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Student ticket $16

Exhibitions -

Face to Face

Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie*
*Amazing photographer! Recommend

Between Friends

From the ICP Collection

Paul Pfeiffer: Still Life (1st Feb)

at Grand Central Madison Terminal

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Student Ticket $20

Exhibitions -

Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious - Photography Exhibition on Hip Hop culture

Elizaveta Porodina, Un/Masked

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Exhibitions - Current and Upcoming - Fotografiska New York

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Student ticket $17

Exhibition -

Richard Avedon: MURALS

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In 1969, Richard Avedon was at a crossroads. After a five-year hiatus, the photographer started making portraits again, this time with a new camera and a new sense of scale. Trading his handheld Rolleiflex for a larger, tripod-mounted device, he reinvented his studio dynamic. Instead of dancing around his subjects from behind a viewfinder, as he had in his lively fashion pictures, he could now stand beside a stationary camera and meet them head-on. Facing down groups of the era's preeminent artists, activists, and politicians, he made huge photomural portraits, befitting their outsized cultural influence. On the centennial of the photographer's birth, Richard Avedon: MURALS will bring together three of these monumental works, some as wide as 35 feet. For Avedon, the murals expanded the artistic possibilities of photography, radically reorienting viewers and subjects in a subsuming, larger-than-life view.

The murals are society portraits. In them, Avedon assembles giants of the late twentieth century-members of Andy Warhol's Factory, architects of the Vietnam war, and demonstrators against that war-who together shaped an extraordinarily turbulent era of American life. Presented in one gallery, their enormous portraits will stage an unlikely conversation among historically opposed camps, as well as contemporary viewers. The formal innovations of Avedon's high style-of starkly lit bodies in an unsparing white surround-are best realized in these works, where subjects jostle and crowd the frame, and bright voids between them crackle with tension. Uniting the murals with session outtakes and contemporaneous projects, the exhibition will track Avedon's evolving approach to group portraiture, through which he so transformed the conventions of the genre.

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https://whitney.org/artists/621

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Edward Hopper was a keen observer of the everyday, which he transformed through his imagination into works of art that bear his signature tense, enigmatic atmospheres. A reflective and individualistic man, he was deeply attuned to the relationship of the self to the world, and his works increasingly focused on the psychological realities of his subjects. Hopper was frequently inspired by the two locations in which he spent most of his time: downtown New York, where he lived and worked in the same apartment on Washington Square from 1913 until his death in 1967; and Cape Cod, where, beginning in 1934, he maintained a second home and studio.
Hopper and the Northeast
As a young artist in 1899, Hopper began commuting into the city from his hometown of Nyack-less than thirty miles north of Manhattan-to study at the New York School of Illustrating and then, one year later, at the New York School of Art. Afterward, he began pursuing freelance illustration work while continuing to paint. Funded by his commercial assignments, Hopper traveled to Paris for three extended visits between 1906 and 1910. During these trips, Hopper sketched and painted outdoors, creating luminous, loosely rendered cityscapes that helped him develop a sense of how to frame the built environment around him.

Back in New York, Hopper established his career as a chronicler of the modern urban experience. From 1915 to the early 1920s, he forged a rigorous printmaking practice, consolidating many of his impressions of the city and sharpening his compositional skills to experiment with light and shadow in black and white. The window became one of Hopper's most enduring symbols. In his prints and mature paintings, he exploited its potential to merge the urban facades that had long fascinated him with views into the private lives lived within. Throughout his career, Hopper explored the city with a sketchbook in hand, recording his observations through drawing. He described his on-site sketching process as working "from the fact," an effort to collect details directly from the world around him. While some of his compositions were based on specific sites, most of his paintings were based on a synthesis of elements from disparate locations, creating an imagined whole.

During this period, Hopper spent his summers visiting coastal towns in Maine and Massachusetts. The works he made there reflect his close observation of the natural environment. After his marriage in 1924 to the artist Josephine (Jo) Verstille Nivison, he continued to decamp in the warmer months. Together, the Hoppers traveled to Cape Cod and took road trips throughout the United States and Mexico. A number of Hopper's preparatory studies for paintings depict Jo, who played an active role as his sole model, for which she often dressed in character and helped source props. The Hoppers' collaborative scene staging was integral to Edward's painting process.
Cafeterias, theaters, offices, and apartment bedrooms

From the mid-1940s to the 1960s, Hopper produced a group of ambitious paintings characterized by radically simplified geometry and uncanny, dreamlike settings. These works were inspired by precise locations but depart from specific references to morph into ambiguous spaces of mystery, anticipation, and anxiety. At a moment when many artists in New York had turned to abstraction, Hopper pushed his compositions further than ever before in his charged images of cafeterias, theaters, offices, and apartment bedrooms.
Hopper and the Whitney
Hopper's earliest exhibitions were held at the Whitney Studio Club, and his ties to the Whitney Museum of American Art deepened over the course of his career. His masterpiece Early Sunday Morning (1930), acquired just a few months after it was finished, would become part of the Museum's founding collection. The Seventh Avenue building on which the painting was based was a short walk from Hopper's studio on Washington Square. Painted more than a decade later, Hopper's most acclaimed composition, Nighthawks (1942), also references his neighborhood, not far from the Whitney's present-day site in downtown Manhattan. Hopper was included in the first Whitney Biennial in 1932 and participated in twenty-nine subsequent Biennials and Annuals through 1965, as well as several other group exhibitions. In 1950, the Whitney organized the artist's second career retrospective exhibition; since the artist's death in 1967, the Museum has organized many monographic exhibitions, large and small, and his works have been included in dozens of group exhibitions-more than any other artist.

