June 1, 2006

August 2009 calendar of events for New York City

Tuesday, August 4
Mets home game vs St. Louis
Free Naumberg Orchestral Concert in Central Park with Imani Winds at 7:30 p.m.
Incubus at Radio City Music Hall
Depeche Mode at Madison Square Garden
Ted Nash at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Nicholas Angelich at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall for the Mostly Mozart festival
Book talk at the Skyscraper Museum: Jane King Hession and Debra Pickrel, Frank Lloyd Wright in NY: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959 at 6:30 p.m.
The Deedle Deedle Dee’s play the Madison Square Park free kids concert series at 10:30 a.m.
The Lovin’ Spoonful at B.B. King Blues Club at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, August 5
Mets home game vs St.Louis
Free at Central Park Summerstage: “I Am Cuba” directed by Mikhail Kalatozov; The Pedrito Martinez Project, Presented in association with the African Film Festival at 7p.m.
Monthly free Bronx Culture Trolley
Tickets go on sale for November’s NY Comedy Festival with Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, and Tracy Morgan
Girls Night Out: Cyndi Lauper & Rosie O’Donnell at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island
The New-Trad Octet play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.
The John Scofield Trio plays the free Oval Lawn Series at Madison Square Park at 7 p.m.
Chris Isaak at the Beacon Theatre
The Fabulous Thunderbirds at B.B. King Blues Club at 8 p.m.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Nicholas Angelich at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall for the Mostly Mozart festival
Oliver Lake (reeds) Reggie Workman (bass) and Andrew Cyrille (drums) at Birdland (through Aug. 8)
Lincoln Center Out of Doors begins
Hudson River Park’s free RiverFlicks for Grown-ups Tropic Thunder at Pier 54 at 8:30 p.m.
A presentation on fetish art and Superman at the Museum of Sex at 7:30 p.m.
Vintage poster auction at Swann Galleries
Thursday, August 6
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
Daryl Hall & John Oates play Coney Island’s free Seaside Summer Concerts at at 7:30 p.m.
Free concert: Hip Hop Generation Next: Community Cipher led by Brandon “Peace” Albright/Illstyle & Peace at 6 p.m. for Lincoln Center Out of Doors at Josie Robertson Plaza
Asphalt Orchestra plays free at 7 p.m. at North Plaza/Hearst Plaza for Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Hip Hop Generation Next for Lincoln Center Out of Doors free at 7:30 p.m. at the Damrosch Park Bandshell
“The Return Of The Pink Panther” (1975) screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
Free Celebrate Brooklyn “Purple Rain” screening and sing-a-long, and Escort
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Asbury Shorts: An Evening of the World’s Best Short Films; Mingus Dynasty Quintet at 7:30 p.m.
Open mic night at Canarsie Pier Concerts
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
Brazilian Jazz Night: Luiz Simas Trio at Bargemusic at 8 p.m.
First Thursdays in Dumbo
South Street Seaport Museum’s Sip & Sail on board the historic schooner Pioneer from 7 to 9 p.m. (reservation required)
Donna the Buffalo plays Rockin’ the River cruise at 8 p.m.
Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer opens at the Met Museum (through Feb. 21)
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Cool, Green Edge: The Williamsburg Waterfront at 6 p.m.
The Big Surprise Tour at the Beacon Theatre
Dog on Fleas play the Madison Square Park free kids concert series at 10:30 a.m.
Free Broadway in Bryant Park from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30pm on The Lawn at Bryant Park with performances by cast members from “Next to Normal” “Burn The Floor,” “Lion King” “The Fantasticks” and “Marvelous Wonderettes”
Friday, August 7
Jason Mraz plays a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
Free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America: David Cook, Kris Allen and Adam Lambert
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
Free Raul Midon and Meshell Ndegeocello concert for Lincoln Center Out of Doors at 7:30 p.m. at the Damrosch Park Bandshell
Free Met Opera Summer Recital at 7 p.m. at Tappan Park, Staten Island
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Deer Tick and The London Souls
Free Casiokids, The Wave Pictures and Slow Club concert at the Seaport Music Festival at 6 p.m. at the South Street Seaport
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Dance: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, nathantrice/RITUALS dance theater at 8 p.m.
Asphalt Orchestra plays free concert at 7 p.m. at North Plaza/Hearst Plaza for Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Louis Langrée conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Stefan Vladar at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall for the Mostly Mozart festival
A Little Night Music: Nicholas Angelich at 10:30 p.m. at Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse for the Mostly Mozart festival
Ricardo Arjona at Madison Square Garden
Big Shot: Tribute to Billy Joel plays Rockin’ the River cruise at 8 p.m.
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Hudson River Park’s free RiverFlicks for Kids “The Muppet Movie” at Pier 46 at 8:30 p.m.
Church tower tour at 3 p.m. to see the 250-year-old metal bell at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
World War II living history re-enactor mans the Fort Hancock’s Battery John Gunnison from from 1 to 5 p.m.
Brit Noir series at Film Forum (through Sept. 3)
Saturday, August 8
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
Civil War Weekend at Governors Island (and Aug. 9)
Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in NY at Flushing Meadows Park (and Aug. 9)
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Big Daddy Kane and special guests at 7 p.m.
