Shoot a rifle off Fifth Avenue, track the path

of an underground river that flows beneath

Washington Square, take a trip within yourself

in a sensory deprivation chamber, learn to spot fossils

in the walls of buildings or collect your own on city

beaches, observe bats on the hunt during a night

walk, listen to a Stradivarius in a tiny concert hall

created by an obsessed luthier, explore forbidden

islands in a kayak, prepare for the end of the world

at a survival class in Central Park, speed through the

bay on the rail of a racing sailboat, climb giant trees in

a botanic garden, go on the beat with a pair of NYPD

cops, take a puppet-making class from an expert,

watch feeding whales lunge from the deep.