Central Park is located on 843-acres of beautifully landscaped park space sprinkled with wonderful statuary, classic architecture, the great lawn and more. With 25 million visitors each year, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States. The park's many features include: the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center, 21 Playgrounds, Walking Tours, Music in the Park, Recreation Programs. Sports such as Bicycle Riding, Birding, Chess, cross-country Skiing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Ice Skating, Row Boating, Swimming, Tennis, Wall Climbing are all availble. You can even take advantage of the many Nature Walks and Educational Programs.

Restaurants in Central Park
Many casual eating-spots and fine dining restaurants are available in Central Park. Escape the bustle of NYC for a while and dine in an oasis of trees and flowers, or dine overlooking the lake. Press blue button for a list of restaurants in Central Park.

Just for Kids at Central Park
Central Park is a wonderland for children with 21 Playgrounds, Boating, Climbing Walls, Ice Skating, Inline Skating, and don't forget that picnic while the kids play in the park. Select "Kids to Do" activities, or "Belvedere Castle" and the "Dana Discovery Center" for environmental programs. Click on "Recreation Programs" to discover the fun and exercise available including exciting Adventure programs. Press blue button for more information on "Just for Kids".

The Carousel at Central Park
Central Park's first carousel was built in 1870. After a long search the Parks Department discovered the present vintage Carousel. The Carousel is one of the largest in the United States, with 58 hand-carved, painted horses. Stein and Goldstein were among the foremost carvers of their day and the horses – nearly life-size in the outer ring – are caught rearing or mid-stride with almost fierce reality.

The Carousel today still holds its magic charm, with almost 250,000 riders a year. Both adults and children enjoy the scale of the horses and the brisk speed of the ride. During warm weather the admissions line snakes around hot dog and popcorn vendors, recalling the atmosphere of a country fair.

North Meadow Recreation Center at Central Park. The North Meadow Recreation Center, south of the Meadow, was originally built as stables. It was converted to a recreation facility in the early 1990s. At 23 acres, the North Meadow is the Park's largest open space, punctuated only by the clay fans of ballfields.

Things To Do at Central Park
Baseball and Softball (26 ballfields)
Bicycle Riding
Birding | Bird Watching
Boating
Chess
Children's Carousel
Family Fishing
Horseback Riding
Inline Skating
Nature Walks
Playgrounds (21 playgrounds)
Swimming
Tennis
Wall Climbing
Zoo

Winter Activities
Cross-Country Skiing
Ice Skating

The Heliport's modern terminal houses administrative offices, an operations control center, a pilot lounge, courier operations, a VIP lounge and a passenger waiting area that boasts first-class airport amenities.

The Downtown Manhattan Heliport is only seven minutes by helicopter from Newark Liberty International and Teterboro airports and fifteen minutes from Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey, making it convenient for busy executives, leisure travelers and sightseers to experience the sweeping views of the New York and New Jersey skyline from high above the ground.

There are several accounts of the Battle of Fort Washington. Following, are excerpts from three highly regarded books about the Battle of Fort Washington in the American Revolution:

Source: Rise, and Fight Again: Perilous Times Along the Road to Independence, by Charles Bracelen Flood

November 16, 1776. "Heavy rains spoiled Major General, William Howe's planned second attack on the American army near White Plains on October 31. The next day the Americans were found to be apparently well entrenched at North Castle Heights. The rebel earthworks were composed largely of cornstalks pulled from nearby fields, whose roots, full of clinging soil, faced outward. Howe may have been discouraged by these illusory defenses, but his goal remained the complete removal of American troops from Manhattan, not the annihilation of Washington's army. His attention returned to Fort Washington which the American commander in chief had left garrisoned under Colonel Robert Magaw after a general rebel evacuation of the island."

Source: History Of The American Revolution, by John R. Alden (De Capo Press, 1989)

" . . . Washington decided to evacuate Manhattan, except for the fort named after him; and to concentrate at White Plains. He ought also to have abandoned Fort Washington, for the troops within it were left without support and exposed to British attack. But he did withdraw the bulk of his men on Manhattan in time . . .

" . . . At White Plains the Patriot army was in improved spirits. It had diminished to 14,500 men. But the morale of the Americans had been improved by the good showing they had made in the several skirmishes that took place after the capture of New York: by a few days of rest, by the arrival of food and drink, and perhaps even by the departure of many deserters. Moreover, the Patriot army was no longer seriously threatened with encirclement.

" . . . One attack by the Hessians and another by the British were repulsed. Gradually, the Americans on Chatterton's were almost encompassed by their enemies. Before Washington could reinforce them, they were driven from the hill . . . The losses on both sides at White Plains were counted in scores rather than in thousands. Nevertheless, the battle was a great turning point, since General Howe soon afterward abandoned his stately and dignified pursuit of Washington's army and turned westward.

"They entered New York Harbor in scores, the tall-sailed warships of Admiral Howe and the humbler transports carrying the troops of General Howe. From Manhattan, week after week in July and August of 1776, General Washington watched the British forces grow. The Patriots had resolved, if possible, to defend the city, and Washington had collected a large army there. At last, when all was ready, General Howe moved to the attack. He routed one third of Washington's troops in the battle of Long Island; he seized the city; he pursued Washington to White Plains and defeated him there; he easily captured Fort Washington and its large American garrison; and he drove the Patriot general across New Jersey and the Delaware River. He won a chain of victories in the late summer and autumn of 1776, and the Patriots seemed to be in the direst distress. But the British had not conquered, as they had planned to do, New England. And suddenly, as winter came on, Washington struck back.

"He overcame a Hessian garrison at Trenton, defeated a British detachment at Princeton, and went into secure winter quarters, early in 1777, at Morristown in the hills of New Jersey. When weariness, cold, and snow forced both the British and the Patriots to remain quiet, Howe held only New York, Long Island, Newport, and eastern New Jersey. Guy Carleton and his army were still in Canada and the Patriots had survived the first powerful British onslaughts.

"As the Patriot commander in chief feared, William Howe had determined to take Fort Washington. Colonel Magaw had more than 3,000 men to defend it, but its works were unfinished. Howe knew that it was by no means impregnable. He had the opportunity to hit hard a the Patriots with very little risk of encountering a check. He began to move troops and artillery into position for assault during the night of November 14. The following day Magaw was summoned to surrender. He replied that he would fight to the "last extremity". On the morning of November 16, 8,000 British and Hessian soldiers advanced to the attack in four divisions, supported by artillery fire and also by cannonading from the frigate Pearl, stationed in the Hudson. Howe intended to make three assaults: the fourth division was merely to feign an attack. As it turned out, all four parts of the royal troops took part in the battle that followed. Magaw tried to defend the approaches to the fort. He did not have enough men to do it . . . The British and the Hessians drove forward in overwhelming force, penned Magaw's men within the unfinished fort, and compelled its surrender before the end of the day. The British and Hessians are reported to have had 78 killed and 374 wounded, the Americans only 59 slain and 96 injured. But the outcome was nothing less than disastrous for the Patriots. The British captured 2,607 American soldiers and 230 officers together with all their weapons, large quantities of artillery, ammunitions, tents, and other military equipment. The Americans had suffered a grievous blow."

Source: Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence, John Ferling (2007 Oxford University Press, USA)

"The British surrounded the installation and brought up their artillery. Before they opened fire, Magaw was offered the opportunity to surrender. To refuse was to invite a bombardment that was certain to be catastrophic. Furthermore, to lose after refusing to surrender was to run the risk that the victors, driven to an insane fury by the loss of comrades, would give no quarter. Magaw, who had blustered of fighting to the death and of holding out for weeks, conceded to brutal reality. He surrendered. From start to finish, the operation had consumed only five hours. When the gates of Fort Washington opened, 2,870 men paraded into British captivity. Another 149 Americans had been killed and wounded in the battle, and vast amounts of arms were lost. The British in turn, had lost 458 killed, wounded, and missing, proportionally but a small fraction of their losses at Bunker Hill . . ."

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Central Park is located on 843-acres of beautifully landscaped park space sprinkled with wonderful statuary, classic architecture, the great lawn and more. With 25 million visitors each year, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States. The park's many features include: the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center, 21 Playgrounds, Walking Tours, Music in the Park, Recreation Programs. Sports such as Bicycle Riding, Birding, Chess, cross-country Skiing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Ice Skating, Row Boating, Swimming, Tennis, Wall Climbing are all availble. You can even take advantage of the many Nature Walks and Educational Programs.

Restaurants in Central Park
Many casual eating-spots and fine dining restaurants are available in Central Park. Escape the bustle of NYC for a while and dine in an oasis of trees and flowers, or dine overlooking the lake. Press blue button for a list of restaurants in Central Park.

Just for Kids at Central Park
Central Park is a wonderland for children with 21 Playgrounds, Boating, Climbing Walls, Ice Skating, Inline Skating, and don't forget that picnic while the kids play in the park. Select "Kids to Do" activities, or "Belvedere Castle" and the "Dana Discovery Center" for environmental programs. Click on "Recreation Programs" to discover the fun and exercise available including exciting Adventure programs. Press blue button for more information on "Just for Kids".

The Carousel at Central Park
Central Park's first carousel was built in 1870. After a long search the Parks Department discovered the present vintage Carousel. The Carousel is one of the largest in the United States, with 58 hand-carved, painted horses. Stein and Goldstein were among the foremost carvers of their day and the horses – nearly life-size in the outer ring – are caught rearing or mid-stride with almost fierce reality.

The Carousel today still holds its magic charm, with almost 250,000 riders a year. Both adults and children enjoy the scale of the horses and the brisk speed of the ride. During warm weather the admissions line snakes around hot dog and popcorn vendors, recalling the atmosphere of a country fair.

North Meadow Recreation Center at Central Park. The North Meadow Recreation Center, south of the Meadow, was originally built as stables. It was converted to a recreation facility in the early 1990s. At 23 acres, the North Meadow is the Park's largest open space, punctuated only by the clay fans of ballfields.

Things To Do at Central Park
Baseball and Softball (26 ballfields)
Bicycle Riding
Birding | Bird Watching
Boating
Chess
Children's Carousel
Family Fishing
Horseback Riding
Inline Skating
Nature Walks
Playgrounds (21 playgrounds)
Swimming
Tennis
Wall Climbing
Zoo

Winter Activities
Cross-Country Skiing
Ice Skating

Central Park is located on 843-acres of beautifully landscaped park space sprinkled with wonderful statuary, classic architecture, the great lawn and more. With 25 million visitors each year, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States. The park's many features include: the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center, 21 Playgrounds, Walking Tours, Music in the Park, Recreation Programs. Sports such as Bicycle Riding, Birding, Chess, cross-country Skiing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Ice Skating, Row Boating, Swimming, Tennis, Wall Climbing are all availble. You can even take advantage of the many Nature Walks and Educational Programs.

Restaurants in Central Park
Many casual eating-spots and fine dining restaurants are available in Central Park. Escape the bustle of NYC for a while and dine in an oasis of trees and flowers, or dine overlooking the lake. Press blue button for a list of restaurants in Central Park.

Just for Kids at Central Park
Central Park is a wonderland for children with 21 Playgrounds, Boating, Climbing Walls, Ice Skating, Inline Skating, and don't forget that picnic while the kids play in the park. Select "Kids to Do" activities, or "Belvedere Castle" and the "Dana Discovery Center" for environmental programs. Click on "Recreation Programs" to discover the fun and exercise available including exciting Adventure programs. Press blue button for more information on "Just for Kids".

The Carousel at Central Park
Central Park's first carousel was built in 1870. After a long search the Parks Department discovered the present vintage Carousel. The Carousel is one of the largest in the United States, with 58 hand-carved, painted horses. Stein and Goldstein were among the foremost carvers of their day and the horses – nearly life-size in the outer ring – are caught rearing or mid-stride with almost fierce reality.

The Carousel today still holds its magic charm, with almost 250,000 riders a year. Both adults and children enjoy the scale of the horses and the brisk speed of the ride. During warm weather the admissions line snakes around hot dog and popcorn vendors, recalling the atmosphere of a country fair.

North Meadow Recreation Center at Central Park. The North Meadow Recreation Center, south of the Meadow, was originally built as stables. It was converted to a recreation facility in the early 1990s. At 23 acres, the North Meadow is the Park's largest open space, punctuated only by the clay fans of ballfields.

Things To Do at Central Park
Baseball and Softball (26 ballfields)
Bicycle Riding
Birding | Bird Watching
Boating
Chess
Children's Carousel
Family Fishing
Horseback Riding
Inline Skating
Nature Walks
Playgrounds (21 playgrounds)
Swimming
Tennis
Wall Climbing
Zoo

Winter Activities
Cross-Country Skiing
Ice Skating

Housed in five major buildings are an Olympic-size pool, a covered skating rink for roller skating in the summer and ice-skating in the winter, an 800-seat cultural theater, a 2,500-seat athletic complex with fitness room, and a 150-seat restaurant.

Outdoor sports amenities include a 25-yard lap pool, a wading pool, four tennis courts, four basketball courts, a softball field, four hand/paddleball courts, and a 400-meter eight-lane running track with a football/soccer field.

Riverbank also boasts spectacular promenade views of the Hudson River, the Palisade Mountains and the George Washington Bridge. At water level, there is a 900-seat amphitheater and docking facilities for excursion and fishing boats.

Points of Interest: The "Totally Kid Carousel", created by Milo Mottola and 37 young children.

Things To Do
Carousel
Food
Gymnasium
Hiking
Performing Arts Center
Picnic Tables
Playground
Playing Fields
Pool
Roller Skating
Showers
Tennis
Water Level

Winter Activities
Ice Skating

Central Park is located on 843-acres of beautifully landscaped park space sprinkled with wonderful statuary, classic architecture, the great lawn and more. With 25 million visitors each year, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States. The park's many features include: the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center, 21 Playgrounds, Walking Tours, Music in the Park, Recreation Programs. Sports such as Bicycle Riding, Birding, Chess, cross-country Skiing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Ice Skating, Row Boating, Swimming, Tennis, Wall Climbing are all availble. You can even take advantage of the many Nature Walks and Educational Programs.

Restaurants in Central Park
Many casual eating-spots and fine dining restaurants are available in Central Park. Escape the bustle of NYC for a while and dine in an oasis of trees and flowers, or dine overlooking the lake. Press blue button for a list of restaurants in Central Park.

Just for Kids at Central Park
Central Park is a wonderland for children with 21 Playgrounds, Boating, Climbing Walls, Ice Skating, Inline Skating, and don't forget that picnic while the kids play in the park. Select "Kids to Do" activities, or "Belvedere Castle" and the "Dana Discovery Center" for environmental programs. Click on "Recreation Programs" to discover the fun and exercise available including exciting Adventure programs. Press blue button for more information on "Just for Kids".

The Carousel at Central Park
Central Park's first carousel was built in 1870. After a long search the Parks Department discovered the present vintage Carousel. The Carousel is one of the largest in the United States, with 58 hand-carved, painted horses. Stein and Goldstein were among the foremost carvers of their day and the horses – nearly life-size in the outer ring – are caught rearing or mid-stride with almost fierce reality.

The Carousel today still holds its magic charm, with almost 250,000 riders a year. Both adults and children enjoy the scale of the horses and the brisk speed of the ride. During warm weather the admissions line snakes around hot dog and popcorn vendors, recalling the atmosphere of a country fair.

North Meadow Recreation Center at Central Park. The North Meadow Recreation Center, south of the Meadow, was originally built as stables. It was converted to a recreation facility in the early 1990s. At 23 acres, the North Meadow is the Park's largest open space, punctuated only by the clay fans of ballfields.

Things To Do at Central Park
Baseball and Softball (26 ballfields)
Bicycle Riding
Birding | Bird Watching
Boating
Chess
Children's Carousel
Family Fishing
Horseback Riding
Inline Skating
Nature Walks
Playgrounds (21 playgrounds)
Swimming
Tennis
Wall Climbing
Zoo

Winter Activities
Cross-Country Skiing
Ice Skating

Boats pick up at each stop twice an hour - once in each direction. Your 1 or 2 day pass allows you unlimited travel - hop on and off as much as you like. For best value, try our Combo Pass. It includes a 2-day Hop-on/Hop-off pass and a one hour tour with a photo opportunity at the Statue of Liberty. Water Taxi boat routes include:

West 44th Street
Times Square
Greenwich Village
Hudson River Park, the West Village
World Financial Center
World Trade Center Memorial, Battery Park City, Winter Garden, Irish Hunger Memorial Park
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Ferry, Castle Clinton, Museums of Jewish Heritage
Red Hook
Fairway Market with a view of the Statue of Liberty
Governors Island
South Street Seaport Museum
New York Stock Exchange,
Chinatown, Brooklyn Bridge, Fraunces Tavern
Fulton Ferry Landing
DUMBO, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn
Ice Cream Factory, Grimaldi's
Brooklyn Heights
Hunters Point
Water Taxi Beach, Long Island City
Midtown East, United Nations Building
Empire State Building

Baruch College is part of a tradition that dates back more than 150 years to the founding, in 1847, of the Free Academy, the very first free public institution of higher education in the nation. Established in 1919 as City College’s School of Business and Civic Administration, the school was renamed in 1953 in honor of Bernard M. Baruch - statesman, financier, and devoted alumnus. In 1968 the school became an independent senior college in The City University of New York (CUNY) system.

Today, a thriving, urban, multicultural institution and a senior college of CUNY, Baruch attracts motivated students of proven achievement who are seriously committed to making their dreams a reality. Their ability and drive, along with the superb, professional education for which Baruch is known, have established the College’s national and international reputation for excellence. In providing opportunity for these students, the College sustains the original mission of the Free Academy and the City University, adapting that mission to the needs of New York City, once a commercial hub, now a global corporate and financial powerhouse.

Baruch offers undergraduate and graduate programs of study through its three schools: the Zicklin School of Business, the largest and one of the most respected business schools in the nation; the Mildred and George Weissman School of Arts and Sciences; and the School of Public Affairs. The College also offers nondegree and certificate programs through its Division of Continuing and Professional Studies. Press blue button to explore Baruch College.

As one college within the The City University of New York, BMCC shares CUNY’s mission to preserve academic excellence and extend higher educational opportunity to a diversified urban population. In addition, Borough of Manhattan Community College is dedicated to providing general, liberal arts, career education and continuing education programs, relevant to the needs, interests and aspirations of students of all ages.

BMCC enrolls approximately 18,000 students in degree-programs and 6,000 more in continuing education programs. BMCC awards associate degrees in more than 20 fields, including Accounting, Business Administration, Child Care/Early Childhood, Computer Science, Paramedic Program, Mathematics, Multimedia Technology, Nursing, Office Operations, Video Arts and Technology, Engineering Science, Human Services, Health Information technology, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Theatre, and Writing and Literature:

Associate in Science (AS)
Associate in Arts (AA)
Associate in Applied Science (AAS)

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The program is housed at The Graduate Center and maintains a coordinator at each CUNY campus. CUNY BA is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and by the Board of Regents of The University of The State of New York.

CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies (CUNY BA, estab. 1971) is a University-wide, individualized degree. It’s an exciting, versatile, rewarding degred route for highly-motivated, self-directed students whose academic goals transcend traditional majors. CUNY BA attracts many of the best students from within and from outside the University.

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City College’s alumni number among the most prominent business, scientific, and cultural leaders of this country, and each generation of City College’s students are being prepared to join these leadership ranks. City College has the only School of Architecture and School of Engineering and the only BioMedical School in the CUNY system. It has a vigorous, well-supported science research program, and undergraduate as well as graduate students participate in research opportunities. The College also has outstanding programs in the Social Sciences, the Humanities, and the Arts.

City College’s mission emphasizes access and excellence in undergraduate and graduate education and research. Requiring demonstrated potential for admission and a high level of accomplishment for graduation, the College provides a diverse student body with exceptional opportunities to participate in creative intellectual pursuits. The College is led by a faculty committed to the advancement of knowledge and the guidance of students in the attainment of rigorous academic goals.

The College offers a broad range of baccalaureate degrees in the arts and humanities, natural sciences and social sciences, architecture, education, engineering, and biomedical science. Undergraduate programs include significant coursework in the liberal arts and sciences. Distinguished graduate programs at the master’s and doctoral levels, and a concomitant dedication to scholarly research, complement the College’s commitment to excellence in undergraduate education.

As a national and international model of excellence in public higher education, CCNY pledges to perpetuate and enhance: its status as CUNY’s flagship campus in the sciences, engineering and architecture; its signature programs in the creative arts and humanities; its prominence in doctoral programs in clinical psychology, engineering, and the sciences; its role as CUNY’s lead institution in sponsored research; its world-renowned research centers; its dedication to public and community service programs, with an emphasis on urban areas; its commitment to the interdisciplinary teamwork that enhances its distinguished history in innovative scholarship.

Over one hundred and fifty years of regional, national, and international prominence testify to CCNY’s successful realization of its founding mission and the abiding investment of the people of the City and the State of New York in the advancement of that mission. Press blue button to explore The City College of New York.

CUNY traces its beginnings to the founding in 1847 of the Free Academy, which later became The City College, the first CUNY college. According to New York State Education Law, CUNY is “supported as an independent and integrated system of higher education on the assumption that the University will continue to maintain and expand its commitment to academic excellence and to the provision of equal access and opportunity for students, faculty and staff from all ethnic and racial groups and from both sexes.”

CUNY Graduates
CUNY graduates include 12 Nobel Laureates, 10 scientists and two economists, which is among the highest number from any public university in the country. A U.S. Secretary of State, a Supreme Court Justice, mayors, members of Congress, state legislators, an astronaut, actors, singers, composers, writers and inventors are among the outstanding alumni. More top U.S. corporate executives earned their bachelor’s degrees at The City University of New York than at any other university in the country, according to the most recent national survey conducted by Standard & Poor’s. CUNY is one of the nation’s leading producers of African-American and Hispanic engineers and physicians. CUNY colleges are among the top sources of doctoral, baccalaureate and master’s degrees earned by minority students in all disciplines. John Jay College of Criminal Justice ranks as one of the nation’s leading colleges for Hispanics.

The Colleges

Baruch College
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Bronx Community College
Brooklyn College
City College
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
CUNY Baccalaureate Program
Macaulay Honors College
CUNY School of Law
CUNY School of Professional Studies
Medgar Evers College
The Graduate Center
The Graduate School of Journalism
Hostos Community College
Hunter College
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Kingsborough Community College
LaGuardia Community College
Lehman College
New York City College of Technology
Queens College
Queensborough Community College
The College of Staten Island
York College

The Office of Academics Affairs is located at 535 East 80th Street, New York, NY 10021. Press blue button to explore the colleges of The City University of New York.

