July 19, 2007

Weekend on tap: Siren Fest, Harlem Book Fair

Highlights for this weekend in New York City include the big Harlem Book Fair, the free, Siren Festival concert at Coney Island and the Transit Museum’s vintage train ride to Rockaway Park. For more ongoing events, see NewYorkology’s July calendar.

Events will be added through the weekend.

Thursday
Free movies in the park after sunset at “The Muppets Take Manhattan” at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Free Harlem Summerstage at the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building from 6 to 9 p.m.: R&B with 2 Much, Sunshine Anderson, James Brown Tribute by CP Lacey, and The Untouchables
Billy Ocean, Air Supply and Graham Russell play a free concert at Coney Island/Brighton Beach’s Asser Levy/Seaside Park
Asian-American International Film Festival begins
Lower East Side Tenement Museum Thursday evening tour starting at 6:30 p.m.
Museums open until 8 p.m.: Jewish Museum, Museum of Arts & Design, (which is also pay-what-you-wish from 6 to 8 p.m.;) National Museum of the American Indian and the Museum of Biblical Art.
Open until 9 p.m.: MoMA (with music and bar in the Sculpture Garden.)

Friday
Free 7 a.m. concerts: John Mayer at Bryant Park for “Good Morning America” and the cast of "Hairspray" the movie at Rockefeller Center for "Today"
Harry Potter Place at Scholastic headquarters
Awards ceremony for Ninth Annual Harlem Book Fair and Arts Festival
Free performance by Brooklyn Ballet at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Rooftop Films: “The Way We Get By” at On the lawn at Automotive High School with a 2 hour open bar courtesy of Martin Miller's Gin and Dewar's Scotch Whisky
Coney Island Fireworks
Museums open late: American Folk Art Museum, to 7:30 p.m. (with free admission from 5:30 to close;) and the Guggenheim, to 7:45 p.m. (where admission is pay-what-you-wish from 5:45 to close.)
Museums open to 8 p.m.: International Center of Photography, (which has "voluntary contribution" admission from 5 to 8 p.m.;) Museum of Modern Art, (which is free from 4 to 8 p.m.;) New-York Historical Society, (with free admission from 6 p.m.;) Bronx Museum, (which is free all day;) and Museum of the Moving Image (also free from 4 to 8 p.m.)
Museums open to 9 p.m.: the Met; Whitney, (which is pay-what-you-wish from 6 to 9 p.m. and has the Psychedelia’s Progeny: Dirty Projectors party;) Cooper-Hewitt; the Morgan, (with free admission from 7 p.m.;) Neue Galerie; and the Asia Society, (where it's free from 6 to 9 p.m.)
Closing at 10 p.m.: Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, (with free admission from 7 to close.)

Saturday
Siren Music Festival at Coney Island
Coney Island Museum’s Saturday night film series: "Killer Klowns from Outer Space"

Last night for Lincoln Center Midsummer Night Swing
Bushwick walking tour organized by the Brooklyn Historical Society
Hal Willner's Doc Pomus Project featuring Lou Reed, Ben E. King, Howard Tate, Teddy Thompson, Shannon McNally, Steven Bernstein, Robin Holcomb, Joel Dorn, Mocean Worker and Peter Guralnick at the Prospect Park bandshell
Free Fort to Fort Adventure
Guided tour of the neighborhood around Brooklyn’s Weeksville, the second largest known independent African American community in pre-Civil War America
Richie Havens plays a free 1:30 p.m. concert on Governors Island
Free lecture series on Governors Island The Unique Vulnerability of the N.Y. / N.J. Metropolitan Region to Hurricane Damage - A New Perspective Based on Recent Research
"Speedy" screening at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn
Free storytelling in Central Park at the statue of Hans Christian Anderson from 11 a.m. to noon.
200th anniversary of Giuseppe Garibaldi’s birth celebrated at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
Sail on the South Street Seaport Museum’s 1885 schooner Pioneer, which will leave the dock and sail the New York Harbor with its otter trawl net out to catch live animals (Reservations recommended.)
Rooftop Films: “Fish Kill Flea” on the roof of The Old American Can Factory with live music
Museums open late: Museum of Sex to 8 p.m. and the Met Museum to 9 p.m.
Scheduled subway interruptions

Sunday
MoMA’s free Sunday night Summergarden 2007: New Music for New York series with
Juilliard Concert II: Music for String Quartet
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.
New York Transit Museum’s vintage R 1/9 subway cars return to the tracks for a Nostalgia Train Ride: “Summer Celebration at Rockaway Park” timed to coincide with the celebration of the 70th birthday of the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge and the 75th Anniversary of Jacob Riis Park. Advance reservations required.
Dan Zanes at the Prospect Park bandshell
Norman Mailer at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Benjamin Feldman book signing for “Butchery on Bond Street: Sexual Politics & The Burdell-Cunningham Case in Ante-Bellum New York” at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn
Green-Wood Cemetery walking tour: Scandals, Scalawags & Murder Most Foul organized by Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Band of Horses and the Annuals play a McCarren Park Pool concert
The Soul Summit Music Festival at Fort Greene Park
Art Scavenger Hunt—Summer Style! at the Guggenheim
Scheduled subway interruptions

Travel links
James Beard Foundation Chefs & Champagne tasting party celebrating Charlie Trotter, at Wölffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack, NY on Saturday
Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours in Dutchess County, NY on Saturday
Brookhaven National Laboratory opens its new Nano Center to the public for Summer Sundays
Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours in Columbia County and Westchester County, NY on Sunday
Restaurants of Portland, Maine (Daily News)
Castles around New York state (MUG)

July 19, 2007 04:32 PM in Sightsology

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