June 1, 2006

July 2009 calendar of events for New York City

Wednesday, July 1
Yankees home game vs. Seattle
Monthly free Bronx Culture Trolley
MGMT plays a benefit show at Prospect Park for Celebrate Brooklyn
American Ballet Theatre performance of Sylvia
Summertime Classics - Russian Fest at Avery Fisher Hall 7:30 p.m.
Guinness World Record attempt to create the Largest Air Guitar Ensemble, following the matinee performance of “Rock of Ages” on Broadway - at 4:20 p.m.
SYOTOS - Latin Jazz play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.
Sunset Wednesdays at Wave Hill with a meet the winemakers/food purveyors event and $35 prix fixe dinner from 6 to 8 p.m.
The Claire Lynch Band plays the free Oval Lawn Series at Madison Square Park at 6 p.m.
Monster Jam’s Grave Digger and Taz monster trucks arrive at Coney Island at the corner of 21st Street and Surf Avenue (through July 5)
Perpetual Transitions art installation opens at the Onassis Cultural Center
Michael Jackson Tribute at Amateur Night at the Apollo
New hours begin for Jewish Museum
Thursday, July 2
Yankees home game vs. Seattle
New York Liberty vs. Detroit Shock at Madison Square Garden
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Obie Bermudez, Rebel Diaz and Cucu Diamentes
MoMA Thursday Nights: Forró in the Dark
Summer Nights concert at the Jewish Museum at 7:30 p.m.: Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys
Summertime Classics - Russian Fest at Avery Fisher Hall 7:30 p.m.
American Ballet Theatre performance of Sylvia
Free R&B concert by Toshi Reagon at noon at MetroTech, Brooklyn
Monterey Pop screens at Film Society of Lincoln Center at 4:30, 6:30, and 8 p.m.
Two-for-one admission begins at Jewish Museum (through July)
Empire State Building lights up red/white/blue for Independence Day (through July 5)
Friday, July 3
Yankees home game vs. Toronto
Rob Thomas plays a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
Brad Paisley plays a free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Afro-Punk Festival (through July 6)
American Ballet Theatre performance of Sylvia
New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics - Born on the Fourth of July at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Movie Musical Marathon at Film Society of Lincoln Center (through July 5)
“The Magic Flute” screens at 9:30 p.m. for Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum, free with a $7 bar minimum
Saturday, July 4
Yankees home game vs. Toronto
7th Annual Candlelight Walking Tour of Revolutionary War New York starts at 2 a.m.
Water Taxi Beach opens on Governors Island at Governors Island
Macy’s 4th of July fireworks show on the Hudson River
NY Water Taxi July Fireworks Cruise from South Street Seaport departs 6:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: C. B. J. Snyder Schools on the Lower East Side at 10 a.m.
Louis Armstrng House Museum open on the 4th of July, “in honor of Louis’s traditional birthday”
Independence Day Celebrationat 10:30 a.m. at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Big Onion walking tour: Revolutionary New York at 1 p.m.
Kids go free to the matinee of American Ballet Theatre’s Ashton’s Sylvia for each full-price adult ticket purchased.
New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics - Born on the Fourth of July at Avery Fisher Hall at 3 p.m.
2009 Little People of America National Conference begins in Brooklyn
Williamsburg Walks as Bedford Avenue between North 4th and North 9th Streets goes car free from noon to 9 p.m.
Weekend Water Taxi service to the Rockaways begins (through summer)
2009 Greater Binghampton Airshow with the Blue Angels (through July 5)
Sunday, July 5
Yankees home game vs. Toronto
Oumou Sangare at a free Central Park Summerstage
Allen Toussaint plays Joe’ Pub at noon
Municipal Art Society walking tour: A Saint in New York: Pierre Toussaint
Monday, July 6
Yankees home game vs. Toronto
“Dog Day Afternoon” screens for free at the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (lawn opens at 5 p.m.)
American Ballet Theatre performance of Romeo & Juliet
London’s National Theatre’s Phèdre screens at Film Society of Lincoln Center at 4 and 8 p.m.
Mike Daisey Presents Mysteries of the Unexplained: THE BOARDWALK! at Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m.
Tibetan Medicine and Art, An Integration program at the Rubin Museum of Art at 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, July 7
Mets home game vs. LA Dodgers
Free Naumberg Orchestral Concert in Central Park at the Naumburg Bandshell at 7:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Cool Green Edge: Central Park West
Summer Organ Series at 7 p.m. at Riverside Church
Fashion & Politics opens at the The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (through Nov. 7)
New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics - From the Danube to the Rhine at 7:30 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
American Ballet Theatre performance of Romeo & Juliet
Wednesday, July 8
Chubby Checker plays Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center, with dance lessons from 6:30 p.m.
