attractions, activities, and restroom facilities, go to www.centralparknyc.org.

To see a full list of the

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built around 1700. Alice, a 19th-century photographer, lived most of her life here and took more than 9,000 photographs of the evolution of New York, but they went almost unnoticed, and at the age of 84, having lost everything in the stock-market crash, she had to move into the poorhouse. Only a year later, she and her work were ÒdiscoveredÓ by Life magazine, and she was able to spend her last months in a nursing home. Her photos are exhibited in the house on a rotating basis. (Take the S51 bus from the ferry.)

CENTRAL PARK

C E N T R A L PA R K R A N G E S 5 1 B L O C K S , from Central Park South (59th Street) to Central Park North (110th Street), and three eastÐwest avenue blocks, from Fifth to Eighth. It is crossed from east to west in only five places, at roughly 65th, 72nd, 79th, 85th, and 97th streets. Most of the

transverse roads have pleasant curves rather than

gridlike rigidity, and vehicular traffic is prohibited unofficial T I P during the middle of the day and all weekend.

Several of the most famous, and visible, childrenÕs attractions are in the southernmost segment of the park, including Wollman

Rink (restored by Donald Trump; # 212-439-

6900; www.wollmanskatingrink.com), which during warm weather is transformed into the Victorian Gardens amusement park; the Pond, a reed-edged sanctuary filled with ducks and other wildlife, curled up in the southeast corner of the park near Grand Army Plaza; the Central Park Zoo and Tisch Children’s Zoo (# 212-439-6500; www.central parkzoo.com); and the Carousel (# 212-879-0244; www.centralpark carousel.com). A 1908 model with 58 hand-carved horses, south of the 65th Street transverse, the Carousel was moved to Central Park from Coney Island in 1951, replacing a far less attractive merry-go-round.

As you face north, the Dairy is to the right of the Carousel, closer to Fifth Avenue. The twin-peaked shed is now the main visitor center (# 212-794-6564); Urban Park Rangers (# 212-628-2345 or 212-860-1370) sometimes lead tours of the park from here. The Chess and Checkers House, a gift of financier Bernard Baruch, is on a rock just southwest of the Dairy. On the other side of the Carousel, across Center Drive, are Heckscher Playground and the softball fields, which pretty much fill up the southwest part of this section to Columbus Circle.

The frontispiece of the zoo, near where East 64th Street runs into Fifth Avenue, is the medieval-looking Arsenal building (# 212-360- 1311), which originally earned its cannon, but which, in the years since it was built in 1851, has been a weather station, a police station, a menagerie, the original Museum of Natural History, and, finally, headquarters of the Parks and Recreation Department. The original

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Central Park

1.Alice in Wonderland Statue

2.Arsenal

3.Balto Statue

4.The Bandshell

5.Belvedere Castle

6.Bethesda Terrace & Bethesda Fountain

7.Boathouse Cafe

8.Bow Bridge

9.Carousel

10.Central Park Zoo

11.Charles A. Dana

Discovery Center

12.Cleopatra’s Needle (The Obelisk)

13.Conservatory

14.Conservatory Garden

15.The Dairy–Visitor Center

16.Delacorte Music Clock

17.Delacorte Theater

18.Diana Ross Playground

19.Hans Christian Andersen Statue

20.Harlem Meer

21.Heckscher Ball Fields

22.Heckscher Playground

23.Henry Luce

Nature Observatory

24.Imagine Mosaic

25.Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir

26.Lasker Rink and Pool

27.Literary Walk

28.Loeb Boathouse

29.The Mall

30.North Meadow Ball Fields

31.Pat Hoffman Friedman Playground

32.The Pool

33.Rustic Playground

34.Shakespeare Garden

35.Spector Playground

36.Summit Rock

37.Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre

38.Tennis Courts

39.Tisch Children’s Zoo

40.Wollman Rink–Victorian Gardens

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Olmsted-Vaux plans for the park are exhibited here, along with murals in the lobby showing the buildingÕs military and museum past.

The Zoo itself was renovated in the late 1980s; the parks department found new homes for the animals that were too large for such a crowded facility, and it constructed more-contemporary, eco-sensitive settings for the animals that were kept. The monkey house is now a real jungle gym, the bats have an eternally nocturnal home, and the reptiles have a swamp that is almost a pre-Olmsted joke.

