For the first time in decades, there will not be a stamp collecting show in New York City organized by the American Stamp Dealers Association.
“Right now I haven’t found a venue that isn’t pricing me out of New York City,” ASDA executive director Dana Guyer told The Virtual Stamp Club. Instead, “we just joined forces with NOJEX for our October show.” NOJEX 2018 will be held October 19-21, 2018, at the Meadowlands Hilton Hotel in East Rutherford, NJ. The U.S. Postal Service has already expressed its support of the combined show.
In recent years, the ASDA shows in New York have been held at the New York Hilton, one of the more expensive hotels in Manhattan, just half a mile from Times Square. It had plenty of space, unlike the previous show location at The New Yorker Hotel, across from Penn Station.
A hotel on West 57th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues has been used by smaller stamp shows, but none is currently scheduled there.
However, Guyer says the days of a big Manhattan show may not yet be over. “i am working on a spring New York show for 2019,” she said.
New York may have been the last major city with a stamp show “downtown.” The Boston-area show moved years ago to Boxborough, Mass., 29 miles away. SESCAL in Southern California is now held in Ontario, Calif., 35 miles to the east. Chicagopex could really be called Itscapex, because it is held in that suburb. NAPEX moved years ago from Washington, D.C. to McLean, Va. Philadelphia no longer has a show at all.
The only major show now regularly held in downtown venues is the American Philatelic Society’s StampShow, which moves to a different city each year, but even the APS can’t touch downtown NYC, LA or Chicago. The 2017 edition was in Richmond, Va., this year’s is in Columbus, Ohio, and 2019 will be in Omaha, Nebraska (albeit with a tie-in to the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad).
WESTPEX, too. Relocated from right in the heart of San Francisco down the peninsula to Burlingame. A move of only about 15 miles, but decidedly out of the city and into a suburb. I think it’s just a current-day reality. (And the move actually made it more convenient for me to attend.)
Try Long Island City in Queens, NY. Less than 10 minutes from Times Square Station by the #7 subway train to various NEW building sites.
To whom it may concern,
Do not know what to say on the issue of cost for a show in NYC.
May be you may want to consider a location in downtown Brooklyn or Flushing, Queens with subway access in New York City.
Thank you.
Right when I am ready to retire, no NYC stamp shows! How about trying a location in Queens or Long Island? I live 65 miles east of Penn Station and need public transportation. I believe even Westchester is considered overpriced these days, but to me that is further than New Jersey.
Will there be any stap show in New York city between September 1 and December1?
Regards,
John
I don’t know of any in Manhattan. I had heard Marilyn Nowak was holding her occasional show in Queens at some point, but I can’t find a listing for it. In nearby Northern NJ, there’s the Clifton stamp show September 29-30th (http://www.clifton-stamp-society.org), NOJEX/ASDA is October 19-21 (http://www.nojex.org).
Manhattan seems to have priced itself out of stamp shows this year.
The Queens/Bayside takes place 3rd Sunday Sep-May – it is a small show with about 6-8 dealers stamps covers and postcards.
The NOJEX show is very difficult to get to without an automobile unfortunately.
May 31-Jun 2, 2019 Watson Hotel NYC!!! NYC 2019 Spring show
Hopefully people will come out and support a regular show here.
Last year, I took a bus that dropped me off in the middle of the Meadowlands and walked about 30 minutes to the hotel. I took the courtesy van to Secaucus to get home but I don’t know if there was room to the hotel in the morning. I really enjoyed the show, but feel the loss of 2 big cover sellers will be noticed.