Mets home game vs. LA Dodgers
Def Leppard with Poison and Cheap Trick at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Tour of Pell’s Point Battlefield, organized by St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics - From the Danube to the Rhine at 7:30 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
International Thriller Writers’ Thrillerfest at the Grand Hyatt (through July 11)
Book event: Seeing Central Park: The Official Guide to the World’s Greatest Urban Park in-store at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 7:30 p.m.
American Ballet Theatre performance of Romeo & Juliet
Free Central Park Summerstage show: Juana Molina, Curumin, El G (ZZK) at 7p.m.
Sunset Wednesdays at Wave Hill with a meet the winemakers/food purveyors event and $35 prix fixe dinner from 6 to 8 p.m.
The Boogelrizers - Ragtime and Blues play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.
The Duhks play the free Oval Lawn Series at Madison Square Park at 6 p.m.
Taste of Nepal at the Rubin Museum of Art at 6 p.m.
Les Éphémères Le Théâtre du Soleil at Park Avenue Armory for the Lincoln Center Festival
Canceled until September: Kids Night on Broadway with free tickets to select Broadway and Off-Broadway shows
Thursday, July 9
Mets home game vs. LA Dodgers
Summer Restaurant Week preview event — Coca-Cola Great Tastes of Summer — from noon to 2 p.m. at Time Warner Center with free food tastings and a performance by the cast of “Hair”
MoMA Thursday Nights: Zé Luis Quartet from 5:30 to 8:45 p.m.
Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820–2009 opens at the National Academy Museum (through Jan. 3)
Paul Potts at the Beacon Theatre
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Streb
Raising Arizona screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
Yankee Stadium backstage tour
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 “Phantom of the Opera, “STOMP,” “Avenue Q” and “In The Heights”
New York Liberty vs. Los Angeles Sparks at Madison Square Garden
Dave Mason (founding member of Traffic) plays Rockin’ the River cruises at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
Summer Nights concert at the Jewish Museum at 7:30 p.m.: Musette Explosion
Big Onion walking tour: Revolutionary New York at 1 p.m.
Summer Family Concert Series from 6:30 to 8 p.m. with Uncle Rock and the Playthings at Washington Market Park
New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics - Boléro and other French Delights with Denyce Graves at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
American Ballet Theatre performance of Romeo & Juliet
Free R&B concert by Rebirth Brass Band at noon at MetroTech, Brooklyn
Exhibition: Mid-19th Century Underwear opens at the Mercant’s House Museum (through Sept. 14)
Museum of Sex wine tasting event
Free performances by Rock of Ages and The Toxic Avenger Musical in Union Square at 6 p.m. for Summer in the Square
Waterfront Museum speaker series: The John J. Harvey Fireboat” by Huntley Gill and the Fireboat Crew at 7 p.m.
Friday, July 10
Mets home game vs the Reds
Rascal Flatts play a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
Queen Latifah plays a free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America
Free French film sunset screening for Films on the Green at Tompkins Square Park
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Los Amigos Invisibles and Aterciopelados
Satisfaction: Tribute to The Rolling Stones plays Rockin’ the River cruise at 8 p.m.
New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics - Boléro and other French Delights with Denyce Graves at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
American Ballet Theatre performance of Romeo & Juliet
Funny Face screens at the Met Museum at 5:30 p.m. with a pre-screening discussion with Harold Koda, Kohle Yohannan, and Carmen Dell’Orefice
“Sans Soleil” screens at 9:30 p.m. for Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum, free with a $7 bar minimum
Annual induction ceremony of the Stickball Hall of Fame at the Museum of the City of NY at 6 p.m.
Free The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Zaza and Ribbons concert for the Seaport Music Festival at 6 p.m. at the South Street Seaport
Titus Andronicus / Real Estate play Whitney Live at the Whitney Museum of American Art at 7 p.m.
Saturday, July 11
Free Story Time at the Little Red Lighthouse at 2 p.m. - includes access up into the lighthouse
Mets home game vs the Reds
Big 3 Palladium Orchestra: The Music of Machito, Tito Rodriguez, and Tito Puente at Midsummer Night swing at Damrosch Park with dance lessons from 6:30 p.m.
Free 1 p.m. tour of Central Park’s Seneca Village, Manhattan’s first known community of African-American property owners
Shen Wei Dance Arts Re- (I, II, III) at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater for Lincoln Center Festival
Budapest’s Katona József Theatre production of Chekhov’s Ivanov at 8 p.m. at Gerald W. Lynch Theater for the Lincoln Center Festival
French New Wave Cinema film series begins at the Museum of Arts and Design (through Aug. 30)
NAACP 100th Annual Convention (through July 16)
Official opening day of Governors Island Water Taxi Beach
Grateful Dead tribute bandDark Star Orchestra plays Governors Island Beach with Keller Williams, Pete Francis (of Dispatch) and Barefoot Truth
New York Liberty vs. Atlanta Dream at Madison Square Garden
Manhattanhenge with the full sun setting in alignment with the Manhattan street grid at 8:25 p.m.
