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Some of our Favorite Local Winter Events
Cool Confections
Chill out with handmade desserts and drinks from Brooklyn
chocolatiers.  These are our favorites within walking distance:

The Chocolate Room: 269 Court St., Brooklyn NY 11231
Eat in, carry out, or order online.   The Chocolate Room is a
chocolate boutique and dessert café offering award-winning
confections from chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and homemade
desserts accompanied by a selection of fine wines and coffees.

Jacques Torres Chocolate:  66 Water St., Brooklyn NY 11201
Like stepping into a small European specialty store.  The store is
filled with yummy hand-made treats, with three small café tables
encouraging you to sit, sip iced chocolate and enjoy a freshly
baked pain au chocolat.  The chocolate "factory" is visible through
large windows from inside the store and from the street level.

One Girl Cookies:  68 Dean St., Brooklyn NY 11201
One Girl Cookies is an artisanal bakery and café specializing in
petite tea cookies and offering an array of handmade baked
goods.  The essence of quality, freshness and taste are found in
the raw ingredients and the manner in which they are used.
Escape Guesthouse LLC
A few of our favorite things to do and places to see each season
The Skyscraper Museum
Current Exhibit: SUPERTALL!

The Empire State Building is an iconic skyscraper.  It is 380
meters, or 1,250 feet, tall.  If it had a twin standing on its own head,
both skyscrapers would stand inside the world’s tallest building
with room to spare.  Now through January 2012, take a tour of over
thirty super-skyscrapers completed since 2001 or currently in
construction.  This recent generation of giants, generally 100
stories or higher, represents a new paradigm of slender mixed-
use towers that explore innovative approaches in engineering,
curtain wall and construction technologies, energy efficiency and
sustainability, and ideas of vertical communities.

The Skyscraper Museum is in lower Manhattan at 39 Battery Place.
Hours are 12-6pm, Wed-Sun. Admission is $5, or $2.50 for
students and seniors.

For more info, visit www.skyscraper.org.

Subway: 4 or 5 train to Bowling Green and walk east.
168 Bergen Street, Brooklyn NY 11217
American Scandinavian Sociaety Christmas Ball
Friday 2 December 7pm.  Black Tie.  Metropolitan Club.

In honor of The World Childhood Organization, the American
Scandinavian Society is hosting the annual Scandinavian
Christmas Ball, December 2, at The Metropolitan Club in New
York City.The evening includes a Lucia Performance and a silent
auction of artwork and gift items, held in order to raise funds for
the American Scandinavian Society's cultural programs and the
World Childhood Foundation. The 8-piece Walter Eriksson
Orchestra will be providing the music.

Guest of honor is H.R.H. Princess Madeleine of Sweden.

For over the past 100 years, the American Scandinavian Society
has promoted and celebrated the cultural and intellectual ties
between the people of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway,
Sweden, and the United States. The Society organizes concerts,
lectures, plays, receptions and other cultural and informative
events in and around the New York metropolitan area.

Click Here for Inviation: :http://americanscandinavian.
org/docs/American_Scandinavian_2011_Invite.pdf