Friday, June 19, 2009
Manhattanhenge is Coming
Monday, June 15, 2009
More Free New York
Save your money - look what's happening this summer in New York City FOR FREE!
MOVIES, PARADES AND STREET FESTIVALS For information on MUSIC and CONCERTS CLICK HERE
- Now through August 14 RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL
- Sunday, June 21 Columbus Avenue Summer Festival Columbus Ave, 86-96 Sts
- Monday, June 22 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
- Sunday, June 28 NYC LGBT Pride Parade 5th Avenue & 52nd St. to Christopher & Greenwich St.
- Monday, June 29 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
- Sunday July 5 USO - Avenue of the Americas Summerfest, (on 6th Avenue from 42nd - 56th Street)
- Monday, July 6 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
- Friday July 10th Community Day Festival, (on Broad St. from Water - Beaver Street)
- Saturday July 11th Park Avenue Summerfest, (on Park Avenue South from 17th - 23rd Street)
- Sunday July 12th NYC Celebration of Nations Festival, (on Madison Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
- Monday, July 13 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
- Saturday July 18th East Side Summer Festival, (on Lexington Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
- Sunday July 19th NYC Unfolds Street Fair, (on Broadway from Houston - Grand Street)
- Monday, July 20 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
- Saturday July 25th Washington Sq. Summer Fair, (on Bleecker St. from Broadway - 6th Ave. )
- Sunday July 26th 52nd Association Jazz Festival, (on 52nd Street from Lexington - 7th Avenue)
- Monday, July 27 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
- Friday July 31st Manhattan Youth Fair, (on Greenwich St. from Barclay - Chambers Street)
- Saturday August 1st The C.O.R.E. Health Expo, (on 7th Avenue from 47th - 57th Street)
- Sunday August 2nd Festival of the Americas, (on 6th Avenue from 42nd - 56th Street)
- Monday, August 3 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
- Friday August 7th Financial Community Day Series, (on Maiden Lane from Water - South Street)
- Saturday August 8th Greenwich Village Festival, (on Greenwich Avenue from 6th - 7th Avenue)
- Sunday August 9th Lexington Avenue Summerfest, (on Lexington Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
- Monday, August 10 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
- Saturday August 15th Summer Seaport Festival, (on Water Street from Fulton - Broad Street)
- Sunday August 16th Madison Avenue Summer Fair, (on Madison Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
- Monday, August 17 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
- Saturday August 22nd The Great Irish Festival, (on 6th Avenue from 42nd - 56th Street)
- Sunday August 23rd Third Avenue Merchandise Fair, (on 3rd Avenue from 23rd - 34th Street)
- Saturday August 29th Friends of Dag Hammarskjold Festival, (on 2nd Ave. from 45th - 57th Street)
- Saturday August 29th Down By The Boardwalk Festival, (on West 10th St. from Surf Ave. - Boardwalk)
- Sunday August 30th Big Apple Performing Arts Festival, (on 7th Avenue from 47th - 57th Street)
- Tuesday September 1st Columbia University Community Block Party, (on 120th St. from Broadway - Amsterdam Ave.)
- Friday September 4th Fulton Street Follies, (on Fulton St. from Water - Gold Street)
- Saturday September 5th 52nd Street Fall Festival, (on 52nd Street from Lexington - 7th Ave.)
- Sunday, Sept. 6 Brazilian Independence Day Street Fair 46th Street, between Broadway and Park Avenue
- Monday, Sept. 7 West Indian American Day Parade, Brooklyn
- Monday September 7th M.E.C.A. Family Festival, (on Lexington Avenue from 34th - 42nd Street)
- Sept. 10-20 Feast of San Gennaro, Mulberry St., Canal-Houston Sts.
- Saturday September 12th Gramercy Park Neighborhood Festival, (on 3rd Avenue from 14th - 23rd Street)
- Sunday September 13th Tudor City Festival, (on Lexington Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
- Friday September 18th Tribeca Community Day Fall Festival, (on Church Street from Canal - Franklin Street)
- Saturday September 19th 7th Avenue - Guardian Angels Fair, (on 7th Avenue from 47th - 57th Street)
- Sunday September 20th Eighth Avenue Fall Festival, (on 8th Avenue from 42nd - 57th St.)
- Friday September 25th N.Y.C. Police Museum Festival, (on Old Slip from Water - South St.)
