The Mave
Valid: July 2- July 5
15% Off Rates, 2-Night Minimum Stay Required.
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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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Happy 4th of July!

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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.

Source: NYCGO

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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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Happy Earth Day!

This year marks the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day and there are several fun events in Manhattan to celebrate:

23rd Street Association Earth Day Celebration at Baruch:
Kristen Bacorn of Atelier covers Green concepts in making businesses more environmentally friendly. Chris De Weaver Business Development, Director of Healthy Buildings Solutions discusses effective and low-cost ways to make businesses and homes more sustainable and energy efficient. The event is free.

Location: Baruch College 55 Lexington Ave @ 24th St Rm 14-250
Date and Time: Thursday, April 22nd, Breakfast at 8AM followed by seminars at 8:45

Celebrate Earth Day one sustainable bite at a time:
The Batali and Bastianich Hospitality Group has eleven Certified Green Restaurants®, a company-wide bottled water ban and farmer’s market driven menus, and they’d like to invite you to celebrate Earth Day at one of their restaurants. Each restaurant has created a special dish or tasting menu to honor not only Earth Day, but their achievements as a restaurant group.

Location: Click here for restaurant list
Date and Time: April 22, 2010 5:30pm – 11:00pm

FLASH MOB reco® -Fashion Parade and Viral Video Campaign:
reco ® jeans, the true recycled denim company, is teaming up with EarthdayNY.org to orchestrate a Flash Mob event taking place this. An eco-fashion parade will stroll through Time Square kicking off the Earth Day celebration! Crowds will gather on the Red Steps near 46th street to await the procession. The “activity” will be flashing “The new symbol of hope and commitment” which is being commemorated by forming the letter “E” with the right hand. The event will be captured and produced into an edgy video to be shared between reco® jeans and EarthdayNY.org for a viral campaign!

Location: Near Times Square, 46th Street, on the Red Steps
Date and Time: April 22nd at 11am

Earth Day Arts & Crafts in Central Park:
Celebrate Earth Day in Central Park, Manhattan’s largest green space, with Chess & Checkers House staff. They’ll help you create eco-friendly, nature-inspired crafts. All ages. Limited space; no groups or strollers inside the building, please. No advance registration.

Location: Chess & Checkers House, inside the park at 64th St
Date and Time: Thursday, April 22nd, 2-4 PM

EarthFair Outdoors:
Come stop by the EPA’s booth at this two-day outdoor festival of art, music and the environment.

Location: Vanderbilt Avenue outside Grand Central Terminal
Date and Time: Friday, April 23rd, 12 -7 PM and Saturday, April 24th, 11 AM-5 PM

EarthFair Indoors:
A week-long exhibit in Vanderbilt Hall showcasing environmental displays

Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Terminal
Date and Time: April 19th-24th, all day

Looking for a way to participate in your area? Visit Earth Day Network.

Here are some more ideas to help green your world:

Open a Virtual Office:
Stop commuting, work from home, and reduce your carbon footprint by saving and sharing resources! As Earth Day is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary, we are celebrating our 20th! Open your Manhattan Virtual Office today.

Precycle:
Helps you reduce up to 90% of your junk mail in 90 days, cuts down on credit card offers and other identity theft prone mail, and plants 5 trees on your behalf! You’ll also receive Reusable Chico™ Shopping Bag and Two Eco-Friendly Compact Fluorescent Bulbs (CFL) for a one time fee of $36.

CarbonFund.org:
Calculate and offset your individual or your company’s carbon footprint.

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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

Event Horizon Related Posts:
The Horizon Cocktail at Tabla
The Gormley Naked Art Lunch at SD26
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon – Pictures Week of March 21, 2009
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation at 204 Fifth Ave
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation – NYC
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation Begins

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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

Event Horizon Related Posts:
The Gormley Naked Art Lunch at SD26
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon – Pictures Week of March 21, 2009
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation at 204 Fifth Ave
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation – NYC
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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Event Horizon Related Posts:
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon – Pictures Week of March 21, 2009
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation at 204 Fifth Ave
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation – NYC
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation Begins

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Facing the Empire State Building on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 26th Street

Corner of Fifth Avenue and 26th Street with the Flatiron Building in the Background

Corner of Fifth Avenue and 26th Street with the Metlife Tower in the Background

In Madison Square Park checking the line at the Shake Shack

In the sand at Madison Square Park

Feet in the sand at Madison Square Park

Have you taken any pictures? Email them to blog@acehotel.com for their photo and video contest:

Details:

Gormley says the Event Horizon installation will create ‘a relational field in which the passerby as well as the aware view is implied in a matrix of looking and being look at.’ Feel free to implicate yourself by submitting to our photo and video contest to celebrate the exhibition. Take pictures of the sculptures in their natural habitat and send them to us. We’ll post your entries weekly and announce winners in black & white, color, and video. Readers vote on entries, so if your entry wins we’ll give you something cool.

Good luck!

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Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation at 204 Fifth Ave
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation – NYC
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon Installation Begins

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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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Did you know that the 26th President of The United States (1901-1909) was born right here in the neighborhood?

If you have extra time before or after a meeting at your New York Virtual Office, his birthplace is well worth a visit. It’s located just a hop, skip, and jump from your NYC Virtual Office at 28 East 20th Street, between Park Avenue South and Broadway.

The original town house, called a brownstone, was built in 1848. Theodore Roosevelt lived at what is now 28 East 20th Street from his birth until he was 14. In 1872, the family moved to 6 West 57th Street. The brownstones on 20th Street were used as stores. In 1916, with Roosevelt’s permission, the original building was torn down. The Birthplace was built to recreate an historic home.

After Roosevelt died, his widow and two sisters formed the Women’s Roosevelt Memorial Association. They rebuilt the birthplace and donated family heirlooms such as furniture, artwork and china. The “new” birthplace opened to the public in 1923. In 1963, the Theodore Roosevelt Association donated the house to the United States. Congress created Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site. It is one of six National Parks honoring the 26th President.

Location: 28 East 20th Street, between Park Avenue South and Broadway
Phone: 212.260.1616
Website: http://www.nps.gov/thrb/index.htm
Admission: $0. There is no entrance fee. Admission to the house is free.
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9:00am-5:00pm
Tours: The period rooms can only be seen by guided tours. Park Ranger guided tours are available on the hour: 10 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, and 4 pm.

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