The Sheep Meadow, a pet project of Boss Tweed, is the 15-acre green alongside the Tavern. Nearby are the immaculate

and Croquet Field, where top-ranked competitive collegiate and professional teams play. Just to the right of the Sheep Meadow and Bowling Green, running just about down the middle of this second rung of the parkÕs ladder, is a popular roller-skating strip.

Alongside the skaters is the Mall, a 40-foot-wide formal promenade flanked by quadruple rows of American elms that form a sight line of ten blocks all the way up to Belvedere Castle atop Vista Rock. The lower stretch is also known as Literary Walk because itÕs lined with sculptures and busts of famous writers and composers: Shakespeare (the one the three Booth brothers raised funds for), Beethoven, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, et al.

The band shell there, the second on the site, is no longer used; summer concerts are now held on the adjoining playground, Rumsey Field, which, in case you need a good meeting point, is the one with the statue of Mother Goose. Facing the old band shell across Terrace Drive (the 72nd Street transverse) is Bethesda Terrace, a fountain setting at the edge of The Lake that offers a grand view of the Ramble (see next page). The statue atop the fountain represents ÒThe Angel of the Waters,Ó from a story in the Gospel of John that says the touch of an angel gave healing powers to a Bethesda pool in Jerusalem. The Lake, which is about one-third of the way up the park, is the secondlargest body of water in the park, pinched together in the middle and crossed by VauxÕs 60-foot-high, cast-iron

Around the west end of the 72nd Street transverse, within sight of the Dakota apartment building on Central Park West, where John Lennon lived and was murdered in 1980, is Strawberry Fields, Yoko OnoÕs memorial to Lennon, her husband. The mosaic, reading ÒImagine,Ó was a gift from the city of Naples, Italy, and the Òpeace gardenÓ includes plants from 161 nations.

At the upper edge of the Lake on the east side is

which houses The Boathouse cafe (# 212-517-2233; www.thecentral parkboathouse.com), one of ManhattanÕs most popular scenic eateries for locals as well as tourists. ItÕs also Central ParkÕs romance central, with a Venetian gondola; you can take a 30-minute ride from an Italian-trained gondolier for about $30 and canoodle in style.

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A little to the east of Loeb Boathouse near Fifth Avenue is an unconnected, smaller lake called Conservatory Water, where the Kerbs Model Boathouse houses the miniature yachts that, as

any Stuart Little fan can tell you, race every Saturday afternoon in summer. You donÕt even have to bring your own; you can rent one at $10 for a half hour.

Around Conservatory Water are the statues of the Mad Tea Party

(from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) and Hans Christian Andersen.

The Mad Tea Party was the gift of publisher George Delacorte, who also donated the animal-fair clock at the zoo; he is said to have been the model for the Mad Hatter himself, though the likeness is somewhat exaggerated. AndersenÕs only permanent audience is a bronze bird (and some live ones that seem pretty steady), but his memorial is the gathering place for story time on Saturdays at 11 a.m.

To the west of Bethesda Terrace is the Cherry Hill overlook, which offers a view of the Mall, the Lake, and the Ramble, a 37-acre stretch of woods and wildflower gardens that is a haven for birds and birdwatchers alike.

On the western shore of the Lake is the Ladies Pavilion, an elaborate Victorian filigreed-iron gazebo set in a carefully crafted miniature woodland landscape (one of OlmstedÕs favorite projects).

Across from the Ramble, in the middle of the 79th Street transverse, is Vista Rock and its crowning glory, Belvedere Castle, a somewhat smaller but impressive replica of a Scottish stone castleÑturrets, terraces, and suchÑthat was meant to be just part of the decor back in Olmsted and VauxÕs day. Today it houses the Henry Luce Nature Observatory, which arranges family tours and programs (# 212-772- 0210), and a branch of the National Weather Service that has information on wildlife. The roof offers a splendid view of the park.

Just on the west side of the castle near Winter Drive are the Swedish Cottage, a marionette theater originally built for the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876, and the Shakespeare Garden, all of whose trees and flowers are mentioned in ShakespeareÕs works. Visible across Belvedere Lake to the northwest is the Delacorte Theater, the 2,000seat site of the popular summer Shakespeare in the Park showsÑyet another gift from George Delacorte. To the northeast you can see Cleopatra’s Needle, which, despite its popular nickname, was actually built by Pharaoh Thutmose III in 1450 BC. The obelisk was presented by the Khedive of Egypt to the city of New York in 1879.

