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June 27, 2007

BASEBALL: We're in the midst of Baseball Fever Week at The Museum of the City of New York. Their doors are open all week, whether you're a Mets or Yankees fan. Have a drink and check out their Glory Days exhibit, chronicling the good 'ol days of baseball in New York City. The glory days, FYI, were 1947-1957. 5 to 9pm // Museum of the City of New York [1220 5th Ave at 103rd......

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June 6, 2007

We've mentioned the "Restricted Access" tours put on by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Recently, a group of 20 on this tour got to see the inner workings of the 1898 Clock Tower Building with Marvin Schneider, the city's official clock watcher. He said of the tower, “If you stand here and look out on the city, you can imagine you’re in an entirely different century. If you want to do a little time travel,......

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September 20, 2006

THEATER: P.S. 122’s Fall Season opens tonight with the U.S. premiere of “Tower of Babel” by Dutch artists Lidy Six and Robert Steijn. Running four nights only - for only 25 audience members at a time – the event is described as “a one-of-a kind, full immersion theatre experience”. Each audience member will be personally welcomed with tea and tucked into one of twenty-five individual beds (complete with nightstands). A live VJ and DJ will......

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October 5, 2005

August 30, 2004

Sometimes you just want to say what's on your mind. But how about in public, to complete strangers? Now you can. The Freedom of Expression National Monument awaits speakers-out to be heard in Foley Square (60 Centre Street) amidst the courthouses of New York City. Celebrating its twentieth anniversary, the interactive installation consists of a bright red ramp that leads to an oversized megaphone atop a platform. Designed by architect Laurie Hawkinson, performer John Malpede......

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