July 2009 calendar of events for New York City

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 with 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)
Kids Night on Broadway with free tickets to select Broadway and Off-Broadway shows
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
Mets home game vs. LA Dodgers
Def Leppard with Poison and Cheap Trick at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Kids Night on Broadway with free tickets to select Broadway and Off-Broadway shows
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.

Thursday, July 9
Mets home game vs. LA Dodgers
Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With A View kicks off for the season
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

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.

Saturday, July 11
Mets home game vs the Reds
French New Wave Cinema film series begins at the Museum of Arts and Design (through Aug. 30)
NAACP 100th Annual Convention at the Javits Center (through July 16)
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

Sunday, July 12
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
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

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)
“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 Rachel Dratch, Kristen Johnston, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Sherri Shepherd, Alan Zweibel at 7:30 p.m. at the Triad Theatre
The Fray play a free concert at Rockefeller Center for The Today Show

Tuesday, July 14
Free NY Philharmonic concert at 8 p.m. on the Great Lawn, Central Park (with fireworks)
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.

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
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
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.

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 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)

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 Collectionopens at MoMA (through Aug. 31)
Free French film sunset screening 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

Saturday, July 18
Paul McCartney at Citi Field concert
Yankees home game vs. Detroit
Aquathlon: Stars & Stripes
Twin Towers Classic Intl’ Martial Arts Championships at the Javits Center
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
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
Fireworks night at Coney Island
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
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.
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

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

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
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.)

Tuesday, July 21
Dave Matthews Band at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater (an July 22)
Free Naumberg Orchestral Concert in Central Park with Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players at 7:30 p.m.
Tom Jones at the Beacon Theatre
Celebrate Brooklyn benefit show: Jackson Browne
Yankees home game vs. Baltimore Orioles
Free Summer Theatre production of “Click, Clack Moo” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (through Aug. 28)
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Cool, Green Edge: Prospect Park West and Grand Army Plaza

Wednesday, July 22
Yankees home game vs. Baltimore Orioles
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
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.

Thursday, July 23
Yankees home game vs. Oakland A’s
“Paper Moon” screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
New York Liberty vs. Sacramento Monarchs at Madison Square Garden
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

Friday, July 24
Yankees home game vs. Oakland A’s
Free French film sunset screening for Films on the Green at Tompkins Square Park
Bettye LaVette at a free Central Park Summerstage concert
Katy Perry plays a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
2009 Central Park Underwear Run at 7:30 p.m.
31st Annual Thunderbird American Indian Mid-Summer Pow Wow at the Queens County Farm Museum (through July 26)
Free Met Opera Summer Recital at 7 p.m. at Queensbridge Park, Queens
Free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Buckwheat Zydeco and The Holmes Brothers
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Bettye Lavette, Budos Band, Felix Hernandez Rhythm Revue 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
Los Lobos plays Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
“The Garden of Earthly Delights” screens at 9:30 p.m. for Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum, free with a $7 bar minimum

Saturday, July 25
Yankees home game vs. Oakland A’s
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
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.
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.

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
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

Monday, July 27
“The Defiant Ones” screens for free at the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (lawn opens at 5 p.m.)
Mets home game vs Colorado Rockies
Summer Broadway Festival at Town Hall:All Singin’ All Dancin’ at 8 p.m.

Tuesday, July 28
Mets home game vs Colorado Rockies

Wednesday, July 29
Mets home game vs Colorado Rockies
Steve Forbert and the Windfall Prophets / Chris Smither play Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 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.
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 Mercant’s House Museum from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society’s 18th Annual Summer Boat Tour

Thursday, July 30
“To Catch A Thief” screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
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

Friday, July 31
Kings of Leon play a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
All Points West music festival at Liberty State Park with Beastie Boys, 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

Free Met Opera Summer Recital at 7 p.m. at East River Park in Manhattan
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Kelly Clarkson plays a free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America
Mets home game vs Arizona
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Royal Family: John Scofield, Soulive, Christian Scott, Dumpstaphunk
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.
Walls Are Doors Film Series brgins at the Cabaret Cinema at the Rubin Museum, free with a $7 bar minimum
‘God’ll Getcha For That: A Bea Arthur Tribute’ at Dixon Place Bar & Performance Cafe at 8:30 p.m.

