The Mave
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The Ace Hotel
Valid: July 1-5
The Ace is offering bunk rooms with a private bathroom and a Heineken pony keg for $189 per night.
Code: JULY4
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The NYC Restaurant Week Truck is back and they have a scheduled stop in our neighborhood on July 15 and 16 on Fifth Avenue and 18th Street.

The truck will be serving an extensive menu of summer soups from some of our neighbors, such as A Voce and SD26 Restaurant & Wine Bar; along with other delicious Restaurant Week participating restaurants – all for just $6 per bowl

One dollar from every NYC Restaurant Week Truck sale will support the work of Hot Bread Kitchen, which bakes delicious, fresh bread and creates jobs for immigrant women. Hot Bread Kitchen will also be supplying the bread to accompany each soup served from the NYC Restaurant Week Truck.

Want to know what the truck is serving each day? Just check back on this page—every morning starting July 12, they’ll post the day’s menu.

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From July 12-25, you can enjoy special three-course, prix-fixe meal at some of New York’s top participating restaurants. Many of them right here in our area! (Flatiron District)

The cost for lunch is $24.07. Dinner is $35.00. Please note that prices are per person and do not include beverage, tax or gratuity. Saturdays are excluded and Sunday participation is optional.

We’ve listed the participating restaurants in our area in alphabetical order. You can view the menus and make reservations online at NYC Restaurant Week’s page.

If you are having a meeting in the office and want to go out for a special lunch or early dinner, the receptionist will be more than happy to make reservations for you.

A Voce
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch

Aldea
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Valid for: Lunch

Allegretti
Cuisine: French
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Angelo and Maxie’s Steakhouse
Cuisine: Steakhouse
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Artisanal Fromagerie, Bistro & Wine Bar
Cuisine: French
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

Bar Stuzzichini
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Barbounia
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, & Sunday Dinner

Black Duck
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Blue Smoke
Cuisine: Barbecue
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

Bocca Restaurant & Bar
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Brasserie Les Halles
Cuisine: French
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

The Breslin Bar & Dining Room
Cuisine: British
Valid for: Lunch

City Crab & Seafood Company
Cuisine: Seafood
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

Craftbar
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch

Dos Caminos
Cuisine: Mexican
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Giorgio’s of Gramercy
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Hill Country Barbecue Market
Cuisine: Barbecue
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

i Trulli Restaurant
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

ilili
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

Japonais
Cuisine: Japanese
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Kellari’s Parea Greek Bistro
Cuisine: Greek
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

Maialino
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch

Periyali
Cuisine: Greek
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Pranna Restaurant
Cuisine: Asian Fusion
Valid for: Dinner, Sunday Dinner

Primehouse NY
Cuisine: Steakhouse
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Resto
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

SD26
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch

SushiSamba
Cuisine: Japanese
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Tabla and Bread Bar
Cuisine: Indian
Valid for: Lunch

Tamarind
Cuisine: Indian
Valid for: Lunch, Sunday Lunch

For a complete listing of all participating restaurants in the City, please visit the official NYC Restaurant Week Page.

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The Ace is only a couple blocks from Madison Square Park, and in the middle of the neighborhood-wide Antony Gormley Event Horizon sculpture exhibition. The hotel itself is full of art from local artists so it’s a neat place to stay.

In celebration of the exhibit, the Ace Hotel has a special package, “The Gormley,” during The Event Horizon Installation.

Book the Gormley Package and you will get a free upgrade (based on availability), the official Time Out/Event Horizon city guide, a disposable camera that the Hotel will have developed for you (for participating in the Gormley Photo Contest) and an official Event Horizon t-shirt.

The package is valid for stays from March 26 – August 15, 2010.

Book online using promo code EVENTHORIZON here or call 212.679.2222.

Ace Hotel
20W 29th Street
New York City, NY 10001
P: 212.679.2222

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Mildred Pierce, featuring Kate Winslet and Evan Rachel Wood, has been shooting all around the neighborhood the past couple of days.

Today they are on 26th between Broadway and Sixth Avenue.

The telefilm, directed by Todd Haynes, is based on a novel from 1941 James M. Cain. It was made into an Oscar-winning feature film, in 1945, starring Joan Crawford.

It will be released on HBO.

Here are some pictures from today’s set:

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Another special in the neighborhood for Antony Gormley’s Event Horizion Exhibit.

Tabla is making “The Horizon,” celebrating Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon, featuring Skky Citron Vodka, Guava & Lychee Liquor and passion fruit.

The Horizon will be Available from March 26 to August 15.

