June 01, 2006

June 2007 New York City calendar of events

1 - Brooklyn International Film Festival (through June 10)
Rock Bottom Remainders (Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Mitch Albom, Scott Turow, Ridley Pearson, Greg Iles, Matt Groening, James McBride, Roy Blount Jr. and Kathi Goldmark. Also, part of the group this year are Frank McCourt and Andy Bororwitz, with Roger McGuinn,) play their once-a-year show at Webster Hall
Mets home game vs. Arizona (and June 2 and 3)
First Fridays dance party with Nouvelle Vague at the Guggenheim Museum from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. ($25)
Rose Month at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
MoMA screens John Cassavetes’ 1968 "Faces" as part of its International Festival of Film Preservation
The Coney Island Circus Sideshow (and June 2)
Robosonic Eclectic: Live Music by Robots and Humans, 8 p.m. at the 3-Legged Dog Art and Technology Center, Mainstage Theatre, 80 Greenwich St.
Deadline to apply for ING New York City Marathon
Previews begin on Broadway for Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of the comedy "Old Acquaintance" at the American Airlines Theatre (opening night: June 28; closes Aug. 19)
The Pretentious Festival: The Most Important Theatre Festival on Earth (through July 1)
Free 7 a.m. concert at Bryant Park: Daughtry for “Good Morning America”
Big & Rich play a free outdoor show at Rockefeller Center for the Today Show
The VaVa Voom Room burlesque show “ Coneytown Massacre!," billed as a celebration of “The New Coney Island, the demise of Astroland, and the building of what is sure to be a beautiful brand new stripmall!! While we're toasting progress, why limit our celebration to the cult of money, greed, and excess? Why not celebrate all the great cult leaders! That's right: we're rolling out Jim Jones, Charles Manson,The Branch Davidians, and L. Ron Hubbard for your amusement!”
21st Annual ISI Team Figure Skating Competition at Chelsea Piers (through June 3)
2 - ""Showboat-Comin’ Round the Bend!" exhibition opens at the Waterfront Museum (through December)
Waterfront Arts Festival in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Governors Island opens for the season with an Opening Day Family Festival
New York Water taxi begins weekend service to Governors Island
Free Bang on a Can Marathon - “26 Hours of Uninterrupted Electrifying Music” – at the World Financial Center Winter Garden (and June 3)
Free 7 p.m. concert by Roky Erickson and Alejandro Escovedo at Castle Clinton for the River to River Festival
MoMA screens Andy Warhol’s "Chelsea Girls" as part of its International Festival of Film Preservation (through June 9)
A Taste of Prospect Heights with 4 oz tasting plates from restaurants including Christie's, Amorina and Joyce Bakery. ($15 for 3 tastes) Festival located at St. Marks Ave between Vanderbilt and Underhill, and in the P.S. 9 school yard. (Rain location: P.S. 9’s gym.) 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Asia Fest at the South Street Seaport
Walking tour: Revolutionary New York, led by the South Street Seaport Museum
Free opening night preview of Rooftop Films' "Black + White = Grey" at Fort Greene Park at 8:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Best festival at Grand Army Plaza (and June 3)
Bushwick Open Studios (and June 3)
The Coney Island Circus Sideshow
Coney Island Museum’s Saturday night film series: "The Bride of Frankenstein"
Free First Saturday events at the Brooklyn Museum from 5 to 11 p.m.
Old-time mystery radio WWOW! performed live at Partners & Crime book shop
Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour ($15, or free to anyone wearing a Book EXPO badge)
Free Ice Cream Social at the Lefferts Historic House in Brooklyn (through June 4)
3 - "Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years" opens at MoMA (through Sept. 10)
Japan Day at Central Park
Jazz & Roses at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
37th Annual Prospect Lefferts Gardens House & Garden Tour
Class: Intro to Pop-up Movable Structures at the Brooklyn Artists Gym
Josephine Baker: A Life of Le Hot Jazz at the Apollo Theater
Sundance Shorts at BAM
Chili Takedown at Mo Pitkins
Summer in Spain: Cheese and Sherry Merry at Chanterelle
Latin Dance Spectacular at the South Street Seaport
Brooklyn’s Waterfront Museum kicks off its Circus Sundays for the summer
10th annual Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District’s Garden Walk in Prospect Heights, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill
Brooklyn Best festival at Grand Army Plaza
Bushwick Open Studios
Urban Park Rangers-led tour: Journey Through Time: Coney Island
Amateur Astronomers Association: Solar Observing in Central Park
kidsfilmfest at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum (and June 9)
Free Russian Heritage Festival at Asser Levy Park, Brooklyn
Free concert to urge preservation of the Domino Sugar Factory
Salsa, swing and hustle lessons and group dances at Riverside Park South - Pier I at 70th Street from 6 to 9 p.m. (and June 10, 17, August 26, September 9 and 23.)
4 - Samuel French Short Play Festival (through June 17)
Dorothy Parker Society marks the 40th anniversary of the writers death with an event at Revolution Books at 6:30 p.m.