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August 2009 calendar of events for New York City

Sunday, August 2
Mets home game vs Arizona
All Points West music festival at Liberty State Park with Coldplay, Echo & The Bunnymen, MGMT, The Black Keys, Elbow, Silversun Pickups, Mogwai, We Are Scientists, Ghostland Observatory, The Gaslight Anthem, Etienne De Crecy, Lykke Li, Akron/Family, Steel Train, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, College Humor Live, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Showalter and Todd Barry
Ron Arad exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Oct 19)
NY Transit Museum’s nostalgia ride: 81st Street- Central Park West to the American Museum of Natural History with a walking tour of Central Park or train trip and shop tour at 207th Street
High Line walking tour
Free at Central Park Summerstage: CineFest Brasil: “If I Were You 2” (“Se eu fosse você 2”) directed by Daniel Filho; Silvia Machete at 7p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Three Chinatowns

Monday, August 3
“Kramer vs. Kramer” screens for free at the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (lawn opens at 5 p.m.)
Mets home game vs Arizona
Depeche Mode at Madison Square Garden
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabaté at 8 p.m.

Tuesday, August 4
Previews begin on Broadway for Finian’s Rainbow
Mets home game vs St. Louis
Free Naumberg Orchestral Concert in Central Park with Imani Winds at 7:30 p.m.
Incubus at Radio City Music Hall
Depeche Mode at Madison Square Garden
Book talk at the Skyscraper Museum: Jane King Hession and Debra Pickrel, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT IN NEW YORK: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959 at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, August 5
Mets home game vs St.Louis
Free at Central Park Summerstage: “I Am Cuba” directed by Mikhail Kalatozov; The Pedrito Martinez Project, Presented in association with the African Film Festival at 7p.m.
Monthly free Bronx Culture Trolley
Tickets go on sale for November’s NY Comedy Festival with Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, and Tracy Morgan
Girls Night Out: Cyndi Lauper & Rosie O’Donnell at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island
The New-Trad Octet play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.
The John Scofield Trio plays the free Oval Lawn Series at Madison Square Park at 7 p.m.

Thursday, August 6
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
The Return Of The Pink Panther (1975) screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by “Purple Rain” screening and sing-a-long, and Escort
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Asbury Shorts: An Evening of the World’s Best Short Films; Mingus Dynasty Quintet at 7:30 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 “Wicked,” “Burn The Floor,” “Lion King” and “Marvelous Wonderettes”
Donna the Buffalo plays Rockin’ the River cruise at 8 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Cool, Green Edge: The Williamsburg Waterfront

Friday, August 7
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Dance: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, nathantrice/RITUALS dance theater at 8 p.m.
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
Jason Mraz plays a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
Free Met Opera Summer Recital at 7 p.m. at Tappan Park, Staten Island
Ricardo Arjona at Madison Square Garden
Free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 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
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Deer Tick and The London Souls
Big Shot: Tribute to Billy Joel plays Rockin’ the River cruise at 8 p.m.

Saturday, August 8
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
Civil War Weekend at Governors Island (and Aug. 9)
Free Celebrate Brooklyn performance by Big Daddy Kane and special guests
Lecture: “F.D.R.: A Leader in Transition” at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Boys Noize at 3 p.m.
Summer Streets as a 6.9-mile stretch of Manhattan streets close to vehicles from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Staten Island’s Van Duzer Street between Wright and Beach streets closes to traffic from noon to 8 p.m. for Van Duzer Days
Municipal Art Society walking tour: The Old Waterfront in New Amsterdam

Sunday, August 9
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
African Film Festival on Governors Island from noon
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Jazmine Sullivan, Chrisette Michele, Jon B at 3 p.m.
Shore Boulevard between Astoria Park South and Ditmars Boulevard closes to traffic from 11 a.m.to 4 p.m. for Astoria Water Walk
Summer Music in the Garden with American Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Noguchi Museum
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Paris in New York at 1 p.m.
Brooklyn Navy Yard Bus Tour at 1:30 p.m.
Seminar: Brooklyn Images from Congo to Cucua at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 2 p.m.

Monday, August 10
“The Magnificent Seven” screens for free at the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (lawn opens at 5 p.m.)
Yankees home game vs. Toronto Blue Jays
$10 tickets go on sale at non for the first broadway preview of “Bye Bye Birdie”

Tuesday, August 11
“The Bacchae” begins previews in Central Park for Shakespeare in the Park (through September 6)
Yankees home game vs. Toronto Blue Jays
Celebrate Brooklyn benefit show: TV on the Radio

Wednesday, August 12
The Heirloom Tomato: An Exhibition of Photographs by Victor Schrager, Portraits of Historic Tomato Varieties from the Gardens of Amy Goldman opens at the New York Botanical Garden
Yankees home game vs. Toronto Blue Jays
Celebrate Brooklyn benefit show: Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal
Lecture: “John Glover and the American Revolution” at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Henry P. Warner Quartet play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.

