From news.columbia.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!rutgers!igor.rutgers.edu!porthos.rutgers.edu!pirmann Thu Jun 3 19:15:28 1993 Article: 866 of ny.general Xref: news.columbia.edu nyc.general:414 ny.general:866 nj.general:1659 Path: news.columbia.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!rutgers!igor.rutgers.edu!porthos.rutgers.edu!pirmann From: pirmann@porthos.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann) Newsgroups: nyc.general,ny.general,nj.general Subject: NYC Usenet Places to go List Message-ID: Date: 28 May 93 22:07:17 GMT Followup-To: nyc.general Organization: Rutgers University LCSR Lines: 115 Here's a beta version of my NYC places to go list. Please send corrections, suggestions, additions, etc. Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NYC Things to Do and Places To Go File: nyc-places Version: 0.1 (Beta Version) 052893 compiled by pirmann@cs.rutgers.edu -- send me submissions & ideas! You can ftp these files from quartz.rutgers.edu:/pub/nyc MUSEUMS/TOURS American Craft Museum (40 W 53rd St between 5th & 6th, across from MOMA) Info: (212) 956-6047, general $4.50; Students & Seniors $2.00 Subway: E,F @ 53rd St American Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th St. Astoria, Queens) Info: (718) 784 0077, general $5; seniors $4; students $2.50 Only museum exclusively devoted to movies, TV and Videos. Subway: G,R @ Steinway St American Museum of Natural History (Central Park W. at 79th) Info: (212) 769-5000, general $5.00; children $2.50 Subway: 1,9 to 79th St Bronx Zoo (Bronx) Subway 2,5 to East Tremont Pkwy Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Brooklyn) Subway: 2,3 @ Eastern Pkwy Cloisters/Fort Tryon Park (190th St) Subway: A @ 190th St Guggenheim Museum (1071 5th Av. at 89th) Info: (212) 423-3600, general $7.00; Students & seniors $4.00 Subway: 4,5,6 @ 86th St Hispanic Museum Subway: 1 @ 157th Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum Bus: M42 from 42nd Street subway Liberty Science Center (New Jersey) PATH to Grove Street (WTC/JSQ line) Lincoln Center (66th & B'way) Subway: 1,9 @ 66th St-Lincoln Center) Info: Can get tours, sit in on rehersals, etc. Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Av. at 82nd St.) Info: (212) 879-5500, general $6; Students and Seniors $3 Special exhibits often cost extra and require ticket purchase in advance of day of visit. Subway: 4,5,6 @ 86th Bus: M4 Madison Ave bus to 83rd, walk 2 blocks over to 5th Museum of American Folk Art (near Rockefeller Center?) Museum of Broadcasting Museum of the City of New York (E 103rd and 5th Ave) Info: (212) 534-1672, General $5; students & seniors $3 Museum of Modern Art (11 W. 53rd bet. 5th & 6th) Info: (212) 708-9400, General $7.50; Students and Seniors $4.50. Special exhibits often cost extra and require ticket purchase in advance of day of visit. Subway: E,F @ 53rd St NBC Studios Tour (Rockefeller Center, 50th St & 6th) Subway: B,D,F @ Rockefeller Center Info: Call 212-664-4000 for tour info New York Aquarium (Brooklyn) Subway: D,F @ W. 8th-NY Aquarium New York Botanical Gardens (Bronx) Subway: C,D @ Belford Park Blvd New York Hall of Science (Queens) Subway: 7 @ 111th St New York Public Library (42nd & 5th) Info: Free 1 hour tour twice a day Police Academy Museum (235 E 20th ST. bet 2nd & 3rd Ave) Info: 212-477-9753, FREE Police stuff from world over. Transit Museum (Boerum Place & Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn) Subway: 2,3,4,5 @ Borough Hall; A,F,C @ Jay Street; M,N,R @ Court Street Info: see also file subway.nyc United Nations Whitney Museum of American Art PARKS Fort Tryon Park (190th Street) Subway: A @ 190th Central Park / Belvedere castle Inwood Hill Park (where?) Bryant Park (behind New York Public Library) Washington Square Park Union Square Park Battery Park SIGHTS TO SEE World Trade Center Observation deck Empire State Building Observation deck Circle Line ships cruise around Manhattan Statue of Liberty Ellis Island THEATRE TKTS same day half price ticket booths (Times Square, WTC Concourse) SHOPS/STORES (see record store list and nyc booklist) Forbidden Planet (12th & B'way) -- sci-fi & fantasy Spike's Joint (75 S. Elliott Pl Corner Lafayette Av, Brooklyn 718-802-1000) FAO Schwartz (57th & 5th) Pink Pussycat (4th st?) Magazines W 11th & 6th -- imports, etc Magazines ~23rd & Park South Street Seaport (2,3,4,5,J,M,Z at Fulton Street; A,C @ Broadway-Nassau) A&S Plaza Macy's CLUBS Blue Note (131 W 3rd) -- Jazz club Boston Comedy Club MISCELLANEOUS 1991 B'way (bet. 67th & 68th) -- sitting place.