Thank you to Wendy Perrin and Condé Nast Traveler for choosing us as their exclusive “Destination Specialist for New York City” for the second consecutive year!  We are thrilled to be included amongst the top travel specialists around the world.

Saturday, April 1st – Saturday, April 8th

Big Apple Comic Book, Toy and Sci-Fi Expo, Penn Plaza Pavilion, 401 Seventh Avenue at 33rd Street.  New York City's longest running Comic, Toy, Art, and Sci Fi Expo. Featuring special guest celebrities, artists, a huge dealer floor and tons of surprises! Guest of Honor George Romero. Elvira will be there, Margot Kidder, and many more! Special Panels.

Tartan Week New York City, Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Terminal.  Events change hourly, so there is something for everyone to enjoy beginning at 11:00 AM through 7:00 PM. Visit tartanweekny.com for more information about specific events and hours.

100,000 yellow flight and orange flight tulips will be planted in sidewalk planters found throughout the Grand Central neighborhood, providing a much-needed burst of color after a long and cold winter. Once the winter plants are removed by the middle of next week, crews will be prepping the planters for the tulip planting, which should commence later next week and be completed neighborhood-wide by the beginning of the week of April 10, weather permitting.

Wednesday, April 5th 

The American Watercolor Society’s 139th Exhibition opens at the Salmagundi Art Club at 47 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street. 

Saturday, April 8th

Girl Scout Water Wonders Day, Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum, West 46th Street @ 12th Avenue.  All Girl Scouts are welcome for a fun-filled day of exploration and experimentation, and earn your Water Wonders badge along the way! Learn about the water cycle, watch demonstrations that show how fresh and salt water are different, and create a seascape filled with underwater creatures! Or explore the ship with a scavenger hunt with a prize.

New York Tartan Day Parade, National Tartan Day New York Committee, Inc., 6th Avenue- from West 44th-West 58th Streets. New York City's Tartan Day Parade is the culmination of a week-long series of events & activities celebrating both Scotland's history as well as its contemporary culture and the strong & enduring ties which exist between Scotland the United States. The Parade marches up 6th Avenue from West 44th Street to West 58th Street at 2:00 PM.

97th Annual Salute to Magic, Society of American Magicians, TriBeCa Performing Arts Center - 199 Chambers Street.  Now in its 97th year, the Society of American Magicians Annual Salute to Magic, the oldest annually produced magic show in the United States, brings the best in magic from around the world to the TriBeCa Performing Arts Center.

Saturday, April 8th – Sunday, April 9th 

Dutch Watercolors: The Great Age of the Leiden Botanical Garden, New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street & Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, More than 60 botanical watercolors, prints, and rare books spanning three centuries of worldwide exploration will be showcased in the exhibition. Featuring images on loan from the National Herbarium of the Netherlands at Leiden and include art that depicts exotic and rare plants from North and South America, Asia, the Mediterranean, and more.

Sunday, April 9th – 23rd

Macy’s Flower Show, at Macy’s Herald Square, 34th Street and 7th Avenue. Work begins months ahead to make sure that the flowers will all be blooming together at this incredible display.  Some of the plants needed to be kept colder than normal and others warmer so that everything would be in bloom together for this two week show.

Tuesday, April 11th

Yankee’s Home Opener versus Kansas City Royals, at Yankee Stadium.  For groups wishing to enjoy a game, call us for either field or skybox seating at 212-370-1319.

Friday, April 14th 

Grand Central Terminal, 15 Vanderbilt Avenue.  Many of our exhibitors organize hands-on activities for children, provide products samples, and allow visitors the opportunity to sign up as volunteers, sign petitions, and learn about environmentalism in New York and beyond.

International Auto Show, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, through April 23rd. The 2006 NYIAS will showcase some of the hottest concept and production cars ever seen. Many of the vehicles will be cutting-edge innovative design studies, others just a few steps away from production, but all provide a window on the future of automobile design and technology. In addition, more than 43 vehicle manufacturers will feature over 1000 new cars, trucks, minivans and SUVs.