Thursday, August 13
Transit Museum’s free lecture series: South Ferry Archaeology Panel Presentation at 6 p.m. at the Balcony at Grand Central
“Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid” screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
John Legend at Madison Square Garden
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 “Billy Elliot,” “South Pacific,” “Mamma Mia!” and “Altar Boyz”
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
Anders Osborne Band & Porter-Batiste-Stolz play Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Friday, August 14
Mets home game vs San Francisco
Flo Rida play a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company debuts a new dance commissioned by City Parks Foundation, with live music by a special guest at a free Central Park Summerstage (and Aug. 15)
New York Liberty vs. Chicago Sky at Madison Square Garden
Free Met Opera Summer Recital at 7 p.m. at Coffey Park, in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Dance: Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company with musical guest Martha Wainwright at 8pm
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Kenny Chesney plays a free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Celebrate Brooklyn benefit show: Animal Collective
Legends of Chicago Blues featuring Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin & The Nighthawks play Rockin’ the River cruise at 8 p.m.
Antiques & Design in the Hamptons at The Bridgehampton Historical Society Corwith House Museum (through Aug. 16)
Mandala opens at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Jan. 11)

Saturday, August 15
Mets home game vs San Francisco
Brain Art Festival 2009 at Radio City Music Hall
O.A.R. at Madison Square Garden
Celebrate Brooklyn benefit show: Animal Collective
Police Appreciation Weekend at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (and Aug. 16)
Free at Central Park Summerstage: Dance: Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company with musical guest Martha Wainwright at 8pm
Summer Streets as a 6.9-mile stretch of Manhattan streets close to vehicles from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Staten Island’s Van Duzer Street between Wright and Beach streets closes to traffic from noon to 8 p.m. for Van Duzer Days
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Back to the Bronx, Part II: Melrose

Sunday, August 16
Free Dinosaur Jr., The Walkmen, Saviours concert at Central Park Summerstage at 3 p.m.
Mets home game vs San Francisco
NY Transit Museum’s the LIRR and the Rockaways tour with transit historian Joe Cunningham
66th Anniversary of Intrepid’s Commissioning at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Shore Boulevard between Astoria Park South and Ditmars Boulevard closes to traffic from 11 a.m.to 4 p.m. for Astoria Water Walk
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Cool, Green Edge: Mosholu Parkway and Norwood at 4 p.m.

Monday, August 17
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” screens for free at the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (lawn opens at 5 p.m.)
Mets home game vs San Francisco

Tuesday, August 18
Mets home game vs Atlanta
Hidden Harbor Tour departing from Pier 16 at the South Street Seaport

Wednesday, August 19
Mets home game vs Atlanta
Clearwater sloop 3-hour sail from 79th Street at 6 p.m.
National Aviation Day observed at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Roomful of Blues 40th Anniversary Tour plays Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 p.m.
Cloud Chamber - Eclectic folk-pop play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.

Thursday, August 20
Opening night on Broadway for “Finian’s Rainbow”
Mets home game vs Atlanta
Catch Me If You Can screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
Moody Blues at Radio City Music Hall
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
The Radiators play Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Friday, August 21
Mets home game vs. Philadelphia
Natasha Bedingfield plays a free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
New York Liberty vs. Connecticut Sun at Madison Square Garden
Reba McEntire plays a free early-morning Central Park concert for Good Morning America
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 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
Free screening of “Apollo 13” on the deck of the Intrepid for Summer Movie Series at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, doors open at 7:30 p.m.
The Nerds play Rockin’ the River cruise at 8 p.m.

Saturday, August 22
Mets home game vs. Philadelphia
The Dorothy Parker Society leads a Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour, departing form the Algonquin Hotel lobby at 11:45 a.m. (Get $5 off the $20 tour if you mention NewYorkology)
NY Transit Museum’s Going West with the 7 Line: A Historic Perspective tour with historian Andrew Sparberg
Summer Streets as a 6.9-mile stretch of Manhattan streets close to vehicles from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Staten Island’s Van Duzer Street between Wright and Beach streets closes to traffic from noon to 8 p.m. for Van Duzer Days
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Sunset Park at 10 a.m.

Sunday, August 23
Mets home game vs. Philadelphia
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. Minnesota Lynx at Madison Square Garden
Stanton Street between Allen and Orchard streets goes car free for Stanton Street Summer Sundays from 1 to 6:30 p.m.
Shore Boulevard between Astoria Park South and Ditmars Boulevard closes to traffic from 11 a.m.to 4 p.m. for Astoria Water Walk
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Anonymous Craftsmen on the Upper West Side at 2 p.m.
Brooklyn Navy Yard Bus Tour at 1:30 p.m.

