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Museum
The New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store at Grand
Central Terminal today closed its doors to begin a renovation that will
preserve the exhibition space and allow for better display of its unique
subway, bus and train-memorabilia.
When it reopens sometime in March, admission to
the gallery will remain free, Roxanne Robertson, director of Special Projects for
the
Renovations will include new fixtures and
lighting. The
When the annex reopens, it will debut a new
exhibition: “Where
The main
The online Transit
Museum Store will also remain open during the annex’s renovations.
Picture credit:
Earlier: NYC subway
in film history at Transit Museum Annex
Killing time in Grand Central’s bad old days
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Barneys
Warehouse: Feb 11-28; Nordstom Rack: May 11
The Barneys Warehouse Sale will
take place in
The location:
The news comes a day after The Shophound blog first spotted that Nordstrom Rack has
also set a date for its
Correction: This story has been corrected to fix the Barney’s Warerhouse entrance, which earlier said
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Tours of abandoned Ellis Island
on sale for holidays
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Save Ellis Island, the non-profit that’s helping
the National Park Service preserve and restore the still-empty buildings at the
historic immigration center, will offer a limited number of tours of the
abandoned hospital as part of a holiday gift membership special.
“With a
donation of $100 or more, the recipient will receive a very special gift, one
that cannot be purchased at the Mall - a tour of the unrestored
portion of
The memberships must be purchased in December. The hard-hat tours will
be scheduled in the spring and summer of 2010.
The abandoned portions of the island have been
open to tours on a very limited basis since the 2005 OpenHouse
NY event. (Pictures.)
Picture credits:
Earlier: Ellis Island gets fed funds to save abandoned building
Inside
Ellis Island’s restoration; next up: laundry
Ellis
Island to open historic ferry building in winter
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NYC-centric
shopping deals: Black Friday and beyond
The holiday
shopping bell has rung and Black Friday deals are well under way. Here’s a
roundup of some of the
Architectural salvage
shop Olde
Good Things is offering 20
percent off almost everything online — including bookends made from Coney
Island Boardwalk wood — and up to 50 percent off some itemsin store
The MoMA Design Store is offering free shipping on orders over $125 if placed by Nov. 29 at 10 p.m. ET.Use offer code 9SHP2.
The Housing Works Bookstore Cafe is offering 30 percent off its entire stock on Black Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The Met Museum store offers 20 percent off orders of $50 or more through Use offer code K720.
Both J&R and B&H PhotoVideo have Black Friday deals.
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey has 25 percent off everything in all their stores through Sunday.
On Cyber Monday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., you can get 50 percent off all signature NYC items in the NYCshop.com, the Official Shop of New York City.
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WIRED
pop-up shop to open Nov. 21 near High Line
WIRED magazine will open its annual holiday pop-up shop Nov. 21 in the
Meatpacking District, this year with a design assist from Moby, a gaming area
hand-picked by Tony Hawk and a green section curated
by Adrian Grenier.
The WIRED Store will be located at
The pop-up shop will let visitors get their hands on more than 150 items chosen
by the magazine’s editors, including TVs, laptops, cell phones, games, active
gear, home goods and toys. There will be a WIRED Café with
chef demos and wine tastings, Geek Dad Saturdays and Game Day Sundays.
The WIRED Store will be open from noon to 9 p.m.
Wednesday through Sunday and closed Monday and Tuesday. The pop-up takes it
toys and goes home Dec 27.
Picture credit: Wired Store sign from 2008.
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New
Amsterdam Market draws crowds to South Street
Big crowds turned out Sunday for the first New Amsterdam Market of the
season, offering everything from Balthazar bread and heirloom to Concorde grape sorbet and homemade Creamsicles.
The amped-up farmer’s market set up shop next to
the old Fulton Fish Market on
The market will return Oct. 25, Nov. 22 and Dec.
20.
Earlier: Nearly
the last whiff of the Fulton Fish Market
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Fashion
Week tickets by way of W hotel catwalk pack
Fashion Week tickets
are once again up for grabs through the W
hotels Catwalk Package.
The hotel has just announced availability for almost a dozen shows, including Badgley Mischka, Tracy Reese and
Nanette Lepore.
The Mercedes Benz Fashion Week begins Sept. 10 and runs through Sept.
17, with main events set at Bryant Park.
The Catwalk Package — priced at $969 — gets you a suite for one night at
The hotel will donate 10 percent of the VIP Catwalk
package to Dress for Success.
Fashion Week catwalk tickets are very limited and past seasons, most sold out
fast:
Sept. 10 – BCBGMAXAZRIA
Sept. 11 – Nicole Miller
Sept. 12 – Lacoste
Sept. 13 – Herve Leger
Sept. 13 – Custo Barcelona
Sept. 14 – Carolina Herrera
Sept. 14 – Tracy Reese
Sept. 15 – Badgley Mischka
Sept. 15 – Max Azria
Sept. 15 – TIBI
Sept. 16 – Nanette Lepore
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Barneys now
tweeting NY Warehouse Sale
Amping their own hype, Barney’s is now tweeting
their Warehouse Sale.
@BarneysNY New York Warehouse
The twice-a-year Barneys
NY Warehouse Sale runs through Sept. 7 at
See Racked and Shophound for frequent assessments from the front lines of the
goods and ongoing price reductions.
Earlier: Barneys
NY Warehouse Sale: Aug 20. through Sept. 7
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TGI
Friday's plans to open on Union Square East
Further changing the
character of Union Square,TGI Friday’s and a Tim Hortons
will occupy the former Zen Palate space at 16th Street, (map,)
the restaurant operator The Riese
Organization announced today.
Nordstrom Rack and Best Buy recently announced plans to take over other
storefronts facing
“We are pleased to be a part of the exciting resurgence of Union Square and to
introduce TGI Friday’s and Tims
to this great neighborhood,” Dennis Riese, Chairman
and CEO of The Riese
Organization said in a statement.
One detail worth noting: While the headline of the company’s press release
touts “TGI Friday’s and Tim Hortons to Occupy 34
Union Square East,” the text of the note uses the word “tentative.”
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NYC beach towels:
DKNY skyline to Weegee's Coney
The
weather gurus are forecasting the hottest heat of the summer for today, so it
seemed high time to roll out a few NYC-themed beach towel offerings.
Though given the erratic forecast, you may want to keep the umbrella list stashed nearby.
The iconic DKNY mural at
The 40-by-70 inch City Skyline beach towel sells for $12.99.
The
The Reach
the Beach towel measures
59-by-35 inches and is priced at $36.
