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above the Hall of Ocean Life and the elaborate
Rose Center for Earth & Space
. Just
gazing at its facade - a massive glass box that contains a silver globe, home to space-
show theaters and the planetarium - is mesmerizing, especially at night, when all of its
otherworldly features are aglow.
New-York Historical Society
MUSEUM
(
www.nyhistory.org
;
2 W 77th St at Central Park West; adult/child $15/5, by donation 6-8pm, library
free; 10am-6pm Tue-Thu & Sat, to 8pm Fri, 11am-5pm Sun; B, C to 81st St-Museum of Natur-
al History)
This museum, founded in 1804 and widely credited with being the city's oldest,
received a full-scale makeover in 2011. The quirky and wide-ranging collection, includ-
ing a leg brace worn by President Franklin D Roosevelt and a 19th-century mechanical
bank in which a political figure slips coins into his pocket, is now housed in a spruced-up
contemporary exhibition space; there's an auditorium, a library and a restaurant as well.
Upper East Side
The Upper East Side (UES) is home to New York's greatest concentration of cultural
centers, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many refer to Fifth Ave above
57th St as Museum Mile. The real estate, at least along Fifth, Madison and Park Aves, is
some of the most expensive in the world. Home to ladies who lunch as well as frat boys
who drink, the neighborhood becomes decidedly less chichi the further east you go.