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by They Might Be Giants For Kids! and reader: Claudia Marshall
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Lecture at 2 p.m. “In Search of Sybil Luddington: Westchester’s Paul Revere” at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Garibaldi-Meucci Museum Rededication Ceremonyon Staten Island
American Ballet Theatre performance of Romeo & Juliet
NY Eye & Ear: Bi-Annual Record Fair and All-Ages Music Fest at 92YTribeca
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Eric Bobo at 3 p.m.
On Grotowski and His Legacy series at Film Society of Lincoln Center (through July 13)
Williamsburg Walks as Bedford Avenue between North 4th and North 9th Streets goes car free from noon to 9 p.m.
167th Street between Gerard and Cromwell Avenues closes to traffic for Bronx Summer Walks from noon to 4 p.m.
Municipal Art Society members-only walking tour: High Line Park & The Standard Hotel
Brahms, Schumann, and Mendelssohn: Complete Music for Cello and Piano Part 1 at Bargemusic at 8 p.m.
NYC Beach Volleyball Tournament at Coney Island
Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters host Broadway Barks from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Shubert Alley with Ashanti, Elizabeth Ashley, Jayne Atkinson, Michael Cerveris, Gavin Creel, Hope Davis, Christine Ebersole, Rupert Everett, Tovah Feldshuh, Sutton Foster, John Glover, Lauren Graham, Kate Jennings Grant, Ernie Hudson, Allison Janney, Carol Kane, Marc Kudisch, Angela Lansbury, Michael Mastro, Audra McDonald, Constantine Maroulis, Karen Olivo, David Hyde Pierce, Alice Ripley and others
Flux Factory’s destination unknown road-trip: Yoni Brook and Liz Barry, “Unheard of”
Art in Changing Perspecitves: BWAC’s Summer Pier Show (through Aug. 16)

Sunday, July 12
Free Traget Hhigh Line Street Festival from noon to 5 p.m. on Gansevoort Street between Ninth Avenue and Washington Street
Mets home game vs the Reds
Summer Restaurant Week (through July 31)
Atlantic Avenue tunnel tour
Manhattanhenge with half sun on the grid at 8:25 P.M
7th annual Bastille Day on Smith Street from noon to 8 p.m. in Brooklyn
Bastille Day on 60th Street from noon to 6 p.m.
John Edward at WaMu Theater at MSG
NY Transit Museum’s: Subway Tunneling in Northern Manhattan, tour of the system’s deepest station with transit historian Joe Cunningham
Walt Whitman’s Fort Greene Park , a stroll sponsored by Fort Greene Park Conservancy and The Walt Whitman Project, at 2 p.m.
Free Target High Line Street Festival from noon to 5 p.m. on Gansevoort Street
92Y City Walk: Lower East Side Synagogues, Bialystoker the Beautiful, Shteibl Row and the Sites of Historic East Broadway
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Family Day! with DJ Lance Rock & Brobee (of Yo Gabba Gabba!,) Iza Trapani, Sleeping Beauty puppet show at 3 p.m.
Writing the Hudson River: 400 Years of Poetic Discovery, A Panel & Reading with Wayne Franklin, Judith Richardson, Nancy Willard and Mark Wunderlich at Wave Hill at 3 p.m.
Tour de Queens bike ride
Summer Music in the Garden with Gamelan Son of Lion at the Noguchi Museum
Brooklyn Navy Yard Bus Tour at 1:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Bushwick: A Tribute to Our Dutch Heritage
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven Natioanl Laboratory on Long Island opens to the public for free as part of Summer Sundays, focusing on Energy Solutions & the Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Brahms, Schumann, and Mendelssohn: Complete Music for Cello and Piano Part 1 at Bargemusic at 3 p.m.
NYC Beach Volleyball Tournament at Coney Island
Monday, July 13
Free Met Opera Summer Recital at 8 p.m. at Central Park SummerStage with Lisette Oropesa (soprano), Alek Shrader (tenor), and Vlad Iftinca (piano) - standby only
“How Green Was My Valley” screens for free at the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (lawn opens at 5 p.m.)
Wilco and Yo La Tengo play Keyspan Park in Coney Island
Summer Broadway Festival at Town Hall:Broadway Winners: The Award-Winning Music of Broadway at 8 p.m.
Celebrity Autiobiography with Craig Bierko, Rachel Dratch, Jackie Hoffman, Kristen Johnston, Carol Kane, Bobby Moynihan, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and Alan Zweibel at 7:30 p.m. at the Triad Theatre
The Fray play a free concert at Rockefeller Center for The Today Show
Free “(500) Days of Summer” screening for Wall Street Journal SummerScoops
Keiysha Cole and Lyfe Jennings play the free Martin Luther King Jr. Concert series at Brooklyn’s Wingate Field at 7:30 p.m.
