Sightseeing Spot
Carl Schurz Park
The park is located between East River and East End Avenue. From the pavement, it's so exciting to watch the view over East River.
URL : http://www.carlschurzparknyc.org/
Address : East End Ave, bet 84th-90th St
Subway : 4/5/6 Line 86th St
Gracie Mansion
This mansion used to be a vila of rich people and it was bought by New York City to use it as a exhibition and then as the mayor's residence.
URL : http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/gracie.html
Address : East End Ave at 88th St
Subway : 4/5/6 Line 86th St
Church of the Holy Trinity
The British National Church built in 1889 with French Renaissance styled church. Its peaceful atomosphere is so enjoyable.
URL : http://www.holytrinity-nyc.org/
Address : 316 E 88th St
Subway : 4/5/6 Line 86th St
Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral
The cathedral with exotic atomosphere mainly its form of the roof. It was built along Central Park in 1902 with baroque style.
URL : http://www.saintnicholascathedral.org/
Address : 15 E 97th St
Subway : 6 Line 96th St
Temple Emanu-El
It was revised temple from the residence of who established Astoria Hotel with Byzantine-Romanesque style. It is for Jewdish people (synagoge).
URL : http://www.emanuelnyc.org/
Address : 1 E 65th St
Subway : 6 Line 68th St-Hunter Collage
Hours: 10:00am-5:00pm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
"The Met" is a universal museum, called one of the 4 biggest meseum in the world, has every category of art in every known medium from every part of the world during every epoch of recorded time is represented here and thus available for contemplation or study -- not in isolation but in comparison with other times, other cultures, and other media.
URL : http://www.metmuseum.org/
Address : 1000 5th Ave, at 82nd St
Subway : 4/5/6 Line 86th St
Hours: Mon Closed, Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:30pm
Admission: Adults $15, Student/seniors $7
El Museo del Barrio
Founded thirty years ago, El Museo del Barrio is New York City's only Latino museum dedicated to Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American art.
URL : http://www.elmuseo.org/
Address : 1230 5th Ave
Subway : 6 Line 103rd St
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M106
Hours : Wed-Sun 11:00am - 5:00pm
Admission: Adults $6, Student/seniors $4, Children under 12 FREE
The Museum of the City of New York
"The Museum of the City of New York is a private, not-for-profit, educational agency established in 1923 to collect, preserve, and present original materials related to the history of New York City. In addition to individual contributions and gifts from foundations and corporations, the Museum receives public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The City of New York, the owner of the Museum's building, provides support in the form of operating and programmatic funds through the Department of Cultural Affairs."
URL : http://www.mcny.org/
Address : 1220 5th Ave at 103rd St
Subway : 6 Line 103rd St
Hours: Tue-Sun 10:00am - 5:00pm
Admission: Adults $9, Student/seniors $5, Children under 12 FREE
Shop: The museum shop has an excellent selection of books, notecards, photographs and posters related to New York. They also sell clothing and accessories.
The Jewish Museum
"The Jewish Museum" is a major American art museum, but also the largest Jewish museum in the Western hemisphere. Art is its primary medium of communication; yet the Museum's permanent exhibition presents, within an historical context, the multiple facets of Jewish identity as it has emerged during more than four millenia.
URL : http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/
Address : 1109 5th Avenue, at 92nd St
Subway : 6 Line 96th St
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4
Hours: 11:00am-5:45pm, -8pm (Thu.)
Admission: Adults $12, Student/seniors $10, Children under 12 FREE
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution displays a virtual cornucopia of decorative and design arts in Andrew Carnegie's Upper East Side mansion.
URL : http://ndm.si.edu/
Address : 2 E 91st St
Subway : 6 Line 96th St
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4
Hours: 10:00am-5:00pm, -9:00pm(Fri), -6:00pm(Sat), Sun 12:00pm-6:00pm
Admission: Adults $12, Student/seniors $9, Children under 12 FREE
National Academy of Design
The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts is one of the oldest artist-run organizations in the United States. Founded in 1825, they have always fostered the promotion of the Fine Arts in America, and house a sizeable collection of American Arts, over 8,000 works !
Designated a New York City landmark, this elegant and stately six-story Beaux-Arts townhouse designed by Ogden Codman Jr. is one of the few remaining mansions on Fifth Avenue that is open to the public.