Lecture: “F.D.R.: A Leader in Transition” at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Boys Noize at 3 p.m.
Summer Streets as a 6.9-mile stretch of Manhattan streets close to vehicles from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Free storytelling in Central Park by the Hans Christian Andersen Storytellers from 11 a.m. to noon: “The Frog That Wanted to Sing” and “Five Peas in a Pod”
Free Amazing Arches walking tour of Prospect Park at 1 p.m.
Free Theater for the New City: Tally Ho!, or Navigating the Future in Tompkins Square Park at 2 p.m.
Free Fungus Tour with Paul Sadowski of NY Mycological Society at Inwood Hill Park from 4 to 6 p.m.
WarmUp at P.S. 1: Stephan Moore and John King, Eats Tapes, Lovefingers, and special guests from 2 to 9 p.m.
Circumnavigation of Staten Island cruise with the Working Harbor Committee
The Neville Brothers at B.B. King Blues Club at 8 p.m.
Free concert: Wordless Music: Rhys Chatham’s Crimson Grail for 200 Electric Guitars and Liquid Liquid at 7:30 p.m. at the Damrosch Park Bandshell for Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Asphalt Orchestra plays free at 7 p.m. at North Plaza/Hearst Plaza for Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Staten Island’s Van Duzer Street between Wright and Beach streets closes to traffic from noon to 8 p.m. for Van Duzer Days
Municipal Art Society walking tour: The Old Waterfront in New Amsterdam
Free Greenwich Village Walking Tour at 11 a.m. sponsored by the Friends of the Hudson River Park
Free Shakespeare in Riverside Park: A Midsummer Night’s Dream at 6:30 p.m. on the North Patio of Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Monument at 89th Street
Manhattan Symphonee plays Bargemusic at 8 p.m.
Tarek Atoui: Empty Cans at the New Museum at 3 p.m.
Coney Island Film Society screens “Village of the Damned” at 8:15 p.m. at the Coney Island Museum
Louis Langrée conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Stefan Vladar at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall for the Mostly Mozart festival
A Little Night Music: Stefan Vladar at 10:30 p.m. at Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse for the Mostly Mozart festival
Free lecture and walk: Native Americans of Manhattan at Inwood Hill Park at noon
Normally closed on weekends, Federal Hall is open for free today
Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival
“The Third Man” screens as part of the Brit Noir series at Film Forum
Market in McCarren with Artists and Fleas in McCarren Park from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Free Ice Theatre of New York Summer Youth Concert Series at 7 p.m. at World Ice Arena, Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Walt Whitman-inspired The Artful Conspirators: The Second Pipe of Desire performed at 7 p.m. at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn
Nike Missile Radar Site Open House at Sandy Hook
North Fork Craft Beer Festival
Sunday, August 9
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in NY at Flushing Meadows Park
African Film Festival on Governors Island from noon
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Jazmine Sullivan, Chrisette Michele, Jon B at 3 p.m.
Shore Boulevard between Astoria Park South and Ditmars Boulevard closes to traffic from 11 a.m.to 4 p.m. for Astoria Water Walk
Summer Music in the Garden with American Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Noguchi Museum
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Paris in New York at 1 p.m.
Brooklyn Navy Yard Bus Tour at 1:30 p.m.
Seminar: Brooklyn Images from Congo to Cucua at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 2 p.m.
Simian Mobile Disco, Fiery Furnaces, Dark Meat, Netherlands play the Pool Parties Brooklyn
Dream Theatre/Zappa Plays Zappa at the Beacon Theatre
Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at 5 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater for the Mostly Mozart festival
Free Concert: La Casita: A Home for the Heart/Un Hogar para el Corazon at noon for Lincoln Center Out of Doors in the North Plaza
Free performance by the CONTRA-TIEMPO and ABAKUA Afro-Latin Dance Company at 7:30 p.m. for Lincoln Center Out of Doors at the at the Damrosch Park Bandshell
Asphalt Orchestra plays free at 7 p.m. at North Plaza/Hearst Plaza for Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Normally closed on weekends, Federal Hall is open for free today
Dominican Day Parade on 6th Avenue between 36th and 56th streets
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island opens to the public for free as part of Summer Sundays with a tour of its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Monday, August 10
“The Magnificent Seven” screens for free at the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (lawn opens at 5 p.m.)
Teena Marie, Jeffrey Osborne and Ruben Studdard play the free Martin Luther King Jr. Concert series at Brooklyn’s Wingate Field at 7:30 p.m.