Food event: A Taste of Appalachia presented by the Culinary Historians of New York
Lecture: Framing Science: The Road to 2008 and Beyond at New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center
Half-price Broadway tickets to “Xanadu” on sale to rollerskaters
5 – "The Great Cover-up: American Rugs on Beds, Tables, and Floors" opens at the American Folk Art Museum (through Sept. 9)
Whoopi Goldberg appears in "Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell" for the night
Mets home game vs. Philadelphia (and June 6 and 7)
Jeffrey Deaver appears at the New York City Police Museum for the “Suspense in the City Mystery Writers Series”
Bridging Two Cultures: A Conversation with Her Majesty Queen Noor at the Museum of Television & Radio
6 - Delayed by one day due to rain, “Romeo and Juliet” begins performances in Central Park for Shakespeare in the Park (through July 8)
Free Stars in the Alley Broadway concert at 11 a.m. in Shubert Alley
The 2nd Annual Taste of Long Island City at the Chocolate Factory
Free author talk with Jabari Asim on The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why at the Studio Museum of Harlem
7 – 3rd annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival (and June 14, 21, 22 and 23)
SketchFest NYC comedy festival (through June 9)
Lunar Stages events in Chinatown
Free DUMBO 1st Thursday gallery tours in Brooklyn on the first Thursday of each month from 5:30 to 8:30
Williamsburg streetart duo Faile opens a four-day-only gallery show (through June 10)
Henry David Thoreau art installation opens at Wave Hill gardens (through Aug. 26)
Loser’s Lounge: Fleetwood Mac, at Joe’s Pub (through June 9)
Robin Givens book signing at Barnes & Noble, Union Square
8 - "Federico da Montefeltro and His Library" opens at the Morgan Museum & Library (through Sept. 30)
"The Christian Story: Five Asian Artists Today" opens at the Museum of Biblical Art (through Sept. 23)
Yankees home game vs. Pittsburgh (and June 9 and 10)
Free 7 a.m. concert at Bryant Park: Robin Thicke for “Good Morning America”
Rihanna plays a free 7 a.m. Rockefeller Center concert for the Today Show
Free lunchtime performance by Swedish women's choir SALT at Scandinavia House at 12:30 p.m.
Shakespeare in the Park vouchers distributed at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum form 1 to 3 p.m.
Gotham Girls Roller Derby
9 - Big Apple BBQ barbecue festival at Madison Square Park (and June 10)
Brooklyn Pride Festival
Garden Day at the Cloisters
Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk (and June 10)
Red Hook/Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Open Studio Tour
Jackson Heights Beautification Group’s Self-Guided Tour of Private Interior Gardens from noon to 4 p.m.
Free bus tour of Fresh Kills Park on Staten Island
Parade in Celebration of the 2,551st Buddhist Vesak Festival
Coney Island Museum’s Saturday night film series: "Bullet"
Municipal Art Society walking tour: The Financial District Transformed
kidsfilmfest at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Urban Park Rangers-led tour: Central Park Tours: Bridges and Arches
Crumpler Beer for Bags (through June 17)
Randy Johnston Trio plays Bronx River Sounds
Annual Vintage Police Car Show
15th annual Children's Day River to River and the South Street Seaport Museum
Tour of Newtown Creek and the Gowanus Canal from onboard the 1930s-era tugboat W.O. Decker
Shakespeare in the Park vouchers distributed at Sung Harbor Cultural Center from 1 to 3 p.m.
5th Annual Cultural Mix at Prospect Park
Park-to-Park Hike: Beyond the Bayonne
The Overnight walk to promote suicide prevention
Belmont Stakes horse races
Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours in Tompkins County and Ulster County, NY
10 - Tony Awards
National Puerto Rican Parade starts at 11 a.m. with Ricky Martin as “El Rey Del Desfile” (“The King of the Parade.”) Location: Fifth Avenue from 44th to 86th streets
Big Apple BBQ barbecue festival at Madison Square Park
Tickets go on sale to the general public for "The Little Mermaid" on Broadway
Crown Heights North Walking Tour
Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk
Red Hook/Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Open Studio Tour
Victorian Flatbush: 2007 Annual House Tour
Jackson Heights Beautification Group’s Escorted Walking Tours of the Historic District
Salsa, swing and hustle lessons and group dances at Riverside Park South - Pier I at 70th Street from 6 to 9 p.m.
Circus Sundays at the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Literary Magazine Fair at the Housing Works Used Book Cafe
Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours in Suffolk, Putnam and Westchester counties, NY
11 - Florence Henderson at Joe’s Pub
Taste of Times Square food festival from 5 to 8:30 pm
Pete Hamill book signing at Barnes & Noble, Union Square
Herring Week at Aquavit (through June 16)
12 – Free Museum Mile Festival
Met Opera performs a free show of "La Bohème" in Central Park
Yankees home game vs. Arizona (and June 13 and 14)
Public memorial for David Halberstam at Riverside Church at 4 p.m.
Coast of Utopia soundtrack signing at Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Center
John Olav Riise: A Norwegian Modernist Rediscovered opens at Scandinavia House (through Aug. 17)
The Architecture of the South Village: A walking tour with Andrew Dolkart
Tina Brown book signing at Barnes & Noble, Union Square
13 - Met Opera performs a free show of "Faust" in Central Park
"Forbidden Broadway: The Roast of Utopia," begins special summer performances (through Aug. 22)
BOOKER T. & THE MG'S play Rockefeller Park for a free 7 p.m. show as part of the River to River festival
Free Swedish Jazz Showcase at Scandinavia House at 7 p.m.