Due to the consortial nature of doctoral study at The Graduate Center, courses take place at The Graduate Center and at CUNY colleges. For the most part, courses in the social sciences, humanities, and mathematics, and courses in the sciences requiring no laboratory work convene at The Graduate Center. Science courses requiring laboratory work, courses for the clinical doctorates, and courses in business, criminal justice, engineering, and social welfare convene on CUNY college campuses.

In this nationally unique consortium of 1700 faculty members, a core faculty of 125 Graduate Center appointments is supplemented by over 1500 additional faculty members drawn from throughout CUNY's eleven senior colleges and New York City's leading cultural and scientific institutions. With 4000 doctoral students, they pursue a shared enterprise of expanding the boundaries of knowledge in over 30 doctoral programs and 6 master's programs in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Augmenting this enterprise are 28 research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns.

Also affiliated with the institution are three University Center programs: the CUNY Baccalaureate Program through which undergraduates can earn bachelor's degrees by taking courses at any of the CUNY colleges; the School of Professional Studies and the associated Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies; and the recently established CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers a master's degree in journalism.

The Graduate Center offers thirty-three doctoral programs, thirty of them leading to the Ph.D.; the doctoral program in music offers the Doctor of Musical Arts as well as the Ph.D., the clinical doctoral programs in audiology, nursing science, and physical therapy offer the Au.D., DNS, and DPT respectively. Five doctoral programs and the liberal studies program also offer courses of study leading to a terminal Master of Arts degree; and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism offers a master's in journalism. Interdisciplinary opportunities - open only to students enrolled in a doctoral program - include six certificate programs and eleven interdisciplinary concentrations. Twenty-eight centers and institutes offer conferences, lectures, other special programs, and opportunities for interdisciplinary and applied research. Programs include:

Anthropology
Art History
Audiology (Au.D.)
Biochemistry
Biology
Business
Chemistry
Classics
Comparative Literature
Computer Science
Criminal Justice
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Economics
Educational Psychology
Engineering
English
French
Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages
History
Linguistics
Mathematics
Music (Ph.D./D.M.A.)
Nursing Science (DNS)
Philosophy
Physical Therapy (DPT)
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Social Welfare
Sociology
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Theatre
Urban Education

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There can be no more dynamic environment in which to learn and work than New York City. The city is the media capital of the world, and the Graduate School of Journalism is situated in its very heart. Located in midtown Manhattan, the School is just one block from Times Square and next door to the future home of The New York Times. With dozens of media outlets within walking distance and the whole of New York City just a subway ride away, the Graduate School of Journalism could not be more ideally located.

In addition to the plentiful resources of New York City, the School itself boasts state-of-the-art media technology and a superb faculty composed of industry professionals and veteran journalists who have chosen to bring their expertise to the classroom. Students will have daily contact with working journalists, developing mentoring relationships and making the connections that will guide them both in and out of the classroom. Students will also participate in professional internships across the city, gaining the hands-on experience that is so important during that first crucial job search.

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is looking for students who have a strong sense of curiosity, who are committed to working in the field of journalism and who exhibit strong leadership skills. We want students who will react to any event with questions, and more questions. We want students who want to find out how and why things work as they do. We can teach students the mechanical skills-how to use public records, how to write a lead, how to use audio and video equipment-but it's that innate sense of curiosity that will lead to success in this field. Press blue button to explore The City University of New York's - Graduate School of Journalism.

Comprised of several schools and centers, Hunter is an urban leader in educating a diverse student body. Hunter also maintains distinct leadership in educating women, providing educational opportunities for minorities, and conducting advanced research and study in disciplines across the academic spectrum. A leader in serving the public through research on public policy questions in the areas of aging populations, AIDS, and gene structure, Hunter also has stellar social work and education schools, as well as a top-rate health science program that offers one of New York City’s few Bachelor of Science degrees in nursing.

Hunter College’s academic programs cover more than a hundred fields ranging from adolescence education and anthropology to nursing, urban affairs, women’s studies, and Arabic. Intellectually exciting and rigorous, grounded in solid academic tradition but fully geared to the 21st century, these programs prepare students for graduate and professional school, for a host of professions, and for the rich, productive life of the educated citizen.

A fully accredited institution of higher education, we offer curricula leading to the bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, bachelor of music, bachelor of science, master of arts, master of fine arts, master of music, master of physical therapy, master of public health, master of science, master of science in education, and master of social work degrees. We also offer a number of accelerated (BA/MA, BS/MA, etc.) degrees as well as advanced certificate programs. Several CUNY doctoral programs are based at Hunter. Press blue button to explore the Hunter College website.

Exploring Career Opportunities With The Majors Offered @ John Jay College
To begin exploring careers, start with a basic, realistic understanding of the profession. Popular fields such as forensic science or forensic psychology may be attractive. But do you know what jobs are available after completion of a bachelor’s degree without experience in the field? Are you willing to make the commitment to these rigorous programs that may demand post-graduate study for career entry and mobility? When choosing a major you need to assess whether you can successfully complete the academic requirements required by that major. At the same time you need to start investigating the nature and demands of the careers that interest you.

The undergraduate majors offered at the college provide you with a wide variety of career opportunities. Students should not think that any major, either undergraduate or graduate, will restrict them to only certain jobs. Many students bring with them job experiences that can help them achieve a variety of different career goals.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice is not only a college of criminal justice but also a liberal arts college. A liberal education-an education that emphasizes humane values in thought and action and promotes the pursuit of truth-cultivates well-educated citizens who assume responsibility for their thoughts and the impact of their actions upon the world. These are citizens who are able to think critically and to communicate their ideas effectively. At John Jay College, the general education requirements work with the majors to develop these skills by immersing students in an interdisciplinary community and exposing them to a diverse curriculum.

As John Jay offers students majors which specialize in criminal justice and related fields, it is essential that its core education requirements be broad. This is the mission of the general education requirements. The general education requirements provide exposure to the ideas essential for students to understand how work in their major discipline is part of the larger range of human concerns. Exposure to the liberal arts and sciences helps to create well-rounded individuals who can communicate with people in different scholarly communities and can understand problems outside their specialized area of study. By promoting the integration, synthesis, and application of knowledge, general education provides individuals with an awareness of their role in a diverse culture and highlights their responsibilities to the larger community.

Degrees Offered by John Jay College of Criminal Justice

John Jay College awards the Associate in Science degree, which can serve as a useful halfway mark toward the baccalaureate degree. Credits for all courses taken in fulfillment of the associate degree are applicable toward the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science at John Jay College, although the associate degree is not a prerequisite for the baccalaureate degree.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice is not only a college of criminal justice but also a liberal arts college. College candidates for the baccalaureate degree Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science must complete 120 credits, composed of the general education requirements described below, a major, and electives.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice offers Master's Programs that are designed to complement the baccalaureate program and to enhance the academic and professional body of knowledge in the criminal justice field and its areas of specialization. The graduate program at John Jay consists of five degrees at the master's level:

Master of Arts in Criminal Justice
Master of Public Administration
The MPA - Inspector General Program
Master of Science in Forensic Computing
Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology
Master of Science in Forensic Science
Master of Science in Protection Management
BA/MA Degree Programs

The Doctoral Program in Criminal Justice offers interdisciplinary education in the fields of criminal justice, criminology, and forensic science. It combines theory, empirical research, and normative analysis. Through a well-integrated core curriculum, students are rigorously trained in social science methods, research design, statistics, and information retrieval. They are also given firm grounding in criminological theory, criminal law, criminal procedure, organizational behavior, public policy analysis, and the psychology of criminal justice. Press blue button explore CUNY - John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

The William E. Macaulay Honors College (MHC) is a flagship program of the City University of New York that provides an enhanced undergraduate education to academically gifted students. Since its inauguration in 2001, the Honors College has grown rapidly, drawing on the unique resources of CUNY and New York's cultural, scientific, government, and business communities to provide its students with a broad-based and challenging liberal arts education.

Founded in 2001, the William E. Macaulay Honors College (MHC) is the City University of New York's landmark program for students of exceptional ability. CUNY's seven participating campuses admit incoming freshman to the Macaulay Honors College. These students, called University Scholars, are granted scholarships covering their full tuition in the fall and spring semesters for four years, given laptop computers, and awarded access to funds for study abroad programs and internships. Furthermore, University Scholars are provided with dedicated facilities such as lounges and computer labs at their home campuses, and are supported by a close community of peers, mentoring professors, and advisors.

Macaulay Honors College students are designated as University Scholars. They begin their studies with a sequence of four interdisciplinary seminars with a special focus on New York City. The University Scholars select their course of study at one of the seven participating CUNY campuses. Study grant funding is available for study abroad at sites that range from Florence, Italy, to Australia, India, China, and the Galapagos Islands. The MHC learning community also includes a special team of directors and advisors as well as Technology Fellows at each campus, who blend specialized academic knowledge with expertise in instructional technology. Press blue button for more information about the Macaulay Honors College University Scholars Program.

CUNY's Online Baccalaureate
CUNY's new Online Baccalaureate offers a distinctive liberal arts education. We invite you to learn more about the program by exploring our website or by attending one of our upcoming open house events. Advisors are also available to speak with you, day and evening, by chatting live online or by calling 212-652-CUNY (2869).

Introduction to Immigration Law – Online
To meet the needs of a growing immigrant community - paralegals, social workers, lawyers, community advocates, and government officials are choosing to learn more about the complex and ever-changing field of immigration law. SPS is now offering an online version of its innovative and popular Introduction to Immigration Law course.

Fiscal and Governance Training for Boards of New York State Public Authorities
The New York State Commission on Public Authority Reform turned to SPS and CUNY faculty members who are experts in public and corporate finance and governance to develop a training program for members of boards of directors.

SPS offers credit courses and non-credit programs in an ever-growing list of academic and professional fields. In every instance, our programs are developed and taught by experts who combine up-to-date knowledge of the field with a well-grounded academic perspective on the subject matter at hand.

Courses offered by SPS in the following subject areas

1. Disability Studies
2. Education
3. Immigration Law
4. Information Technology
5. Labor Studies
6. Nonprofit Management
7. Real Estate
8. Science
9. Transportation

Headquartered at the City College, The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education offers an innovative five-year program that integrates undergraduate education with the first two years of medical school. Students receive a foundation in the liberal arts, community health and social medicine as well as the biomedical sciences.

Students receive a B.S. from City College and then transfer to one of six medical schools in New York State for the third and fourth years of medical school training. In recognition of the support received from a specialized State-funded program, graduates must sign a pledge to serve for two years as a primary care physician in an under-served area after they complete their residencies.

SUNY - Stony Brook
SUNY - Downstate
SUNY - Syracuse
SUNY - Albany
SUNY - NYU
SUNY - New York Medical College

Entrance to the The Sophie Davis School is highly competitive and our acceptance rate is about 18%. A recent graduate spent a year in Australia on a Fulbright Scholarship, studying Eastern complementary medicine. A current fifth year student has been named a Millennium Gates Scholar, a real distinction as most such scholars are either in mathematics or pure science fields. Our students are committed to their life dream of becoming physicians: 85% of entering Sophie Davis students actually complete medical school compared to a 50% attrition rate among freshmen entering premedical programs at four-year colleges and universities. Sophie Davis's educational approach results in a 45% enrollment of under-represented minorities, representing a diversity unparalleled at other medical schools in New York State.

To ensure the future of our mission, the School is focusing its efforts in three areas:

We are increasing exposure to clinical experiences as a real priority. The School is neither physically nor formally attached to a teaching hospital so we must form partnerships with other institutions. Currently, we are partners with eight community health centers located in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn.


We are emphasizing the development of good communication skills. Given the shift in demographics in our urban centers and under-served communities, most of our graduates, as Primary Care physicians, will offer the first line of health defense for many of our newest citizens. A patient's compliance and health depend on that very first meeting. Good communication and understanding of cultural differences become paramount.

Our mission to bring under-represented minorities into the School and to emphasize Primary Care training has never been more important. Medical school enrollment overall has been declining, and the American Association of Medical Colleges' 3,000 by 2000 goal to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities has not been met. A number of scholarships for our students are available through the generosity of the Leonard and Sophie Davis, the William Randolph Hearst, the W. Clement & Jesse V. Stone, the Life Foundations and The Rita & Howard Shapiro Memorial Scholarship Fund. These scholarships allow us to attract qualified students to choose Sophie Davis as a preferred route to becoming a physician.

Both the concept and practice of The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education reinforce the City University's mission as a unique educational fount from which great futures can be attained by anyone with the grit and passion to learn. Press blue button to learn more about The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education of the City University of New York Medical School.

Central Park is located on 843-acres of beautifully landscaped park space sprinkled with wonderful statuary, classic architecture, the great lawn and more. With 25 million visitors each year, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States. The park's many features include: the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center, 21 Playgrounds, Walking Tours, Music in the Park, Recreation Programs. Sports such as Bicycle Riding, Birding, Chess, cross-country Skiing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Ice Skating, Row Boating, Swimming, Tennis, Wall Climbing are all availble. You can even take advantage of the many Nature Walks and Educational Programs.

Restaurants in Central Park
Many casual eating-spots and fine dining restaurants are available in Central Park. Escape the bustle of NYC for a while and dine in an oasis of trees and flowers, or dine overlooking the lake. Press blue button for a list of restaurants in Central Park.

Just for Kids at Central Park
Central Park is a wonderland for children with 21 Playgrounds, Boating, Climbing Walls, Ice Skating, Inline Skating, and don't forget that picnic while the kids play in the park. Select "Kids to Do" activities, or "Belvedere Castle" and the "Dana Discovery Center" for environmental programs. Click on "Recreation Programs" to discover the fun and exercise available including exciting Adventure programs. Press blue button for more information on "Just for Kids".

The Carousel at Central Park
Central Park's first carousel was built in 1870. After a long search the Parks Department discovered the present vintage Carousel. The Carousel is one of the largest in the United States, with 58 hand-carved, painted horses. Stein and Goldstein were among the foremost carvers of their day and the horses – nearly life-size in the outer ring – are caught rearing or mid-stride with almost fierce reality.

The Carousel today still holds its magic charm, with almost 250,000 riders a year. Both adults and children enjoy the scale of the horses and the brisk speed of the ride. During warm weather the admissions line snakes around hot dog and popcorn vendors, recalling the atmosphere of a country fair.

North Meadow Recreation Center at Central Park. The North Meadow Recreation Center, south of the Meadow, was originally built as stables. It was converted to a recreation facility in the early 1990s. At 23 acres, the North Meadow is the Park's largest open space, punctuated only by the clay fans of ballfields.

Things To Do at Central Park
Baseball and Softball (26 ballfields)
Bicycle Riding
Birding | Bird Watching
Boating
Chess
Children's Carousel
Family Fishing
Horseback Riding
Inline Skating
Nature Walks
Playgrounds (21 playgrounds)
Swimming
Tennis
Wall Climbing
Zoo

Winter Activities
Cross-Country Skiing
Ice Skating

Boats pick up at each stop twice an hour - once in each direction. Your 1 or 2 day pass allows you unlimited travel - hop on and off as much as you like. For best value, try our Combo Pass. It includes a 2-day Hop-on/Hop-off pass and a one hour tour with a photo opportunity at the Statue of Liberty. Water Taxi boat routes include:

West 44th Street
Times Square
Greenwich Village
Hudson River Park, the West Village
World Financial Center
World Trade Center Memorial, Battery Park City, Winter Garden, Irish Hunger Memorial Park
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Ferry, Castle Clinton, Museums of Jewish Heritage
Red Hook
Fairway Market with a view of the Statue of Liberty
Governors Island
South Street Seaport Museum
New York Stock Exchange,
Chinatown, Brooklyn Bridge, Fraunces Tavern
Fulton Ferry Landing
DUMBO, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn
Ice Cream Factory, Grimaldi's
Brooklyn Heights
Hunters Point
Water Taxi Beach, Long Island City
Midtown East, United Nations Building
Empire State Building

Housed in five major buildings are an Olympic-size pool, a covered skating rink for roller skating in the summer and ice-skating in the winter, an 800-seat cultural theater, a 2,500-seat athletic complex with fitness room, and a 150-seat restaurant.

Outdoor sports amenities include a 25-yard lap pool, a wading pool, four tennis courts, four basketball courts, a softball field, four hand/paddleball courts, and a 400-meter eight-lane running track with a football/soccer field.

Riverbank also boasts spectacular promenade views of the Hudson River, the Palisade Mountains and the George Washington Bridge. At water level, there is a 900-seat amphitheater and docking facilities for excursion and fishing boats.

Points of Interest: The "Totally Kid Carousel", created by Milo Mottola and 37 young children.

Things To Do
Carousel
Food
Gymnasium
Hiking
Performing Arts Center
Picnic Tables
Playground
Playing Fields
Pool
Roller Skating
Showers
Tennis
Water Level

Winter Activities
Ice Skating

The collectors who founded the American Folk Art Museum subscribed enthusiastically to the notion of a homogenous national heritage, and this was reflected in the art they collected and, consequently, in the gifts they gave to the museum. The collection was launched in 1962 with the gift, appropriately enough, of a gate in the form of an American flag that celebrated the nation’s centennial. In the forty years since, the museum’s collection has continued to grow and evolve and now includes artworks from the seventeenth century through the present. New thoughts about the makeup of American society have expanded collecting goals, but as the “American Anthem” exhibition makes all too clear, the museum still has a long way to go toward remedying a balance weighted heavily in favor of the field’s early interests and directions. In other words, the opening of the new American Folk Art Museum does not suggest that the museum’s collection is “complete” or that things will not continue to change. Like American folk art itself, it merely marks a moment in time, with all its concomitant forces, for us to say this is where we are now, but the journey continues.

The American Folk Art Museum's exhibit "American Anthem” is an unabashed song of praise to the nation, for the simple reason that American folk art is essentially patriotic, whether celebrating national events, decrying the nation’s dark days, or describing personal moments. Refuge, freedom, ingenuity, land of opportunity, these are phrases identified with the mythology of America, and they are ideas indelibly imbedded in America’s vernacular arts.

Over this period of spectacular scientific achievement, the American Museum of Natural History has played a leading role in exploration, discovery, and theoretical advances in the natural sciences. Central to these efforts has been the accumulation of one of the world's great Museum collections. The Museum was a leader in forging new theories on the way we look at cultures, biological organisms, and indeed the very evolution of life. Today, science at the American Museum of Natural History thrives and expands on these earlier accomplishments.

Science areas to explore at the American Museum of Natural History include: The Institute for Comparative Genomics, The Division of Physical Sciences and a new Astrophysics Research Program, The C. V. Starr Natural Science Building, The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Paleontological Exploration, Vertebrate Zoology, Exploring the Vast Diversity of the Invertebrates, Digitization of the Library Collections.

The above are only a sample of the initiatives currently underway at the Museum that is intended to define the institution's leadership in 21st-century science. This is a time of unprecedented disclosure of the secrets of the gene, the biota, and the history and workings of the earth, the planets, and the universe. Technologies in computation, imaging, genomics, and comparative biology that is now readily adopted in Museum science seemed more like alchemy only a few years ago. Traditional assumptions about the history and interactions of humankind are broadly disarmed by the changing modern world of cultural interrelationships. And now, as never before, the kind of science fostered by the Museum is needed to define effective stewardship for Earth's eroding natural environments. In these exciting and challenging times, the Museum will continue to seize extraordinary opportunities to transform our scientific vision into meaningful results, a strategy that has served the Museum throughout its history.

Press the blue button to enter the astounding world available to explore at The American Museum Of Natural History.

On June 18, 2004, The American Numismatic Society officially opened its new headquarters at 96 Fulton Street in lower Manhattan. The ANS contains America's most comprehensive collection of coins, medals and paper currency from every part of the globe. The 35,000 square foot former bank building also encompasses the world's largest numismatic library. The library embraces two full floors. There are educational and research facilities now available to international scholars, students and the general public who are interested in studying coins, medals and other treasures in the Society's superb collection.

The Asia Society Museum is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization. The Society provides a forum for building awareness of the more than thirty countries broadly defined as the Asia-Pacific region, the area from Japan to Iran, and from Central Asia to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

Through art exhibitions and performances, films, lectures, seminars and conferences, publications and assistance to the media, and materials and programs for students and teachers, the Asia Society Museum presents the uniqueness and diversity of Asia.

Central Park is located on 843-acres of beautifully landscaped park space sprinkled with wonderful statuary, classic architecture, the great lawn and more. With 25 million visitors each year, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States. The park's many features include: the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center, 21 Playgrounds, Walking Tours, Music in the Park, Recreation Programs. Sports such as Bicycle Riding, Birding, Chess, cross-country Skiing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Ice Skating, Row Boating, Swimming, Tennis, Wall Climbing are all availble. You can even take advantage of the many Nature Walks and Educational Programs.

Restaurants in Central Park
Many casual eating-spots and fine dining restaurants are available in Central Park. Escape the bustle of NYC for a while and dine in an oasis of trees and flowers, or dine overlooking the lake. Press blue button for a list of restaurants in Central Park.

Just for Kids at Central Park
Central Park is a wonderland for children with 21 Playgrounds, Boating, Climbing Walls, Ice Skating, Inline Skating, and don't forget that picnic while the kids play in the park. Select "Kids to Do" activities, or "Belvedere Castle" and the "Dana Discovery Center" for environmental programs. Click on "Recreation Programs" to discover the fun and exercise available including exciting Adventure programs. Press blue button for more information on "Just for Kids".

The Carousel at Central Park
Central Park's first carousel was built in 1870. After a long search the Parks Department discovered the present vintage Carousel. The Carousel is one of the largest in the United States, with 58 hand-carved, painted horses. Stein and Goldstein were among the foremost carvers of their day and the horses – nearly life-size in the outer ring – are caught rearing or mid-stride with almost fierce reality.

The Carousel today still holds its magic charm, with almost 250,000 riders a year. Both adults and children enjoy the scale of the horses and the brisk speed of the ride. During warm weather the admissions line snakes around hot dog and popcorn vendors, recalling the atmosphere of a country fair.

North Meadow Recreation Center at Central Park. The North Meadow Recreation Center, south of the Meadow, was originally built as stables. It was converted to a recreation facility in the early 1990s. At 23 acres, the North Meadow is the Park's largest open space, punctuated only by the clay fans of ballfields.

