Free events in the city I'd like to attend this summer...

[grammargirl]

[Posted June 15, will remain at the top of my journal through the end of the summer]

This is mostly for my own reference, but if anyone wants to come with me for any of the events, by all means let me know.



June 18th
What: Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
Movie: Annie Hall
Time: Lawn Opens at 5 PM
Films Begin at Sunset, Typically Between 8-9 PM
Where: The Lawn
6th Ave & 42nd Street


June 20th
What: Met in the Parks
Opera: Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème
Time: 8 PM
Where: Cunningham Park, Queens
Horace Harding Expressway at Grand Central Parkway (Okay, I know it's in Queens, which as far as I'm concerned is a made-up place, but it's La Bohème! Come on!)


June 23rd
What: Coney Island Mermaid Parade and Ball
Time: 2 PM
Where: Coney Island, Brooklyn
Surf Avenue


July 5th
What: Brooklyn Bridge Park Summer Film Series
Movie: The Princess Bride
Time: 6 PM DJ Set
Sundown Short Film by a Local film Maker
Feature Presentation
Where: Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park Lawn


July 9th
What: River to River
Event: Summer Stars: Young People's Chorus of New York City
Time: 7:30 PM
Where: Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts @ Pace University


July 11th
What: River to River
Who: Spoon
Time: 7 PM
Where: Rockefeller Park
North end of Battery Park City, west of River Terrace


July 14th
What: Celebrate Brooklyn
Who: Brooklyn Philharmonic With Music Director Michael Christie, Guest Artists Mark O'Connor
And Maya Beiser
Time: 8 PM
Where: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
9th Avenue Bandshell


July 17th
What: Concerts in the Parks
Who: New York Philharmonic, Followed by Fireworks
Time: 8 PM
Where: Central Park, Great Lawn Bandshell


July 19th
What: Brooklyn Bridge Park Summer Film Series
Movie: Muppets Take Manhattan
Time: 6 PM DJ Set
Sundown Short Film by a Local film Maker
Feature Presentation
Where: Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park Lawn


July 20th
What: Central Park SummerStage
Who: Neko Case, Eric Bachman
Time: 7- 10 PM
Where: Rumsey Playfield
5th Avenue & 72nd Street


July 26th
What: Central Park SummerStage
Who: Marisha Pessl, Jennifer Egan
Time: 7:30- 10 PM
Where: Rumsey Playfield
5th Avenue & 72nd Street


July 29th
What: Pool Parties in McCarren Park
Who: TV on the Radio
Time: 3- 8 PM
Where: McCarren Park, Brooklyn
Lorimer St. between Driggs & Bayard Ave.


August 3rd
What: River to River
Who: A Night of Billie Holiday Remixed and Reimagined
Time: 7 PM
Where: South Street Seaport
Pier 17


August 4th
What: Shakespeare on the Hudson
Play: Twelfth Night
Time: 1 PM
Where: Hudson River Park
Clinton Cove at 55th Street (This is playing a bunch of different times)


August 9th
What: Celebrate Brooklyn
Who: The Hold Steady, The Big Sleep, The Teenage Prayers
Time: 7 PM
Where: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
9th Avenue Bandshell


August 10th
What: Celebrate Brooklyn
Who: Bollywood In Brooklyn: Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin, Dj Rekha's Bollywood Disco
Time: 7:30 PM
Where: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
9th Avenue Bandshell


August 12th
What: Pool Parties in McCarren Park
Who: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Thermals, Birds of Avalon
Time: 3- 8 PM
Where: McCarren Park, Brooklyn
Lorimer St. between Driggs & Bayard Ave.


August 13th
What: Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
Movie: Casablanca
Time: Lawn Opens at 5 PM
Films Begin at Sunset, Typically Between 8-9 PM
Where: The Lawn
6th Ave & 42nd Street


August 14th
What: River to River
Movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1960)
Time: @ Sundown
Where: The Elevated Acre
55 Water Street


August 17th
What: River to River
Who: The National with The Forms & Takka Takka
Time: 7 PM
Where: South Street Seaport
Pier 17


August 20th
What: Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
Movie: Psycho
Time: Lawn Opens at 5 PM
Films Begin at Sunset, Typically Between 8-9 PM
Where: The Lawn
6th Ave & 42nd Street


August 23rd
What: Brooklyn Bridge Park Summer Film Series
Movie: West Side Story
Time: 6 PM DJ Set
Sundown Short Film by a Local film Maker
Feature Presentation
Where: Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park Lawn


