Barnes FoundationThe Barnes Foundation was established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 to “promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts and horticulture.” The Barnes holds one of the finest collections of Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, with extensive works b…
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Skydive Jersey and Hunterdon County NJ - Test your inner daredevil with this fun day trip. Skydive Jersey is the closest skydiving facility to NYC and offers shuttle service from the Hoboken PATH stop directly to Alexandria Field in Pittstown NJ. This is a great opportunity to see the New Jersey cou…
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West Point Military Academy - Go ARMY! This historic campus has been the US Army's elite academic and phyiscal training ground since 1802. It's America's oldest continuously used miliarty outpost, originally established in 1778. Famous graduates inlcude US Presidents Eisenhower and Grant and Astrona…
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DIA: Beacon - a private museum on the Hudson River housing major artworks from the 1960s - 1980s, including Serra, Bourgeois, LeWitt and Smithson. The museum is located adjacent to the Beacon train station, which is served by Metro-North Railroad trains from Grand Central Terminal and Poughkeepsie. …
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Rhinebeck and Hyde Park - home of The Vanderbilt Mansion and Garden, and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's homes and libraries. You'll need a car or a taxi to visit the Culinary Institute of America, but the food is worth it! You can take MetroNorth Railroad to Rhinecliff or Poughkeepsie.
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Kykuit , The Rockefeller Estate - John D. Rockefeller's Hudson Valley Home. Built in the early 1900's. You can take a tour of the house and gardens. Have a picnic on the lawn. It's really a beautiful place to see. Take MetroNorth Railroad to the Tarrytown Station, and thn catch a cab ot the estate.
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Atlantic City. Take the Academy bus from Port Authority. They have buses running all day. Each departure goes to a different casino, so consult the schedule. The casino's each give you back different amounts of money, but most give you at least the $20 you spent on the bus ticket plus food coupons. …
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Try Philadelphia for a day. There are many easy ways to get there from NYC. Take the Amtrak in the morning from Penn Station, or, if you're on a budget and are not in a hurry, you can use NJ Traniste to SPETA, to Philly's 30th Street station If you take the direct train it is an hour and 40 mi…
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South Mountain Recreation Complex in West Orange, NJ. Literally 20 mins outside of Manhattan. South Mountain Recreation Complex is run by the Essex County Park System and they have made tremendous investments in this facility over the last several years. This complex is located at the corner o…
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EVEN before I got to the big wrought-iron gate, two myths had been shattered. The Barnes Foundation — the embattled art museum with one of the world's greatest collections — is often portrayed as both hard to get to and the bane of its neighbors in Merion, a wealthy old suburb of Philadelphia.
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FIFTY years ago this summer, on Aug. 11, 1956, Jackson Pollock drank himself into a rage and crashed his Oldsmobile on a curving road in Springs, a bucolic bayside hamlet in East Hampton, N.Y. His lover, Ruth Kligman, survived the accident, but Pollock, who was 44, and another passenger did not.
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IN 1970, when PepsiCo decided to move its headquarters from Manhattan to Purchase, N.Y., about an hour from the city on the site of an old polo club, the company’s chief executive, Donald M. Kendall, sought to create an atmosphere of stability, creativity and experimentation. He envisioned as essent…
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AT noon every Jan. 3, the words “Call me Ishmael” sound through the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Mass. It’s the beginning of the annual marathon reading of “Moby-Dick,” which will go on for 25 hours or so, until the last reader utters “Finis.”
It’s been a long time since a whaling ship s…
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ALBANY?” my wife, Penny, asked me when I suggested a trip up the Hudson to the state capital. “Isn’t that a dump?” Like many New Yorkers who presume that Albany is not worth a stop (nonpolitician New Yorkers, at least), she had never been there.
In 1982, Mayor Ed Koch of New York alienated…
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THE tranquil hamlet of Pocantico Hills, N.Y., has been bound up with the Rockefellers for more than a century. The family’s imprint is everywhere: In the thousands of acres of nearby pastures, woodlands and lakes that John D. Rockefeller Sr. began acquiring as he created his family’s estate in the 1…
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The diamonds are baseball fields, and as befits the place where Little League Baseball was born, they seem to be everywhere. They beckon anyone to wander onto the green, green grass for a simple, yet essential, American ritual: a game of catch.
My two sons and I dug through the trunk of my…
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IN the waning days of summer, the drive through the verdant rolling hills of Columbia County is reason enough for a trip to Kinderhook, one of the oldest Dutch settlements in New York. Through a textured terrain of slate and granite outcroppings, open meadows, trees and wetland, the Taconic Parkway …
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IF you’re looking to ditch New York City for a day, the village of Cold Spring, N.Y., has three fundamental advantages: It’s cute, it’s close and you don’t need a car to get there. Magical, yet practical — like Brigadoon stuffed into your neighborhood deli.
About an hour and a quarter’s tr…
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LIKE some long-lost jungle temple, the former bathhouse at Undercliff Beach in New Jersey’s stretch of Palisades Interstate Park has succumbed to vines. They linger on derelict staircases, shroud windows and veil the stone-walled ruin. The floorboards rotted away years ago, and cracks in the mortar …
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