- Saturday September 26th Broadway Autumn Fair, (on Broadway from Waverly Pl.- 14th Street)
- Sunday September 27th Lexington Avenue Fall Festival, (on Lexington Avenue from 34th - 42nd Street)
- Friday October 2nd United Nations Fall Festival, (on 47th St. from 1st - 2nd Avenue)
- Saturday October 3rd Union Square Autumn Fair, (on Broadway from 17th - 23rd Street)
- Sunday October 4th N.Y.C. Oktoberfest, (on Lexington Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
- Friday October 9th Christopher Columbus Block Party, (on Murray Street from Broadway - Church Street)
- Saturday October 10th Avenue Of The Americas Family Expo, (On 6th Avenue from 42nd - 56th Street)
- Sunday October 11th Eighth Avenue Autumn Festival, (on 8th Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
- Monday October 12th Columbus Day Festival, (on Broadway from Cedar St. - Battery Pl. & on Whitehall St. from Stone - Water Street)
- Friday October 16th Financial Community Day Festival Series
- Saturday October 17th Washington Square Festival, (on Waverly Pl. from Broadway - MacDougal Street)
- Sunday October 18th The Great Third Avenue Fair, (on 3rd Avenue from 23rd - 34th Street)
- Saturday, Oct. 24 Americana Jazz Festival, 52nd Street, Fifth-Seventh Aves.
- Saturday October 24th Park Avenue South Autumn Fair, (on Park Avenue South from 17th - 23rd St.)
- Sunday October 25th The 7th Avenue Autumn Carnival, (on 7th Avenue from 47th - 57th Street)
- Saturday October 31st A.D.A.'s World's Largest Block Party, (on Madison Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
- Saturday, Oct. 31 Village Halloween Parade 6th Avenue from Spring Street to 21st Street from 7 - 10pm
- Thursday, Nov. 26 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Central Park West, 7th Ave & 6th Ave. 9am-noon.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Free New York
Where in the world can you be entertained almost every day for free? Paris? Non. Munich? Nein. Moscow? Nyet.
How about New York City? Yes! All summer long there are lots of free things all over the City. Cost? Fuggedaboudit. Nothing! Zilch. Zero!
MUSIC
Here are just some of the offerings this summer. For more information click on the links. Stay glued to this blog for more free stuff, like parades, street fairs, festivals and other good (FREE) stuff.
NBC's Today Show offers free concerts on most Friday mornings as part of their Toyota Concert Series. So far, here's what's scheduled:
- Friday, June 19 - Jonas Brothers
- Friday, June 26 - The Fray
- Friday, July 3 - Rob Thomas
- Friday, July 10 - Rascal Flatts
- Friday, July 17 - The All American Rejects
- Friday, July 24 - Katy Perry
- Friday, July 31 - Kings of Leon
- Friday, August 7 - Jason Mraz
- Friday, August 14 - Flo Rida
- Friday, August 21 - Natasha Bedingfield
ABC's Good Morning America features live concerts too in Central Park on Fridays as well:
- Friday, June 19 - Jamie Foxx
- Friday, June 26 - The cast of Broadway's HAIR
- Friday, July 3 - Brad Paisley
- Friday, July 17 - TBD
- Friday, July 24 - TBD
- Friday, July 31 - Kelly Clarkson
- Friday, Aug 7 - TBD
- Friday, Aug 14 - Kenny Chesney
- Friday, Aug 21 - Reba McEntire
Then there's Central Park Summerstage, with musical and dance events throughout the summer. Acts range from the Indigo Girls to the New York Pops.
Not to be outdone by the loads of free concerts happening all over town this summer, Lincoln Center steps up with its annual Out of Doors series from August 5-23. Music, dance, spoken word, and more from an array of cultures come to the open-air stage for a global celebration of the performing arts. Bring friends and family of all ages to Lincoln Center for a lively Out of Doors season, at a price everyone can afford—absolutely free. Building on Out of Doors roots as a street theater festival, starting with Asphalt Orchestra (August 5 through 9), street bands of all types and stripes will be on the march from 7 to 7:30 p.m., taking over the plazas of Lincoln Center on many evenings throughout the festival, and gathering exuberant crowds in their wake. In addition to Broadway Plaza (the new lower plaza in front of Alice Tully Hall), bands will visit and perform at a number of locations recently renovated as part of Lincoln Center's on-going Redevelopment Project, including the re-designed Revson Fountain on Josie Robertson Plaza and the new Barclays Capital Grove, the elegant, raised, seating area on the Hearst Plaza (formerly the North Plaza).
The New York Philharmonic presents their annual summer Concert in the Parks series throught the City's 5 boroughs.
Thursday afternoons brings Broadway in Bryant Park - the most popular musicals on and off Broadway perform their biggest hits in Bryant Park - for free between 12:30 and 1:30.
Monday, June 1, 2009
An Evening in NYC
I do want to assure you that an evening in New York City does not normally cost $80,000. I have spent many an evening in New York City and have never spent $80,000. I did, once in the 1970s, come close but that had more to do with a lucky feeling I thought I had during a 3-Card Monty experience than with the actual cost of legitimate events.
Want to know how much a weekend in New York City will cost? Bet you'll be surprised (and not the 3-Card monty bet either; just a figure of speech). Check out nyctrip.com and pack your bags. Air Force One is not available though.