Saturday, April 15th 

Eggstravaganza, Central Park, celebration is expected to entertain thousands of New Yorkers of all ages.  Central Park activities will include children's performances, Puppets in the Park, egg dyeing, knitting clinics, and some surprises! 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. 

Eggstravaganza, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn.  Eggs are an eternal symbol of springtime. Look at gorgeous Ukrainian Psanka eggs from the Museum's collection on Saturday, April 15, 3:00 PM -4:30 PM. Discover the legend of Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. Paint your colorful Faberge-style egg. Ages 6+ 

Saturday, April 15th – Sunday, June 4th 

Spring Flower Show at the New York Botanical Garden, Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, 200th Street & Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx. Irises in every color of the rainbow will be the dazzling highlight of this year's Spring Flower Show. Thousands of these beauties, native to colder regions across the globe, will be seen in all their glory from mid-April through May growing along the banks of streams and pools fed by gentle waterfalls.

Sunday, April 16th 

The Easter Parade, on Fifth Avenue.  Bring a camera and enjoy the wonderful selection of creative handmade hats that New Yorker’s delight in showing off as they stroll up and down Fifth Avenue in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral between 47th Street – 57th Street from about 10 AM – 1:00 PM.  This informal modeling always draws an interesting crowd.

Thursday, April 20th 

26th New York International Orchid Show, Rockefeller Center, between 49th and 50th Street and 5th and 6th Avenues.  Sponsored by Top of the Rock Observation Deck, hosted by Tishman Speyer and organized by the Greater New York Orchid Society will be under a tent on the famed Ice Rink. Over 40 orchid exhibits, with Ikebana floral arrangements and other orchid floral displays. Over 50 orchid vendors with plants and supplies for sale. For info, www.gnyos.org.

Friday, April 28th, 2006 

Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sales, New York Botanical Garden, Conservatory Tent, 200th Street & Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx.  More than 30 of the country's leading dealers offer their finest quality pieces at the Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale, America's most celebrated venue for garden antiques. During the three-day event, fountains, statues, benches, urns, sundials, birdbaths, and botanical prints beckon novice collectors and garden designers alike. 

Saturday, April 29th – Sunday, April 30th 

NFL Draft, Radio City Music Hall, 6th Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets.   Witness the event that determines which of the top players get onto your favorite football team. For more info, visit www.nfl.com/draft.

The Morgan Library, re-opens after a three year renovation process.  Over $102 million dollars have been spent on the expansion project to double the exhibition apace and add a 280 seat performance hall, naturally lit reading room. 

The Drowsy Chaperone, April 3 Shining City, April 13 The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, April 14 The History Boys, April 14 Hot Feet, April 20 Faith Healer, April 18

Festen, April 9 Awake and Sing, April 17 Three Days of Rain, April 19 The Threepenny Opera, April 20 The History Boys, April 23 Lestat, April 25

Rabbit Hole, April 9

Please, read this and remember to use only licensed yellow cabs or let us book a limousine service for you.  1 Tip from Tae Kwon Do: The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do!  2 Learned this from a tourist guide in New Orleans. If a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you....chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you, and he will go for the wallet/purse. RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION! 3 If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car, kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy. The driver won't see you, but everybody else will. This has saved lives. 4 Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping, eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc. DON'T DO THIS!) The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side, put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR, LOCK THE DOORS AND LEAVE. a. If someone is in the car with a gun to your head DO NOT DRIVE OFF, repeat: DO NOT DRIVE OFF! Instead gun the engine and speed into anything, wrecking the car. Your Air Bag will save you. If the person is in the back seat they will get the worst of it. As soon as the car crashes bail out and run. It is better than having them find your body in a remote location. 5 A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage: a. Be aware: look around you, look into your car, at the passenger side floor, and in the back seat. b. If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars. c. Look at the car parked on the driver's side of your vehicle, and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.) 6 ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot. This is especially true at NIGHT!) 7 If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times; And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN, Preferably in a zig -zag pattern! 8 As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP. It may get you raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked "for help" into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.