Category: New York
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NYC Tourism Promoting Staten Island’s North Shore Neighborhoods
NYC & Company, New York City’s official marketing, tourism and partnership organization,announced Staten Island’s North Shore neighborhoods—Port Richmond, Randall Manor, St. George and West Brighton—as the next destinations to be featured in Neighborhood x Neighborhood, an initiative designed to increase visitation, support local businesses and encourage exploration in areas outside traditional tourist locations across the five…
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FDR Presidential Library Reopened and New Exhibition
Check out Edward Rothstein’s great article about the $35 million renovation of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York. Mr. Rothstein writes that the effect is overwhelming because its new permanent exhibition so steadily recounts the history of this remarkable historical figure. Click here for the whole story. Don’t want to…
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Travel Tips: Taking Little Kids To NYC
Planning on traveling to NYC with your child? Pamela Paul has written an interesting article entitled,” When Little Ones take a Bite of the Apple.” Ms. Paul offers some a lot of good advice including how to explore this city in kid manageable portions. She also offers a cheat sheet that includes: 1. Where to…
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Travel News from NYC’s Book Expo America Including 10 Top European Destinations for 2013
Once a year, usually at around the end of May, thousands of members of the publishing industry gather together to attend Book Expo America. For awhile this premier convention used to take place at alternating parts of the country, but for now it has continued to remain in New York City’s sprawling…
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Lights, Camera, Taste: Celebrities at James Beard Awards
If you’ve read my blog posts, you know that I love foodie events, and one that I was thrilled to be invited to attend last month was the James Beard Award Gala. Named in honor of the legendary chef, James Beard, the awards are said to be the highest honor for food and…
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Fingerlakes Sweet Treat Trail
The Cayuga County Office of Tourism recently launched a “Sweet Treat Trail” which includes locally produced baked goods, jams, jellies, honey, maple syrup and more from 27 sweet stops along Cayuga Lake. Those with a sweet tooth can enjoy everything from chocolate bacon cheesecake to lavender, maple bacon or sea salt caramel ice cream…
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Lower Manhattan is the New Focus of Neighborhood X Neighborhood
NYC and Company, has announced Lower Manhattan as the third destination to be featured in Neighborhood x Neighborhood, a program designed to increase visitation, support local businesses and encourage exploration in areas outside traditional tourist locations across the five boroughs. Lower Manhattan is home to the financial center of the United States and includes the…
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Met’s Costume Gala: Kick Off to Its New Exhibit- Punk: Chaos to Couture
As many of us know, last night was the one of the year’s biggest events in the Fashion Industry-the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Gala. Click here to see the Times Union’s great photo collection of celebrities that attended the party. This famous celebrity infused celebration was designed, in part, as a kick…
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NYC’s “Neighborhood X Neighborhood” Campaign
Mayor Bloomberg along with NYC and Company have announced a tourism initiative called ” Neighborhood X Neighborhood” which will focus on all five boroughs of New York City. I like this promotion because, after perhaps traveling hours to arrive at the Big Apple, many of us feel comfortable only focusing on Manhattan. This what they’ve said…
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Behind-the-Scenes: Whales at the American Museum of Natural History
After visiting the American Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit, Whales: Giants of the Deep, it was on to what has been one of my favorite parts of the museum’s press previews, the behind-the-scenes tour. Guided by the staff , media representatives were taken on a unique tour of some of the museum’s ancient possessions that depicted whales.…
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