The following listings represent the many opportunities available for students and families in the Greater New York area. Listings include museums, arts organizations, theatre and other cultural institutions. Most are free with admission.

ARTS, THEATER, ENTERTAINMENT, & RECREATION

American Museum of Natural History
79th Street at Central Park West New York, NY 10024-5192
Phone: (212) 769-5200 Voice
Reservations (212) 769-5100 Voice
Email: visitorinfo@amnh.org
Website: www.amnh.org
Sign language-interpreted tours. Call for reservations. The American Museum of Natural History welcomes all visitors and strives to make its exhibitions, programs, and services accessible to everyone. Infrared listening devices are available upon request. TTY is available. Street entrances and in the Rose Center are equipped with Braille signage and give auditory signals. Several of the Museum's permanent halls feature touchable exhibits. The Discovery Room on the first floor and the Natural Science Center on the second floor have touch exhibits specially geared toward children. The Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth features many touchable rock specimens.

Brooklyn Museum of Arts: Arty Facts & Stories & Art Programs
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Phone:(718) 501-6487 Alice Stevenson TTY
(718) 399-8440 Alice Stevenson Voice
Email: alice.stevenson@brooklynmuseum.org
Website: www.brooklynmuseum.org
Arty Facts is an art program for younger children and their adult friends. Each day is different as children explore the galleries, enjoy a family activity, and make their own art. A new theme is explored every month. This program is Sign Language interpreted from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the second Saturday and last Sunday of every month, with few exceptions due to holidays. Stories & Art is a storytelling program for all ages. Presented in the museums galleries, stories are told by professional storytellers, dancers, musicians, and children's book authors and illustrators. This program is Sign Language interpreted one Saturday per month at 4:00 p.m. A mailing list is available.

Hands On Sign Interpreted Performances Inc. (HandsOn)
159-00 Riverside Drive West, Suite 7F
New York, NY 10032
Phone: (212) 740-3087 Voice
Fax: (212) 740-4157
Email:Info@HandsOn.org
Website: www.handson.org
A New York City-based service organization dedicated to providing greater accessibility to arts and cultural events for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community by bringing the performing and fine arts to Deaf people of all ages. HandsOn compiles a free monthly (online & mailed) Cultural Calendar of accessible arts & events and provides interpreters for theatrical productions. Accessible arts events include: Assistive Listening, Visual Events, Open Captioned Events, Interpreted Events, Events Conducted in ASL, and Hands On Interpreted Events.

The Jewish Museum; Sign Interpreted Tours
1109 5th Ave at 92nd Street New York, NY
Phone: (212) 423-3289 Daniel Berson
(212) 423-3225
Email: specialneeds@thejm.org
Website: www.thejewishmuseum.org
The Jewish Museum offers open sign-interpreted tours of its special exhibits for the deaf and hard of hearing community. The 45 minute tours, conducted on the second Monday of the month at 12:15 pm and the third Wednesday at 4:15 pm, are led by a Jewish Museum docent who is accompanied by a certified sign language interpreter for the deaf. All interpreted tours are free with museum admission. Private tours can be arranged in advance. Assistive Listening Headphones are available at the front desk for use during docent led tours and public programs.

Lincoln Center Tours
Tour Desk, Concourse Level at 65th Street & Broadway
New York, NY
Phone: (212) 875-5409 TTY
(212) 875-5374 Voice
Website: www.lincolncenter.org
Sign language-interpreted tours of Lincoln Center. Call for reservations. Lincoln Center's Programs and Services for People with Disabilities (PSPD) Department sets the cultural institution standard on arts accessibility for patrons, visitors and artists with disabilities. Among the many services offered are large-type and Braille house programs distributed free of charge, and infrared listening devices.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum Neighborhood Walking Tour
90 Orchard Street
NY, New York 10002
Phone:
(212) 431-0714TTY
(212) 431-0233, ext. 240Voice
Email: signlanguage@tenement.org
Website: www.tenement.org
This tour has ASL-interpreted tours on the first Sunday of the month. Stroll the Lower East Side and learn how different immigrant groups shaped, and continue to shape, the community. See public spaces and historic buildings that have been used by successive groups of immigrants who have settled on the Lower East Side. Reservations are strongly suggested. Watch the captioned video at the Visitor Center before or after your tour, complimentary with ticket purchase.

Madison Square Garden - Disabled Services Department
Madison Square Garden Disabled Services Department Two Pennsylvania Plaza New York, NY 10121
Phone: (212) 465-6034
Fax: (212) 465-6649
Email: disabledservices@thegarden.com
Website: www.thegarden.com/boxoffice_disabledservices.html Interpreted Performances. Madison Square Garden is pleased to provide signed performances for the hearing-impaired for select events. Please contact the Disabled Services Department for further information.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028-0198
Phone:
(212) 570-3828 TTY Programs for visitors who are Deaf/have disabilities
(212) 650-2551 TTY General Museum information
(212) 570-3828 TTY Access Coordination
(212) 879-5500, ext. 3561 Voice Access Coordination
Email:education@metmuseum.org
Website: www.metmuseum.org
Sign Language Programs & Programs with Assistive Listening Devices and Captioning are offered. The following programs are open to the public and are free with Museum admission: Gallery Talks with Sign Language Interpretation; Family Programs with Sign Language Interpretation; Gallery Talks with FM Assistive Listening Devices; and Films with English Subtitles. In the Family Programs with Sign Language Interpretation, visitors ages five through twelve and their adult friends explore topics unlocking the history, meaning, and cross-cultural connections of works of art through conversation and sketching. Films with English Subtitles are screened in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. Infrared assistive listening devices are available from the ushers. The Signs of Art Programs brochure is available in large print or via email by request.