Things To Do at Central Park
Baseball and Softball (26 ballfields)
Bicycle Riding
Birding | Bird Watching
Boating
Chess
Children's Carousel
Family Fishing
Horseback Riding
Inline Skating
Nature Walks
Playgrounds (21 playgrounds)
Swimming
Tennis
Wall Climbing
Zoo

Winter Activities
Cross-Country Skiing
Ice Skating

The magnitude and diversity of chamber music demanded an institution devoted solely to its repertoire, and as President of Lincoln Center, William Schuman determined that chamber music should be housed, in a hall designed specifically for it, along with dance, orchestral music, theater, opera and film at America's preeminent artistic base. Dr. Schuman invited the eminent pianist, chamber musician and accompanist, Charles Wadsworth, to help determine the structure of the new chamber music constituent. They decided on a unique format in which chamber works of every size and description would be presented by highly esteemed performers, including a core of Artist Members to be augmented each season by Guest Artists.

This institution would also encourage and commission the creation of new works. The founding triumvirate was made complete with the arrival of Alice Tully, a former opera singer and vocal recitalist who agreed to help finance a chamber music hall on condition that it have exemplary acoustics and comfort. The Chamber Music Society's inaugural concert on September 11, 1969 marked the opening of its home, Alice Tully Hall.

In collaboration with a network of museums and visual arts institutions both national and international, The Chelsea Art Museum seeks to present important, but relatively unexplored dimensions of 20th and 21st Century art, particularly focusing on artists that have been less exposed in the United States than in their home countries. The museum, a 30,000 sq. foot renovated historic building in the heart of Chelsea, is located opposite the piers which served as entry for the arrival and assimilation of foreign cultures into New York. This location provides a powerful symbol of the museum’s mission: to be a meeting point, a destination for exhibitions and works from Europe, the Americas and Asia and returning CAM generated exhibitions to those partners both overseas and within the United States.

The Chelsea Art Museum also serves as the home of the Jean Miotte Foundation which is dedicated to archiving, preserving, presenting and making available for exhibitions the work of Jean Miotte. Rotating selections of Miotte’s work are shown on a regular basis, as are selections from the permanent collection which includes rare holdings of such artists as Pol Bury, Mimmo Rotella, and J.P. Riopelle.

The permanent collection of the Chelsea Art Museum includes many European abstract artists often labeled as Informel, including Corpora, Lakner, Kirkeby, Millares, Miotte, Santomaso, Schumacher, Stöhrer, Thieler, Vedova. The collection also holds American abstract artists Francis, LaNoue, Mitchell, Motherwell, Riopelle; a large body of works by the Affichiste Mimmo Rotella; and works by Jean Arp, Olivier Debré, Jean Fautrier, and Ellen Levy. Sculptors in the collection include Bernar Venet, Pol Bury, Kanter, Jeff Beer, Johannsen and Zadkine. The collection also has an important selection of rare books and works on paper.

Exhibitions at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan are created and built by a team of education specialists and designers and tour both nationally and internationally. Based on the idea that students learn by doing, each theme-based exhibition uses hands-on activities, interactive components and larger than life environments to encourage students to explore in new ways and make learning fun.

Engaging, hands-on programs at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan make learning fun. Key observation, analytical and problem solving skills are developed through applied learning using directed experiments, exhibition exploration, open-ended art projects and more. Activities support learning in the areas of science, math, language and the creative arts, and our interdisciplinary approach to themes appeals to students with a variety of learning styles. Programs conform to New York State and City learning standards, are adapted to each grade level and can be tailored to classes with special needs

The China Institute Gallery has presented over 90 exhibitions, encompassing all areas of Chinese art. With its renowned reputation for high quality exhibitions, scholarly catalogs and interpretive programming, China Institute Gallery has become a unique resource for the general public, scholars, students and connoisseurs to learn about Chinese art and culture.

Collection at the Cloisters

Much of the sculpture at The Cloisters was acquired by George Grey Barnard (1863–1938), a prominent American sculptor and avid collector of medieval art. While working in rural France before World War I, Barnard supplemented his income by locating and selling medieval sculpture and architectural fragments that had made their way into the hands of local landowners over several centuries of political and religious upheaval. He kept many pieces for himself and, upon returning to the United States, opened to the public a churchlike brick structure on Fort Washington Ave filled with his collection - the first installation of medieval art of its kind in America.

Through the generosity of the philanthropist and collector John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874–1960), the museum and all of its contents were acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1925. By 1927, it was clear that a new and larger building would be needed to display the collection in a more scholarly fashion. In addition to financing the conversion of 66.5 acres of land just north of Barnard's museum into a public park, inside which the new museum building would be located, and donating seven hundred acres of additional land to the state of New Jersey across the Hudson River to ensure that the view from The Cloisters remain unsullied, Rockefeller contributed medieval works of art from his own collection (including the celebrated set of seven South Netherlandish tapestries depicting "The Hunt of the Unicorn") and established an endowment for operations and future acquisitions.

Press blue button to see highlights from the collection housed at The Cloisters and presented online.

"Every exhibition presented at the Museum sets out to explore, often for the first time, some important feature of academic art and the institutions that nourished it in 19th-century and early 20th-century Europe. Utilizing loans from distinguished international collections, both private and public, previous exhibitions here have examined, among other topics, the training of artists; the world of the Salon with its competitions and juries; the 19th-century fascination with the Orient, reciprocated from Cairo to Paris; the influence of photography, travel, and archeological discoveries of the classical past; and the reproduction of artworks for an international market.

"The Dahesh Museum of Art collection contains paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, and books by the most popular artists of 19th-century and early 20th-century Europe. Artists such as Barye, Benouville, Bouguereau, Bonheur, Cabanel, Gérôme, Leighton, Picou, Troyon, and Vernet explored the subjects preferred by their fellow academicians, and by the growing middle-class audience who visited the annual Salons in Europe’s major cities. Sumptuous landscapes, exotic 'Oriental' scenes, closely observed animals, grandiloquent images from history and myth, and intimate scenes of everyday life form the core of the Museum’s collection. Works by masters acclaimed today, and also by artists known only in their day, are viewed side-by-side, as they were 150 years ago."

The Ellis Island Immigration Museum is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and is one of the country's most popular historic sites. In 2001, The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, in partnership with the National Park Service, unveiled the American Family Immigration History Center. This exciting family research facility at Ellis Island provides visitors with advanced computer and multimedia technology, printed materials, and professional assistance for investigating immigration history, family documentation, and genealogical exploration.

The Ellis Island Immigration Museum is located in the Main Building of the former immigration station complex and tells the moving tales of the 12 million immigrants who entered America through the golden door of Ellis Island. Today, the descendants of those immigrants account for almost half of the American people.

One of your ancestors - a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent, risked everything to come to this country. Their courage and determination provided the freedom, opportunities and lifestyle we all too often take for granted. Press blue button to enter The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation Visit "The American Immigrant Wall of Honor". You can "Search the Wall", "Link to your Heritage", "Honor Your Grandparents" and 'Search for your Family Records!

Best known for its innovative, award-winning exhibitions, the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology also has one of the world's most important collections of fashion and textiles, which it collects, conserves, documents, exhibits, and interprets for the purposes of education and inspiration.

The collections continue to grow as pieces are donated or purchased. New acquisitions are considered when they are either exceptional examples or fill a gap in the collections. Today the FIT's Museum collections have a dual function: as design laboratories used by students and professionals and as repositories where historically important objects can be safely preserved and exhibited for the education and aesthetic pleasure of present and future generations

Each year, The Film Society presents the New York Film Festival, the New Directors/New Films series (co-sponsored by The Museum of Modern Art), and a fundraising Gala Tribute, which honors preeminent actors and directors. Year-round programming at the 268-seat Walter Reade Theater explores new international cinema and the rich tradition of American film. The Film Society also publishes Film Comment magazine.

As an independent constituent of the world’s foremost performing arts center, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presents a 363-day season that includes premieres of new films from an international roster of established and emerging directors; major retrospectives; in-depth symposia and high profile events. The Film Society is one of those rare institutions whose stature is matched by its popularity, each year welcoming an aggregate audience of more than 200,000 film aficionados, filmmakers and industry leaders of every nationality, age, economic and ethnic group. The organization has been a pioneer among film institutions and one of the film world’s most respected and influential arbiters of cinematic trends and discoveries. François Truffaut, R.W. Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson – over the last four decades there is scarcely a major director who has not been introduced to American audiences by the Film Society. Press blue button for more information.

The Frick Collection was founded by Henry Clay Frick, the Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist. At his death, Mr. Frick bequeathed his New York residence and the most outstanding of his many art works to establish a public gallery for the purpose of “encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts.” Chief among his bequests, which also included sculpture, drawings, prints, and decorative arts such as furniture, porcelains, enamels, rugs and silver, were one hundred thirty-one paintings. Forty-seven additional paintings have been acquired over the years by the Trustees from an endowment provided by the founder and through gifts and bequests. As of the end of 1995 The Frick Collection housed a permanent collection of more than 1,100 works of art from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century.

The art of The Frick Collection includes superb examples of Old Masters, English eighteenth-century portraits, Dutch seventeenth-century works of art, Italian Renaissance paintings, Renaissance bronzes, Limoge enamels, Chinese porcelains, and French eighteenth-century furniture. Artists represented in the Collection include Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Bellini, El Greco, Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer, Francois Boucher, Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Mallord William Turner, James McNeill Whistler, Francesco Laurana, Jean-Antoine Houdon, and Severo Calzetta da Ravenna.

The Frick Collection, although small, has played a very significant role in collecting and connoisseurship in the United States. The types of paintings collected by Mr. Frick deeply affected the taste of Americans in the decades after his death, first and foremost, that of Andrew Mellon, his close friend, and other collectors who gave to The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., founded by Mellon. Later, the example of The Frick Collection helped determine the nature of museums such as the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. It was, and continues to be, the model for many other collectors and institutions, whether or not they achieve the standards of collecting or the atmosphere of The Frick Collection as we know it today.

The bottom half of the Hayden Sphere houses the Big Bang, where visitors will be transported to the beginning of time and space, experiencing a dramatic, multisensory re-creation of the first moments of the universe. From here, visitors continue on an awe-inspiring journey that chronicles the evolution of the universe by following the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway, a sloping walkway that takes them through 13 billion years of cosmic evolution.

See the breathtaking Passport to the Universe at the Hayden Planetarium, that reveals the wonders of our universe in a way never before possible in a planetarium. No longer dependent on a single, multi-lens projector, the presentation is driven by computers and processors that treat the audiences to realistic close-up views of star fields and planets, taking them on an exhilarating flight through a virtual re-creation of our universe, into the Orion Nebula, out of our galaxy, and deep into intergalactic space. After reaching the edges of our known universe, the tour takes a "virtual shortcut" back to Earth, in a free fall, headlong through a black hole.

The hangar deck houses three of the legendary aircraft types which originally flew from the Intrepid during World War II: an original TBM Avenger torpedo bomber, and replicas of an F6F Hellcat fighter and an SB2C Helldiver dive bomber.

On the flight deck and portside aircraft elevator, America’s modern military cutting edge is represented by a Navy F-14 Tomcat, an Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon, a Marine Corps aV-8C Harrier, and an A-12 Blackbird spy plane formerly in service with the CIA. During your visit, you’ll also find international air power on display with a British F-1 Scimitar, a French Entendard IV-M and a Polish MiG-21.

The Intrepid Sea-Air Museum's helicopter collection includes two Vietnam-era UH-1 Hueys, a Marine Corps AH-1J Sea Cobra, and a fully restored Army AH-1G Cobra gunship. Press blue button to browse through the "Intrepid Sea-Air Museum" website, and then plan your visit!

The story of the lighthouse was popularized by the children's book The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, by Hildegarde H. Swift. In this fictional account of Jeffrey's Hook lighthouse, the structure was presented as a symbol of the significance of a small thing in a big world. After the proposed removal of the lighthouse in 1951, the lighthouse became a celebrated "child's landmark," representing importance and permanence, The children cried out to "save the lighthouse" and so it was to be.

See The Little Red Lighthouse book.

The Jeffrey's Hook lighthouse, which formerly had stood as the North Hook Beacon at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, from 1880-1917, was reconstructed in 1921 by the United States Bureau of Lighthouses as part of a project to improve the navigational aids on the Hudson River.

Visit the Lighthouse
Scheduled tours offered spring through fall by the New York City Urban Park Rangers. Press blue button for tour information and more about the Little Red Lighthouse.

A recent exhibition "WALDSEE-1944" is an exhibition that commemorates the annihilation of Hungarian Jewry during the summer of 1944, when Jews deported by the Nazis to their deaths at Auschwitz were required to write deceptive postcards from "Waldsee" to their families, reassuring them that all was well. Seventy international artists have created their own visual symbolism, in the form of the postcard, to commemorate the Hungarian Holocaust. Among the artists are William Kentridge, Judy Chicago, Tobi Kahn, Archie Rand, Ida Appelbrog, Hanan Harchol, Margalit Mannor, Lynn Avedenka, Ruth Weisberg, Leonard Meiselman, Natan Nuchi, Richard McBee, Donald Woodman, and Mark Podwal.

In 1944, Frieda Schiff Warburg, widow of the prominent businessman and philanthropist, Felix Warburg, donated the family mansion on Fifth Ave at 92nd Street for use as The Jewish Museum. Located along New York's prestigious Museum Mile, this elegant landmark structure, in the style of a French Gothic chateau, has been our home since 1947. In 1993 an ambitious expansion and renovation project doubled the gallery space, added a glorious permanent exhibition, created classrooms and an auditorium for educational programs, and improved public amenities, including a café.

Through more than 28,000 objects including painting, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media, The Jewish Museum's collection demonstrates Jewish identity and its evolution through visual art. It is one of the largest, most extensive collections of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.

Café Weissman, located at The Jewish Museum, is proud to offer innovative kosher cuisine prepared by Foremost Glatt Kosher Caterers serving an exquisite selection of delicious salads, pasta dishes, desserts, and beverages.

Each year hundreds of students of all occupations, races, ethnicities, and of a wide range of ages from around the world benefit from the extraordinary education offered at the New York Film Academy. Today, little more than a decade after the first students graduated, the New York Film Academy is considered one of the most prominent fixtures of film education in the world. Press blue button for more information.

The work of Maxine Greene, the Institute's Philosopher-in-Residence, is based on the writings of the pragmatist John Dewey and several existential philosophers. Greene's philosophy maintains that understanding a work of art exists in the transaction between the viewer and the art object, and not in the object itself. From this, the Institute developed its practice of aesthetic education.

Carefully planned observations and analyses of particular works of art are connected to participatory activities designed by teaching artists to highlight the possible relationship between an artist's choices and the viewer's aesthetic response. Through art-making explorations in performing and visual arts, participants integrate their experiences and perceptions to shape new understandings of a particular artwork, and often, their world. This approach is neither teaching "art for art's sake," nor using the arts as a vehicle for teaching other subjects. Rather it is a third process that incorporates some of the elements of both, involving perception, cognition, affect, and the imagination. Press blue button for more information.

What will you remember most about your trip to NYC? Will you remember when you struck a pose and dazzled the paparazzi, when you sang live at the American Idol Experience, when you forecasted the weather with Al Roker, or perhaps when you made Jennifer Lopez blush? In a city with millions of things to see and do, there is only one place where over 200 of the world's top celebrities provide you with an interactive experience of a lifetime. For a trip to remember, visit Madame Tussauds, New York City's House of Wax Museum.

The Metropolitan Museum's permanent collection consists of more than two million works of art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens, businessmen and financiers as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day, who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.

The Metropolitan Museum's painting collection began in 1870, when three private European collections, 174 paintings in all, came to the Met. A variety of excellent Dutch and Flemish paintings, including works by such artists as Hals and Van Dyck, was supplemented with works by such great European artists as Poussin, Tiepolo, and Guardi.

The collections continued to grow for the rest of the 19th century. But it is the 20th century that has seen the Met's rise to the position of one of the world's great art centers. Some highlights: a work by Renoir entered the Met as early as 1907. The Met has become one of the world's great repositories of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. In 1910 the Metropolitan was the first public institution to accept works of art by Matisse. By 1979 the Museum owned five of the fewer than 40 known Vermeers. The Department of Greek and Roman Art now oversees thousands of objects, including one of the finest collections in glass and silver in the world. The American Wing holds the most comprehensive collection of American art, sculpture, and decorative arts in the world. The Egyptian art collection is the finest outside Cairo. The Islamic art collection is without peer.

In 1880, the Metropolitan Museum moved to its current site in Central Park. The original Gothic-Revival-style building has been greatly expanded in size since then, and the various additions now completely surround the original structure.

Among the additions to the Met are: the Robert Lehman Wing (1975), which houses an extraordinary collection of Old Masters, as well as Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art; the installation in The Sackler Wing of the Temple of Dendur (1978), an Egyptian monument (ca. 15 B.C.) that was given to the United States by Egypt; The American Wing (1980), whose magnificent collection also includes 24 period rooms offering an unparalleled view of American art history and domestic life; The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing (1982) for the display of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing (1987), which houses modern art; and the Henry R. Kravis Wing, devoted to European sculpture and decorative arts from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century.

The Metropolitan Museum continues to refine and reorganize the collections in its existing spaces. In June 1998, the Arts of Korea gallery opened to the public, completing a major suite of galleries – a "museum within the Museum". In October 1999 the Ancient Near Eastern Galleries reopened. And a complete renovation and reinstallation of the Greek and Roman Galleries is underway: the first phase, The Robert and Renée Belfer Court for early Greek art, opened in June 1996; the New Greek Galleries premiered in April 1999; and in April 2000 the Cypriot Galleries open to the public.

The Metropolitan Opera has always engaged many of the world’s most important artists. Christine Nilsson and Marcella Sembrich shared leading roles during the opening season. In the German seasons that followed, Lilli Lehmann dominated the Wagnerian repertory and anything else she chose to sing. In the 1890s, Nellie Melba and Emma Calvé shared the spotlight with the De Reszkes (Jean and Edouard), and two American sopranos, Emma Eames and Lillian Nordica. Enrico Caruso arrived in 1903 and by the time of his death had performed more times with the Met than with all other opera companies combined.

In 1977, the Metropolitan began a regular series of televised productions with a performance of La Bohème viewed by more than four million people. “The Metropolitan Opera Presents” has made seventy-eight complete Met performances available to a huge audience around the world. Many of these performances have been issued on videotape, laserdisc, and DVD.

Almost from the beginning, it was clear that the opera house on 39th Street did not have adequate stage facilities. However, it was not until the Metropolitan Opera joined with other New York institutions in forming Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts that a new home became possible. The new Metropolitan Opera House, which opened at Lincoln Center in September of 1966, was equipped with the finest technical facilities.

In 1995, the Metropolitan introduced “Met Titles,” a unique system of simultaneous translation. “Met Titles” appear on individual computerized screens mounted in specially built railings at the back of each row of seats, for those members of the audience who wish to utilize them, but with minimum distraction for those who do not. “Met Titles” are provided for all Metropolitan Opera performances. Each season the Metropolitan stages more than two hundred performances of opera in New York. More than 800,000 people attend the performances in the opera house during the season. Millions more, throughout the world, experience the Metropolitan Opera on television, radio, on tour and recordings.

Be sure to press blue button to explore and enjoy the Metropolitan Opera's website. It is just wonderful! You can learn about opera or even hear new and old recordings of the greatest voices ever heard. Press to hear "Sounds of the Met" Listen to Caruso, Ezio Pinza, Jan Peerce, Richard Tucker, Placido Domingo, Leontyne Price, Jessye Norman and many more of the greatest voices ever heard; or enjoy James Levine and Leonard Bernstein conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. This website is a gift!

In June 2002, the Museum of Arts & Design was selected by The New York Economic Development Corporation (EDC), on behalf of Mayor Bloomberg, to redevelop Two Columbus Circle with the goal of bringing a vibrant cultural resource to the area. “I am delighted that Two Columbus Circle will be re-born as a museum and a distinguished work of architecture that will serve as a demonstration of the vitality of New York and the pivotal role that the arts play in the economic, social, and educational life of the city.” Mayor Bloomberg

Opening in 2008, the new Museum of Arts & Design will more than triple its space to 54,000 square feet from 17,000 square feet in its present location. The Museum’s exhibition space will increase fourfold. For the first time since its founding in 1956, the Museum will be able to present and expand its permanent collection of art objects, including ceramics, fiber, glass, metal, paper, wood, mixed media, and design–one of the most distinguished collections of its kind in the world. MAD will also double its gallery space for the display of special exhibitions organized by the Museum and other national and international arts institutions.

The 30,000-square-foot Museum on the waterfront at 36 Battery Place in Manhattan's Battery Park City, with its six-sided shape and tiered roof symbolic of the six points of the Star of David and the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, has proved a powerful attraction as one of New York City's newest cultural destinations. The Museum of Jewish Heritage goes beyond recounting the horrors of the Holocaust. Its mission is to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life over the past century, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust - a testament to the endurance of a people, teaches essential and unforgettable lessons about the danger of intolerance. The Museum, like the history of the Jewish people, is a combination of celebration and sorrow, triumph and tragedy. Every object, every display, and every voice is a demonstration of the legacy of courage in the face of adversity that sustained the Jewish people through one of the worst periods in human history.

Each year, the Museum observes Yom HaShoah with a candle-lighting ceremony that brings together Holocaust survivors and high-school students throughout the New York area in a moving demonstration of the power of passing memories from one generation to the next. Hearing the history directly from those who lived it has an impact on students that is far stronger than any book, film, or lecture. As the years pass, it becomes still more important for succeeding generations to hear first-person accounts of this incredible tragedy.

The Museum of Modern Art seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art, while being accessible to a public that ranges from scholars to young children. The ultimate purpose of the Museum declared at its founding was to acquire the best modern works of art. While quality remains the primary criterion, the Museum acknowledges and pursues a broader educational purpose: to build a collection which is more than an assemblage of masterworks, which provides a uniquely comprehensive survey of the unfolding modern movement in all visual media.

The Museum of the City of New York's name says it all. With our unique mandate, to engage visitors in exploring the past, present, and future of the five boroughs of New York City and to explore the city's astonishing cultural diversity, we have the opportunity to present a wide variety of exhibitions, public programs, and publications, all investigating what gives New York its singular character. In this year alone, we have presented exhibitions on our own neighborhood of East Harlem, on the oldest community of Jews in North America, on the community-centered values of labor radicalism in the Bronx, on the glamour of "New York style," and on the rich legacy of black theater. Our city's constantly changing built environment was explored through exhibitions of photographs of the subways and through investigations of new design and new architecture. Public programs investigated everything from school reform to solutions to traffic congestion to the future of women in the New York workforce.

Please join us as The Museum of the City of New York continues to explore what makes New York New York.

The National Academy Museum houses one of the largest public collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art in the country. It comprises over five thousand works in almost every artistic style of the past two centuries, from the linear portraiture of the Federal period and the naturalistic landscapes of the Hudson River School to studies of light and atmosphere that inform Tonalism and American Impressionism; from the gritty realism of the Ashcan movement to the modernist movements of Fauvism, abstraction, and photo and magic realism. Masterworks in these and other styles have come into the National Academy Museum's collection mainly as gifts from newly elected National Academicians in compliance with membership requirements; thereby continually enriching the collection.

