July 25, 2008
Weekend on tap: hot air balloon rides, City of Water Day
It’s still a bit of a game of catch-up here at NewYorkology as it’s the first weekend back after vacation. There’s a number of cool things going on this weekend in NYC, including the new hot air balloon rides in Central Park (which you should reserve now.)
For ongoing events and shows, click to NewYorkology’s Now in NYC list. For events on tap after this weekend, see NewYorkology’s calendar.
Events will be added through the weekend.
Friday
AeroBalloon begins hot air balloon rides over Central Park at Cherry Hill near 72nd Street, west of Bethesda Fountain (daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. weather permitting through Aug. 22)
Free JFK Airtrain rides to mark the airport’s 60th year in operation
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
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.
Animation Block Party
Björn Again - The Abba Experience play the Circle Line 42 concert cruise
Atlas Sound, El Guincho play the South Street Seaport - free
The Subways play the Blender Theatre
Mets vs. St. Louis at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.
Fireworks night at Brooklyn Cyclones minor-league baseball at Coney Island vs. the Staten Island Yankees
New York Liberty vs. Los Angeles Sparks at Madison Square Garden
30th Annual Thunderbird American Indian Mid-Summer Pow Wow begins at the Queens County Farm Museum
Sleepover of the American Museum of Natural History
Museums open after 7 p.m.: 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 close;) 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.)
Museums open to 9 p.m.: the Met; Whitney, (which is pay-what-you-wish from 6 to 9 p.m. and sometimes hosts Whitney Live dance parties;) Cooper-Hewitt; the Morgan, (with free admission from 7 p.m.;) Neue Galerie.
Closing at 10 p.m.: Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, (with free admission from 7 p.m. to close.)
More late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)
Saturday
City of Water Day celebrated at Governors Island
Eric Bibb plays Governors Island for the free Folks on the Island
Transit Museum Annex at Grand Central opens What’s New, the best and most unusual of the museum’s latest acquisitions
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.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Go, Go, Gowanus, at 11 a.m.
Museums open late: Museum of Sex to 8 p.m.; the Met Museum to 9 p.m.
More late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)
Scheduled subway interruptions
Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and Nimrod Freed/Tami Dance Company’s PeepDance at 7 p.m. at Central Park Summerstage
Ghostland Observatory, The Jealous Girlfriends and Bear Hands in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn
Laurie Anderson’s Homeland for the Lincoln Center Festival at 8 p.m.
Coney Island Film Society screens “Taxi Driver”
Brooklyn Waterfront Coalition opens its weekends-only summer art show
Lenell’s holds a wine tasting of wines made by a Brooklyn woman
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.
Hudson Food and Wine Festival all weekend
Sunday
“Ellington at 109!” at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m.
NYC Half-Marathon
Taj Mahal, Skatalites and Los Pinguos at 3 p.m. at Central Park Summerstage
Bike New York’s Harlem Valley Rail Ride
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Diamond District: A World Within a World, at 11 a.m.
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.
Mets vs. St. Louis at Shea Stadium at 1:10 p.m.
Brooklyn Cyclones minor-league baseball at Coney Island vs. the Staten Island Yankees
Free Poppenhusen Institute Concert Series in Queens at MacNeil Park: Music of the 50’s & 60’s
Harlem Gospel Choir sings the music of Mary J. Blige at BB Kings
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 sloe gin tasting
Sandcastle Contest at Rockaway Beach
Cynthia Nixon, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson and Barry McGovern readings from Beckett’s novels and poetry at 2 p.m. for the Lincoln Center Festival at Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
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
Late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)
Scheduled subway interruptions
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