Tag: central park

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 ...