In the City of New York music festival (and June 14)
“Secret” Paul McCartney at Highline Ballroom
Franz Ferdinand at the Bowery Ballroom
Designing Governors Island, Open House and Conversation at the Van Alen Institute
Launch party for the fourth issue of Alimentum: The Literature of Food at the Housing Works Used Book Café
14 - Neville Brothers open summer-long Celebrate Brooklyn festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell
Lunar Stages events in Chinatown, including contemporary East/West Puppetry and screening of the Cantonese comedy "Kung Fu Hustle"
"Policing a Changed City" opens at the New York City Police Museum
"Gernika/Guernica," a public art project by Anita Glesta, goes on display at One Chase Manhattan Plaza (through July 12)
Richard Serra book signing and discussion at Strand Books
In the City of New York music festival
3rd annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival (and June 21 - 23)
“Bloomsday Comes Early: James Joyce reading with Pete Hamill, Malachy McCourt, Frank McCourt, Colum McCann and others at Barnes & Noble, Astor Place
Armistead Maupin book signing at Barnes & Noble, Union Square
Sneak preview of the Reel New York Film Festival -- independent Films and Videos by New Yorkers about New York.
Dancenow/NYC: DancemOpolitan 2007, Summer Reunion
Free concert by the Greenwich Village Orchestra at Calvary Church on 21st and Park Avenue from 6:30 to 8 p.m. organized by the Gramercy Park Block Association
Pre-sale tickets available for Beastie Boys NYC shows at SummerStage and McCarren Park Pool
Advance screening of PBS American Experience: Oswald's Ghost at the Museum of Television & Radio
15 - Subway Series between the Yankees and Mets (through June 17)
Met Opera performs a free show of La Bohème at Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx
Part I of NYC Food Film Festival - regional American burgers and asparagus -- at Water Taxi Beach. Films are free but food should be ordered online in advance. (through June 16)
Mobile sweet shop The Treats Truck parks in Brooklyn near Borough Hall ... or not. The truck ended up at North 4th St. & Bedford Ave in Williamsburg.
Midnight "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Sing-a-long at the IFC Center (and June 16)
Isaac Mizrahi and his band The Ben Waltzer Quintet at Joe’s Pub
Free performance of Voices in Conflict, described as “a series of compelling monologues based on the actual words of American soldiers and Iraqis as they have appeared in blogs, books, documentaries and correspondence home”
Rooftop Films shows New York Non-Fiction on the Lower East Side
the Apples in stereo! at the Housing Works Used Book Cafe
Free 7 a.m. concert at Bryant Park: Brad Paisley for “Good Morning America”
Enrique Iglesias plays a free 7 a.m. show at Rockefeller Center for "Today"
Birding Bob’s $5 walking tour of Central Park. Meet at the Conservatory Garden (105th street and 5th Ave.) at 9 a.m. (Last week’s highlights: a singing male Acadian Flycatcher along the Loch, a Blackpoll Warbler, a Common Yellowthroat, and a bee-eating Olive-sided Flycatcher near the Maintenance Meadow.)
16 - Television, Apples in Stereo and Dragons of Zynth play Central Park Summerstage from 3 to 7 p.m.
Joan Osborne and The Jazz Passengers: The Supremes Project play Prospect Park for Celebrate Brooklyn
Met Opera performs a free show of "Faust" at Snug Harbor on Staten Island
New York Aquarium celebrates its 50th anniversary at Coney Island with a 50s festival including sock hop, hula hoop contest and vintage car display (and June 17)
Urban Park Rangers lead a tour of the Hallett Nature Sanctuary in Central Park
Chuck Palahniuk at Strand Books
Midnight "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Sing-a-long at the IFC Center
American Express cardholders may start making reservations for Summer Restaurant Week (July 16 to 20 and July 23 to 27.)
Circle Line starts seasonal weekend Sandy Hook sailings (through Sept. 3)
Set sail on the South Street Seaport Museum’s 1885 schooner Pioneer, which will leave the dock and sail the New York harbor. Topic: Explore Marine Ecology (reservations recommended)
Adventures NYC, sponsored by the Department of Parks and Recreation and Backpacker Magazine
Free Children’s Day NYC at the South Street Seaport with Gordon from Sesame Street, John Lithgow, a Barney’s Sing-Along, Rebecca Frezza, Robbie Schaefer, AudraRox, Dora the Explorer, Diego, Barney, Digit from Cyberchase, SpongeBob and Thomas the Tank Engine. At 8 p.m. the Brooklyn Philharmonic plays a free concert followed by Target-sponsored Fireworks, (accompanied by a live performance of Handel’s “Royal Fireworks Music”)
Stoked Skate Jam at the Coleman Square Skatepark under the Manhattan Bridge
Prisoners of Second Avenue play a free concert at Governors Island
Free lecture series on Governors Island, Climate Change, Peak Oil, and our Energy Future?
