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Families and kids are invited to celebrate the upcoming birthday of The Roosevelt Hotel, NYC’s legendary namesake president, Theodore Roosevelt, with the Teddy Time Package.

While exploring the Big Apple with their families, kids create their very own keepsake teddy bear witha $25 gift card to the Manhattan Build-A-Bear, just steps from The Roosevelt and offering a wide variety of teddy choices and accessories to personalize each bear. With teddies in tow, kids toast the legendary
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With the smell of freshly fried cannoli’s filling the air, Italian opera tunes echoing off street signs, colorful parade floats glistening with the colors red, green, and white, and more than one-million people saluting the Patron Saint of Naples you know you can only be at one place, the Annual Feast of San Gennaro in New York’s Little Italy located in lower Manhattan. While the first feast took place in 1926 in Italy in celebration of the Patron Saint of Naples the celebration has continued into the streets of little Italy. This year will be the 84th Annual Feast of San Gennaro and will be held Thursday, September 16, through Sunday, September 26, 2010.

This celebration first started in 1996 by Figli di San Gennaro, Inc. (Children of San Gennaro), which is a non-profit community
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Each year the Hotel Association of New York City hosts a walk-a-thon to raise money for a charitable cause. Sunday, September 12th marked the 19th annual Hotel Industry Walk-a-thon for Charity, and The Roosevelt Hotel is very proud to have taken part in the festivities. In addition to having many staff members participate in the event, on the morning of the walk, The Roosevelt Hotel hosted a kickoff rally in the Terrace Ballroom. 

This year, the industry walked for SHARE, an organization that provides self-help support, advocacy and education to women struggling with either breast or ovarian cancer.
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The Bronx New York which is located north of Manhattan and Queens is the 3rd most densely populated county in the United States. While famous for its establishments, The Bronx Zoo and Yankee Stadium many don’t know the wonders the north most borough in NYC truly holds beyond that. Many outsiders view it as a high crime area  giving it the title “Bronx Stigma.” Viewing it as an over populated and unsafe location, many that do actually visit see little to do beyond visiting the famous Bronx Zoo and catching a Yankees game at the world famous stadium. Yet it is really quit the opposite! The Bronx not only contains wonderful parks and gardens to visit but has great cultural events as well. So if you want to brush up on your history, get in touch with your cultural side or even experience the wonders of nature be
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The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on our country have affected all Americans, albeit not in the same ways, but as we near the ninth anniversary, the Run To Remember Foundation invites all to come out to Governor’s Island on September 5th for the World Trade Center Run To Remember. The event is being held for the second year in a row to commemorate those who lost their lives and raise money for those affected. In addition to the run, there will be entertainment and activities throughout the day.

Participants have the choice of doing a 5K Run (10 AM), 3K Family Walk/Run (10:05 AM) or a Children’s Fun Run (11:30 AM). All runners have the opportunity to personalize their bib in remembrance of any individual or group of their choice. If registrants were not personally affected in any direct way, their is a list of names online to choose from. The goal is to have every name on the list represented on a
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