Resources

Access additional Edward and Josephine Hopper resources.

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https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/alex-katz-gathering
This is a must see show partly because of the content and the venue it's showing in

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Alex Katz: Gathering | The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation

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Created over eight decades, Alex Katz’s portraits, social scenes, and landscapes captured the immediacy of visual perception in paint.

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This is close to where we're staying, I've been before and it's worth while if you're into folk art and outsider art

https://folkartmuseum.org/

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American Folk Art Museum - New York City

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Not the first thing you'd think of doing, but if you've covered the main sights/sites then it's well worth a cable car ride across the East River. Great views of midtown.

https://rioc.ny.gov/302/Tram

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Tram | Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation of the State of New York

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The Roosevelt Island Tramway provides amazing scenic views of Manhattan, running every 7-15 minutes from 59th street and Second Avenue in Manhattan to Tramway Plaza on Roosevelt Island.

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The Drawing Centre

I really enjoyed this place and it's situated in the best part of Manhattan (IMO)
I'm sure Sophia would like to go and last time I went I took a bunch of illustration students

https://drawingcenter.org/

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The Brooklyn Art Library

Absolutely ace for illustration and design students, in Williamsburg and a great excuse to schlep over to Brooklyn.

https://brooklynartlibrary.org/participate

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Brooklyn Art Library / The Sketchbook Project

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Start by choosing a type of book, fill it up, and send it back to us to be a part of the world's largest collection of artist sketchbooks! Every participant is sent the same 5x7'' blank custom sketchbook. Each book will be given a unique seven-digit barcode so we can easily catalog it into Brooklyn Art Library's system.

Brooklyn Art Library is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that has been completely funded by participation since 2006. By buying sketchbook, you are helping us to ensure that we are fulfilling our mission of encouraging creative storytelling within a global community by keeping our physical library space free and open to the public, our digital library accessible worldwide, and making our collection as accessible as possible to people of all ages and skill levels through robust education programming.

Anyone - from anywhere in the world - can be a part of the project. To participate and have us send you a sketchbook that will live in the world's largest collection of sketchbooks, start by choosing a type of book →

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Participate - Brooklyn Art Library / The Sketchbook Project

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Start by choosing a type of book, fill it up, and send it back to us to be a part of the world's largest collection of artist sketchbooks! Every participant is sent the same 5x7'' blank custom sketchbook. Each book will be given a unique seven-digit barcode so we can easily catalog it into Brooklyn Art Library's system.

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Free passage and affords great views of the Statue of Liberty, don't disembark just stay on and return to Manhattan

https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/ferrybus/staten-island-ferry.shtml

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In other words the viewing deck at the top of the Rockefeller Centre

https://www.rockefellercenter.com/attractions/top-of-the-rock-observation-deck/

30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112

Enter on 50th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues

212.698.2000

info@rockefellercenter.com

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Take in 360-degree views of New York City.

Believe the hype. Top of the Rock's three levels of indoor and outdoor observation decks deliver spectacular, unobstructed views of the city skyline. With terraces facing east, west, north, and south, Top of the Rock's panoramic sights make it the ultimate observation deck in NYC. At the pinnacle of 30 Rockefeller Plaza's 70 floors, it's one of the top things to do in New York City.

The Top of the Rock experience is being reimagined and exciting new additions to the observation decks are on the horizon. While we are under construction, you can still expect the same fantastic views, but please note that access to specific areas may be limited while we work hard to bring new features to Top of the Rock.

Hours

Daily from 9:00 am - midnight

Last entry at 11:10pm.

Contact Us

General Admission

See the best NYC view from 70 floors up at our indoor and outdoor observation decks.

Buy Tickets Starting at $34

Express Pass

Get immediate entry at any time on the day of your choice, priority elevator access, and a 20% discount at the gift shop.

Buy Tickets $85

VIP Tour

Skip the line and go on a guided, exclusive tour of the top of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, including Top of the Rock Observation Deck and Rainbow Room (based on availability.)

Buy Tickets $125

Timed Ticketing

You won't wait in long lines to enter Top of the Rock. Our timed ticketing means you are granted immediate entry at your scheduled time.

Weather Guarantee

If poor weather or visibility affect the day of your visit, we will gladly reissue your ticket for a later time or date.

Re-Issue Guarantee

If your plans change, please contact us 24 hours prior to your scheduled visit and we will reissue your ticket for a different date.

No Hidden Fees

Top of the Rock has no hidden convenience fees, so there are no surprises at checkout.