The Museum of Modern Art
West 53rd Street
NYC
Phone: (212) 708-9400
Email: leah_fox@moma.org Leah Fox
Website: www.moma.org
Sign language interpretation, CART captioning, and FM headsets for sound amplification are available. Museum mailing list for future accessible programs is available. Programs include the Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series and programs for children and their adult companions/families.

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road Bronx, New York 10458
Phone: (718) 817-8700 Voice
(718) 817-8649 for information on Garden accessibility
Website: www.nybg.org
Interpreted tours. Garden facilities are accessible to people with disabilities. Inquire at Garden entrances for assistive listening devices.

Ralph & Ricky Lauren Center for the Performing Arts
30th Avenue & 75th Street Jackson Heights, NY
Phone: (718) 350-3316 TTY
(718) 350-3315 Voice
Fax: (718) 899-1621
Email: theatre@lexnyc.org
Website: www.lexnyc.com/laurencenter/index.html
The Ralph and Ricky Lauren Center for the Performing Arts is a unique 427-seat performing arts venue — the bold transformation of a 33-year-old school auditorium into a model space for dramatic, dance, musical, and multimedia productions. Made possible by a generous gift from Ralph and Ricky Lauren, the new Center recognizes the power of the performing arts in the lives of deaf and hard-of-hearing children and adults and keeps pace with the technological revolution of our times. It combines an elegant aesthetic with innovative features. It is well-suited for theatre, musical performances, conferences, films, large business meetings, community events, graduation ceremonies, training and seminars.

Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum
Signed Tours
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street) New York, NY 10128-0173
Phone: (212) 423-3500 General
(212) 423-3618 Visitor Services
Email: visitorinfo@guggenheim.org
Website: www.guggenheim.org
Signed tours are free with paid admission. Museum offers exhibitions, collection online, education, programs, online shopping, membership, and resources (library, archives, & records). Assistive listening devices are available for most theater programs and may be requested from an usher. Vision-Impaired visitors who require assistance in reading wall text and/or object labels may bring a companion at no extra charge.

Sony Wonder Technology Lab
56th Street at Madison Avenue (Sony Plaza Public Arcade)
New York, NY
Phone:(212) 833-6532 TTY
(212) 833-5414 Voice
(212) 833-7858 Voice
Website: www.sonywondertechlab.com
A free technology and entertainment museum for all ages. Free open-captioned movies& signed tours for young people and adults. Two-hour tours led by Deaf tour guides are available for visitors fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). Check calendar for available dates and times. Meet at the entrance to the museum at the scheduled time. No reservations are necessary. Call before you visit for confirmation. For a private ASL tour, please call at least one week in advance of your desired visitation day.

Theatre Development Fund (TDF)
1501 Broadway New York, NY 10036
Phone:(212) 719-4537 TTY
(212) 221-1103 Voice
Email:tap@tdf.org
Website: www.tdf.org

TDF'S Theatre Access Project (TAP) is designed to provide access in New York City to the performing arts for individuals with physical disabilities. Access is available through sign-language interpreted and open-captioned Broadway and Off Broadway performances. Audiences for this new service continue to grow as more and more individuals who enjoy captioned television, videos and movies learn that captioning is also an option now for theatre. TAP also offers Talking Hands a program for students. Talking Hands serves over 7,000 students with hearing loss from approximately 30 elementary and secondary schools in the New York area. TDF/TAP provides: (1) Orchestra tickets for sign language interpreted and open captioned performances of Broadway and (2) Off Broadway shows. A teaching artist meets with students in their classrooms for a pre-performance workshop or a post-performance discussion. Contact for a Theatre Access Project (TAP) application to be added to the mailing list.

Very Special Arts of New York City (VSA)
Dr. Bebe Bernstein, Executive Director
18-05 215 Street, Suite 15N Bayside, New York 11360
Phone: (718) 225-6305 Voice
Fax: (718) 225-6305
Email: Bbvsanyc@msn.com
Website: www.artscenteronline.org
www.vsarts.org
VSA arts is creating a society where people with disabilities can learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts. Nearly five million people with disabilities participate in VSA arts programs every year through a network of affiliates nationwide and in over 60 countries worldwide. The VSA arts of New York City offers: Early Childhood Initiatives, New York City Reaches Out! Murals Project & calendar, festivals, theater and music residency program, transition to work projects, reach out initiatives, and Express Diversity! workshops.