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Fifth Avenue

A Symbol of Hope and Urgency

Caryl M. Stern | Posted 11.20.2009 | Impact

Read More: Rodeo Drive, Hunger, New York, Developing Countries, Children, Save Children, Unicef, Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, Impact News
Caryl M. Stern

If you are walking near Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in New York City or along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and happen upon a crystal snowflake hovering overhead, please take a moment to consider why it is there.

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El Museo del Barrio: Fifth Avenue on Fire

Jim Luce | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Agnes Gund, Central Park, Robert Motherwell, The Suicide of Dorothy Hale, El Barrio, Latin American Culture, Global Citizens, Peru, Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries, New Workers’ School Cycle, Yale University Press, Wilfredo Lam, Dominican Republic, Fifth Avenue, Metlife, Michael Bloomberg, On View - Voces Y Visiones, Miguel Sal, Mexico, Caribbean Culture, Miguel Covarrubias, Museum of the City of New York, Lenin, Brazil, JuliáN Zugazagoitia, Ecuador, Art, Frida Kahlo, Man at the Crossroads, Latino Culture, Diego Rivera, Cuba, Bolivia, Upper East Side, Salvador Dali, Thought Leaders, Henry Luce Foundation, Dorothy Hale, East Harlem, Michelle De Leon, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, John Lee, El Museo Del Barrio, Rockefeller Center Mural, Raphael MontañEz Ortiz, Latino Traditions, Mexico City, Rockefeller Discovering the Rivera Murals, Rockefeller Family, Marcel Duchamp, Nexus New York - Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis, Elvira Moran, Chile, Terra Foundation for American Art, Daily Kos, Opponent of Fascism, Empire State Building, Deborah Cullen, Art Commission of the City of New York, American Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, Museum Mile, TaíNo, Pre-Columbian, New York News
Jim Luce

Forty years ago, El Museo del Barrio was a dream contained in a single classroom so far north that “sophisticated” Manhattanites would not...

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Guggenheim Museum Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary With Free Admission (PHOTOS)

AP | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Fifth Avenue, Guggeheim Museum 50th Anniversary, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum Free Admission, Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, New York City, New York News

NEW YORK — The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is continuing its year-long celebration of its 50th anniversary. To commemorate the day it opened i...

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New York, You've Changed: Ghostbusters, Part One

Nick Carr | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Central Park, Ghostbusters, Rudy Giuliani, 1980s, Columbia University, Bill Murray, Tribeca, Fifth Avenue, Spiderman, Scouting Ny, Movies, New York News
Nick Carr

Reliving the magic of Ghostbusters through pictures of New York, then and now.

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Police Crack Down On Food Vendors Outside The Met

New York Times | Sewell Chan and Joel Stonington | Posted 09.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Fifth Avenue, Met, Street Carts, New York, Food Vendors, Street Vendors, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York News

In what appeared to be a coordinated crackdown on the proliferation of food vendors - many of them disabled veterans - outside the Metropolitan Museum...

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Hot in the City

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 09.20.2009 | New York

Read More: Fifth Avenue, Nyc, Heat Wave, Greenhouse Gases, Air Conditioning, New York Heat Wave, New York Weather, New York Heat, New York News
Jonathan A. Schein

What is it about a heat wave in New York that brings out the least green behaviors of some our retailers?

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All Dolled Up

Susan Sawyers | Posted 07.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Fifth Avenue, NY Doll Hospital, Lexington Avenue, Rebecca Rubin, Life, American Girl Doll, Hunt's Point Dump, New York City, New York News
Susan Sawyers

Dolls have been modernized, commercialized, but no matter how precise the trappings of their birth or how grisly the scene of their death, their life cycle is always the same.

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Bronfman Flips Fifth Avenue Apartment

New York Times | Dealbook | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Fifth Avenue, Edgar Bronfman, Warner Music Group, Flippers, New York Observer, Fifth Avenue Apartments, Flipping Houses, Wmg, Central Park Views, Private Equity, Business News

Private equity bosses are constantly fighting off criticism that they are "flippers," buying companies and quickly selling them for a profit without a...

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