The Check List

As our class got postponed this morning, I thought I would write out the giant checklist of things and places to visit whilst i'm here...

Museums

As with most trips, i have consulted with Conde Nast on what is “best”, I know its not the definitive, but it gives a good poke in the right direction of whats generally understood as good. As such they have an extensive list of NYC museums to see, which I don’t think I want to do all of, but some for sure:

The mandatory

• The Met

• American Museum of Natural History

• Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

• MoMa (been before, but always good)

• MoMa PS1 (been before, but always good)

• New Museum

• Guggenheim (went in October)

• Whitney (went in October)

The optional extras

• Rubin Museum of Art

• Morgan Library + Museum

• Fotographiska

• Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

• New-York Historical Society

• Brooklyn Museum

• The Noguchi Museum

• Museum of Moving Image

• The Met Cloisters

Libraries

This list is one i’m making myself, as I am a big fan of working in large grandiose buildings in with a minuscule amount of background noise

• NYC Public Library (Stephen A Schwarzman Building) - the one in Day After Tomorrow

• Brooklyn Library

• Jefferson Market Library

• New York Library for the Performing Arts

• Anthology Film Archives

• Morgan Library + Museum (already on the Museum list)

• NYU Bobst Library (nr. Washington Sq. Park) *not sure if i can get access

Theatre / Movie Theatres

• Broadway Show

• Broadway Play

• Second City - Improv

• Upright Citizens Brigade - Improv

• IFC Centre (Independent Film Centre)

• Paris Theatre

• Anjelika

• Quad Cinema

• BAM - Brooklyn Academy of Music

Hotel Bars

• Lobby Bar at Hotel Chelsea

• Lobby Bar at the Bowery Hotel

• Raines Law Room at the William

• King Cole Bar at the St. Regis

• Champagne Bar at the Plaza

• Laser Wolf at the Hoxton Williamsburg

• Lobby Bar at Ace Hotel Brooklyn

• Bar Blondeau at the Wythe Hotel Williamsburg

The Other Stuff

Theres a couple of things I still never got round to doing from the list for my first ever trip to NYC back in 2014, also that was the trip that I lost all my photos from, so I might try to recreate a few of them!

• The New York Earth Room

• Top of the Rock - Rockefeller Centre

• NBC show audience member (I missed SNL sadly, although the process looks wildly complicated anyway)

• Flushing Meadows (for the Unisphere)

• Katz’s Deli

• Empire State (photo recreation)

• Grand Central Station Oyster Bar (photo recreation)

• Central Park (photo recreation)

• Zabar’s (photo recreation)

• Bemelmans Bar

• Coney Island

This list is quite ridiculous, but lets see how much i manage, whilst also doing all the acting … in short i’d better get off the laptop, and go cross a few off the list!

(also please add any suggestions / things I might have missed!)