Tag: I love NY
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NYS Fall Foliage Report!
New York State Tourism wants us to know that New York is home to prime foliage across the state. Every year travelers gather to witness one of nature’s most captivating phenomena, the evolution of fall foliage. Whatever way you prefer to see your autumnal leaves, one of NY’s 11 vacation regions is sure to have the…
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Neil Armstrong Training Glove at Bonhams NYC Air and Space Sale
On September 27, Bonhams will offer The Air and Space Sale. This auction will consist of over 200 lots that celebrate the remarkable achievements of our greatest aviation and space pioneers. Highlights are said to include: Neil Armstrong’s Apollo Era Training Glove issued to Neil Armstrong with his beta cloth tag (estimate: $8,000-12,000). Wright Flyer…
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Pre-Father’s Day Celebration in NYC: “A Bronx Tale” and Serafina
Father’s Day is coming up, and Robert and I celebrated in advance by being invited to attend A Bronx Tale at the Longacre Theatre on West 48th Street in Manhattan. Although primarily set in a tough Italian neighborhood in the Bronx of the 1960’s, you could tell from the response by the apparently sold-out audience that the story struck a…
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Things to do in NYC This week
Heading to NYC? Consider seeing A Bronx Tale. I enjoyed this musical which has music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, choreography by Jersey Boy’s Sergio Trujillo, as well as direction by Robert De Niro and Jerry Zaks. More about this later. Also think about visiting the Age of Empires exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum…
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Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden
The night after I experienced the Rockefeller Tree Lighting Ceremony, I left the Lotte Palace Hotel to head over to the New York Botanical Garden or NYBG. Now celebrating its 125th anniversary, the NYBG is considered an iconic living museum with 250 acres supporting over one million plants. I’m a train buff, and I had been…
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Fun Day Trip Back from NYC : The Cloisters, Tarrytown and Sunflower Meadow in New Paltz
Last Saturday, my husband and I completed our yearly ritual of taking our daughter, Sarah, back to FIT in Manhattan. We rented a minivan the night before and filled it all up with Sarah’s precious belongings. There’s no lot to park in, and security will only allow about twenty vehicles at one time to squeeze onto this narrow street to quickly unload everything (Yay). So the plan was…
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Troy, New York is not a “Homely City”
If you’ve read my posts, you know that I like to reference articles from the New York Times. I enjoy reading this paper, but today I was rather taken aback by Sam Robert’s review of James Bone’s new book, The Curse of Beauty: The Scandalous Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America’s First Supermodel. The first sentence of…
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