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Things to Do in NYC (7/27-8/3)

(7/27-8/3) Each week, City Guide's Things to Do in NYC brings you the best in special NYC events, exhibits, sightseeing activities, fun for kids, concerts, and nightlife. This week, discounts for Summer Restaurant Week are underway, plus enjoy a Summer Ice Cream Blizzard at Grand Bazaar NYC, Star Trek-themed events aboard The Intrepid, Radiohead at MSG, and tons of great indoor exhibits where you can stay cool!

THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: THE BIG EVENT

Restaurant Week

(7/25-8/19) Summer Restaurant Week offers a taste of almost 400 of NYC's best dining establishments, rolling out a very affordable red carpet with three-course specials for both lunch and dinner (the meals are mostly on the weekdays, with a few Sundays, and a few brunches, included in the mix). The cost is a fraction of what you might find other weeks—$29 for lunch and $42 for dinner, not including tax, tip, and drinks.

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(7/31) Summer Ice Cream Blizzard at Grand Bazaar NYC is the perfect way to finish National Ice Cream Month. The event will feature 12 artisanal ice cream vendors, serving over 60 different flavors. You'll discover many makers and flavors you've never heard of or tasted before. And, while you’re cooling yourself down with the fabulous ice cream selection, discover and meet other amazing merchants, designers, and artisans.

THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK

Star Trek Starfleet Experience

Photo courtesy of Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Warp speed ahead! In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the beloved series Star Trek, the Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum welcomes the new exhibition Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience. The museum is the first place in the U.S. to host this brand-new, immersive “Trek Tech” experience, which spans a starship-sized 12,000 square feet. Visitors become cadets, joining the Starfleet Academy’s Career Day in the 26th century. After “student orientation,” cadets visit zones that focus on the Academy’s special training in language, medicine, engineering, navigation, science, and command skills. Check out interactive activities and unique technology, including voice recognition to communicate in Klingon, a medical tricorder table, planet projection mapping, holograms, and a target game using the show’s iconic phasers. You can get your results and a certificate emailed to you. On your way out, take a selfie in the captain’s chair; you can also visit the fully restored Shuttlecraft Galileo, which carried the crew in the original series.

Click here for our Intrepid Coupon to save $3 now (max 4 persons) off general admission!

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**The Intrepid Museum is inviting all Star Trek Beyond movie-goers to come visit Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience for $5 off!  Bring your Star Trek Beyond movie ticket to the Intrepid Museum’s box office and receive $5.00 off tickets to Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience. Limit one per ticket stub, good for the next available time slot on Star Trek tickets only.  Printed or Mobile tickets accepted. Expires: 10/31/16.

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(now-7/31) Final days!  Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Ramones and the Birth of Punk takes a look at the legendary New York-bred band at the Queens Museum.  

(now-1/8/17) Who Shot Sports, A Photographic History, 1843-Present at the Brooklyn Museum gathers together approximately 230 works—from daguerreotypes and salted paper prints to digital images—that capture the universal appeal of sports, highlighting unforgettable moments of drama and excitement from around the globe.

(now-9/25) Atmosphere for Enjoyment: Harry Bertoia's Environment for Sound at the Museum of Arts and Design takes a close look at prolific artist and designer Harry Bertoia's sounding sculptures and gongs.

(now-9/5) History is happening in Manhattan this summer at the New-York Historical Society. Following the incredible success of Hamilton on Broadway, the society is launching the Summer of Hamilton, a packed slate of programming devoted to our nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury. On display are treasured artifacts from Hamilton’s life and career, including his writing desk, life-sized bronze statues of Hamilton and Burr at the moment of their infamous duel, and a monumental case clock given to Hamilton by the Bank of New York. Also on display are nine key documents from Hamilton’s life, including a letter to his wife Eliza. To give a better idea of how this history is now being interpreted on stage in Hamilton, video clips from the show are interspersed throughout the exhibition.

(now-9/7) The Guggenheim’s newest exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective in nearly 50 years of the work of pioneering artist and educator László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946). Moholy-Nagy: Future Present examines the full career of the utopian modernist who believed in the power of art and technology as a vehicle for social transformation and the betterment of humanity. The presentation brings together more than 300 works, some of which have never before been shown publicly in this country. 

(now-9/18) Rembrandt's First Masterpiece is on view at the Morgan Library & Museum. Completed when he was just 23 years old, Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver has long been recognized as Rembrandt's first mature work, which has never before been shown in the U.S. The exhibition includes the original painting, preparation drawings, and early self-portraits.

(now-1/17) The American Museum of Natural History welcomes an exhibit with bite: Crocs: Ancient Predators in a Modern World provides a fascinating look at the world of archosaurs, a group that includes alligators and crocodiles as well as extinct dinosaurs and modern birds.

