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Top25 Must-See Sights Best bets for dining, lodging, sightseeing. Plus a full-color pullout map. Everything you need to experience New York City. * Top lodging and dining picks for every budget* All the neighborhoods, from picturesque Greenwich Village to kitschy Coney Island* Quintessential New York structures - the Empire State, Lady Liberty, the Chrysler, the Flatiron* Plays, concerts, jazz joints, clubs, and lounges* American art at the Whitney; contemporary art at MoMA; a bit of everything at the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan* Shopping up and down Madison Avenue; in SoHo, Nolita, and Chinatown* What kids want: museums just for them, baseball at Yankee Stadium, and gorillas at the Bronx Zoo
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Kate Sekules is a writer, clothes historian, mender and mending educator. A leading light in the visible mending movement, she has shown her work and taught the techniques and history of repair in universities, museums, and symposia, including New York University, Parsons, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Textile Arts Center, RISD Museum, Columbia University Chicago, the Costume Society of America, the Textile Society of America, and the UK Association of Dress Historians. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, and academic journals. She is a PhD candidate in material culture at the Bard Graduate Center, New York; holds a masters degree in Costume Studies from NYU, and runs the Menders Directory on her website visiblemending.com. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter
