Events — The Levys' Unique New York! NY's First Family of Tour Guides!

Bike Brooklyn Beer Blitz 2012, part of NYC Bike Month!

Sunday May 20th, 2012 12noon-4pm

The Bike Brooklyn Beer Blitz! Part of NYC Bike Month!
Sunday, May 20th, 2012, 12noon-4pm.

Meet at The City Reliquary Museum:

370 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburgh
$25, includes a mid-tour beer at Matt Torrey's Bar.
RSVP with Matt@levysuniqueny.com

A 4 hour bicycle tour of Williamsburgh, East Williamsburgh and Bushwick and the former brewery buildings of the most densely packed brewing neighborhoods in America, circa 1890!

See historical photographs of various brewery buildings when they were built, between the 1880s and 1920s, compare them with vintage 1970s photos (in the heart of Bushwick's deep dark arson-and-gangs era) and observe them as they stand today, re-purposed but obviously the same brewery buildings. German Churches, banks and social halls will also be observed.

The tour will end at Evergreen Cemetery on the Brooklyn/Queens border, where many of the Brewers are buried . . . with a surprise!

A historical, educational, beer-drinkable adventure! BYOBike and helmet.

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Bicycle Blitz Through Staten Island

Saturday April 28th, 2012

Bicycle Blitz Thru Staten Island:
Italian Inventors & Agitators,
Clam Pies & German Beer Gardens

Join licensed NYC tour guide, native Brooklynite,
history geek, beer nerd and bicycling enthusiast Matt Levy
on a 15 mile bike ride through the wilds of Staten Island

We'll adventure through the mysterious suburbs of SI on a historical & foodie curated tour of the most misunderstood borough in NYC. From the St. George Ferry Terminal, our first stop will be the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum in Rosebank, where we'll learn about the inventor of the Teletrophono, as well as his roommate, the Hero of Two Worlds. After a quick museum tour we'll roll down to legendary Lee's Tavern for a clam pie and beer break. Fortified by carbs we'll bike to the end of the island for Killmeyer's Old Bavaria Inn and Beer Garden!

10am-whenever we reach Tottenville.
Bike ride is one-way, approx 15 miles of hilly hilly SI terrain.
We will be taking the legendary SI Railway back to the ferry.
Cost: $30, includes entrance at Garibaldi-Meucci Museum!
Tour fee doesn't include cost of beers or pizza at our foodie / beer garden stops.
RSVP Matt@levysuniqueny.com

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The Museum Museum - A Museum of Museums

March 9th, 2012

March 9^th 2012
8 pm - 11pm
At LaunchPad
721 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn
2,3,4,5, A, C trains to Franklin Avenue
Shuttle to Park Place
$5 Donation appreciated.

New York City has a world-class set of cultural institutions, but it is widely understood that to take it all in would be a superhuman endeavor.

Therefore, The Levys’ Unique New York! is offering, for one night only, the chance to absorb the highest quality exhibits on art, history, science and car service, including a spectacularly unqualified docent-led tour.

LaunchPad will be hosting The Museum Museum, a one-night only curated experience where visitors can explore the microscopic world of amoebas through 2D viewing platforms; where guests will be thrown into the past by the City Reliquary’s traveling suitcase of antiquity; where modern-day curiosity seekers can experience the world-renowned Museum of Car Service, from the inside to the out.

The Museum Museum’s main exhibit will be a documentary, The Quest for Cameltoe, featuring Rev Jen, the zany, wry and irreverent Lower East Side Art-Star who may be one of NYC’s last living eccentrics. The Quest for Cameltoe shows Reverend Jen creating mystifying works of art, traveling to exotic European cities, getting sloshed on wine and creating the only Troll Doll Museum in the world.

Doors open at 8pm. The Quest for Cameltoe runs sixty-four minutes and will begin promptly at 9:30pm. Works by TJ Hospodar, Wendy Chan, Jason Thompson, 0h10 M1ke and The City Reliquary. Wine and cheese will be served. Admission is free. Donations are appreciated. LaunchPad is located at 721 Franklin Avenue and is accessible via the 2,3,4,5,A,C trains at Franklin Avenue and the Shuttle train at Park Place.