Monday, August 24
Mets home game vs. Philadelphia

Tuesday, August 25
Yankees home game vs. Texas
33rd Anniversary of Concorde first flight celebrated at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Big Onion walking tour: Revolutionary New York at 1 p.m.

Wednesday, August 26
Yankees home game vs. Texas
Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Yesterday and Today Band - Music of the Beatles play Summer Sounds with free lemonade, snacks, music and dancing in Trinity Wall Street’s historic churchyard from 1 p.m.

Thursday, August 27
Yankees home game vs. Texas
The Allman Brothers Band at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Edward Scissorhands screens for free at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With a View
Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.

Friday, August 28
Yankees home game vs. Chicago White Sox
Free early-morning Rockefeller Center concert for Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
“Bayou to Bourbon Street” featuring Marcia Ball & Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet play Rockin’ the River cruise at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Harlem in the Himalayas acoustic jazz program at 7 p.m. with Jonathan Batiste Trio at the Rubin Museum

Saturday, August 29
Yankees home game vs. Chicago White Sox
“Il Barbiere di Siviglia” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day at the US Open
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Coney Island at 10 a.m.

Sunday, August 30
Yankees home game vs. Chicago White Sox
“Roméo et Juliette” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
New York Liberty vs. Chicago Sky at Madison Square Garden
Stanton Street between Allen and Orchard streets goes car free for Stanton Street Summer Sundays from 1 to 6:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: The Truth about Central Park at 2 p.m.

Monday, August 31
US Tennis Open (through Sept. 13)
“Eugene Onegin” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival

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September 2009 calendar of events for New York City

Tuesday, September 1
“Spectrum” opens at the Society of Illustrators (through Oct. 17)
“Macbeth” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
New York Liberty vs. Seattle Storm at Madison Square Garden
Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art opens at the Society of Illustrators (through Oct. 17)

Wednesday, September 2
“La Fille du Régiment” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival

Thursday, September 3
“Peter Grimes” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.

Friday, September 4
Mets home game vs Chicago Cubs
Hudson Fulton exhibition opens at the New-York Historical Society, in honor of the 400th year of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River (through Jan. 10)
“La Bohème” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
Gleason’s Gym Fantasy Camp (through Sept. 7)
Governors Island Swim
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
2009 Coney Island Cockabilly Festival at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Fireworks night at Coney Island

Saturday, September 5
Mets home game vs Chicago Cubs
“Orfeo ed Euridice” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
Marco Antonio Solis and Pepe Aguilar at Madison Square Garden
Electric Zoo NY’s electronic music festival (and Sept. 6)

Sunday, September 6
Mets home game vs Chicago Cubs
“Il Trittico” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
Stanton Street between Allen and Orchard streets goes car free for Stanton Street Summer Sundays from 1 to 6:30 p.m.

Monday, September 7
Yankees home game vs. Tampa Bay Rays
The Golden Age in the New World: Margarita Van Varick’s East Indian Goods exhibition opens at at the Bard Graduate Center (through Jan. 3)
“Madama Butterfly” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
Big Onion walking tour: We Built New York at 1 p.m.

Tuesday, September 8
Yankees home game vs. Tampa Bay Rays
New York Liberty vs. Indiana Fever at Madison Square Garden
Mets home game vs Florida Marlins

Wednesday, September 9
Yankees home game vs. Tampa Bay Rays
Mets home game vs Florida Marlins
New York Novelist E.L. Doctorow at the Times Talks series at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 10
Fashion’s Night Out late-night shopping to kick off Fashion Week
Peaceful Conquerors: Jain Manuscript Painting opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through March 21)
Bye Bye Birdie begins previews on Broadway with John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin and Jayne Houdyshell
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
Mets home game vs Florida Marlins
An Evening with Tony Orlando at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island

Friday, September 11
8th anniversary of WTC attack in 2001
2nd Annual NY Craft Beer Week (through Sept. 20)
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Yankees home game vs. Baltimore
William Blake’s World: “A New Heaven Is Begun” opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Jan. 3)

Saturday, September 12
Free Urban Glass Open House with Crush
Brooklyn Bridge Swim
Free Open House with Alan Gilbert at the New York Philharmonic
Yankees home game vs. Baltimore
Lecture: “General Charles Lee: Enigma of the American Revolution” St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Safety Preparedness Weekend at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (and Sept. 13)
My Big Gay Italian Wedding at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island
Previews begin on Broadway for Hamlet starring Jude Law 9opening night: Oct. 6)

