New York continues to conquer us year after year
150th anniversary of the Metropolitan
year of celebrations for the most visited museum in the city. This round figure deserves a good **party (which will take place in June)** and also a good exhibition to recognize the enormous work of this institution.
Making the Met, 1870-2020 , open from March 30 to August 2 , will allow visitors to delve into the history of the museum through 250 works from his private collection of almost all possible artistic disciplines and that rarely see the light of day.
The MET is celebrating
The exhibition will be arranged in chronological order, divided into ten sections and with a driving axis called The Street which will literally show us the way through space and time. As if we no longer had reasons to visit the Met.
**Opens a dizzying observatory: The Edge**
March 11th New York adds a new observatory that has many over excited because it is different from everyone else. It will be the highest exterior viewpoint in the city, 335 meters from the asphalt, and part of your balcony will have a glass floor, something that will test the nerves of many visitors.
As if this were not enough, the space it will not be closed by any gate or railing, but by large glass panels which, on top, are tilted outwards. Thus, the sensation of vertigo at the edge of the precipice is much more intense.
The least resistant will always be able to sit down Have a drink at the observatory bar or restaurant It's only one floor above in the 101 , and which is accessed by large stairs from the same balcony of vertigo.
New museum dedicated to makeup
The ice cream museum , the one with the dogs and the one of the earth (not the planet, but the one used for cultivation) . New York follow the trend of the most extravagant museums with the new Makeup Museum that will open its doors in May . Material is not lacking.
We humans carry more than ten thousand years adding color to our face and this museum wants to be a compendium of all its history.
You will find a wide variety of products, from all eras, and spaces reserved for invited brands. And the premiere could not be more striking with an exhibition dedicated to the 50s and has a title that suggests it all: Pink Jungle.
The Greenpoint Low Line
Perhaps with some envy of the most popular and traveled high-line , Brooklyn has come up with a new park that wants to compete as cultural and green center of the city.
Unlike his cousin Chelsea , which occupies the old elevated routes of a freight train , the new Under the K is located just below Kosciuszko Bridge, connecting the districts of Brooklyn and Queens.
the bridge , named to honor Polish general Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who fought with the Americans during the War of Independence, It was just renovated this 2019.
Luna Park in Coney Island?
The park will have four spaces , two of them reserved for small and large format cultural activities and another, of course, with a good gastronomic offer and nice views of the river.
New attractions in Luna Park
Coney Island wants to be the center of the fun of New York and it is achieving it with a macro enlargement of the space.
The park can be visited all year round, although the attractions only work from Easter until after the summer. The most refreshing attraction will be the water slides that can be descended in one of their 12 boats for six people at almost 50 km/h.
In the dryland activities section there will be a circus of ropes to climb and jump and another roller coaster (to which the historic Cyclone is added) whose route winds between the cylinders of the attraction of the slides.
It cannot be said that there will be everything a space reserved for food and resting in the shade (something that is often missed on the beach) .
More skyscrapers on the skyline
We always have the feeling that New York plant buildings and, with a little water, they stretch to the heights. And this year will not be an exception. There are three monumental skyscrapers that will open their doors this 2020 (although most mortals will not be able to enter them).
The narrowest skyscraper in the world: 111 W 57th Street
One of them is One Vanderbilt , which stands next to the Grand Central Terminal and that it would open with new public space and better access to the station. will also have an outdoor observatory that will compete directly with The Edge , at the same height (the viewpoint will receive the first visitors around 2021) .
Another expected skyscraper is 111 W 57th Street, which has self-proclaimed the narrowest in the world. Take to the skies to 435 meters high and claims between 18 and 56 million dollars per apartment from its tenants.
The one that takes the cake is Central Park Tower, at the foot of Central Park , and which will be the tallest residential tower in the world, at more than 470 meters. The more than 60 million that the upper floors cost have as compensation basketball court and indoor pool.
Apollo Theater Expansion
Voices as irresistible as those of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Aretha Franklin, and this 2020 will be heard even more strongly.
This theater opened in 1914 to an exclusively white public and, in 1934, it changed its philosophy to give shelter to African-American talent and his followers, whatever color they were. So it became a cultural institution in the heart of Harlem.
A cultural institution in the heart of Harlem
The Apollo Theater open this year two new scenarios in the -until now- abandoned Victoria theater, in the same street and a few meters below. The new spaces will add 300 seats and will be a boost for local artists, becoming a complete music education center
Opens the Major League Baseball (MLB) store
Basketball fans already have a sanctuary to their favorite sport in the famous Fifth Avenue and those of baseball were not going to be less. It will be the first headquarters in USA and no expense has been spared.
We talk about 1,500 square meters spread over two floors of a building located directly across from Radio City Music Hall, on the Avenue of the Americas.
The store will not only sell official jerseys, bats, balls and caps of the league teams , but it will offer opportunities for buyers to catch the magic of one of the most followed sports in the world. USA (with permission from basketball) .
Disco music exhibition in Brooklyn
This 2020 will be full of new and interesting exhibitions but if we have to choose one, we let ourselves be trapped by the past. The Brooklyn Museum launches a tribute to one of the most famous nightclubs in the world, Studio 54.
Pat Cleveland on the dance floor at Studio 54 (1977)
Despite operating for less than three years, it became a whole cultural reference New York .
The museum is loaded with nostalgia to show us the path of its creation reaching the climax of its theme parties, open to the most extravagant characters , where there were smacks to enter. I'm sure the show will be the same.
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Wishes for 2020? Travel to New York, of course