The time has come to start the summer, and a hot day today in New York serves as a sneak preview for coming attractions. Walking Off the Big Apple is taking the long Memorial Day weekend to see museum exhibitions, explore new vistas, and to map out exciting summer adventures. See you soon.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Into the Memorial Day Weekend
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The 25 Most Popular Posts on Walking Off the Big Apple in the last month (as of 12/15/2009)
- The Thin Man Walk: A New York Holiday Adventure With Nick and Nora Charles
- 25 Great Things to Do in New York City
- Museums in New York Open on Monday
- A Literary Holiday Gift Guide: Best New Books on New York, New York
- New York Museum Exhibitions Fall 2009
- Classic New York: A Walk and a Map
- An Unofficial Guide to Macy's New Thanksgiving Day Parade Route
- Affordable Accommodations in New York
- A Walk for a New York Christmas
- Rainy Day New York: Places to Go When the Weather Turns Frightful
- 20 Short Walks Between New York Landmarks
- Alicia Keys and Empire State of Mind, Part II
- New York Museum Exhibitions: Winter 2009-2010
- A Bleecker Street Holiday Shopping Guide
- Visiting New York on a Monday
- Dining Near Washington Square Park
- Art Trips Up the Hudson: Day Excursions from New York City of Museums and Historic Sites
- 10 Fascinating Buildings in Manhattan
- A Walk to See Carl Jung's Red Book
- From the Great Gatsby: Nick Carraway's Walk
- The East River and Roosevelt Island Walk: The Renwick Ruins
- Walking the Rails Above Death Avenue: High Noon for the High Line
- Twenty Pairings of a Fine Bookstore or Library with a Nearby Cafe
- Drawing Sessions: The Walk-in Ateliers of New York
- Bye Bye Penn Station: Mad Men Takes on an Epic Battle
A Bleecker Street Shopping Holiday Guide
From Abingdon Square to the Bowery
Winter 2009 Museum Exhibitions in New York City
Ongoing exhibitions with openings in December, January, and February
Architecture Walks & Observations
- 10 Fascinating Buildings in Manhattan
- A Morning Walk in SoHo
- A Visit to Lincoln Center (in Progress)
- A Walk from Lincoln Center to Zabar's
- Architectural Highlights Along NYC's Summer Streets
- Audubon Terrace and Environs
- Bye Bye Penn Station: Mad Men Takes on an Epic Battle
- Charles Hemstreet's Nooks and Corners of Old York
- Cooper Union's Architectural Advancement
- Euro Condo Walk: 40 Bond to 40 Mercer
- French Lessons: A Visit to the Met's New American Wing
- Harvey Wiley Corbett and the E. 8th Street Apartments
- Inside 590 Madison Avenue
- Jean Nouvel, Cass Gilbert and the Hugh Ferriss Degree of Separation
- Lessons from the Days of the Empty State Building
- Living Now in the New York of the Guilded Age
- Modernist Escapes in Midtown Manhattan
- Morris Lapidus & The Hotel That Looks Miami
- Raymond Hood, Architect
- South Tip of Roosevelt Island: Ruminations on a Planned Memorial
- Strolling the Museum Mile
- The Insane Wind: The Wind-Tunnel Effect in New York and Historical Storms
- The Making of the Monumental Metropolis: New York and the Ecole des Beaux Arts
- The Walking Arcades of Midtown
- Unofficial Guide to Macy's New Thanksgiving Day Parade Route
- Walking the Rails Above Death Avenue: High Noon for the High Line
- Welcome to Times Square. Please Have a Seat.
- West 10th Street, from Fifth Avenue to Waverly Place
- Woolworth Building
Promenades and Esplanades: Walks in the Parks and along the Shoreline
Gumshoes: A Partial Lineup of New York Detectives in American Crime Fiction
Click for mysteries set in New York.