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The 5th Annual Panorama Challenge!

February 10th 2012, 7-10pm

The Fifth Annual Panorama Challenge!
Friday February 10th, 7-10pm
Queens Museum of Art: Flushing-Meadows Corona Park
$10 suggested donation, includes a free beer from Brooklyn Brewery

More beers available for donation.
All proceeds go to support the City Reliquary Museum
RSVP your team with Mark@levysuniqueny.com

CALLING ALL GEOGRAPHICAL GEEKS AND NEW YORK KNOW-IT-ALLS!

Come to the Queens Museum of Art on Friday, February 10th from 7-10pm to participate in the world’s ONLY geographical trivia-based game night involving the world’s largest panorama – The Panorama of the City of New York! Participants will compete in teams of 10 (more or less ok!) to test their knowledge of New York City geography.

Team members will be asked questions ranging from easy to darn near difficult as LUNY Laser Wielding Assistants will highlight various NYC landmarks, bridges, neighborhoods parks and more, along with audio clue. Admission is $10, which includes a free beer for those of drinking age, and ALL proceeds will go to support the City Reliquary Museum in Williamsburg, Brooklyn dedicated to collecting NYC ephemera. Whats more, our wonderful friends at the Brooklyn Brewery will be providing tasty suds, available by donation. There will be a free shuttle travelling between the QMA and the Mets-Willets Point 7 stop.

The winning team will have their name inscribed on a trophy, which will be kept at the Queens Museum for future Panorama Challenges.

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Freeze Tag on Wall Street! 2012!

January 21st 2012, 12n-3pm

Come play Freeze-Tag on Wall Street!

Saturday January 21st, 2012

12noon-3pm

FREE!

Corner of Wall and Broad Streets

Returning for the 6th year in a row, Freeze-Tag on Wall Street makes a triumphant return, NYPD Occupy Barricades or not. We'll find a spot to celebrate our favorite schoolyard games in the heart of the Financial District. Freeze-Tag, Blob-Tag, Wolf Sheep Rock, Red Rover and more will be taught to those who forgot their childhood, We'll see you on Wall Street! We've got no complaints against the 1% (I mean, we do, but Freeze-Tag is neither the time nor the place to complain,) It's just Freeze Tag on Wall street. Hope to see you there!

And just to state in advance, this is not meant to be a protest against the capitalistic structure of Wall Street.

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Vintage Tea & Swing Dancing Party Aboard Vintage Subway Train! 2011: Occupy All Vintage Trains!

December 17th, 2011 12-4pm

The Levys' Unique New York! and NYC Swing Dancers / NYC Balboa Club present:

A Swingin' Vintage Tea Party on the Vintage NYC Subway Trains:

2011: Occupy All Vintage Trains!

Saturday, December 17th, 12-4pm.

2nd Avenue Subway Station, F line, Uptown Track.

Free! Except for your subway fares.

12pm: Swing Dancers Unite!

2pm: Tea Party for All!

Join NY's First Family of Tour Guides and the NYC Swing Dancers for a back to back celebration of NYC's old-timey train lines! On Saturday December 17th, lovers of swing dancing as well as dandies and debutantes with tea cozies and finger sandwiches will converge on the 2nd Avenue station to celebrate the Vintage Trains from the 1920s onwards! At 12noon, the music starts! At 12:30pm, NYC Swing Dancers will occupy the subway cars and dance to live music by live swing and dance music by some of NYC's hottest Vintage Jazz Bands! Once the trains take off (at 12:57pm,) the dancing continues until the end of the line; thats when the train u-turns and comes back to the Easy Village.

Then at 2pm, join (non-political, non-aggro) tea partiers from around the city to enjoy a Vintage Tea party on the Vintage NYC Subway Trains. We will have thermoses of tea and cookies, but all chinaware, tea cozies, cucumber sandwiches, sugar cubes, cream, should come with you! Come dressed in your finest dandery, outrageous hats prefered and enjoy a communal tea party! When the train takes off (at 2:27pm,) so does the tea party! We'll travel to the end of the line and then return to the East Village. Please remember that the MTA frowns upon open beverages, but generally smiles upon non-raucous, well-dressed revelers who take care of vintage wicker seats and 50's-era subway ads.