Free Movie Nights on the Elevated Acre: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three(1974 version) at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, July 14
Free NY Philharmonic concert at 8 p.m. on the Great Lawn, Central Park (with fireworks)
Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Sex Writer’s Panel at the Museum of Sex
Hidden Harbor Tour departing from Pier 16 at the South Street Seaport
Book talk at the Skyscraper Museum: Loretta Lorance, “Becoming Bucky Fuller” at 6:30 p.m.
Free performance: 9 to 5 the Musical: Original Broadway Cast Recording at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 4:30 p.m.
CinémaTuesdays at French Institute Alliance Française: The Things of Life
” Legacy of Torture: The War Against the Black Liberation Movement” screens as part of the Black Panther Film Festival
Melba Joyce & Her Big Band at Midsummer Night Swing
Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival (through July 19)
Empire State Building lights up blue-yellow-white for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Centennial Anniversary
Wednesday, July 15
Free NY Philharmonic concert at 8 p.m. at Prospect Park (with fireworks)
Nickelback with Hinder, Papa Roach, and Saving Abel at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Otros Aires plays Midsummer Night Swing
Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt
and The Deeper They Bury Me, The Louder My Voice Becomes open at the New Museum (through Oct. 11)
Free screening of A Secret (Un Secret) at the Museum of Jewish Heritage at 7 p.m.
In & Out of Amsterdam | 1960–1976 opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Nov. 9)
High Line-sponsored Design Talk (free with RSVP)
Sunset Wednesdays at Wave Hill with a meet the winemakers/food purveyors event and $35 prix fixe dinner from 6 to 8 p.m.
Don Byron plays Junior Walker at the free Oval Lawn Series at Madison Square Park at 7 p.m.
Agua Clara - Music of the Andes play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.
The Museum of the City of New York opens its Speakeasy at 1220 Fifth (every Wednesday through Aug. 26)
Guggenheim’s 50th Anniversary Dinner at the Four Seasons
Free Grand Opera in Central Park: Il Trovatore at 7:30 p.m. at Naumberg Bandshell
Beres Hammond plays BAM Howard Gilman Opera House at 9 p.m.
Free River Flicks at Pier 54: Vicky Cristina Barcelona at 8:30 p.m.
Free Luisito Rosario y su Orquestra concert at 7 p.m at Wagner Park
Costumed demonstration “Bayonets, Musket Balls & Ship’s Bread” at 12:15 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Thursday, July 16
Free NY Philharmonic concert at 8 p.m. at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx (with fireworks)
The Maltese Falcon screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America lecture at the Fraunces Tavern Museum at 6:30 p.m.
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Kronos Quartet and Luminescent Orchestra
Summer on the Hudson: Site Specific Dance: Dance Gang from 7 to 8 p.m. at Riverside Park South
Summer Nights concert at the Jewish Museum at 7:30 p.m.: Slavic Soul Party!
Summer Family Concert Series from 6:30 to 8 p.m. with Louie Miranda at Washington Market Park
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 “Little Mermaid,” “9 to 5,” “Pure Country” and “Toxic Avenger”
Free R&B concert by Anthony David at noon at MetroTech, Brooklyn
“Focus: Oskar Kokoschka” opens at the Neue Galerie (through Oct. 5)
Hurvin Anderson exhibition opens at the Studio Museum in Harlem (through Oct. 25)
Artist-in-Residence 2008-09 exhibition opens at the Studio Museum in Harlem (through Oct. 29)
Expanding the Walls 2009 exhibition opens at the Studio Museum in Harlem (through Oct. 25)
Waterfront Museum speaker series: Henry Hudson and his River” by Jack Putnam, South Street Seaport Museum at 7 p.m.
Jazz Night: Oscar Peñas Quartet at Bargemusic
Creedence Clearwater Revisted with Mountain and John Sebastian play Coney Island’s free Seaside Summer Concerts at at 7:30 p.m.
David Goldblatt and Richard Flood in Conversation at the New Museum at 7 p.m.
History of Space Exploration auction at Bonhams
Free, flash-mob style Break Out in Song dance performance of with “If My Friends Could See Me Now” at the Time Warner Center at 6 p.m.
Friday, July 17
Free NY Philharmonic concert at 8 p.m. on the Great Lawn, Central Park, with fireworks
Free screening of “Jaws” on the deck of the Intrepid for Summer Movie Series at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Yankees home game vs. Detroit
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection opens at MoMA (through Aug. 31)
Free French film sunset screening of “Works” for Films on the Green at Tompkins Square Park
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Robert Cray and The Sweet Divines
Paul McCartney at Citi Field concert
The All American Rejects play a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
Free Met Opera Summer Recital at 7 p.m. at Crotona Park, Bronx
Free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Bruce in the USA: Tribute to Bruce Springsteen plays Rockin’ the River cruise at 8 p.m.
