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Ninth Avenue Food Festival 2012

Love to eat?  Have an adventurous palate (or trouble deciding on a cuisine)?  Then run, don’t walk to that annual celebration of culinary consumption: The Ninth Avenue Food Festival. May 19th & 20th, Hell’s Kitchen’s main drag, 9th Avenue, will be given over to food stalls offering cuisines from all over the world.  From 12pm [...]

NYC Rolls Out Citi Bike

Citi Bike, NYC’s first bike sharing program, is scheduled to launch in July.  The self-service system will provide members access to a network of 10,000 bicycles, located at stations throughout the city.  After using a bike, cyclists simply return it to a docking station nearest their destination. Locations of the first 420 docking stations were [...]

Rooftop Films 2012

Rooftop Films, the innovative NYC film festival that brings “underground movies outdoors,” begins its 2012 Summer Series May 11th. Now in its 16th year, Rooftop’s outdoor venues and innovative programming have made it one of the city’s most popular film festivals. The Summer Series will present 23 feature films and programs of 183 short films [...]

Harlem: A Walking Tour

Harlem evokes images of legendary nightspots like the Cotton Club, where great musicians filled the night with hot jazz.  Or perhaps one thinks of the notorious ghetto: decrepit, dirty, and crime-ridden.  While both are part of its rich past, Harlem has entered a new era.  Yes, it’s still a bit rough around the edges, with [...]

Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival

Harlem has produced some of the world’s greatest jazz artists, composers, and innovations.  The Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival celebrates the neighborhood’s legendary jazz clubs and venues, including the Apollo Theater, Minton’s Playhouse, Lenox Lounge, Showman’s Jazz Club, and Small’s Paradise. May 7 – 13, 2012, the festival will celebrate these historic venues and the music [...]

Keith Haring at the Brooklyn Museum

Today would have been the 54th birthday of Keith Haring, the gifted artist whose work embodies the energy of 1980s NYC.  Fortunately we can celebrate his life and work at the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition – Keith Haring: 1978 – 1982. The exhibition presents Haring’s early works, produced soon after he moved to NYC in 1978 [...]

Manhattan’s “Little Mexico”

Cinco de Mayo is only a few days away, and there are plenty of places in NYC to enjoy a Margarita, chips, and salsa under red, white and green streamers.  But for a unique cultural experience (and truly authentic food), explore one of NYC’s newest ethnic communities: East Harlem’s “Little Mexico.” East Harlem has been [...]