Subway Sunday
A mere 20 years in the making, the repairs to the subway lines on the Manhattan Bridge are complete and full service will resume Sunday. Several lines will change their routes - so be sure to check the new maps before you get on a train this weekend. The lines involved are the Q, N, R, W, B, D and M. The diamond Q and the Grand Street Shuttle will be discontinued. Here's the link to the MTA site with the details.
- posted by Amy @ Saturday, February 21, 2004

 
Class is In
Clearly this is just a marketing gimmick, but it's a free one. All Godiva shops in NYC are holding "Chocolate School" sessions today, according to Time Out New York. Attend either the 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. class or the 3 to 4 p.m. session. Samples included. Wonder why they're doing this a week after Valentine's Day?

Also, don't forget that the subway system is going through some major changes beginning Sunday.
- posted by Amy @ Friday, February 20, 2004

 
Walking 34th Street
There's a free lunchtime walking tour today sponsored by the 34th Street Partnership. Your guide for the 90-minute walk will be Francis Morrone, who writes the Monday "Abroad in New York" column for The Sun and teaches history and metropolitan studies at NYU. The tour begins at 12:30 at the Fifth Avenue Entrance to the Empire State Building. Yes, free.
- posted by Amy @ Thursday, February 19, 2004

 
McSorley's Turns 150
Run, don't walk, to McSorley's Old Ale House, which is celebrating its 150th birthday this week. Located off of Third Ave and East 7th.
- posted by Amy @ Wednesday, February 18, 2004

 
Holiday
And we're gonna have a celebration?
- posted by Amy @ Monday, February 16, 2004

 
Movin' on Up
Finally some real service journalism from the New York Times. Now you can find the real "deluxe apartment in the sky."

The East Side high-rise seen on the opening credits of "The Jeffersons," a CBS sitcom popular in the 1970's and 80's, is at 185 East 85th Street, at Third Avenue, in Manhattan. The television address was Apartment 12-D on "Sixth Avenue," which is, of course, on the West Side.

The series, a spinoff of the immensely popular "All in the Family," made its debut in 1975 and ran in prime time for 10 seasons. George, Louise and Lionel Jefferson supposedly moved to Manhattan from 708 Hauser Street in Corona, Queens, where they were neighbors of Archie and Edith Bunker at No. 704. In fact, there is no Hauser Street in Queens.

- posted by Amy @ Sunday, February 15, 2004