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Special offers and highlights will change frequently so we hope you will visit often and use destinationchelsea.org as a tool for your leisure planning. Chelsea offers it all; parks, museums, galleries, dance and theater venues and award winning restaurants and local businesses all live and thrive in Chelsea.
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FIT offers a wide range of public programs throughout the spring semester featuring symposia, panels, lectures, and exhibitions that bring together the creative and business communities that shape the art, design, and commerce of New York City. FIT is also home to The Museum at FIT, the only museum in New York dedicated solely to fashion. It has a permanent collection of more than 50,000 garments and accessories dating from the 18th century to the present, and holds critically acclaimed exhibitions, tours, lectures, and interviews with notable art and fashion industry members. Go to the FIT website to learn more.
Exhibitions in February include American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion, which explores how the "philosophy of beauty" is allied to the craft of dressmaking, and Night & Day, which examines how the rules that dictate appropriate dress for women have changed over the past 250 years. For more information on upcoming museum events click here, and for upcoming public programs click here.
Halston, American Beauty Rose gown in red silk organza, 1980. Photograph: William Palmer
Exhibition: American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion
WHEN: Now Through April 10
WHERE: Special Exhibitions Gallery, The Museum at FIT, Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
Free to the public. For more information click here.
Exhibition: Night & Day
WHEN: Through May 11
WHERE: Fashion and Textile History Gallery, The Museum at FIT, Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
Free to the public. For more information click here.
Seventh Avenue at 27 Street
New York, NY 10001-5992
FIT can be reached by subway: 1, 2, 3, A, C, E, D, F, N, Q, or R
By bus: 23rd Street and 34th Street crosstown; Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue buses; Port Authority Bus Terminal at 40th Street and Eighth Avenue.
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Create your own New York City experience using our CHOOSE CHELSEA, CHOOSE CULTURE guide that includes a coupon and recommended cultural packages.
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In this packet, you will find information about Chelsea’s rich and diverse landscape, Chelsea facts and resources, insight into the partnership's 22 organizations, and a corresponding map of Chelsea.
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The Chelsea Cultural Partnership Welcome to Chelsea Packets are sponsored by Sovereign Bank.
BY SUBWAY:
2, 3, A, to 14th Street
1 to 28th Street, 23rd Street, or 14th Street
C to 23rd Street, or 14th Street
L to 8th Avenue
F, V to 23rd Street, or 14th Street
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BY BUS:
M11, M20, M14, M23
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BY CAR:
From the Holland Tunnel
Keep Left on to Ramp (Canal St. East)
Bear Right (East) onto Laight St
Turn Left (North) on 6th Ave [Avenue of the Americas]
From the Lincoln Tunnel
Turn Right (South) onto 7th Ave
Keep Straight on to 7th Ave [Penn Plaza]
Keep Straight onto 7th Ave
From the George Washington Bridge (Upper Level):
At exit, turn Left onto Ramp (RT-9A / H Hudson Pkwy / W 178St)
Keep Left to stay on Ramp (RT-9A / H Hudson Pkwy)
Take Ramp (Right) onto SR-9A [Henry Hudson Pkwy] (RT-9A / H Hudson Pkwy South / Downtown)
From the Hutchinson River Parkway:
Keep Left onto Cross County Pkwy (Cross County Pkwy/George Washington Br)
Keep Left onto Ramp (Saw Mill Pkwy South/New York City)
Take Ramp (Left) onto SR-9A [Saw Mill Pky] (Saw Mill River Pkwy South)
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