The National Sports Museum will provide an experience unlike any in New York City, the nation or the world. As a family-oriented attraction, the NSM's exhibits will engage people of all ages through an interactive and celebratory environment. The NSM will include permanent and rotating exhibits, a 360-degree immersion theater, special event spaces, an extensive retail area, and a sports-themed café.

The National Sports Museum's "Immersion Theatre" - During a spectacular 8-minute film presentation, National Sports Museum visitors will occupy the center of the theater space, surrounded by a multi-layered 360-degree video projection system. The film begins with images of empty stadiums and arenas, then proceeds through time-lapse photography to show those venues fill with fans.

Then the games begin: first serves thunder off rackets, drives explode from metal woods, footballs soar from the punter's foot and basketballs tip to one side. The intensity builds as the games proceed and visitors are taken through half-times and time-outs, building to a pulsating final sequence, showing fans celebrating after a thrilling win. Throughout the film, on a Jumbotron, athletes, fans, owners and coaches at all levels of sports talk about each stage of "the game" as it is shown.

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"The New Museum, designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA, is a seven-story, eight-level structure located at 235 Bowery between Stanton and Rivington Streets, at the origin of Prince Street in New York City.

"The Internship Program at the New Museum offers participants hands-on training in the museum profession and a comprehensive overview of Museum operations. Interns also gain insight into the world of contemporary art."

Press blue button for current exhibitions, calendar, digital archive, tours, and more about the New Museum.

New Museum First Saturdays for Families
First Saturdays at the New Museum offer special, hands-on programs designed for families with children and young adults five to fifteen years old, conducted by trained New Museum educators the first Saturday of each month. Families have the opportunity to explore the New Museum’s exhibitions through lively conversations in the galleries, and to engage in related creative activities.

Boats pick up at each stop twice an hour - once in each direction. Your 1 or 2 day pass allows you unlimited travel - hop on and off as much as you like. For best value, try our Combo Pass. It includes a 2-day Hop-on/Hop-off pass and a one hour tour with a photo opportunity at the Statue of Liberty. Water Taxi boat routes include:

West 44th Street
Times Square
Greenwich Village
Hudson River Park, the West Village
World Financial Center
World Trade Center Memorial, Battery Park City, Winter Garden, Irish Hunger Memorial Park
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Ferry, Castle Clinton, Museums of Jewish Heritage
Red Hook
Fairway Market with a view of the Statue of Liberty
Governors Island
South Street Seaport Museum
New York Stock Exchange,
Chinatown, Brooklyn Bridge, Fraunces Tavern
Fulton Ferry Landing
DUMBO, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn
Ice Cream Factory, Grimaldi's
Brooklyn Heights
Hunters Point
Water Taxi Beach, Long Island City
Midtown East, United Nations Building
Empire State Building

The Police Museum started to focus more on the history of the department and policing in New York with the appointment of its first curator, Detective Alfred Young who supplemented the displays of the museum with his own, extensive collection of police memorabilia. Detective Young is also credited with designing the current Medal of Honor. By March 2002, the museum opened at its permanent home at 100 Old Slip, the site of the old First Precinct stationhouse, a building that itself reflects the rich history of the NYPD.

Our building at 100 Old Slip was built in 1909-11 and designed by the notable architectural firm of Hunt & Hunt. This building was constructed as the new home for the First Precinct. It was considered a model police facility when built and chiefs of police throughout the country visited the new stationhouse looking to copy some of its features in their own new buildings. This building replaced another stationhouse built on the exact same spot in 1884, in fact the new stationhouse used the same foundation as the building it replaced. The 1884 stationhouse was constructed on the site of the former Franklin Market. It was built in the Neo-Italian Renaissance style. Its visual power was created by a rhythmic series of tall arches, heavy rusticated walls and restrained ornamentation. The building's distinctive profile with its dominating cornice is reminiscent of the Palazzo Riccardi in Florence and is now the home of The New York City Police Museum.

Each year hundreds of students of all occupations, races, ethnicities, and of a wide range of ages from around the world benefit from the extraordinary education offered at the New York Film Academy. Today, little more than a decade after the first students graduated, the New York Film Academy is considered one of the most prominent fixtures of film education in the world. Press blue button for more information.

The following opening paragraph is taken from "The Address of 'The New-York Historical Society' delivered to the public on February 12th, 1805 and September 18, 1809: "Having formed an association, for the purpose of discovering, procuring, and preserving whatever may relate to the natural, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical history of our country, and particularly of the State of New-York, we solicit the aid of the liberal, patriotic, and learned, to promote the objects of our institution."

Today, The New-York Historical Society offers a world of information such as the wealth of significant objects housed in the Luce Center, their power to fascinate, evoke the past, and convey the physical reality of history complements the special exhibitions, library resources, and public programs that are also available to visitors. By presenting such treasures in a format at once transparent, adaptable, and accessible, the New-York Historical Society is charting an important new path in the museum community.

Attractions Include
Children's Museum
Events and Exhibitions
Programs
Two million manuscripts, 500,000 photographs, 400,000 prints

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At The Paley Center for Media, you have the opportunity to access an international collection of more than 140,000 programs covering almost 100 years of television and radio history, including news, public affairs programs and documentaries, performing arts programs, children's programming, sports, comedy and variety shows, and commercial advertising. Programming from some seventy countries is represented in the collection.

In our library you choose a program from the collection. Then you go to watch or listen to it at a console individually - or with up to four people at a family console.

You can also drop in to a screening in one of the Paley Center's theaters. Each day we screen a wide variety of programming from our collection, from David Bowie in performance or a look at the work of Jim Henson or the short films of Saturday Night Live. In our theaters you enjoy the communal experience of watching television together. All of the programming is also available for you to watch or listen to at an individual console through the library.

Throughout the year we offer numerous public programs in the Media as Lens subscription series that bring together writers, directors, producers, actors, critics, journalists, and artists from many disciplines to discuss everything from the creative process behind television and radio to the current trends in media and popular culture, to global political situations. Press blue button for more information about the The Paley Center for Media.

Housed in five major buildings are an Olympic-size pool, a covered skating rink for roller skating in the summer and ice-skating in the winter, an 800-seat cultural theater, a 2,500-seat athletic complex with fitness room, and a 150-seat restaurant.

Outdoor sports amenities include a 25-yard lap pool, a wading pool, four tennis courts, four basketball courts, a softball field, four hand/paddleball courts, and a 400-meter eight-lane running track with a football/soccer field.

Riverbank also boasts spectacular promenade views of the Hudson River, the Palisade Mountains and the George Washington Bridge. At water level, there is a 900-seat amphitheater and docking facilities for excursion and fishing boats.

Points of Interest: The "Totally Kid Carousel", created by Milo Mottola and 37 young children.

Things To Do
Carousel
Food
Gymnasium
Hiking
Performing Arts Center
Picnic Tables
Playground
Playing Fields
Pool
Roller Skating
Showers
Tennis
Water Level

Winter Activities
Ice Skating

In June 1943, Frank Lloyd Wright received a letter from Hilla Rebay, the art advisor to Solomon R. Guggenheim, asking the architect to design a new building to house Guggenheim's four-year-old Museum of Non-Objective Painting. The project evolved into a complex struggle pitting the architect against his clients, city officials, the art world, and public opinion. Both Guggenheim and Wright would die before the building's 1959 completion. The resultant achievement, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, testifies not only to Wright's architectural genius, but to the adventurous spirit that characterized its founders.

The Guggenheim collection "online" premiered in April 2001 with a selection of works of art from the New York museum's holdings. Currently representing 169 artists, the collection online encompasses both the classic and the new—from the Guggenheim's earliest work, an 1867 landscape by Camille Pissarro, through more recent acquisitions, a 1998–99 sculpture by Robert Gober—striking a balance that reflects the dynamic tenor of the institution as a whole. Each work may be viewed at small, medium, or large resolution, and is accompanied by insightful commentary.

The Studio Museum in Harlem has a long tradition of presenting programs that address prevalent issues in contemporary art by artists of African descent. Through the Department of Education and Public Programs, we offer a range of activities and programs that engage a diverse cross-section of artists of various disciplines, writers, scholars and critics who share diverse perspectives with our audiences.

Programs include: Architectural Walking Tours, Artists-In-Residence Open Studios, Books & Authors, Director's Dialogues, Hoofers' House, Inside/Out Gallery Tour, Poetry @ SMH, Sunday Salon, The Fine Art Of Collecting, Vital Expressions in American Art: Performance @ SMH.

In the Winter 2001, The Studio Museum in Harlem launched a new initiative Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History and Community, a intergenerational program that uses SMH's James VanDerZee Collection/Archives as the point of entry for people of all ages to share experiences and perspectives on community, identity, history and culture. Expanding the Walls was conceived to allow SMH to develop vital relationships with three distinct populations--youth, families, and senior citizens, as well as the cultural institutions and community based organizations that provide services to these groups.

Over the past decade museums around the nation have undertaken special initiatives to strengthen community relationships. Providing access to the arts, addressing the needs of under-served populations and using museum collections creatively to reflect the identity and interests of community have been the driving forces behind new programs. In developing programs that best meet the needs of their varied constituencies, the museum field has made it a priority to address communities who are often marginalized within the traditional paradigm of museum education. While the field has invested a great deal of time and resources in redefining the role of the museum in communities, many of these efforts have not been sustained and or the programs were intended to function as one-time exposure activities.

The Studio Museum in Harlem has over the last three decades successfully served as a resource for scholars, educators and more traditional museum visitors. In its geographic community-Harlem-however it has been perceived as exclusive and elitist. Its programs, while reflecting the standards of the museum field, have not always addressed the interests of its immediate community.

Expanding the Walls is a program that has been conceived to challenge habitual museum education practices by creating an environment where there is a clear exchange of information and an interactive pedagogical process between community and the institution, and between different generations. At the core of this new initiative is a program through which youth are trained to use photography and the visual arts in general to facilitate discussions of larger social issues in the context of exhibitions presented at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Press blue button for more information on "Expanding the Walls" and the many exciting events at The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Yeshiva University Museum presents exhibitions with an interdisciplinary focus that reflect the diversity of the Museum’s collection of more than 8,000 artifacts. As a resource for scholarly research, Yeshiva University Museum’s exhibitions provide unique opportunities for artists, historians, collectors, and ethnographers to examine, compare, and research objects, ideas, and techniques. Its contemporary art shows offer the public the opportunity to survey art being created by living Jewish artists throughout the world.

Features Include: Four Galleries, Exhibition Arcade, Multilingual Tours in English, Hebrew, Spanish, Russian, & Yiddish, Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Docent Lounge, Children’s Workshop, 250 Seat Auditorium, Kosher Café.

The magnitude and diversity of chamber music demanded an institution devoted solely to its repertoire, and as President of Lincoln Center, William Schuman determined that chamber music should be housed, in a hall designed specifically for it, along with dance, orchestral music, theater, opera and film at America's preeminent artistic base. Dr. Schuman invited the eminent pianist, chamber musician and accompanist, Charles Wadsworth, to help determine the structure of the new chamber music constituent. They decided on a unique format in which chamber works of every size and description would be presented by highly esteemed performers, including a core of Artist Members to be augmented each season by Guest Artists.

This institution would also encourage and commission the creation of new works. The founding triumvirate was made complete with the arrival of Alice Tully, a former opera singer and vocal recitalist who agreed to help finance a chamber music hall on condition that it have exemplary acoustics and comfort. The Chamber Music Society's inaugural concert on September 11, 1969 marked the opening of its home, Alice Tully Hall.

Each year, The Film Society presents the New York Film Festival, the New Directors/New Films series (co-sponsored by The Museum of Modern Art), and a fundraising Gala Tribute, which honors preeminent actors and directors. Year-round programming at the 268-seat Walter Reade Theater explores new international cinema and the rich tradition of American film. The Film Society also publishes Film Comment magazine.

As an independent constituent of the world’s foremost performing arts center, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presents a 363-day season that includes premieres of new films from an international roster of established and emerging directors; major retrospectives; in-depth symposia and high profile events. The Film Society is one of those rare institutions whose stature is matched by its popularity, each year welcoming an aggregate audience of more than 200,000 film aficionados, filmmakers and industry leaders of every nationality, age, economic and ethnic group. The organization has been a pioneer among film institutions and one of the film world’s most respected and influential arbiters of cinematic trends and discoveries. François Truffaut, R.W. Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson – over the last four decades there is scarcely a major director who has not been introduced to American audiences by the Film Society. Press blue button for more information.

Each year hundreds of students of all occupations, races, ethnicities, and of a wide range of ages from around the world benefit from the extraordinary education offered at the New York Film Academy. Today, little more than a decade after the first students graduated, the New York Film Academy is considered one of the most prominent fixtures of film education in the world. Press blue button for more information.

The work of Maxine Greene, the Institute's Philosopher-in-Residence, is based on the writings of the pragmatist John Dewey and several existential philosophers. Greene's philosophy maintains that understanding a work of art exists in the transaction between the viewer and the art object, and not in the object itself. From this, the Institute developed its practice of aesthetic education.

Carefully planned observations and analyses of particular works of art are connected to participatory activities designed by teaching artists to highlight the possible relationship between an artist's choices and the viewer's aesthetic response. Through art-making explorations in performing and visual arts, participants integrate their experiences and perceptions to shape new understandings of a particular artwork, and often, their world. This approach is neither teaching "art for art's sake," nor using the arts as a vehicle for teaching other subjects. Rather it is a third process that incorporates some of the elements of both, involving perception, cognition, affect, and the imagination. Press blue button for more information.

The Metropolitan Opera has always engaged many of the world’s most important artists. Christine Nilsson and Marcella Sembrich shared leading roles during the opening season. In the German seasons that followed, Lilli Lehmann dominated the Wagnerian repertory and anything else she chose to sing. In the 1890s, Nellie Melba and Emma Calvé shared the spotlight with the De Reszkes (Jean and Edouard), and two American sopranos, Emma Eames and Lillian Nordica. Enrico Caruso arrived in 1903 and by the time of his death had performed more times with the Met than with all other opera companies combined.

In 1977, the Metropolitan began a regular series of televised productions with a performance of La Bohème viewed by more than four million people. “The Metropolitan Opera Presents” has made seventy-eight complete Met performances available to a huge audience around the world. Many of these performances have been issued on videotape, laserdisc, and DVD.

Almost from the beginning, it was clear that the opera house on 39th Street did not have adequate stage facilities. However, it was not until the Metropolitan Opera joined with other New York institutions in forming Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts that a new home became possible. The new Metropolitan Opera House, which opened at Lincoln Center in September of 1966, was equipped with the finest technical facilities.

In 1995, the Metropolitan introduced “Met Titles,” a unique system of simultaneous translation. “Met Titles” appear on individual computerized screens mounted in specially built railings at the back of each row of seats, for those members of the audience who wish to utilize them, but with minimum distraction for those who do not. “Met Titles” are provided for all Metropolitan Opera performances. Each season the Metropolitan stages more than two hundred performances of opera in New York. More than 800,000 people attend the performances in the opera house during the season. Millions more, throughout the world, experience the Metropolitan Opera on television, radio, on tour and recordings.

Be sure to press blue button to explore and enjoy the Metropolitan Opera's website. It is just wonderful! You can learn about opera or even hear new and old recordings of the greatest voices ever heard. Press to hear "Sounds of the Met" Listen to Caruso, Ezio Pinza, Jan Peerce, Richard Tucker, Placido Domingo, Leontyne Price, Jessye Norman and many more of the greatest voices ever heard; or enjoy James Levine and Leonard Bernstein conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. This website is a gift!

Each year hundreds of students of all occupations, races, ethnicities, and of a wide range of ages from around the world benefit from the extraordinary education offered at the New York Film Academy. Today, little more than a decade after the first students graduated, the New York Film Academy is considered one of the most prominent fixtures of film education in the world. Press blue button for more information.

The magnitude and diversity of chamber music demanded an institution devoted solely to its repertoire, and as President of Lincoln Center, William Schuman determined that chamber music should be housed, in a hall designed specifically for it, along with dance, orchestral music, theater, opera and film at America's preeminent artistic base. Dr. Schuman invited the eminent pianist, chamber musician and accompanist, Charles Wadsworth, to help determine the structure of the new chamber music constituent. They decided on a unique format in which chamber works of every size and description would be presented by highly esteemed performers, including a core of Artist Members to be augmented each season by Guest Artists.

This institution would also encourage and commission the creation of new works. The founding triumvirate was made complete with the arrival of Alice Tully, a former opera singer and vocal recitalist who agreed to help finance a chamber music hall on condition that it have exemplary acoustics and comfort. The Chamber Music Society's inaugural concert on September 11, 1969 marked the opening of its home, Alice Tully Hall.

The work of Maxine Greene, the Institute's Philosopher-in-Residence, is based on the writings of the pragmatist John Dewey and several existential philosophers. Greene's philosophy maintains that understanding a work of art exists in the transaction between the viewer and the art object, and not in the object itself. From this, the Institute developed its practice of aesthetic education.

Carefully planned observations and analyses of particular works of art are connected to participatory activities designed by teaching artists to highlight the possible relationship between an artist's choices and the viewer's aesthetic response. Through art-making explorations in performing and visual arts, participants integrate their experiences and perceptions to shape new understandings of a particular artwork, and often, their world. This approach is neither teaching "art for art's sake," nor using the arts as a vehicle for teaching other subjects. Rather it is a third process that incorporates some of the elements of both, involving perception, cognition, affect, and the imagination. Press blue button for more information.

Baruch College is part of a tradition that dates back more than 150 years to the founding, in 1847, of the Free Academy, the very first free public institution of higher education in the nation. Established in 1919 as City College’s School of Business and Civic Administration, the school was renamed in 1953 in honor of Bernard M. Baruch - statesman, financier, and devoted alumnus. In 1968 the school became an independent senior college in The City University of New York (CUNY) system.

Today, a thriving, urban, multicultural institution and a senior college of CUNY, Baruch attracts motivated students of proven achievement who are seriously committed to making their dreams a reality. Their ability and drive, along with the superb, professional education for which Baruch is known, have established the College’s national and international reputation for excellence. In providing opportunity for these students, the College sustains the original mission of the Free Academy and the City University, adapting that mission to the needs of New York City, once a commercial hub, now a global corporate and financial powerhouse.

Baruch offers undergraduate and graduate programs of study through its three schools: the Zicklin School of Business, the largest and one of the most respected business schools in the nation; the Mildred and George Weissman School of Arts and Sciences; and the School of Public Affairs. The College also offers nondegree and certificate programs through its Division of Continuing and Professional Studies. Press blue button to explore Baruch College.

As one college within the The City University of New York, BMCC shares CUNY’s mission to preserve academic excellence and extend higher educational opportunity to a diversified urban population. In addition, Borough of Manhattan Community College is dedicated to providing general, liberal arts, career education and continuing education programs, relevant to the needs, interests and aspirations of students of all ages.

BMCC enrolls approximately 18,000 students in degree-programs and 6,000 more in continuing education programs. BMCC awards associate degrees in more than 20 fields, including Accounting, Business Administration, Child Care/Early Childhood, Computer Science, Paramedic Program, Mathematics, Multimedia Technology, Nursing, Office Operations, Video Arts and Technology, Engineering Science, Human Services, Health Information technology, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Theatre, and Writing and Literature:

Associate in Science (AS)
Associate in Arts (AA)
Associate in Applied Science (AAS)

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The program is housed at The Graduate Center and maintains a coordinator at each CUNY campus. CUNY BA is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and by the Board of Regents of The University of The State of New York.

CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies (CUNY BA, estab. 1971) is a University-wide, individualized degree. It’s an exciting, versatile, rewarding degred route for highly-motivated, self-directed students whose academic goals transcend traditional majors. CUNY BA attracts many of the best students from within and from outside the University.

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City College’s alumni number among the most prominent business, scientific, and cultural leaders of this country, and each generation of City College’s students are being prepared to join these leadership ranks. City College has the only School of Architecture and School of Engineering and the only BioMedical School in the CUNY system. It has a vigorous, well-supported science research program, and undergraduate as well as graduate students participate in research opportunities. The College also has outstanding programs in the Social Sciences, the Humanities, and the Arts.

City College’s mission emphasizes access and excellence in undergraduate and graduate education and research. Requiring demonstrated potential for admission and a high level of accomplishment for graduation, the College provides a diverse student body with exceptional opportunities to participate in creative intellectual pursuits. The College is led by a faculty committed to the advancement of knowledge and the guidance of students in the attainment of rigorous academic goals.

The College offers a broad range of baccalaureate degrees in the arts and humanities, natural sciences and social sciences, architecture, education, engineering, and biomedical science. Undergraduate programs include significant coursework in the liberal arts and sciences. Distinguished graduate programs at the master’s and doctoral levels, and a concomitant dedication to scholarly research, complement the College’s commitment to excellence in undergraduate education.

As a national and international model of excellence in public higher education, CCNY pledges to perpetuate and enhance: its status as CUNY’s flagship campus in the sciences, engineering and architecture; its signature programs in the creative arts and humanities; its prominence in doctoral programs in clinical psychology, engineering, and the sciences; its role as CUNY’s lead institution in sponsored research; its world-renowned research centers; its dedication to public and community service programs, with an emphasis on urban areas; its commitment to the interdisciplinary teamwork that enhances its distinguished history in innovative scholarship.

Over one hundred and fifty years of regional, national, and international prominence testify to CCNY’s successful realization of its founding mission and the abiding investment of the people of the City and the State of New York in the advancement of that mission. Press blue button to explore The City College of New York.

CUNY traces its beginnings to the founding in 1847 of the Free Academy, which later became The City College, the first CUNY college. According to New York State Education Law, CUNY is “supported as an independent and integrated system of higher education on the assumption that the University will continue to maintain and expand its commitment to academic excellence and to the provision of equal access and opportunity for students, faculty and staff from all ethnic and racial groups and from both sexes.”

CUNY Graduates
CUNY graduates include 12 Nobel Laureates, 10 scientists and two economists, which is among the highest number from any public university in the country. A U.S. Secretary of State, a Supreme Court Justice, mayors, members of Congress, state legislators, an astronaut, actors, singers, composers, writers and inventors are among the outstanding alumni. More top U.S. corporate executives earned their bachelor’s degrees at The City University of New York than at any other university in the country, according to the most recent national survey conducted by Standard & Poor’s. CUNY is one of the nation’s leading producers of African-American and Hispanic engineers and physicians. CUNY colleges are among the top sources of doctoral, baccalaureate and master’s degrees earned by minority students in all disciplines. John Jay College of Criminal Justice ranks as one of the nation’s leading colleges for Hispanics.

