New York & the Mid-Atlantic Trips 2 - Full PDF eBook

New Museum of

Contemporary Art

Housed in an architecturally ambitious

building, the New Museum of

Contemporary Art (%212-219-1222; http://www.

newmuseum.org; 235 Bowery btwn Prince &

Rivington Sts; adult/child $14/free, 7-9pm Thu

free; h11am-6pm Wed & Fri-Sun, to 9pm Thu)

towers over this formerly gritty, but now

rapidly gentrifying strip of the Lower

East Side. The museum’s cache of work

will dazzle and confuse as much as the

building’s stacked-box facade; check

out the rooftop viewing platform for a

unique perspective on the landscape.

The Walk » Head south on the relatively wide

Bowery for a block until Spring St. Make a right and

in three fashionable blocks you’ll reach Mulberry St.

Mulberry Street

Although it feels more like a theme

park than an authentic Italian strip,

Mulberry St is still the heart of Little

Italy. It’s home to such landmarks as

Umberto’s Clam House (%212-431-7545;

http://www.umbertosclamhouse.com; 132 Mulberry

St), where mobster Joey Gallo was shot

to death in the ’70s, and the old-time

Mulberry Street Bar (%212-226-9345;

176½ Mulberry St btwn Broome & Grand Sts),

one of Frank Sinatra’s favorite haunts.

Waiters hawk their restaurant’s menus

as you pass, laying on the Italian shtick

as heavily as they lay red sauce on

their pastas.

The Walk » In warm weather the restaurants

that line Mulberry St set out tables on the

sidewalk, making for a very tight fit. Cross over

the wide, traffic-clogged Canal St (you’ll explore it

later) and continue south to Columbus Park.

Columbus Park

This is where outdoor mah-jongg and

domino games take place at bridge

tables while tai chi practitioners move

through lyrical poses under shady

trees. Judo-sparring folks and relaxing

families are also common sights in

this active communal space originally

created in the 1890s.

Take this walk on Trips

STRETCH..

YOUR.LEGS

1 2

Start/Finish: New Museum of

Contemporary Art

Distance: 2.6 miles

Duration: 3 hours

NEW

YORK

CITY

A.stroll.through.these.downtown.

neighborhoods,.home.to.successive.

waves.of.immigrants.and.lively.

ethnic.communities,.is.a.microcosm.

of.how.the.city.blends.the.old.and.

the.new..