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West Indian American Day Carnival & Parade
September 6, Labor Day
Hundreds of floats and sound trucks, thousands of marchers with rainbow-hued, peacock-feather-enhanced costumes and hundreds of food and goods stands make this celebration of an ethnic community's life in New York the highpoint of the festival year. And it's not just on Labor Day, there are four days of events and activities leading up to the big parade, most of them including calypso and steel bands in one form or another. Eastern Parkway between Utica Avenue & Grand Army Plaza | Brooklyn. For more information, call 1(718)467-1797.
9/11 WTC Walking Tours connect with history first hand
Tribute Center Walking Tours are lead by people whose lives were profoundly changed by September 11th. Each tour is unique and connects those who want to hear stories with those who want to share them. Tours begin at 120 Liberty Street and last approximately 1 hour and fifteen minutes. Tickets for the tours can be purchased at the door of Tribute Center on the day of the tour. For a better chance of getting a ticket for the time of your choice, please arrive one hour before the regularly scheduled tour as space is limited and cannot be guaranteed. Price: $10 per person, children under 12 admitted free. Tribute WTC Visitors Center 120 Liberty St. For more information, call 1(866) 737-1184 or 1(212) 393-9160 ext 138 or visit www.tributewtc.org
84th Annual Feast of San Gennaro
September 16 – 26
The Feast of San Gennaro, Little Italy’s annual salute to the Patron Saint of Naples, begins Thursday, September 16, and continues for 11 days through Sunday, September 26. Street festivities include parades, musical entertainment, food stands and a cannoli-eating contest. On September 19, there will be a celebratory Mass and candlelit procession as the Statue of the Saint is carried from its permanent home in The Most Precious Blood Church on Mulberry Street. The delicious food, the free musical entertainment that reflects Italian-American culture and heritage brings the world to Little Italy and Little Italy to the world. For more information, call 1(212)768-9320 or visit
www.sangennaro.org
The Edible Garden
Now through October 17
Throughout the summer and into autumn, The Edible Garden, celebrates growing and preparing great food. Set throughout the Botanical Garden's spectacular 250-acre landscape, The Edible Garden will feature numerous vegetable gardens and multiple displays, demonstrations from food and gardening experts, celebrity appearances during four festival weekends, and exciting programs that demonstrate the bounty, economy, and nutritional value of edible plants. Open 10am - 6pm, Tuesday-Sunday, plus Monday, September 6 (Labor Day) and October 11 (Columbus Day. New York Botanical Garden, www.nybg.org
Summer Restaurant Week 2010
Extended through Labor Day
It's the most delicious restaurant event in the world! Over 275 of New York's finest
restaurants will offer 3-course lunches for just $24.07 and some will offer
3-course dinners for just $35.00 with many restaurants extending their offer
through Labor Day. Beverages, tax and gratuity are additional. It's a great opportunity
for you to try out the hottest new restaurants, revisit some classic establishments, and
to gain first-hand experience of the quality, variety and hospitality that makes New York
City the Dining Capital of the World! For a listing of all the participating restaurants,
call 1(800) NYC-GUIDE (1(800) 692-4843) or visit
Summer Restaurant
Week Guide 2010.
Victoria Gardens, Central Park
Now open through September 12
Rediscover your childhood right in New York City’s backyard. Victoria Gardens features a wide assortment of games, food, and exciting rides including: Aeromax, Kite Flyer 8, and Whac-A-Mole. Enjoy cotton candy, caramel apples, and face painting. Open Mon–Fri: 11am – 7pm; Sat: 10am – 9pm; Sun: 10am - 8pm; Holidays: 10am - 9pm. Victoria Gardens at Wollman Rink is located just north of the park entrance at 59th St & 6th Ave. For more information, call 1(212)982-2229.
Broken Forms: European Modernism
Now through January 5
From Germany and France to Italy and Russia, artists such as Giacomo Balla, Marc Chagall,
Vasily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso pioneered
revolutionary approaches to art making. While some experimented with the concept of
fragmentation and simultaneity, choosing to deal with themes such as technological
development and the spectacle of the changing city, others sought to express subjective
emotions and inner psychological truths through their art. Masterpieces in this
exhibition include examples of Cubism, Cubo-Futurism, Expressionism, and other avant-garde
movements that are central to the Guggenheim’s collection. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th St). www.guggenheim.org.
The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty
September 28 - January 2
This exhibition will cover the period from 1215, the year of Khubilai's birth, to 1368, the year of the fall of the Yuan dynasty in China founded by Khubilai Khan, and will feature every art form, including paintings, sculpture, gold and silver, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, and other decorative arts, religious and secular. The exhibition will highlight new art forms and styles generated in China as a result of the unification of China under the Yuan dynasty and the massive influx of craftsmen from all over the vast Mongol empire—with reverberations in Italian art of the fourteenth century.
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St. www.metmuseum.org.