The Colleges

Baruch College
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Bronx Community College
Brooklyn College
City College
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
CUNY Baccalaureate Program
Macaulay Honors College
CUNY School of Law
CUNY School of Professional Studies
Medgar Evers College
The Graduate Center
The Graduate School of Journalism
Hostos Community College
Hunter College
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Kingsborough Community College
LaGuardia Community College
Lehman College
New York City College of Technology
Queens College
Queensborough Community College
The College of Staten Island
York College

The Office of Academics Affairs is located at 535 East 80th Street, New York, NY 10021. Press blue button to explore the colleges of The City University of New York.

Due to the consortial nature of doctoral study at The Graduate Center, courses take place at The Graduate Center and at CUNY colleges. For the most part, courses in the social sciences, humanities, and mathematics, and courses in the sciences requiring no laboratory work convene at The Graduate Center. Science courses requiring laboratory work, courses for the clinical doctorates, and courses in business, criminal justice, engineering, and social welfare convene on CUNY college campuses.

In this nationally unique consortium of 1700 faculty members, a core faculty of 125 Graduate Center appointments is supplemented by over 1500 additional faculty members drawn from throughout CUNY's eleven senior colleges and New York City's leading cultural and scientific institutions. With 4000 doctoral students, they pursue a shared enterprise of expanding the boundaries of knowledge in over 30 doctoral programs and 6 master's programs in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Augmenting this enterprise are 28 research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns.

Also affiliated with the institution are three University Center programs: the CUNY Baccalaureate Program through which undergraduates can earn bachelor's degrees by taking courses at any of the CUNY colleges; the School of Professional Studies and the associated Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies; and the recently established CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers a master's degree in journalism.

The Graduate Center offers thirty-three doctoral programs, thirty of them leading to the Ph.D.; the doctoral program in music offers the Doctor of Musical Arts as well as the Ph.D., the clinical doctoral programs in audiology, nursing science, and physical therapy offer the Au.D., DNS, and DPT respectively. Five doctoral programs and the liberal studies program also offer courses of study leading to a terminal Master of Arts degree; and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism offers a master's in journalism. Interdisciplinary opportunities - open only to students enrolled in a doctoral program - include six certificate programs and eleven interdisciplinary concentrations. Twenty-eight centers and institutes offer conferences, lectures, other special programs, and opportunities for interdisciplinary and applied research. Programs include:

Anthropology
Art History
Audiology (Au.D.)
Biochemistry
Biology
Business
Chemistry
Classics
Comparative Literature
Computer Science
Criminal Justice
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Economics
Educational Psychology
Engineering
English
French
Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages
History
Linguistics
Mathematics
Music (Ph.D./D.M.A.)
Nursing Science (DNS)
Philosophy
Physical Therapy (DPT)
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Social Welfare
Sociology
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Theatre
Urban Education

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There can be no more dynamic environment in which to learn and work than New York City. The city is the media capital of the world, and the Graduate School of Journalism is situated in its very heart. Located in midtown Manhattan, the School is just one block from Times Square and next door to the future home of The New York Times. With dozens of media outlets within walking distance and the whole of New York City just a subway ride away, the Graduate School of Journalism could not be more ideally located.

In addition to the plentiful resources of New York City, the School itself boasts state-of-the-art media technology and a superb faculty composed of industry professionals and veteran journalists who have chosen to bring their expertise to the classroom. Students will have daily contact with working journalists, developing mentoring relationships and making the connections that will guide them both in and out of the classroom. Students will also participate in professional internships across the city, gaining the hands-on experience that is so important during that first crucial job search.

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is looking for students who have a strong sense of curiosity, who are committed to working in the field of journalism and who exhibit strong leadership skills. We want students who will react to any event with questions, and more questions. We want students who want to find out how and why things work as they do. We can teach students the mechanical skills-how to use public records, how to write a lead, how to use audio and video equipment-but it's that innate sense of curiosity that will lead to success in this field. Press blue button to explore The City University of New York's - Graduate School of Journalism.

Comprised of several schools and centers, Hunter is an urban leader in educating a diverse student body. Hunter also maintains distinct leadership in educating women, providing educational opportunities for minorities, and conducting advanced research and study in disciplines across the academic spectrum. A leader in serving the public through research on public policy questions in the areas of aging populations, AIDS, and gene structure, Hunter also has stellar social work and education schools, as well as a top-rate health science program that offers one of New York City’s few Bachelor of Science degrees in nursing.

Hunter College’s academic programs cover more than a hundred fields ranging from adolescence education and anthropology to nursing, urban affairs, women’s studies, and Arabic. Intellectually exciting and rigorous, grounded in solid academic tradition but fully geared to the 21st century, these programs prepare students for graduate and professional school, for a host of professions, and for the rich, productive life of the educated citizen.

A fully accredited institution of higher education, we offer curricula leading to the bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, bachelor of music, bachelor of science, master of arts, master of fine arts, master of music, master of physical therapy, master of public health, master of science, master of science in education, and master of social work degrees. We also offer a number of accelerated (BA/MA, BS/MA, etc.) degrees as well as advanced certificate programs. Several CUNY doctoral programs are based at Hunter. Press blue button to explore the Hunter College website.

Exploring Career Opportunities With The Majors Offered @ John Jay College
To begin exploring careers, start with a basic, realistic understanding of the profession. Popular fields such as forensic science or forensic psychology may be attractive. But do you know what jobs are available after completion of a bachelor’s degree without experience in the field? Are you willing to make the commitment to these rigorous programs that may demand post-graduate study for career entry and mobility? When choosing a major you need to assess whether you can successfully complete the academic requirements required by that major. At the same time you need to start investigating the nature and demands of the careers that interest you.

The undergraduate majors offered at the college provide you with a wide variety of career opportunities. Students should not think that any major, either undergraduate or graduate, will restrict them to only certain jobs. Many students bring with them job experiences that can help them achieve a variety of different career goals.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice is not only a college of criminal justice but also a liberal arts college. A liberal education-an education that emphasizes humane values in thought and action and promotes the pursuit of truth-cultivates well-educated citizens who assume responsibility for their thoughts and the impact of their actions upon the world. These are citizens who are able to think critically and to communicate their ideas effectively. At John Jay College, the general education requirements work with the majors to develop these skills by immersing students in an interdisciplinary community and exposing them to a diverse curriculum.

As John Jay offers students majors which specialize in criminal justice and related fields, it is essential that its core education requirements be broad. This is the mission of the general education requirements. The general education requirements provide exposure to the ideas essential for students to understand how work in their major discipline is part of the larger range of human concerns. Exposure to the liberal arts and sciences helps to create well-rounded individuals who can communicate with people in different scholarly communities and can understand problems outside their specialized area of study. By promoting the integration, synthesis, and application of knowledge, general education provides individuals with an awareness of their role in a diverse culture and highlights their responsibilities to the larger community.

Degrees Offered by John Jay College of Criminal Justice

John Jay College awards the Associate in Science degree, which can serve as a useful halfway mark toward the baccalaureate degree. Credits for all courses taken in fulfillment of the associate degree are applicable toward the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science at John Jay College, although the associate degree is not a prerequisite for the baccalaureate degree.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice is not only a college of criminal justice but also a liberal arts college. College candidates for the baccalaureate degree Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science must complete 120 credits, composed of the general education requirements described below, a major, and electives.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice offers Master's Programs that are designed to complement the baccalaureate program and to enhance the academic and professional body of knowledge in the criminal justice field and its areas of specialization. The graduate program at John Jay consists of five degrees at the master's level:

Master of Arts in Criminal Justice
Master of Public Administration
The MPA - Inspector General Program
Master of Science in Forensic Computing
Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology
Master of Science in Forensic Science
Master of Science in Protection Management
BA/MA Degree Programs

The Doctoral Program in Criminal Justice offers interdisciplinary education in the fields of criminal justice, criminology, and forensic science. It combines theory, empirical research, and normative analysis. Through a well-integrated core curriculum, students are rigorously trained in social science methods, research design, statistics, and information retrieval. They are also given firm grounding in criminological theory, criminal law, criminal procedure, organizational behavior, public policy analysis, and the psychology of criminal justice. Press blue button explore CUNY - John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

The William E. Macaulay Honors College (MHC) is a flagship program of the City University of New York that provides an enhanced undergraduate education to academically gifted students. Since its inauguration in 2001, the Honors College has grown rapidly, drawing on the unique resources of CUNY and New York's cultural, scientific, government, and business communities to provide its students with a broad-based and challenging liberal arts education.

Founded in 2001, the William E. Macaulay Honors College (MHC) is the City University of New York's landmark program for students of exceptional ability. CUNY's seven participating campuses admit incoming freshman to the Macaulay Honors College. These students, called University Scholars, are granted scholarships covering their full tuition in the fall and spring semesters for four years, given laptop computers, and awarded access to funds for study abroad programs and internships. Furthermore, University Scholars are provided with dedicated facilities such as lounges and computer labs at their home campuses, and are supported by a close community of peers, mentoring professors, and advisors.

Macaulay Honors College students are designated as University Scholars. They begin their studies with a sequence of four interdisciplinary seminars with a special focus on New York City. The University Scholars select their course of study at one of the seven participating CUNY campuses. Study grant funding is available for study abroad at sites that range from Florence, Italy, to Australia, India, China, and the Galapagos Islands. The MHC learning community also includes a special team of directors and advisors as well as Technology Fellows at each campus, who blend specialized academic knowledge with expertise in instructional technology. Press blue button for more information about the Macaulay Honors College University Scholars Program.

CUNY's Online Baccalaureate
CUNY's new Online Baccalaureate offers a distinctive liberal arts education. We invite you to learn more about the program by exploring our website or by attending one of our upcoming open house events. Advisors are also available to speak with you, day and evening, by chatting live online or by calling 212-652-CUNY (2869).

Introduction to Immigration Law – Online
To meet the needs of a growing immigrant community - paralegals, social workers, lawyers, community advocates, and government officials are choosing to learn more about the complex and ever-changing field of immigration law. SPS is now offering an online version of its innovative and popular Introduction to Immigration Law course.

Fiscal and Governance Training for Boards of New York State Public Authorities
The New York State Commission on Public Authority Reform turned to SPS and CUNY faculty members who are experts in public and corporate finance and governance to develop a training program for members of boards of directors.

SPS offers credit courses and non-credit programs in an ever-growing list of academic and professional fields. In every instance, our programs are developed and taught by experts who combine up-to-date knowledge of the field with a well-grounded academic perspective on the subject matter at hand.

Courses offered by SPS in the following subject areas

1. Disability Studies
2. Education
3. Immigration Law
4. Information Technology
5. Labor Studies
6. Nonprofit Management
7. Real Estate
8. Science
9. Transportation

Headquartered at the City College, The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education offers an innovative five-year program that integrates undergraduate education with the first two years of medical school. Students receive a foundation in the liberal arts, community health and social medicine as well as the biomedical sciences.

Students receive a B.S. from City College and then transfer to one of six medical schools in New York State for the third and fourth years of medical school training. In recognition of the support received from a specialized State-funded program, graduates must sign a pledge to serve for two years as a primary care physician in an under-served area after they complete their residencies.

SUNY - Stony Brook
SUNY - Downstate
SUNY - Syracuse
SUNY - Albany
SUNY - NYU
SUNY - New York Medical College

Entrance to the The Sophie Davis School is highly competitive and our acceptance rate is about 18%. A recent graduate spent a year in Australia on a Fulbright Scholarship, studying Eastern complementary medicine. A current fifth year student has been named a Millennium Gates Scholar, a real distinction as most such scholars are either in mathematics or pure science fields. Our students are committed to their life dream of becoming physicians: 85% of entering Sophie Davis students actually complete medical school compared to a 50% attrition rate among freshmen entering premedical programs at four-year colleges and universities. Sophie Davis's educational approach results in a 45% enrollment of under-represented minorities, representing a diversity unparalleled at other medical schools in New York State.

To ensure the future of our mission, the School is focusing its efforts in three areas:

We are increasing exposure to clinical experiences as a real priority. The School is neither physically nor formally attached to a teaching hospital so we must form partnerships with other institutions. Currently, we are partners with eight community health centers located in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn.


We are emphasizing the development of good communication skills. Given the shift in demographics in our urban centers and under-served communities, most of our graduates, as Primary Care physicians, will offer the first line of health defense for many of our newest citizens. A patient's compliance and health depend on that very first meeting. Good communication and understanding of cultural differences become paramount.

Our mission to bring under-represented minorities into the School and to emphasize Primary Care training has never been more important. Medical school enrollment overall has been declining, and the American Association of Medical Colleges' 3,000 by 2000 goal to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities has not been met. A number of scholarships for our students are available through the generosity of the Leonard and Sophie Davis, the William Randolph Hearst, the W. Clement & Jesse V. Stone, the Life Foundations and The Rita & Howard Shapiro Memorial Scholarship Fund. These scholarships allow us to attract qualified students to choose Sophie Davis as a preferred route to becoming a physician.

Both the concept and practice of The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education reinforce the City University's mission as a unique educational fount from which great futures can be attained by anyone with the grit and passion to learn. Press blue button to learn more about The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education of the City University of New York Medical School.

Columbia College has had the best general education curriculum in the country for more than half a century. This common curriculum has created and sustained a community of discourse shared by the current student body with generations of alumni. As with other great traditions, however, this living discourse has not been static, but has evolved and developed across the years. And it will continue to do so.

The vitality of any tradition depends upon its constant renewal, and for this reason, among others, Columbia College's general education is conducted in small seminars. Although many excellent colleges offer one or two semesters of general education courses, such courses tend to be taught as large lectures in large halls filled with students taking notes. At Columbia College, students spend a substantial part of their first years in small classes, reading and discussing primary works of literature, philosophy, history, science, and social and political theory, and studying fine arts and music. Through discussion and debate, through writing, and through direct interaction between instructor and student, our core curriculum helps improve each student's ability to engage in the kinds of analytic, discursive, and imaginative thinking that will prove indispensable in both subsequent education and later life.

As a small college in a large research institution, Columbia College also offers a large array of academic programs taught by faculty working at the frontiers of their disciplines. Students can choose from among more than fifty majors, over thirty concentrations, and hundreds of electives, which range widely over the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.

Although virtually all of our first-year students live in residence halls, student life at Columbia extends beyond classrooms and campus experiences. The intensity, excitement, cultural richness, and social variety of urban New York beckons to all of you. The spirit of Columbia College finds its full and deep expression in the combination of our demanding curriculum, our diverse and talented student body, and our challenging location in a great university and a great city. Press blue button for the Columbia College website.

New York City
Cooper Union exploits New York's diversity and resources as its extended campus. Student artists, sculptors and photographers study in the great museums, visit studios and galleries and work at a wide range of art internships. The School of Architecture taps in to New York's architectural community and the rich legacy is built on the environment. Engineering students have unparalleled opportunities to study the challenges posed for their discipline by one of the most complex cities in the world.

History
Peter Cooper was a workingman's son who had less than a year of formal schooling. Yet he went on to become an industrialist and an inventor; it was Peter Cooper who designed and built America's first steam railroad engine. Cooper made his fortune with a glue factory and an iron foundry. Later, he turned his entrepreneurial skills to successful ventures in real estate, insurance, railroads and telegraphy. He even once ran for president.

In the late 1850s, when Cooper was a principal investor and first president of the New York, Newfoundland & London Telegraph Co., the firm undertook one of the 19th century's monumental technical enterprises—laying the first Atlantic cable. Cooper also invented instant gelatin, with help from his wife, Sarah, who added fruit to what the world would come to know as Jello.

If Cooper sounds like a real-life Horatio Alger, perhaps it is no surprise that three of Alger's tales tell of young men passing The Cooper Union's stately Foundation Building and, duly inspired, deciding immediately to lead productive and moral lives.

As one of the first colleges to offer a free education to working-class children and to women, Cooper Union was a pioneer long before access to education became public policy. Cooper's example motivated the founders of other prestigious colleges, such as Andrew Carnegie, Ezra Cornell and Matthew Vassar.

Peter Cooper's dream was to give talented young people the one privilege he lacked—a good education. He also wanted to make possible the development of talent that otherwise would have gone undiscovered. His dream, providing an education "equal to the best", has come true. Since 1859, Cooper Union has educated thousands of artists, architects and engineers, many of them leaders in their fields. Press blue button to explore The Cooper Union website.

We are a public institution of higher education with ties to private industry designed to benefit our students. We have big city pizzazz and high-end sophistication. But we boast a safe campus and a real-world mindset. We are the crossroads between commerce and creativity. FIT's academic programs provide career preparation in more than 30 fields leading to Associate's, Bachelor's and Master's degrees.

FIT is fashion. We are also design, fine arts, packaging, computer animation. We are technology, and also marketing, advertising, merchandising, production. And more. Our diverse programming has grown out of a rich history. Our Institutional Advancement is based on a clear mission. Our campus location and facilities are here to serve our college community.

The day they arrive on campus, students are on industry turf. FIT provides facilities specifically designed to mirror those found in the real working world. FIT students don't have to wait to gain access to the resources and tools they'll rely upon in their chosen careers; our facilities keep up with the latest trends and technological developments, ensuring students graduate fully trained on the most state-of-the-art equipment. Press blue button to explore and discover more about the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Best known for its innovative, award-winning exhibitions, the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology also has one of the world's most important collections of fashion and textiles, which it collects, conserves, documents, exhibits, and interprets for the purposes of education and inspiration.

The collections continue to grow as pieces are donated or purchased. New acquisitions are considered when they are either exceptional examples or fill a gap in the collections. Today the FIT's Museum collections have a dual function: as design laboratories used by students and professionals and as repositories where historically important objects can be safely preserved and exhibited for the education and aesthetic pleasure of present and future generations

History of Fordam University
Founded as St. John’s College by Bishop John Hughes, Fordham opened in 1841 to serve the immigrant Church of New York. At the invitation of Bishop Hughes, the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) assumed responsibility for the College in 1846. In 1907 the institution achieved university status. Its name was officially changed to Fordham University. During the 20th century, the University grew to encompass eleven schools, with campuses in the Bronx, Manhattan and Westchester County.

As a Catholic University
Fordham affirms the complementary roles of faith and reason in the pursuit of wisdom and learning. The University encourages the growth of a life of faith consonant with moral and intellectual development. Fordham encourages faculty to discuss and promote an understanding of the ethical dimension of what is being studied and what is being taught. Fordham gives special attention to the study of the living tradition of Catholicism, and it provides a place where religious traditions may interact with each other and with contemporary cultures. Fordham welcomes students, faculty and staff of all religious traditions and of no religious tradition as valued members of this community of study and dialogue.
As a Jesuit University
Fordham draws its inspiration from the dual heritage of Christian Humanism and Ignatian Spirituality, and consequently sees all disciplines as potential paths to God. Fordham recognizes the dignity and uniqueness of each person. A Fordham education at all levels is student-centered, and attentive to the development of the whole person. Such an education is based on close collaboration among students, faculty and staff. Fordham is committed to research and education that assist in the alleviation of poverty, the promotion of justice, the protection of human rights and respect for the environment. Jesuit education is cosmopolitan education. Therefore, education at Fordham is international in its scope and in its aspirations. The world-wide network of Jesuit universities offers Fordham faculty and students distinctive opportunities for exchange and collaboration.
As a University in New York City
As home to people from all over the globe, as a center of international business, communication, diplomacy, the arts and the sciences, New York City provides Fordham with a special kind of classroom. Its unparalleled resources shape and enhance Fordham’s professional and undergraduate programs. Fordham is privileged to share a history and a destiny with New York City.

Locations
Come and visit any one of our five campuses; talk to students and faculty, and find out for yourself how Mercy College is changing the face of higher education with its commitment to both access and excellence. Mercy College has campuses at the following locations:

Bronx
Mercy Online
Dobbs Ferry
Manhattan
White Plains
Yorktown

Today we offer a quality liberal arts undergraduate education as well as master's degree programs in several professional areas: health professions, business, counseling/psychology, and teacher training, to students during the day, evenings, weekends, and online, so that they can fit our rigorous education into their lives. We offer tremendous financial support, so that the cost of college is not a barrier to success; and we offer learning support, access to robust technology and counseling, academic, career and personal, to help our students achieve the level of success they dream about. Our student body is primarily commuter students, whose overriding similarity is that they pursue their dream of higher education while continuing to work and support families. They are overwhelmingly the first in their families to achieve a college education, and they are African American, Asian, Caucasian, Latino, ranging in age from 18 to 80, with the average age of undergraduates being 27. Balancing their responsibilities and education, it takes most of them more than the traditional four years to complete their baccalaureate, and when they finish they take their place in industry, banking, the social services, health professions and teaching. Many continue on to graduate school - Mercy's own and schools such as University of Michigan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NYU, and Fordham. Press blue button for the Mercy College website.

Medical education at MSSM is designed to help each student reach his or her maximum potential as a well-rounded human-being through a truly exceptional educational experience that leads to graduates who are not only highly skilled but also compassionate caregivers. An innovative curriculum that is one of the most progressive in the country, stresses the humanistic and ethical aspects of medical practice as well as problem-solving strategies. Students learn clinical care working side-by-side with world-renowned doctors and gain experience in the laboratory from scientists answering fundamental questions about human diseases. Recognition that successful and empathetic communication is critical to effective patient/doctor relationships led to the establishment of programs, such as The Morchand Center for Clinical Competence, to help students and physicians develop superb communication skills.

In the treatment rooms of NYCPM's clinical teaching affiliate, Foot Clinics of New York, senior student trainees observe care in the course of nearly 40,000 patient visits a year. This large clinic patient visit load is comparable to the patient loads of many urban area hospitals in large cities.

The College is also affiliated with Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Metropolitan Hospital Center and the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, among others. These affiliations provide greater educational and learning opportunities for seniors through clerkship programs at affiliated hospitals. Press blue button to learn more about The New York College of Podiatric Medicine.

Some 175 years ago, Albert Gallatin, the distinguished statesman who served as secretary of the treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, declared his intention to establish "in this immense and fast-growing city... a system of rational and practical education fitting for all and graciously opened to all." Founded in 1831, New York University is now one of the largest private universities in the United States. Of the more than 3,000 colleges and universities in America, New York University is one of only 60 member institutions of the distinguished Association of American Universities.

Enrollment in the undergraduate divisions of the University ranges between 100 and 6,500. While some introductory classes have large numbers of students, many classes are small. With more than 2,500 courses offered, the University awards more than 25 different degrees.