Beyond CleopatraÕs Needle, along Fifth Avenue from East 81st to 84th streets, is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And the great green oval in the center of the park from Turtle Pond nearly to the 85th Street transverse is the 55-acre Great Lawn. At least, now itÕs a lawn. It started as a reservoir; then it was the site of Central ParkÕs Hooverville, as Depression-era shantytowns were called. In the mid-1930s,

Lasker Rink,

North Meadow,

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Robert Moses, the great public-works developer, created the Great Lawn. After the city installed eight ball diamonds in the 1950s, it became brown and hard-packed from overuse, but later resodded and regulated, it has been the venue for several famous concerts, including Simon and GarfunkelÕs 1981 performance, which drew a crowd of half a million, the even larger ÒNo NukesÓ show a year later, and Luciano PavarottiÕs recital in 1993. It is also where the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic stage their summer concerts.

The 85th Street transverse the geographic waistline of the park. Above it is the 106-acre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, by far the largest of the parkÕs half-dozen bodies of water, which takes up most of the area between the 85th and 97th Street transverses. It dates back to the original Croton reservoir system of 1862 and was in active use until 1991. The trail around the reservoir is a popular jogging route. The remaining corner of this section, northwest of the reservoir, is where the tennis courts are.

North of the 97th Street transverse are the large

which has one of the parkÕs newest sports and recreation centers; and the smaller, still pastoral East Meadow, which even for some city dwellers seems to be the end of the park. However, there are more gardens and even some historic sites above about 105th Street. The Conservatory GardenÑactually three formal gardens (and no conservatory building)Ñincludes a Òsecret garden,Ó with an appropriate statue of Dickon and Mary (characters from the book of that name); the entrance gate, from the Cornelius Vanderbilt estate in Midtown, is on Fifth Avenue between 104th and 105th.

Behind the Conservatory Garden is the Mount, which is now bare but once held a tavern (later a convent!) from which WashingtonÕs men held off the British. It looks down on McGowan’s Pass at East 106th Street and beyond the pass to the former site of a pair of 1812 forts (now identified by markers only). Look for the blockhouse below East Drive (about West 109th Street) south of the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard entrance.

At the opposite end of the park from Wollman Rink is

another ice-skating rink, which becomes a wading pool in summer. Because of its location, this rink is cheaper and generally less crowded than Wollman.

Finally, at the top of the park beyond the Harlem Meer lake is

Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, once the boathouse and now an outpost of the Urban Park Rangers, dedicated to environmental issues. Borrow a fishing pole and put your feet up.

Oh, that circle at the northeast corner? ItÕs named for James Frawley, whose construction company built the Manhattan and Queensboro bridges, but the statue of the pianist and his instrument, held up by nine nude Muses, depicts Duke Ellington.

P A R T S I X

S I G H T S E E I N G , T O U R S , and

A T T R A C T I O N S

in D E P T H

LET YOUR FINGERS DO

the WALKING . . . FIRST

T H E N I C E T H I N G A B O U T S I G H T S E E I N G is that you can do it at your

own pace, lingering over what intrigues you, gazing appreciatively at what pleases you, and pushing right on past what stirs not a flicker of interest. In New York, you can tour by land, sea, air, bicycle, horsedrawn carriage, or helicopter. You can see historic spots or literary haunts, cathedrals or courts, authentic remnants or virtual realities. (And you can pay nothing, something, or, well, a lot.)

There’s no question that these famous skylines are impressive; that’s why we’ve listed some of the best and highest viewpoints in the city in this chapter. But we believe that, ultimately, you can see New York best if you get right down to street level. New York is particularly well suited to walking tours, and that’s why we recommend you consider it a neighborhood at a time.

As you can see from our own walking tours in Part Five, New York’s Neighborhoods, there are sights and scenes of everywhere in the five boroughs. Even in Part Eight, Shopping, we’ve combined souveniring in the most important neighborhoods with a little background flavor and a few landmarks so you can enjoy the city’s historical riches while plundering its boutiques. So keep your eyes open and your schedule a little loose. We’ve done our best to guide you around, but trust us—we haven’t begun to cover the possibilities.

On the other hand, we know that not everybody prefers do-it- yourself tours. Some people find it a bit distracting to try to read directions and anecdotes while walking, and others use packaged tours as a quick way of getting a mental map of the area.

