CANT 2019 Local Information
New York Number Theory Seminar
Seventeenth Annual Workshop on
Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory
CUNY Graduate CenterMay 21–24, 2019
The CUNY Graduate Center is located in midtown Manhattan at 365 Fifth Avenue,
between 34th and 35th Streets, diagonally across the street from the Empire State
Building. We are easily reached by bus and subway from anywhere in New York
City. Moreover, Grand Central Station, New York Penn Station, and the Port
Authority Bus Terminal are less than a 20 minute walk from the Graduate Center,so it is feasible to stay almost anywhere in the metropolitan region.
You must sign in at the front desk when you enter the building.
The Math Lounge is on the fourth floor.
Lecture rooms
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the lecture room is 9206, on the ninth floor of thebuilding. On Thursday and Friday, the lecture room is the Science Center on thefourth floor.
The meeting rooms are equipped with blackboards and a computer with digitalprojector. There is no overhead projector.
Coffee and muffins will be available every morning in the lecture room beginningabout 7:30 a.m. Lectures begin at 8:00 a.m. Every afternoon there will be a problem
session, followed by wine and cheese in the Math Lounge. There will be a pizza
party in the Math Lounge on Wednesday afternoon.
Computers with internet access are available in the math lounge on the fourthfloor. There is also free WiFi throughout the Graduate Center, for which no password is required.
InternetThe Graduate Center provides free internet access throughout the building. Sign
into GC guest. No password is necessary.
CoffeeCoffee and muffins will be provided every morning, beginning at 7:30 a.m., inthe lecture room.
Espresso, latte, etc. are also available in the coffee bar on the ground floor ofthe Graduate Center, and in the cafeteria on the 8th floor of the Graduate Center.
For more serious coffee, we recommend:(1) Good: Starbucks at the NE corner of 35th Street and Fifth Avenue.
(2) Better: Stumptown Coffee in the Amazon bookstore at 7 West 34th Street,
about 100 yards west of Fifth Avenue.
1(3) Even better: Maison Kayser at the northwest corner of 36th Street andFifth Avenue.
FoodAn excellent cafeteria is on the 8th floor of the Graduate Center, and there aremany restaurants in the neighborhood.
There is really great food in New York, and within walking distance of theGraduate Center. Check Zagat’s for vast and reliable information.
Kosher Food
There are numerous kosher restaurants on 34th Street between Madison Avenue
and Park Avenue, and also:
Jerusalem Cafe, 35 West 36th Street, andBen’s Kosher Delicatessen, 209 W. 38th Street.
HotelsThere are many hotels in the neighborhood of the CUNY Graduate Center, but
none of them gives CUNY a special conference rate. Good deals can sometimes befound on the internet, for example, at hotels.com or booking.com. If you work for astate university or US government organization, you may be able to get a (usuallyvery low) government rate for your hotel.
There is also airBnb for privately arranged short-term accomodation.
Art museums and galleries
There are great art museums within walking distance of the CUNY Graduate
Center.
(1) The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is on 53rd Street between Fifth andSixth Avenues. It is open from 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. every day except
Friday. On Friday, MoMA is open from 10:30 a.m. to 8:45 p.m., andadmission is free on Friday evening.
(2) The Metropolitan Museum of Art is on Fifth Avenue at 83rd Street. Admission is no longer “pay what you want.”(3) The Guggenheim Museum is on Fifth Avenue at 88th Street. The museumis open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:45 on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,and Wednesday, and from 10:00 a.m. to 7:45 on Friday. It is closed onThursday.
(4) The Morgan Library (an art museum) is on Madison Avenue and 36thStreet, around the corner from the Graduate Center.
(5) The Whitney Museum is at 99 Gansevoort Street in Chelsea. It is openfrom 10:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, from 10:30 a.m. to
6:00 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday, and closed onTuesday.
(6) The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) is at 11 East 26th Street,a few blocks from the Graduate Center. It is open every day from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
(7) There are many excellent galleries for contemporary art in Chelsea, a few
blocks south and west of the Graduate Center.