In addition to the schools and colleges in Manhattan, the University operates branch campus programs in Westchester County at Manhattanville College and in Rockland County at St. Thomas Aquinas College. Certain of the University's research facilities, notably the Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, are located in Sterling Forest, near Tuxedo, New York. Although overall the University is large, the divisions are small to moderate sized units - each with its own traditions, programs, and faculty. Press blue button to explore New York University and to explore each of the schools within NYU.

Schools of New York University
Arts & Science
College of Arts & Science
College of Dentistry
College of Nursing
Courant Institute
Gallatin School
Institute of Fine Arts
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
School of Continuing and Professional Studies
School of Law
School of Medicine
School of Social Work
Steinhardt School of Education
Tisch School of the Arts

Pace is a comprehensive university with five schools and one college that offers a wide range of academic and professional programs for a large, diverse population of more than 13,000 students in for-credit programs, and in affiliated offerings. Through its Lubin School of Business, Pace continues to build its reputation for excellence in business education. The Lienhard School of Nursing, the School of Law, the School of Education and the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems are more recent responses to the needs of the New York City and Westchester communities for strong professional schools to prepare a well-educated workforce.

The University's decision in 1948 to develop a college of arts and sciences as both an autonomous academic unit and a foundation for the undergraduate core curriculum has strengthened and enriched the educational experience of Pace students and provided an ongoing source of intellectual enrichment to the University. The Dyson College of Arts and Sciences is central to the intellectual life of Pace, to shaping academic priorities, and to providing ethical, humanistic and scientific principles upon which lives and careers are founded.

Pace University draws strength from being a unified institution that offers students a choice of locations. From the quintessential urban experience of our three New York City sites, to the city of White Plains in Westchester, to the suburban/rural setting of Westchester's Pleasantville campus and Briarcliff location, each easily accessible location has its own distinctive atmosphere. Or, you can pursue your education through Pace University's Online learning community.

Westchester County Campus Locations

Pace University in Pleasantville / Briarcliff
The Pleasantville campus and Briarcliff location in mid-Westchester County are set on 200-acres of rolling countryside where the University flourishes as a preeminent institution of higher education offering a broad range of undergraduate degree programs, and graduate programs in nursing. In 1977, Pace acquired Briarcliff College, a short distance from Pleasantville in Briarcliff Manor. Residence halls, recreational facilities and administrative offices are located here.

Pace University in White Plains
The White Plains campus on North Broadway and the Evelyn and Joseph I. Lubin Graduate Center, in the heart of White Plains, provide opportunities for students to pursue a variety of educational programs. The White Plains campus is the site of the nationally ranked Pace University School of Law. The Lubin Graduate Center, across the street from the White Plains Railroad Station, houses programs in business, public administration and computer science.

New York City Campus Locations

Pace University at the New York City Lower Manhattan Campus
The New York City lower Manhattan campus is located in the heart of Lower Manhattan, the civic and financial center of the city. It's an intellectual and cultural focal point, one of New York City's most vital areas.

Pace University at the Midtown Center Campus
Pace's Midtown Center offers flexibility and convenience to students who live or work in midtown. It offers graduate and undergraduate courses in information technology, business, and Pace's Master of Science in Publishing.

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Parsons focuses on creating engaged citizens and outstanding artists, designers, scholars and business leaders through a design-based professional and liberal education. Parsons students learn to rise to the challenges of living, working and creative decision making in a world where human experience is increasingly designed. The school embraces curricular innovation, pioneering uses of technology, collaborative methods and global perspectives on the future of design.

Parsons has been a forerunner in the field of art and design since its founding in 1896. Parsons was first in:

The first program in Fashion Design
The first program in Interior Design
The first program in Advertising and Graphic Design

Each program has profoundly impacted American life. In 1939, nine years after Frank Alvah Parsons' death, the School officially adopted his name. By locating visual beauty in the ordinary things of middle-class American life, Parsons virtually invented the modern concept of design in America. From the beginning, the faculty cared about the spaces people lived in, the garments they wore, the advertising they read, the furniture and tableware they used. The principles they taught had the effect of democratizing taste and making it available to America on a broad scale. As the modern curriculum developed, many successful designers remained closely tied to the School, and by the mid-1960s, Parsons had become "the training ground for Seventh Avenue." Press blue button to explore Parsons.

In its first century of accomplishment, Rockefeller was a leader in basic scientific research and graduate education. Among their many breakthroughs, world-renowned scientists at Rockefeller have:

Discovered that genes are made of DNA.
Found the Rh factor in blood.
Pioneered the physiology and chemistry of vision.
Demonstrated the connection between cholesterol and heart disease.
Developed vaccines against meningitis.
Introduced methadone to manage heroin addiction.
Discovered that distribution of proteins to various cellular compartments is accomplished by a "ZIP code" system.

The First U.S. Biomedical Research Center
At the time of Rockefeller's founding, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria and typhoid fever were considered the greatest known threats to human health. New research centers in Europe, including the Koch and Pasteur Institutes, were successfully applying laboratory science to understanding those and other diseases. Following their lead, The Rockefeller Institute became the first biomedical researcher center in the United States.

Rockefeller researchers made important contributions to understanding and curing disease.
Simon Flexner, first director of the Institute, developed and distributed an anti-meningitis serum.
Hideyo Noguchi studied the syphilis microbe and searched for the cause of yellow fever.
Louise Pearce developed a drug to use against African sleeping sickness.
Peyton Rous deduced that cancer can be caused by a virus.
Alexis Carrel, a Nobel laureate, trained doctors headed for the front to sterilize wounds, and thus prevent infection, with up-to-date methods.

A University is Born
In 1955, Rockefeller expanded its mission to include education, admitting its first class of graduate students. It granted its first doctoral degrees in 1959. In 1965, The Rockefeller Institute became The Rockefeller University, broadening its research mandate further. In the early 1960s, new faculty with expertise in physics and mathematics came to Rockefeller. In 1972, the University began its collaboration with Cornell University to offer graduate students an M.D.-Ph.D. program. Later, the Sloan-Kettering Institute became a partner in the program.

The Rockefeller University in the 21st Century
Like their predecessors early in the 20th century, some Rockefeller researchers today seek to solve urgent public health problems. Others focus on basic research. Various laboratories study bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, multidrug treatments for AIDS and genetic causes of cancer. Others are devoted to understanding the brain–how it develops during embryonic growth; how it makes sense of sights, sounds and smells; and what happens when Alzheimer’s disease develops. In addition, faculty focus their research on human genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience and protein chemistry. Press blue button to explore The Rockefeller University.

In addition to its professional program, the College offers graduate research degrees in Vision Science (MS/PhD) and post-graduate clinical residency programs. With more than 15 scientists involved in interdisciplinary projects, the College has gained an international reputation for excellence in innovative vision science research.

"Like the global marketplace, SUNY is “always on” - constantly seeking, generating, analyzing, and sending knowledge back into the world through informed citizens, revitalized communities, and experts who transform entire sectors. Whether it’s a forestry program upstate, a nanotech center in the capital region, a fashion institute in Manhattan, or a marine studies center on the shores of Long Island, SUNY’s reach and impact is without peer. SUNY faculty and alumni are Nobel Laureates, members of the National Academy of Sciences, and Pulitzer Prize winners.

"SUNY was born out of a commitment to opportunity and access, and designed to meet diverse needs across a vast geographic landscape. We reflect both the land grant mission reborn and a distinctly New York impatience with the status quo. Throughout our history, we’ve shown a willingness to throw open doors, embrace new thinking and commit to brighter ideals.

"On the pages of our strategic plan, we present our Big Ideas not as hopes, but as firm intentions. Why do we believe that SUNY, unique within American higher education, can best achieve these goals? Because of the extraordinary Power of SUNY."

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Undergraduate degree programs in art and design that prepare students for entry into an array of professional fields in or related to the visual arts, while also equipping students with the skills necessary to become productive and thoughtful members of society.


Rigorous and practice-based graduate programs in the visual arts and its allied fields; a continuing education program intended to meet the diverse needs of New York City’s professional art and design community and the larger community within which the College resides


A commitment to serving the greater good through community service.

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Schools
The New School for General Studies
The New School for Social Research
Parsons The New School for Design
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
Mannes College The New School for Music
The New School for Drama
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music

The New School is a legendary, progressive university comprising eight schools located throughout Manhattan, New York and bound by a common, unusual intent: to prepare and inspire its 9,300 undergraduate and graduate students to bring actual, positive change to the world. From its Greenwich Village campus, The New School launches economists and actors, fashion designers and urban planners, dancers and anthropologists, orchestra conductors, filmmakers, political scientists, organizational experts, jazz musicians, scholars, psychologists, historians, journalists, and above all, world citizens-individuals whose ideas and innovations forge new paths of progress in the arts, design, humanities, public policy, and the social sciences. In addition to its 70 graduate and undergraduate degree-granting programs, the university offers certificate programs and more than 1,000 continuing education courses to 25,000 adult learners every year. Press blue button for more information about The New School.

The Medical College is divided into 20 academic departments: seven focus on the sciences underlying clinical medicine; and thirteen encompass the study, treatment, and prevention of human diseases, and maternity care. In addition to its affiliation with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College and Graduate School maintains major affiliations with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, as well as with the metropolitan-area institutions that constitute NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare Network. The Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University are accredited by the Liaison Committee for Medical Education of the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges.

In 1927, the Medical College affiliated with what is now NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and in 1932, the two institutions opened their joint campus on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Today, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, continues to be one of the top-ranked clinical and medical research centers in the country.

The mission of the Medical College is to provide the finest education possible for medical students and students pursuing advanced degrees in the biomedical sciences, to conduct research at the cutting edge of knowledge, to improve the health care of the nation and the world, and to provide the highest quality of clinical care to the community.

As an integral part of a world-renowned center of academic medicine and biomedical research, Weill Medical College is uniquely positioned to train future physicians and medical scientists. The Medical College and the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences maintain major affiliations with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University and the Hospital for Special Surgery, as well as with the New York Metropolitan-area institutions that constitute NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. Press blue button to explore the Weill Medical College of Cornell University website.

Yeshiva University conducts academic and scientific research, issues publications, and sponsors service and outreach projects. The Yeshiva University Museum forms an important part of the university mosaic, with exhibits and teaching activities that chronicle Jewish life through art, architecture, history, and culture.

Nearly 7,000 students, including 2,798 undergraduates, from 38 states and 55 countries, study at Yeshiva University's four campuses: the Wilf Campus, the Israel Henry Beren Campus, and Brookdale Center in Manhattan, and the Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus in the Bronx. They are taught by 4,714 full and part-time faculty and have access to six major libraries. More than 600 young men and women each year study in Israel under the university's S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program. Through June 2003, the university awarded 56,921 degrees and diplomas. The university's 50,000 alumni have achieved professional success and made significant contributions to society and the Jewish community. They serve, lead, and inspire by example - testament to the university's greatest resource, its students and faculty.

The Colleges

Undergraduate Studies
Yeshiva University’s undergraduate schools focus on academic excellence and provide a rich and full educational experience.
Yeshiva College
Stern College for Women
Sy Syms School of Business


Graduate Schools
In addition to its graduate-level professional programs, Yeshiva University offers graduate programs in economics and mathematics. The Master of Arts and doctoral programs offered by the Department of Mathematical Sciences are ongoing and continue a distinguished tradition in graduate science education at Yeshiva Universtiy. The Master of Science Program in Quantitative Economics is expected to commence in fall 2012.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education & Administration
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Bernard Revel Graduate School
Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology
Stern College for Women
Sy Syms School of Business
Wurzweiler School of Social Work
Graduate Programs in Arts and Sciences

Agencies of Jewish education, both formal and informal, have experienced enormous growth in recent years, reflecting important changes in the direction and composition of the American Jewish Community. As a result, we currently face a shortage of qualified teachers, principals, administrators, and other educational leaders. There is an expanding need for highly trained personnel with insights and innovations who will contribute to the quality and accessibility of Jewish education, while preserving and strengthening its values and practices.

The Azrieli Graduate School coordinates Yeshiva University's four graduate programs in Jewish education: Master of Science in Jewish Elementary Education; Master of Science in Jewish Secondary Education; Specialist's Certificate in Administration and Supervision of Jewish Education; and Doctor of Education in Administration and Supervision of Jewish Education.

Through its Master of Science curricula, Azrieli trains men and women who hold advanced knowledge in Jewish studies, for careers in Jewish elementary or secondary education. Programs leading to the Specialist's Certificate and the Doctor of Education degree prepare promising educators for administrative, supervisory, communal and academic leadership in Jewish education. Press blue button for more information about Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration.

Cardozo’s faculty of widely-published legal scholars, most of whom have also practiced the law, offer Cardozo students a curriculum that has a strong balance of theory and practice. In addition, nearly half of the faculty hold advanced degrees in other disciplines, making them particularly qualified to provide a fully-rounded and rigorous legal education.

Library and Research Facilities
Comprehensive research collections in Jewish studies at the Mendel Gottesman Library - numbering more than 200,000 volumes - Judaic CD ROM's, and access to online databases offer rich and diverse resources in support of the graduate programs. An experienced and service-oriented library staff with extensive expertise in the field assists students and scholars in all phases of research. Access to other major Judaica research collections is facilitated by the library's membership in METRO and the New York Area Theological Library Association.

Brief History
Bernard Revel Graduate School evolved from the graduate program in Semitics, which was established in 1935. The program was transformed into the Graduate School in 1937. In 1941, the School was expanded and renamed in honor of the late Dr. Bernard Revel, founder and first president of Yeshiva College.

Harry Fischel School for Higher Jewish Studies
Harry Fischel School for Higher Jewish Studies was established in 1945 with the aid of a grant from the Harry Fischel Foundation. It offers, during the summer, the program of Bernard Revel Graduate School. Press blue button to explore Bernard Revel Graduate School and Harry Fischel School for Higher Jewish Studies.

Enable students to incorporate study at Israeli yeshivot or universities into their college years, enhancing their academic experience.
Expose students to intense concentrated study of Gemara, Tanakh, Halakha, Jewish thought, and other subjects.
Increase fluency in oral and written Hebrew
Enable students to learn firsthand about Israel’s land, people, history, and culture.

There are many benefits to choosing to go to Israel as part of the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program. These benefits derive from the fact that students on the Israel Program are officially students in Yeshiva University and can therefore utilize our office in Israel and the programs and services it provides as well as take advantage of other services provided to all Yeshiva University students. Advantages to going to Israel on the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program include:

Academic Benefits
Financial Benefits
Benefits in Israel

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The program comprises a sequential two-year curriculum. In the morning, students prepare Talmudic texts with a chavruta (study partner) and attend a lecture on the material they have prepared. In the afternoon, students shift their focus to the study of Halakha, tracing its origins from the biblical texts on through the Talmud, Rishonim, and modern day poskim (rabbinic authorities). In addition, students attend lectures on various topics such as Jewish philosophy and Jewish history.

A majority of our students are also pursuing advanced degrees in Jewish Studies and/or Jewish Education. Students who complete the two-year GPATS program are awarded a certificate in Advanced Talmudic Studies from Yeshiva University. In 2006, GPATS at Yeshiva University expanded to offer an intensive two-year senior fellowship to two program graduates. The senior fellows continue their rigorous study of Talmud and Halakha and play a leading role in expanding GPATS’ educational programs in various communities. Press blue button for more information about Yeshiva University's Graduate Program for Women in Advanced Talmudic Studies.

Yeshiva University

"Additionally, we offer combined and joint programs in disciplines including engineering, dentistry, optometry, Jewish studies and social work in conjunction with the University's graduate schools and other leading universities.

Undergraduate Jewish Studies
"Yeshiva University attracts women who want to develop their entire being—whose idea of success includes professional fulfillment, strong family and rich spiritual life.

"Stern College for Women's Rebecca Ivry Department of Jewish Studies offers the country's largest and most diverse undergraduate Jewish studies program for women. Designed to expose students to the beauty of Torah study and the depth of Jewish tradition, the program offers valuable training in rigorous thought, exposure to research methods and opportunities for independent work. It empowers them to become dynamic participants in Jewish life and to pursue careers in Jewish education.

"The Basic Jewish Studies Program within the Rebecca Ivry Department of Jewish Studies is designed for students new to Hebrew language and textual study, who aspire to attain a broad-based Jewish philosophical and text-based education.

Combined and Joint Programs
"In conjunction with Yeshiva University's graduate schools and other leading universities, Stern College offers you the opportunity to earn a combined or joint degree in disciplines ranging from business administration and social work to Jewish education and Jewish studies. This wealth of programs affords you educational experiences that would not be possible within the bounds of single disciplines.

Graduate Program
"Stern College for Women offers a unique and challenging graduate program: the Master of Arts in Biblical and Talmudic interpretation. It is open to students with extensive backgrounds in advanced Jewish studies."

Students take their business courses through the Sy Syms School of Business, their liberal arts requirements through Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women, and complete their Jewish studies component through the appropriate Jewish studies programs that are available to them. The school draws students from a wide geographic area, both domestic and foreign. As a result, students have an opportunity to broaden their knowledge of, and sensitivity to, other cultures - an experience that will help them better understand, and thrive in, an ever growing global environment. Press blue button to explore The Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University.

In addition to the general studies curricula leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Yeshiva College (YC) and Bachelor of Science at Sy Syms School of Business (SSSB), students participate in Jewish studies programs requiring intensive analysis of classic texts in the Hebrew and Aramaic originals.

Yeshiva University’s New York City location affords unique and unlimited opportunities for fieldwork, together with manifold intellectual and cultural resources. As a center of learning, the university has a reputation for excellence. Its concern for humanity extends to an array of programs designed to contribute to the welfare of mankind in practice and in theory. By bringing the insight and values of Jewish traditions to the rapid progress of modern society, YU continues to offer innovative approaches to contemporary problems.

Undergraduate Programs for Men Undergraduate men select from four distinct Jewish studies options designed to meet the needs and interests of students. Classes range from beginning to advanced levels.

Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies
James Striar School of General Jewish Studies
Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies
Irving I. Stone Beit Midrash Program

Undergraduate Programs for Women Undergraduate women enroll in the Rebecca Ivry Department of Jewish Studies at Stern College for Women. Students may also receive a Hebrew Teacher's Diploma or an associate in arts degree in Jewish studies.

Wurzweiler is "methods based" and offers concentrations in Social Casework, Social Group Work, and Community Social Work. Field placement agencies are selected for their diversity, quality of service to the community, opportunities for learning, expertise of supervisors, and eagerness to collaborate with the School to create challenging educational venture for our students.

Wurzweiler School of Social Work's unique nature stems from an historic emphasis on values and ethics, its respect for ethnicity, and its recognition of the importance of religious beliefs and spirituality. Our graduates are therapists, managers, administrators, researchers, professors of social work, college deans and legislators. They are employed in every sector of social services,from neighborhood agencies to federal government. Press blue button for more information about the Wurzweiler School of Social Work.

Students at Yeshiva College pursue a rigorous dual educational program that combines liberal arts and sciences and pre-professional studies with the study of Torah and Jewish heritage, reflecting YU's unique educational philosophy of "Torah Umadda," which translates loosely as "wisdom and knowledge."

The College provides academic majors in 20 arts and sciences disciplines, all leading to the bachelor of arts degree. In addition, combined and joint degree programs are offered in several other disciplines - including engineering, dentistry, Jewish studies, optometry, podiatry, social work, nursing and psychology - in conjunction with YU's graduate schools and other leading universities.

The Jewish studies component of the College's dual curriculum is given through four distinct programs designed to meet the needs and interests of individual students. The options range from the traditional beit midrash style of learning to more structured college-style courses. Press blue button for more information about Yeshiva College.

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Pace is a comprehensive university with five schools and one college that offers a wide range of academic and professional programs for a large, diverse population of more than 13,000 students in for-credit programs, and in affiliated offerings. Through its Lubin School of Business, Pace continues to build its reputation for excellence in business education. The Lienhard School of Nursing, the School of Law, the School of Education and the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems are more recent responses to the needs of the New York City and Westchester communities for strong professional schools to prepare a well-educated workforce.

The University's decision in 1948 to develop a college of arts and sciences as both an autonomous academic unit and a foundation for the undergraduate core curriculum has strengthened and enriched the educational experience of Pace students and provided an ongoing source of intellectual enrichment to the University. The Dyson College of Arts and Sciences is central to the intellectual life of Pace, to shaping academic priorities, and to providing ethical, humanistic and scientific principles upon which lives and careers are founded.

Pace University draws strength from being a unified institution that offers students a choice of locations. From the quintessential urban experience of our three New York City sites, to the city of White Plains in Westchester, to the suburban/rural setting of Westchester's Pleasantville campus and Briarcliff location, each easily accessible location has its own distinctive atmosphere. Or, you can pursue your education through Pace University's Online learning community.

Westchester County Campus Locations

Pace University in Pleasantville / Briarcliff
The Pleasantville campus and Briarcliff location in mid-Westchester County are set on 200-acres of rolling countryside where the University flourishes as a preeminent institution of higher education offering a broad range of undergraduate degree programs, and graduate programs in nursing. In 1977, Pace acquired Briarcliff College, a short distance from Pleasantville in Briarcliff Manor. Residence halls, recreational facilities and administrative offices are located here.

Pace University in White Plains
The White Plains campus on North Broadway and the Evelyn and Joseph I. Lubin Graduate Center, in the heart of White Plains, provide opportunities for students to pursue a variety of educational programs. The White Plains campus is the site of the nationally ranked Pace University School of Law. The Lubin Graduate Center, across the street from the White Plains Railroad Station, houses programs in business, public administration and computer science.

New York City Campus Locations

Pace University at the New York City Lower Manhattan Campus
The New York City lower Manhattan campus is located in the heart of Lower Manhattan, the civic and financial center of the city. It's an intellectual and cultural focal point, one of New York City's most vital areas.

Pace University at the Midtown Center Campus
Pace's Midtown Center offers flexibility and convenience to students who live or work in midtown. It offers graduate and undergraduate courses in information technology, business, and Pace's Master of Science in Publishing.

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Boats pick up at each stop twice an hour - once in each direction. Your 1 or 2 day pass allows you unlimited travel - hop on and off as much as you like. For best value, try our Combo Pass. It includes a 2-day Hop-on/Hop-off pass and a one hour tour with a photo opportunity at the Statue of Liberty. Water Taxi boat routes include:

West 44th Street
Times Square
Greenwich Village
Hudson River Park, the West Village
World Financial Center
World Trade Center Memorial, Battery Park City, Winter Garden, Irish Hunger Memorial Park
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Ferry, Castle Clinton, Museums of Jewish Heritage
Red Hook
Fairway Market with a view of the Statue of Liberty
Governors Island
South Street Seaport Museum
New York Stock Exchange,
Chinatown, Brooklyn Bridge, Fraunces Tavern
Fulton Ferry Landing
DUMBO, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn
Ice Cream Factory, Grimaldi's
Brooklyn Heights
Hunters Point
Water Taxi Beach, Long Island City
Midtown East, United Nations Building
Empire State Building

Each year hundreds of students of all occupations, races, ethnicities, and of a wide range of ages from around the world benefit from the extraordinary education offered at the New York Film Academy. Today, little more than a decade after the first students graduated, the New York Film Academy is considered one of the most prominent fixtures of film education in the world. Press blue button for more information.