Coney Island Museum’s Saturday night film series: " Pink Flamingos"
Manhattan Island Marathon Swim
Tudor City tours from Open House New York
Free urban rangers lecture on the Hessian-British Alliance in the Battle of Brooklyn at the Ft. Greene Park Visitor Center
Irish Heritage walking tour with Justin Ferate
Renegade Craft Fair at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Pool (and June 17)
Central Park Cupcake meetup
Rooftop Films shows Industriance™Shorts: Disaster Management on the roof of The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn
Tickets go on sale for FarmAid 2007 on Randall’s Island, September 9
Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours in Columbia & Dutchess County, NY
Old Whalers Church Hidden Gardens Tour in Sag Harbor
17 - Heritage of Pride gay pride week kicks off (through June 24)
Special menus for Father’s Day
Queens Theatre in the Park Mini-Festival
Walking Tour: African-American Life in Lower Manhattan at the South Street Seaport Museum
Tiken Jah Fakoly and The Idan Raichel Project play a free show at Central Park Summerstage
Urban Park Rangers teach orienteering in Central Park
Jonas Brothers play a free 6 p.m. concert at South Street Seaport, Pier 17
Central Park children’s author event: Kathy Jakobsen on “My New York”
Book signing by Jeff Richman, cemetery historian at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn for his book “Final Camping Ground: Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery’s Civil War Veterans, in their Own Words”
New York Aquarium celebrates its 50th anniversary at Coney Island with a 50s festival including sock hop, hula hoop contest and vintage car display (and June 17)
American Express cardholders can make reservations for Summer Restaurant Week ahead of the general-public’s start date on Monday (July 16 to 20 and July 23 to 27.)
Salsa, swing and hustle lessons and group dances at Riverside Park South - Pier I at 70th Street from 6 to 9 p.m.
Circus Sundays at the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Birding Bob’s $5 tour of Central Park. Meet at 9 a.m. at the Dock on Turtle Pond. (Last week’s highlights: a singing male Acadian Flycatcher along the Loch, a Blackpoll Warbler, a Common Yellowthroat, and a bee-eating Olive-sided Flycatcher near the Maintenance Meadow.)
18 - "Village Wooing & How He Lied to Her Husband" performed as part of Project Shaw, the staging of every George Bernard Shaw play once a month by the Gingold Theatrical Group
Bryant Part kicks off its free outdoor summer movie series with "Annie Hall"
Reservations open to the general public for Summer Restaurant Week (July 16 to 20 and July 23 to 27.)
Free noon performance of Rising Phoenix Repertory’s “Fall Forward” at John Street United Methodist Church and its adjacent open-air courtyards (at 44 John Street between Nassau and Dutch Streets)
Erasure at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square from 6 and 7 p.m. to sign copies of “Light at the End of the World”
19 - Brooklyn Cyclones season opener at Coney Island vs. the Staten Island Yankees
Met Opera performs a free show of "Faust" at Prospect Park in Brooklyn
Free Rockefeller Center Drive-In movie "Watching the Detectives" and the short film, "Super Powers," winner of the Tribeca Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short.
A four-day Tribeca Drive-In Short Film Series starts atop Top of the Rock, running the movies in a continuous loop from 8:30 a.m. to midnight. (through June 22)
Excerpts from a New Opera by Toni Morrison and Richard Danielpour at the Apollo Theater
The Knitting Factory hosts a performance of
The Lady of Burma, about Aung San Suu Kyi (on her birthday) as part of a simultaneous worldwide staging of the play
Lecture: This is Lower Manhattan: Mega-Construction Projects and Logistics Downtown
Lecture: The Battle to Bind the Boroughs: The Consolidation of 1898 with Michael Miscione. the Manhattan Borough Historian at the Mid Manhattan Library
Bon Jovi plays a free 7 a.m. show at Rockefeller Center for "Today"
Film director John Sayles hosts a free 7 p.m. concert at the World Financial Center by The Honeydripper Allstar Band from his upcoming film about the transitional moment from the Blues to Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Lincoln Center Midsummer Night Swing (through July 21)
Free noon performance of Rising Phoenix Repertory’s “Fall Forward” at John Street United Methodist Church and its adjacent open-air courtyards (at 44 John Street between Nassau and Dutch Streets)
20 - Met Opera performs a free show of " La Bohème" at Cunningham Park in Queens
Maazel Conducts Mahler's Seventh at the New York Philharmonic (through 23)
Opening Day for Staten Island Yankees (sold out for tonight)
Staten Island Film Festival (through June 24)
New York Banjo Fest at 7 p.m. at the Eldridge Street Project
Free Rockefeller Center Drive-In movie "Arctic Tale"
The Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center and the Classical Theatre of Harlem present a free, staged reading of "Last Supper"
A look at 1958 and 1960's-era transportation in NYC with a "Metropolis In Motion" & "Here To There" screening at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn (Movie is free with museum admission.)
Special Sunset Hidden Harbor Tours
Details announced at noon on securing free tickets to the July 4 New Pornograhers show at Battery Park
Free 6 p.m. performance of Rising Phoenix Repertory’s “Fall Forward” at John Street United Methodist Church and its adjacent open-air courtyards (at 44 John Street between Nassau and Dutch Streets)
Cruise the Manhattan Waterfront with Friends of Hudson River Park on the the river boat replica, The Star of Palm Beach
Book signing: Bobbito Garcia on his book "Where’d You Get Those?: New York City’s Sneaker Culture, 1960-1987" at McNally Robinson bookstore
Met Opera performs a free show of "Faust" at Brookdale Park in Montclair, NJ
21 - New York Marble Cemetery, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in New York City, opens to the public for Make Music New York
The Richard Thompson Band and Ollabelle play a free Celebrate Brooklyn show at Prospect Park
Bronx Week Arts & Culture Day Trolley Tours
Solstice in Times Square
Summer Solstice Celebration - Socrates Sculpture Park from 5 to 9 p.m.
