Looking for a good meditation teacher in New York City

Eddie is popular as a yoga teacher in the city and is a student of http://www.ayri.org/. http://www.theshala.com/happenings.html, she is quite popular, and you can try http://www.tibethouse.org/j1/index.php. However, I think the best beginners meditation class is at http://www.nyimc.org/, they have a regular schedule. It is dogma-free, tool-oriented mediation from a Buddhist perspective.

http://theidproject.com/ is a young meditation teacher who's very down to earth. Can't say enough good things about the work he is doing.

(I think any sincere practice like those suggested is going to be good, but) I lean towards Zen Buddhism. I'm a bit out of the loop lately in terms of practicing with others, but my good friend has been practicing at http://www.villagezendo.org/ and likes it. That being said, some people find Zen practice to be too austere. It can be hard at first depending on your personality, but it does provide everything you asked for (quieting your mind, improving consciousness and concentration), along with as much of the Buddhist dogma as you want to take--and I find Zen more appealing precisely because it is less dogmatic. Now, it may be that any amount is more than you want, but you can always check it out to see if it is for you, most zendos let beginners in to see what's up with no pressure (if there is pressure, run away). And I promise, Buddhism (especially Zen) is not at all a religion in the same way that Christianity or Islam is a religion; I'm not trying to proselytize or bring you into a cult or anything, I promise. You can practice and it can be exclusively about the meditation. You could also look around for a http://www.dhamma.org/ practice. I don't know as much about it but my girlfriend's parents are into it precisely because it is really about mindfulness but not so much about dogma. Actually, now that I look at shothotbot's post, I see that he listed New York Insight, which I think is Vipassana, so there ya go...

Thanks everyone, this is a great start. I went to the Tibet House tonight for an intro course. It was definitely very helpful. No proselytizing, non-commercial and very genuine I felt. I'm gonna check out a few more of these places.