Plan Your Visit

Set 70 floors above Rockefeller Center, Top of The Rock lets you experience New York City like never before. Plan your visit to Top of The Rock today!

Tickets

Purchase your Top of the Rock tickets online and avoid waiting in line at the box office.

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What to expect

From your arrival to the journey to the top, find out everything you need to know about the Top of the Rock experience.

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Directions

Top of the Rock can be found at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. You'll enter on 50th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues. If you're taking the subway, the 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctr Station is the closest station.

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Accessibility

Top of the Rock is wheelchair accessible and stroller, and service animal friendly. Printed transcripts and audio headsets are available upon request.

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Nothing beats this view: The best rooftop in NYC

North View South View West View East View

See Central Park and the Upper East and West Sides, the 57th Street skyscrapers, and Harlem, all the way to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and beyond.

Journey to the top of Rockefeller Center

Top of the Rock Audio Tour

FAQs

General Ticketing & Refunds Miscellaneous New Frontiers

The Top of the Rock experience is being reimagined and exciting new additions to the observation decks are on the horizon. During the construction period, Top of the Rock visitors will experience a limited-time, must-see installation featuring all local New York artists and inspired by the original vision of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his wife, Abby Aldrich, who curated the original art of Rockefeller Center around a central theme: New Frontiers. Each artwork is interactive, making the guest its subject, demonstrating how our future is shaped by having you in it.

Beginning in 2024, guests will be able to follow in the footsteps of the ironworkers who constructed Rockefeller Center on the Beam Ride as they recreate the famous Lunch atop a Skyscraper photo. Upon the completion of the new Top of the Rock, an entirely new mezzanine level exhibit and theater experience will open and visitors will be able to soar 30 feet into the air on the Sky Lift delivering NYC's only private, unobstructed 360-degree view.

While we are under construction (Beginning February 1, 2023), you can still expect the same fantastic views, but please note that access to specific areas may be limited while we work hard to bring new features to Top of the Rock.

No. However, there are a number of bars and restaurants located at Rockefeller Center. A full list can be viewed here.

No. There are no private event spaces at Top of the Rock. Rockefeller Center however offers a wide range of private event space options, some with incredible views. Visit our Private Events page to learn more.

Hours

Daily from 9:00 am - midnight

Last entry at 11:10pm.

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Art in Focus

Apr 24-Aug 6 Rockefeller Center Free and open to the public

Audio Tour

Uncover Rockefeller Center's art, history, and hidden gems with our self-guided audio tour.

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Dining

Fine dining or quick bites - Rockefeller Center is home to some of the best eats in New York.

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Top of the Rock NYC Observation Deck | Best Skyline Views of Manhattan

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United Nations

One of the landmark places in Manhattan

https://www.un.org/en/visit

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It's up to you how much time you spend here, but it's a sobering reminder

https://www.911memorial.org/

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Homepage | National September 11 Memorial & Museum

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Ensuring that students in classrooms across the U.S. learn not only the history of 9/11 but also its context remains central to our mission. Now more than ever, we encourage you to explore our age-appropriate lesson plans and programs, developed to help educators impart what transpired before, during, and after the attacks.

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One of the great art galleries in the world and I believe you can offer donations rather than pay the full whack... you need to have nerves of steel to offer $2

https://www.metmuseum.org/

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Over 5,000 years of art from around the world.

Hours: Sunday-Tuesday and Thursday: 10 am-5 pm

Extended Hours: Friday and Saturday: 10 am-9 pm

Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, January 1, and the first Monday in May.

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If you only do one thing of culture!!

https://www.moma.org/

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I'm intending to visit a number of churches , something I very rarely do in NYC, I might visit a synagogue too.

It just is so obvious but no one tends to do it?

https://www.littlechurch.org/

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From our founding in 1848 to the Civil War, and our longstanding ties to the theater, discover the vibrant history of our little church.

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The Cathedral Church of St John  the Evangelist

https://www.stjohndivine.org/

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The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is the Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and is chartered as a house of prayer for all people and a unifying center of intellectual light and leadership.

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https://www.bhphotovideo.com/
and it has video cameras, sound equipment etc.

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https://www.artechouse.com/
Just an amazing, immersive experience, mainly based in one room. Will make you think about the way you exhibit your work!

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If you're midtown Manhattan in the middle of the night and feeling peckish, head to the legendary Tick Tock Diner. Open 24 hours.

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If you're midtown Manhattan in the middle of the night and feeling peckish, head to the legendary Tick Tock Diner. Open 24 hours.

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I love my guitars. Therefore, I will be going to Sam ash Music.
https://locations.samash.com/ny/nyc/7/

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https://katzsdelicatessen.com/

Send a salami to your boy in the army

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Eisenbergs Sandwich shop

I came across this hidden gem quite by chance last time I was in NYC. It's really old style NYC and it reeks of authenticity

https://www.eisenbergsnyc.com/

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McSorley's old ale house

I like to visit and Joe, Paul Lander, Paul Barrett, Rakhi and Ellie Guest joined me last time... I think James Gwynne is coming this time

https://mcsorleysoldalehouse.nyc/

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Matty Maher, an Institution at an Institution, McSorley's, Dies at 80

As bartender, manager and owner, he helped the East Village saloon survive neighborhood blight and change its ways by admitting women and banning smoking.

