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NYC Hidden Secrets January 2010
Happy New Year! The holidays are over and after a long month of celebrations, parties and shopping, January is a much quieter month in New York City. The masses of visitors from December have left the city, making this an ideal time to visit and have every attraction to yourself. The Rockefeller Tree and all the Holiday lights are still set up for a few weeks and everything is on sale in the stores!
The only catch? It's freezing, so layer up with hats, gloves, scarves, heavy sweaters and your best boots. See NYC Hidden Secrets January 2010 below.
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Restaurant Week Winter 2010
Tao Restaurant, Midtown, New York City
A three-course dinner at the best restaurants in New York for $35? Sign me up! One of my favorite times of the year. I love a good bargain almost as much as I love good food. It almost feels like you're stealing..only you're not.
Throughout the city, restaurants participate in "Restaurant Week" offering three-course, prix-fixe meals for $24.07 (lunch) and $35 (dinner).
Restaurant Week is a great opportunity to try out a restaurant that may normally be out of your budget, or test some new restaurants with a little less financial risk. The best way to get easy, online reservations is through OpenTable.
January 25 to February 7, 2010. Reservations open January 12th.
See Over 20 Off-Broadway Shows for Only $20 Each
20 Off Broadway Shows for $20 each
January 25- February 7, 2010. In the spirit of NYC's Restaurant Week comes 20at20, your chance to see the Best of Off-Broadway for only $20! A 3 course meal and and a show (probably soon to be on Broadway) for $55 per person??? Can't beat that!
This is where REAL NEW YORKERS go. With 20at20, you get the chance to see the next Rent, A Chorus Line, In The Heights, Proof or Spring Awakening - before the prices go ''uptown''.
How it Works: Tickets for all 20at20 shows are only $20, starting 20 minutes before show time. Just go to the box office of the show you want to see 20 minutes before it begins and say, ''20at20." You'll get your ticket to a real New York theater experience!
The New York Times Arts and Leisure Weekend
Arts and Leisure Weekend
January 7-10, 2010
Join New York Times journalists and some of today’s most celebrated talents and thinkers from film, television, music, theater, dance and books and much more. Events and talents include Cirque du Soleil Behind the Scenes, Paul Shaffer, Rosanne Cash, Jimmy Fallon, Liev Schreiber, Precious: Lee Daniels & Gabourey Sidibe, Top Chef, Detective Stories, Alan Cumming, Natalie Portman, Angela Lansbury, All My Children. Tickets around $30 per person.
The TimesCenter 242 West 41st Street (7th & 8th Aves)
New York National Boat Show
New York Boast Show, Jan 20-24
Tens of thousands of boating and fishing enthusiasts start their season at the New York National Boat Show.
With its 105-year history the show is recognized as THE place to see the latest and greatest in boating. Yachts, cruisers, bass and pontoon boats, canoes and kayaks, fishing boats and personal watercraft. Special Exhibits: Fish Tales Contest—Win a Lowrance Fishfinder/Chartplotter, Miss GEICO Race Boat, Affordability Pavilion, Traveling Nature & Maritime Museum on Wheels.
Jacob Javits Center, January 20-24, 2010, $12 adults, under 15 free. Half price tickets at GoldStar Events, just sign up for free.
Ongoing Events
Ice Skating at Wollman Rink, Rockefeller Center and Bryant Park
Big Apple Circus Presents Bello is Back
October 22, 2009 - January 18, 2009
Join hair-raising clown, Bello, and the Big Apple Circus. Bello was recently named "America's Best Clown" by Time Magazine. Bello is joined by a world of stellar circus stars including Spain’s juggling artiste, Picasso Jr. and Russia’s Aniskin Troupe who catapult to the top of the tent on trampoline and soar across it on trapeze. Be sure to enjoy our very own clown — Grandma. Half price tickets at GoldStar Events or learn more.
Lincoln Center/Damrosch Park
62nd St (Columbus & Amsterdam Avenues) New York, NY 10023
Groovaloo, a Vibrant Hip-Hop Dance Show
GrooValoo Off Broadway Show
Only through January 3, 2010. The winners of NBC's Superstars of Dance, hip-hop dance sensation and stars of So You Think You Can Dance, the Groovaloos bring their high-energy, autobiographical show to the Union Square Theatre. Based on the true experiences of the award-winning 14-member troupe, Groovaloo combines incredible freestyle dance moves, a vibrant score and powerful spoken-word storytelling to celebrate the artistry of modern hip-hop dance. Half price tickets at GoldStar Events.
Union Square Theatre,
100 E 17th Street
Special Concert just for Kids at Carnegie Hall
Jan 27–28 and 30, 2010 at 10 AM and 11:30 AM
Carnegie Hall Kids Concert. Photo by Stefan Cohen
Join the Sound Playground, where children discover and dabble in the worlds of sound and musicmaking!
Mark Stewart and Rob Schwimmer of Polygraph Lounge, can take anything —a baseball bat and a metal bowl, a bouncy ball and a rubber glove—and turn it into a musical instrument.
Kids will experience traditional, classical, and zany instruments as they interact with and inspire these musical virtuosos in 45-minute concerts, held in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall. Tickets $6.00.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Special!
FREE Seneca Village Tour, Central Park
Seneca Village Tour Central Park
Seneca Village, located from 81st to 89th Streets between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in what is now a section of Central Park, is important to the history of New York City because it may possibly be Manhattan's first prominent community of African American property owners.
Beginning in 1825, parcels of land were sold to individuals and to members of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, described as the "largest and wealthiest church of coloured people in this city, perhaps in this country." Learn about the history of the village, the property owners, and what New York City was like at the time.
Date:
, 12:00 PM
Inside the Park at the southeast corner of 85th Street and Central Park West.
56th Annual Winter Antiques Show
Annual Winter Antiques Show NYC
January 22–31, The most prestigious antiques show in America, featuring the “best of the best” from antiquities through the 1960s. Curators, established collectors, dealers, design professionals and first-time buyers can view and purchase pieces showcased by 75 exhibitors. One-third of the Show's exhibitors are specialists in Americana, with the rest featuring English, European, and Asian fine and decorative arts.
Park Avenue Armory (Park Ave & 67th St)
Daily 12pm - 8pm, Sun & Thurs 12pm - 6pm, Tickets $20, (includes catalogue)
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