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Celebrate Brooklyn — Arts Festival in Brooklyn

Prospect Park Bandshell 9th Street & Prospect Park West, New York, NY, United States

Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music is his most ambitious project to date, a subjective history of the 240 years since America’s founding told through the music of the times. For his very special Celebrate Brooklyn! debut, he’ll present a supercharged slice of this project: a politically-knowing, enormous of spirit, and outrageously entertaining romp through 100 years of culture as seen through songs that range from Tin Pan Alley to the birth of rock ‘n’ roll to disco and beyond.

Free

Summer Streets New York City

Summer Streets Park Ave and 72nd Street to Brooklyn Bridge, New York, NY, United States

Sum­mer Streets is an annual cel­e­bra­tion of New York City’s most valu­able pub­lic space—our streets. On three con­sec­u­tive Sat­ur­days in August, nearly seven miles of NYC’s streets are opened for peo­ple to play, run, walk and bike. Sum­mer Streets pro­vides space for healthy recre­ation and encour­ages New York­ers to use more sus­tain­able forms of trans­porta­tion!

Free

Discovery Day

Freshkills Park 10314, Staten Island , Select a Country:

Go to Freshkills Park for an opportunity to discover the trails and hills of the landfill-to-park project!

Free

Garden Walking Tour in Fort Tryon Park

Take a tour of the "Park for All Seasons." Take a walking tour of the Heather and Alpine Gardens of Fort Tryon Park. Discover which…

Free

Eco Fashion in the Park

History will be made this Sunday. The newly re-opened High Bridge will be transformed into a next-generation runway showing off the designs of Iliana Quander,…

Free

Noxious New York: Race, Class and Garbage

The New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue, at 103rd Street, New York, NY, United States

Historian Julie Sze examines the link between race, class, and garbage and explores how culturally and politically disenfranchised communities re-work long-standing conflations between polluted places and peoples.

The talk will address case studies around NYC garbage politics in the 1980s and 1990s, while also considering at previous historical moments and sites outside the city.

Free

Books Beneath the Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge Park 334 Furman Street, New York, NY, United States

WORD is delighted to be returning to the Books Beneath the Bridge reading series with two wonderful fantasy novelists. Naomi Novik and Peter V. Brett will be reading, answering questions and, of course, signing books.

Free

Rooftop Films: Bikes vs. Cars

Metrotech Commons 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States

As evidence of the negative impact of the cars continues to mount, people are looking to the bicycle as the solution. But with poor city planning and road rage contributing to daily cycling casualties, and never-ending gridlocks and global warming at the forefront of the news, what will it take for change to occur? And will the economic powers-that-be allow it?

Free

Shakespeare in the Parking Lot: Macbeth

The Clemente (Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center) 114 Norfolk Street (E. side of Norfolk St. between Delancey and Rivington), New York, NY, United States

Macbeth set in a banana republic.

Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival

Meadow Lake Flushing Meadows Corona Park 11101 Corona Ave, Flushing, NY, United States

The 24th annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York!

Free

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