Other private schools include the Cathedral School, also at St. John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue, and the Bank Street School for Children on West 112th Street.

The exhibitions of contemporary outsider artists include drawings by Michel Nedjar, a French artist, at GALERIE ST. ETIENNE - on West 57th Street.

Moreover, the concert is just part of a Baroque festival in December that will include Bach programs at Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church on West 66th Street, a homey place to hear chamber music.

Stops included Handloom Batik on Mulberry Street, which sells Indonesian and Indian imports, and Paron Fabrics on West 57th Street, where, for $4.50 a yard, they bought French cottons.

"Even though we're in a hotel, we closed last year for Thanksgiving," said Jim Botsacos, the executive chef for the Livanos restaurants, which include Abboccato in the Blakely Hotel on West 55th Street.

The 22-year-old Rene Pujol is part of the loosely related trio of Pujol family restaurants, which includes Les Pyrenees on West 51st Street and Pierre au Tunnel on West 47th Street.

Though, for example, he included the steeple of the United Methodist Church of Litchfield on West Street in the work, the steeple is not visible from the attic window where he said he stood to draw the scene.

Other Helmsley hotels included the Park Lane on Central Park South and the Helmsley Windsor on West 58th Street.

The hot spots are upper Columbus Avenue, Third Avenue in the 90's and Midtown West, where new projects include the Ellington, on West 52d Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue.

She immigrated to New York, where 1930s census records list her occupation as "painter," and her art was included in an exhibit at the Jumble Shop on West 8th Street.