Yankees home game vs. Toronto Blue Jays
$10 tickets go on sale at non for the first Broadway preview of “Bye Bye Birdie”
La Casita: A Home for the Heart/Un Hogar para el Corazon plays Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian at 5:30 p.m.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater at 7:30 p.m. for the Mostly Mozart festival
Victoria Shaw at Birdland
Mossberg, Moby, Music and More at the Wall Street Journal’s Summer Scoops newsmaker discussion series
Remember the Time: The Music of Michael Jackson ribute at Ars Nova with Orfeh (Legally Blonde), Darius de Haas (Rent, Children of Eden) and Renee Elise Goldsberry (The Color Purple, Rent)
August restaurant celebrates Macedonia’s Ohrid Summer Festival (through Aug. 16)
Tuesday, August 11
“The Bacchae” begins previews in Central Park for Shakespeare in the Park (through September 6)
Yankees home game vs. Toronto Blue Jays
Free High Bridge Water Tower tours from 6 to 7 p.m. - to coincide with the Highbridge City Parks Summer Concert Series: Andy Andy
Celebrate Brooklyn benefit show: TV on the Radio
Louis Langrée conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Joshua Bell at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall for the Mostly Mozart festival
Danna Banana plays the Madison Square Park free kids concert series at 10:30 a.m.
Premiere screening of Woodstock: Now & Then at the Paley Center for Mediaat 6:30 p.m. with filmmaker Barbara Kopple, as well as Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Gerardo Velez, Grace Potter, and Holly George-Warren
Wednesday, August 12
“The Heirloom Tomato: An Exhibition of Photographs by Victor Schrager, Portraits of Historic Tomato Varieties from the Gardens of Amy Goldman” opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through Sept. 13)
Yankees home game vs. Toronto Blue Jays at 1:05 p.m.
Celebrate Brooklyn benefit show: Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal
Lecture: “John Glover and the American Revolution” at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Henry P. Warner Quartet play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.
Louis Langrée conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Joshua Bell at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall for the Mostly Mozart festival
Leny Andrade at Birdland (through Aug. 15)
Revolutionary War Walking Tour presented by the South Street Seaport Museum at 6 p.m.
Hudson River Park’s free RiverFlicks for Grown-ups Sex in the City at Pier 54 at 8:30 p.m.
The Original Wailers, the music of Bob Marley at B.B. King Blues Club at 8 p.m.
Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Red Baraat Festival! at Josie Robertson Plaza at 7 p.m. and Brooklyn Qawwali Party and OuterIndia presents Susheela Raman at 7:30 p.m. at the Damrosch Park Bandshell
Free Virgil’s ribs for Ribstock from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Speakeasy night at the Museum of the City of New York
Cupcake kebab event at Crash Mansion from 8 to 11 p.m.
Thursday, August 13
Blondie, Pat Benatar and The Donnas play Coney Island’s free Seaside Summer Concerts at at 7:30 p.m.
The Queens Museum of Art presents Duke Riley’s Those About to Die Salute You from 6 to 9 p.m.
Yeasayer plays a free show at Pier 54, doors open at 6 p.m.
Free at Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Snehasish Mozumder & Som, Jake Shimabukuro, and The Derek Trucks Band at 6 p.m. at the Damrosch Park Bandshell
Free Harvest in the Square Don Adolfo Orquesta Organizacion concert at 6 p.m. in Union Square
Free Broadway in Bryant Park from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30pm on The Lawn at Bryant Park with performances by cast members from “Billy Elliot,” “South Pacific,” “Mamma Mia!,” “Altar Boyz” and an appearance by John Stamos of “Bye Bye Birdie”
Robbi K. plays the Madison Square Park free kids concert series at 10:30 a.m.
Transit Museum’s free lecture series: South Ferry Archaeology Panel Presentation at 6 p.m. at the Balcony at Grand Central Terminal
Waterfront Museum speaker series: Holland on the Hudson - The United States & The Netherlands: Two Countries – One Spirit, United by Values, History and a Vision of the future” by Arjan Braamskamp of the Netherlands Consulate General in New York at 7 p.m.
John Legend at Madison Square Garden
All-Female Julius Caesar begins performances at the Kraine Theatre on E. 4th Street (through Aug. 16)
“A Flowering Tree” (New York Premiere) A New Opera by John Adams
at the Rose Theater at 7:30 p.m. for the Mostly Mozart festival
South Street Seaport Museum’s Sip & Sail on board the historic schooner Pioneer from 7 to 9 p.m. (reservation required)
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
Anders Osborne Band & Porter-Batiste-Stolz play Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Canceled due to rain: “Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid” screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
Friday, August 14
Free Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Slavic Soul Party! at 7 p.m. at North Plaza/Hearst Plaza and Auktyon, with John Medeski, Plastic People of the Universe at 7:30 p.m. at Damrosch Park Bandshell
Mets home game vs San Francisco
Kenny Chesney plays a free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America
Flo Rida play a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
Free Met Opera Summer Recital at 7 p.m. at Coffey Park, in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company debuts a new dance commissioned by City Parks Foundation, with live music by a special guest at a free Central Park Summerstage (and Aug. 15)
New York Liberty vs. Chicago Sky at Madison Square Garden
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Dance: Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company with musical guest Martha Wainwright at 8pm
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Celebrate Brooklyn benefit show: Animal Collective
Legends of Chicago Blues featuring Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin & The Nighthawks play Rockin’ the River cruise at 8 p.m.
