Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL
50th St and Fifth Ave. Subway B, D, F, M to 47-50th St-Rockefeller Center. 212 753 2261,
www.saintpatrickscathedral.org
. Daily 7am-8.30pm, services throughout the day.
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Designed by James Renwick and completed in 1888,
St Patrick's Cathedral
is the result of
a painstaking academic tour of the Gothic cathedrals of Europe - perfect in detail, yet rather
lifeless in spirit, with a sterility made all the more striking by the glass-black
Olympic
Tower
next door, an exclusive apartment block where Jackie Kennedy Onassis once lived.
PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA
25 W 52nd St between Fifth and Sixth aves. Subway B, D, F, M to 47-50th St-Rockefeller Center; E, M to
Fifth Ave/53rd St.
212 621 6800,
www.mtr.org
.
Wed-Sun noon-6pm, Thurs noon-8pm. $10, under 14
$5.
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The former Museum of Television and Radio still largely centres on its extensive archive of
American TV and radio broadcasts, so if you want to view episodes of beloved but short-
lived series like
Freaks and Geeks
or old classics like
Dragnet
or the
Honeymooners
, this is
the place. An excellent computerized reference system lets you have a show at your finger-
tips in no time.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
11 W 53rd St between Fifth and Sixth aves. Subway B, D, F, M to 47-50th St-Rockefeller Center; E, M to
Fifth St/53rd St. 212 708 9400,
www.moma.org
.
Mon, Wed, Thurs, Sat & Sun 10.30am-5.30pm, Fri
10.30am-8pm. $25, children 16 and under free, free Fri 4-8pm.
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The Museum of Modern Art -
MoMA
to its friends - offers the finest and most complete
account of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century art you're likely to find in the world. More
than 100,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and
design objects make up the collection, along with a world-class film archive. After undergo-
ing an expansion in 2004 that doubled the exhibition space, more is in the works - gallery
space in a soaring Jean Nouvel-designed skyscraper next door, and the former Museum of
Folk Art, which MoMA tore down.
The core is the
Paintings and Sculpture galleries
, and if this is your priority, head straight
for the fifth floor - to Painting and Sculpture 1, which starts with Cézanne, Gauguin and the
Post-Impressionists of the late nineteenth century, takes in Picasso, Braque and Matisse
(who has his own dedicated room, highlighted by the self-referential
Red Studio
and odd
perspective of
The Dance
), moves through De Chirico, Duchamp and Mondrian, and fin-
ishes up with the surrealists Miró, Magritte and Dalí.
Painting and Sculpture 2, on the fourth floor, displays work from the 1940s to 1980s and
inevitably has a more American feel, with works by Abstract Expressionists Pollock,
Rothko and Barnett Newman, as well as lots of familiar work from the modern canon -
