October NYC Events + Top 11 NYC Corona Culture (10/05)

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. ============================================================ For October we are going to try a different format – “Top 10 Corona Culture” – updated info and video especially suited to these difficult times OR NYC related visual info (Instagram and YouTube) OR all the NYC news you need to start your day.

We hope you will come back often to see what’s cooking here.

Today it’s Top 11 NYC Corona Culture. NEW STUFF!

Things to Do This Week – The New York Times

1. New York City’s Indoor Dining Reopens After Six-Month Shutdown – WSJ

2.New York’s Star Attractions Are Reopening. Here’s What You Need to Know. – WSJ “With limited capacity and other Covid-19 restrictions now in place at the city’s most beloved landmarks, locals and visitors are finding an unexpected upside to the ‘new normal’—plenty of elbow room.”

3. Koreatown’s 32nd St. Is Now Closed To Traffic For NYC’s Best New Outdoor Dining Set-Up – Secretnyc

4. New York’s Reopened Museums: Where to Go and What to See – The New York Times “What you need to know before venturing back out to see art, from safety precautions to the exhibitions still on view.”

5. 15 Sheltered Spots for Dining Outdoors in NYC When It Rains. – Eater NewYork

6. MoMA Has Reopened And It’s Gloriously Uncrowded And Free (For Now!) – Gothamist

7. The Met Is Reopening: Grab Your Timed Ticket and Give Your Bike to the Valet – The New York Times With fewer people and more protocols, the country’s largest museum is ready to welcome visitors again.

8. A Walk Through Harlem, New York’s Most Storied Neighborhood – The New York Times Our critic chats with the architect David Adjaye about Hotel Theresa, Marcus Garvey Park, the home of Langston Hughes, the Y.M.C.A. and other landmarks.

9.MetroCard Swipes No Longer Needed to Get on Subway in Manhattan – WSJ Riders can now use new-fare payment system to tap-and-pay with credit card or smartphone

10. Brooklyn Bridge, Star of the City: Here’s a Tour (NYT). Our critic explores the bridge and the neighborhoods on either side with the architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi.

We hope you enjoy this change of pace, then please return here November 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 is a city of neighborhoods and no neighborhood has more spectacular sights, nor more important links to American and NYC history then Lower Manhattan.

New York played a very intriguing role in the story of American independence and was a growing urban center of about 20,000 crowded onto the southern tip of Manhattan Island when the rebellious Colonies declared their independence from England in 1776.

The Battle of Brooklyn (August 1776), was the first major battle after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and was the largest battle of the entire war. The city was occupied by the British in the wake of a series of American defeats and retreats in the summer and fall of 1776 and the port city became the central base for British operations during the conflict. NYC was also the last place in America that the British left, not until over two years after their ‘final’ defeat.