Listen to surf /twang instrumental trio Bakersfield Breakers this Sunday, June 22nd, at 4:00PM at the Spirit Project at South Street Seaport.
Category: Manhattan
Summer on the Hudson River.
You know summer has come to NYC when you can head to Riverside Park and start kayaking again. Join the Downtown Boathouse for 20-minute instructional paddles. Please wear a bathing suit or shorts and a t-shirt, and know how to swim. Weather permitting, no registration required. Kayaks and life vests provided. All ages. Sundays, June 8…
1st Annual Broadway Ghostlight Awards
Theater producer Ken Davenport has launched the first ever annual Ghostlight Awards – for the people behind the curtain. VOTE NOW! GHOSTLIGHT AWARDS It takes hundreds of people to put on one Broadway show. But only a few dozen are ever seen on a stage. The rest of them are backstage, offstage, in orchestra pits and…
Lower Manhattan View
What a view!
Tom’s Diner
The Upper West Side is home to quite a few celebrities – authors, artists and actors. In some cases, our buildings are the celebrities. The Ansonia held a major starring role in Single White Female and the Apthorp, Dakota and San Remo buildings are grand dames of architecture. Thanks to the television series Seinfeld, Tom’s…
Christmas Carol Concerts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan
The Upper West Side of Manhattan is fortunate to have a few beautiful churches in the neighborhood that present Christmas carol concerts, beyond the traditional Christmas eve service. If you’re looking to get a dose of holiday cheer, you can start this weekend at St.John the Divine and Riverside Church. Both sell tickets to their…
Haunted High Line Halloween
It’s the fourth annual High Line Halloween celebration! The High Line will be transported to a spooky past, where haunted trains ruled and the ghosts of hungry workers roamed the West Side. Trick-or-treat your way through the park and enjoy an afternoon of art, music, ghosts and ghouls. Sneak through a haunted train tunnel (if you…
Empire State Building
I never tire of this view….
CityPArks PuppetMobile
City Parks Foundation offers a traveling puppet show, City Parks Puppet Mobile, the oldest continually operating company of its kind in the country, which presents free performances and puppet-making workshops in neighborhood parks, recreation centers and schools throughout New York City. CityParks PuppetMobile, one of the only traveling puppet theaters in the country, brings Swedish…
WalkNYC Map System in New York City
New in Chinatown this week the city erected a street map kiosk, part of a new pedestrian map system, called WalkNYC, that will start with just four kiosks in lower Manhattan. The city Department of Transportation hopes to install up to 100 by the end of the year all over Manhattan, as well as in…