Matty Maher and the establishment he joined in 1964 as a bartender. He eventually became its manager, and then proprietor.Credit...Ari Mintz/Newsday RM, via Getty Images

Matty Maher, the patriarch of only the third family to steward the venerable dive bar McSorley's Old Ale House since it opened in the East Village of Manhattan in the mid-19th century, died on Saturday in Queens. He was 80.

The cause was lung cancer, his daughter Teresa de la Haba said.

Mr. Maher, who could trace his career at McSorley's to a bit of end-of-the-rainbow serendipity in Ireland, began by tending bar at the saloon in 1964 as an Irish immigrant.

He graduated to manager as the beer hall, surrounded by neighborhood blight near the Bowery, tottered at the brink of bankruptcy; survived the loss of a gender discrimination case in 1970 that forced McSorley's to delete the last two words of its durable slogan vowing "Good Ale, Raw Onions, and No Ladies"; and endured a Health Department ordinance that, while it banned smoking, had the unintended consequence, Mr. Maher said, of encouraging customers to drink more.

The bar was immortalized early in the 20th century by the paintings of John Sloan of the Ashcan School (one, displayed at the 1913 Armory Show, was said to have been priced at $500 and failed to sell) and by Joseph Mitchell's 1940 profile in The New Yorker titled "The Old House at Home," the bar's name when it was opened by John McSorley about 1854.

Mitchell had distinguished McSorley's as a "dark and gloomy," unpretentious and "utterly democratic" place where malt and wet hops contributed to "a thick musty smell that acts as a balm to jerky nerves."

Mr. Maher was perfectly cast as the publican.

"He was a five-foot-eight spark plug," the author and journalist Rafe Bartholomew wrote in a memoir, "Two and Two: McSorley's, My Dad, and Me" (2017), "with the Irish gift of gab, a belly laugh that could fill the front room and an explosive temper when he needed it."

When an amateur historian challenged McSorley's reputation as New York's oldest Irish pub, Mr. Maher commissioned a regular customer, Bill Wander, to turn the tables and prove the bar's date of birth, which he did.

In 1936, the McSorley family sold the bar to Daniel O'Connell, a patron and police officer, who left it to his daughter, Dorothy Kirwin. In 1964, while vacationing near Kilkenny, Ireland, Ms. Kirwin's husband, Harry, was stranded with a flat tire when who should come along to offer help but 25-year-old Matty Maher.

Harry Kirwin promised Matty a job at McSorley's if he ever moved to New York. He accepted the offer, set off for America and ultimately, in 1977, bought the bar and the building it occupies, at 15 East Seventh Street near Cooper Square, from the Kirwins' son.

Mr. Maher, center, had a word with the New York City police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, left, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in 2004 during a celebration of McSorley's 150th anniversary.Credit...Kristen Artz/Office of the Mayor, via Associated Press

Matthew Dennis Maher was born on Nov. 8, 1939, in Kilkenny to Patrick and Ellen (Fogarty) Maher. His father was a farmer, his mother a cook.

After leaving school at 14, he worked for a farmer, drove a delivery truck for a local meat company and caught foxes, providing them to wealthy landowners for hunts.

He married Teresa Mary Brady of County Meath, Ireland. She and Ms. de la Haba survive him, along with four other daughters, Ann Marie Pullman, Kathy Isaakidis, Adrienne Noyes and Maeve McNamara, and 12 grandchildren. Mr. Maher, who died at Flushing Hospital, lived in the Malba section of northern Queens.

Though he retired years ago, Mr. Maher, like McSorley's itself, was a font of froth and fact about the bar and its memorabilia, which includes a sawdust-sprinkled floor, a pair of Harry Houdini's escape-proof handcuffs, a wanted poster for "the Murderer" John Wilkes Booth and an icky accumulation of wishbones that dangles from a gas lamp over the bar.

Mr. Maher would explain that the turkey furcula tradition dated to World War I, when departing doughboys, after finishing their last full meal stateside, would hang the bones above the bar as a good luck wish that they would return safely.

As a bartender, manager and owner, he was philosophical, often reminding family and friends, "It's not what you become in life but what you overcome."

In 1970, after Mayor John V. Lindsay signed legislation barring discrimination in public places because of gender, altercations erupted at McSorley's between longtime customers and female newcomers.

"I'm afraid it will be this way for a few days," Mr. Maher told The New York Times. "They're a little upset, you see."

It took a little longer, until 1986, in fact, until McSorley's added a women's restroom. Still, Mr. Maher said, the bar somehow survived.

"That was the end of an era," he said, "but it hasn't changed McSorley's." If anything, he said, publicity over the lawsuit benefited business.

"When I started working for him full time 26 years ago, I was McSorley's first female bartender and a little nervous going in - wondering what the old-timers would say or think," his daughter Teresa said. (Her husband, Gregory, is an artist and bartender there, too.) "But my father said these words to quell my concerns: 'Teresa, just tell them you're about your father's business.' And so, I am. And continue to be."

