Links to some interesting New York webpages:

NYToday - useful information from The New York Times

Manhattan Theatre Club - information about New York shows with some cheap ticket offers

NYC Architecture - a website looking at all aspects of NY architecture

Manhattan neighbourhoods - a National Geographic guide to the different areas of Manhattan

Official New York City Webpages - produced by City Hall and packed full of useful tips about life in the Big Apple

Property in New York - find out what size of cupboard you can afford in the city that never sleeps

The New York Times - All the news fit to print

Radio City music hall

A GREAT SHOW AND A GREAT TRADITION - America's most beloved holiday theatrical, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, starring the world-famous Rockettes, returned to Radio City Music Hall for more than 200 performances over the Christmas season. The 2001 Edition of The Christmas Spectacular returned to the Great Stage featuring exciting new elements, as well as traditional favorites, such as the "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" and "The Living Nativity", that bring families back to Radio City Music Hall year after year. The New York Times said, " ... at Radio City Music Hall, Christmas is definitely in season, and the Spectacular fills that season with joy." After celebrating its biggest season ever with more than 1.2 million people attending the show in 2000, the world's biggest Christmas show premiered at the Music Hall on November 1, 2001 and ran until December 30, 2001. The Radio City Christmas Spectacular was presented for the 10th consecutive year by JP Morgan Chase.

NEW ON THE GREAT STAGE - A new and exciting 3-D film kicked off The Christmas Spectacular as Santa and his reindeer went on a magical sleigh ride through New York City. The audience, all sporting 3-D glasses, toured Manhattan from the sky, passing the Empire State Building, through Central Park, dashing by the holiday-clad windows of Fifth Avenue, and finally landing at Radio City Music Hall.

Also new to the show was a video montage honouring the world's most famous dance troupe. The 2001 Radio City Christmas Spectacular celebrated three quarters of a century of eye-high kicks and precision dance with a newly added retrospective video montage highlighting 75 years of memories encountered both on and off the Great Stage. The audience experienced the nostalgia as some of the greatest moments at Radio City.

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Museum of the City of New York

http://www.mcny.org/exhibitsfrm.htm#

Hirschfeld’s New York
October 13, 2001 - January 27, 2002
Hirschfeld's New York was the first major museum exhibition of Al Hirschfeld's work in New York City. Featuring a combination of one hundred of his rarely seen works as well as some of his most popular drawings, the exhibition positioned Hirschfeld as an observer, looking at New York City and responding to the stimuli around him. In his works, the City is muse. Its influence resonates throughout the arc of his career, as he chronicles the evolution and growth of the place he has called home for most of his ninety-eight years. The exhibition looked at the Prohibition era (1920s/1930s); the World War II and post-war years of the 1940s/1950s; and New York people, places, and performances. Hirschfeld's work in such other media as gouache and lithography was also featured.

http://www.mcny.org/hirschfeld/Hirschfeldmap.htm

Painting the Town: Cityscapes from the Museum of the City of New York

70 canvases from the Museum of the City of New York’s extensive collection of urban scene paintings, Painting the Town explored the changing landscape of New York City from 1809-1997. The exhibition captures auspicious New York occasions, including the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825, the Wall Street Panic of 1857, and the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty in 1886. Noted artists featured in the exhibition included American impressionist Childe Hassam and urban realist Reginald Marsh.

The Morgan Library

http://www.morganlibrary.org/

Oscar Wilde: A Life in Six Acts, originally organized by the British Library. Wilde's (1854–1900) rise to success as a literary and social figure was meteoric. His decline to notoriety and disgrace was equally dramatic. Twelve years after publishing his first work of fiction, in 1888, he was dead at the age of forty-six, buried in a pauper's grave on the outskirts of Paris.

The exhibition took a broadly chronological approach, presenting Wilde's life story as a series of six acts, incorporating works from both institutional and private collections. The fine collections of the Morgan Library and the British Library were featured along with items from Magdalen College, Wilde's alma mater, and other sources. Mary, Viscountess Eccles, a principal lender, holds the greatest private collection of Wilde materials. Family objects and photographs are on loan from the collection of Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson.

All of Wilde's major works were featured, with emphasis on the composition, publication, and reception of his plays Salomé and The Importance of Being Earnest; his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the manuscript of which is in the Morgan Library's collection; as well as his less familiar writing. From the Morgan's collection, the only surviving love letter from Wilde to his wife, Constance, was shown alongside her love letters to him, which are from the collection of Mary, Viscountess Eccles The dramatic autograph manuscript De Profundis, Wilde's long, often bitter, confessional letter from prison to Lord Alfred Douglas, his young lover whose father brought about Wilde's spectacular fall from grace, was on view for the first time in the United States. Apart from printed works and manuscripts, the items on display included portraits, drawings, photographs, caricatures, theatre programs, juvenilia, and ephemera.