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Sightseeing in New York: A Sample Itinerary: Day 2
UPTOWN:
2nd Day:
American Museum of Natural History, Central
Park West
Take the B (weekdays only) or C to 81st Street. Two blocks west of the
Museum, the 1 and 9 trains stop at Broadway and West 79th Street.
Museum Entrance Hours:
Main Entrance (79th St. at Central Park West): Every day from 10 a.m. – 5:45
p.m.
Subway Entrance (Lower Level): Every day from 10 a.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Rose Center Entrance (81st St. between C.P.W. and Columbus Ave.):
Sunday – Thursday, 10 a.m. – 5:45 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m. – 8:45
p.m.
Museum and Rose Center Suggested Admission:
Adults: $12.00
Children (2-12): $7.00
SuperSaver As many of the following special shows & exhibitions**
as you wish for one low price:
Space Shows
• The Search for Life: Are We Alone?
• Passport to the Universe
IMAX® Films
• Bugs!: A Rainforest Adventure
• Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
Frogs: A Chorus of Colors
Exploratorium/AMNH
Petra Exhibit
Adults: $29.00
Children (2-12): $18.00
Museum and Rose Center + Space Show Admission Includes the Museum's
42 exhibition halls and the new Rose Center plus the all new Hayden Planetarium
Space Show
Adults: $22.00
Children (2-12): $13.00
Advance Ticketing
Space Show at the new Hayden Planetarium:
Tickets for the Space Show at the new Hayden Planetarium are available
to be purchased online. Tickets may also be ordered by phone at (212)
769-5200, Monday through Friday from 9:00am-5:00pm. For pricing and program
information, visit the Rose Center.
Tickets may also be ordered online for a specific IMAX film, a special
exhibition, and lectures and special events, or ordered by phone at 212-769-5200,
Monday through Friday 9:00am-5:00pm. American Express, MasterCard, Visa,
or Discover cards are accepted. If you order more than two weeks in advance
you will receive your tickets by mail. Otherwise, you will be given specific
instructions by the reservations operator.
Floor Plan
Hall Status
Hayden Planetarium Lectures and Courses IMAX
theater
Hayden Planetarium Rose Center for Earth and Space
Passport to the Universe
This space show, narrated by Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, will
excite your senses with an amazing journey from Earth to the edge of
the universe.
Daily Show Times:
11:00 a.m. and 1:00, 2:00, 3:30 and 4:30 p.m.
Friday Additional Show Times:
5:30 and 6:30 p.m.
The Search for Life: Are We Alone?
This space show, narrated by Academy Award nominee Harrison Ford,
will whisk you on an incredible journey in search of the answer to
this intriguing question.
Daily Show Times:
10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and 12:30, 1:30, 2:30 and 4:00 p.m.
Friday Additional
Show Times:
5:00, 6:00, and 7:00 p.m.
Individual Space Show Admission Prices include suggested Museum admission.
Adults:
$22.00
Children (2-12): $13.00
TAKE A FREE AUDIO TOUR OF THE ROSE CENTER FOR EARTH AND SPACE
The Frederick Phineas & Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and
Space reveals the wonders of the universe and the mysteries of Earth
through a 75-minute Audio Tour, available in both English and Spanish.
The Rose Center Audio Guide is available free with Museum admission
or membership.
Following an introduction by Museum President Ellen V. Futter, the
main tour guide along the
34-stop route through the Rose Center is the dynamic and entertaining
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium.
Other Museum scientists stop by along the way to add their expertise
to the Audio Tour. They include astrophysicists Michael Shara, Charles
Liu, and Frank Summers, and geologists James Webster and Rosamond Kinzler.
The Rose Center Audio Tour, produced by the Museum with Acoustiguide,
covers the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe, the David
S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth, the Scales of the Universe,
and the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway. The majority of
the Audio Tour is in random-access format, enabling visitors to tailor
their tours of the Rose Center to their particular interests. The Audio
Tour is available in either wand or headset listening device: the Wand
offers excellent sound quality without the use of headphones; the Mini
is a palm-sized hands-free headset player used like a Walkman.
The Rose Center Audio Tour can be picked up at the Membership/Audio
Tour Desk on the Lower Level of the Rose Center.
The Scales of the Universe, a 400-foot-long walkway that hugs the
glass curtain wall along the second level of the Rose Center for Earth
and Space, illustrates the vast range of size in the universe — from
the enormous expanse of our observable universe to the smallest subatomic
particles — by using the 87-foot Hayden Sphere as a basis for
comparison.