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Harlem Book Fair (through July 19)
Polly Maggoo screens at the Met Museum at 5:30 p.m. with a pre-screening discussion with Harold Koda, Kohle Yohannan, and Dorothy McGowan
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” screens at 9:30 p.m. for Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum, free with a $7 bar minimum
Harlem in the Himalayas acoustic jazz program with KATARU, Kaoru Watanabe / Tatsuya Nakatani / Adam Rudolph at 7 p.m. at the Rubin Museum
Free Superchunk and Versus concert at the Seaport Music Festival at 6 p.m. at the South Street Seaport
Abe Vigoda / Grooms play Whitney Live at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 7 p.m.
Beres Hammond plays BAM Howard Gilman Opera House at 9 p.m.
Free, flash-mob style Break Out in Song dance performance of “Don’t Rain on My Parade” at South Street Seaport at 6 p.m.
New Music Greats: An Evening with Rashaad Newsome at the New Museum at 7 p.m.
Saturday, July 18
Paul McCartney at Citi Field concert
Mandela Day concert at Radio City Music Hall
Little Red Lighthouse open for free tours from 1 to 4 p.m.
Yankees home game vs. Detroit
The Big Draw
Aquathlon: Stars & Stripes
A Guinness World Record attempt for the ‘Largest Musical Saw Ensemble’ at the Musical Saw Festival at 2 p.m. at Trinity Church, 31-18 37th Street in, Astoria, Queens
WarmUp at P.S. 1 from 2 to 9 p.m.
Free NY Philharmonic concert at 8 p.m. at the College of Staten Island at the Center for the Arts
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by African Festival: King Sunny Ade, Mandingo Ambassadors, Abena Koomson, Sing Sing, Yasser Darwish
City of Water Day at Governors Island
Concierto de la Independencia de Colombia at WaMu Theater at MSG
NY Transit Museum’s Art Along the Way: Coney Island, Baby! tour of the Stillwell Avenue Terminal with Arts for Transit’s Amy Hausmann, and the green terminal building with NYCT’s Tom Jablonski
Free, all-ages Siren Festival at Coney Island with Spank Rock, Future of the left, Japandroids, bear Hands, Built to Spill, The Raveonettes, Frightened Rabbit, Grand Duchy, Monotonix, Micachu & The Shapes
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Firefighter Appreciation Weekend at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (and July 19)
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Q-Tip, Chester French, Little Dragon, Benji B at 3 p.m.
Kids Day at Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
New Swing Sextet at Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park from 6:30 p.m.
PSE&G Teterboro Airport 5K, on the runway of Teterboro Airport
Tickets go on sale to the general public for Jude Law in Hamlet on Broadway
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Historic Hamilton Park in Jersey City
Free-admission concert at Bargemusic at 1 p.m.
Flux Factory’s destination unknown road-trip: Jason Eppink and Matt Green, “Quest for Immortality”
Weeksville’s Salon Series featuring N’Dambi at 6 p.m.
Soul Music Legends Live: The Manhattans, The Chi-Lites, Blue Magic, and the Charlie Thomas Drifters play BAM Howard Gilman Opera House at 8 p.m.
Free, flash-mob style Break Out in Song dance performance of “Anything Goes” on the Intrepid flight deck at 3 p.m.
The Great Hot Dog Cookoff at Kelso Brewery
Orson Welles’s “Macbeth” screens at the Walter Reade Theater at 8 p.m. as part of the The Bard Goes Global: Shakespeare on the International Screen at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Free Shakespeare in Riverside Park: Hamlet at 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 19
Yankees home game vs. Detroit
New York Liberty vs. Atlanta Dream at Madison Square Garden
High Line walking tour with Architectural Historian, Matt Postal
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Alpha Blondy & The Solar System, Lee “Scratch” Perry & Dubblestandart, Subatomic Sound System at 3 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour celebrating the birthday of Edward Hopper
Highbridge Water Tower open for free tours from 1 to 4 p.m.
Dirty Projectors, Magnolia Electric Co., White Denim play the Pool Parties Brooklyn
Free, flash-mob style Break Out in Song dance performance of “Consider Yourself” in Times Square at 1 p.m.
Firefighter Appreciation Weekend at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
The Incomparable William Byrd plays the free Summer Festival of Sacred Music at 11 a.m. at St. Bartholomew’s
David Mamet’s Oleanna on Broadway with Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven Natioanl Laboratory on Long Island opens to the public for free as part of Summer Sundays, focusing on the National Synchrotron Light Source
Monday, July 20
Free NY Philharmonic concert at 8 p.m. at the Colden Auditorium at Queens College
Project Shaw reading of “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” featuring Michael Cristofer, Tyne Daly, Sean Dugan, Xanthe Elbrick, George S. Irving and Brian Murray at The Players Club at 7 p.m.
Summer Broadway Festival at Town Hall:Broadway’s Rising Stars at 8 p.m.
Yankees home game vs. Baltimore Orioles
“Harold and Maude” screens for free at the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (lawn opens at 5 p.m.)