Sunday, September 13
Brooklyn Book Festival 2009
29th Annual Antique Motorcycle Show at Queens County Farm Museum
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life opens at the Jewish Museum (through Feb. 7)
New York Liberty vs. Washington Mystics at Madison Square Garden
Yankees home game vs. Baltimore
National Grandparents Day celebrated at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Stanton Street between Allen and Orchard streets goes car free for Stanton Street Summer Sundays from 1 to 6:30 p.m.
Montague Summer Space as Montague Street between Hicks and Clinton streets goes car free from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday, September 14
Book event: Wilborn Hampton on “Horton Foote: America’s Storyteller” at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 7:30 p.m.
Woody Allen & The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band plays The Carlyle (Mondays through Dec. 10)

Tuesday, September 15
Previews begin on Broadway for The Royal Family
Yankees home game vs. Toronto
Celebrating Puccini opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Jan. 10)
Magna Carta and the Foundations of Freedom goes on display at the Fraunces Tavern Museum (through Dec. 15)
Hidden Harbor Tour departing from Pier 16 at the South Street Seaport
A Conversation with Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn at the Times Talks series at 6:30 p.m.
Kelli O’Hara plays The Carlyle (through Sept. 26)

Wednesday, September 16
Yankees home game vs. Toronto
New York Philharmonic’s Opening Night Gala: Gilbert & Fleming

Thursday, September 17
Aretha Franklin at Radio City Music Hall
New York Philharmonic: Gilbert Conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, September 18
Mets home game vs. Washington Nationals
Cinderella begins performances at the New Victory Theater, theater for kids and families (through Sept. 28)
Previews begin on Broadway for After Miss Julie with Sienna Miller (opening night: Oct. 22; through Dec. 6)
“Kandinsky” exhibition opens at the Guggenheim (through January 10)
“The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video” opens at the International Center of Photography (through Jan. 3)
Aretha Franklin at Radio City Music Hall
Miss Coney Island Burlesque Beauty Pageant at Coney Island at 10 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
New York Philharmonic: Gilbert Conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 2 p.m.
Victorious Ones opens at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Feb 15)

Saturday, September 19
Mets home game vs. Washington Nationals
52nd Annual German-American Steuben Parade and Central Park Oktoberfest
27th Annual Queens County Fair at Queens County Farm Museum (and Sept. 20)
The Amazing Maize Maze opens at the Queens County Farm Museum (through Nov. 1)

Sunday, September 20
Mets home game vs. Washington Nationals
Hometown Heroes Day at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Montague Summer Space as Montague Street between Hicks and Clinton streets goes car free from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday, September 21
Mets home game vs Atlanta
Project Shaw reading of Back to Methuselah, Part 1
Tosca at the Met Opera

Tuesday, September 22
Mets home game vs Atlanta
“Wishful Drinking” begins previews on Broadway
Watteau, Music, and Theatre opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Nov. 29)
Robert Frank: The Americans opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Dec. 27)
Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44 opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through March 21)
The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 3)
New York Philharmonic: Gilbert Conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 23
Mets home game vs Atlanta
Previews begin on Broadway for “Memphis” on Broadway

Thursday, September 24
New York Philharmonic: Brahms’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Tosca at the Met Opera

Friday, September 25
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009 opens at NYPL’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through June 26, 2010)
NY Film Festival (through Oct. 11)
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Brahms’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann at Avery Fisher Hall at 11 a.m.

Saturday, September 26
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
Twin Lights Ride biking through the Monmouth Countryside
Little Red Lighthouse Swim
Gay Life Expo at the Javits Center (and Sept. 27)
New York Philharmonic: Brahms’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Smithsonian’s Museum Day, includes free entrance at the Ukrainian Museum, American Folk Art Museum, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Historic Richmond Town, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, King Manor Museum, Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, Museum of American Finance, Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, Museum of the City of New York, New York City Fire Museum, New York Transit Museum, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Rubin Museum of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the George Gustav Heye Center, South Street Seaport Museum, The Center for Book Arts, Drawing Center, The Museum at FIT, The Noble Maritime Collection and the Studio Museum in Harlem

Sunday, September 27
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
Diabetes Expo NY at the Javits Center
Broadway Cares 23rd annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction
Montague Summer Space as Montague Street between Hicks and Clinton streets goes car free from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday, September 28
New York Musical Theatre Festival (through Oct. 18)
Yankees home game vs. Kansas City
Tosca at the Met Opera