(now-8/16) Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology is open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Costume Institute's spring 2016 exhibition explores how fashion designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear. 

(now-9/11) Impresssionism: American Gardens on Canvas has opened at the New York Botanical Garden. In the Conservatory, stroll through an American Impressionist garden, a stunning interpretation by Francisca Coelho, NYBG's renowned curator and designer, of the alluring gardens that influenced iconic artists such as Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent. In the Art Gallery, view a beautiful complementary display of more than 20 paintings and sculptures. 

(now-9/18) Through nearly 140 works, Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist at the Jewish Museum explores the prolific Brazilian landscape architect's outputincluding paintings, sculptures, theater designs, textiles, and jewelryas well as related works by contemporary artists and examples from Burle Marx's varied collections. 

(now-8/14) Stitching History from the Holocaust unveils dress patterns created by Hedy Strnad, a victim of the Holocaust, found 60 years after her family’s escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Their story is brought to life through the contemporary creation of Hedy’s designs and the piecing together of Hedy’s history with her husband, Paul Strnad. Museum of Jewish Heritage.

(now-8/7) Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History, the first-ever retrospective on the iconic fashion designer, opens at the Jewish Museum.

(now-1/17) The exciting new exhibit Dinosaurs Among Us, at the American Museum of Natural History, examines how one group of dinosaurs evolved into the birds of today.

(now-9/25) Mo Willems’ beloved children’s book characters are distinctly New York, from Trixie’s very first Brooklyn “Aggle Flaggle Klabble!” to the Mike Nichols and Elaine May inspirations of Elephant and Piggie to the public transportation-obsessed Pigeon. The new exhibition The Art and Whimsy of Mo Willems at the New-York Historical Society brings together original art, sketches, animation cels, and sculptures, all framed by Willems’ life in New York and how it influenced his iconic characters. The show is in an immersive, child-friendly space, featuring an imaginative New York cityscape on the gallery walls, two reading areas, and family audio guides narrated by Willems himself.

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Mr. & Mrs. Charles Henry Augustus Carter ca. 1845 (detail) • Museum of the City of New York, Nicholas Biddle Kittell, 62.234.12

(now-10/11) Picturing Prestige: New York Portraits at the Museum of the City of New York shows off the work of some of the leading American painters circa 1700-1860, as they fixed the likenesses of that era's 1% for all time.

(now-9/5) Vikings have arrived in Times Square! The term "viking" conjures some basic images, usually that of a fair-haired, statuesque male (think Marvel Comics' Thor, named after the Norse God of Thunder), either in combat or on a ship. It is a noun, a general term defining people from the regions we now know as Sweden, Scandinavia, or Norway, but between 750-1100 AD (well before the regions were named) it was also a verb, meaning “to travel.” Viking treasures have now traveled to New York, where they can be explored in the new Vikings The Exhibition, open at Discovery Times Square.

(permanent) New York’s latest resident is a 122-foot-long dinosaur so new it has yet to be formally named. Going by “Titanosaur for now, it has taken up residence at the American Museum of Natural History, in a cast of 84 fossil bones uncovered in Patagonia in 2014. The find included a colossal 8-ft. thigh bone, whose shape and size indicated a new species—and one of the biggest dinosaurs ever found. The titanosaur is so large, in fact, that it doesn’t fit in the gallery: a 39-ft.-long neck in a new permanent exhibit extends out towards the elevator banks.

(ongoing) On The Line: Intrepid & The Vietnam War is up at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space MuseumIntrepid made three tours of duty in Vietnam between 1966-1969.

(now-8/16) Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, with over 250 recent works by 63 designers that seek to answer the question “Why Beauty Now?,” is up at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: COMEDY 

College Night

 
(7/28) College Night at Stand Up NY, hosted by Jared Fried, and feat. Mike Recine, Ester Steinberg, Nimesh Patel, and Mike Cannon.

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(7/27) Goddesses of Comedy at Stand Up NY, featuring Pat Brown, Chloe Hilliard, Leah Bonnema, Rosebud Baker, Kate Wolff, and Emma Willman. 

(7/29-7/30) Bret Ernst at Gotham Comedy Club.

(7/29) Stand Up Showcase, feat. Damien Lemon, Andrew Schulz, Johnathan Randall, Brian Scott McFadden, Hadiyah Robinson, at Stand Up NY.

Get free admission for 2 to Stand Up NY!

THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: KIDS

Space Invaders

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(now-10/9) Arcade Classics: Video Games from the Museum's Collection at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. Check out vintage arcade games including Space Invaders, Asteroids, Tempest, Centipede, Berzerk, and more!  Plus now-8/28 enjoy summer kids matinee screenings of films including Fantastic Mr. Fox, Toy Story, and Zootopia.