The Scales of the Universe exhibit introduces visitors to the relative
sizes of galaxies, stars, planets, and atoms through text panels, interactive
terminals, and models. Enormous, realistically rendered planets, stars,
and galaxies — including a 9-foot model of Jupiter and Saturn
with 17-foot rings — are suspended from the ceiling of the building,
soaring over visitors' heads.
Cosmic Pathway chronicles the 15-billion-year evolution
of the universe
Big Bang Theater
Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites
Gallery
Dinosaurs
(4th floor)
Star of India, world's largest blue-star sapphire. The Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Met"), Fifth Avenue and
82nd Street
Closed on Mondays
Directions:
From East Side of Manhattan: Take 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk
three blocks west to Fifth Avenue; or take M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along
Fifth Avenue (from uptown locations) to 82nd Street or along Madison
Avenue (from downtown locations) to 83rd Street.
From West Side of Manhattan: Take C, 1, or 9 train to 86th Street, then
M86 crosstown bus across Central Park to Fifth Avenue.
From Penn Station: Take M4 bus to 83rd Street and Madison Avenue.
Thoughts on what to see: Jim Dine hearts if we do "I love NY" sketchbooks,
portraits of artists by artists to get ideas, paintings of buildings
in NY (and then go see the buildings to compare them with the interpretation,
like Georgia O'Keefe's chrysler building or empire state building??). Reconstruction and Reinstallation of the Egyptian Art Galleries
Opened January 29, 2004
Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art, 1st floor
Upon entering the Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art this
season, visitors will see several newly installed galleries, which are
part of a reconstruction
project that began in 2002. The reinstallation covers the Museum’s collections
of Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egyptian art (from before the 5th millennium
to ca. 2650 B.C.) in a large space along Fifth Avenue, and the art of Roman Egypt
(30 B.C. to ca. 400 A.D.) in two galleries on the opposite side of the centrally
located Old Kingdom tomb of Perneb (ca. 2350 B.C.). Highlights of the project
also include the uncovering of three windows facing Fifth Avenue, the exposure
of the original Richard Morris Hunt ceiling beams in the Predynastic/Early Dynastic
gallery and in one of the Roman Egypt galleries, and the reconfiguration of the
architecture of the Old Kingdom tombs of Perneb and Raemkai (ca. 2350 and 2440
B.C.) to more closely resemble their original settings. Artists' Artists
July 2, 2004–October 3, 2004
South mezzanine gallery, Lila Acheson Wallace Wing
Portraits of painters, poets, writers, musicians, and performers as captured
by their contemporaries—from Ingres to Hockney—in drawings, prints,
sculptures, and paintings. The works are from various Museum departments.
Guided Tours Scheule Tuesdays through Fridays:
10:15 a.m. Museum Highlights
11:15 a.m. Museum Highlights
1:30 p.m. Museum Highlights
2:30 p.m. Museum Highlights
3:30 p.m. Museum Highlights (3:45 p.m. on Fridays)
Roof Garden
If the views of Central Park throughout the museum make you long to be
outdoors, hop on one of the elevators near the European Sculpture Court
and head up to the Roof Garden. Open from May 1 to late October (weather
permitting), the Roof Garden offers views of large-scale sculptures
(such as Rodin's The Burghers of Calais) as well as magnificent views
of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. Beverages (cappuccino, espresso,
soft drinks, iced tea, wine, and beer) are served daily from 10 am
until closing.
The American Wing spans two floors and includes the painting
of Washington Crossing the Delaware, one of the largest paintings in
the museum's collection. The American Wing also showcases how rooms looked
back in the 1600's, and gives kids some real perspective on how America
has changed (and lets their imaginations run riot). Our kids are especially
interested in the paintings of American children, pondering the clothes,
toys, and bizarre hairdos they feel no self-respecting kid would ever
stand for.
Augusto Rodin: The Thinker, 1879-89, bronze; Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York.
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, designed by architect
Frank Lloyd Wright.
Central Park
Carriage Ride
Central Park Wildlife Conservation Center
Central Park Dairy
Central Park Row Boats
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Location: Mid-East Central Park, 74th Street, New York (Central Park),
NY
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Hours: Apr-Oct Only. Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat-Sun 10am-6pm
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Ages: 5 and up
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Cost: $10/hour. $30 deposit required. Cash only.
Life jackets are provided. Boats carry up to 5 people. Wear clothes
that can get wet.
