Key to the City

There's this cool scavenger hunt going on in NYC right now! Creative Time art co-op, the City of New York and the artist Paul Ramirez Jonas have joined together to create the Key to the City hunt.

From June 3 to June 27, 2010, keys will be given out from the Key to the City kiosk on Broadway between 43rd and 44th Streets.

You have to come to the kiosk with a friend, because the keys need to be bestowed upon someone just like Bloomie bestows keys on those who have done something for the city. Keys are free!

From their website: The Key to the City unlocks steel gates, padlocks, PO boxes, secret doors and secret compartments at over 20 sites throughout the five boroughs of NYC.

The key will unlock:

*A secret door on the fifth floor of the Brooklyn Museum
*A box with limited admission buttons per day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
*A do-it-yourself artist studio and gallery in the Point Community Development Corportation in the Bronx
*The churchyard that contains Hamilton’s tomb at Trinity Church
*A box at coat check with a preview of the Whitney Museum’s future
*A room in the Louis Armstrong House Museum not on the public tour
*A closet in the master bedroom on the 2nd floor of Gracie Mansion
*A garden maintained by the monks at the Staten Island Buddhist Vihara

Getting the key to all these hidden charms sounds pretty darn cool! Anybody wanna bestow a key on me?? :-)

June 3 to June 27, 2010
Key to the City kiosk on Broadway between 43rd and 44th Streets.
Open Monday to Friday 2 to 6 pm, Saturday and Sunday 12 to 6 pm
Free!