Tuesday, September 29
Impressions from South Africa: Printed Art/1960 to Now opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Feb. 28)
Yankees home game vs. Kansas City
Judy Collins plays The Carlyle (through Oct. 8)

Wednesday, September 30
Prelude theater and performance festival (through Oct. 3)
Yankees home game vs. Kansas City
New York Philharmonic: Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Slide Lecture: All Over the Map at the Society of Illustrators with artist Peter Kuper

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October 2009 calendar of events for New York City

Thursday, October 1
New York Philharmonic: Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Opening night on Broadway for “Superior Donuts”

Friday, October 2
Lincoln and New York exhibition opens at the New-York Historical Society (through March 21)
Coney Island Film Festival (through Oct. 4)
NY United Film Festival (through Oct. 4)
Mets home game vs Houston Astros
Previews begin on Broadway for Brighton Beach Memoirs
The Man Who Planted Trees begins performances at the New Victory Theater, theater for kids and families (through Oct. 11)
My House begins performances at the New Victory Theater, for for kids 18months-3 years old (through Oct. 18)
Foreigner at Nokia Theatre in Times Square (and Oct. 3)
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
Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Jan. 3)

Saturday, October 3
Mets home game vs Houston Astros
Ron White at Radio City Music Hall
Teacher Appreciation Weekend at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (and Oct. 4)
New York Philharmonic: Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Choo Choo Soul in Concert at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island
Tosca at the Met Opera

Sunday, October 4
Mets home game vs Houston Astros
Opneing night on Broadway for “Wishful Drinking”
Apple Festival at Queens County Farm Museum
Fort Tryon Medieval Festival

Monday, October 5

Tuesday, October 6
Opening night on Broadway for Hamlet starring Jude Law
American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 24)
Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799) opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 10)
Tosca at the Met Opera
Opening night on Broadway for Jude Law in Hamlet

Wednesday, October 7
The Red Book of C.G. Jung opens at the Rubin Museum of Art (through January 25)

Thursday, October 8
Opening night on Broadway for The Royal Family (through Dec. 6)

Friday, October 9
Memory: Anish Kapoor exhibition opens at the Guggenheim (through March 21)
The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring at Radio City Music Hall
Thich Nhat Hanh at the Beacon Theatre

Saturday, October 10
OpenHouse NY Weekend (and Oct. 11)
New York Marble Cemetery at 41 1/2 Second Avenue, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in NYC, opens to the public for OHNY from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (and Oct. 11)
The New York City Marble Cemetery 52-74 E. 2nd Street, the second non-sectarian burial ground in the City opened to the public, open days as part of Open House NY (and Oct. 11)
Thich Nhat Hanh at the Beacon Theatre
The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring at Radio City Music Hall as Howard Shore’s complete score will be performed live to film
St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx open for Open House NY
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Barefoot Contessa: Ina Garten with Alex Witchel at the Times Talks series at noon
Some Like It Hot: Bobby Flay with Kim Severson at the Times Talks series at 2 p.m.
Italian Modern: Giada De Laurentiis with Pete Wells at the Times Talks series at 4 p.m.
On the Road: Anthony Bourdain with Frank Bruni at the Times Talks series at 6 p.m.
Tosca at the Met Opera
Divas of Daytime TV at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island with Kassie DePaiva, Kathy Brier, and Bobbie Eakes

Sunday, October 11
Last day of the at Governors Island season in 2009
Free Urban Glass Open House with All Hallow’s Eve

Monday, October 12

Tuesday, October 13
Ian Anderson at the Beacon Theatre
Tour of Pell’s Point Battlefield at 10 a.m., organized by St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx

Wednesday, October 14
Tosca at the Met Opera

Thursday, October 15
Opening night on Broadway for Bye Bye Birdie with John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin and Jayne Houdyshell at the new Henry Miller’s Theatre, 124 West 43rd St.