Sprawling across the center of Manhattan, from 59th Street (Central
Park South) to 110th Street, and from Central Park West to Fifth Avenue,
Central Park is 843 acres of adventure.
South Section
Entering from the southeast (corner of 59th and Fifth), you'll find
a path that leads straight into "the children's section," which
covers the east side of the Park up to 74th Street. This is not to
say that the ENTIRE park isn't for children, but this little area
is extremely manageable and contains many of the attractions kids
love best: The Wildlife Conservation/Zoo, The Tisch Children's Zoo
and the boat pond, where the real magnets are the venerated statues
of Alice in Wonderland and Hans Christian Anderson (big ears and
all). Kids have been climbing these for decades, surprisingly without
an overwhelming number of injuries. And lest we forget, the oft-searched
for Balto, the statue, is mideast park at about 67th Street.
This southern end of the park also houses The Wollman Skating Rink,
the Heckscher Ballfields, the Carousel and the Dairy, where school
children once lined up for fresh milk and which now serves as the Park's
information center (64th Street, mid-Park - open Tue-Sun: 10am-4pm
in winter, 10am-5pm Apr-Oct, closed Mon). You can also borrow chess
and checkers pieces at the Dairy (you'll have to leave a $20 deposit,
though) to use in the Chess and Checkers House just a short hike west.
East Section
As you head north, up the east side of the park, you'll also pass The
Boathouse, where you can rent a rowboat or grab a sandwich wrap from
the storefront outside The Boathouse Cafe (the restaurant is not
recommended for children, despite gorgeous view; bring your own picnic
or grab the aforementioned fast food instead), or rent bicycles (sadly,
for adults only). Mid-park at 79th Street you'll find Belvedere Castle
and the Turtle Pond, then on, northeast, to The Metropolitan Museum
and The Ancient Playground.
The Reservoir with its noted jogging track, runs up the east side
of the park from 87th Street to 96th Street, then turns west and passes
the tennis courts before heading back down the west side of the park.
North Section
Still farther north, you'll find the East Meadow (starting at about
97th Street), The Conservatory Garden and then The Harlem Meer, which
is home to The Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, Duck Island and
The Lasker Rink and Pool.
West Section
Heading south, you'll find the North Meadow Ballfields (mid-park, from
103rd Street to 97th Street), which borders The North Meadow Recreation
Center, where you'll find public basketball and handball courts,
in addition to indoor and outdoor youth activities (99th-97th Streets,
mid-park).
Crossing the 97th Street Transverse, The Tennis Courts and the Reservoir
come back into view, and as you continue south you'll find The Delacorte
Theater, Shakespeare Garden and The Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater,
where puppet shows can be seen for a fee, all nestled together in the
mid-west section of the park at about 79th Street.
Stroll past the lake, where you'll see ducks and tons of people in
row boats, and you'll pass Strawberry Fields, named in honor of John
Lennon (whose home was just west of the Park) and the flowery inscription,
Imagine. Continuing south, you'll pass Sheep Meadow, Tavern on the
Green and then the Heckscher ballfields will lead you back out the
south gates of the park.
In-Line Skaters can really go wild at The Bandshell, located mid-park
at 70th Street, or West Drive at 67th Street, where the NYRSA has
set up a slalom course. In summertime, Wollman Rink and Lasker Rink
are also accomodating to roller blade fans.
Youth Open Indoor Wall Climbing (Ages 8-17)
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Manhattan
Join the Central Park Conservancy at the new indoor climbing wall at
the North Meadow Recreation Center during open climbing hours. The
wall includes a small roof, steep angles, and an arete. Participants
receive I.D. card, all equipment, and free climbing. Youth who have
successfully completed the clilmbing courses ar North Meadow will be
able to use the indoor climbing wall during youth open climbing hours.
AGES 8 to 17. FREE. No registration required.
Location:
North
Meadow Recreation Center - mid-Park at 97th Street, Central Park,
Manhattan
2nd evening:
Dinner: Jekyll and Hyde Club, 1409 6th Ave.
between 57th and 58th Streets, a half block south of Central Park.
Rockefeller Center, 1260 6th Ave. at 50th St. (between 42nd and 57th
Street and from 5th to 6th Avenue), 212-632-3975.
Radio City Music Hall and the NBC studios, watch the live broadcast of the
Today Show from ground-floor studios at Rockefeller Plaza (7 a.m. to 9 a.m.)
The building is an example of art deco style architecture. Tours of Radio City
Music Hall are available daily until 5:00 p.m. They are about $50 for 4 people.
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