Sam Roberts, an obituaries reporter, was previously The Times's urban affairs correspondent and is the host of "The New York Times Close Up," a weekly news and interview program on CUNY-TV. @samrob12

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 14, 2020, Section A, Page 21 of the New York edition with the headline: Matty Maher, 80; Tended Bar, and a Legacy, at McSorley's.
Wake Tuesday January 14
Gleasons Funeral Home

Northern Blvd at 149th street, Flushing.

2:00-10:00pm

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THE METROPOLITAN

https://www.metmuseum.org/1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street

New York, 10028

($17 with student ID.)

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Over 5,000 years of art from around the world.

Hours: Sunday-Tuesday and Thursday: 10 am-5 pm

Extended Hours: Friday and Saturday: 10 am-9 pm

Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, January 1, and the first Monday in May.

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EDWARD HOPPER Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art. https://whitney.org/ 99 Gansevoort Street NY 10014  ($18 with student ID.)

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117 West Street
New York, New York 10007

Entrance on West Street (Around $44)

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One World Observatory | Best of New York City Attractions

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Climb 102 floors in 47 seconds to the top of One World Trade Center at One World Observatory!

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$8 return ferry.Wall Street/Pier 11 (Ferry details TBC). Gouverneur Lane at South Street, F.D.R. Drive

Manhattan, NY 10005*Covid masks must be worn on ferry crossings.

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Mayor Eric Adams and the Trust for Governors Island announced the selection of a new anchor institution for the Center for Climate Solutions following a two-year competitive process. The Exchange, led by Stony Brook University, will be a first-of-its-kind, cross-sector nonprofit organization dedicated to climate research, solution development, education, workforce training, and public programs on Governors Island. Click here to read the full announcement →

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Governors Island is a 172-acre island in Upper New York Bay, approximately 800 yards from the southern tip of Manhattan.

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This is the iconic New York that so many visitors imagine before they visit—spectacular skyscrapers like the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building, iconic public buildings like Grand Central Terminal and the New York Public Library, and the non-stop hustle and bustle of the city streets.

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Saint Patrick's Cathedral, St. Patrick's Cathedral The Cathedral of St. Patrick is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral church in the United States and a prominent landmark of New York City.

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Be transported by the iconic beauty and lasting legacy of Grand Central Terminal.
This historic world-famous landmark in Midtown Manhattan is not simply a transportation hub - it's also a shopping, dining, and cultural destination all under one magnificent roof. Opened to the public in February 1913, Grand Central Terminal is a story of great engineering, survival, and rebirth. In 1978, architect Philip Johnson and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis campaigned to secure landmark status for the Terminal, ensuring the building would serve New Yorkers for generations to come.

Grand Central Terminal is one of the country's great architectural achievements and New York City's unofficial meeting place with thousands of people choosing to "meet me at the clock" -rendezvousing with friends and loved ones each day at the opal-faced Main Concourse Information Booth Clock. Hailed as a temple to the everyday commuter, this cathedral-like building was constructed to honor you, its visitors.

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"Grand Central Terminal stands as a universal symbol between New York City's past and present."

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Visit Grand Central Terminal

The Information Booth Clock, the Whispering Gallery, the Main Concourse celestial ceiling, the Tiffany glass clock & Transportation statuary, the over 65 shops & restaurants... There are countless reasons to visit Grand Central, and over 750,000 daily visitors to prove it! What's your reason?

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Time for Lunch

Central Market New York

Lower Level Dining Concourse

Pescatore Sushi & Noodles

Grand Central Market

Zaro's Family Bakery

Dining Concourse (Track 103), Track 19 & Shuttle Passage (Track 34)

TRAVELING THROUGH GRAND CENTRAL

Grand Central Terminal is located at 89 E. 42nd Street (at Park Avenue). Prepare for your upcoming travel with a little help from the MTA and Metro-North Railroad.

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Shop, dine, and explore one of New York's most treasured landmarks - and one of the country's busiest transportation icons - at Grand Central Terminal.

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Your Official Guide to Central Park I Central Park Conservancy

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The organization that cares for NYC's iconic 843-acre park offers public tours, family activities, and expert insight to help you get to know our beloved greenspace.

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The iconic Brooklyn Bridge connects Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights. Known for its stone arches, the Brooklyn Bridge supports six lanes of vehicles (no trucks) and a shared pedestrian and bicycle path.

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About the Bridge

The iconic Brooklyn Bridge connects Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights. Known for its stone arches, the Brooklyn Bridge supports six lanes of vehicles (no trucks) and a shared pedestrian and bicycle path. As of 2018, an average of over 116,000 vehicles, 30,000 pedestrians and 3,000 cyclists travel over the Brooklyn Bridge each day.

Bridge Facts

Total length of bridge and approaches: 6,016 feet

Main span: 1,595.5 feet

Clearance at center: 135 feet

History

The Brooklyn Bridge was designed by John A. Roebling. Construction began in 1869 and was completed in 1883. At the time, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River.

