June 1, 2006
July 2008 calendar events for New York City
Thursday, July 24
Book event: “Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks” at the Fraunces Tavern Museum at 6:30 p.m.
Panel discussion “Spotlight on Design: Building in the City’s Parks” at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
Free screening of Jeff Koons, the Banality Show at the Met Museum at 2 p.m.
Last chance to see the Chuck Close-curated show at the FLAG Art Foundation in Chelsea from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Laurie Anderson’s Homeland for the Lincoln Center Festival at 8 p.m.
Brooklyn theater company Brave New World stages Ray Bradbury’s “Farenheit 451” in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn
Gate|Beckett, “First Love” with Ralph Fiennes for the Lincoln Center Festival at 7 p.m.
Gate|Beckett, “I’ll Go On” with Barry McGovern for the Lincoln Center Festival at 9 p.m.
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies play BB Kings; opening act: JELVIS: The Jewish Elvis
Mets vs. Philadelphia at Shea Stadium at 12:10 p.m.
Tom Wopat sings at the Metropolitan Room
(Free Broadway in Bryant Park has been canceled for today.)
Friday, July 25
Free JFK Airtrain rides to mark the airport’s 60th year in operation
Mets vs. St. Louis at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.
Gate|Beckett “Eh Joe” with Liam Neeson at the Lincoln Center Festivalat 7:30 p.m.
Laurie Anderson’s Homeland for the Lincoln Center Festival at 8 p.m.
Gate|Beckett, “First Love” with Ralph Fiennes for the Lincoln Center Festival at 5 and 9 p.m.
The Subways play the Blender Theatre
Animation Block Party (through July 27)
Björn Again - The Abba Experience play the Circle Line 42 concert cruise
Atlas Sound, El Guincho play the South Street Seaport - free
New York Liberty vs. Los Angeles Sparks at Madison Square Garden
Philip Glass Ensemble plays the “Powaqqatsi” score with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and Marta Topferova in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn
Free 7 a.m. Miley Cyrus concert at Rockefeller Center for the “Today” show
Free 7 a.m. Feist concert at Bryant Park for “Good Morning America
30th Annual Thunderbird American Indian Mid-Summer Pow Wow at the Queens County Farm Museum (through July 27)
Fireworks night at Brooklyn Cyclones minor-league baseball at Coney Island vs. the Staten Island Yankees
Sleepover of the American Museum of Natural History
Saturday, July 26
Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and Nimrod Freed/Tami Dance Company’s PeepDance at 7 p.m. at Central Park Summerstage
Laurie Anderson’s Homeland for the Lincoln Center Festival at 8 p.m.
Coney Island Film Society screens “Taxi Driver”
Transit Museum Annex at Grand Central opens What’s New, the best and most unusual of the museum’s latest acquisitions (through Nov. 2)
NY Transit Museum tours of the Bergen Street Sign Shop at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Grand Central Terminal walking tour at 11 a.m.
City of Water Day celebrated at Governors Island
Brooklyn Waterfront Coalition opens its weekends-only summer art show
Lenell’s holds a wine tasting of wines made by a Brooklyn woman
Eric Bibb plays Governors Island for the free Folks on the Island
Ghostland Observatory, The Jealous Girlfriends and Bear Hands in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn
Bedford Avenue goes pedestrian-only for Williamsburg Walks for the day
Staten Island Yankees home game against the Brooklyn Cyclones
Mets vs. St. Louis at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Go, Go, Gowanus, at 11 a.m.
Sunday, July 27
“Ellington at 109!” at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m.
Free Poppenhusen Institute Concert Series in Queens at MacNeil Park: Music of the 50’s & 60’s
Mets vs. St. Louis at Shea Stadium at 1:10 p.m.
Taj Mahal, Skatalites and Los Pinguos at 3 p.m. at Central Park Summerstage
Harlem Gospel Choir sings the music of Mary J. Blige at BB Kings
Bike New York’s Harlem Valley Rail Ride
New York Marble Cemetery, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in New York City, is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Diamond District: A World Within a World, at 11 a.m.
Brooklyn Cyclones minor-league baseball at Coney Island vs. the Staten Island Yankees
Central Park bird walk at 9 a.m. with Birding Bob for $5. Meet at 9 a.m. at the dock on Turtle Pond (approximately 79th street in the center of the park.) Last week’s sightings: Warbling vireo families, a pair of Black-capped Chickadees and Carolina Wrens
Lenell’s holds a tasting of a New York-made sloe gin
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J.
Brookhaven National Lab free tours of its Science Learning Center
Monday, July 28
Yankees vs. Baltimore at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
“The Apartment” screens for free on the lawn at HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival at dusk
All Singin’ All Dancin’ II at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Staten Island Yankees home game against the Brooklyn Cyclones
VineTime, The North Fork Wine Experience
Tuesday, July 29
Kirchner Street Scenes, 1913–1915 opens at MoMA (through Nov. 10)
Panel discussion ” Latinos and the Future of Catholicism” at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
Yankees vs. Baltimore at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Early Buddhist Manuscripts: The Palm-Leaf Tradition opens at the Met Museum (through Nov. 16)
Working Harbor Committee’s Hidden Harbor Tour, departs Pier 16 at South Street Seaport Museum at 6 p.m.
Crosby, Stills & Nash at 7 p.m. at Central Park Summerstage ($66)
Foo Fighters play the Izod Center at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J.
Wednesday, July 30
Panel discussion ” New York Infrastructure: Are New York’s Airports Obsolete?” at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
Jonathan Miles at the Bryant Park Reading Room reading from “Dear American Airlines: A Novel”
Walking With Dinosaurs: The Live Experience at Madison Square Garden (through Aug. 3)
Yankees vs. Baltimore at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Thursday, July 31
Yankees vs. the Angels at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Tap-dancer Savion Glover plays BB Kings
Mark Morris Dance Group perform Love Song Waltzes (1982), Love Song Waltzes (1989), and the NY premiere of a new work to Samuel Barber’s Excursions for Piano in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn
Novelists Richard Price and Charles Bock at 7 p.m. at Central Park Summerstage
Roomful of Blues play the Circle Line 42 concert cruise
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