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  Issue 89 - November 2008

"We help you turn the ordinary into the extraordinary!"

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I didn't know you did that!

What will we see on the backstage tour?
Going backstage with a cast member before or after your Broadway show allows you to see the wigs, make-up, costumes, props, walk across the stage and look out into the audience and understand how many people work behind the scenes to make the show work seamlessly.  You’ll be able to ask questions and get a real feel of the activity from the stagehands and actors.  This opportunity can be offered for up to 6 people per cast member.  If your group is larger, you will be able to go into a rehearsal studio with either cast members and/or the people that help create the show: director, producer, casting director, costumer and musical director and you can ask questions and hear how the show was created and financed and brought to Broadway.  Call 212-370-1319 for more details. This opportunity is available when you book your transfers, hotel and theater tickets with DNY.

What can you offer for a group that loves cheese and wine?
Food lovers have a wide variety of programs to choose from when working with DNY’s Destination Specialists.  Enjoy a cheese and wine class in a private room either at a sit down class or walk around stations and sample wines and cheese.  After the event, your guests will be impressed when they receive their own personalized wine report with the wine descriptions, their individual ratings, group ratings and other recommendations. 

Our Sommelier will entertain your guests with a tasting of world class wines with any of the following themes:

Regional Wine Tasting – By country or region (i.e. Bordeaux, Rioja, Australia)
Wines of the World – Sample different wines from different countries
Varietal Tastings – (i.e.  Great cabs from around the world)
Golf Themed – Sample wines from golf greats such as Arnold Palmer, Nick Faldo, Ernie Els and Greg Norman
Sports Themed – Sample wines from sports legends such as Joe Montana, Wayne Gretsky, Tommy Lasorda, Dick Vermeil and Mike Ditka.  

It’s a fun way to spend an evening learning about wine and which are your favorites.  The cheese will be paired with the wine selections.  This opportunity is perfect for holiday parties rather than the more formal sit down dinners.  It works very well for team building too!

What can you offer during the holidays to take advantage of great shopping opportunities?
Shopping programs can run the gambit from personal shoppers in department stores, fashion shows for groups in department stores with breakfast before the store opens to the public, to neighborhood shopping with license guides who really know the great little boutiques and the Wholesale Only locations in the Garment District.  Charles Nolan’s designs can be found in Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord  & Taylor.  A DNY exclusive during November is to stop by Charles Nolan’s boutique in the Meatpacking District on the corner of Hudson and Gansevoort and receive one of his signed limited edition (8x10) sketch of your choice …even if you don’t find something you want to purchase. **these are the same (18x24) sketches that are for sale in the shop** There are just a few simple guidelines:

  • Print out this email and bring it with you
  • One per person (please)
20% off any purchase you make with this email


Local Knowledge

Saturday, November 1

7th Annual Holiday Train Show, New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store at Grand Central Terminal This year’s annual Holiday Train Show will feature a working “O–gauge” train layout with Lionel trains running on eight separate loops of track through a 34-foot long miniature New York City scene. Vintage trains from the Museum’s collection, made by Lionel, American Flyer and Louis Marx & Company, will also be on display.  

Sunday, November 2

ING New York City Marathon, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.  212-423-2249. The premier event of New York Road Runners, the ING New York City Marathon is one of the world's great road races, drawing more than 100,000 applicants. The race attracts many world-class professional athletes, not only for the more than $600,000 in prize money, but also for the chance to excel in the media capital of the world before two million cheering spectators and 315 million worldwide television viewers. As any one of the more than 700,000 past participants will attest, crossing the finish line in Central Park is one of the great thrills of a lifetime. Start time 9:00 AM in Staten Island on the Verrazano Bridge and ends near Tavern on the Green in Central Park.