Opening day of Ripley's Believe It or Not! Times Square Odditorium
Free Rockefeller Center Drive-In movie “MO”
Screening: Drag Show Video Verite: The Ultimate NYC Drag Show on Video Tape at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza
Part II of NYC Food Film Festival -- hot dogs, sausages and an eating competition -- at Water Taxi Beach. Films are free but food should be ordered online in advance. (through June 23)
Adam Sank's Gay Bash at COMIX comedy club
Free noon performance of Rising Phoenix Repertory’s “Fall Forward” at John Street United Methodist Church and its adjacent open-air courtyards (at 44 John Street between Nassau and Dutch Streets)
"CLICK: The ICP Summer Party" to benefit the International Center of Photography’s education and curatorial programs
22 - Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys and James Reams & The Barnstormers play a free show for the Celebrate Brooklyn festival at Prospect Park
Dave Attell hosts a free comedy show of John Mulaney, Ted Alexandro, Joe DeRosa, Amy Schumer and Kurt Metzger at Central Park Summerstage
Free Rockefeller Center Drive-In movie “"Netherbeast Incorporated"”
UFOs: (1947-2007) -- A Conference, Film Retrospective & Multi-Media Celebration (through June 24)
Foo Fighter Friday at Pioneer Theater
Fireworks at Coney Island, starting at 9:30 p.m.
Birding Bob’s $5 walking tour of Central Park. Meet at the Conservatory Garden (105th street and 5th Ave.) at 9 a.m. (Last week’s highlights: Acadian Flycatcher, Magnolia Warbler, Northern Parula, Common
Yellowthroat and American Redstart.)
Michael Moore’s film Sicko opens at AMC Loews Lincoln Square
Two-day German research program organized by the The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (and June 23)
Free 7 a.m. concert at Bryant Park: Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana for “Good Morning America”
Chicago & America play a free 7 a.m. show at Rockefeller Center for "Today"
Free Swedish Midsummer Festival and Family Dance at Wagner Park
Free noon performance of Rising Phoenix Repertory’s “Fall Forward” at John Street United Methodist Church and its adjacent open-air courtyards (at 44 John Street between Nassau and Dutch Streets)
Rooftop Films shows Eternal Love, romantic short films about love that lasts forever
2nd Annual Bronx Green Roof Tour
23 - Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Mermaids of the Deep weekend at the New York Aquarium
New York Hall of Science opens its 30,000 square foot addition to the Science Playground, with the new section aimed at preschoolers
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s Art Festival 2007 at the Puck Building (and June 24)
Tour of Newark Bay via the Kill van Kull, (including the ships' graveyard) from onboard the 1930s-era tugboat W.O. Decker
Free 2nd Annual Literacy Fair in Prospect Park
Annual Family Day at the New York City Police Museum
South Street Seaport's Urban Archaeology Center, New York Unearthed opens from 1 to 4 p.m.
Army Heritage Weekend on Governors Island (and June 24)
Walking tour: Crossing Newtown Creek: The "Upper" Tributaries organized by Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Jacques Torres conducts a free chocolate demonstration at Jacques Torres Chocolate, 350 Hudson Street
Free 6 p.m. performance of Rising Phoenix Repertory’s “Fall Forward” at John Street United Methodist Church and its adjacent open-air courtyards (at 44 John Street between Nassau and Dutch Streets)
Black-tie Bronx Ball 2007 at the Paradise Theater
NYC Dyke March
Free bus tour of Fresh Kills Park on Staten Island
Urban Park Rangers teach Basic Canoeing at Central Park’s Harlem Meer (and June 24)
Bison Bonanza at the Queens Zoo (and June 24)
Rooftop Films shows Losers and Winners
Colors of the Rainbow team match grand finals , NYC public school students competitively dance the Fox Trot, Merengue, Rumba, Swing and Tango at the World Financial Center Winter Garden
Free walking tour: The Rail Yard History of Riverside Park South
3rd annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
Antiques& Design in the Hamptons (and June 24)
Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours in Bronx County
Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours in Suffolk County, NY
Met Opera performs a free show of La Bohème at Buccleuch Park in New Brunswick, NJ
24 – Heritage of Pride march begins at noon at 5th Avenue and 52nd Street, heading to Christopher and Greenwich streets
Superchunk, Oakley Hall and + / - play a (free with rsvp) concert at the McCarren Park Pool
Sloan, Apostle Of Hustle and Duhks play a free Central Park Summerstage show
37th annual Bronx Day Parade
1957 Night at Coney Island’s Keyspan park for the Brooklyn Cyclone’s baseball game. (Danny McDevitt and Joe Pignatano, the Dodgers' pitcher and catcher for the last game ever played at Ebbets Field, will be on hand.)
