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Enjoy Target First Saturday, June 6, 2009 and arrive carefree compliments of the Heart of Brooklyn Connection shuttle bus.

Posted below is the schedule from the website:

The current route is as follows:
Beginning at 6:30pm, the shuttle waits in the circular drive in front of the main entrance to Brooklyn Museum for five minutes. The shuttle then leaves the drive, taking a left on Eastern Parkway, down onto Plaza Street East, then onto Vanderbilt Avenue, down to Dean Street, and returns up Washington Avenue to Eastern Parkway. The shuttle stops at all MTA bus stops along the route. The shuttle makes continuous loops throughout the evening, leaving the Museum for the last time at approximately 10pm.

Stop times:
Main St. & Water St.
6:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm, 9:30pm

Fulton Ferry Landing
6:35pm, 7:35pm, 8:35pm, 9:35pm

New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
6:40pm, 7:40pm, 8:40pm, 9:40pm

Vanderbilt Ave & St. Marks Ave. (Tour guides can suggest local restaurants and shops)
6:55pm, 7:55pm, 8:55pm, 9:55pm

Brooklyn Museum Loop
7pm, 8pm, 9pm (10pm drop off  only)

Washington Ave. & Prospect Pl. (Tour guides can suggest local restaurants and shops)
7:05pm, 8:05pm, 9:05pm

Bryant Park is a great place to explore in the summertime – movie Mondays on the lawn, yoga classes, live music in the early evening, and more! 

Take a tour of Bryant Park with free audio podcasts narrated by native New Yorker Matthew Broderick!

The River to River Festival is an annual summer long series that takes place along the waterfront from Chelsea, to Castle Clinton, around the southern tip of Manhattan to the South Street Seaport.  Performances include film, music, dance, and more!

June 3rd, Brian Stokes Mitchell will perform in Rockefeller Park!

The Museum Mile Festival takes place each year in early June.  This year’s festival will take place on Tuesday, June 9^th from 6:00 – 9:00pm.

Fifth Avenue will be closed from 82^nd Street to 105^th Street.  Museums all along 5^th Avenue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Museum Del Bario will be open and free to the public.  Music and other activities will be scattered all along the route.  

There is a Valentina exhibition opening on Valentine’s Day – February 14, 2009 – at the Museum of the City of New York.  The exhibition will run until May 17, 2009.

Works will be included from the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology among others.

On Saturday February 28th,Phyllis Magidson, Curator of Costumes and Textiles, will lead a gallery tour of the exhibition.

Hi all,

Lee Scott addressed the membership of the National Retail Federation at their annual conference in January 2009.   The keynote was recorded and is available on the NRF website as well as through YouTube.  His speech is definitely worth listening to.  I’ve included the link to the NRF below:

Lee Scott video

Hi all,

Here is a nice video with instruction for linking spreadsheets. The video is in the older version of Excel.

Late last week I posted some information about Target’s upcoming pop-ups in NYC. More appeared today, September 2nd in The New York Times. The temporary locations will be called Bullseye Bodegas and showcase for four days only the designs of some of the high profile designers Target has partnered with.

I could not remember where I had seen the additional information about pop-up kiosks on college campuses but located the article this morning. It appeared in the Wall Street Journal on August 28, 2008. The article was titled “Retailers Give It the Old College Try: Some Schools Open Campuses to Brands’ ‘Pop-Up’ Stores, But Other Decry Commercialization.” The article was written by Jennifer Saranow.