Central Park is located on 843-acres of beautifully landscaped park space sprinkled with wonderful statuary, classic architecture, the great lawn and more. With 25 million visitors each year, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States. The park's many features include: the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center, 21 Playgrounds, Walking Tours, Music in the Park, Recreation Programs. Sports such as Bicycle Riding, Birding, Chess, cross-country Skiing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Ice Skating, Row Boating, Swimming, Tennis, Wall Climbing are all availble. You can even take advantage of the many Nature Walks and Educational Programs.

Restaurants in Central Park
Many casual eating-spots and fine dining restaurants are available in Central Park. Escape the bustle of NYC for a while and dine in an oasis of trees and flowers, or dine overlooking the lake. Press blue button for a list of restaurants in Central Park.

Just for Kids at Central Park
Central Park is a wonderland for children with 21 Playgrounds, Boating, Climbing Walls, Ice Skating, Inline Skating, and don't forget that picnic while the kids play in the park. Select "Kids to Do" activities, or "Belvedere Castle" and the "Dana Discovery Center" for environmental programs. Click on "Recreation Programs" to discover the fun and exercise available including exciting Adventure programs. Press blue button for more information on "Just for Kids".

The Carousel at Central Park
Central Park's first carousel was built in 1870. After a long search the Parks Department discovered the present vintage Carousel. The Carousel is one of the largest in the United States, with 58 hand-carved, painted horses. Stein and Goldstein were among the foremost carvers of their day and the horses – nearly life-size in the outer ring – are caught rearing or mid-stride with almost fierce reality.

The Carousel today still holds its magic charm, with almost 250,000 riders a year. Both adults and children enjoy the scale of the horses and the brisk speed of the ride. During warm weather the admissions line snakes around hot dog and popcorn vendors, recalling the atmosphere of a country fair.

North Meadow Recreation Center at Central Park. The North Meadow Recreation Center, south of the Meadow, was originally built as stables. It was converted to a recreation facility in the early 1990s. At 23 acres, the North Meadow is the Park's largest open space, punctuated only by the clay fans of ballfields.

Things To Do at Central Park
Baseball and Softball (26 ballfields)
Bicycle Riding
Birding | Bird Watching
Boating
Chess
Children's Carousel
Family Fishing
Horseback Riding
Inline Skating
Nature Walks
Playgrounds (21 playgrounds)
Swimming
Tennis
Wall Climbing
Zoo

Winter Activities
Cross-Country Skiing
Ice Skating

Central Park is located on 843-acres of beautifully landscaped park space sprinkled with wonderful statuary, classic architecture, the great lawn and more. With 25 million visitors each year, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States. The park's many features include: the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center, 21 Playgrounds, Walking Tours, Music in the Park, Recreation Programs. Sports such as Bicycle Riding, Birding, Chess, cross-country Skiing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Ice Skating, Row Boating, Swimming, Tennis, Wall Climbing are all availble. You can even take advantage of the many Nature Walks and Educational Programs.

Restaurants in Central Park
Many casual eating-spots and fine dining restaurants are available in Central Park. Escape the bustle of NYC for a while and dine in an oasis of trees and flowers, or dine overlooking the lake. Press blue button for a list of restaurants in Central Park.

Just for Kids at Central Park
Central Park is a wonderland for children with 21 Playgrounds, Boating, Climbing Walls, Ice Skating, Inline Skating, and don't forget that picnic while the kids play in the park. Select "Kids to Do" activities, or "Belvedere Castle" and the "Dana Discovery Center" for environmental programs. Click on "Recreation Programs" to discover the fun and exercise available including exciting Adventure programs. Press blue button for more information on "Just for Kids".

The Carousel at Central Park
Central Park's first carousel was built in 1870. After a long search the Parks Department discovered the present vintage Carousel. The Carousel is one of the largest in the United States, with 58 hand-carved, painted horses. Stein and Goldstein were among the foremost carvers of their day and the horses – nearly life-size in the outer ring – are caught rearing or mid-stride with almost fierce reality.

The Carousel today still holds its magic charm, with almost 250,000 riders a year. Both adults and children enjoy the scale of the horses and the brisk speed of the ride. During warm weather the admissions line snakes around hot dog and popcorn vendors, recalling the atmosphere of a country fair.

North Meadow Recreation Center at Central Park. The North Meadow Recreation Center, south of the Meadow, was originally built as stables. It was converted to a recreation facility in the early 1990s. At 23 acres, the North Meadow is the Park's largest open space, punctuated only by the clay fans of ballfields.

Things To Do at Central Park
Baseball and Softball (26 ballfields)
Bicycle Riding
Birding | Bird Watching
Boating
Chess
Children's Carousel
Family Fishing
Horseback Riding
Inline Skating
Nature Walks
Playgrounds (21 playgrounds)
Swimming
Tennis
Wall Climbing
Zoo

Winter Activities
Cross-Country Skiing
Ice Skating

Housed in five major buildings are an Olympic-size pool, a covered skating rink for roller skating in the summer and ice-skating in the winter, an 800-seat cultural theater, a 2,500-seat athletic complex with fitness room, and a 150-seat restaurant.

Outdoor sports amenities include a 25-yard lap pool, a wading pool, four tennis courts, four basketball courts, a softball field, four hand/paddleball courts, and a 400-meter eight-lane running track with a football/soccer field.

Riverbank also boasts spectacular promenade views of the Hudson River, the Palisade Mountains and the George Washington Bridge. At water level, there is a 900-seat amphitheater and docking facilities for excursion and fishing boats.

Points of Interest: The "Totally Kid Carousel", created by Milo Mottola and 37 young children.

Things To Do
Carousel
Food
Gymnasium
Hiking
Performing Arts Center
Picnic Tables
Playground
Playing Fields
Pool
Roller Skating
Showers
Tennis
Water Level

Winter Activities
Ice Skating

Central Park is located on 843-acres of beautifully landscaped park space sprinkled with wonderful statuary, classic architecture, the great lawn and more. With 25 million visitors each year, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States. The park's many features include: the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center, 21 Playgrounds, Walking Tours, Music in the Park, Recreation Programs. Sports such as Bicycle Riding, Birding, Chess, cross-country Skiing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Ice Skating, Row Boating, Swimming, Tennis, Wall Climbing are all availble. You can even take advantage of the many Nature Walks and Educational Programs.

Restaurants in Central Park
Many casual eating-spots and fine dining restaurants are available in Central Park. Escape the bustle of NYC for a while and dine in an oasis of trees and flowers, or dine overlooking the lake. Press blue button for a list of restaurants in Central Park.

Just for Kids at Central Park
Central Park is a wonderland for children with 21 Playgrounds, Boating, Climbing Walls, Ice Skating, Inline Skating, and don't forget that picnic while the kids play in the park. Select "Kids to Do" activities, or "Belvedere Castle" and the "Dana Discovery Center" for environmental programs. Click on "Recreation Programs" to discover the fun and exercise available including exciting Adventure programs. Press blue button for more information on "Just for Kids".

The Carousel at Central Park
Central Park's first carousel was built in 1870. After a long search the Parks Department discovered the present vintage Carousel. The Carousel is one of the largest in the United States, with 58 hand-carved, painted horses. Stein and Goldstein were among the foremost carvers of their day and the horses – nearly life-size in the outer ring – are caught rearing or mid-stride with almost fierce reality.

The Carousel today still holds its magic charm, with almost 250,000 riders a year. Both adults and children enjoy the scale of the horses and the brisk speed of the ride. During warm weather the admissions line snakes around hot dog and popcorn vendors, recalling the atmosphere of a country fair.

North Meadow Recreation Center at Central Park. The North Meadow Recreation Center, south of the Meadow, was originally built as stables. It was converted to a recreation facility in the early 1990s. At 23 acres, the North Meadow is the Park's largest open space, punctuated only by the clay fans of ballfields.

Things To Do at Central Park
Baseball and Softball (26 ballfields)
Bicycle Riding
Birding | Bird Watching
Boating
Chess
Children's Carousel
Family Fishing
Horseback Riding
Inline Skating
Nature Walks
Playgrounds (21 playgrounds)
Swimming
Tennis
Wall Climbing
Zoo

Winter Activities
Cross-Country Skiing
Ice Skating

Housed in five major buildings are an Olympic-size pool, a covered skating rink for roller skating in the summer and ice-skating in the winter, an 800-seat cultural theater, a 2,500-seat athletic complex with fitness room, and a 150-seat restaurant.

Outdoor sports amenities include a 25-yard lap pool, a wading pool, four tennis courts, four basketball courts, a softball field, four hand/paddleball courts, and a 400-meter eight-lane running track with a football/soccer field.

Riverbank also boasts spectacular promenade views of the Hudson River, the Palisade Mountains and the George Washington Bridge. At water level, there is a 900-seat amphitheater and docking facilities for excursion and fishing boats.

Points of Interest: The "Totally Kid Carousel", created by Milo Mottola and 37 young children.

Things To Do
Carousel
Food
Gymnasium
Hiking
Performing Arts Center
Picnic Tables
Playground
Playing Fields
Pool
Roller Skating
Showers
Tennis
Water Level

Winter Activities
Ice Skating

The hangar deck houses three of the legendary aircraft types which originally flew from the Intrepid during World War II: an original TBM Avenger torpedo bomber, and replicas of an F6F Hellcat fighter and an SB2C Helldiver dive bomber.

On the flight deck and portside aircraft elevator, America’s modern military cutting edge is represented by a Navy F-14 Tomcat, an Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon, a Marine Corps aV-8C Harrier, and an A-12 Blackbird spy plane formerly in service with the CIA. During your visit, you’ll also find international air power on display with a British F-1 Scimitar, a French Entendard IV-M and a Polish MiG-21.

The Intrepid Sea-Air Museum's helicopter collection includes two Vietnam-era UH-1 Hueys, a Marine Corps AH-1J Sea Cobra, and a fully restored Army AH-1G Cobra gunship. Press blue button to browse through the "Intrepid Sea-Air Museum" website, and then plan your visit!

The collectors who founded the American Folk Art Museum subscribed enthusiastically to the notion of a homogenous national heritage, and this was reflected in the art they collected and, consequently, in the gifts they gave to the museum. The collection was launched in 1962 with the gift, appropriately enough, of a gate in the form of an American flag that celebrated the nation’s centennial. In the forty years since, the museum’s collection has continued to grow and evolve and now includes artworks from the seventeenth century through the present. New thoughts about the makeup of American society have expanded collecting goals, but as the “American Anthem” exhibition makes all too clear, the museum still has a long way to go toward remedying a balance weighted heavily in favor of the field’s early interests and directions. In other words, the opening of the new American Folk Art Museum does not suggest that the museum’s collection is “complete” or that things will not continue to change. Like American folk art itself, it merely marks a moment in time, with all its concomitant forces, for us to say this is where we are now, but the journey continues.

The American Folk Art Museum's exhibit "American Anthem” is an unabashed song of praise to the nation, for the simple reason that American folk art is essentially patriotic, whether celebrating national events, decrying the nation’s dark days, or describing personal moments. Refuge, freedom, ingenuity, land of opportunity, these are phrases identified with the mythology of America, and they are ideas indelibly imbedded in America’s vernacular arts.

Over this period of spectacular scientific achievement, the American Museum of Natural History has played a leading role in exploration, discovery, and theoretical advances in the natural sciences. Central to these efforts has been the accumulation of one of the world's great Museum collections. The Museum was a leader in forging new theories on the way we look at cultures, biological organisms, and indeed the very evolution of life. Today, science at the American Museum of Natural History thrives and expands on these earlier accomplishments.

Science areas to explore at the American Museum of Natural History include: The Institute for Comparative Genomics, The Division of Physical Sciences and a new Astrophysics Research Program, The C. V. Starr Natural Science Building, The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Paleontological Exploration, Vertebrate Zoology, Exploring the Vast Diversity of the Invertebrates, Digitization of the Library Collections.

The above are only a sample of the initiatives currently underway at the Museum that is intended to define the institution's leadership in 21st-century science. This is a time of unprecedented disclosure of the secrets of the gene, the biota, and the history and workings of the earth, the planets, and the universe. Technologies in computation, imaging, genomics, and comparative biology that is now readily adopted in Museum science seemed more like alchemy only a few years ago. Traditional assumptions about the history and interactions of humankind are broadly disarmed by the changing modern world of cultural interrelationships. And now, as never before, the kind of science fostered by the Museum is needed to define effective stewardship for Earth's eroding natural environments. In these exciting and challenging times, the Museum will continue to seize extraordinary opportunities to transform our scientific vision into meaningful results, a strategy that has served the Museum throughout its history.

Press the blue button to enter the astounding world available to explore at The American Museum Of Natural History.

The Asia Society Museum is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization. The Society provides a forum for building awareness of the more than thirty countries broadly defined as the Asia-Pacific region, the area from Japan to Iran, and from Central Asia to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

Through art exhibitions and performances, films, lectures, seminars and conferences, publications and assistance to the media, and materials and programs for students and teachers, the Asia Society Museum presents the uniqueness and diversity of Asia.

In collaboration with a network of museums and visual arts institutions both national and international, The Chelsea Art Museum seeks to present important, but relatively unexplored dimensions of 20th and 21st Century art, particularly focusing on artists that have been less exposed in the United States than in their home countries. The museum, a 30,000 sq. foot renovated historic building in the heart of Chelsea, is located opposite the piers which served as entry for the arrival and assimilation of foreign cultures into New York. This location provides a powerful symbol of the museum’s mission: to be a meeting point, a destination for exhibitions and works from Europe, the Americas and Asia and returning CAM generated exhibitions to those partners both overseas and within the United States.

The Chelsea Art Museum also serves as the home of the Jean Miotte Foundation which is dedicated to archiving, preserving, presenting and making available for exhibitions the work of Jean Miotte. Rotating selections of Miotte’s work are shown on a regular basis, as are selections from the permanent collection which includes rare holdings of such artists as Pol Bury, Mimmo Rotella, and J.P. Riopelle.

The permanent collection of the Chelsea Art Museum includes many European abstract artists often labeled as Informel, including Corpora, Lakner, Kirkeby, Millares, Miotte, Santomaso, Schumacher, Stöhrer, Thieler, Vedova. The collection also holds American abstract artists Francis, LaNoue, Mitchell, Motherwell, Riopelle; a large body of works by the Affichiste Mimmo Rotella; and works by Jean Arp, Olivier Debré, Jean Fautrier, and Ellen Levy. Sculptors in the collection include Bernar Venet, Pol Bury, Kanter, Jeff Beer, Johannsen and Zadkine. The collection also has an important selection of rare books and works on paper.

Exhibitions at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan are created and built by a team of education specialists and designers and tour both nationally and internationally. Based on the idea that students learn by doing, each theme-based exhibition uses hands-on activities, interactive components and larger than life environments to encourage students to explore in new ways and make learning fun.

Engaging, hands-on programs at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan make learning fun. Key observation, analytical and problem solving skills are developed through applied learning using directed experiments, exhibition exploration, open-ended art projects and more. Activities support learning in the areas of science, math, language and the creative arts, and our interdisciplinary approach to themes appeals to students with a variety of learning styles. Programs conform to New York State and City learning standards, are adapted to each grade level and can be tailored to classes with special needs

The China Institute Gallery has presented over 90 exhibitions, encompassing all areas of Chinese art. With its renowned reputation for high quality exhibitions, scholarly catalogs and interpretive programming, China Institute Gallery has become a unique resource for the general public, scholars, students and connoisseurs to learn about Chinese art and culture.

Collection at the Cloisters

Much of the sculpture at The Cloisters was acquired by George Grey Barnard (1863–1938), a prominent American sculptor and avid collector of medieval art. While working in rural France before World War I, Barnard supplemented his income by locating and selling medieval sculpture and architectural fragments that had made their way into the hands of local landowners over several centuries of political and religious upheaval. He kept many pieces for himself and, upon returning to the United States, opened to the public a churchlike brick structure on Fort Washington Ave filled with his collection - the first installation of medieval art of its kind in America.

Through the generosity of the philanthropist and collector John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874–1960), the museum and all of its contents were acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1925. By 1927, it was clear that a new and larger building would be needed to display the collection in a more scholarly fashion. In addition to financing the conversion of 66.5 acres of land just north of Barnard's museum into a public park, inside which the new museum building would be located, and donating seven hundred acres of additional land to the state of New Jersey across the Hudson River to ensure that the view from The Cloisters remain unsullied, Rockefeller contributed medieval works of art from his own collection (including the celebrated set of seven South Netherlandish tapestries depicting "The Hunt of the Unicorn") and established an endowment for operations and future acquisitions.

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"Every exhibition presented at the Museum sets out to explore, often for the first time, some important feature of academic art and the institutions that nourished it in 19th-century and early 20th-century Europe. Utilizing loans from distinguished international collections, both private and public, previous exhibitions here have examined, among other topics, the training of artists; the world of the Salon with its competitions and juries; the 19th-century fascination with the Orient, reciprocated from Cairo to Paris; the influence of photography, travel, and archeological discoveries of the classical past; and the reproduction of artworks for an international market.

"The Dahesh Museum of Art collection contains paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, and books by the most popular artists of 19th-century and early 20th-century Europe. Artists such as Barye, Benouville, Bouguereau, Bonheur, Cabanel, Gérôme, Leighton, Picou, Troyon, and Vernet explored the subjects preferred by their fellow academicians, and by the growing middle-class audience who visited the annual Salons in Europe’s major cities. Sumptuous landscapes, exotic 'Oriental' scenes, closely observed animals, grandiloquent images from history and myth, and intimate scenes of everyday life form the core of the Museum’s collection. Works by masters acclaimed today, and also by artists known only in their day, are viewed side-by-side, as they were 150 years ago."

The Ellis Island Immigration Museum is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and is one of the country's most popular historic sites. In 2001, The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, in partnership with the National Park Service, unveiled the American Family Immigration History Center. This exciting family research facility at Ellis Island provides visitors with advanced computer and multimedia technology, printed materials, and professional assistance for investigating immigration history, family documentation, and genealogical exploration.

The Ellis Island Immigration Museum is located in the Main Building of the former immigration station complex and tells the moving tales of the 12 million immigrants who entered America through the golden door of Ellis Island. Today, the descendants of those immigrants account for almost half of the American people.

One of your ancestors - a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent, risked everything to come to this country. Their courage and determination provided the freedom, opportunities and lifestyle we all too often take for granted. Press blue button to enter The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation Visit "The American Immigrant Wall of Honor". You can "Search the Wall", "Link to your Heritage", "Honor Your Grandparents" and 'Search for your Family Records!

The Frick Collection was founded by Henry Clay Frick, the Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist. At his death, Mr. Frick bequeathed his New York residence and the most outstanding of his many art works to establish a public gallery for the purpose of “encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts.” Chief among his bequests, which also included sculpture, drawings, prints, and decorative arts such as furniture, porcelains, enamels, rugs and silver, were one hundred thirty-one paintings. Forty-seven additional paintings have been acquired over the years by the Trustees from an endowment provided by the founder and through gifts and bequests. As of the end of 1995 The Frick Collection housed a permanent collection of more than 1,100 works of art from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century.

The art of The Frick Collection includes superb examples of Old Masters, English eighteenth-century portraits, Dutch seventeenth-century works of art, Italian Renaissance paintings, Renaissance bronzes, Limoge enamels, Chinese porcelains, and French eighteenth-century furniture. Artists represented in the Collection include Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Bellini, El Greco, Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer, Francois Boucher, Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Mallord William Turner, James McNeill Whistler, Francesco Laurana, Jean-Antoine Houdon, and Severo Calzetta da Ravenna.

The Frick Collection, although small, has played a very significant role in collecting and connoisseurship in the United States. The types of paintings collected by Mr. Frick deeply affected the taste of Americans in the decades after his death, first and foremost, that of Andrew Mellon, his close friend, and other collectors who gave to The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., founded by Mellon. Later, the example of The Frick Collection helped determine the nature of museums such as the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. It was, and continues to be, the model for many other collectors and institutions, whether or not they achieve the standards of collecting or the atmosphere of The Frick Collection as we know it today.

The bottom half of the Hayden Sphere houses the Big Bang, where visitors will be transported to the beginning of time and space, experiencing a dramatic, multisensory re-creation of the first moments of the universe. From here, visitors continue on an awe-inspiring journey that chronicles the evolution of the universe by following the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway, a sloping walkway that takes them through 13 billion years of cosmic evolution.

See the breathtaking Passport to the Universe at the Hayden Planetarium, that reveals the wonders of our universe in a way never before possible in a planetarium. No longer dependent on a single, multi-lens projector, the presentation is driven by computers and processors that treat the audiences to realistic close-up views of star fields and planets, taking them on an exhilarating flight through a virtual re-creation of our universe, into the Orion Nebula, out of our galaxy, and deep into intergalactic space. After reaching the edges of our known universe, the tour takes a "virtual shortcut" back to Earth, in a free fall, headlong through a black hole.

The hangar deck houses three of the legendary aircraft types which originally flew from the Intrepid during World War II: an original TBM Avenger torpedo bomber, and replicas of an F6F Hellcat fighter and an SB2C Helldiver dive bomber.

On the flight deck and portside aircraft elevator, America’s modern military cutting edge is represented by a Navy F-14 Tomcat, an Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon, a Marine Corps aV-8C Harrier, and an A-12 Blackbird spy plane formerly in service with the CIA. During your visit, you’ll also find international air power on display with a British F-1 Scimitar, a French Entendard IV-M and a Polish MiG-21.

The Intrepid Sea-Air Museum's helicopter collection includes two Vietnam-era UH-1 Hueys, a Marine Corps AH-1J Sea Cobra, and a fully restored Army AH-1G Cobra gunship. Press blue button to browse through the "Intrepid Sea-Air Museum" website, and then plan your visit!