Friday, October 16
New Yorker Festival (through Oct. 18)
Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces of the 21st Century opens at the Museum of Biblical Art (through Jan. 24)
Candlelight Tour & Historic Music Program at 7 p.m. of St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Design USA: Contemporary Innovation opens at the Cooper-Hewitt (through April 4)

Saturday, October 17
Ederle Swim from Battery Park to Sandy Hook, NJ.
Mums and Maples: The Japanese Autumn Garden opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through Nov. 15)
Lipizzaner Stallions at Madison Square Garden
Battle of Pell’s Point Encampment re-enactment at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Tosca at the Met Opera
Bill Cosby stand-up comedy at Avery Fisher Hall at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Howie Mandel at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island

Sunday, October 18
Maccabi Electra Tel-Aviv vs. New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden
National Design Week (through Oct. 24)

Monday, October 19
Opening night on Broadway for the new musical “Memphis” on Broadway
Previews begin on Broadway for Fela!
Project Shaw reading of Back to Methuselah, Part 2

Tuesday, October 20
Arts of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor from the Late Heian through the Edo Period (ca. 1156–1868) opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 10 )
CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival (through Oct. 24)

Wednesday, October 21
The Original Art 2009 opens at the Society of Illustrators (through Nov. 28)

Thursday, October 22
Opening night on Broadway for After Miss Julie with Sienna Miller (through Dec. 6)
Previews begin on Broadway for In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
2009 Original Art: The Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration opens at the Society of Illustrators (through Nov. 25)

Friday, October 23

Saturday, October 24
Halloween Haunted House at Queens County Farm Museum
Staten Island’s Got Talent, Night of Pop, Rock, Disco & Blues at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island

Sunday, October 25
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.
Halloween Haunted House at Queens County Farm Museum
Children’s Fall Festival at Queens County Farm Museum
Opening night on Broadway for Brighton Beach Memoirs

Monday, October 26
A Benefit Performance by Vanessa Redgrave in “The Year of Magical Thinking” at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine

Tuesday, October 27

Wednesday, October 28
A Conversation with Novelist John Irving at the Times Talks series at 7 p.m.

Thursday, October 29
Taylor Mac ‘s The Lily’s Revenge National Historic Site at Here Arts Center (through Nov. 22)

Friday, October 30
Halloween Extravaganza at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island

Saturday, October 31
Halloween Haunted House at Queens County Farm Museum

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November 2009 calendar of events for New York City

Monday, November 2

Tuesday, November 3

Wednesday, November 4
NY Comedy Festival with Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, and Tracy Morgan (through Nov. 8)

Thursday, November 5
New York Philharmonic: Thomas Hampson & Mozart’s Prague Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall

Friday, November 6
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum (reservations required)
Jane Austen exhibition opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through March 14)
New York Philharmonic: Thomas Hampson & Mozart’s Prague Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall

Saturday, November 7
Dreamgirls live at the Apollo Theater (through Dec. 5)
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum (reservations required)
New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert for families with children, 6 to 12 years of age: Benjamin Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall
Staten Island Fall Doo Wop Spectacular at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island
New York Philharmonic: Thomas Hampson & Mozart’s Prague Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall

Sunday, November 8
Bauhaus 1919–1933: workshops for modernity opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Jan. 25)

Monday, November 9

Tuesday, November 10
A Conversation with Novelist Stephen King at the Times Talks series at 7 p.m.
Kylie Minogue plays the Hammerstein Ballroom
New York Philharmonic: Thomas Hampson & Mozart’s Prague Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall

Wednesday, November 11
Veterans Day Ceremony at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

Thursday, November 12
7th Annual Queens International Film Festival (through Nov. 15)
New York Philharmonic: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall

Friday, November 13
Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall opens for the season (through Dec. 30)
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum (reservations required)
New York Philharmonic: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall

Saturday, November 14
The Pier Antiques Show and the Fashion Alley & Vintage Collecting @ The Pier Show at the Passenger Ship Terminal Pier 94 & 92 (and Nov. 15)
Metallica at Madison Square Garden
New York Philharmonic: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall
Historical lecture and music on “Presidential Power” at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx

Sunday, November 15
Alias Man Ray opens at the Jewish Museum (through March 14)
Metallica at Madison Square Garden

Monday, November 16
Project Shaw reading of “On The Rocks”
Philharmonic Chamber Music at College of Staten Island, City University of New York at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 17
New York Philharmonic: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall

Wednesday, November 18
Previews begin on Broadway for Broadway Bound

Thursday, November 19
Opening night on Broadway for In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
Coaches vs. Cancer Classic at Madison Square Garden
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet at Avery Fisher Hall

Friday, November 20
Preview performances begins for David Mamet’s Race on Broadway (opening night: Dec. 10; open-ended run)
Coaches vs. Cancer Classic at Madison Square Garden

Saturday, November 21
Holiday Train Show opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through Jan. 10, 2010)

Sunday, November 22
Tim Burton exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through April 26)
Free Urban Glass Open House with Holiday

Monday, November 23
Opening night on Broadway for Fela!

