Pre Covid-19 we searched the internet everyday looking for the very best of What’s Happening, primarily on Manhattan’s WestSide, so that you didn’t have to.
We made it as easy as 1-2-3.
Covid-19 has required some changes for the time being.
Stay Safe.
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For the month of July we are going to try a different format – on some days we will go visual and offer a selection of the very best NYCity Instagram photos or YouTube videos. Some days you will find “the Nifty Nine”, all the NYC news you need to start your day, or the Top Online Travel Forums with NYC info. On other days we will offer “Top 10 Corona Culture,” updated info and video especially suited to these difficult times.
We hope you will come back often to see what’s cooking here.
Today it’s Top 10 Corona Culture (b2). NEW STUFF!
1. The Metropolitan Opera streams a different free production every night this week (TONY).
The Met’s newest lineup includes operas by Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Donizetti and Dvořák.
2. 10 iconic streets and spots in NYC open for outdoor dining (6sqft).
3. What to stream online: from virtual museum tours to the best concert movies and theatre shows (The Telegraph).
5. 100 NYC restaurants with outdoor dining (6sqft).
6. New digital hub provides online resources to explore Governors Island while at home (amNY).
7. 11 Online Classes That’ll Make You a Better Photographer (NY Magazine).
8. Biking in New York City (nycgo.com)
9. The Strand brings book discussions online to Facebook and Zoom for readers (amNY).
10. When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: a Stroll Through the Centuries (NYT).
From lush forest to metropolis, the evolution of Lower Manhattan.
We hope you enjoy this change of pace, then please return here August 1, and every day for our daily, hot off the presses event guide with “Only the Best” NYCity event info.
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Lower Manhattan – Did you know?
New York City, a city of neighborhoods, is filled with sights that every visitor should see. No neighborhood has more spectacular sights than Lower Manhattan. Today’s feature:
The Batterty Park City Esplanade
“The Esplanade runs the entire length of Battery Park City, along the Hudson River from Stuyvesant High School on the north end all the way south to Historic Battery Park. With its views of the Hudson River and New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the New Jersey shoreline, the Esplanade is a pedestrian paradise. Parks and gardens line the entire route, along with numerous sculptures and public art installations.” (bpca.ny.gov)
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Now how about some other useful information during these trying times.
WFUV-FM 90.7 is my fave local radio station. Noncommercial, member-supported with a format of adult album alternative music, WFUV is doing it’s best to keep us connected to our music with a comprehensive, updated list of live music online.
WFUV Live Online (July 30 – August 05)
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NYC-Arts Top Five Virtual Picks: July 31 – August 6
Interesting. Unusual. Uniquely NYC. Highlights of this week’s top virtual events include Bound Unbound, Video Chat Variations, Ice Factory Festival 2020 and more. Get the NYC-ARTS Top Five in your inbox every Friday and follow @NYC_ARTS on Instagram or @NYCARTS on Twitter to stay abreast of events as they happen.
Bound Unbound: Four by Mehrdad Oskouei
Museum of the Moving Image
Queens / Wed, Aug 05, 2020 – Sun, Aug 30, 2020
Beginning August 5, 2020, Museum of the Moving Image is pleased to present “Bound Unbound: Four by Mehrdad Oskouei,” films by the esteemed Iranian documentarian who has spent twelve years exploring the lives of women and children in detention centers near Tehran. The series is anchored by “Sunless Shadows,” Oskouei’s latest film, for which he was awarded Best Director at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2019. Punctuated by deeply confessional monologues, the film
MJH Virtual Summer Programming
Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Manhattan / Tue, Jul 28, 2020 – Thu, Aug 20, 2020
The Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust continues to provide virtual programming while the Museum remains closed. Upcoming events include book talks, a film screening, and a multimedia event featuring songs of Holocaust refugees that were recorded in 1948. Trauma Studies, Creativity, And The Second Generation Tuesday, August 4 | 2 PM Suggested Donation $10 https://mjhnyc.org/events/trauma-studies-creativity-and-the-second-generation/ Children of Holocaust survivors (often referred to as “2Gs”, for second generation) are no strangers to intergenerational trauma. Children …
Ice Factory Festival 2020
New Ohio Theatre
Manhattan / Fri, Jul 24, 2020 – Sat, Aug 15, 2020
New Ohio Theatre is excited to announce that the 27th annual Obie Award-winning “Ice Factory Festival” will be live-streamed online for the first time, and will feature four new works over four weeks. NOT recognizes the precarious, disorienting, and historic nature of this summer of COVID-19 social distancing, widespread economic dislocation, and BLM racial justice protests. As always, they look to their theatre artists to help us find our bearings. They reached out to New …
Video Chat Variations
Alarm Will Sound
Manhattan / Sat, Aug 01, 2020 – Sat, Sep 12, 2020
Alarm Will Sound—”one of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene” (The New York Times)—continues to revitalize music-making during the COVID-19 pandemic with “VIDEO CHAT VARIATIONS,” a new series of remote performances that respond to the quirks of video chat platforms. The series will launch in August 2020 with two visionary, multi-faceted artists, both MacArthur “Genius” Award winners: Meredith Monk (8/1), and Tyshawn Sorey (9/12). This new project comes on the heels …
Digital Discovery Festival: Renewal
National Sawdust
Brooklyn / Tue, Aug 04, 2020 – Fri, Aug 07, 2020
In times of trouble, we seek out songs we know which bring us comfort. Great artists harness that impulse of nostalgia and desire for the familiar, then use that energy to subvert expectations with new possibilities. For Week 13, National Sawdust’s “Digital Discovery Festival” embraces Renewalas a creative force to reshape music in ways we never considered and bring light to our darkest hours.The magnetic impresario Michael Mwenso, alongside his band The Shakes, specializes in …
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