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Gogobot is an innovative planning tool that tailors recommendations for places to stay, eat and play to your specific tastes. It also allows you to share your great experiences with people who have the same interests as you; people in your “tribes”. Gogobot’s ‘GoGo This Week’ feature empowers you to discover and take advantage of great events, openings and exhibits throughout the city each week. Here are some exciting events and sites to check out in downtown New York this week, courtesy of Gogobot. Visit the website or download the app for more GoGo This Week upcoming events.
2nd Avenue Station Stop and other locations
Check site for times and locations
Take a ride back in time on a vintage MTA train from the 1930s or a bus from the 1940s. The “Nostalgia Shoppers‘ Special Trains” will run four Sundays in December, but the retro buses operate daily along the 42nd street route. Hopping on one of these vintage beauties is a real Christmas treat. There will also be a New York Transit Museum pop-up store at the 2nd Avenue station stop.
Mace (Lower East Side)
Mon-Fri 5pm-2am; Sat-Sun 4pm-2am (through Dec 24th)
If you like your drinks with spice and mint and your bar decor blinking and sparkling in Christmas kitsch then hit up Mace bar which is now Miracle on 9th Street. The Christmas themed pop-up is serving Christmas drinks and lots of holiday day cheer, and going totally overboard to do it.
3. Touchy Feely
The Museum of Feelings (Battery Park)
Mon-Sat 11am-9pm; Sun 11am-7pm
The Museum of Feelings is a brand new museum that takes our emotions and creates interactive multisensory art pieces. Using real time data and social media to measure the emotional temperature of the city, the museum’s exterior changes color to reflect the mood of the city, creating a kind of architectural mood ring. Each installation invites goers to experience emotions on a whole new level. And it’s FREE because really, who can put a price on feelings?
4. Juice Crawl
Athleta (Soho)
Sat, Dec 12th at 9:30am
After this pub crawl you’re sure to have a mega hangover–a hangover of health and vitality, that is, since you’ll be drinking fresh squeezed juices instead of guzzling beer and cocktails. There’s pre-crawl yoga and over 20 different fresh juices from fabulous juice spots around the city.
5. Patrick Watson
Irving Plaza (Gramercy)
Fri, Dec 11th at 8pm
Patrick Watson’s voice is a lullaby that transports you to magical lands where everyday instruments are used to make enchanting music. Watson is constantly experimenting with his voice, instruments and sound, putting himself under the microscope to see what new discovery he can make. He’s a wonder to see and we hope you won’t miss this show.
Washington Square Park (Greenwich Village)
Sat, Dec 12th at 6:45pm
Lead by composer and sound artist, Phil Kline, the night will be far from silent as hundreds descend on Washington Square Park for the annual Unsilent Night. If you are lucky, you can get your hands on an old school boom box and if not, download the track and bring your own sound gear for a synchronized music march to Tompkins Square. We hope it will drown out Santacon. Check site for complete details.
7. Suburban Zombies
The Flea (TriBeca)
Through Dec 20th (Check site for showtimes)
Written by Jennifer Haley and directed by Joel Schumacher, “Neighborhoods 3: Requisition of Doom” is a play about gaming gone wrong in a generationally divided (and very surreal) suburban town. The kids, disconnected and unaware, are slaves to a violent video game. The parents are worried and helpless, and suburban life crashes and burns. The play exaggerates virtual reality in a way that closely resembles our current reality.
-Courtesy of Gogobot
If you know of great events happening in your neck of the woods that might be a fit for a future GoGo This Week column, please feel free to email details about the event to events@gogobot.com.
