cortlandt House Museum's mission is to be a vital member of The Bronx Cultural community and the larger region by preserving, researching and interpreting the Van Cortlandt House, its grounds, and historical collection for a wide audience for the purpose of growing meaningful connections between the past and the present. The Museum’s research and interpretation focuses on the Van Cortlandt family; the social history of those who lived and worked on the property; the study of decorative arts; and the impact of the American Colonial Revival on the development of the Van Cortlandt House as a public museum.
After its completion in 1929, William van Alen’s 77-story Chrysler Building was the world’s tallest building at 925 feet for just a brief period. A proposed redesign of the Bank of Manhattan tower threatened the Chrysler Building by a mere two feet, so Walter P. Chrysler hastily called for a massive spire to be erected. His building quickly became 1046 feet tall. A few months later, however, construction of the Empire State Building was completed, relegating the glorious Chrysler to second place. Unlike its nearby cousin, the Empire State Building, which glows at night when bathed in a variety of colored lights, the Chrysler Building seems most radiant during the day hours. In the bright sunlight, the upper floors gleam, reflect, and even seem to pulsate light, directing the eye upwards towards the spire. Its gorgeous Art Deco lobby, with murals celebrating transportation themes, is definitely one of New York’s finest. Examine the ornamental details, the typical Deco motifs, the lush marble, and the charming light fixtures, all restored in recent years. Tishman Speyer, the current owner of the building, undertook a significant restoration project, finished in 1999. Given the current push to restore and celebrate Manhattan’s landmark buildings, one expects that the fabled Cloud Room, a former private club as well as the private dining quarters of Mr. Chrysler located on the 66th, 67th, and 68th floors, will be renovated in the near future.
The Morris-Jumel Mansion is perhaps most famous for the fact that George Washington really did sleep here! Washington made his headquarters here at the Mansion during the fall of 1776. It was during this period that the General's troops forced a British retreat at the Battle of Harlem Heights. The house was built eleven years before the Revolution, in 1765, by British Colonel Roger Morris and his American wife, Mary Philipse. The breezy hilltop location proved an ideal location for the family's summer home. Known as Mount Morris, this northern Manhattan estate stretched from the Harlem to the Hudson Rivers and covered more than 130 acres. Loyal to the crown, the Morrises were eventually forced to return to England as a result of the American victory. During the war, the hilltop location of the Mansion was valued for more than its cool summer breezes. With views of the Harlem River, the Bronx, and Long Island Sound to the east, New York City and the harbor to the south, and the Hudson River and Jersey Palisades to the west, Mount Morris proved to be a strategic military headquarters. In 1904 the Washington's Headquarters Association, formed by four chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution, took on the task of operating the museum. Today, the Morris-Jumel Mansion, Inc., an independent not-for-profit corporation assumes that responsibility.
A maritime museum and education center with galleries, children's programs, library, archives and a working lithography studio. The collection focuses on the history of Sailor's Snug Harbor and maritime artist John A. Noble. Located at Snug Harbor Cultural Center.
The Queens Zoo, a tribute to American animals, opened to the public on June 25, 1992. It was the second of three "city zoos" to be renovated and operated by Wildlife Conservation Society, through a partnership with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Unlike the much older Central Park and Prospect Park zoos (which were renovated and reopened by WCS in 1988 and 1993, respectively), the Queens Zoo had only existed since 1968. That year, the "Flushing Meadows Zoo" opened on the grounds of the 1964 World's Fair. However, advances in zoo technology and animal management rapidly left the zoo in need of an update. The new zoo is the result of a $16 million reconstruction. Exhibit updates have given the Queens Zoo the feel of a national park - albeit a small one. The zoo perimeter is a pathway that leads visitors to pockets of wild habitats, from the Great Plains to the rocky California coast to a Northeast forest. At home in these naturalistic settings are spectacular American species: American bison, mountain lions, California sea lions, American bald eagles, Roosevelt elk, and more. South America is represented as well; the Queens Zoo is also the only New York home to spectacled bears, endangered natives of the Andes Mountains. Of special note are both the structures and inhabitants. The aviary is in fact a geodesic dome, designed by Buckminster Fuller and used in the 1964 World's Fair in Queens. And the zoo's animal residents include "Otis," the famous coyote rescued in Manhattan's Central Park in 1999.