Local Geographers Compile List of Favorite Places in New York
There's nothing quite like asking New York residents to weigh in on the must-see sites the city has to offer. Organizing such a list, however, can be a daunting task. In order to make sense of it all, we asked the Local Arrangements Committee to compile a short list of favorite places to visit in The Big Apple. Learn more.
Here's a small sample of favorite places: - Rockefeller Center. 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Take a quick ice-skating break or check out the view from the observation deck at the Top of the Rock. www.rockefellercenter.com.
- Yonah Schimmel's Knishes Bakery. 137 East Houston Street. http://knishery.com.
- Red Hook, Brooklyn. A bit of a walk from the subway but worth it. Take the F Train to 4th Avenue and walk over to the river. Stunning views of the Statue of Liberty. See the Waterfront Museum. Think quirky, surprising, and fun for kids. www.waterfrontmuseum.org/home.
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FIELD TRIPS
Layered SPURA: Spurring Conversations through Visual Urbanism
Join Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, a New School Urban Studies faculty member and co-founder of the interdisciplinary practice on place + dialogue, Buscada, for a tour and gallery talk at the Layered SPURA exhibit. The exhibition, a culmination of four years of student, faculty, and community collaboration, emerges from Bendiner-Viani's City Studio, a part of the New School's Urban Programs, and explores the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA), a complex site of failed urban renewal and community concern on New York's Lower East Side. Learn more.
More Field Trips Added to Program
Space on field trips is limited, so be sure to reserve your seat today. Also, take a look at the updated list of available field trips and excursions being. Here are a few of the new listings you might have missed:
- Layered SPURA: Spurring Conversations through Visual Urbanism
- Black Rock Forest: Ecological and Geographic Education and Research in the Hudson Highlands
- Fresh Kills in Transformation: From Dump to Park
- Landmarks of Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront
- Queens County Farm Museum
- Biting the Big Apple
- Sopranoland Suburbia
- The Backbones of New York: How New York's Infrastructure Came to Be
- Yankee Stadium Tour Excursion
- Science for Sustainable Development: A Tour of the Lamont Campus of Columbia University
- A Night at a Private New York Jazz House with a Private Supper
View all field trip descriptions
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FEATURED THEMES
Organized Themes Highlight Unique, Relevant Topics at Annual MeetingThe 2012 AAG Annual Meeting will offer many unique opportunities for geographers and related scholars to interact around topics of common concern. The pages linked below briefly describe a few of the featured themes that have been organized around some of the exciting sessions and events planned for the upcoming AAG Annual Meeting: |
Get a Discount on Your Stay at the Sheraton Hotel
 If you're planning to attend the AAG Annual Meeting, be sure to stay at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers to receive the AAG conference discounted rate. Located in Midtown Manhattan, the Sheraton offers quick and easy access to all conference activities and hundreds of New York City's cultural activities.
The Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers offers rooms starting at $242 USD.
Get details.
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Celebrate with this Year's Honorees at the AAG Awards Luncheon
Join colleagues and friends in New York for the AAG Awards Luncheon on Feb. 28 to celebrate and congratulate the recipients of the AAG Honors and several other awards, including the AAG annual book awards, Burrill Award, Miller Award, Nystrom Award, Jackson Prize, AAG Enhancing Diversity Award, Specialty Group Awards, and 50 Year Members. Tickets are only $55. Learn more.
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