Mandala opens at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Jan. 11)
Free School of Seven Bells and The xx concert at the Seaport Music Festival at 6 p.m. at the South Street Seaport
The Walkmen, High Places and Brooklyn Steppers Marching Band play the Guggenheim’s It Came From Brooklyn concert series with Colson Whitehead and leo Allen
“A Flowering Tree,” a new opera by John Adams, at the Rose Theater at 7:30 p.m. for the Mostly Mozart festival
Osmo Vänskä conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Yevgeny Sudbin at 8 p.m. Avery Fisher Hall for the Mostly Mozart festival
Hudson River Park’s free RiverFlicks for Kids Madagascar: Escape 2 Africia at Pier 54 at 8:30 p.m.
Walter Trout and John Lee Hooker Jr. and John Nemeth at B.B. King Blues Club at 7 p.m.
World War II living history re-enactor mans the Fort Hancock’s Battery John Gunnison from from 1-5 p.m.
Antiques & Design in the Hamptons at The Bridgehampton Historical Society Corwith House Museum (through Aug. 16)
Saturday, August 15
Mets home game vs San Francisco
Brain Art Festival 2009 at Radio City Music Hall
O.A.R. at Madison Square Garden
Celebrate Brooklyn benefit show: Animal Collective
Police Appreciation Weekend at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (and Aug. 16)
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Dance: Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company with musical guest Martha Wainwright at 8pm
Summer Streets as a 6.9-mile stretch of Manhattan streets close to vehicles from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Staten Island’s Van Duzer Street between Wright and Beach streets closes to traffic from noon to 8 p.m. for Van Duzer Days
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Back to the Bronx, Part II: Melrose
WarmUp at P.S. 1 wth DJ Pierre, Phuture 303, House of Stank, and Growing from 2 to 9 p.m.
Family Day events at Lincoln Center Out of Doors : “Puppet Pageant:
Beautiful Princess Rat of the MTA” at 2 p.m. at North Plaza/Hearst Plaza and ” Bubble do Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” at 3 p.m. at the Damrosch Park Bandshell
Free Ben Munisteri Dance Projects Dendy Dancetheater performance at 7 p.m. for Lincoln Center Out of Doors at the Damrosch Park Bandshell
Coney Island Film Society screens “Carrie” at 8:15 p.m. at the Coney Island Museum
Roftop Films 9 p.m. screening of “Where You Live” on the roof of the El Museo Del Barrio
Film: Opera Jawa at 2 p.m. at the Walter Reade Theater for the Mostly Mozart festival
Schola Cantorum de Venezuela at 7:30 p.m. at the Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater for the Mostly Mozart festival
Osmo Vänskä conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Yevgeny Sudbin at 8 p.m. at the Avery Fisher Hall for the Mostly Mozart festival
A Little Night Music: Simone Dinnerstein at 10:30 p.m. at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse for the Mostly Mozart festival
Normally closed on weekends, Federal Hall is open for free today
Free storytelling in Central Park by the Hans Christian Andersen Storytellers from 11 a.m. to noon: Chinese-origin “Journey to the West” ch. 93-97
Free tours of the Little Red Lighthouse from 1 to 4 p.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s Cooking in the Moment: Greenmarket Cuisine walking, shopping and cooking tour with chef Richard Ruben from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s Arthur Avenue Walking Tour at 11 a.m.
World’s Fair Marina Open Marina Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Hip To Hip Theatre Company’s free “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Socrates Sculpture Park at 5 p.m.
Free Family camping in the Blue Heron Park Preserve
5th Annual International Food & Film Festival at the Hattie Carthan Garden in Brooklyn from 2 to 10 p.m.
Sunday, August 16
Free Dinosaur Jr., The Walkmen, Saviours concert at Central Park Summerstage at 3 p.m.
Mets home game vs San Francisco
Free at Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Heritage Sunday: Sidiki Conde & Tokounou, Oyu Oro Afro-Cuban Dance, Caracumbe at 3 p.m. at Damrosch Park Bandshell and Ba M’buta: Ancestral Connections from the Kongo to the Americas, Africa Aye, Ibboru, Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca at 7:30 p.m. at the Damrosch Park Bandshell
NY Transit Museum’s the LIRR and the Rockaways tour with transit historian Joe Cunningham
NYC Half-Marathon including marathon world record-holder Paula Radcliffe
66th Anniversary of Intrepid’s Commissioning at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Free tours of the High Bridge Water Tower in Washington Heights from 1 to 4 p.m.
Shore Boulevard between Astoria Park South and Ditmars Boulevard closes to traffic from 11 a.m.to 4 p.m. for Astoria Water Walk
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Cool, Green Edge: Mosholu Parkway and Norwood at 4 p.m.
Del the Funky Homosapien, Gravy Train, DD/MM/YYYY, Kenan Bell play the Pool Parties Brooklyn
Robin Ticciati conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, featuring Robert Levin at 3 p.m. at the Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater for the Mostly Mozart festival
MADONNATHON 8th Annual Madonna Birthday Tribute at B.B. King Blues Club at 8 p.m.
Atlantic Avenue tunnel tour
Normally closed on weekends, Federal Hall is open for free today
A Flowering Tree (New York Premiere) A New Opera by John Adams at 5 p.m. at the Rose Theater for the Mostly Mozart festival
Free coffee and chocolate drinks on the High Line from 4 to 6 p.m.