Tabla
11 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10010
P: 212-889-0667

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Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation Begins

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The lunch special is $20.10, served in the lounge area, and includes three appetizer options and a main course. The mail course options are Chitarra SD26, tomato and basil sauce; poached eggs in tomato sauce; or oven roasted organic chicken with roasted potatoes

SD26 San Domenico
Madison Square Park
19 East 26th Street, 10010
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 212 265 5959
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Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation at 204 Fifth Ave
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Photograph by James Ewing — (c) The Artist

PRNewsFoto/Mad. Sq. Art, Antony Gormley

Beginning on March 26, 2010, New York City’s celebrated skyline will play host to Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon, a landmark public art installation presented by Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art.

On the occasion of Event Horizon, thirty-one life-size sculptures of the artist will inhabit the pathways and sidewalks of historic Madison Square Park, as well as the rooftops of architectural treasures of New York’s vibrant Flatiron District and environs. New York City landmarks to participate in the installation include the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building, the New York Life Building, among others.

Adapted for the awe-inspiring skyline of New York from its London premiere commissioned by the Hayward Gallery in 2007, Event Horizon will introduce the American public to one of Britain’s most celebrated artists in dramatic fashion. Four of Gormley’s figures cast in iron will be placed at ground level tangibly interacting with the course of daily life adjacent to Madison Square Park, the center of the district-wide installation.

Ground-level locations include: Flatiron Triangle, Madison Square Park, 26th and Fifth Avenue, and Madison Avenue and 24th.

An additional twenty-seven works will be placed as high as 57 stories, encouraging viewers to look up and around the installation neighborhood at the heart of New York City.

Locations to host Event Horizon sculptures at elevated heights include: 1 Madison Avenue, 11 Madison Avenue, 41 Madison Avenue, 51 Madison Avenue, 60 Madison Avenue, 15 Madison Square, 1133 Broadway, 225 Fifth Avenue, 204 Fifth Avenue, the Flatiron Building, 304 Park Avenue, 230 Fifth Avenue, 162 Fifth Avenue, 184 Fifth Avenue, 220 East 23rd Street, 928 Broadway, 921 Broadway, 853 Broadway (Union Sq), 245 Fifth Avenue, 11 East 29th Street and the Empire State Building.

For more information on Event Horizon visit the project’s dedicated website launching February 25, 2010 at www.EventHorizonNewYork.org.

About Antony Gormley:
Over the last 25 years Antony Gormley has revitalized the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool and material.

Since 1990 he has expanded his concern with the human condition to explore the collective body and the relationship between self and other in large-scale installations like Allotment, Critical Mass, Another Place, Domain Field, and Inside Australia. His recent work increasingly engages with energy systems, fields and vectors, rather than mass and defined volume, evident in works like Clearing, Blind Light, Firmament and Another Singularity.

Antony Gormley’s work has been exhibited extensively, with solo shows throughout the UK in venues such as the Whitechapel, Tate and the Hayward Galleries, the British Museum and White Cube, and internationally at museums including the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Germany. Blind Light, a major solo exhibtion of his work, was held at the Hayward Gallery in 2007. He has participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta 8. His Field has toured America, Europe and Asia. Angel of the North and, more recently, Quantum Cloud on the Thames in Greenwich are amongst the most celebrated examples of contemporary British sculpture. One of his key installations, Another Place, is to remain permanently on display at Crosby Beach, Merseyside. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999 and was made an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997. In 2007 he was awarded the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Trinity College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, and has been a Royal Academician since 2003.

About MAD. SQ. ART:
Mad. Sq. Art is the free gallery without walls presented by the Madison Square Park Conservancy in the historic 6.2-acre park located at 5th Avenue and 23rd Street. In 2009, Mad. Sq. Art has also exhibited The Park, a site-specific series of short films by Shannon Plumb, and Flooded Chambers Maid, a mixed media installation by Jessica Stockholder.

Major Support for Mad. Sq. Art is provided by Founding Partners Agnes Gund and Anonymous. Substantial support is provided by Ronald A. Pizzuti, Toby Devan Lewis and the Henry Luce Foundation. Support for Markers is generously provided by David Nolan Gallery, Gail Monaghan, Francis Williams, Raymond Learsy and Melva Bucksbaum, Wynn Kramarsky and Ted Poretz. This project is supported in part with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Mad. Sq. Art is made possible by the leadership and generosity of the many friends of the Madison Square Park Conservancy.

Source: Madison Square Park & Fitz & Co Press Release

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Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, February 1 at 12:30pm
Violinist Erno Kallai and Pianist Larry Weng

These two talented musicians will perform works by Mozart, Bartok, Paganini, Sarasate, Liszt and Bazzini.

