The New York City Traveler

The Empire State Building is one of the most recognizable buildings that grace the Manhattan skyline. 
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A number of museums and shows are ending soon to make run for the new spring exhibitions.  Here is my short list of shows and exhibitions you shouldn’t miss.  
“Unmonumental” | The New Museum of Contemporary Art  The opening show at the New Museum on Bowery.  Ends today, March 30.
“Goodbye Coney Island?” | Brooklyn Museum  Tracing the evolution of Coney Island with more than 50 photographs.  Ends April 6.
“Street Dance: The New York Photographs of Rudy Burckhardt” | Museum of the City of New York  Iconic photographs of New York’s landmarks and its people.  Ends April 13.
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This Monday, March 31st the Yankees begin the 2008 season with a home- opener against the Toronto Blue Jays.  This will be the final year the Yanks will be playing in the 1923 “House That Ruth Built.”  The new $1.3 billion Yankee Stadium (as seen being constructed in the above photo) is nearing completion and will host the Yankees beginning the 2009 season.
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Nearly 200 personal photographs are on display at The Newark Museum’s new exhibition, Now is Then: Snapshots from the Maresca Collection.  The images are from a collection of over 500 dating from the 1920s to the 1960s–the “golden age” of snapshot photography. 
Guest curator Marvin Heiferman, who has organized exhibitions for The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Museum, the International Center of Photography, Exit Art andP.S. 1, explains that the Now is Then exhibition “invites visitors to consider snapshots not as simple or inconsequential little pictures but as compelling and complex cultural artifacts.”
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the Irish Hunger Memorial, located on Vesey Street and North End Avenue, near Battery Park, pays homage to those that died in the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852 and those that die from famines that continue to plague the world.  All of the soil, vegetation, and stones used were brought from Ireland to create the memorial.    
Photo Credit:  DavidShankBone at Wikimedia
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A walk through Central Park this week shows the flowers are beginning to peek out.  Spring is just around the corner!  
Photo credit: personal collection
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I love produce shopping in Chinatown.  You can find so many items that regular supermarkets don’t normally carry like yucca, Japanese eggplant, and starfruit.
Photo: personal collection 
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Sunset and the Statue of Liberty.   
Photo credit: personal collection
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New Yorkers are at such a disadvantage when it comes to viewing acts of nature. We have so many tall buildings standing in the way!
I was able to snap a few shots of the eclipse; it’s amazing what you can do with a Canon digital camera in manual mode and a GorillaPod! Here are a few photos of what you may have missed.

Don’t feel bad if you didn’t catch last night’s lunar eclipse. In New York it was very cold and you’ll have a chance again in 2010.
Photo credit:  personal collection
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These are not people from another planet or another world.  These are your neighbors.  We tend to avoid looking at these people when we walk down the street.  We step over them or around them.  We don’t really want to see them.  We don’t want to see their faces.”   Bill Bernstein   
There are an estimated three-quarters of a million homeless people in the United States and photographer Bill Bernstein gets personal when he matches faces to this number.  About Face: Portraits from the Bowery Mission is Bernstein’s newest exhibition featuring a striking series of 43″x62″ portraits of some of …read more

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