Because of the elevation of the span above the East River and the relatively low-lying shores, the rest of the bridge, sloping down to ground level, extends quite far inland on both sides of the river.

Between 1944 and 1954, a comprehensive reconstruction took place. The inner and outer trusses were strengthened, new horizontal stays were installed between the four main cables, the railroad and trolley tracks were removed, the roadways were widened from two lanes to three lanes, and new approach ramps were constructed. Additional approach ramps to the FDR Drive were opened to traffic in 1969.

The Brooklyn Bridge was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972. The bridge and multiple Manhattan and Brooklyn lots comprising the approaches were designated as NYC Landmarks in 1967. In recent decades, the structure has been refurbished to handle the traffic demands during its second century.

In September 2021, a two-way protected bike lane opened along the Brooklyn Bridge, repurposing one lane of vehicular traffic to accommodate the rise of cycling in NYC.

Current Projects

News and Notices

Follow Brooklyn Bridge on Facebook for the most recent construction news and notices, posted by NYC DOT.

Rehabilitation of Towers and Approach Arches

During Contract 7, NYC DOT will improve the load carrying capacity of the arch blocks and strengthen the masonry towers while focusing on repairs of the historic brick and granite components. The contract began in September 2019 and will continue until 2023.

Project Scope:

Strengthen masonry towers

Rehabilitate arch blocks and foundations

Replace brick infill walls

Rehabilitate basement floors

Repoint and reset granite stones

Improve lighting at the towers

Impacts:

Occasional lane closures will take place to inspect and repair bridge components

The bridge promenade will be open at all times, although portions of the walkway may be narrowed at times

Limited vehicular lane and sidewalk closures

Construction Project Contact:

Please contact Anita Navalurkar, the Brooklyn Bridge Community Liaison, with questions about the Brooklyn Bridge Rehabilitation project at 347-647-0876 or brooklynbridgeoutreach@gmail.com.

Previous Contracts

Contract 5D (1998-2000): Brooklyn Bridge Emergency Re-Decking Contract, $37M

Contract 5 (2007-2009): Brooklyn Bridge Travelers Replacement, $45M

Contract 6 (2010-2017): Rehabilitation of Approaches and Ramp Super Structure, Painting of the Whole Bridge, $650M

Contract 6A (2017-2019): Rehabilitation of Stone Masonry Walls at Bridge Approaches and Ramps, Sandy Related, $18M

Upcoming Contracts

The Brooklyn Bridge is continuously maintained in a State of Good Repair through capital projects and routine, in-house repairs to improve its components as they withstand weather conditions and vehicular traffic.

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The iconic Brooklyn Bridge connects Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights. Known for its stone arches, the Brooklyn Bridge supports six lanes of vehicles (no trucks) and a shared pedestrian and bicycle path. As of 2018, an average of over 116,000 vehicles, 30,000 pedestrians and 3,000 cyclists travel over the Brooklyn Bridge each day.

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Dear Friends of Coney Island USA:

It is with sadness that we announce the cancellation of the 2021 Mermaid Parade.

When we set the September date, we hoped that the Parade, the largest art parade in the nation and a point of civic pride for Coney Island, would represent a return to normalcy. Unfortunately, COVID-19 is not finished with us quite yet.

The Parade draws hundreds of thousands to Coney Island every year, including large numbers of children, many crowding onto mass transit for the ride out to Stillwell Avenue. It is the centerpiece of the CIUSA calendar, and we are very proud of the positive impact that the Parade has on our Coney Island community. However, the risks to our sponsors, patrons, community, and our wonderful staff-who have risen to every challenge-were too much to bear.

We are all disappointed and apologize to those of you who, like us, were looking forward to this annual celebration of life, creativity, and togetherness, post-2020.

Please be assured that the Mermaid Parade will return in 2022, better than ever!

In the meantime, help support Coney Island USA by attending one of our ticketed events, becoming a member, and above all-BY GETTING VACCINATED!!
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from the Officers and Directors of Coney Island USA

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Defending the Honor of American Popular Culture

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Dear Friends of Coney Island USA: It is with sadness that we announce the cancellation of the 2021 Mermaid Parade. When we set the September date, we hoped that the Parade, the largest art parade in the nation and a point of civic pride for Coney Island, would represent a return to normalcy.

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Our collection of books is specialized in illustrated subjects – fashion, interior design, art, architecture, photography, design – and literature, in Italian, Spanish, French, and English. But all subjects of general interest are represented and we carry a selection of European magazines and newspapers. We also carry a fine selection of compact discs and DVDs, and our selection of note cards and stationery is a constant delight to our customers.

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Welcome to the Most Beautiful Bookstore in New York

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Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street.

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The following article and photos first appeared in a blog post written by Michael McMenamin for The Museum of the City of New York and are reused here courtesy of the museum.