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(7/30) Watson Adventures' Grand Central Scramble Family Scavenger Hunt at Grand Central Terminal.

(7/31) Magic at Coney! at Coney Island Museum. Catch a variety show highlighting a vast array of magicians: illusionists, escape artists, mentalists, and close-up magicians from around the world. 

(8/1) Summer Play-Seaport Explorers and Tiny Turnip at South Street Seaport. Project Playdate's Summer Play is a flexible 3 to 6 hour series of fun, safe and educational daytime playdates with NYC's most prominent specialsts and most celebrated attractions for kids. 9am-3pm.

(Ongoing) Explore the beautiful interactive exhibit Connected Worlds at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. 

THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: SIGHTSEEING

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

(7/29) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, will be shown aboard the deck of The Intrepid. Director Nicholas Meyer will introduce the film. Doors open 6:30pm.

Use this to take $3 off your next Intrepid visit (up to 4 people.)

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(7/27) Audubon Summer EcoCruise with New York Water Taxi gets you close to great views of the black-crowned night-heron, glossy ibis, and more! 

(7/28) 107.7 LITE FM's Broadway in Bryant Park 2016 will feature free performances from Waitress, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Kinky Boots, Fun Home and Himself & Nora!  

(7/30) Exercise with a view. Enjoy New York Yoga at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park.

(ongoing) Read about more great daytrips to Six Flags Great Adventure, The Mills at Jersey Gardens, and more with NJ Transit.

(new)  Catch the brand new Ghostbusters Experience (walk through/immersive) and Ghostbusters Dimension, a Virtual Reality Experience at Madame Tussauds. Get ready to strap on some gear and laser some ghosts against breathtaking, realistic backdrops. The technology puts you right there!

Take a thrilling white-knuckle 30-minute cruise of the Manhattan skyline aboard THE SHARK Speedboat thrill ride with Circle Line Downtown. Take $5 off your ride now.

(ongoing) Take a one-hour tour of one of the world's most important buildings, the United Nations, now celebrating 70 years. (Tours offered weekdays only.)

(ongoing) One of NYC's most iconic sports and music venues, Madison Square Garden, offers a must-see MSG All Access Tour. Take $4 off admission now.

Take a selfie with new arrival James Bond, Taylor Swift, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, and countless other famous celebs at Madame Tussauds New York!

Explore NYC with a magical live interactive experience when you take THE RIDE and The TOURFind out about special summer only discounts for early risers! 

Check out the new "tour about nothing" When Harry Met Seinfeld with On Location Tours

The One World Observatory is open. Start by ascending to the top of the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere in less than sixty seconds, in state-of-the-art "Sky Pod Elevators" that feature a floor-to-ceiling LED screen showing the ever-evolving New York skyline. Once reaching the 100th floor, visitors can take in panoramic, uninterrupted views on the main platform. Click here for information about ordering tickets and getting a free collectible pin!

Explore NYC's Financial District with Wall Street Walks

THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: NIGHTLIFE & MUSIC

Summer Fest at Howl at the Moon

(7/29) It's Summer Fest at Howl at the Moon! Take advantage of the chance to win $100 in a cash dance contest, plus $3 shandy cans, $5 Deep Eddy Lemonade cocktails, $25 Summer Fling buckets and more! Wear your best Fest outfit for free cover!

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(7/27) British alt-rock band Radiohead play a second evening at Madison Square Garden.

(7/26-7/27) Tony Danza performs at Feinstein's/54 Below

(7/27) Uptown Bounce: Summer Nights at Museum of the City of New York features an evening filled with music from New York DJs, dancing, gallery talks, summer drinks and more.

(now-8/27) Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center.  

(7/27, 7/29) British rocker Bryan Ferry performs at the Beacon Theatre.

(7/28) Heart, Joan Jett, & Cheap Trick share the bill at Jones Beach, just a short trip away from the city by the Long Island Railroad (LIRR).

(7/28) Zephyr Happy Hour on a Boat with New York Water Taxi.

(7/29) AMNH Presents Evening Bat Walks in Central Park (registration is required).

(7/30) Sweat it out dancing on a Saturday at Warm Up 2016 at MoMA PS1 in Queens.

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SNEAK PEEK, NEXT WEEK

 slumber party intrepid star trek

(8/6) Star Trek Nights Aboard The Intrepid! Sleep under the stars and enjoy a Star Trek themed sleepover. Train like a Star Trek cadet in the new Star Trek Starfleet Academy interactive exhibition, see the shuttlecraft Galileo from the original series, boldly go on special guided tours, and watch classic episodes of Star Trek under the stars. There will also be shows in Intrepid's pop-up planetarium and special Star Trek food and drinks. All guests go home with a swag bag with Intrepid and Star Trek souvenirs.

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