Multiple venues
Saturday, September 24
Admission: free with printed ticket
www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday
The seventh annual Free Museum Day, sponsored by Smithsonian magazine, takes place on Saturday, September 24, with institutions all over the country opening their doors to people who have downloaded a free ticket for two from the above website. There’s only one ticket allowed per household/e-mail address, so be careful before filling out the online form; some of the museums are free anyway, either all the time or on Saturdays, while others might be between exhibits so there won’t be all that much to see. The participating venues in the five boroughs include Asia Society Museum, the Bartow-Pell Mansion, the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, the Children’s Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the Fraunces Tavern Museum, the Hispanic Society, Historic Richmond Town, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, the Morgan Library, Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, the Museum of American Finance, the Museum of Biblical Art, the Museum of Chinese in America, the New York City Fire Museum, the New-York Historical Society, the New York Transit Museum, the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, the Queens Historical Society, the Queens Museum of Art, the Rubin Museum of Art, the Skyscraper Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, the Society of Illustrators, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Ukrainian Museum, and the Vilcek Foundation. Of course, if you pair up with friends and relatives, you can get more tickets for different places.
At a huge gang meeting in the Bronx (actually shot in Riverside Park), the Warriors are wrongly accused of having killed Cyrus (Roger Hill), an outspoken leader trying to band all the warring factions together to form one huge force that can take over the New York City borough by borough. The Warriors then must make it back to their home turf, Coney Island, with every gang in New York lying in wait for them to pass through their territory. This iconic New York City gang movie is based on Sol Yurick’s novel, which in turn is loosely based on Xenophon’s Anabasis, which told of the ancient Greeks’ retreat from Persia. Michael Beck stars as Swan, who becomes the de-facto leader of the Warriors after Cleon (Dorsey Wright) gets taken down early. Battling Swan for control is Ajax (Sex and the City’s James Remar) and tough-talking Mercy (Too Close for Comfort’s Deborah Van Valkenburgh). Serving as a Greek chorus is Lynne (Law & Order) Thigpen as a radio DJ, and, yes, that young woman out too late in Central Park is eventual Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl. Among the cartoony gangs of New York who try to stop the Warriors are the roller-skating Punks, the pathetic Orphans, the militaristic Gramercy Riffs, the all-girl Lizzies, the ragtag Rogues, and the inimitable Baseball Furies. Another main character is the New York City subway system. There’s nothing quite like The Warriors; be sure to come out and play at these midnight screenings — especially before Tony Scott’s upcoming remake sours us all.
