Janice757

New York places to go

Hi.

Here is the list of places we talked about today... and some suggestions on who might look into finding out about them! It would be great if you guys could talk through them on the way out there so you can group together places that are close, places out of town that can be visited together, make sure we dont try to go somewhere on a day it is closed and so on.

Ice Skating @ Rockefeller Centre - Kevin
Coney Island - Chirs B
PS1 & converted warehouses to art space - Anna
Grand Central Station (inc. Oyster Bar!)
Top of Empire State Building/Rockefeller Centre
Ground Zero
Comme Des Garconnes (Future Systems) - Gemma
Damien Hirst Exhibition - Gemma
Roosevelt Island Tramway - Gemma
Segram Building & Diller Scofidio restaurant
American Folk Museum - Chris B
Ellis Island - Rhys
Lower East Side Tenament Museum - Carrie (look into group booking)
New Museum of Contemporary Art (SANNA) - Janice
Chinatown for Chinese New Year (7th Feb) - Janice... book for dinner?
Cooper Union
Columbia Uni - I'll try to contact my friend there
Herzog & De Meuron residential building - please can someone find out where it is
Hurst Tower/Fosters NYC - we are visiting on Friday, I'll bring the details
Diller Scofidio office visit - I'll try to get this confirmed, hopefully for Friday
Guggenheim with Jazz (Friday evening?) - Lida
Jazz Club (Village Vanguard or somewhere like that) - Natasha
Play/Musical - Natasha
Cinema????????????????? - Martin??????????????
Renzon Piano NY Times building - please can someone find out where it is
New Frank Gehry building - please can someone find out where it is
Brooklyn - Gemma
Katz Diner (as in When Harry Met Sally) - Gemma
Diner for breakfast - John H
Book meal out for Saturday night - everyone to discuss and make a booking
Storefront Gallery - please can someone find out where it is
Max Protec Gallery - please can someone find out where it is
Whitney Museum
MOMA
Running across Brooklyn Bridge - Natasha (I have a feeling nobody else is taking part)

That should do for a start. Please can you guys tell the YMCA I will need my room.

Enjoy the start of the trip - see you Wednesday night!

John.





John Puttick

posted by Janice757 @ 7:10 AM