A recent exhibition "WALDSEE-1944" is an exhibition that commemorates the annihilation of Hungarian Jewry during the summer of 1944, when Jews deported by the Nazis to their deaths at Auschwitz were required to write deceptive postcards from "Waldsee" to their families, reassuring them that all was well. Seventy international artists have created their own visual symbolism, in the form of the postcard, to commemorate the Hungarian Holocaust. Among the artists are William Kentridge, Judy Chicago, Tobi Kahn, Archie Rand, Ida Appelbrog, Hanan Harchol, Margalit Mannor, Lynn Avedenka, Ruth Weisberg, Leonard Meiselman, Natan Nuchi, Richard McBee, Donald Woodman, and Mark Podwal.

In 1944, Frieda Schiff Warburg, widow of the prominent businessman and philanthropist, Felix Warburg, donated the family mansion on Fifth Ave at 92nd Street for use as The Jewish Museum. Located along New York's prestigious Museum Mile, this elegant landmark structure, in the style of a French Gothic chateau, has been our home since 1947. In 1993 an ambitious expansion and renovation project doubled the gallery space, added a glorious permanent exhibition, created classrooms and an auditorium for educational programs, and improved public amenities, including a café.

Through more than 28,000 objects including painting, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media, The Jewish Museum's collection demonstrates Jewish identity and its evolution through visual art. It is one of the largest, most extensive collections of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.

Café Weissman, located at The Jewish Museum, is proud to offer innovative kosher cuisine prepared by Foremost Glatt Kosher Caterers serving an exquisite selection of delicious salads, pasta dishes, desserts, and beverages.

The Metropolitan Museum's permanent collection consists of more than two million works of art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens, businessmen and financiers as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day, who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.

The Metropolitan Museum's painting collection began in 1870, when three private European collections, 174 paintings in all, came to the Met. A variety of excellent Dutch and Flemish paintings, including works by such artists as Hals and Van Dyck, was supplemented with works by such great European artists as Poussin, Tiepolo, and Guardi.

The collections continued to grow for the rest of the 19th century. But it is the 20th century that has seen the Met's rise to the position of one of the world's great art centers. Some highlights: a work by Renoir entered the Met as early as 1907. The Met has become one of the world's great repositories of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. In 1910 the Metropolitan was the first public institution to accept works of art by Matisse. By 1979 the Museum owned five of the fewer than 40 known Vermeers. The Department of Greek and Roman Art now oversees thousands of objects, including one of the finest collections in glass and silver in the world. The American Wing holds the most comprehensive collection of American art, sculpture, and decorative arts in the world. The Egyptian art collection is the finest outside Cairo. The Islamic art collection is without peer.

In 1880, the Metropolitan Museum moved to its current site in Central Park. The original Gothic-Revival-style building has been greatly expanded in size since then, and the various additions now completely surround the original structure.

Among the additions to the Met are: the Robert Lehman Wing (1975), which houses an extraordinary collection of Old Masters, as well as Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art; the installation in The Sackler Wing of the Temple of Dendur (1978), an Egyptian monument (ca. 15 B.C.) that was given to the United States by Egypt; The American Wing (1980), whose magnificent collection also includes 24 period rooms offering an unparalleled view of American art history and domestic life; The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing (1982) for the display of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing (1987), which houses modern art; and the Henry R. Kravis Wing, devoted to European sculpture and decorative arts from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century.

The Metropolitan Museum continues to refine and reorganize the collections in its existing spaces. In June 1998, the Arts of Korea gallery opened to the public, completing a major suite of galleries – a "museum within the Museum". In October 1999 the Ancient Near Eastern Galleries reopened. And a complete renovation and reinstallation of the Greek and Roman Galleries is underway: the first phase, The Robert and Renée Belfer Court for early Greek art, opened in June 1996; the New Greek Galleries premiered in April 1999; and in April 2000 the Cypriot Galleries open to the public.

In June 2002, the Museum of Arts & Design was selected by The New York Economic Development Corporation (EDC), on behalf of Mayor Bloomberg, to redevelop Two Columbus Circle with the goal of bringing a vibrant cultural resource to the area. “I am delighted that Two Columbus Circle will be re-born as a museum and a distinguished work of architecture that will serve as a demonstration of the vitality of New York and the pivotal role that the arts play in the economic, social, and educational life of the city.” Mayor Bloomberg

Opening in 2008, the new Museum of Arts & Design will more than triple its space to 54,000 square feet from 17,000 square feet in its present location. The Museum’s exhibition space will increase fourfold. For the first time since its founding in 1956, the Museum will be able to present and expand its permanent collection of art objects, including ceramics, fiber, glass, metal, paper, wood, mixed media, and design–one of the most distinguished collections of its kind in the world. MAD will also double its gallery space for the display of special exhibitions organized by the Museum and other national and international arts institutions.

The 30,000-square-foot Museum on the waterfront at 36 Battery Place in Manhattan's Battery Park City, with its six-sided shape and tiered roof symbolic of the six points of the Star of David and the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, has proved a powerful attraction as one of New York City's newest cultural destinations. The Museum of Jewish Heritage goes beyond recounting the horrors of the Holocaust. Its mission is to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life over the past century, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust - a testament to the endurance of a people, teaches essential and unforgettable lessons about the danger of intolerance. The Museum, like the history of the Jewish people, is a combination of celebration and sorrow, triumph and tragedy. Every object, every display, and every voice is a demonstration of the legacy of courage in the face of adversity that sustained the Jewish people through one of the worst periods in human history.

Each year, the Museum observes Yom HaShoah with a candle-lighting ceremony that brings together Holocaust survivors and high-school students throughout the New York area in a moving demonstration of the power of passing memories from one generation to the next. Hearing the history directly from those who lived it has an impact on students that is far stronger than any book, film, or lecture. As the years pass, it becomes still more important for succeeding generations to hear first-person accounts of this incredible tragedy.

The Museum of Modern Art seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art, while being accessible to a public that ranges from scholars to young children. The ultimate purpose of the Museum declared at its founding was to acquire the best modern works of art. While quality remains the primary criterion, the Museum acknowledges and pursues a broader educational purpose: to build a collection which is more than an assemblage of masterworks, which provides a uniquely comprehensive survey of the unfolding modern movement in all visual media.

The Museum of the City of New York's name says it all. With our unique mandate, to engage visitors in exploring the past, present, and future of the five boroughs of New York City and to explore the city's astonishing cultural diversity, we have the opportunity to present a wide variety of exhibitions, public programs, and publications, all investigating what gives New York its singular character. In this year alone, we have presented exhibitions on our own neighborhood of East Harlem, on the oldest community of Jews in North America, on the community-centered values of labor radicalism in the Bronx, on the glamour of "New York style," and on the rich legacy of black theater. Our city's constantly changing built environment was explored through exhibitions of photographs of the subways and through investigations of new design and new architecture. Public programs investigated everything from school reform to solutions to traffic congestion to the future of women in the New York workforce.

Please join us as The Museum of the City of New York continues to explore what makes New York New York.

The National Academy Museum houses one of the largest public collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art in the country. It comprises over five thousand works in almost every artistic style of the past two centuries, from the linear portraiture of the Federal period and the naturalistic landscapes of the Hudson River School to studies of light and atmosphere that inform Tonalism and American Impressionism; from the gritty realism of the Ashcan movement to the modernist movements of Fauvism, abstraction, and photo and magic realism. Masterworks in these and other styles have come into the National Academy Museum's collection mainly as gifts from newly elected National Academicians in compliance with membership requirements; thereby continually enriching the collection.

The National Sports Museum will provide an experience unlike any in New York City, the nation or the world. As a family-oriented attraction, the NSM's exhibits will engage people of all ages through an interactive and celebratory environment. The NSM will include permanent and rotating exhibits, a 360-degree immersion theater, special event spaces, an extensive retail area, and a sports-themed café.

The National Sports Museum's "Immersion Theatre" - During a spectacular 8-minute film presentation, National Sports Museum visitors will occupy the center of the theater space, surrounded by a multi-layered 360-degree video projection system. The film begins with images of empty stadiums and arenas, then proceeds through time-lapse photography to show those venues fill with fans.

Then the games begin: first serves thunder off rackets, drives explode from metal woods, footballs soar from the punter's foot and basketballs tip to one side. The intensity builds as the games proceed and visitors are taken through half-times and time-outs, building to a pulsating final sequence, showing fans celebrating after a thrilling win. Throughout the film, on a Jumbotron, athletes, fans, owners and coaches at all levels of sports talk about each stage of "the game" as it is shown.

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"The New Museum, designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA, is a seven-story, eight-level structure located at 235 Bowery between Stanton and Rivington Streets, at the origin of Prince Street in New York City.

"The Internship Program at the New Museum offers participants hands-on training in the museum profession and a comprehensive overview of Museum operations. Interns also gain insight into the world of contemporary art."

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New Museum First Saturdays for Families
First Saturdays at the New Museum offer special, hands-on programs designed for families with children and young adults five to fifteen years old, conducted by trained New Museum educators the first Saturday of each month. Families have the opportunity to explore the New Museum’s exhibitions through lively conversations in the galleries, and to engage in related creative activities.

The Police Museum started to focus more on the history of the department and policing in New York with the appointment of its first curator, Detective Alfred Young who supplemented the displays of the museum with his own, extensive collection of police memorabilia. Detective Young is also credited with designing the current Medal of Honor. By March 2002, the museum opened at its permanent home at 100 Old Slip, the site of the old First Precinct stationhouse, a building that itself reflects the rich history of the NYPD.

Our building at 100 Old Slip was built in 1909-11 and designed by the notable architectural firm of Hunt & Hunt. This building was constructed as the new home for the First Precinct. It was considered a model police facility when built and chiefs of police throughout the country visited the new stationhouse looking to copy some of its features in their own new buildings. This building replaced another stationhouse built on the exact same spot in 1884, in fact the new stationhouse used the same foundation as the building it replaced. The 1884 stationhouse was constructed on the site of the former Franklin Market. It was built in the Neo-Italian Renaissance style. Its visual power was created by a rhythmic series of tall arches, heavy rusticated walls and restrained ornamentation. The building's distinctive profile with its dominating cornice is reminiscent of the Palazzo Riccardi in Florence and is now the home of The New York City Police Museum.

The following opening paragraph is taken from "The Address of 'The New-York Historical Society' delivered to the public on February 12th, 1805 and September 18, 1809: "Having formed an association, for the purpose of discovering, procuring, and preserving whatever may relate to the natural, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical history of our country, and particularly of the State of New-York, we solicit the aid of the liberal, patriotic, and learned, to promote the objects of our institution."

Today, The New-York Historical Society offers a world of information such as the wealth of significant objects housed in the Luce Center, their power to fascinate, evoke the past, and convey the physical reality of history complements the special exhibitions, library resources, and public programs that are also available to visitors. By presenting such treasures in a format at once transparent, adaptable, and accessible, the New-York Historical Society is charting an important new path in the museum community.

Attractions Include
Children's Museum
Events and Exhibitions
Programs
Two million manuscripts, 500,000 photographs, 400,000 prints

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In June 1943, Frank Lloyd Wright received a letter from Hilla Rebay, the art advisor to Solomon R. Guggenheim, asking the architect to design a new building to house Guggenheim's four-year-old Museum of Non-Objective Painting. The project evolved into a complex struggle pitting the architect against his clients, city officials, the art world, and public opinion. Both Guggenheim and Wright would die before the building's 1959 completion. The resultant achievement, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, testifies not only to Wright's architectural genius, but to the adventurous spirit that characterized its founders.

The Guggenheim collection "online" premiered in April 2001 with a selection of works of art from the New York museum's holdings. Currently representing 169 artists, the collection online encompasses both the classic and the new—from the Guggenheim's earliest work, an 1867 landscape by Camille Pissarro, through more recent acquisitions, a 1998–99 sculpture by Robert Gober—striking a balance that reflects the dynamic tenor of the institution as a whole. Each work may be viewed at small, medium, or large resolution, and is accompanied by insightful commentary.

The Studio Museum in Harlem has a long tradition of presenting programs that address prevalent issues in contemporary art by artists of African descent. Through the Department of Education and Public Programs, we offer a range of activities and programs that engage a diverse cross-section of artists of various disciplines, writers, scholars and critics who share diverse perspectives with our audiences.

Programs include: Architectural Walking Tours, Artists-In-Residence Open Studios, Books & Authors, Director's Dialogues, Hoofers' House, Inside/Out Gallery Tour, Poetry @ SMH, Sunday Salon, The Fine Art Of Collecting, Vital Expressions in American Art: Performance @ SMH.

In the Winter 2001, The Studio Museum in Harlem launched a new initiative Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History and Community, a intergenerational program that uses SMH's James VanDerZee Collection/Archives as the point of entry for people of all ages to share experiences and perspectives on community, identity, history and culture. Expanding the Walls was conceived to allow SMH to develop vital relationships with three distinct populations--youth, families, and senior citizens, as well as the cultural institutions and community based organizations that provide services to these groups.

Over the past decade museums around the nation have undertaken special initiatives to strengthen community relationships. Providing access to the arts, addressing the needs of under-served populations and using museum collections creatively to reflect the identity and interests of community have been the driving forces behind new programs. In developing programs that best meet the needs of their varied constituencies, the museum field has made it a priority to address communities who are often marginalized within the traditional paradigm of museum education. While the field has invested a great deal of time and resources in redefining the role of the museum in communities, many of these efforts have not been sustained and or the programs were intended to function as one-time exposure activities.

The Studio Museum in Harlem has over the last three decades successfully served as a resource for scholars, educators and more traditional museum visitors. In its geographic community-Harlem-however it has been perceived as exclusive and elitist. Its programs, while reflecting the standards of the museum field, have not always addressed the interests of its immediate community.

Expanding the Walls is a program that has been conceived to challenge habitual museum education practices by creating an environment where there is a clear exchange of information and an interactive pedagogical process between community and the institution, and between different generations. At the core of this new initiative is a program through which youth are trained to use photography and the visual arts in general to facilitate discussions of larger social issues in the context of exhibitions presented at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Press blue button for more information on "Expanding the Walls" and the many exciting events at The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Yeshiva University Museum presents exhibitions with an interdisciplinary focus that reflect the diversity of the Museum’s collection of more than 8,000 artifacts. As a resource for scholarly research, Yeshiva University Museum’s exhibitions provide unique opportunities for artists, historians, collectors, and ethnographers to examine, compare, and research objects, ideas, and techniques. Its contemporary art shows offer the public the opportunity to survey art being created by living Jewish artists throughout the world.

Features Include: Four Galleries, Exhibition Arcade, Multilingual Tours in English, Hebrew, Spanish, Russian, & Yiddish, Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Docent Lounge, Children’s Workshop, 250 Seat Auditorium, Kosher Café.

There are several accounts of the Battle of Fort Washington. Following, are excerpts from three highly regarded books about the Battle of Fort Washington in the American Revolution:

Source: Rise, and Fight Again: Perilous Times Along the Road to Independence, by Charles Bracelen Flood

November 16, 1776. "Heavy rains spoiled Major General, William Howe's planned second attack on the American army near White Plains on October 31. The next day the Americans were found to be apparently well entrenched at North Castle Heights. The rebel earthworks were composed largely of cornstalks pulled from nearby fields, whose roots, full of clinging soil, faced outward. Howe may have been discouraged by these illusory defenses, but his goal remained the complete removal of American troops from Manhattan, not the annihilation of Washington's army. His attention returned to Fort Washington which the American commander in chief had left garrisoned under Colonel Robert Magaw after a general rebel evacuation of the island."

Source: History Of The American Revolution, by John R. Alden (De Capo Press, 1989)

" . . . Washington decided to evacuate Manhattan, except for the fort named after him; and to concentrate at White Plains. He ought also to have abandoned Fort Washington, for the troops within it were left without support and exposed to British attack. But he did withdraw the bulk of his men on Manhattan in time . . .

" . . . At White Plains the Patriot army was in improved spirits. It had diminished to 14,500 men. But the morale of the Americans had been improved by the good showing they had made in the several skirmishes that took place after the capture of New York: by a few days of rest, by the arrival of food and drink, and perhaps even by the departure of many deserters. Moreover, the Patriot army was no longer seriously threatened with encirclement.

" . . . One attack by the Hessians and another by the British were repulsed. Gradually, the Americans on Chatterton's were almost encompassed by their enemies. Before Washington could reinforce them, they were driven from the hill . . . The losses on both sides at White Plains were counted in scores rather than in thousands. Nevertheless, the battle was a great turning point, since General Howe soon afterward abandoned his stately and dignified pursuit of Washington's army and turned westward.

"They entered New York Harbor in scores, the tall-sailed warships of Admiral Howe and the humbler transports carrying the troops of General Howe. From Manhattan, week after week in July and August of 1776, General Washington watched the British forces grow. The Patriots had resolved, if possible, to defend the city, and Washington had collected a large army there. At last, when all was ready, General Howe moved to the attack. He routed one third of Washington's troops in the battle of Long Island; he seized the city; he pursued Washington to White Plains and defeated him there; he easily captured Fort Washington and its large American garrison; and he drove the Patriot general across New Jersey and the Delaware River. He won a chain of victories in the late summer and autumn of 1776, and the Patriots seemed to be in the direst distress. But the British had not conquered, as they had planned to do, New England. And suddenly, as winter came on, Washington struck back.

"He overcame a Hessian garrison at Trenton, defeated a British detachment at Princeton, and went into secure winter quarters, early in 1777, at Morristown in the hills of New Jersey. When weariness, cold, and snow forced both the British and the Patriots to remain quiet, Howe held only New York, Long Island, Newport, and eastern New Jersey. Guy Carleton and his army were still in Canada and the Patriots had survived the first powerful British onslaughts.

"As the Patriot commander in chief feared, William Howe had determined to take Fort Washington. Colonel Magaw had more than 3,000 men to defend it, but its works were unfinished. Howe knew that it was by no means impregnable. He had the opportunity to hit hard a the Patriots with very little risk of encountering a check. He began to move troops and artillery into position for assault during the night of November 14. The following day Magaw was summoned to surrender. He replied that he would fight to the "last extremity". On the morning of November 16, 8,000 British and Hessian soldiers advanced to the attack in four divisions, supported by artillery fire and also by cannonading from the frigate Pearl, stationed in the Hudson. Howe intended to make three assaults: the fourth division was merely to feign an attack. As it turned out, all four parts of the royal troops took part in the battle that followed. Magaw tried to defend the approaches to the fort. He did not have enough men to do it . . . The British and the Hessians drove forward in overwhelming force, penned Magaw's men within the unfinished fort, and compelled its surrender before the end of the day. The British and Hessians are reported to have had 78 killed and 374 wounded, the Americans only 59 slain and 96 injured. But the outcome was nothing less than disastrous for the Patriots. The British captured 2,607 American soldiers and 230 officers together with all their weapons, large quantities of artillery, ammunitions, tents, and other military equipment. The Americans had suffered a grievous blow."

Source: Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence, John Ferling (2007 Oxford University Press, USA)

"The British surrounded the installation and brought up their artillery. Before they opened fire, Magaw was offered the opportunity to surrender. To refuse was to invite a bombardment that was certain to be catastrophic. Furthermore, to lose after refusing to surrender was to run the risk that the victors, driven to an insane fury by the loss of comrades, would give no quarter. Magaw, who had blustered of fighting to the death and of holding out for weeks, conceded to brutal reality. He surrendered. From start to finish, the operation had consumed only five hours. When the gates of Fort Washington opened, 2,870 men paraded into British captivity. Another 149 Americans had been killed and wounded in the battle, and vast amounts of arms were lost. The British in turn, had lost 458 killed, wounded, and missing, proportionally but a small fraction of their losses at Bunker Hill . . ."

Central Park is located on 843-acres of beautifully landscaped park space sprinkled with wonderful statuary, classic architecture, the great lawn and more. With 25 million visitors each year, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States. The park's many features include: the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center, 21 Playgrounds, Walking Tours, Music in the Park, Recreation Programs. Sports such as Bicycle Riding, Birding, Chess, cross-country Skiing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Ice Skating, Row Boating, Swimming, Tennis, Wall Climbing are all availble. You can even take advantage of the many Nature Walks and Educational Programs.

Restaurants in Central Park
Many casual eating-spots and fine dining restaurants are available in Central Park. Escape the bustle of NYC for a while and dine in an oasis of trees and flowers, or dine overlooking the lake. Press blue button for a list of restaurants in Central Park.

Just for Kids at Central Park
Central Park is a wonderland for children with 21 Playgrounds, Boating, Climbing Walls, Ice Skating, Inline Skating, and don't forget that picnic while the kids play in the park. Select "Kids to Do" activities, or "Belvedere Castle" and the "Dana Discovery Center" for environmental programs. Click on "Recreation Programs" to discover the fun and exercise available including exciting Adventure programs. Press blue button for more information on "Just for Kids".

The Carousel at Central Park
Central Park's first carousel was built in 1870. After a long search the Parks Department discovered the present vintage Carousel. The Carousel is one of the largest in the United States, with 58 hand-carved, painted horses. Stein and Goldstein were among the foremost carvers of their day and the horses – nearly life-size in the outer ring – are caught rearing or mid-stride with almost fierce reality.

The Carousel today still holds its magic charm, with almost 250,000 riders a year. Both adults and children enjoy the scale of the horses and the brisk speed of the ride. During warm weather the admissions line snakes around hot dog and popcorn vendors, recalling the atmosphere of a country fair.

North Meadow Recreation Center at Central Park. The North Meadow Recreation Center, south of the Meadow, was originally built as stables. It was converted to a recreation facility in the early 1990s. At 23 acres, the North Meadow is the Park's largest open space, punctuated only by the clay fans of ballfields.

Things To Do at Central Park
Baseball and Softball (26 ballfields)
Bicycle Riding
Birding | Bird Watching
Boating
Chess
Children's Carousel
Family Fishing
Horseback Riding
Inline Skating
Nature Walks
Playgrounds (21 playgrounds)
Swimming
Tennis
Wall Climbing
Zoo

Winter Activities
Cross-Country Skiing
Ice Skating

Housed in five major buildings are an Olympic-size pool, a covered skating rink for roller skating in the summer and ice-skating in the winter, an 800-seat cultural theater, a 2,500-seat athletic complex with fitness room, and a 150-seat restaurant.

Outdoor sports amenities include a 25-yard lap pool, a wading pool, four tennis courts, four basketball courts, a softball field, four hand/paddleball courts, and a 400-meter eight-lane running track with a football/soccer field.

Riverbank also boasts spectacular promenade views of the Hudson River, the Palisade Mountains and the George Washington Bridge. At water level, there is a 900-seat amphitheater and docking facilities for excursion and fishing boats.

Points of Interest: The "Totally Kid Carousel", created by Milo Mottola and 37 young children.

Things To Do
Carousel
Food
Gymnasium
Hiking
Performing Arts Center
Picnic Tables
Playground
Playing Fields
Pool
Roller Skating
Showers
Tennis
Water Level

Winter Activities
Ice Skating