Category: I Love New York
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MegaBus facing fight on pick-up sites near Penn Station
The New York Times reports that every time MegaBus finds 10th Avenue a new NYC corner to pick up customers, the nearby landlords and businesses complain. As a result, the travel company is forced to find yet another location. The current NYC locations- 41st street between 8th and 9thAvenues and 10th Avenue between 40 and…
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Celebrity Sightings: Anthony Bourdain, Annie Leibovitz, and Joan Rivers at the Clio Awards
At a ceremony taking place at the American Museum of Natural History last Tuesday night, the CLIO awards, one of the world’s most recognized competitions honoring excellence in advertising, design and communications, celebrated the work of winning agencies from around the world. Joan Rivers hosted this event which also honored author, chef, and television personality,…
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CityPASS offers travel/fitness tips
CityPASS sent me these tips on how to help get fit with the use of their passes for New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia. This what they say: Here are some examples of how people can make CityPASS part of their vacation fitness plan: Boston — Boston’s CityPASS provides visitors access to…
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Met’s new costume exhibit– Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
How many of us waited in one of those amazingly long lines to view Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, last year’s blockbuster Costume Institute exhibition at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art? Well, it’s that time of year again when the Met launches yet another fabulous exhibit to coincide with its famous celebrity Costume Gala. And this…
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Winners of this year’s James Beard Awards
Check out Grub Street’s piece on this year’s prestigious James Beard Award winners. The ceremony took place in NYC last Monday night. Grub Street lists the winners of all of the categories including: Best Chef: Great Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH) Bruce Sherman North Pond Chicago Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic (D.C., DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA)…
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Celebrity Sighting: Star of Game of Thrones at Penn Station
Beautiful day in Manhattan last Saturday. My family and I escaped the predicted thunderstorms as we walked all around the city under blue skies and in warm 70 degree weather. Tired but happy, we made our way back to Penn Station to take the 5:15 pm train back to Albany-Rensselaer. While waiting in line at…
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USA Science & Engineering Festival-Interview with Big Bang Theory’s Amy Farrah Fowler,Mayim Bialik
My son, Alex, and I are such big fans of the Big Bang Theory and, part of the present success of this top rated comedy has to be due to the talent of actress Mayim Bialik who plays Sheldon Cooper’s girlfriend, Amy Farah Fowler. Ms. Bialik, who in real life has earned a Ph.D in…
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Creatures of the Deep-Behind-the-Scenes of the American Museum of Natural History
After attending a preview of the American Museum of Natural History’s “Creatures of Light”, a group of other media people and I traveled below the museum’s main floors to take a behind-the-scenes tour of its Department of Ichthyology (fish) that was led by Zachary Baldwin. This fourth year PH.D student showed us what he said…
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American Museum of Natural History- How to Trick a Firefly
After my preview of “Creatures of Light,” at the American Museum of Natural History, I donned my special “behind the scenes” tour badge and quickly followed our guide through a series of stairs and side doors to an area rarely seen by regular patrons. In a small conference room, Marc Branham, Associate Professor Department of…
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Food Network’s “Ten Dollar Dinners”-Where Can We Buy Melissa D’Arabian’s Green Glass Jars?
I wrote a little while ago about my visit to the Food Network. I mentioned that, along with a wonderful lunch prepared by Chef Robert Bleifer (a Union College Grad!) and his staff, I also had the opportunity to see the set of Ten Dollar Dinners with Melissa D’Arabian (http://blog.timesunion.com/travelgal/on-the-set-of-the-food-network/2977). I have just been asked…
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Travel Gal Kim Swidler 