St. Bartholomew’s Summer Festival of Sacred Music on Sundays starting at 10:45 a.m. (through Sept. 16)
Bedford-Stuyvesant Art & History Tour organized by Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Cruising the Gowanus Canal organized by Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
New York Marble Cemetery, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in New York City, opens to the public (one day a month only) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
More Solstice in Times Square
Jackson Heights Beautification Group’s free Carnegie Hall concert at Travers Park
Birding Bob’s $5 walking tour of Central Park. Meet at the Dock on Turtle Pond at 9 a.m. (Last week’s highlights: two Blacked-capped Chickadees, Warbling Vireos, Great Crested Flycatcher and Baltimore Orioles.)
Circus Sundays at the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn
"Showbusiness, The Road to Broadway" plays the Pioneer Theater

25 - New York Salutes America Boardwalk Festival & Concert at Orchard Beach
Free noon performance of Rising Phoenix Repertory’s “Fall Forward” at John Street United Methodist Church and its adjacent open-air courtyards (at 44 John Street between Nassau and Dutch Streets)
Half-price Broadway tickets to “Xanadu” on sale to rollerskaters
Lecture: The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present at the Mid Manhattan Library
26 - Free Living Room concert with Martha Wainwright, Chris Thile (from Nickel Creek), Jim Campilongo, Ari Hest and The Bees, at the World Financial Center plaza
Elaine Stritch guest stars in "Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell" for one night only
Sold Out: Manu Chao benefit show at Celebrate Brooklyn festival at Prospect Park (at June 27)
Cyclone Roller Coaster turns 80
Michelle Obama to speak at the New-York Historical Society’s Women in Public Life series at the annual Strawberry Festival benefit
Grandparents Day at MoMA with free admission, but reservations are required (212) 333-1178
Free noon performance of Rising Phoenix Repertory’s “Fall Forward” at John Street United Methodist Church and its adjacent open-air courtyards (at 44 John Street between Nassau and Dutch Streets)
27 – "The Glory Days: New York Baseball, 1947-1957" opens at the Museum of the City of New York (through Dec. 31)
The 20th Century on Trial: GÜNTER GRASS & NORMAN MAILER, Interviewed by and in Conversation with Andrew O’Hagan at the NY Public Library
Floyd Landis promotes his book “ Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France” at the outdoor Bryant Park Reading Room
Book Talk: 18th Century New Yorkers - Washington Irving and Aaron Burr at the South Street Seaport Museum
Free John Pizzarelli and Paula West concert at Rockefeller Park
Book Talk: Washington Irving and Aaron Burr at the South Street Seaport Museum
Free 6 p.m. performance of Rising Phoenix Repertory’s “Fall Forward” at John Street United Methodist Church and its adjacent open-air courtyards (at 44 John Street between Nassau and Dutch Streets)
28 - Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of the comedy "Old Acquaintance" opens on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre
Rudolf Stingel exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum (through Oct. 14)
Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions opens at the Museum of Arts & Design (through Oct. 28)
Have a Seat! The Beylerian Collection of Small Chairs opens at the Museum of Arts & Design (through Oct. 28)
Building Connections: 11th Annual Exhibition of K-12 Design Work opens at the Center for Architecture (through Aug. 11)
Johnny Podres: Brooklyn’s Only Yankee Killer at the Museum of the City of New York
The Levon Helm Band plays a Central Park Summerstage benefit show
“Picture This!” A Workshop for Visitors Who Are Blind or Partially Sighted at the Met Museum’s New Greek and Roman galleries
Studio Museum of Harlem’s JVC Jazz Festival with the The Geri Allen Trio
Free noon performance of Rising Phoenix Repertory’s “Fall Forward” at John Street United Methodist Church and its adjacent open-air courtyards (at 44 John Street between Nassau and Dutch Streets)
29 - "Tales and Travels: Drawings Recently Acquired on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund" (through Sept. 23)
Free 7 a.m. concert at Bryant Park: Patti LaBelle for “Good Morning America”
Governors Island Swim
Hilary Duff plays a free 7 a.m. show at Rockefeller Center for "Today"
Free City pools open for the summer
Free noon performance of Rising Phoenix Repertory’s “Fall Forward” at John Street United Methodist Church and its adjacent open-air courtyards (at 44 John Street between Nassau and Dutch Streets)
Groove Collective, Ravi Coltrane and Craig Harris play a free show for the Celebrate Brooklyn festival at Prospect Park
Rooftop Films screens Trapped Inside the Machine in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
30 - 2007 Liberty World Outrigger Competition, outrigger canoe race in New York Harbor
Tour of the Jeffrey’s Hook Lighthouse (The Little Red Lighthouse)
Tour of Newtown Creek and the Gowanus Canal from onboard the 1930s-era tugboat W.O. Decker
Rooftop Films screens Perpetual Movements on the roof of The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus
The Stills, Sam Roberts Band and Malajube play a free show for the Celebrate Brooklyn festival at Prospect Park
Ozomatli and Babylon Circus play a free Central Park Summerstage show
Free lecture series on Governors Island, Environmental Change and Urban Sustainability - The Case of New York City
102nd Annual Brooklyn Independence Day Parade in Bay Ridge
Gotham Girls Toller Derby: BRONX GRIDLOCK VS. MANHATTAN MAYHEM
Sea Lion Homecoming Weekend at the Bronx Zoo (and June 31, July 7 and 8)
Coney Island Museum’s Saturday night film series: "SuperVixens"
Morrissey at the Theater At Madison Square Garden
Free performance by Dance China NY at Governors Island
