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The Brooklyn Music Festival

Governors Island, Colonels Row New York

The Brooklyn Music Festival is designed to celebrate the accomplishments and achievements of New York City’s largest borough.

Free

Formell y Los Van Van

Concert Hall at Lehman College 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, NY, United States

A collection of dance tracks incorporating the contemporary arrangements of Juan Formell’s hit from the past.

$45 – $60

Billopp Shores: The Ebb and Flow of Man and Nature

Conference House Park Visitor Center 200-236 Satterlee St, Staten Island, NY

This retrospective exhibition offers a glimpse of man and nature's impact on the development of the waterfront in Conference House Park.

Free

The Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island

In celebration of Governors Island 10th anniversary, Michael Arenella and His Dreamland Orchestra invite you to the grandest Jazz Age Lawn Party to date. Originating as a small gathering of friends longing for the simpler charms of a bygone era, the event has evolved into an international destination, one of the world’s most beloved and longest running events of its kind.

$55

India Day Parade

Madison Square Park between Madison Ave and 23rd St., Manhattan , NY, United States

The 35th annual India Day Parade in New York City, the largest parade by Indians abroad in the world.

Free

Life Along the Curb: Inside the Department of Sanitation of New York

Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue, New York

Anthropologist Robin Nagle explores some of the political, infrastructural, economic, and cultural complexities that shape the dynamics of solid waste management in North America's largest city.

Free

Blues Barbecue

Pier 26 New York, United States

Moving to its new, larger home at Pier 26, Hudson River Park’s Blues BBQ Festival returns for the 16th season! Pairing America’s best Blues and Roots musicians with New York City’s best BBQ restaurants, makes for an unforgettable summer day on the Hudson River!

Free

Gowanus Wild @ Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Gowanus Wild is an urban wilderness series which aims to turn concepts of nature photography on their head by finding the beautiful in what most consider to be a man-made environmental catastrophe: the Gowanus Canal and surrounding neighborhood.

Free

SummerStage – Free Performance in the Park

SummerStage, Central Park Rumsey Playfield, New York, United States

London siblings Kitty, Daisy & Lewis Durham are talented songwriters/musicians whose background is rooted in the tradition where songs are handed down and sung at family gatherings, playing any instrument they lay their hands on. Their songs are an eclectic mix up of Pop, R’n’B & Blues, Psychedelic Rock, Soul, Country, Jazz and Ska.

Free

Bryant Park Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew

Bryant Park 42nd Street and 6th Avenue, Manhattan, Select a Country:

Free production of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" in Bryant Park

Free

Saturday Sculpture Workshop

Socrates Sculpture Park 31-30 Vernon Blvd, Long Island City, New York

Saturday Sculpture Workshops are organized for kids ages 5- 13 and their families. Workshops are free and offered in the park’s education area on a drop-in basis. Participants work with a different artist each week, exploring innovative art mediums and a variety of subject matter.

Free