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The 6th Annual Panorama Challenge!

The Levys’ Unique New York! 
The Queens Museum of Art, & 
The City Reliquary present: 
The 6th Annual Panorama Challenge! 
March 1st, 2013 

The 6th Annual Panorama Challenge!
Friday March 1st, 2013
Doors at 6pm

Panorama Challenge from 7-9pm
At the Queens Museum of Art: Flushing-Meadows Corona Park
$10 suggested donation

Brooklyn Brewery beer available for donation.
All proceeds go to support the City Reliquary Museum
RSVP your team with
Mark@levysuniqueny.com
Dont have a team? Sign up for one at the event!

CALLING ALL NYC KNOW-IT-ALLS and GEOGRAPHICAL GEEKS!!!

Come to the Queens Museum of Art on Friday, March 1st from 6-9pm to participate in the world’s only geographical trivia-based game nightinvolving 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.

The Panorama Challenge involves audio clues and laser-pointers highlighting assorted NYC landmarks, bridges, neighborhoods, parks and more. Its your team’s job to identify all 30 locations. Laser-wielding tour guides from The Levys’ Unique New York! will make sure all present can see the location as the audio clue is explained out loud.

This year, Quizmaster Jonathan Turer has devised two levels of all new questions! Teams will be divided up into New York Novices and Panorama Pros, and every single geographical query with have two answers – one for the newbies and one for the seasoned aces. Which means that each team will have 2 chances to win.

Back by popular demand, for those who excel in writing, there will be Essay Questions! Last year the creative answers in this category made the difference between winners and runners-up. This year the essay challenges should prove to be just as fun and just as crucial as last year. This year will also have song clues for those steeped in NYC’s musicology.

Our panel of All-Star Judges include the Dean of NYC Tour Guides Lee Gelber; NYC Know-It-All Andy Sydor & Webmaster and Author of Forgotten-NY Kevin Walsh. All three will be on hand to call the too-close-to-call answers as well as adjucate any quibbling (remember our critical rule #1: NO QUIBBLING!)

Victors will be crowned in each division; Novices and Pros. The triumphant Pros will see their team name join those of legendary past winners when it is added to the Museum’s Champions Trophy.

Admission is a suggested $10 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 beers, available by donation, samples of whiskey from Kings County Distillery, the first distillery in NYC since Prohibition for donations, plus sandwiches for sale from a local Brooklyn deli. There will be a free shuttle travelling between the QMA and the Mets-Willets Point 7 stop.

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Win a Seat on the #GooglePizzaBus!


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:

  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 Tuesday, December 6th: http://goo.gl/n5Vnh.
  3. 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.
  4. 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:
    1. Originality – how creative or original is your review style?
    2. Capturing the spirit of the place – how well do you describe the atmosphere of the place?
    3. Unique viewpoints – do you bring unique or different viewpoints?
    4. Writing style – how well written is your review?
  5. 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.
  6. The winners will be notified via email Thursday, December 8th.
  7. 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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Freeze Tag on Wall Street! 2012!

 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.

Freeze-Tag on Wall Street 2011
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The 5th Annual Panorama Challenge!

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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The Museum Museum – A Museum of Museums

March 9th 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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