The Hester Street Fair 2013: It Just Keeps Getting Better!
In its fourth year, the Hester Street Fair just keeps getting more lively, fun, and filled with great vendors. Come down and explore all the great finds!

3 Big Public Projects Underway in NYC’s Chelsea and FiDi Area
Want to know more about the big public projects of NYC? Here's a summary of 3 major construction projects: East River Esplanade, Blueway plan, and Hudson Yards.

5 Fun Things To Do in August With Kids in New York City
August in New York City is a great time to get out with your kids before they go back to school. Here are some of the fun things to do going on right now!

Public Art Alert! Lightness of Being Sculptures in City Hall Park
Even residents of nearby Glenwood buildings–Tribeca Bridge Tower, Liberty Plaza, and across-the-street Barclay Tower–are unlikely to make City Hall Park a part of their regular rounds. It's more of a lunch spot for area workers, and tourists love posing for pictures in front of the ornate fountain. But maybe that should change?

Summer Streets 2013: NYC’s Annual 7-Mile Block Party!
Summer Streets, those three glorious Saturdays in August when cars are banned from stretches of Manhattan’s great boulevards and pedestrians and cyclists take over, is back again for it’s sixth year in a row.

5 Ways to Cool Off in New York City
July is awesome in New York City because of all the great block parties, outdoor festivals and free concerts, and also because EVERY month is awesome in New York City. But it does get hot here in July, no question… in fact, it looks like we’re going to get at least ten days of 90-plus […]

Fantastic Vintage French Carnival Rides On Governors Island
If you have yet to make it over to Governors Island this summer, or are looking for an excuse to get on the ferry and bring your crew back to that most excellent NYC public space, the fabulous new Fete Paradiso offers all the incentive you need.

MoviePass: For $35 a Month Get Unlimited Movies at (Almost) Every NYC Theatre
I go to a lot of movies, in a lot of different theaters, in neighborhoods all over Manhattan and Brooklyn. And by a lot I mean around 120 a year, which is about 10 a month, or 2 or 3 every week. I see documentaries and art films, Hollywood blockbusters and rom-coms, foreign films, indie […]

Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective Exhibition at the Met
With the Met's annual Roof Garden installation feeling less "festive vacation" this year and more "blood-splattered crime scene" (not to mention that the season's big fashion exhibition, Punk: Chaos to Couture, is just depressing for anyone who lived through or still cares about that era), it's nice that at least one of the museum's summer […]

James Turrell Transforms Guggenheim Into Something Wonderful
Not since Maurizio Cattelan dangled his entire oeuvre from the oculus has a single artist so transformed the Guggenheim's iconic interior into something all his own.