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The annual “Holiday Train Show,’’ in New York City makes you feel a little like an alien visitor just coming ashore; everything familiar is skewed and strange in the fragrant, humid air.
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Grand Central Terminal (popularly called Grand Central) is a Terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms 44, with 67 tracks along them. They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower. The monumental railway station was constructed in 1903-1913 for the New York and Harlem Railroad Company. It is a grand Beaux-Arts building which serves as a transportation hub connecting train, metro, car and pedestrian traffic in an efficient way. Grand Central Terminal is home to five fine restaurants, twenty casual restaurants, and about fifty unique specialty shops. The terminal hosts large public events in its 12,000 square foot Vanderbilt Hall.
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Ice theatre (or theatre on ice) is a branch of figure skating which merges the technical jumps and spins with unique choreography, ice dancing, pairs moves, synchronized skating, and theater in order to tell a story or act out an emotion or idea. It is a relatively new branch of figure skating, but it is also growing quickly. Ice Theatre of New York (ITNY) is a dance company committed to developing figure skating as a performing art. Founded in 1984 by Artistic Director, Moira North, ITNY is a non-competitive, artistic outlet for some of the top international figure skaters, with choreography commissions by innovative contemporary dance makers such as Jacqulyn Buglisi, Ann Carlson, David Dorfman, David Parsons, Joanna Mendl Shaw and more.

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The “New York Times” recently wrote a piece on the famed skating rinks of New York City, USA, naming Bryant Park the best and going so far as to call the rink “a yearly miracle that materializes on the lawn behind the New York Public Library”. H2.0 is a block from Bryant Park, so most of us have the pleasure of hitting the rink at least once (it’s free if you have skates!). Sadly the rink will be closing on the 15th, so check the hours at Bryant park and skate your heart out!

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Ice skating at Rockefeller Center is a quintessential New York City winter experience. The Ice Skating Rink at Rockefeller Center first opened on Christmas Day in 1936. The Ice Skating Rink at Rockefeller Center can accommodate approximately 150 skaters at a time and the rink is 122 feet long and 59 feet wide. Tree A state of Prometheus, the Greek god of fire, left, overlooks the Rockefeller Center ice skating rink under a 79-foot tall Christmas tree in New York. The Rockefeller Center, at 50th Street and 5th Avenue, is a spectacular mountain of branches covered with around 5 miles of lights. The Tree is picked out every year by helicopter search, then cut down and brought to its new home at Rockefeller Center in early November. It opens each October for the winter skating season, handling up to 150 skaters at a time, more than 250,000 of them each year.
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