General conference info

March 28, 2005

Get to know the second-floor Info Booth. It's your source for the latest updates and all schedule changes will be posted there. Also, please note that while most events are at the Hilton, the NYSUT Journalism awards dinner will be at the Warwick Hotel, right across the street at 55 W. 54th St.

Hotel numbers

• Hilton (212) 586-7000
• Sheraton (212) 581-1000
• Warwick (212) 247-2700

Delegates are strongly advised to use their hotel phone number as an emergency number.

Elections table

The NYSUT Elections Table will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. and from noon to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 7, and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, April 8, on the 2nd floor promenade.

Get oriented

First-time delegates and alternates should plan to attend an orientation at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7, in the Beekman Parlor. Robert Carillo, NYSUT's special projects coordinator, will review the ins and outs of RA procedures to help make the convention more valuable and less confusing. You'll also have the chance to meet other "first-timers."

Get around

Whether this is your first or 50th trip to New York City, make the UFT hospitality table on the second-floor Promenade your first stop. There you'll get insider tips on restaurants, attractions and transportation around the city that never sleeps.

Timeoutny.com offers information on food, shopping and everything else you need to know about the Big Apple.

Remember Central Park is within walking distance of the Hilton, and it will be spring. And just a few blocks south is Rockefeller Center, where the Today show broadcasts from 7 to 10 a.m.