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Adventuring outside of New York City
When it comes to vacations there is nothing like going on an adventure. Not to say going to New York is not an adventure in itself but a different kind of adventure, one that puts you in the middle of all the action, one that gets your heart rate up with anticipation of what going to happen next. MORE
Housed in a colorful collection of salvaged shipping containers, the new and vibrant Dekalb Market fosters creative entrepreneurs while providing a quirky shopping and gathering environment for the public. This relaxed community setting carefully curates its selection of artists, farmers, and chefs to house the best possible collection of sellers.
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Museum of the City of New York
MCNY is a unique museum that celebrates and interprets the city's past as well as its future. Through multimedia exhibits it serves to educate the public about New York City's distinctive heritage of diversity, opportunity, and constant transformation. With exhibitions that draw from the museum's collections, they aim to present cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary scholarship. They look to the past in order to prepare everyone for the future.
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The mission of Dialog in the Dark is to encourage social inclusion of disabled people across the world. This extraordinary exhibit employs blind guides to lead visitors through a pitch-black simulation of common daily environments such as a park or cityscape. In the dark, visitors must rely on the guides for security and orientation, as well as their own senses. They get to 'see' what it's like to live as a blind person – very unsettling indeed.
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Discovery Times Square: CSI, a groundbreaking exhibit that immerses visitors in the role of a crime scene investigator! As the latest recruit in the bustling world of forensic science, guests are guided by videos featuring cast members of the famous CSI TV show.
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New Skirmishes Among Metropolitan Museum Vendors
In the continuing hot dog wars in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the military men have returned the sidewalk.
The two men, Armando Crescenzi and Harold Dalton, are former soldiers who now hold a position on the museum's plaza, brandishing veteran vending permits that they say give them the right to sell hot dogs to the throngs of hungry tourists and visitors in front of the entrance to the museum.
Their arrival has upset a peaceful period there during which three other vendors operated in relative harmony: a hot dog cart, a gourmet pretzel stand and an upscale seller of cupcakes and milkshakes.
The pretzel and cupcake carts pay the city about $100,000 each to operate there, but the hot dog operator pays nothing. He is a former Marine, Dan Rossi, who invokes a 19th-century state law that allows disabled veterans to sell in some areas of the city where other vendors must pay to occupy.
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With the tagline, 'butterflies alive in winter!', the American Museum of Natural History is set to perform its Butterfly Conservatory tradition once again. Opening October 8th, this beautiful winter attraction offers a tropical respite from the cold, as well as the chance to mingle with up to 500 iridescent butterflies. The butterflies are enclosed inside a freestanding, balmy, 1,200-square-foot 'habitat' with blooming tropical flowers and lush green vegetation.
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This legendary classic, originally produced in 1971, returns to Broadway in a whirlwind of priceless musical nostalgia. As the former members of 'Weissman's Follies' gather for a bittersweet reunion on the eve of their theatre's demolition, two couples remember their complicated pasts. The audience follows them through a philosophical tangle of emotions and desires: a look at the 'follies' of youth through the aging eyes of experience.
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The Samsung Experience at Time Warner Center offers the benefits of a complete technology lounge, with free use of over 100 of Samsung's latest products. Visitors can try out the most sophisticated LED TVs, plasma TVs, photography equipment, home appliances, home theatre systems, and notebooks.
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The premise of Voca People is this: an octet of white aliens crash their music-powered ship, land off-Broadway, andproceed to teach Earthlings the 'art of accapella'. The Voca show relies heavily on audience participation: in a funny segment they manage to empty out an audience member's brain, and then run through the entire Earthling music history in a dazzling, genre-bending medley.
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Graced by celebrities from Lady Gaga to Dennis Rodman, Headquarters is off the beaten path, hidden in Hell’s Kitchen—but, if you’re intrigued by exotic entertainment, don’t leave New York City without coming here. Enjoy a steak in their restaurant and then a feast for your eyes. New York Nightlife gave them a 9.8, City Search ranked them as #1 Gentlemen’s Club three years in a row, and Zagats says they’re “very good to excellent.” www.hqnewyork.com, 212-967-4646. 552 West 38th St. (11th & 12th aves.)
Housed in a colorful collection of salvaged shipping containers, the new and vibrant 