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Now through October 31 (weather permitting)
Big Bambú is a growing and changing sculpture―a vast network of 5,000
interlocking 30- and 40-foot-long fresh-cut bamboo poles, lashed together with 50
miles of nylon rope. It will continue to be constructed throughout the duration of
the exhibition. Visitors are able to experience Big Bambú from the Roof
Garden level, and to walk among a forest of bamboo poles that serves as the base
of the sculpture. Alternatively, small groups of visitors are able to walk along
the elevated interior network of pathways roughly 20 to 40 feet above the Roof Garden.
Tickets are required for the guided tours, and specific guidelines apply to those
interested in participating. Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St. www.metmuseum.org.
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917
Now through October 11
This exhibit moves beyond the surface of these paintings to examine their physical
production and the essential context of Matisse's studio practice. Through this
shift of focus, the exhibition reveals deep connections among these works and
demonstrates their critical role in the artist's development at this time. Matisse
himself acknowledged near the end of his life the significance of this period when
he identified two works—Bathers by a River (1909–10, 1913, 1916–17)
and The Moroccans (1915–16)—as among his most "pivotal." The importance of
this moment resides not only in the formal qualities of the paintings but also in the
physical nature of the pictures, each bearing the history of its manufacture. The
exhibition includes approximately 120 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints,
primarily from the years of 1913–17, in the first sustained examination devoted
to the work of this important period. Please be aware that gallery occupancy is limited.
Timed tickets are required and guarantee entrance to the exhibition at the time
designated on the ticket, and carry no extra charge. This ticket also permits you
access to all other Museum galleries, exhibitions, and films. A limited number of
timed-entry tickets will be available each day at the Museum on a first-come, first-served
basis. Museum of Modern Art 15 West 53rd St. www.MoMA.org.
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
Now through September 12
Encompassing nearly fifty works, this exhibition reveals the artist’s vitality,
energy, and renewed spirit of experimentation. During this time Warhol produced more
works, in a considerable number of series and on a vastly larger scale, than at any
other point in his forty-year career. It was a decade of great artistic development
for him, during which a dramatic transformation of his style took place alongside the
introduction of new techniques. Warhol continued to expand upon his artistic and
business ventures with commissioned portraits, print series, television productions,
and fashion projects, but he also reengaged with painting. Brooklyn Museum of Art 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn www.brooklynmuseum.org.
Broadway on Broadway concert
September 12 at 11:30am
Broadway on Broadway Concert is a free outdoor concert featuring musical numbers and appearances from almost every play and musical on Broadway, as well as sneak peeks at several upcoming shows opening in the new theatre season. This event features live musical numbers from Broadway shows performed on a giant outdoor stage at 43rd St & Broadway, a galaxy of celebrity performers accompanied by a live 30-piece orchestra, giant screens in Times Square, and a big finale with loads of confetti. For more information visit www.broadwayonbroadway.com
Das Rheingold opens Metropolitan Opera Season
September 27 Opening Night
Two unparalleled artists join forces to create a groundbreaking new Ring for the Met: Maestro James Levine and director Robert Lepage. “The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it’s a cosmos,” says Lepage (La Damnation de Faust), who brings cutting-edge technology and his own visionary imagination to the world’s greatest theatrical journey. Bryn Terfel, singing his first, much-anticipated Met Wotan, leads the cast in Das Rheingold, the Ring’s first installment. Levine, who has conducted every complete cycle of Wagner’s masterpiece performed by the Met since 1989, says, “The Ring is one of those works of art that you think you know, but every time you return to it, you find all kinds of brilliant moments that hadn’t struck you with the same force before.” Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center. Metropolitan Opera Tickets
The New York Musical Theatre Festival
September 27 through October 17
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An annual three-week fall Festival which presents more than thirty new musicals at
venues in New York City's midtown theater district. More than half of these productions
are chosen by leading theater artists and producers through an open-submission,
double-blind evaluation process. As of November 2009, the festival has premiered over
200 musicals, which have featured works of over 6,000 artists and have been attended
by 170,000 theatergoers. For more information, call 1(212) 664-0979 or visit
Musical Theater Festival's Tasters Menu
Carnegie Hall Opening Night Gala
September 29 at 7PM
Source: www.carnegiehall.org
Celebrate the launch of Carnegie Hall’s 120th Season at a once-in-a lifetime
concert featuring the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Nikolaus
Harnoncourt, with illustrious pianist Lang Lang performing an All-Beethoven Program
(Piano Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 7). Gala benefit tickets include prime concert
seating and the option of attending either the Pre-Concert Reception ($800 per person)
or the Post-Concert Gala Dinner at The Waldorf=Astoria (starting at $1,500 per person).
To Purchase Tickets and for Concert, call 1(212) 247-7800 or visit Carnegie Hall,
57th St & 7th Ave.
www.carnegiehall.org
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
brings big top to Coney Island Boardwalk
Now through September 6
Follow David DaVinci through outlandish, heart-racing transformations including suspending
himself perilously by his feet, attempting to escape from the confines of a straitjacket,
all while directly above a pack of exotic lions. See two female aerialists defy the sheer
force of gravity, twirling and soaring 35 feet above the audience, suspended solely by the
strands of their hair. Also, performing for the first time in the United States are the
Kung Fu Kings. These masters of Far East disciplines will present the inexplicable which
includes challenging centrifugal force by diving blindfolded through a spinning ring of
fire intertwined with more than 40 swords! Shows at 1pm and 5pm every Wednesday through
Sunday and tickets for the circus, which also features a petting zoo, start at $10. Take
downtown  subway to Coney Island - Stillwell Ave
Station. Walk west to Surf Ave & W 21st St.