Originally known as Long Acre (also Longacre) Square after London's carriage district, Times Square served as the early site for William H. Vanderbilt's American Horse Exchange. In the late 1880s, Long Acre Square consisted of a large open space surrounded by drab apartments. Soon, however, the neighborhood began to change. Electricity, in the form of theater advertisements and street lights, transformed public space into a safer, more inviting environment. Likewise, the construction of New York's first rapid transit system, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), gave New Yorkers unprecedented mobility in the city.
Byron Company. Street Scenes, Broadway & 42nd Street, 1898. Museum of the City of New York. 41.50.865; Byron Company. Longacre Square (Now Times Square), Broadway and 42nd Street, 1900. Museum of the City of New York. 93.1.1.17932
The announcement of the IRT spurred real estate speculation by shrewd businessmen who believed that increased foot traffic in the area would generate profits. Adolph S. Ochs, owner and publisher of The New York Times from 1896 to 1935, saw an opportunity and selected a highly visible location to build the Times Tower, which was the second tallest building in the city at the time. In January 1905, the Times finally moved into their new headquarters, built between Broadway and Seventh Avenue and 42nd and 43rd Streets. The previous spring, Mayor George B. McClellan signed a resolution that renamed the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue from Long Acre Square to Times Square.

Ochs told the Syracuse Herald, "I am pleased to say that Times Square was named without any effort or suggestion on the part of The Times." Yet, he clearly felt proud: the new building represented "the first successful effort in New York to give architectural beauty to a skyscraper," he said. Within a decade, the Times outgrew their space and moved to a new location, but not before starting a tradition that continues today: the New Year's Eve spectacular. Ochs staged the first event to commemorate the new building and crowds still gather today to bring in the new year.
World Wide Photos, Inc. [Adolph Ochs.], ca. 1915-1935. Museum of the City of New York. F2012.58.976 Byron Company. Buildings, Times Building Under Construction, ca. 1903. Museum of the City of New York. 93.1.1.16687
Although the Times moved to a new location, the tower still stands as a focal point in Times Square. Similarly, two statues have remained prominent monuments in the area. Father Duffy Square encompasses the northern triangle of Times Square. In 1909, a temporary eight-ton statue entitled Purity (Defeat of Slander) by Leo Lentelli dominated the space. Now, statues of Father Duffy and George M. Cohan grace the scene. Born in Canada, Father Francis Patrick Duffy (1871-1932) eventually moved to New York City. He served as a military chaplain in both the Spanish-American War and World War I. Upon his return to the city, he became pastor of Holy Cross Church, located at 237 West 42nd Street. His statue, designed by Charles Keck (1875 - 1951) faces his former church. The bronze statue of George M. Cohan (1878 - 1942), a composer, playwright, and actor, sits at the park's southern end. He is best known for his hit song, Give my regards to Broadway: "Give my regards to Broadway / Remember me in Herald Square / Tell all the gang at 42nd Street that I will soon be there."
Robert L. Bracklow (1849-1919). [Policeman in front of monument entitled "Defeat of Slander"], 1910. Museum of the City of New York. 93.91.233 Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964). Statue of Father Duffy, Times Square, May 15, 1937. Museum of the City of New York. X2010.8.566 Image used with permission from the Van Vechten Trust. Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964). George M. Cohan, October 23, 1933. Museum of the City of New York. 42.316.267 Image used with permission from the Van Vechten Trust.
George M. Cohan's position in Times Square re-emphasizes the district's long association with theater. By World War I, most legitimate theaters had moved to Times Square from former entertainment districts further downtown. Respected restaurants and high-end hotels, like the Astor and the Knickerbocker, established themselves in the neighborhood, thus contributing to a thriving environment. While popular bars, restaurants, and theaters attracted people to the area, it was the development of public transportation that facilitated Times Square's dramatic growth. For example, in 1905, the first year of operation, the IRT Times Square station serviced almost five million passengers. By the late 1920s, subway lines, elevated lines, and bus routes all stopped at West 42nd Street. It thus became an irrefutable hub of the city, transporting not only city dwellers, but also affluent suburbanites and visitors.