Free Movie Nights on the Elevated Acre: “West Side Story” at 8 p.m.
The O’Jays, Russell Thompkins Jr. & The New Stylistics, Jerry Butler, and Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes play the free Martin Luther King Jr. Concert series at Brooklyn’s Wingate Field at 7:30 p.m.
Spring Awakening’s Emma Hunton plays Joe’s Pub
Free Central Astoria’s Movie Night in Astoria Park: “Surfs Up” at 8:30 p.m.
Free SITELINES: A Space Funk Invasion by Nicholas Leichter Dance performed at 6 p.m. at the South Street Seaport (through July 30)
Tuesday, July 21
Free Summer Theatre production of “Click, Clack Moo” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (through Aug. 28)
Free admission at Snug Harbor all day for Visitor Appreciation Day with a performance by the Army Reserve Band at 12:30 p.m.
Free Naumberg Orchestral Concert in Central Park with Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players at 7:30 p.m.
Free Karsh Kale and Timeline, GamelaTron & Forward Motion Theater performance at the World Financial Center Winter Garden at 9 p.m.
Celebrate Brooklyn benefit show: Jackson Browne
Tom Jones at the Beacon Theatre
Catherine Russell and Cat & the Hounds Swing Band at Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park from 6:30 p.m.
Dave Matthews Band at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater (an July 22)
Yankees home game vs. Baltimore Orioles
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Cool, Green Edge: Prospect Park West and Grand Army Plaza
CinémaTuesdays at French Institute Alliance Française: “The Woman in Blue”
Wednesday, July 22
Yankees home game vs. Baltimore Orioles
Free KRS-One at Crotona Park at 7 p.m.
Twain-inspired “The Report of My Death” begins performances on the Lilac Steamship, docked at Pier 40 (through Aug. 15)
Zydeco Explosion with Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas + C.J. Chenier play Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 p.m.
Unzipped screens at the Met Museum at 5:30 p.m. with a pre-screening discussion with Harold Koda and Isaac Mizrahi
Sunset Wednesdays at Wave Hill with a meet the winemakers/food purveyors event and $35 prix fixe dinner from 6 to 8 p.m.
Mark Edwards - Classical Guitar play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.
Jonatha Brooke plays the free Oval Lawn Series at Madison Square Park at 7 p.m.
Emory Douglas: Black Panther and Dorothy Iannone: Lioness open at the New Museum (through Oct. 18)
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park from 6:30 p.m.
Free Lunchtime Music at Zuccotti Park - Mahalo Boysat 12:30 p.m.
Frankie Negrón at 7 p.m. at Wagner Park
Dave Matthews Band at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Lecture “How did the Americans Win?” at 12:15 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Thursday, July 23
Yankees home game vs. Oakland A’s
Canceled due to rain: “Paper Moon” screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
New York Liberty vs. Sacramento Monarchs at Madison Square Garden
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists plays Pier 54, doors open at 6 p.m.
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
NY Transit Museum’s Ride the BMT: The Brooklyn Munching Tour on the Q line with Todd “Knight of Noshing” Coleman
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Stephen Petronio Co.
Ljova and the Kontraband play a Summer Nights concert at the Jewish Museum at 7:30 p.m.
Joan Osborne with Chris Barron play Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 and 9:30 p.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 “Mary Poppins,” “Rock of Ages,” “Vanities” and “Next to Normal”
Free R&B concert by Kindred the Family Soul at noon at MetroTech, Brooklyn
Waterfront Museum speaker series: Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Launching and Restoration of the historic Hudson Sloop Clearwater ” by Capt. Samantha Heyman and Captain/Shipwright Nicholas Rogers at 7 p.m.
Gladys Knight and the O’Jays play Coney Island’s free Seaside Summer Concerts at at 7:30 p.m.
Emory Douglas Introduced by Rigo 23 at the New Museum at 7 p.m.
La Excelencia at Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park from 6:30 p.m.
Free Richie Havens Four Nights of Peace, Love & Music: A Castle Clinton Tribute to Woodstock at 7 p.m.
Free Junior Mance concert at the World Financial Center Plaza at 12:30 p.m.
Friday, July 24
Yankees home game vs. Oakland A’s
2009 Central Park Underwear Run at 7:30 p.m.
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Bettye Lavette, Budos Band, Felix Hernandez Rhythm Revue at 7 p.m.
Free Met Opera Summer Recital at 7 p.m. at Queensbridge Park, Queens
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Buckwheat Zydeco and The Holmes Brothers
Free Black Moth Super Rainbow, Blank Dogs and Dan Friel concert at the Seaport Music Festival at 6 p.m. at the South Street Seaport
La Sonora Dinamita at Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park from 6:30 p.m.
Free Junior Mance concert at One New York Plaza at 12:30 p.m.
Woods / YellowFever play Whitney Live at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 7 p.m.
