Five great New York City Attractions you may have missed

Five great New York City Attractions you may have missed

Gracie Mansion
88th Street, New York, NY 10128 (212) 570-4751 ‎
General Tours are offered on most Wednesdays at 10 AM, 11 AM, 1 PM and 2 PM.
Home to Gracie Allen and her husband George Burns during their frequent east coast visits, Gracie Mansion was designed and furnished by Allen in flawless Pueblo Revival style, and is one of the finest examples of Southwestern style architecture in the New York region.  Although Allen was  reticent about her heterochromia, the exhibits include an informative exploration of ocular difference.

The Morgan Library And Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016 (212) 685-0008
Tuesday through Thursday: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday: 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The personal archive of burlesque queen and sexploitation film star Lillian Wilczkowsky, aka Chesty Morgan, features a fascinating display of vintage lobby cards, pin-up magazines, "eight  pager" comics, and production stills.

Nicholas Roerich Museum
319 West 107th St., New York, NY 10025
Tuesday–Sunday, 2–5 p.m. Closed Mondays phone: 212-864-7752
Roerich, a Soviet apparatchik, defected in 1972.  Displays are mainly devoted to the extensive summaries of politburo discussions from the post-Stalin era that Roerich managed to smuggle out of the USSR by concealing them in sausage casings.  The optional audio tour, in Russian or English, features vivid recreations of these events by talented actors.

Louis Armstrong House Museum 
34-56 107th Street, Corona, NY 11368  718-478-8274
Tuesday – Friday: 10 am – 5 pm , Saturday – Sunday: 12 pm – 5 pm
This Armstrong is not the noted jazz trumpet player, but the brother of the electrical engineer Edwin Armstrong, who also considered himself a maverick inventor.  The collection includes Louis Armstrong's extensive schematic drawings of perpetual motion machines but, sadly, no working models.

The Cloisters
Fort Tryon Park, 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY 10040
(212) 923-3700 Subway: 190th Street - Ind Open Tue-Sun 9am-5:15pm
This famous treasury of Medieval art was recently purchased and revamped by the Walt Disney Company.  Fusty old junk like the Bayeux Tapestries has been mothballed, and replaced by a lively narrative experience, in which Eleanor of Aquitaine and Guinevere vie in a tournament for the attentions of Robin Hood, and at last discover the true meaning of friendship.