Box office opens for Met Opera’s 2009-10 season
Nike Missile Radar Site Open House at Sandy Hook
Monday, August 17
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” screens for free at the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (lawn opens at 5 p.m.)
Mets home game vs San Francisco
Gospel Night: Yolanda Adams and Israel Houghton play the free Martin Luther King Jr. Concert series at Brooklyn’s Wingate Field at 7:30 p.m.
Downtown Dance Festival (through Aug. 21)
Night Ranger at B.B. King Blues Club at 8 p.m.
Chickenfoot at the Beacon Theatre
John Adams and the International Contemporary Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. at the Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater for the Mostly Mozart festival
August restaurant celebrates Le Marche festas (through Aug. 23)
Nike Missile Launch Site Tour at Sandy Hook
Tuesday, August 18
Mets home game vs Atlanta
Hidden Harbor Tour departing from Pier 16 at the South Street Seaport
Louis Langrée conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Jeffrey Kahane at 8 p.m. at the Avery Fisher Hall for the Mostly Mozart festival
A Little Night Music: Borromeo String Quartet at 10:30 p.m. at Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse for the Mostly Mozart festival
Stew and Heidi Rodewald join choreographer Bill T. Jones at the Wall Street Journal’s Summer Scoops newsmaker series
Free High Bridge Water Tower Tours from 6 to 7 p.m. - to coincide with the Highbridge City Parks Summer Concert Series: Xtreme
Free Central Park Film Festival begins with a screening of “Shaft” “Sex and the City” at the Rumsey Playfield. Gates at 6 p.m., movie at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, August 19
Mets home game vs Atlanta
Natalie Wood film series at Film Society of Lincoln Center (through Aug. 25)
Clearwater sloop 3-hour sail from 79th Street at 6 p.m.
National Aviation Day observed at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Roomful of Blues 40th Anniversary Tour plays Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 p.m.
Cloud Chamber - Eclectic folk-pop play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.
Mark Morris Dance Group, Visitation, Empire Garden, and V at 7:30 p.m. at the Rose Theater for the Mostly Mozart festival
Louis Langrée conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Jeffrey Kahane at 8 p.m. at the Avery Fisher Hall for the Mostly Mozart festival
Free at Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Tanya Tagaq, Stew & Heidi present: The Broadway Problem at Damrosch Park Bandshell at 7 p.m.
Richie Beirach Quintet at Birdland (through Aug. 22)
Hudson River Park’s free RiverFlicks for Grown-ups Pineapple Express at Pier 54 at 8:30 p.m.
Good-bye to Guiding Light, 72 Years Young discussion with cast, writers and a producers at the Paley Center for the Media at 6:30 p.m.
Speakeasy night at the Museum of the City of New York
Free Central Park Film Festival screens “Oceans 11” “Shaft” at the Rumsey Playfield. Gates at 6 p.m., movie at 8 p.m.
Free screening of the Italian film “Gomorrah” at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens at sunset
Hip To Hip Theatre Company’s begins free performances of “Romeo & Juliet “ at multiple locations (through Aug. 23)
Thursday, August 20
Barney’s Warehouse Sale begins (through Sept. 7)
Mets home game vs Atlanta
“Catch Me If You Can” screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
Moody Blues at Radio City Music Hall
Free performance: Hair: The New Broadway Cast Recording — James Rado, Galt MacDermot and cast from Broadway’s Hair at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 5 p.m.
Free at Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Harlem Samba at Josie Robertson Plaza at 7 p.m. and Buika Urban Bush Women at 7:30 p.m. at Damrosch Park Bandshell
Waterfront Museum speaker series: “My River Chronicles – Rediscovering America on the Hudson” with fireboat engineer and author Jessica DuLong at 7 p.m.
Maria Torres Dancers play Coney Island’s free Seaside Summer Concerts at at 7:30 p.m.
The Radiators play Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
Emerson String Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater for the Mostly Mozart festival
Mark Morris Dance Group, Visitation, Empire Garden, and V at 7:30 p.m. at the Rose Theater for the Mostly Mozart festival
South Street Seaport Museum’s Sip & Sail on board the historic schooner Pioneer from 7 to 9 p.m. (reservation required)
Preview: The September Issue at the Paley Center for the Media with filmmaker R. J. Cutler, Vogue’s Editor-at-Large Andre Leon Talley and Cinematographer Bob Richman
Free Central Park Film Festival screens “Sex & the City” “Oceans 11” at the Rumsey Playfield. Gates at 6 p.m., movie at 8 p.m.

Friday, August 21
Mets home game vs. Philadelphia
Reba McEntire plays a free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America
Natasha Bedingfield plays a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
Free screening of “Apollo 13” on the deck of the Intrepid for Summer Movie Series at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Rock Heart Beijing screens on the roof of the Old American Can Factory for Rooftop Films at 9 p.m.
Church tower tour at 3 p.m. to see the 250-year-old metal bell at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Battle Week events begin at Federal Hall, commemorating the 1776 Battle for New York
The Nerds play Rockin’ the River cruise at 8 p.m.