So we’ve outlined some categories of special interest, considered family dynamics, and suggested a few specialized tours you might

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	want to try. We’ve also listed some of the	unofficial T I P
	most reputable guided-tour companies around.	Although described in
	These are by no means complete lists; tourism
		Part Five, some of the
	is a boom industry in New York, and you’ll see
		most important museums,
	flyers for new tours every month.
		historic houses, zoos, and
	We also realize that New York is not one-
		parks are covered in more
	size-fits-all. Walking is wonderful if you’re
		detail in the attraction
	young and fit, but if your party includes chil-
		profiles at the end of this
	dren or seniors, build in a timely stop in a park;
		chapter.
	or split the touring day into “shifts” so that,
	if necessary, those with less stamina can head
	back to the hotel while the others continue. Schedule the attractions
	everyone wants to see first, the could-be-missed intermediate ones

later, and the only-for-fanatics excursions last. And set a time and a clearly understood place to regroup.

(Lunch works well as an automatic time limit, especially for family groups with multiple agendas. No matter how absorbed a teenager gets in a particular exhibit, there are few things that can override a kid’s stomach alarm, even a T. rex skeleton.)

S T R E T C H I N G Y O U R S I G H T S E E I N G D O L L A R

A S W E S A I D, T H E TO U R B U S I N E S S in New York is booming, and

there’s a good reason: it’s quite profitable. With museum and attraction tickets regularly hovering around the $20 mark, and attraction operators increasingly savvy about selling “express access” and other add-ons, the cost can quickly mount. So you should decide on your priorities—are you willing to pay $25 in addition to the $20 entry fee just to go to the front of the security lines at the Empire State Building, knowing you’ll also have to pay $15 to go up to the 102nd-floor observatory? (For a 12-year-old, that means a $14 ticket becomes $45, and probably $60.) Time really is money here.

Obviously you’ll have to pay for some things, so you should look

to offset that by taking advantage of freebies,	unofficial T I P
and of whatever packages and bargains you
can. That’s one reason we’ve provided so many	Be sure to check into
walking tours of our own in Part Five; we’re	“categorical” discounts.
grateful you bought this book, and we’d like to	Many museums, parks, and
help you out in return.	attractions offer discounts
Because they’re often organized by non-	for AAA members, veter-
profit or cultural groups, many tours are free	ans, or students. Hotels
or very affordable. The New York Times Friday	may offer AAA, AARP, or
Weekend section lists not only museum exhib-	other discounts. Members
its, family attractions, and concerts but also	of the military may even
special-interest tours scheduled for that week-	get in free, but in some
end, often remarkably eccentric—the homes	cases an ID isn’t enough;
of famous salsa musicians, for instance. We’ve	you have to be in uniform.

New York

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listed a few free or less-expensive options under “Guided Walking (Mostly) Tours” following.

Actually, although a few museums do have required ticket prices, a surprising number—including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History—only “suggest” you pay their posted admission prices. We believe you should support these fine institutions, but if it really will strain your wallet to pay $60 for a family of four to visit the dinosaurs, give what you can.

Many of the major museums and gardens or zoological parks have a free evening or “pay what you wish” hours (also listed on page 215). Not only that, but many also have cut back on admission prices in recent years.

If you expect to make repeat visits, a membership might be a bargain. For example, admission to the Museum of Modern Art is $20 per adult, but a year’s membership with unlimited free entrance, is $75, so in four visits (or even four days), you’ve saved $5. And guest tickets are $5 to members, so for a couple, those four visits would cost $95 instead of $160. It just depends on your passion for the arts.

Similarly, a $124 family membership to the Wildlife Conservation Society covers a year’s admission for two adults and all children under 18 to the Bronx Zoo, and the zoos in Central Park, Prospect Park, and Queens, plus the New York Aquarium and 16 Bronx Zoo attraction tickets. One-day tickets for two adults and two kids for one day at the Bronx Zoo alone would cost $52, except on freebie Wednesday. (On the other hand, the Bronx Zoo’s admission is also “suggested.” Consult your conscience.)

If you decide to take one of the big-name tours—the most popular being the harbor cruises to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, and the open-air bus tours—see if there are package tickets of any sort: you won’t find two-for-one, probably, but a combo ticket will be less than the two individually.