Lectures, symposia, gallery talks, tours, and other educational programs are presented regularly, designed to complement special exhibitions and provide rare insights into the creative process from the artists' perspective.
URL : http://www.nationalacademy.org/
Address: 1083 5th Ave, at 89th Street
Subway: 4/5/6 Line 86th St
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4
Hours: 12:00am-5:00pm, 11:00am-6:00pm (Fri-Sun), Mon-Tue Closed
Admission: Adults $10, Student/seniors $5, Children under 12 FREE
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright architected this building, now designated the youngest New York City landmark. As you walk the spiral walkway toward the dome above, you will view works from artists of the 19th and 20th century including: Brancusi, Braque, Calder, Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Klee, Leger, Miro, Picasso, and Van Gogh.
URL : http://www.guggenheim.org/
Address: 1071 5th Avenue at 89th Street
Subway: 4/5/6 Line 86th St
Admission : Adults $18, Student/seniors $15, Children under 12 FREE
Hours: Sun-Wed, 9:00am-5:45pm, Fri-Sat, 10:00am-7:45pm, Thur Closed
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney, one of only a few museums in New York City that focuses entirely on American art, has a distinctly contemporary look of sharply angled, polished gray stone and glass. However, it's not the building that makes the Whitney unique, it's the extensive collection of twentieth century American art housed inside.
URL : http://www.whitney.org/
Address: 945 Madison Ave (at 75th Street)
Subway: 6 Line 77th Street
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M30, M72, M79 to Madison Ave and 75th Street
Hours: Monday Closed, Tue-Thu & Sat-Sun 11:00am-6:00pm, Fri 1:00pm-9:00pm
Admission: Adults $15, Student/seniors $10, Children under 12 FREE
The Frick Collection
The Frick mansion was designed by Carrere and Hastings, the same architects who worked on the New York Public Library, and was built to "make Carnegie's place look like a miner's shack." Preserved on Millionaire's Row, the mansion is a grand setting for an incredible collection of European painting and decorative arts. The enclosed inner courtyard is a perfect place for weary art lovers to take a rest.
URL : http://www.frick.org/
AddressF 1E 70th St
Subway: 6 Line 68th St-Hunter Collage Station
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M30, M72
Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00am-6:00pm, Sun 11:00am-5:00pm
Admission: Adults $15, Seniors $10, Student $5, Under 10 is prohibitted to enter
Neue Galerie
"Neue" means "New" in English. Noue Gallery is newly opened museum in 2002, which is featuring European Artist in the restored building from the private mansion.
Address : 1048 5th Ave
URL : http://www.neuegalerie.org/
Subway : 4/5/6 Line 86th St
Hours : 11:00am-6:00pm
Admission : $15.00
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden (a.k.a. Abigail Adams Smith Museum) is the museum which was restored from the resort hotel in the early 1800's built with stones owned by the daughter of the 2nd President of the United States, Abigail Adams.
Location : Upper East Side
Address : 421 E 61st St
URL : http://www.fieldtrip.com/ny/28386878.htm
Subway : 4/5/6/N/R/W Line 59th St-Lexington Ave
Hours : Tue-Sun 11:00am-4:00pm, Closed in August
Admission : $8.00
Asia Society
The Asia Socity, established by D. Rockefeller III, is the museum something like a "Hall of fame of the Asian Culture and Art", which covers from the Near East to Far East and Pacific Ocean countries.
Location : Upper East Side
Address : 725 Park Ave
URL : http://www.asiasociety.org/
Subway : 6 Line 68th St-Hunter College
Hours : Tue-Sun 11:00am-6:00pm
Admission : $10.00
Goethe Institute German Cultural Center
Goethe Institute German Cultural Center is located in the town house in front of Metropolitan Musem of Art which exhibits the culture and linguistic materials of Germany.
Location : Upper East Side
Address : 1014 5th Ave
URL : http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/enindex.htm
Subway : 4/5/6 Line 86th St
Hours : 10:00am-5:00pm (Gallery), Sun Closed
Admission : FREE
Museum of American Illustration
Museum of American Illustration is the gallery to exhibit the typical American Illustration Art with famous people.
Location : Upper East Side
Address : 128 E 63rd St
URL : http://www.societyillustrators.org/
Subway : F Line 63rd St
Hours : Wed-Fri 10:00am-5:00pm (-8:00pm Tue) Sat 12:00-4:00pm
Admission : FREE
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