Free 6 p.m. performance of Rising Phoenix Repertory’s “Fall Forward” at John Street United Methodist Church and its adjacent open-air courtyards (at 44 John Street between Nassau and Dutch Streets)

June 2007 Ongoing Events

Performances:
Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway in Joan Didion’s "The Year of Magical Thinking" (through June 30)
"Company" on Broadway (through July 1)
"Radio Golf," August Wilson’s final play, plays on Broadway (through July 1)
Brits Off Broadway theater festival (through July 1)
The Pretentious Festival: The Most Important Theatre Festival on Earth (through July 1)
Neil LaBute’s "In a Dark, Dark House" plays Off-Broadway (extended through July 7)
"Inherit the Wind" with Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy plays Broadway (through July 8)
Disney’s "Tarzan" on Broadway (through July 8)
Shakespeare in the Park stages free performances of “Romeo and Juliet” in Central Park (through July 8)
"In the Heights" plays Off-Broadway (closes July 15 in preparation for Broadway run)
Lincoln Center Midsummer Night Swing (through July 21)
"110 in the Shade" on Broadway (extended to July 29)
"Beauty and the Beast" on Broadway (through July 29)
Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes star in "Deuce" on Broadway (through August 19)
"Frost/Nixon" plays Broadway with Frank Langella and Michael Sheen (through Aug. 19)
"Old Acquaintance" on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre (through Aug 19)
"Forbidden Broadway: The Roast of Utopia," plays Off-Broadway (through Aug. 22)
"Les Misérables" on Broadway (extended through Sept. 16)
St. Bartholomew’s Summer Festival of Sacred Music on Sundays starting at 10:45 a.m. (through Sept. 16)
Free theater event, "365 Days/365 Plays" (through Nov. 12)
Amateur Night at the Apollo every Wednesday night (ongoing)
"25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Avenue Q" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Blue Man Group" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"Chicago" (with Joey Lawrence as Billy Flynn through June 17; and with Harry Hamlin as Billy and Lisa Rinna as Roxie from June 19 through July 29) on Broadway (open-ended run)
"A Chorus Line" revival on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Color Purple" on Broadway with Fantasia of "American Idol" (open-ended run)
"Curtains" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Drowsy Chaperone" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Fantasticks" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"Grey Gardens" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Hairspray" on Broadway, with Jerry Mathers (of "Leave it to Beaver") (open-ended run)
"Jersey Boys" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Legally Blonde" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Lion King" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Mamma Mia!" on Broadway (open-ended run)
Disney’s "Mary Poppins" plays Broadway (open-ended run)
"Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Rent" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Spamalot!" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Spring Awakening" plays Broadway (open-ended run)
"Stomp" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"Wicked" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Xanadu" in previews on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre (opening night July 10; open-ended run)

Exhibits:
City Hall Park installation of "Ripon," “a series of installations integrating an original video game with large-scale digital prints that use the setting of a violent dystopic society to upset the
conventions of gaming culture.” (through June 30)
"The Philosophy of Time Travel" at the Studio Museum of Harlem (through July 1)
"Global Feminisms" at the Brooklyn Museum (through July 1)
"Fifth Anniversary of 9/11 Exhibition: Chelsea Jeans" at the New-York Historical Society (extended to July 1)
"Van Gogh and Expressionism" at the Neue Galerie (through July 2)
"Stan Lee: A Retrospective" at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (through July 3)
"Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797" at the Met Museum (through July 8)
"Costumes and Characters: The Designs of Alvin Colt" at the Museum of the City of New York (extended through July 8)
"Architects of the NYC Subway, Part I: Heins & LaFarge and the Tradition of Great Public Works" at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn (through July 8)
Macro to Micro: Grimshaw in New York at the Queens Museum of Art (through July 8)
"Gernika/Guernica," a public art project by Anita Glesta, at One
"Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum: Restoring a Masterpiece" at the Guggenheim Museum (through July 11)
Chase Manhattan Plaza (through July 12)
"Illumination, Lynn Davis" at the Rubin Museum of Art (through July 16)
"Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures" at the Grolier Club (through July 28)
"Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape" at the Brooklyn Museum (through July 29)
“Christian Tomaszewski On Chapels, Caves and Erotic Misery” at the Sculpture Center in Queens (through July 29)
"Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture" (indoors) at the Met Museum (through July 29)
"Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art" at the Jewish Museum (through Aug. 5)
"Landslide: A New Media Installation by Shirley Shor" at the Jewish Museum (Aug. 5)
"Poiret: King of Fashion" at the Met Museum of Art (through Aug. 5)
"Focus: David Smith" at MoMA (through Aug. 6)
"Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism: Arcadia and Anarchy" at the Guggenheim Museum (through Aug. 6)
"Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War" at the Museum of the City of New York (through Aug. 12)
"John Olav Riise: A Norwegian Modernist Rediscovered" at Scandinavia House (through Aug. 17)
"Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings: The Clark Brothers Collect" at the Met Museum (through Aug. 19)
"Gold" at the American Museum of Natural History (through Aug. 19)
"Here and Elsewhere" at the Bronx Museum with work from 36 artists from throughout the metropolitan area (through Aug. 19)
"The Park at the Center of the World: Five Visions for Governors Island" at the Center for Architecture (through Aug. 25)
"Journeys: Mapping the Earth and Mind in Chinese Art" at the Met Museum (through Aug. 26)
"Up From Flames: Mapping Bushwick's Recovery from the Ashes" at the Brooklyn Historical Society (through Aug. 26)
Henry David Thoreau art installation at Wave Hill gardens (through Aug. 26)
"Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon at 100" at MoMA (through Aug. 27)
"Projects 85: Dan Perjovschi" at MoMA (through Aug. 27)
Lincoln Kirstein exhibition at the Whitney Museum (through Aug. 27)
Garden Renaissance at Hatfield House at the New York Botanical Garden (through Aug. 30)
"Matthew Brannon: Where Were We" at the Whitney Museum’s Altria Gallery – near Grand Central (through Aug. 31)
"Bodies: The Exhibition" at the South Street Seaport (extended through August 31)
"World's Tallest Building: Burj Dubai" at the Skyscraper Museum (through August)
"From Berlin to Broadway: The Ebb Bequest of Modern German and Austrian Drawings" at the Morgan Museum & Library (through Sept. 2)
"The Secret Lives of Streets" at the Brooklyn Historical Society (through Sept. 2)
"New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War," Part II of the Slavery in New York series, at the New-York Historical Society (through Sept. 3)
"Barry Frydlender: Time and Place" at MoMA (through Sept. 3)
"The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama" at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (through Sept. 3)
"Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection" at the Met Museum (through Sept. 3)
"New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac" at the Museum of the City of New York (through Sept. 4)
"The Shapes of Space" at the Guggenheim Museum (through Sept. 5)
"Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelain and the Taste for the East" at the Frick Collection (through Sept. 9)
Magnum Festival: Celebrating the Art of Documentary at multiple venues through Sept. 9
"Let Your Motto be Resistance: African American Portraiture from 1865 to the Present" at the International Center of Photography (through Sept. 9)
"Amelia Earhart: From Image to Icon" at the International Center of Photography (through Sept. 9)
"The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968 – 1993" at the International Center of Photography (through Sept. 9)
"”Chim” Photographs by David Seymour" at the International Center of Photography (through Sept. 9)
"Landmark and Legacy: Brooklyn Heights and the Preservation Movement in America" at the Brooklyn Historical Society (through Sept. 9)
"The Great Cover-up: American Rugs on Beds, Tables, and Floors" at the American Folk Art Museum (through Sept. 9)
"Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years" at MoMA (through Sept. 10)
"Pharaohs, Queens, and Goddesses" at the Brooklyn Museum (through Sept. 16)
" Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era" at the Whitney (through Sept. 16)
"The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend" at the Jewish Museum (through Sept. 16)
"Caribbean Gardens: Journey to Paradise" at the New York Botanical Garden (through Sept. 16)
"The Christian Story: Five Asian Artists Today" at the Museum of Biblical Art (through Sept. 16)
Cynthia Von Buhler Show & Tell at the Staten Island Museum (extended through Sept. 23)
"Pysanka: Vessel of Life" at the Ukrainian Museum (through Sept. 30)
"Solomon's Gift: The Founding Collection of the Guggenheim: 1937-1949" at the Guggenheim Museum (through Sept.30)
"Federico da Montefeltro and His Library" at the Morgan Museum & Library (through Sept. 30)
"Toot, Toot, Beep, Beep: Toys in Transit" at the Transit Museum (through September)
Breaking Barriers: Louis Armstrong and Civil Rights at the Louis Armstrong House Museum (through Oct. 8)
"Neo Rauch at the Met" at the Met Museum (through Oct. 14)
Wutaishan: Pilgrimage to Five Peak Mountain at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan art (through Oct 16)
Frank Stella on the Roof on the roof deck of the Met Museum overlooking Central Park (through Oct. 28)
"Incisive Images: Ivory and Boxwood carvings from the Renaissance and Baroque" at the Met Museum (through Nov. 25)
"It Happened in Brooklyn" at the Brooklyn Historical Society (through November)
"Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf" at the Met Museum (through Dec. 2)
"If These Walls Could Talk: 54 Pearl Street" at the Fraunces Tavern Museum (extended through Dec. 31)
""Showboat-Comin’ Round the Bend!" exhibition at the Waterfront Museum (through December)
"The Glory Days: New York Baseball, 1947-1957" opens at the Museum of the City of New York (through Dec. 31)
"Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns and Mermaids" at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 6)
"50 Years of Helvetica" at MoMA (through March 31, 2008)
"The Triborough Bridge: Robert Moses and the Automobile Age" at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn (through April 2008)

More:
Rose Month at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (through June)
Caribbean Cultural Festival weekends through September at the New York Botanical Garden
Coney Island’s Astroland is open for (possibly) the last season. Open everyday to Sept. 3, but then only on weekends as of Sept. 8 until the as-yet-determined final day.

Deals:
Two-for-one admission at P.S. 1 with voucher (through June)
Free Tai Chi Classes in Bryant Park every Thursday morning from 7:30 8:30 a.m. (through August 23)

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