Yankees single-game tickets on sale Friday at noon
March 17, 2010 01:00 PM
Individual home-game tickets for the world champion New York Yankees will go on sale to the general public starting Friday at noon, according to the MLB.com story posted on the team’s official website. Tickets are currently available only in...
Cleanliness letter grades coming to restaurant windows
March 17, 2010 12:30 PM
In July, New York City will start requiring restaurants to display their cleanliness letter-grade near their entrances, the NYC Department of Health decided Tuesday. More detailed restaurant inspection results have been available online for several years. "Giving consumers more...
'God of Carnage' adds daily $26.50 student rush tickets
March 15, 2010 05:30 PM
The Broadway comedy "God of Carnage" -- which recently added Jeff Daniels, Dylan Baker, Lucy Liu and Janet McTeer to the cast -- will start selling $26.50 student rush tickets daily at the box office, producers announced today. Same-day...
King Tut funeral exhibition opens at Met Museum
March 15, 2010 04:30 PM
'Next Fall' mixed reviews: best new play or Cliché City
March 14, 2010 11:00 AM
The new drama "Next Fall" opened on Broadway on Thursday to reviews mixed with praise for its deft comic touch but criticism for clichéd characters. Tackling religion, homsexuality and other issues about love and commitment, the play by Geof...
Williamsburg waterfront hooks Faith No More for July 5
March 11, 2010 09:30 AM
Free concerts will return to the Williamsburg waterfront this summer, but the kickoff concert -- Faith No More on July 5 -- and a handful of others will require an admission fee as a benefit for the nonprofit Open...
Manhattan Bridge time capsule date stamp: 2109
March 10, 2010 02:00 PM
NewYorkology contributor Moses Gates is an urban planner, part-time tour guide, and full-time Gothamphile. He reports on the the high up, the low down, and the out-of-the-way in New York City. On the last day of the tenure of...
Push my button: new official NYC condom logo revealed
March 9, 2010 02:30 PM
It's about to get easier to turn on a New Yorker. The logo of the city's official condom will soon take the shape of an electronic power button. The design, by Luis Acosta of Kew Gardens, Queens, was today...
Push my button: new official NYC condom logo revelaed
March 9, 2010 08:30 AM
It's about to get easier to turn on a New Yorker. The logo of the city's official condom will soon take the shape of an electronic power button. The deisgn, by Luis Acosta of Kew Gardens, Queens, was today...
NYC condom contest winner: electronic power button
March 9, 2010 08:15 AM
It's about to get easier to turn on a New Yorker. The logo of the city's official condom will soon take the shape of an electronic power button. The deisgn, by Luis Acosta of Kew Gardens, Queens, was today...
Subway archaeology to go on display at Transit Annex
March 8, 2010 12:15 PM
After a renovation, the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal will reopen March 18 with a free exhibition of New Amsterdam artifacts discovered while building a subway extension in Lower Manhattan. "Archeology at the South...
Subway archeology to go on display at Transit Annex
March 8, 2010 12:00 PM
After a renovation, the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal will reopen March 18 with a free exhibition of New Amsterdam artifacts discovered while building a subway extension in Lower Manhattan. "Archeology at the South...
Lego repairs come to NY Public Libray, Central Park
March 8, 2010 10:15 AM
It looks like artist Jan Vormann has had a busy trip to New York City. A few weekends ago, NewYorkology spotted his Lego fill-in work at the wall of Chelsea's General Theological Seminary, but apprently he was also hard...
Mets tickets on sale today at 10 a.m. for 2010 season
March 7, 2010 10:00 AM
Single-game tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m. for the New York Mets 2010 season. Tickets, which start at $11, can be purchased only online or by phone today: Mets.com, LosMets.com, or (718) 507-TIXX. In-person sales start later...
'Behanding' Broadway review roundup: Walken kills it
March 5, 2010 09:15 AM
Christopher Walken last night opened to great reviews in "A Behanding in Spokane," Martin McDonagh's new dark comedy that nonetheless divides the critics on the overall merits of the play. Pretty much across the board they love Walken doing...
'Miracle Worker' review roundup: Breslin and Pill shine
March 4, 2010 09:30 AM
Stars Abigail Breslin and Alison Pill elicit mostly strong reviews for their performances in "The Miracle Worker," which opened on Broadway last night, but critics have a lot of neggatives things to say about the theater-in-the-round staging of the...
Limited morning cab share program starts in Manhattan
March 3, 2010 10:00 AM
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission today launched a limited share-a-cab experiment along three designated routes in Manhattan that will operate weekday mornings from 6 to 10 a.m. The first three routes are in Midtown, the Upper...
Dine-in Brooklyn restaurant week offers $25 dinners
March 2, 2010 05:45 PM
Several high-profile outer borough restaurants -- including the River Cafe, Applewood, Blue Ribbon, L & B Spumoni Gardens, Tatiana, Armondo's, Bamonte's and Alchemy -- will offer three three-course dinners for $25 and lunches for $20.10 as part of this...
New mural, video, sound installation for Times Square
March 2, 2010 02:45 PM
Times Square today is adding new outdoor public art -- in paint, sound and video -- to coincide with the Armory Show and other art fairs descending on the city this week. The eight-story Nasdaq video screen will display...
Acela launches free wi-fi but with restricted browsing
March 1, 2010 03:00 PM
Amtrak hit its target today and rolled out free wi-fi on all 20 of its Acela Express trains, but some riders said via Twitter they had problems connecting and others complained about restrictive web filtering. A sample of the...