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Mark Morris Dance Group, Visitation, Empire Garden, and V at 7:30 p.m. at the Rose Theater for the Mostly Mozart festival
Closing Night: Haydn’s Creation at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m. for the Mostly Mozart festival
Hudson River Park’s free RiverFlicks for Kids Curious George at Pier 54 at 8:30 p.m.
Free Fridays at the South Street Seaport Museum from 5 to 9 p.m.
Hip-Hop Legends concert at BB Kings Blues Club at 11 p.m.
Free Central Park Film Festival screens “Twilight” at the Rumsey Playfield. Gates at 6 p.m., movie at 8 p.m.
Free at Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Frevo Bombastico at South Plaza at 7 p.m. and Blind Date with DJ Dolores & Siba, Otto at Damrosch Park Bandshell at 7:30 p.m.
New York Liberty vs. Connecticut Sun at Madison Square Garden
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Saturday, August 22
Mets home game vs. Philadelphia
Free Lantern Tour at 8 p.m. of the “dark caverns of Fort Totten for a history tour by lantern”
The Dorothy Parker Society leads a Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour, departing form the Algonquin Hotel lobby at 11:45 a.m. (Get $5 off the $20 tour if you mention NewYorkology)
NY Transit Museum’s Going West with the 7 Line: A Historic Perspective tour with historian Andrew Sparberg
Summer Streets as a 6.9-mile stretch of Manhattan streets close to vehicles from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Staten Island’s Van Duzer Street between Wright and Beach streets closes to traffic from noon to 8 p.m. for Van Duzer Days
Glass Eye Studio Demonstration at the American Museum of Natural History
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Sunset Park at 10 a.m.
Free at Lincoln Center Out of Doors: 26th Annual Roots of American Music In The Spirit of Odetta, Tommy Sands and Fionan and Moya, Calypso Rose, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, The Holmes Brothers at 2 p.m. at North Plaza/Hearst Plaza
WarmUp at P.S. 1 with Brennan Green, John Selway, Tim Love Lee, Talibam!, and The Phenomenal Handclap Band from 2 to 9 p.m.
Venn Diagrams and Clay McLeod Chapman at Joe’s Pub
Rock The Harbor concert at Snug Harbor on Staten Island from noon to 5 p.m.
Free storytelling in Central Park by the Hans Christian Andersen Storytellers from 11 a.m. to noon: “It’s Perfectly True” and “The Tinder Box”
Coney Island Film Society screens “Dracula” at 8:15 p.m. at the Coney Island Museum
Mark Morris Dance Group, Visitation, Empire Garden, and V at 3 p.m. at the Rose Theater for the Mostly Mozart festival
Mostly Mozart Closing Night: Haydn’s Creation at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Hip To Hip Theatre Company’s free “Romeo & Juliet ” at Socrates Sculpture Park at 5 p.m.
Family Day at the African Burial Ground National Monument
Normally closed on weekends, Federal Hall is open for free today
Free Central Park Film Festival viewers’ choice screening at the Rumsey Playfield. Gates at 6 p.m., movie at 8 p.m.
26th Annual Roots of American Music: Lizz Wright, Allen Toussaint free at 7 p.m. at Damrosch Park Bandshell for Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Sunday, August 23
Rain-or-shine NYC Japan Street Fair on Madison Avenue between 43rd and 44th streets
Girl Talk, Max Tundra, Wiz Khalifa play the Pool Parties on the Brooklyn Waterfront
Free at Lincoln Center Out of Doors: 26th Annual Roots of American Music: Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls Summer Revue at North Plaza/Hearst Plaza at 2 p.m.; and the 26th Annual Roots of American Music, BRC ORCHESTRA,The Louisiana Renegades, Texas Tornados, Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos, The Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Cuban Sextet at 4 p.m. at the Damrosch Park Bandshell
¡Retumba! plays Afro-Caribbean at the free Harlem Meer Performance Festival from 2 to 4 p.m. at Central Park’s Charles A. Dana Discovery Center near 110th Street
New York Marble Cemetery at 41 1/2 Second Avenue, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in NYC, opens to the public for the day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a free screening at 2 p.m. of the interactive 3-D Musketeers
Free 28th Annual Downtown Dance Festival events in Battery Park at 1 p.m.
Free outdoor comedy from 2 to 4 p.m. in Tompkins Square Park for Laughter in the Park 2009 with headliner Karith Foster
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Anonymous Craftsmen on the Upper West Side at 2 p.m.
Brooklyn Navy Yard Bus Tour at 1:30 p.m.
Normally closed on weekends, Federal Hall is open for free today with Battle Week events
Free noontime Memorial Bike Tour of sites in Riverside Park, including the Amiable Child monument and possibly the Little Red Lighthouse
Summer Songs and Stories at 2 p.m. at the Lefferts Historic House in Brooklyn
Hudson River Park Trust Presents: 10th Annual Blues BBQ from 2 to 9 p.m. at Pier 54
Bavarian Fashion Show‏ at Zum Schneider
Mets home game vs. Philadelphia
New York Liberty vs. Minnesota Lynx at Madison Square Garden
Dominican Parade and Festival in Bushwick
Stanton Street between Allen and Orchard streets goes car free for Stanton Street Summer Sundays from 1 to 6:30 p.m.