For more information, please contact: Matt@levysuniqueny.com for the Tea Party and fiftynites@yahoo.com for the Dance Party.

fancy subway pic by Sam Horine

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Win a Seat on the #GooglePizzaBus!

Saturday December 10th, 1-5pm

Mamma mia! Google New York is going on a custom pizza bus tour with The Levys' Unique New York! That’s right, we’ll be be travelling around Brooklyn sampling slices and other delicious Italian treats, and we want you to join us!

The Levys' Unique New York! is proud to be teaming up with Google Places, a personalized local recommendation engine powered by the reviews of users and their friends. Google New York wants to give you the opportunity to win a seat on this #GooglePizzaBus, just for sharing your opinions about your favorite places in New York City. We’ll board our party bus and explore various pizza/Italian stops throughout Bensonhurst, South Park Slope, Bay Ridge, and other parts of Brooklyn! Expect to fill up!

How to Enter the Contest:

Go to Google.com/Places and select “Start Rating” (you’ll need to create a Google account if you haven’t already).
Fill out this form by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, December 6th: http://goo.gl/n5Vnh.
Review as many New York City places (especially ones in Brooklyn!) as you like by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, December 6th. Each quality review you write will be judged as a new entry.
We’ll go through all the reviews you write during the contest period and give them points. If you’re wondering what we’re looking for in a quality review, here are a few things to consider:

Originality – how creative or original is your review style?
Capturing the spirit of the place – how well do you describe the atmosphere of the place?
Unique viewpoints – do you bring unique or different viewpoints?
Writing style – how well written is your review?

The 22 entrants with the highest number of points will win an invitation to the Google New York Pizza Bus on Saturday, December 10th. This includes food and drinks.
The winners will be notified via email Thursday, December 8th.
You must be 21 to enter. To read the official rules, click here.

Find out what Google Places will be up to next, follow@GoogleNYC on Twitter and on Facebook!

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#GoogleUniqueEats Tour!

November 12th, 1-5pm

Google Places & The Levys' Unique New York! announce the #GoogleUniqueEats Tour Contest!

What’s better than going on an awesome foodie tour of NYC with The Levys' Unique New York!? How about getting to attend an extra-special tour highlighting the unique eats of Manhattan for FREE, courtesy of Google Places?

The Levys' Unique New York! is proud to be teaming up with Google Places, the new personalized local recommendation engine powered by the reviews of users and their friends. Google New York wants to give you the opportunity to win a seat at this custom foodie bus tour, just for sharing your opinions about your favorite places in New York City. We’ll board our party bus and explore various foodie stops throughout the Upper Manhattan neighborhoods of Harlem, East Harlem, Washington Heights and Hamilton Heights before heading all the way downtown to Chinatown! Expect to taste unique Manhattan eats like Venezuelan patacones, Salvadoran pupusas, Dominican empanadas, Russian kielbasa (with cheese, pickles and cabbage), fried chicken, bánh mì and sweet pork jerky!

Here’s how it works:
1. Go to Google.com/Places and select “Start Rating” (you’ll need to create a Google account if you haven’t already).
2. Fill out this form by 11:59 pm on Thursday, November 10: http://goo.gl/7ywJe.
3. Review as many New York City places (especially spots in Upper Manhattan and Chinatown!) as you like by 11:59 pm on Thursday, November 10. Each quality review you write will be judged as a new entry.
4. We’ll go through all the reviews you write during the contest period and give them points. The entrants with the highest number of points will win an invitation to the #GoogleUniqueEats Manhattan bus tour. Up to 25 entrants will qualify for an invitation.
5. The winners will be notified via email on Friday, November 11th. Remember to keep Saturday, November 12th open in case you win a seat on the tour (which will run from approximately 1pm to 5pm).

So, what are you waiting for? Start writing those quality reviews today so you can win a seat on this uniquely delicious tour!

Note: You must be 21 to enter. To read the full official rules, click here. To find out where the Google Places crew will be next, follow them @GoogleNYC on Twitter and on Facebook.

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