Kev and I will be in NY – December 9-16th. Firm and tentative plans below:
We should get to my mom’ s house by 8.30-9.00pm on the Wed. feel free to call us.
Thursday the 10th is pretty open at this point. It will possibly be a shopping day and the China Institute is free from 6-8 and has a neat looking photography exhibition on. They are located on 65th betw. Lex and Park. We may do that plus dinner with people or there’s the option of free talk/signing by Malcolm Gladwell at 7pm at the Union Square Barnes and Noble…or a talk on Comic Books after WWII at 7pm at the 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street with Arie Kaplan – $12.
Friday the 11th want to take advantage of free hours at MOMA for the Tim Burton exhibition. May also pop into The American Folk Art Museum …also the first night of Hanukkah.
Saturday the 12th the Jewish Museum is free (shop and cafe are closed) 11.00-5.45 – Fifth Avenue at 92nd and then the Guggenheim is Pay What you Wish 5.45-7.45 – Fifth Avenue at 89th. Then I got us tickets to see SonicVision at 8.30 at the Hayden Planetarium. The other option was Major League Dreidel at the Brooklyn Knitting Factory which will have to be a pass.
Sunday the 13th is a packed day. We will be heading to the NY Hall of Science in Queens (which means an early start for us) and meeting Barbara before seeing They Might Be Giants there then we will head into Manhattan to City Winery for a Keren Ann performance.
Monday the 14 – From 10am to noon there are free tours of the Eldridge Street Synagogue then Beyond the Pale are performing for free at the Winter Garden in the World Financal Centre at 12.30. Since we will be downtown we may go see the Magna Carta at the Fraunces Tavern Museum or go to the Museum of Jewish Heritage they have an exhibition on called Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow about Jewish refugee scholars at black colleges.
Nothing is set so far for Tuesday and Wednesday. (We leave Wednesday night). Some options include:
Brooklyn Botanic Garden free on weekdays. NY Aquarium which is just a walk from my mom’s house – $13. Attempting to get standby tickets for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon or the Colbert Report. Going to the top of Rockefeller Plaza for the view and/or TKTS.
Really the only firm plans are things we have bought tickets for in advance: SonicVision, They Might Be Giants and Keren Ann and MOMA on Friday to try and save money.
Hope people can join us on some of these adventures and are available to get together.