Art & Photography: Walks & Observations
- A Three-Mile Walk Through Fort Greene and Clinton Hill
- Aernout Mik at MoMA
- After the Boom: Assessing the Contemporary Art Market
- An Art Walk in Chelsea for a Weekday Afternoon, and Places to Spend the Night
- Art and Spectacle in Nineteenth Century New York
- Art Trips Up the Hudson
- Ashcan Artists Walk to McSorley's
- Back-to-School Art Supplies Walk
- Carl Jung's Red Book: A Journey Into the Psyche
- Dalí and the Surealist Mysteries of New York
- Diane Arbus and the Hotel Chelsea Walk
- Drawing Sessions: The Walk-In Ateliers of New York
- Elizabeth Peyton's Snapshot Romanticism
- Fifth Avenue & The High Road to Taos: Mabel Dodge and Georgia O'Keeffe
- Finding Balance in MoMA's Sculpture Garden
- Flanierendes und Kokotten: Kirchner and the Berlin Street at MoMA
- George Tooker and Ralph Albert Blakelock at the National Academy Museum
- Gustave Caillebotte: Impressions of Water
- Jasper Johns: On the Cold Grey Stones
- Julian Schnabel Walk: Palazzo Chupi and the Gramercy Park Hotel
- Making My Own MANHATTA
- Museum Walk: Met to MoMA
- Pack Arts Journalism in the Age of Un-Art
- Revisiting Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party
- Tenth Street Studio Building and a Walk to the Hudson River
- The Cloisters
- The Light in Edward Hopper: The Sunny Side of the Great Depression
- The Lomo/Leica Walk
- The Time and Place for James Ensor, Unmasked
- Walker Evans and E. 61st Street
10 Fascinating Buildings in Manhattan
Click to read about unusual architecture in the borough.
Cinematic Gotham
- Shot in the Naked City: Cinematic Mysteries and Film Noir Before 1960
- Acting New York: Thelma Rotter, An Appreciation
- The Thin Man Walk: A New York Holiday Adventure with Nick and Nora Charles
- "I love this dirty town": J. J. Hunsecker and the New York of Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
- A Visit to Astoria, Then & Now: The Marx Brothers at Paramount Pictures
- Greta Garbo: A Pre-war Legend in Post-War New York
- Dalí and The Surrealist Mysteries of New York
- Starring New York: New York Films at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
- Making My Own MANHATTA
WOTBA's Google Book Library
Away From the Crowds
Philosophies of the Sidewalk
- Walking Off the Big Apple with the Situationist International
- Jacques Brel: Songs of the Street and on Bleecker Street
- The Marx Brothers in New York: Interlude - On Groucho Walking
- "Opium-Eating is Not Congenial to Walking," Says Virginia Woolf's Father
- Flanierendes und Kokotten: Kirchner and the Berlin Street at MoMA
- Gustave Caillebotte: Impressions of Water
- A Pre-War Legend in Post-War New York (Greta Garbo)
- Walking Off Everything with Henry David Thoreau
Selected New York Walks (by area)
- A Three Mile Walk Through Fort Greene and Clinton Hill
- An Art Walk in Chelsea for a Weekday Afternoon, and Places to Stay for the Night
- An Early Morning Walk in the East Village
- Audubon Terrace and Environs
- Bleecker Street Holiday Shopping Guide
- Chester A. Arthur's Neighborhood, and A Hint of Vindaloo Masala
- Cultural Guide to West 57th Street: A Walk and a Map
- E. 1st St. and Red Velvet Cupcakes
- East 90s: A Walk with The Marx Brothers
- Exploring East and West Broadway
- Exploring the East 70s between Park and 3rd
- Fall Fashion 2009 Edition: The Garment District
- Guide to Gramercy Park: A Checklist, But Not a Key
- James Weldon Johnson's New York and Four Stops in Central Harlem
- Lower East Side
- New York's Theater District: The Legacy of the Golden Age
- NoLita, I Just Met a Girl Named
- Shopping for Dinner at the Union Square Greenmarket
- SoHo Shopping
- South Village below W. Houston
- Stroll Through the East 60s
- The Tenth Street Studio Builing and a Walk to the Hudson River (West Village)
- Turtle Bay: Beekman Place, UN, Tudor City
- Two-Mile Walks, Mostly in Manhattan
- Vacationing in Tribeca
- Walking for Peaace in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
- Walking Off the Wall Street Bears
- Walking Off Tribeca
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