Before you venture about NYC, I wrote a blog post titled "Did you know this about New York City". If you have time, read this before you go on your adventure in NYC.
TASTE OF NYC
MARCH 29, 2011 - Village Voice Choice Eats
FEBRUARY 2011 - Hot Chocolate Festival at City Bakery and my review
JUNE - BIG APPLE BBQ in Madison Square Park
FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL
Visit the Soup Nazi
THINGS TO SEE
FLAMENCO PERFORMANCE AT NEW YORK CITY MEDIA CENTER thru Sunday, February 20, 2011
NOVEMBER - MACY'S THANKSGIVING PARADE
WALK DOWN 5th AVENUE AT NIGHT
EXHIBITS IN NYC
KEN SHUNG PHOTO EXHIBIT - Pretty as a Picture in the East Village
JIM CAMPBELL'S - "SCATTERED LIGHT" of walking people. Available til February 28, 2011.
WALKING PHOTOGRAPHY VIEWING TOUR -- I made my own photography exhibit tour in New York City and if you're interested, you can follow in my foot-steps. One of my stops included viewing the Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Paul Strand photo exhibit at the Met (available now thru April 10, 2011.
COMIC CON in NYC - Comic Con doesn't only happen in San Diego, it also happens in New York in October!
One of America's most iconic photojournalists of our day W. Eugene Smith lived amongst known/unknown jazz performers in the 1960's and through his stay, he amassed eight years of photographs and live recordings. W. EUGENE SMITH JAZZ LOFT PROJECT EXHIBIT at the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts at the Lincoln Center. Will be available thru May 2010.
Sotheby's auction house held a rare auction that sold polaroids and photographs held by the Polaroid Collection of Photography. If you missed it -- check out what was available and how much a few of the items sold for. The auction raised $12.5 million.
Marina Abramovic performing artist -- The artist was present.
OUTSIDE THE CITY
and if you've done everything in Manhattan, there are a few things outside of the city you can check out too!
EAT at Golden Flushing Mall in Flushing, DRINK at Studio Square in Astoria, and WALK around Brooklyn.
