New York Family: Weekend Planner, March 30-April 1

Written by New York Family on March 29, 2012. Posted in Family

Contributor: Meghan Gearino As March winds down and April springs up, we’re certain that New York families have a lot to look forward to. Both Easter and Passover events dot the coming weekends and our camp fair tour ends with final stops on the Upper East and West Sides. FRIDAY-SATURDAY Simpsons and Shakespeare? D’oh!See the
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Eyes for Butterflies

Written by admin on October 23, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Maya Bailey, a student from the Goddard Riverside Head Start Program, poses with two owl butterflies inside the American Museum of Natural History’s butterfly conservatory. The conservatory, which houses up to 500 iridescent butterflies along with lush foliage and blooming tropical flowers, is open through May 31, 2010. To view more butterflies, visit our photo
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Spun Gold

Written by admin on October 1, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Visitors at the American Museum of Natural History view an extremely rare textile woven from gold-colored silk thread produced by more than one million golden orb spiders from Madagascar. On view in the museum’s Grand Gallery, this contemporary textile, measuring 11-by-4-feet, took four years to make using a painstaking technique developed more than 100 years
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Whale of a Cleaning Job

Written by admin on June 24, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

After two years of dust build-up, the American Museum of Natural History’s blue whale wasn’t looking very blue. Armed with a vacuum, Rodolfo Valencia cleaned the surface of the 94-foot-long whale, which is sculpted in fiberglass and polyurethane and weighs 21,000 pounds. Photo by Andrew Schwartz
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