Friday, November 7 

Tastings NYC, Manhattan's Pier 94 is a culinary and lifestyle adventure of the best that New York City has to offer. It is  complete with demonstrations from Manhattan’s top chefs and mixologists, samples from the city’s top restaurants and catering companies, world class wine tastings from the Grape Exchange, food tastings, lifestyle options, a Pan Asian pavilion hosted by NTDTV, a Coffee & Tea Festival, and to end it all the 11th International Chocolate Show! Hours will be Friday, 11/7, Noon-8:00 PM. Sat. 11/8, Noon-7:00 PM. Sunday, 11/9, Noon to 6:00 PM. The website for further information is  www.tastingsnewyorkcity.com. You can tie this in with the Chocolate Show.  See next item. 

The Chocolate Show, Pier 94, 12th Avenue at West 55th Street.  866-246-2692. Runs through Sunday, November 9. 

ART20, Park Avenue Armory.  212-777-5218. Runs through Monday, November 10. 

Asian Contemporary Art Fair, Pier 92, 12th Avenue at West 52nd Street. Runs through Monday, November 10.

Saturday, November 8

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, One Intrepid Square, 12th Avenue at 46th Street, opens.  After a two year leave for restoration and renovation, the Intrepid Museum Complex now boasts new exhibits, interactive elements, newly opened areas of the ship and a completely restored aircraft collection, all alongside the former USS Growler submarine and British Airways Concorde.

Wednesday, November 12

New York Neighborhoods/Preservation and Development: Is the South Street Seaport History? Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue At 103rd Street, 212-534-1672 at 6:30 PM. A new proposal by General Growth Properties calls for demolishing the existing structures on Pier 17 to construct an elaborate mixed-use development, including a 42-story hotel and apartment tower. Will the new development revitalize the Seaport or compromise the character of this historic site? Kent Barwick, President of the Municipal Art Society; Michael McNaughton, Vice President of Asset Management, Northeast, GGP; Julie Menin, Chair of CB 1, Manhattan; Frank Sciame, Board Chair at the Seaport Museum; and Madelyn Wils, Executive Vice President for Planning and Development at the NYC Economic Development Corporation will discuss the future of the Seaport district in a program introduced by architect James Sanders, the curator and designer of a new exhibition about the Seaport's history and development.

Friday, November 14

Modernism: A Century of Style and Design, Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street, 212-777-5218.  Runs through Monday, November 17.

Saturday, November 15

Grand Central Holiday Fair, Grand Central Terminal.  A variety of nice quality gifts are available until Monday, December 29th.

Paper Doll Couture: Family Fashion Workshop, Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue At 103rd Street, 212-534-1672 at 2:00 PM. Children will learn about the birth of Seventh Avenue as the center of New York's fashion industry in the exhibition Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940. After touring the exhibition, participants can design ready-to-wear styles and make them come to life on their own couture paper dolls. FREE with Museum admission!

“Others” An Art Show, Pier 94 at 12th Avenue at West 55th Street.  212-255-0020. Runs through Sunday, November 16.

The Pier Antiques Show, Piers 92 and 94 12th Avenue at West 55th Street.  212-255-0020. Runs through Sunday, November 16.

Tuesday, November 18

Liberals, Conservatives, and Radicals in Catholic New York Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue At 103rd Street, 212-534-1672 at 6:30 PM. The tensions within New York's vast Catholic community profoundly shaped the city's politics, labor movement, and intellectual discourse during the New Deal, the Cold War, and beyond. Alan Brinkley, Provost of Columbia University, will discuss such legendary figures as Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker Movement; Michael J. Quill of the Transport Workers Union; Patrick Scanlan, anti-communist editor of the Brooklyn Tablet; and New York's Jesuit labor priests with James T. Fisher, Professor of Theology, Fordham University; Joshua B. Freeman, Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center; and Patrick McNamara, Assistant Archivist, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. Runs through Wednesday, December 31.

