Life in New York City

Memorial Sloan-Kettering is part of a world-renowned biomedical research complex that includes Sloan-Kettering Institute, the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and The Rockefeller University. The three institutions, which extend for several blocks along York Avenue, share not only many staff members, but extensive library and technical facilities. Staff, fellows, and students have access to shared core facilties, and an active calendar of lectures, seminars, and visits by distinguished scientists at all of the institutions.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering is located on New York City's Upper East Side, just a few minutes' walk from a diversity of restaurants, interesting shops, some of the world's best museums, and the City's centerpiece: Central Park.

	Central Park's boat pond is a haven for relaxation and contemplation.

The Park is a short walk from our main campus, and is vast, covering 843 acres. Within its borders, you'll find fields, trails, jogging and cycling paths, woods, rocks, ponds, a boating lake, formal gardens, and even a zoo. During the summer, the park hosts free concerts and plays, swimming, and tennis; during the winter, the park's ice skating rink is a popular stop. And any time is a great time for people-watching.

	The Guggenheim Museum features contemporary art from around the world.

Along the eastern edge of Central Park, also within walking distance of the Center, is "Museum Mile." This 20-block stretch of Fifth Avenue is home to many of New York's best and most famous museums. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest museum in the western hemisphere, is renowned for its collections of American art, Egyptian artifacts, and European painting and sculpture. The Guggenheim Museum is famous not only for its inspired architecture but its wide-ranging exhibits. A branch of the Smithsonian Institute, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum specializes in the history of design. El Museo del Barrio showcases Latin American art. At the Museum of the City of New York, paintings, photographs, costumes, sculpture, and other artifacts tell the stories of New York and New Yorkers. The Jewish Museum examines Jewish culture from ancient times to the present through art and artifacts. Several other notable museums are located on Museum Mile, and the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, both distinguished for their collections of modern and contemporary art, are also nearby.

Also just minutes from Memorial Sloan-Kettering are the cultural outposts of countries and cultures around the world. The Asia Society, the China Institute, the Czech Center, the Alliance Francaise, the Goethe Institut, the Ukrainian and Spanish Institutes, and the Kosciuscko Foundation are on the upper east side, and all sponsor gatherings, exhibits, talks, movies, and other chances for cultural exchange. Another mecca in the neighborhood is the 92nd Street Y, which hosts chamber music and jazz concerts, cabaret, dance performances, and readings and lectures by some of today's most interesting writers and thinkers. Nightlife in the neighborhood includes clubs offering standup comedy, blues, and jazz.

	Little Italy features authentic northern and southern Italian cuisine and fine pastries.

Yorkville, the community immediately around the main campus, was originally settled by German immigrants. You can still find remnants of a thriving German and Eastern European community at several restaurants and shops where sausage, salami, pickles, spaeztle, goulash, and fresh rye bread are sold or served. As is true throughout New York City, you can find delicious food from almost any region of the globe at one of the hundreds of restaurants on the Upper East Side.

Most of the other parts of the city and the attractions they have to offer are easily accessible from the Center by subway, bus, or taxi.