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displays. The museum is temp-
orarily located in the Chelsea Art
Museum, before moving to a new
facility at 235 Bowary in late 2007.
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556 West 22nd Street at 11th Ave
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Map L2
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Open noon-8pm Thu, noon-6pm
Tue, Wed, & Fri-Sat
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Admission charge,
free Thu after 6pm
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www.newmuseum.org
Prada
The sign reads “Guggenheim
SoHo” but the new occupant of
the building is an extraordinary
$40 million flagship store for
trend-setting Italian retailer Prada,
a sign of SoHo's shift from art to
fashion. Dutch architect Rem
Kookhaas is responsible for the
ultra-hip floating stairs, undulating
walls, futuristic elevators and hi-
tech dressing rooms. The entire
Prada line is sold.
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575 Broadway
at Prince St
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Map N4
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Open 11am-7pm
Mon-Sat, 12-6pm Sun.
Greene Street
Cast-iron architecture
flourished in New York in the
late 19th century, as a way to
produce decorative elements
such as columns and arches
and create impressive buildings
inexpensively. Greene Street,
between Canal and Grand streets,
and between Broome and Spring
streets, has 50 of these beauties,
rows of columned façades
creating a striking streetscape.
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Map N4
New York City Fire
Museum
A nostalgic treasure housed in a
1904 firehouse, this splendid
collection includes the city's
fire-fighting engines, equipment,
garb and memorabilia from the
18th century to the present.
A moving photo display depicts
the World Trade Centre attack
and honors the hundreds of
firefighters lost there.
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278 Spring
Street
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Map N3
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Open 10am-5pm
Tue-Sat, 10am-4pm Sun
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Admission
charge
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www.nycfiremuseum.org
New Museum of
Contemporary Art
Since its founding in 1977, this
provocative museum has mounted
shows featuring experimental
work that other museums often
overlook, particularly new multi-
media forms, which sometimes
extend into intriguing window
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New Museum of Contemporary Art
Right
Prada
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