Chemical Education Today
ACS National Meeting
New York, New York! by Lin Morris
Copyright Jeff Greenberg/NYC & Company, Inc.
New York, New York; The Big Apple; The Greatest City in the World; A New York state of mind. There are many names for this great city. Discovered by Europeans in 1609, consolidated into Greater New York in 1898, 314 square miles of mostly islands, New York City is home to more than seven million people. If you are attending the Fall ACS Meeting, some advance planning is in order. The best place to start is the New York City Visitors Center—phone 800/ NYC-VISIT (800/692-8474) or 212/ 397-8222 to order printed or audiovisual materials. For online planning, go to the NYC official tourism Web site at http://www.nycvisit.com. The site has directions to two official visitor centers: Midtown: New York City’s Official Visitor Information Center, 810 Seventh Avenue (between 52nd and 53rd Streets); phone: 212/484-1222; Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m.–6 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Downtown: City Hall Park Visitor Information Kiosk, southern tip of City Hall Park on the Broadway sidewalk at Park Row; Monday–Friday 9 a.m.–6 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 10 a.m.–6 p.m. The Itineraries section is a real gem, with a special section for First Time Visitors. If you don’t have time for their three-day adventure, you will still be able to choose from the following im-
South Street Seaport Floating Museum, 207 Front St.; http://www.southstreetseaport.com/
portant sites: The Statue of Liberty, Staten Island Ferry (free), Ellis Island Immigration Museum, South Street Seaport, the Chrysler Building, the United Nations, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Station (free tour on Wednesdays), Radio City Music Hall, Central Park, Times Square, the Empire State Building, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You will find information about getting around (by bicycle, foot, bus, subway, taxi, water taxi, ferry, …) at h t t p : / / w w w. n y c v i s i t . c o m / c o n t e n t / index.cfm?pagePkey=14; find information about subway and bus routes and schedules at the Metropolitan Transit Authority Web site: http:// www.mta.info. Here are just a few suggestions for things to do and places to go. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, 79th St; phone: 212/ 769-5100; http://www.amnh.org/ Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave., Brooklyn; phone: 718/ 735-4400; http://www.brooklynkids.org/ Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, 1000 Washington Ave.; phone: 718/6237200; http://www.bbg.org/ Carnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Avenue, Manhattan; phone: 212/903-9700; http://www.carnegiehall.org/intro.jsp Central Park Bike Tours, 14 E. 60th St., 8th floor; phone: 212/794-6564; http://www.centralpark.org/home.html Central Park Conservancy, 14 E. 60th St., 8th floor; phone: 212/794-6564; http://www.grandcentralpartnership.org/ Children’s Museum of Manhattan, 212 West 83rd St.; phone: 212/721-1223; http://www.cmom.org/ Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Ave., Suite 8004; phone: 212/736-3100; http://www.esbnyc.com/index2.cfm Ellis Island Museum, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, ARAMARK Corp.; phone: 212/344-0996; http:// www.ellisisland.com/ Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, W. 46th St. at 12th Ave.; phone: 212/2450072; http://www.intrepidmuseum.com/
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Ave. at 82nd St.; phone: 212/879-5500; http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp Museum of Modern Art, 33rd Street at Queens Blvd., Long Island City; phone: 212/708-9400; http://www.moma.org/ New York Hall of Science, 4701 111th Street, Queens; phone: 718/699-90005; http://www.nyscience.org/ South Street Seaport, 207 Front Street; phone: 212/748-8600; http:// www.southstreetseaport.com/ This just scratches the surface of things to do and places to see. Enjoy The City, enjoy the meeting. Lin Morris is an assistant editor of JCE;
[email protected].
Fun With Chemistry A Guidebook of K–12 Activities
Two volumes of hands-on chemistry activities and demonstrations developed and extensively tested by teachers at all levels. Activities are selected for pedagogical value, safety, and ease of presentation using readily available, inexpensive materials. Activities include polymers, chromatography, the chemistry of egg dyeing, crystal growing, and Cartesian divers, among others. Each volume includes instructions for preparation and presentation, a materials list, and an explanation, along with suggestions for appropriate grade levels. Institute for Chemical Education University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1101 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706; Phone: 800/991-5534, 608/ 262-3033; Fax: 608/265-8094;
[email protected]; http://ice.chem.wisc.edu
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