The most elaborate versions of these package deals, and the best if you are serious about getting into a lot of the major landmarks, are the various citywide tour “passes.” These allow you to pay according to the number of sites you want to visit and/or the number of days you want the pass to be valid. You’ll have to do some calculating in advance; on the face of it, a $75 pass that gets you into 55 attractions across all five boroughs, including most of the major art museums, historic homes, and zoos, sounds like a steal—and that doesn’t count the discounts at Macy’s and for the harbor cruises—but how much can you do in one day? A somewhat more realistic time frame, three days, doubles the cost, and so on.

Nevertheless, even single-day passes can be substantial cost-cutters if you’re a die-hard sightseer. (Remember those $20-plus tickets?) Three big companies offer multiaccess tickets of this type. The

Sea, Air & Space Museum.

South Street Sea-

Onion Tours,

Even tour companies have slow seasons. In January, a $190 weeklong pass was available for $155.

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Pass (# 877-714-1999; www.newyorkpass.com), which we used as the previous example, includes admission to 55 sites and discounts at an additional two dozen retail and tour options; a week’s pass is $190 for adults and $150 for children ages 2 to 12.

The Explorer Pass (# 800-887-9103; www.smartdestinations.com) allows you to decide how many places you want to go and charges

by the visit. You can choose from more than

30 attractions and tours, paying for admis- unofficial T I P sion to three, five, seven, or ten of them. The

pass is good for 30 days from the time it’s first used, which might be especially helpful if New York is the jumping-off point for, say, a tour of Long Island wineries or the Hudson River Val-

ley. Passes range from $48 to $140 for kids and from $70 to $210 for adults, but the Web site sometimes has discount offers.

New York City Pass (# 888-330-5008; www.citypass.com) allows access to six sites for $79 ($59 ages 13 to 17). This is, as the pricing suggests, a little more in the adult and teen style: the attractions include the American Museum of Natural History, the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan and the Museum of Modern Art, the (yes) Empire State Building, and a choice of a harbor cruise or a ferry to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. This pass is good for nine days.

All three of these “passes” include guidebooks with more coupons and express-line access to a few attractions, and can be picked up a various locations around the city.

It’s not just big attractions that come in bargain packages. Big one of the city’s best walking-tour companies, has a frequent-walker incentive program (see page 219). Ask your tour

operator if it offers any special incentives.

If you prefer your attractions one at a time, there are plenty of discount coupons for museums, sightseeing options, and even Broadway shows; though these coupons are usually for shows that have been around a little longer, that doesn’t mean you’ve seen them—or don’t want to see them again. And those coupons pop up in a surprising variety of ways. The sightseeing map you pick up in one of the visitor centers may have a 10% coupon off up to two tickets to the Intrepid

A promotional flyer for

port, picked up in a rack of attraction brochures at a train station, included a $6 discount for the (fairly expensive) Bodies exhibit then at the Seaport complex. So read the back, sides, and fine print of any flyer you see. At least you may get a “free gift.”

You don’t have to do this in advance; in addition to the visitor centers, listed in Part Two, Planning Your Visit, many hotels have racks of brochures, and the hotel concierge may have a few special offers in the desk drawer.

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But don’t fall into the “if it’s cheaper, it’s better” trap, either. It’s a bargain only if you really want it. For instance, a 72-hour pass on one of those on-off tour buses may be only $10 more

unofficial T I P	than the 48-hour version, but are you actually
When surfing tour Web	using the bus for transportation between Har-
sites, be sure to check the	lem and the Battery? Do you want to see all
dates (or enter 2010 in the	those sights (from a distance)? And even if you
search line); many refer-	do, how many are that much of a walk from a
ences are outdated. Several	subway or bus line? A daylong MetroCard Fun
offer tours of the Ground	Pass is $8.25, and a weeklong unlimited pass
Zero site, for instance,	only $27—half that if you’re age 65 or older.
which has been closed off	Even if your bus tour includes a ticket to the
for some time.	Empire State Building, how much could you
	save by walking or riding the subway?

Also, while a helicopter tour of the area may offer a different perspective on the Statue of Liberty, if you combined it with a harbor cruise, will you see enough of a difference to be happy with spending the extra money? You might—we just suggest you pay close attention to the details. But personally, we prefer our views to come with a cocktail and sunset; see the list of “Best Views” below.