Katy Perry plays a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
Free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America: Sean Paul
“The Garden of Earthly Delights” screens at 9:30 p.m. for Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum, free with a $7 bar minimum
Free French film sunset screening of “Claire’s Knee” for Films on the Green at Tompkins Square Park
31st Annual Thunderbird American Indian Mid-Summer Pow Wow at the Queens County Farm Museum (through July 26)
Best of the Ottawa Animation Festivalat BAM
Get Weird: Tarek Atoui + U.S. Girls at the New Museum at 7 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
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Los Lobos plays Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 25
Yankees home game vs. Oakland A’s
19th Annual Sand Sculpting Contest from noon to 5 p.m. at Coney Island Boardwalk between West 10th and West 12th streets
NY Transit Museum’s LIRR one-day getaway to Greenport and Riverhead on the original route of the Long Island Rail Road in honor of its 175th anniversary
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Coney Island Film Society screens “A Nightmare on Elm Street” at 8:15 p.m. at the Coney Island Museum
Clearwater sloop 3-hour sail from 79th Street at 6 p.m.
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Kailash Kher and Electro Morocco
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Jerry Rivera and special guests, N’Klabe at 3 p.m.
Harlem Renaissance Orchestra with special guest Houston Person at Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park from 6:30 p.m.
Burn the Floor - Ballroom Dance Concert begins performances at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre (through Oct. 18)
City Chase urban adventure for teams of two ($190)
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Where Brooklyn Meets the Middle East around Atlantic Ave.
Free-admission concert at Bargemusic at 1 p.m.
Flux Factory’s destination unknown road-trip: Moses Gates: “To the Rising Sun”
Salon Series featuring Martin Luther at 5 p.m.
Maysles Cinema at the New Museum presents Living With Conviction: A Black Panther Party Film Series at the New Museum at 3 p.m.
WarmUp at P.S. 1: Alexi Delano, Derek Plaslaiko, and Elliott Sharp’s Carbon from 2 to 9 p.m.
Sunday, July 26
Yankees home game vs. Oakland A’s
9th annual Nautica NYC Triathlon
Summer’s Most Scenic Ride: Harlem Valley Rail Ride
Judy Collins plays a free concert on Governors Island at 2 p.m.
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.
New York Liberty vs. Phoenix Mercury at Madison Square Garden
Clearwater sloop 3-hour sail from 79th Street at 2 p.m.
High Line walking tour
Missa Luba A Congolese Mass and Nicholas White’s Steal Away at the free Summer Festival of Sacred Music at 11 a.m. at St. Bartholomew’s
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Ginuwine, Joe, Chico DeBarge at 3 p.m.
Brooklyn Navy Yard Bus Tour at 1:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Chelsea Northwest
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven Natioanl Laboratory on Long Island opens to the public for free as part of Summer Sundays, for Family Fun Day
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Black Lips, HEALTH, Grupo Fantasma play the Pool Parties Brooklyn
7th Annual Myanmar Water Festival at Sarah D. Roosevelt Park from noon to 5 p.m.
New Museum Block Party from noon to 7 p.m.
Chico’ O’Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra at Birdland at 9 and 11 p.m.
Monday, July 27
Anita Baker and Charlie Wilson play the free Martin Luther King Jr. Concert series at Brooklyn’s Wingate Field at 7:30 p.m.
“The Defiant Ones” screens for free at the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (lawn opens at 5 p.m.)
Free Movie Nights on the Elevated Acre: “Sweet Smell of Success” at 8 p.m.
King-Fu Panda screens at sunset as part of the Roosevelt Island Outdoor Summer Movie Series
Summer Broadway Festival at Town Hall: All Singin’ All Dancin’ at 8 p.m.
Tituss Burgess plays Birdland at 7 p.m.
Leon Russell plays BB Kings at 8 p.m.
Mets home game vs Colorado Rockies
Tuesday, July 28
Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart series begins as Louis Langrée conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Leif Ove Andsnes at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
The Muppet Movie 30th Anniversary at BAM
Free King Britt Sun Ra-lectric: Saturn Never Sleeps, a “carefully curated electronic experience,” at 9 p.m. at the World Financial Center Winter Garden
Mets home game vs Colorado Rockies
CinémaTuesdays at French Institute Alliance Française: “Everything’s Fine, We’re Leaving”
Steely Dan at the Beacon Theatre (through Aug. 1)
Dirty Sock Funtime Band play the Madison Square Park free kids concert series at 10:30 a.m.
Wednesday, July 29
Mets home game vs Colorado Rockies
Sunset Wednesdays at Wave Hill with a meet the winemakers/food purveyors event and $35 prix fixe dinner from 6 to 8 p.m.
Raul Malo plays the free Oval Lawn Series at Madison Square Park at 7 .m.
Mecca Bodega - Inventive Percussion play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.