August 24th
What: River to River
Who: Camera Obscura
Time: 7 PM
Where: South Street Seaport
Pier 17


Museums with a “suggested donation” all the time
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - ($20 recommended)
• The Cloisters - ($20 recommended)
• American Museum of Natural History ($14 recommended)
• Museum of the City of New York - ($9 recommended)
• Brooklyn Museum - ($8 recommended)
• Studio Museum in Harlem - ($7 recommended)
• Museum of Biblical Art ($7 recommended)
• el Museo del Barrio - ($6 recommended)
• New York City Police Museum - ($5 recommended)
• New York City Fire Museum - ($5 recommended)
• P.S. 1 MoMA - ($5 recommended)
• Queens Museum of Art - ($5 recommended)
• Bronx Museum- ($5 recommended)
• Museum of Chinese in the Americas - ($2 recommended)
• Staten Island Museum - ($2 recommended)

Museums with free or pay what you wish hours

Tuesday
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Free all day (normally $5)
• Wave Hill Gardens - Free all day (normally $4)
• Morgan Library & Museum - Free access to the McKim rooms from 3- 5 PM

Wednesday
• Museum of Jewish Heritage - Free from 4- 8 PM (normally $10)
• NY Botanical Garden - Free grounds access all day (normally $6)
• Bronx Zoo - Admission by optional "donation" all day (normally $14)

Thursday
• Dahesh Museum of Art - Free first Thursday of each month from 6- 9 PM (normally $10)
• Museum of Arts & Design - Pay-what-you-wish from 6-8 PM (normally $9)

Friday
• Museum of Modern Art - Free from 4- 8 PM (normally $20)
• Whitney Museum of American Art - Pay-what-you-wish from 6- 9 PM (normally $15)
• Guggenheim - Pay-what-you-wish from 5:45- 7:45 PM (normally $18)
• Morgan Library & Museum - Free from 7- 9 PM (normally $12)
• New-York Historical Society - Free from 6- 8 PM (normally $10)
• Museum of the Moving Image - Free from 4- 8 PM (normally $10)
• Bronx Museum - Free all day (normally $5)
• Rubin Museum of Art - Free from 7-10 PM (normally $10)
• Folk Art Museum - Free from 5:30- 7:30 PM (normally $9)
• International Center of Photography - "voluntary contribution" admission from 5- 8 PM (normally $12)
• The Noguchi Museum - Pay-what-you-wish on the first Friday of each month, all day (normally $10)
• Asia Society - Free 6- 9 PM except July 4 through Labor Day (normally $10)

Saturday
• Jewish Museum - Free from 11:00 AM- 5:45 PM (normally $12)
• Brooklyn Museum - Free First Saturdays of each month from 5-11 PM (normally a suggested $8)
• NY Botanical Garden - Free grounds access from 10 AM- 12 PM on Saturdays (normally $6)
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Free from 10 AM- 12 PM - except during Sakura Matsuri (normally $5)
• Wave Hill - Free Saturdays from 9 AM- 12 PM (normally $4)

Sunday
• Frick Collection - Pay-what-you-wish from 11 AM- 1 PM (normally $15)
• Museum of the City of New York - Free from 10 AM- 12 PM (normally a suggested $9)
• Morgan Library & Museum - Access is free to the McKim rooms from 4- 6 PM (full museum access $12)

Comments

[mary-wroth.livejournal.com]

I want to go to a big pile of the Bryant Park movies - so we'll have to coordinate. I also want to hit a lot of the Celebrate Brooklyn events at Prospect Park.

ALSO - I am totally going to the Mermaid Parade next week.

[marmal8.livejournal.com]

I have been known to parade with the mermaids.

Also...Muppets!!!! Dammit Muppets rule!!

[beingblueagain.livejournal.com]

i love that you put this together.
also, if you still have your old timewarner i.d., you know you can get into museums (including the moma) for free, right?

[iconoclam.livejournal.com]

I'd love to join you for Bryant Park this week!

I really want to get to a bunch of the museums you mentioned before I leave NY. If you want to join forces for any of these outings, I can use my Met ID to get us into just about any art museum for free. I've heard that the current exhibition at the Whitney is lots of fun.

[soleta-nf.livejournal.com]

Off topic: Someone on my flist made an animated icon of the comic strip you posted a while back. (http://soleta-nf.livejournal.com/285026.html?thread=3093858#t3093858) I linked to you then, and she wanted me to let you know. :)