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other French Renaissance- and eye-catching building,
style terracotta carvings is dedicated to contemporary
covering the exterior of this objects, from clay and wood
1909 Harde and Short apartment to metal and fiber, in an array
building. The ground floor has of media. The permanent
lost its cornice, but the rest of collection has over 2,000
the building remains intact, artifacts by inter national
and it’s one of a kind in New crafts men and designers.
York City. Its four exhibition floors host
The intricate facade follows special exhibitions and include
the style of French King the Tiffany & Co. Foundation
Francis I, whose symbol, a Jewelry Gallery, which focuses
crowned salaman der, can be on studio jewelry. Items by top-
seen above the entrance to class American crafts men are on
the building. The interior sale in The Store at MAD.
courtyard features a dazzling
display of the illusionistic
skills of artist Richard Haas, p Hell’s Kitchen
in which plain walls are Map 11 B5–C5. q 50th St.
transformed into “carved” The flight deck of the Intrepid, with fighter
stonework. jets and spy planes on display West of Times Square, roughly
between 30th and 59th streets,
The Intrepid itself was built in lies Clinton, more commonly
1943, and survived both World known as Hell’s Kitchen. Known
War II and the Vietnam War. An for its culinary reputation, in the
exhibit chronicles the history of late 1800s the area was a poor
the aircraft carrier. Irish enclave, reputed to be one
of New York’s most violent
neighbor hoods, as Greeks, Puerto
o Museum of Ricans, and African-Americans
Arts and Design moved in and tensions rapidly
developed. Such rivalries were
2 Columbus Circle. Map 12 D3. Tel (212) popularized in the musical West
299-7777. q 59th St- Columbus Side Story (1957). The area has
The crowned salamander, symbol of Circle. Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun been cleaned up, with rents sky-
Francis I, on Alwyn Court (to 9pm Thu & Fri). Closed public hols. rocketing and Ninth Avenue
& ^ 7 8 Lectures, films. = especially crammed with rest-
∑ madmuseum.org
aurants, bars, and delis. There’s
i Intrepid Sea, Air & The leading American cultural also a strong gay community,
Space Museum institution of its kind, this with as many gay bars as in
museum, housed in a modern, Chelsea or the East Village.
Pier 86, W 46th St. Map 11 A5.
Tel (877) 957-SHIP. @ M42, M50.
Open Apr–Oct: 10am–5pm Mon–Fri;
10am–6pm Sat, Sun and hols; Nov–
Mar: 10am–5pm daily. & =
∑ intrepidmuseum.org
Exhibits on board this World
War II aircraft carrier include
fighter planes from the 1940s,
the A-12 Blackbird, the world’s
fastest spy plane, and the USS
Growler, a guided-missile sub-
marine launched in 1958 at the
height of the Cold War.
The museum’s family-friendly
Exploreum Hall contains two
G-Force flight simulators, a 4D
motion ride theater, a Bell 47
helicopter, and an interactive
submarine. In 2012, the museum
introduced the Space Shuttle
Pavilion, which houses the
historic space shuttle Enterprise. Restaurants and bars in Hell’s Kitchen

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