Winner of the Eleventh Carl Flesch International Violin Competition, Erno Kallai is establishing himself as one of the most exciting and charismatic young violinist today. In December 2008 he made his Carnegie Hall debut, performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no.2 with the Juilliard Orchestra, under James DePreist. He performed chamber music concerts with Itzhak Perlman and members of the Perlman Music Program in venues such as Chicago Symphony Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the McCarter Theater. He has played for Hungarian radio and Television and appeared on the McGraw-Hill Company’s “Young Artists’ Showcase” with host Bob Sherman on WQXR. Erno’s regular recital partners include Rohan DeSilva and Janos Balazs, pianists and he has collaborated with Mattias Jacobsson, guitarist.

He has won numerous awards and prizes, including first prize at the Zathureczky Violin Competition in 2003, awards from the Semmering Music Festival in 2004 (which included the best interpretation of a work by Kodaly, and award for the best interpretation of a Viennese Classic work with his performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5), a Valerie Beth Schwartz Career Grant from Salone de Virtuosi in 2007, first prize at the Juilliard Concerto Competition in 2008, among others.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Erno Kallai began early violin training with his father. At age of twelve, he had been admitted to the Exceptionally Talented Children’s class of the Franz Liszt University of Music where he studied with Andras Csontha and Eszter Perenyi. In 2006 he moved to the United States to study with Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School, where he still continues his studies as a full scholarship student. Erno Kallai is playing a 1723 Petrus Guarnerius violin, a generous gift from the Juilliard Rare instrument Collection.

Larry Weng began his piano studies at the age of seven with Dorothy Shi. At the age of eleven, he enrolled in the New England Conservatory Preparatory School under the tutelage Sylvia Chambless. Larry Weng is a laureate of numerous competitions, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition and the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition for Young Musicians.

He has performed in many renowned concert halls, such as Symphony Hall, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Kaufman Center. He has also worked with numerous orchestras, including the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 2005, he was admitted to the joint degree program between Columbia University and The Juilliard School.

In the past few years, Larry has continued to garner recognition in the music world, with top prizes from the New York Piano Competition and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin competition. Hailed by renowned professors and performers such as Arie Vardi and Paul Badura-Skoda as a “fine musician with a bright future,” Larry is dedicated to not only the artistic creation of music in the concert hall, but also to education and outreach in the broader community.

He firmly believes in the transformative powers of music, and the importance of immersing the youth in music in both an understandable and interesting manner. Larry has completed his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at Columbia University, and is currently finishing his Masters degree at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

Future Shows:

Monday, February 8th @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Akiko Kobayashi and pianist Juliana Han

Monday, February 22nd @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Emily Smith and pianist Marnie Hauschildt

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Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, January 25th @ 12:30pm:
Cellist Clara Yang and Pianist Joseph Liccardo

These two talented artists will perform works by Beethoven, Bach and Britten.

Cellist Clara Yang has appeared in numerous solo, chamber music, and orchestral performances at major venues and festivals across the United States and internationally. She earned her Bachelors and Masters Degrees at the Juilliard School where she studied with Joel Krosnick, and earned her Professional Studies Diploma at the Mannes College of Music under Timothy Eddy. While at The Juilliard School, Ms. Yang was a recipient of the Grunin Prize in Cello, the Victor Herbert Prize and also received the Leonard Rose Scholarship.

s. Yang has appeared as a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra, Concord Orchestra, and Brockton Symphony. She has given her New York debut solo recital at Carnegie’s Weill Hall in 2008 and other performances at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fischer Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and at the United Nations General Assembly Hall. She has won prizes in the Boston Symphony Concerto Competition, Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and the New England Conservatory Concerto Competition in the United States, and Ewha and Chosun Music Competition in South Korea.

As an active teacher and certified Suzuki instructor, Ms. Yang is currently on the cello faculty at Mozart Academy of John Jay College CUNY, Center for Preparatory Studies in Music at Queens College CUNY, Bloomingdale School of Music, and Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Center.

Joseph Liccardo, pianist, holds a B.M. in Performance from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Dr. Douglas Humpherys. Before college he studied for 12 years with Dr. Donald Pirone at the Center for Preparatory Studies in Music at Queens College. During his time at Eastman, Joseph distinguished himself as both a soloist and chamber musician.

He received the John Celentano Award for Excellence in Chamber Music and also received a top prize for piano accompanying in the Jessie Kneisel Lieder Competition. In March 2006, Joseph won first prize in the young artist division of the Music Teachers National Association Piano competition, for which he received a Steinway Model M grand piano.

Upon graduation from the Eastman school, Joseph moved back to the New York City area, where he works as a freelance musician. He teaches private piano lessons at the Lawrence Eisman Center for Preparatory Studies in Music. Joseph recently returned from a tour of China, where he performed with the renowned pipa player Zhang Hongyan. Following his trip to China, he traveled to Wakayama, Japan to give a collaborative recital.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

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