Shore Boulevard between Astoria Park South and Ditmars Boulevard closes to traffic from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for Astoria Water Walk
City beaches remain closed due to unsafe swimming conditions caused by Hurricane Bill
Monday, August 24
SeaPaddle NYC, 28-mile paddle around NYC, departing South Street seaport at Pier 17 at 9 a.m.
Opening night for Shakespeare in the Park’s “The Bacchae”
Mets home game vs. Philadelphia
Caribbean night at the free Martin Luther King Jr. Concert series with Sean Paul Machel Montano and his band at Brooklyn’s Wingate Field at 7:30 p.m.
Sally Mayes at Birdland at 7 p.m.
KC and the Sunshine Band at B.B. King Blues Club at 8 p.m.
Stephen Beasley Project plays a free concert from 6 to 7p.m. at Clinton Cove
Jazzmobile concert at 7 p.m.: The Duke Ellington Legacy Band, featuring Edward Ellington II at 106th St. bet. Central Park West & Manhattan Ave.
Tuesday, August 25
Yankees home game vs. Texas
33rd Anniversary of Concorde first flight celebrated at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Big Onion walking tour: Revolutionary New York at 1 p.m.
Hank Jones at Birdland (through Aug. 29)
Free High Bridge Water Tower Tours from 6 to 7 p.m. - to coincide with the Highbridge City Parks Summer Concert Series: Bachata Heightz & Watata
Free DJ Event: Harlem Hop Meets Diggers Delight from 4 to 8 p.m. in St Nicholas Park
Free geology walking tour from 6 to 8 p.m.: Sidney Horenstein’s The Trails of Fort Tryon Park, including remains of a giant landslide and the largest glacial pothole in NYC
Jazzmobile concert: Cecil Bridgewater & the Jazzmobile All-Stars at 122nd St. between 7th & Lenox Avenues in Harlem at 7 p.m.
Free T.O.K. performance and Autograph Signing at 12:30 p.m. on the first floor at J&R Music World ; with Eldar performance and Autograph Signing at the same time but on the second floor
Master Ballroom Dance Class at Chelsea Piers at 10 a.m. with Broadway’s “Burn the Floor” cast members

Wednesday, August 26
DIRECTV ESPN US Open Experience at Bryant Park with free public tennis play, as well as exhibition matches among pros including Venus and Serena Williams, James Blake, and the Jensen and Bryan brothers
Yankees home game vs. Texas
“Fame” screens for free at L Magazin’es Summerscreen at McCarren Park
Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Abraaj Capital Art Prize opens at the at the Museum of Arts & Design (through Oct. 4)
Yesterday and Today Band - Music of the Beatles play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.
Free concert by Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra in Bryant Park from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Jazzmobile concert: Frank Wess at Grant’s Tomb at 7 p.m.
Jazzmobile concerts: “The Joints are Jumpin’” at various Harlem clubs and restaurants
Free Air Supply performance and autograph signing at 6 p.m. J&R Music World
Thursday, August 27
Yankees home game vs. Texas
Donna Summer plays Coney Island’s free Seaside Summer Concerts at at 7:30 p.m.
“Edward Scissorhands” screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
“Babe” screens for free at East River State Park in Brooklyn
Free Stone Forest Ensemble concert (hip hop/classical/afro-beat) at the almost-open Museum of Chinese in America
Free J&R Music Fest kicks off in City Hall Park at 5 p.m. with Diane Birch, followed by Jemina Pearl at 6 and The Smithereens at 7 p.m.
The Allman Brothers Band at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden
MADCrush Wine Bar from 5 p.m. at the Museum of Arts & Design
MoMA Thursday Nights: Margaret Leng Tan
Waterfront Museum speaker series: “Restoration and Refit of the 102-year old Tugboat Pegasus” with Captain Pamela Hepburn of the Tugboat Pegasus Preservation Project and Marine Surveyor Charles Deroko at 7 p.m.
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
Open mic night at Canarsie Pier Concerts
South Street Seaport Museum’s Sip & Sail on board the historic schooner Pioneer from 7 to 9 p.m. (reservation required)
Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum Summer Thursdays events from 5 to 7 p.m. including fire-pit cooking demonstrations, garden workshops and games
Tour of the Geology and History of Riverside Park and Drive for members of the American Museum of Natural History
Jazzmobile concert: Cynthia Holiday at 7 p.m. on 132nd St. between 7th & Lenox avenues in Harlem
Free Dick Dale and Jimmy Dale autograph signing at 2 p.m. J&R Musical Instruments
Free St. Nicholas Park Tour with St. Nicholas Park’s Gardener at noon
Friday, August 28
Yankees home game vs. Chicago White Sox
Free early-morning Miley Cyrus concert at Rockefeller Center for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
“Bayou to Bourbon Street” featuring Marcia Ball & Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet play Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Harlem in the Himalayas acoustic jazz program at 7 p.m. with Jonathan Batiste Trio at the Rubin Museum
Adrian Belew of King Crimson at B.B. King Blues Club
Lavell Crawford at Comix (and Aug. 29)
Jazzmobile concert: Ghanniyya Green at 7 p.m. at Marcus Garvey Park
Free Sunset Jam on the Hudson drumming circle at 7 p.m. at Robert E. Wagner Jr. Park (instruments provided or bring own)
Free 5th Annual International Film, Dance and Music Series at Queens Museum of Art
Day 2 of the free J&R Music Fest starts at 5 p.m., with gospel singer Melinda Watts up first followed by J Moss at 5:30 p.m., Clipse at 6 and Mario at 7 p.m.