Wine & Jazz in the Garden: A Stimulus Package at the Merchant’s House Museum from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society’s 18th Annual Summer Boat Tour
Weeksville’s film series: small (ages 5 and up) at 7:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Boutique Fashion Nights at Serimony on Court Street (and July 30)
Louis Langrée conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Leif Ove Andsnes at Avery Fisher Hall for the Mostly Mozart festival
A Little Night Music: Piotr Anderszewski at 10:30 p.m. for the Mostly Mozart festival
Steve Forbert and the Windfall Prophets and Chris Smither play Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 p.m.
Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy walking tour at 2 p.m.: Crossing Delancy Highlights
Hudson River Park’s free RiverFlicks for Grown-ups Hancock at Pier 54 at 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 30
“To Catch A Thief” screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
Brooklyn Boutique Fashion Nights
New York City native and NASA astronaut Mike Massimino appearance at the Intrepid Museum at 11 a.m.
New York Liberty vs. Washington Mystics at Madison Square Garden
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
NY Transit Museum’s tour of LIRR’s Hillside Maintenance Complex, the largest facility for commuter trains in North America
Mets home game vs Colorado Rockies
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Burning Spear and Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes play Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 and 9:30 p.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 “Chicago,” “Naked Boys Singing!” “Jersey Boys” and “Shrek”
Free R&B concert by Ladysmith Black Mambazo at noon at MetroTech, Brooklyn
Waterfront Museum speaker series: Plans for Atlantic Basin and the Oil Tanker “Mary A. Whalen.” PortSide’s director Carolina Salguero and designer Tim Ventimiglia at 7 p.m.
Drilling Company stages Measure for Measure for Shakespeare in the Parking Lot (through Aug. 15)
HOT! Festival and New Museum Presents: La JohnJoseph and Joseph Keckler at the New Museum at 7 p.m.
Weeksville’s film series: medium (for high school and young adults) at 7:30 p.m.
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons play Coney Island’s free Seaside Summer Concerts at 7:30 p.m. with Connie Francis
Borough President’s Starlight Concert with Ashlyne LaGuerre at Snug Harbor on Staten Island at 8 p.m.
Astrograss plays the Madison Square Park free kids concert series at 10:30 a.m.
New York Cares Barnes & Noble Book Fair from 9 a.m. to midnight
South Street Seaport Museum’s Sip & Sail on board the historic schooner Pioneer from 7 to 9 p.m. (reservation required)
Arlo Guthrie Four Nights of Peace, Love & Music: A Castle Clinton Tribute to Woodstock for the River to River Festival, free at 7 p.m.
Union Square’s Summer in the Square events include performances by Gazillion Bubble Show and a City Parks Foundation Marionette Show featuring Sleeping Beauty at noon; Jukebox the Ghost at 5:30 p.m.; and The Lightyears at 6:30 p.m.
Friday, July 31
Edward Gardner conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring Piotr Anderszewski at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall for the Mostly Mozart festival
Vivian Girls / These Are Powers play Whitney Live at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 7 p.m.
Walls Are Doors Film Series begins at the Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum, free with a $7 bar minimum
The Outsiders screens as part of the Swayze Days of Summer at 92YTribeca at 10:30 p.m.
Jody Watley plays BB Kings
‘God’ll Getcha For That: A Bea Arthur Tribute’ at Dixon Place Bar & Performance Cafe at 8:30 p.m.
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Movits! at Joe’s Pub at 11:30 p.m.
Evening Bat Walk in Central Park
Mets home game vs Arizona
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Royal Family: John Scofield, Soulive, Christian Scott, Dumpstaphunk
(Moved to Brooklyn Bowl:) Free Polvo and Obits concert at the Seaport Music Festival
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Dance: RIOULT, Germaul Barnes/Viewsic Expressions at 8 p.m.
The Nerds play Rockin’ the River cruise at 8 p.m.
Rooftop Films screening of “best Worst Movie” on the lawn of Automotive High School
Weeksville’s film series: large (12 and up) at 7:30 p.m.
All Points West music festival begins at Liberty State Park with Jay-Z, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, The National, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT, Q-Tip, The Pharcyde, Organized Konfusion, The Knux, Ra Ra Riot, Seasick Steve, Telepathe, Shearwater, Heartless Bastards, Flying Lotus, College Humor Live, Arj Barker, Eugene Mirman and Bo Burnham
Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy waking tour at 10:45 a.m.: Bialystoker the Beautiful Highlights
World War II living history re-enactor mans the Fort Hancock’s Battery John Gunnison from from 1 to 5 p.m.
Kings of Leon play a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
Kelly Clarkson plays a free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America
Rescheduled to 8/1 due to rain: Free screening at The Intrepid of Night at the Museum- Battle of the Smithsonian
Canceled: Hudson River Park’s free RiverFlicks for Kids Star Wars: The Clone Wars at Pier 54
Canceled: Free Met Opera Summer Recital at 7 p.m. at East River Park in Manhattan

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