Thursday, November 20

Canstruction. World Financial Center Gallery & Winter Garden.  Canstruction.com. This is one of my favorite annual exhibits in New York.  Click on canstruction.com to see the list of all the cities that host this event.  Each year a variety of architects and design firms submit sculptures made entirely from cans.  Bring your camera and your children and grandchildren.  It’s almost unbelievable how creative these pieces are and the money raised goes to feed the homeless.  –
The Winter Garden - 22 sculptures. Nov 20-Dec 2, 7:00 AM -11:00 PM
The Courtyard Gallery - 18 sculptures. Nov-Dec 8, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Public is invited to bring canned foods to donate to City Harvest when viewing the exhibition. Runs through Monday, December 8.

Sunday, November 23

The Holiday Train Show, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road Bronx, 718-817-8700. This is one of my favorite things to do during the holiday season.  Highlights of the show are: steam engines and streetcars, whimsical ladybugs and modern freight trains travel under waterfalls, around mountains, and through tunnels.  The annual favorites include models of structures all made from natural vegetation and include: The Empire State Building, Little Red Lighthouse, Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, Yankee Stadium, and new this year: Rose Center for Earth and Space, home of the famous Hayden Planetarium, Hendrick Loft House in Brooklyn, Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater in Central Park, the Old Stone House in Brooklyn and the Merchant’s House Museum.  Runs through Sunday, January 11, 2009.  Hours vary so call ahead.  Generally, it is from 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM with extended hour till 7:00 PM on certain nights.  Closed Mondays, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Wednesday, November 26

Thanksgiving Day Balloons, 77th – 81st Street and Central Park West from 3:00 PM – 10:00 PM.  Watch the balloons being blown up for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.  This event is extremely crowded so beware. 

Thursday, November 27

Thanksgiving Day Parade, 77th Street and Central Park West to 34th Street and Broadway starts at 9:00 AM.  For viewing location with brunch, call DNY at 212-370-1319. Parade ends at noon.


Previews: 

  • Pal Joey, Nov. 14
  • Shrek, Nov. 8

Opening Nights: 

  • Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, Nov. 7
  • American Buffalo, Nov. 17
  • Billy Elliot, Nov. 13
  • Dividing the Estate, Nov 20

Closing:

  • Desir, Nov. 2
  • Absinthe, Nov. 2.
  • Fifty Words, Nov. 8
  • To Be or Not to Be, Nov. 16

Starting this month, DNY will launch a new website format making it easier for you to gather information about what is happening in NYC.  The date is still on hold as of this moment and it’s like giving birth to a baby for those of you that have gone through the process.  The target  is early November. 

Make your trip to New York special with DNY’s access to the best the city has to offer.  Clear the velvet ropes for the best shopping, hottest nightclubs, best restaurants and go backstage with a cast member at a sold out show, concert or sporting event. 

DNY’s Destination Specialists will package a visit for you to include, airport transfers and hotel accommodations at a variety of price points to meet your budget.  This holiday can include VIP seating at the Christmas Spectacular and meeting a Rockette backstage.  Your corporate event, family birthday or anniversary can take on a special touch with cast members from a Broadway show, opera or sporting event in private venues or your own home.  Wine and food pairings elevate the ordinary dinner into the extraordinary with experts that can add a personal touch with private talks about the ingredients and their sources. 

DNY will save you time and money. Using local knowledge to move mountains allows access to the places and people that you want to meet. These trusted relationships allow you to shop in the stores before they open to the public, visit the museums and take a private tour prior to opening hours. 

DNY will provide the creative development using our intellectual property, coordination and staffing for full program management through execution and accounting reconciliation.  Recognized by Conde Nast Traveler as their top choice for Destination Specialist for New York City exclusively for 5 years in a row, Kitt’s team assures you that DNY will provide the perfect experience.  DNY assumes financial/service/ and insurance risk for 3rd parties and carries $2 million worth of insurance.

For more information about how DNY can create touch down to take off services and custom design a trip for your agency or meeting planning department, please contact Kitt Garrett at kittgarrett@dnykg.com to set up a time that is mutually convenient.  Using gotomeeting.com, home based planners and consultants can join the training.
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