Tag: central park

New York City Opera's decision to leave Lincoln Center for its upcoming season was very controversial and union members are still fighting the move. But the opera just announced its schedule for next season, and there's at least one very cool idea in it. The opera company is planning to ...

July 12, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 91 Degrees and Very Humid. Notices: Manhattanhenge, the phenomenon wherein the sun aligns perfectly with Manhattan's East-West street grid, is back today and tomorrow. Check out a nice picture from May's Manhattanhenge, and see our calendar for a great event about Manhattanhenge ...

I was worried for awhile there that all the gay marriage fun might be happening in other parts of the city, particularly the West Village and Brooklyn. But it looks like the celebration will be coming uptown too, as a group of young New Yorkers is planning to create a ...

June 29, 2011 Weather: Partly cloudy, High of 80 Degrees. Notices: Someone left two pairs of Prada sandals, size 5, in a purple Bergdorf Goodman bag on an an M86 bus traveling from the Upper West Side to the Upper East Side. The person is offering a $50 award for ...

June 27, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 83 Degrees. Notices: Midsummer Night Swing, Lincoln Center's summertime outdoor dance lesson/live music show, starts tonight in Damrosch Park with a free program featuring The Jonathan Stout Orchestra. The swinging continues through July 16. Check out more of this week's events on ...

June 23, 2011 Weather: Scattered Thunderstorms, High of 76 Degrees. News: Two muggers beat up a jogger and stole his iPad in Central Park around 110th Street and 5th Avenue. A few hours later, robbers stole someone's cell phone at 70th Street and Central Park West. (DNAinfo) Eight endangered skinny-billed ...

The Black Eyed Peas concert in Central Park that was canceled Thursday night due to thunderstorms could be rescheduled, the Robin Hood Foundation said in a statement released late last night. So hold on to your tickets, all 60,000 of you! I know people who waited as long as 8 ...

June 10, 2011 Weather: Isolated thunderstorms, High of 83 degrees. Notices: The JCC Manhattan (344 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th Street) is sponsoring it's Annual Wellness Day for Women with Breast and Ovarian Cancers on Sunday. All activities are FREE for women in treatment within the last 2 years. Activities include ...

The city and the Central Park Conservancy are making few friends with their crackdown on musicians in Central Park who dare to make music in one of the park's "quiet zones". The city says it's trying to balance "competing interests" in the park, basically cordoning off spaces where people don't ...

June 7, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 86 degrees. Notices: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival runs June 16 to June 30 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. You can get tickets now! News: State Senator Tony Avella introduced a new bill to ban horse-drawn carriages in Central ...

June 2, 2011 Weather: Mostly sunny. High of 75 degrees. News: The chairman of the New York Historical Society bought an original set of notes to the Constitutional Convention by New York delegate John Lansing and donated it to the society. It is planning to show them starting Nov. 11 ...

June 1, 2011 Weather: Scattered thunderstorms, High of 87 degrees. Notices: Apply today (and only today!) to camp out overnight in Central Park on June 10. Thirty families will be chosen by lottery. There will be other similar lotteries later in the summer. (NYC Parks via My Upper West) The ...

May 31, 2011 Weather: Mostly sunny, High of 82 degrees. News: Central Park musicians muzzled in some areas, including Bethesda Fountain. (WNYC) Three people were injured, including two who were stabbed, in a melee at Columbus Circle Sunday. (Daily News) The Upper West Side Apple store appears to have been ...

May 26, 2011 Weather: Partly cloudy, High of 80 degrees. Notices: City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, Congressmen Jerry Nadler and Charlie Rangel, and other top politicians are rallying today at 5 p.m. against the co-location of the new charter school Upper West Side Success Academy at Brandeis High School on 84th ...

Thursday, May 19, 2011 Weather: Scattered Thunderstorms, high of 67 degrees. Oddities: Tipster GM tells us that last week she was walking near Tavern on the Green when she saw a commotion just North of the restaurant. She noticed people casually fleeing a raccoon that had been sitting under them ...

Weather: Rain showers (what else?), High of 70 degrees. Notices: The American Museum of Natural History wants your help in naming its massive Mamenchisaurus, one of the largest dinosaurs in the world. Submissions are due by May 25 andn the winner will be announced on June 7. News: A Community ...