Founded to celebrate the city's status as a major producer of relevant films, the Tribeca Film Festival has garnered tons of publicity since its debut in 2002. This event showcases a broad spectrum of films, including independent films, documentaries, narratives, family-friendly flicks, and plenty more as over 1,500 screenings take place. The Tribeca Film Festival is unique in the way that it applauds film makers for their works. Following in suit with the New York Film Festival, this event is also attended by some of the brightest stars of Hollywood.
The Ukrainian Museum was founded in 1976 and is the largest museum in the United States committed to collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting art and objects significant to the heritage of the Ukrainians. The museum organizes its holdings in three categories: an 8,000 piece folk art collection, a 2,000 piece fine art collection and archives stocked with over 30,000 items. The collections include festive and ritual clothing, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, decorative wood carvings, paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures. The archives contain photographs, documents, personal correspondence of noted individuals, playbills and posters.
Have some out-of-this-world family fun at the Rose Center for Earth and Space. The planetarium uses current data to depict accurate formations of space for audiences to see up close. Explore the Center as a family and check out exhibits like the Helibrun Cosmic Pathway, a time-line that illustrates the history of the universe.
See the world-famous New York Yankees dominate the baseball diamond. This franchise of MLB has more championships than any other North American professional sports franchise. Throughout the years, the team has won 40 American League Pennants and 27 World Series championships. 44 Yankees have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, including the game's most celebrated players Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle.