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"KLASS" Thursdays at KATRA with FREE Admission and Drinks on Cris A.C. List

"KLASS" Thursdays KATRA. 217 Bowery @ Rivington St , NYC 10pm 2 for 1 drinks til 12, bottles specials and discounts! On two cool and sexy floors, DJs Guests plays hip-hop, house music, reggae, rock, old school, latin music, reggaeton and more. It's FREE admission on the Cris A.C. guest list (Ladies FREE til 2 am & Gents FREE til 12, reduced admission after). Call me direct @ 917.653.0768 for Tab read more...

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Seaport Past & Future

This free exhibit will take guests through The Seaport's centuries of growth and epic changes that have impacted New York City and the entire region. Achival materials showcase vintage streetscapes presented with the same views as they appear today allowing visitors to examine continuities and change over time at The Seaport. These momentous occasions will be demonstrated through multi media featu read more...

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John Lennon: The New York Years

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC is proud to present JOHN LENNON: THE NEW YORK CITY YEARS, which opens May 12, 2009. This feature exhibit explores John Lennon’s passion for music, art, politics and film, with New York City as his backdrop. Capturing a time in Lennon’s life that was full of political and social activism, the exhibit reflects the spirit of the era during which he created some read more...

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Alexander Hamilton Room

As America's first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton stands alone in the annals of American financial history. One of the founding era's key political figures, Hamilton's influence on our fledgling country's early finances set the wheels in motion for the United States to become the economic super-power it is today laying the foundations for the U.S. capitalist system. This exhibition read more...

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Banking in America

From the establishment of the Bank of North America in 1781 to the creation of the newest community bank, and from the largest universal bank to the humblest credit union, depository institutions – commercial banks, savings banks, credit unions – have been and likely will remain crucial components of the financial system and the larger economy. Without them, people would find it difficult to pay t read more...

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Entrepreneurs

In employing roughly half of all private sector employees, small businesses and their entrepreneurial spirit stimulate economic growth and are a foundation of America's economy. Most new inventions and creative ideas or related modifications arise from them, just as the first airplane was built by two brothers who owned a tiny bicycle shop. In this exhibit visitors will encounter stories woven wit read more...

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Money: A History

The everyday ordinariness of the money we carry masks a rich and tumultuous history. Ever since the Dutch settled Manhattan, currency in America has continually evolved. Our responses to the threats of war, crime and economic crisis have shaped money's design and even altered its value. Over time, the emergence of the dollar as a stable, universally recognized currency made the U.S. a global econo read more...

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The Financial Markets

Financial markets connect those with money to those with ideas about how to use it. They enable entrepreneurs to realize their visions, companies to grow and governments to better serve their citizens. In doing so, they have made Wall Street a center of innovation and an invaluable engine of America's prosperity. The largest of the Museum's permanent exhibits enables visitors to experience the read more...

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Tracking the Credit Crisis

Tracking the Credit Crisis: A Timeline” traces the development of the current financial crisis, which is the most severe and complex economic and financial challenge in modern experience. Presented as a monumental 8’ x 20’ graphical wall accompanied by a video presentation, the timeline begins with the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble in late 2006 through the unprecedented trillions being gu read more...

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Women of Wall Street

The story of women on Wall Street is the story of women in America. Issues of self-determination, freedom and financial independence clashed with societal norms in the traditionally male domain of finance. Until recent decades, women had largely been excluded from Wall Street. Despite this, there were women who defied convention and made a name for themselves in finance. Abigail Adams realized read more...

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Tour the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Located in the heart of the Financial District in a distinctive Italian Renaissance-revival style building, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York boasts the largest depository gold reserve found anywhere in the world, larger than even Fort Knox, containing 7,000 tons of gold. One of 12 regional reserve banks in the Federal Reserve System, the building assumes a fortress-like presence you would expe read more...

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Drachmas, Doubloons, and Dollars: The History of Money

Money makes the world go round. Money makes the man, and money answers all things. Even time is money. We use it every day, we talk about it every day, but it remains hard to define what it is and how it works. This exhibition will show you the different shapes of money: coins, cowrie shells, salt, tokens, gold, paper money, credit cards and many more. It illustrates how money is first and fore read more...

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Daily Life Collection

Besides momentous events of the Revolutionary Era and New York City history, Fraunces Tavern's collection represents daily life of 18th-century Americans. Objects that were once common are now the most rare. Utilitarian items were often broken or used until they were worn out and then tossed away. Cooking pots, bottles, pipes, and other such items are now treasured at Fraunces Tavern Museum. An read more...

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Magna Carta and the Foundations of Freedom

See where the story of your freedom began. Magna Carta will make its appearance at historic Fraunces Tavern® Museum in New York City from September 15 - December 15, 2009. In the almost 800 years since it was drawn up this remarkable copy of Magna Carta has journeyed from its home at Lincoln Cathedral in England to New York just twice. The first time was for the 1939 World's Fair. The second ti read more...

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New York Collection

The collection captures an important portion of New York City's past, which is as colorful and vibrant as its present. What began as New Amsterdam, a rather insignificant Dutch outpost, became New York in 1664. Under English rule the city took on greater importance as part of Britain's vast trade system and as a strategic military base for conflicts with France for control of North America. By 177 read more...

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Revolution

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Andrea Carlson

Minnesota-based artist Andrea Carlson (Anishinaabe/European) creates works that reflect cultural narratives and stories while offering a sharp commentary on museums, collections, and contemporary storytelling. Her works on paper have a metaphoric and literal biting edge, with sharp lines and layered meanings. This exhibition features more than twenty of Carlson's works, including new and large-sca read more...

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Annie Pootoogook

This exhibition features thirty-nine drawings of renowned artist Annie Pootoogook (Inuit), chronicling social, economic, and cultural realities of the Canadian North. A winner of the prestigious Sobey Art Prize in 2006 and chosen to participate in documenta 12 in 2007, Pootoogook depicts in her works the mundane as well as the intimate, while expressing a wide range of content and emotions.

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Beauty Surrounds Us

March 31, 2010 This exhibition of 77 works from the museum's collection will inaugurate the new Diker Pavilion for Native Arts and Cultures. Beauty Surrounds Us features an elaborate Quechua girl's dance outfit, a Northwest Coast chief's staff with carved animal figures and crest designs, Seminole turtle shell dance leggings, a conch shell trumpet from pre-Columbian Mexico, a Navajo saddle blank read more...

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Native American Arts and Artifacts

The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world—approximately 266,000 catalog records (825,000 items) representing over 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas. Ranging from ancient Paleo-Indian points to contemporary fine arts, the collections include work read more...

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