Saturday, August 29
“The Warriors” 30-year reunion at Coney Island
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in Marcus Garvey Park from 3 p.m.
Free Atlantic Salt Maritime Festival featuring tours of the Hudson-replica ship the Half Moon, and the Waterpod
Yankees home game vs. Chicago White Sox
“Il Barbiere di Siviglia” “La Fille du Régiment” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day at the US Open
Day 3 of the free J&R Music Fest as rappers KRS-One and Buckshot take the stage Saturday at 1 p.m., followed by Letoya at 2, Nikki Yanofsky at 3, Roberta Gambarini at 4 and trumpeter Roy Hargrove at 5 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Coney Island at 10 a.m.
Free storytelling in Central Park by the Hans Christian Andersen Storytellers from 11 a.m. to noon: “Drop of Water” and “Dance Dolly Mine”
Freshkills Park Compost Workshop and site tour at noon
Normally closed on weekends, Federal Hall is open for free today
Taste of Brooklyn! Festival at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum
After the Jump music fest at Littlefield in Brooklyn
Institute of Culinary Education’s Astoria Walking Tour at 11 a.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s Cooking in the Moment: Greenmarket Cuisine walking, shopping and cooking tour with chef Richard Ruben from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
FLOAT, Socrates Sculpture Garden’s biennial series of performance and temporary sculpture (and Aug. 30)
Guided Tour of Dyckman Farmhouse at 3:45 p.m. (Reservations are recommended)
Chinatown Walking Tour: From Coffeehouses to Banquet Halls at 1 p.m.
Seneca Village walking tour of Manhattan’s first known community of African-American property owners at noon
The Redhawk Dance Troupe at the Museum of the City of NY at 2p.m.
The 4th Annual Harlem Gardens Tour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Lavell Crawford at Comix
Central Park’s Adventures NYC from noon to 4 p.m.
Free Central Park Conservatory Garden Saturday Morning Tours at 11 a.m.
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House every half hour from 1 to 5:30 p.m.
WarmUp at P.S. 1 from 2 to 9 p.m. with Timmy Regisford and Duane Pitre Due to weather, rescheduled for Sept. 12
Sunday, August 30
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in Marcus Garvey Park from 3 p.m.
Grizzly Bear, Beach House play the Pool Parties in Brooklyn
Free Staten Island Modern, featuring 10 different dance works from nine choreographers, at the Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island from 1 to 4 p.m.
FLOAT, Socrates Sculpture Garden’s biennial series of performance and temporary sculpture
I.S. 143 Performance Ensemble plays salsa at the free Harlem Meer Performance Festival from 2 to 4 p.m. at Central Park’s Charles A. Dana Discovery Center near 110th Street
Free Battle of Brooklyn Commemorationevents at Green-Wood Cemetery from 10 a.m., with the final commemoration on Battle Hill at 2 p.m.
Free walking tour of Clinton Hill and its historic district from 10 a.m.
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House every half hour from 1 to 5:30 p.m.
NYC Audubon Seasonal Bird Walk at Wave Hill at 9:30 a.m.
New Amsterdam walking tour at 1 p.m.
Central Park Views from the Past free walking tour at noon focusing on park designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux
Municipal Art Society walking tour: The Truth about Central Park at 2 p.m.
Free ranger-led tour of the Rocks at High Rock on Staten Island at 11 a.m.
Yankees home game vs. Chicago White Sox
New York Liberty vs. Chicago Sky at Madison Square Garden
Stanton Street between Allen and Orchard streets goes car free for Stanton Street Summer Sundays from 1 to 6:30 p.m.
Canceled early: Normally closed on weekends, Federal Hall is open for free today
“Roméo et Juliette” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
After the Jump music fest at Littlefield in Brooklyn
Most NYC beaches are closed to swimming today due to unsafe conditions created by Tropical Storm Danny
Monday, August 31
US Open begins (through Sept. 13)
“Eugene Onegin” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza at 7:45 p.m. for the Summer HD Festival
“Batman Begins” screens for free at 8 p.m. at Cunningham Park in Queens
“Old Joy” and “Look Both Ways” screen at MoMA as part of its Recent Film Acquisitions: Continuum series
We Are The Song: After The Storm concert at Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m. to benefit The North Rampart Community Center and to celebrate the work that began in New Orleans
Walter Blanding Quintet plays Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Showcase of past winners from The ECNYs, NY’s comedy awards at Comix
The Empire State Building will light up yellow for the United States Tennis Association/US Open Opening Night

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