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Published on 7/24/08
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The Frick Collection
WHY ESSENTIAL:
The Metropolitan Museum has more Vermeers, but the one in the Frick Collection, Mistress and Maid (1665–1670), is why we love this museum. It shows the eponymous woman in a vivid-yellow dress trimmed in ermine—you may remember it from the biopic Girl with a Pearl Earring, in which the subject’s Philistine husband says, “You’ve glazed my wife in dried piss!”
The secret:
“If you stand in the Oval Room, you’re directly over a beautifully preserved 1914 bowling alley in our basement—it contains a snooker table as well as two lanes for bowling,” says the museum’s spokesperson Heidi Rosenau. The area (whose existence, we admit, is Googleable) is closed to the public because of building-code rules, but (and this you won’t get anywhere else) one lucky TONY reader and a guest can get a behind-the-scenes tour of the mansion. 1 E 70th St at Fifth Ave (212-288-0700, frick.org)
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Rosie Collins
Thu, Feb 07, at 07:31am
I am trying to find Peter Tear! Please forward to him.
adam tobin
Thu, Nov 01, 07, at 7:54pm
Josh, it is true. X is not on the menu.
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josh
Thu, Nov 01, 07, at 3:59pm
The concept of this piece, as described, is excellent; the execution is terrible and misleading (per the description, anyway–it would have been a fine article properly described). A tip would be, for example: "order X at Pearl Oyster Bar, it's not on the menu, it's excellent, and you have to request it." Or a reservation password or somesuch.
josh
Thu, Nov 01, 07, at 3:55pm
How is this an "ultra-valuable tip?" It's not even a "tip," it's a piece of trivia.
eyeball hatred
Thu, Nov 01, 07, at 2:05am
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