River to River Festival 2010
River to River, the Big Apple's biggest free arts festival, launches its seventh year of
music, visual arts and dance in lower Manhattan - from Chambers Street south and from
river to river. It began as an effort to revitalize downtown after the 9/11 attacks and
it's become a must-visit for urban arts aficionados. For more information, visit
River to River 2010
Events
2010 US Open Tennis Championships
August 31 – September 13
The US Open Tennis Championships in Flushing Meadows, Queens, is one of the premier sporting events in the world. The two-week tournament is held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Players compete in Men's Singles, Men's Doubles, Women's Singles, Women's Doubles, and Mixed Doubles. ESPN and Tennis Channel will join CBS and become the US Open cable television broadcasters for the first time. Last year's winners Juan Martin del Potro and Kim Clijsters return to defend their crowns. Tennis matches occur during the day (11am) and at night (7pm)
on most days
of the tournament.
Subway Directions
Take the  subway to the Mets-Willets Point station. The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is a short walk down the ramp from the station.
LIRR Railroad Directions
Long Island Railroad (LIRR)'s Port Washington line stops at the Mets-Willets Point station, a few
minutes walk from the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Bus Directions
The Q48 bus goes to 126th St and Willets Point Blvd, where it's an easy walk south to the USTA. Or take the Q23 or Q58 to Corona & 51st Aves, and walk east into Flushing Meadows Park.
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New York Mets - Baseball
Mets 2010 Schedule
Regular season home games played at Citi Field
123-01 Roosevelt Ave, Flushing, Queens
Bus:
Q48,
Q66
Subway: to Willets Pt, Shea Stadium
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New York Yankees - Baseball
Yankees 2010 Schedule
Regular season home games played at the New Yankee Stadium
161st St & Jerome Ave, Bronx
Bus: Bx1, Bx6, Bx13
Subway:  
 to 161 St - Yankee Stadium.
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New York Liberty- WNBA Basketball
New York Liberty 2010 Schedule
Regular season home games played at Madison Square Garden.
Madison Square Garden, 7th Ave at 32nd St
Bus: M4, M6, M7, M10, M16, M34, Q32
Subway:       to 34th St/Penn Station.
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New York Red Bulls - Soccer
Red Bulls 2010 Schedule
Regular season home games played at Red Bull Arena, Harrison, NJ.
For information & availability of tickets, call 1(201) 935-9500.
Directions from 33rd St PATH Station in Manhattan, 6th Ave & 32nd St.
Take PATH to Journal Square or Grove St (Yellwo Line). At Journal Square or Grove St, transfer to Newark train (Red Line) towards Newark. Exit at Harrison station (second from last stop). Exit station onto Frank E. Rogers Blvd. Red Bull Stadium is four blocks from the station.
Directions from Port Authority Bus Terminal, 8th Ave & 41st St.
Take NJ Transit Bus #40 to the Harrison PATH station, which is four blocks from Red Bull Arena.
#39 and #43 buses have stops within a ½ mile of the arena site. For more detailed information on bus schedules and routes, please visit
www.njtransit.com or call 1(800) 772-2222.
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Save up to 50% off on same-day Yankee tickets
Posted by: Chad Jennings
The New York Yankees and Modell’s - the sporting goods retailer’s newly
renovated flagship store, located at 234 W. 42nd St. in Times Square, will be home
to the world’s only New York Yankees ticket booth offering same-day game
tickets for prices that are up to 50 percent off face value. The much sought-after
tickets will be limited to four per person, per game and can be purchased exclusively
at Modell’s Times Square on the day of Yankees home games with any major credit
card beginning at 8:00am for day games and 12 noon for night games. Tickets are limited
and subject to availability. Ticket policies and ticket booth hours of operation are
subject to change.
Explore the New Yankee Stadium on
the ultimate behind-the-scenes tour
The Classic Tour lasts 45 minutes to one hour and includes visits to the New York Yankees Museum, Monument Park and the dugout. Guests will pass through the batting cages and Yankees clubhouse area before ending the tour in the Great Hall near the team store.
Classic Tours will commence every 20 minutes from Noon to 1:40pm and run daily except when the Yankees play at home on weekends or are scheduled to play a weekday day game. Certain areas of Yankee Stadium will not be available on the tours when the team plays at home. All parts of the tour are subject to cancellation or change without notice. For more details plus prices for Individuals, Group Tours (12-30 People), Special Weekday Prices for Schools, and to schedule a Birthday Bash at the Hard Rock Cafe in Yankee Stadium, please visit
Yankee Stadium Tours.
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