C A T E G O R I E S A N D

R E C O M M E N D A T I O N S

B E S T C H I L D R E N ’ S

F A R E

American Museum of Natural History

(UPPER WEST SIDE)

Bronx Zoo (THE BRONX) Central Park

Coney Island and the New York Aquarium (BROOKLYN)

Forbes Magazine Galleries

(GREENWICH VILLAGE)

Hayden Planetarium–Rose Center for Earth and Space

(UPPER WEST SIDE)

IMAX theater, AMC Loews Lincoln

Square 13 (UPPER WEST SIDE)

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

(MIDTOWN WEST)

Museum of the City of New York

(UPPER EAST SIDE)

New York Aquarium (BROOKLYN) New York City Fire Museum (SOHO)

New York City Police Museum

(LOWER MANHATTAN)

New York Hall of Science (QUEENS)

New York Transit Museum

(BROOKLYN)

Roosevelt Island Tramway

(UPPER EAST SIDE)

Sony Wonder Technology Lab

(MIDTOWN EAST)

Staten Island Ferry

(LOWER MANHATTAN)

B E S T V I E W S

Battery Gardens restaurant

(LOWER MANHATTAN)

Beekman Tower Hotel, Top of the Tower restaurant (MIDTOWN EAST)

Dream Hotel Ava Bar (MIDTOWN WEST) Empire Hotel Rooftop Bar

(MIDTOWN WEST)

Empire State Building

(GRAMERCY PARK)

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Mandarin Oriental, New York hotel Lobby Lounge (UPPER WEST SIDE)

Marcel at Gramercy Baboon Lounge

(GRAMERCY PARK–MURRAY HILL)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof

Garden Café (UPPER EAST SIDE)

New York Marriott Marquis Times Square hotel View Restaurant

(MIDTOWN WEST)

The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park, Rise bar (LOWER MANHATTAN)

The River Café (BROOKLYN)

Top of the Rock (MIDTOWN EAST)

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Ellis Island Immigration Museum

(LOWER MANHATTAN)

Japan Society (MIDTOWN EAST)

The Jewish Museum (UPPER EAST SIDE) Lower East Side Tenement Museum

(LOWER EAST SIDE)

El Museo del Barrio (UPPER EAST SIDE) The Italian American Museum

(LOWER EAST SIDE)

Museum of Chinese in America

(LOWER EAST SIDE)

Museum of Jewish Heritage

(LOWER MANHATTAN)

National Museum of the American

Indian (LOWER MANHATTAN)

Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

(GRAMERCY PARK)

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Asia Society and Museum

(UPPER EAST SIDE)

The Cloisters (WASHINGTON HEIGHTS)

The Frick Collection (UPPER EAST SIDE)

Hispanic Society of America Museum

and Library (UPPER WEST SIDE)

New York Historical Society

(UPPER WEST SIDE)

Neue Galerie for German and Austrian Art (UPPER EAST SIDE)

F R E E ( or Pay What You Wish)

M U S E U M H O U R S

Asia Society and Museum, Friday, 6–9 p.m. (except July 4–Labor Day)

Bronx Museum of the Arts, Friday, 11 a.m.–8 p.m.

Bronx Zoo, Wednesday, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Tuesday, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.–noon; Tuesday–Friday, mid-November–February; Fridays for seniors

Brooklyn Museum, first Saturday of the month, 5–11 p.m.

The Frick Collection, Sunday, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. (pay what you wish)

Guggenheim Museum, Saturday, 5:45–7:45 p.m. (pay what you wish)

International Center of Photography, Friday, 5–8 p.m. (pay what you wish)

Jewish Museum, Saturday, 11 a.m.–5:45 p.m.

Museum of Arts & Design, Thursday, 6–9 p.m. (pay what you wish)

Museum of the City of New York, Sunday, 10 a.m.–noon

Museum of Jewish Heritage— A Living Memorial to the

Holocaust, Wednesday, 4–8 p.m.

Museum of Modern Art, Friday, 4–8 p.m.

Museum of the Moving Image, Friday, 4–8 p.m.

New Museum of Contemporary Art, Thursday, 7–9 p.m.

New York Botanical Garden, Wednesday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m.–noon

New York Hall of Science, Friday, 2–5 p.m., and Sunday, 10–11 a.m. (except July and August)

South Street Seaport Museum, third Friday of the month, 5–9 p.m.

Whitney Museum of American Art, Friday, 6–9 p.m. (pay what you wish)