Tuesday, November 24
Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 6)
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet at Avery Fisher Hall

Wednesday, November 25

Thursday, November 26
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade - with a new route this year
Places that were open on Thanksgiving in 2008

Friday, November 27
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.

Saturday, November 28
College Hockey: Boston University vs. Cornell University at Madison Square Garden
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 2 and 8 p.m.

Sunday, November 29

Monday, November 30
Duncan Phyfe, America’s Legendary Cabinetmaker opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through March 7)

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December 2009 calendar of events for New York City

Wednesday, December 2

Thursday, December 3
New York Philharmonic: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s La Mer at Avery Fisher Hall

Friday, December 4
New York Philharmonic: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s La Mer at Avery Fisher Hall

Saturday, December 5
New York Philharmonic: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s La Mer at Avery Fisher Hall

Sunday, December 6

Monday, December 7

Tuesday, December 8
New York Philharmonic: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s La Mer at Avery Fisher Hall

Wednesday, December 9

Thursday, December 10
Opening night on Broadway for David Mamet’s Race (open-ended run)
Opening night on Broadway for “Broadway Bound”
New York Philharmonic: Dohnányi, Dicterow, Phelps & Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante at Avery Fisher Hall

Friday, December 11
New York Philharmonic: Dohnányi, Dicterow, Phelps & Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante at Avery Fisher Hall
Visions of the Cosmos opens at the Rubin Museum of Art (through May 10)

Saturday, December 12
Opera in the historic church at 2 p.m. with the Bronx Opera Company at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert for families with children, 6 to 12 years of age: Claude Debussy La Mer at Avery Fisher Hall
New York Philharmonic: Dohnányi, Dicterow, Phelps & Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante at Avery Fisher Hall

Sunday, December 13
Gabriel Orozco exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through March 1)
New York Philharmonic: Holiday Brass at Avery Fisher Hall at 3 p.m.

Monday, December 14
Project Shaw reading of Why She Would Not (Shaw’s unfinished last play!)

Tuesday, December 15
Bill of Rights Program at 10 a.m., marking the 217th anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights, at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
New York Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, December 16
New York Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, December 17
New York Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, December 18
New York Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, December 19
New York Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Holiday Organ Concert on the historic 1833 pipe organ at 2 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx

Sunday, December 20

Monday, December 21

Tuesday, December 22
Family Holiday Programs at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx

Wednesday, December 23
Family Holiday Programs at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx

Thursday, December 24

Friday, December 25
Places that were open on Christmas Day in 2008

Saturday, December 26
Family Holiday Programs at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx

Sunday, December 27

Monday, December 28

Tuesday, December 29
New York Philharmonic: Andsnes Performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 at Avery Fisher Hall
Family Holiday Programs at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx

Wednesday, December 30
New York Philharmonic: Andsnes Performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Family Holiday Programs at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx

Thursday, December 31
New Year’s Eve in Times Square
New York Philharmonic: New Year’s Eve: Hampson, Gershwin, Copland & Broadway at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Family Holiday Programs at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx

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New York City 2010 Events Calendar

Jan. 1 - Places that were open on New Year’s Day in 2009
Jan 2 - - New York Philharmonic: Andsnes Performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 at Avery Fisher Hall
Jan 16 - Previews begin on Broadway for “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” at the Hilton Theatre with music by Bono and The Edge
Jan. 22 - Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through May 2)
Jan. 22 - Rome after Raphael: Drawings from the Morgan opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through May 9)

Feb. 18 - Metropolis opens at the National Academy Museum (through May 2, 2010)
Feb 18 - Opening night on Broadway for “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” at the Hilton Theatre with music by Bono and The Edge

March 5 - Previews begin on Broadway for Addams Family
March 6 - New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert for families with children, 6 to 12 years of age: Magnus Lindberg Feria at Avery Fisher Hall
March 27 - New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert for families with children, 6 to 12 years of age: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 41, Jupiter at Avery Fisher Hall

April 6 - Previews begin on Broadway for Collected Stories
April 8 - Opening Night on Broadway for The Addams Family musical
April 12 - Previews begin on Broadway (sometime this week) of Hughie and Krapp’s Last Tape, both with Brian Dennehy
April 14 - Tosca at the Met Opera
April 17 - Tosca at the Met Opera
April 20 -Tosca at the Met Opera
April 24 - Tosca at the Met Opera
April 28 - Opening night on Broadway for Collected Stories
April 29 - Tosca at the Met Opera

May 5 - Tosca at the Met Opera
May 8 - Tosca at the Met Opera
May 13 - Tosca at the Met Opera

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