Sadly, the Great Depression hampered this growth. As theaters struggled to survive during this period, many became cheap 'grinder' houses that showed sexually explicit films. Soon, other lower forms of entertainment arrived in the area: burlesque shows, cheap restaurants, peep shows, dance halls, and penny arcades. Then, commercialized sex proliferated throughout the neighborhood as both male and female prostitutes began lingering along 42nd Street. The advent of World War II did little to improve Times Square's reputation. Soldiers on leave, in search of erotic entertainment, further catalyzed the neighborhood into a zone for vice. Likewise, construction restrictions during the war worsened conditions by halting the city's building boom of the 1920s. Times Square had begun a descent into disrepair and depravity.
Thaddeus Wilkerson (1872-1943). Hotel Knickerbocker, New York, ca. 1910. Museum of the City of New York. F2011.33.411 United States. Office of War Information. Times Square at night, 1944. Museum of the City of New York. 90.28.79
World War II had another, very visible effect on Times Square. In May of 1942, Mayor La Guardia announced a dimout. Interior and exterior lighting, in addition to illuminated advertising and building lights, were required to be turned off or directed downward. The order sought to protect pedestrians silhouetted against the horizon from enemy submarines in coastal waters. The dimout was so extensive that the WPA announced that they would place blackout masks on 90,900 traffic lights throughout the city. Likewise, the electric news sign belting the Times Tower went dark for the first time since its debut in 1928. For nearly fourteen years, the sign attracted billions of spectators with the most news-worthy headlines. Frank Powell, one of three electricians tasked with the sign's maintenance, stated on the night of the dimout: "All I want is to start it up again the night Hitler gets killed. That would tickle me to death."
Charles Ditchfield (no dates). Mary Gets Going. [Soldiers and girl dancing in Times Square.], ca. 1945. Museum of the City of New York. X2010.11.4027
The negative impacts of the Great Depression and World War II on Times Square solidified over time. In the 1950s, attempts to stop the growth of disreputable businesses through zoning rules met with few results. Then the 1960s arrived. As one scholar notes, "the libertarianism of the sixties" changed the meaning of "obscene," thereby opening a space for the public sale of adult allurements. For example, the success of the twenty-five cent peep show, introduced in 1966, spurred other small businesses to follow the trend by selling adult films and erotic merchandise. Profits rose, the cost of leases sky rocketed, and then the mob "muscled in around 1968." On the streets, prostitution by all genders, open drug trade, alcoholism, and con games, like three-card monte and clio, became commonplace. Inside, crime thrived in the underground corridors of the subway and the passages at the Port Authority Bus Terminal despite the abundance of police. By the late 1970s, the Times Square area recorded the most felony and net crime complaints in the city. That said, not all activity in the neighborhood was bad; in 1973, the first TKTS booth opened to provide affordable theater admission with the hope of increasing Broadway attendance. Nevertheless, Times Square's reputation ranked very low in the public consciousness. In 1981, Rolling Stone declared West 42nd Street the "sleaziest block in America." Likewise, one scholar wrote, "The Great White Way is now a byword for ostentatious flesh-peddling in an open-air meat rack."

Indeed, male "hustling" became pervasive in the area as people exchanged money, illegal drugs, or other forms of payment for sexual favors. Time Square's central location, which once allowed the district to flourish as a prominent locale for high-end entertainment, now facilitated the sex market. The influx of commuters, especially during rush hours, made male prostitution fairly easy and relatively frequent. The flow of human traffic during these periods allowed clients to solicit sex without attracting much attention.

In addition to the sex market, the drug trade also profoundly affected Times Square. Efforts to address the increase in prostitution, especially by juveniles, were derailed by the arrival of crack cocaine to Times Square in 1986. As a result, crime rates spiked and continued to increase through 1989. The addictiveness of crack made it an especially insidious drug, as users focused their energy and resources on scoring the next 'hit'. Crack dealers, junkies, and the cardboard encampments of the homeless took over the streets.
Andreas Feininger (1906-1999). 1595 Broadway, 1983. Museum of the City of New York. 90.40.25
Despite Times Square's notorious reputation, it managed to maintain its powerful symbolism, in part because of its "chaotic action, dense and diverse pedestrian activity, [and] continuous role as the key entertainment district." It also remained a central transit hub and offered a "unique physical 'experience of place,' which derived from its small-scale buildings, open space, and illuminated lights." Times Square's symbolic meaning, therefore, ignited debate and opposition with any proposed plan for renewal.

In addition to the district's symbolism, efforts at redevelopment also proved challenging, in part, because the adult industry made huge profits. For example, CUNY researchers estimated that the weekly gross of peep shows ranged from $74,000 to $106,000 in 1978.
Alfred Mainzer (no dates). [Times Square], ca. 1980. Museum of the City of New York. F2011.33.149
Likewise, property ownership was convoluted as landlords sought to create distance between themselves and those who ran the porno shops and peep shows on their property. The redevelopment project focused on revitalizing 42nd street as a theater and entertainment center. After tremendous time, money, and effort, Times Square slowly began to transform as adult stores and sleazy theaters were replaced by child-oriented stores and successful musicals. As tourist activity increased, Times Square continued to improve. A new TKTS sales center was installed. Further construction stopped vehicular traffic and made the plaza area more inviting to pedestrians. In 2008, the newly designed Duffy Square was re-opened to the public. Times Square has experienced flourishes of creative vibrancy and periods of great depravity, and yet it remains "the crossroads of the world."

Read more about the history of New York City and see more photos from the City Museum's collections on their blog.
Against All Odds: Transforming 42nd Street
In 2018, the New York City Economic Development Council created a short documentary about the economic transformation of 42nd Street in New York City starting in the early 1980s, from the center of vice and crime in NYC to an area where millions of people pass through each year. Against All Odds tells the story through interviews with the people who made this transformation happen - project leaders, real estate developers, architects, law enforcement officials, and historic preservationists.

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History of Times Square | Times Square NYC

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FROM DAZZLING TO DIRTY AND BACK AGAIN: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIMES SQUAREThe following article and photos first appeared in a blog post written by Michael McMenamin for The Museum of the City of New York and are reused here courtesy of the museum.Originally known as Long Acre (also Longacre) Square after London's carriage district, Times Square served as the early site for

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Multi-level '50s-themed diner with singing servers & an extensive menu of American classics - queues might be long but definitely sounds worth it!

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