PLACES 2 GO

Photo above by Alberto Vargas


A Brief Guide New York City Arts & Culture


DOG STAR aims to provide this guide to places where teens can experience art and culture.  Be sure to click on the site names for the website - find out when it's FREE to go or the cost of admission for teens.


We have listed sites alphabetically to encourage EXPLORATION - pick some place OUT OF YOUR BOROUGH, grab a few friends and get on the train.


Although not listed below, galleries are a free alternative to museums.  New York City's art galleries are ALWAYS FREE and open to the public!  By law they have to make a price list available at the desk and they invite courteous, respectful and curious teens to visit their galleries!  Art galleries are in Manhattan's SoHo, Midtown West 57th Street, and Chelsea and in Brooklyn in Park Slope, Williamsburg and Red Hook and all across the city.


We recommend the weekly publications Time Out and Village Voice for more listings of places to go.

92nd Street Y (at corner of Lexington Ave., Manhattan, various programs)


African Burial Ground (memorial and visitor center, lower Mnahattan)


Apollo Theater (125th St., Harlem, home of famous Amateur Night)


Asia Society


Bronx Museum


Brooklyn Academy of Music (various film, theater, music and free live music events)


Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Eastern Pkwy, BK, free before 12 on Saturdays)


Brooklyn Museum (next to Botanic Garden - visit both on same day!)


Brooklyn Public Library


Brooklyn Urban Arts Market (annual fall street festival)


Central Park Summerstage (free Summer Concerts)


Chelsea Art Museum (FREE for h.s. students! W. 22nd St & !1th Ave., Manhattan)


City Reliquary (small private museum in Williamsburg, Brooklyn)


Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (90th St. & 5th Ave., offer $1.00 for admission and show h.s. ID)


El Museo del Barrio (E. Harlem)


Grey Art Gallery (year-round, free high-quality exhibits at N.Y.U. on Wahington Sq. Park)


Harlem Stage (131 St. & Convent Ave. Free & Lo Cost Relevant Programs)


High 5 Tickets for Teens


High Line Park (unique new park on elevated train tracks on Manhattan's lower west side)


Hip Hop Theater Festival (annual hip hop theater in NYC)


Hispanic Society


International Center of Photography (various photo exhibits, Fri. free night)


Isamu Noguchi Museum (Queens)


Japan Society (E. 47th bt 1st & 2nd Ave., galleries, films and free events)

Latino Cultural Events Lower East Side Tenement Museum Mannes College of Music (free concerts of classical music) Metropolitan Museum of Art Morgan Library & Museum (36th St. & Madison Ave., Manhattan, FREE every Fri. 7-9pm) Museum of American Finance (48 Wall St., Tues.-Sat 10-4pm) Museum of Art & Design (Thurs. 6-9pm pay what you wish, Columbus Circle, Manhattan) Museum of Chinese in America (Chinatown) Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art (Broadway & Houston, Manhattan) Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (Brooklyn nr. Atlantic Terminal Mall) Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (free Weds. 4-6pm) Museum of Modern Art Museum of the City of New York (E. Harlem) Museum of the Moving Image (Queens) New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, easy to reach, free all day Weds. & 10am-12pm Saturdays) New York Public Library New York Transit Museum (Dwntn Brooklyn & Grand Central Station) New-York Historical Society (NOT boring, exhibits make history come to life!) Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Lower East Side, weekly programs, live music, spoken word) Open House NYC (FREE annual October event in which sites all over the city are open to the public - some of them NEVER open except for this event) P.S. 1 (Art Space) Paley Center for Media (W. 52nd St., media & video collections, open Weds.-Sun.) Poets House (poetry programs, quiet place to read and write) Queens Museum of Art (in same park as Arhur Ashe stadium, near Mets Stadium) Rubin Museum of Art (17th St. & 7th Ave., Manhattan, Himilayan art collection, $2.00 for students with ID, Free every Fri. 7-10pm) Society of Illustrators (FREE gallery shows of professional illustrators) Skyscraper Museum (Battery Park City, near Jewish Museum) Studio Museum of Harlem Symphony Space (varied events, 95th St. & Bway-Manhattan) Tenement Museum (Lower East Side) The Jewish Museum (92nd St & 5th Ave, free on Saturdays, artists of Jewish heritage) The Moth (monthly storytelling at venues around the city) Vision Festival (annual cultural arts fest on Lower East Side) Walter Reade Theater (Film fans! Lincoln Center, home of the NY Film Festival and various film programs) Wave Hill (private garden in Riverdale, Bronx; incredible views of Hudson River, ideal for dates or family outings; ideal for photos or artmaking; $3 students OR FREE to all 9am-12pm Tues. & Sat.) Whitney Museum (75th & Madison Ave.)