UPDATE: 2010 Events available for April | May | June | July | August | September. Summer event schedules are being finalized and will be updated as soon as they’re available. Please follow @UniqNYC on twitter or facebook.com/UniqNYC for updates.

[−] August Events

➪ Rumble on the River – Outdoor Boxing
➪ Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival
➪ Blue’s BBQ – Hudson River Park
➪ Dominican Day Parade

Summer Events Starting in August
➪ US OPEN Tennis
➪ Met Opera Summer HD Festival

Ongoing Events
➪ Street Fairs in August
➪ Williamsburg Pool Parties
➪ SummerStage Central Park & More
➪ Celebrate Brooklyn! In Prospect Park
➪ Movies With A View – Brooklyn Bridge Park
➪ PS1 Warm Up
➪ Socrates Sculpture Park Outdoor Cinema
➪ Lincoln Center Out of Doors
➪ Broadway in Bryant Park
➪ Summer Screen at McCarren Park
➪ Hudson River Flicks
➪ Hudson River Flicks Kids
➪ Hudson River MoonDance
➪ Hudson River Rocks Concerts
➪ Summer in the Square at Union Square
➪ Shakespeare in the Park at Central Park
➪ River to River Festival
➪ Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
➪ Water Taxi Beach
➪ BKLYN Yard Summer Events
➪ Luna Park Amusement Park
➪ Good Morning America Summer Concert Series
➪ DUMBO First Thursdays Gallery Walk
➪ NBC Rockefeller Plaza Concerts
➪ Rooftop Films Summer Series
➪ Big Bambú at the Met Rooftop
➪ Red Hook Ballfields Food Trucks

Ongoing NYC Things To Do

Through the summer
Top 10 Rooftop & Garden Bars in NYC
Through the summer
Latest Broadway and Off-Broadway Deals and Discount Codes
Through the summer
Walk Through the Heart of Central Park
Through the summer
Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge

I will add new things to do to this list as I find out about them. Be the first to be notified by following me on twitter or facebook

Celebrate Brooklyn! is one of New York City’s longest running, free, outdoor performing arts festivals. Launched in 1979 as a catalyst for a Brooklyn performing arts scene and to bring people back into Prospect Park after years of neglect, Celebrate Brooklyn has been an anchor in the park’s revitalization and has become one of the city’s foremost summer cultural attractions.

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Over its history, Celebrate Brooklyn has presented over 1,700 artists and ensembles reflective of the borough’s diversity, ranging from internationally acclaimed performers to emerging, cutting-edge artists. All Celebrate Brooklyn performances are FREE! The festival attracts upwards of 250,000 attendees from across New York City to the Prospect Park Bandshell each summer.

2009 Summer Schedule – All Events are Rain or Shine

Saturday August 1, 2009
Movie & Music: Dean & Britta – 13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests | Crystal Stilts
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
Luna alumni DEAN & BRITTA perform original scores to Warhol’s rarely seen short silent film portraits, which captured Factory superstars, celebrities, and anonymous teenagers in mesmerizing 4-minute shots. “The music unabashedly translates the ominous drone of early Velvet Underground songs like I’m Waiting for the Man and Venus in Furs into a more modern electronic mode reminiscent of Giorgio Moroder’s chic torture-chamber disco.” (NY Times) Commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum, the project is like an archeological dig unearthing NYC’s 1960s art scene, complete with soundtrack. Brooklyn’s CRYSTAL STILTS, “moody-sounding f***ers who make fabulous stripped-down garage-pop,” (Pitchfork) will set the tone for the night.

Thursday August 6, 2009
Movie & Music: Purple Rain Sing-A-Long With Escort
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of history’s greatest pop albums, and the extravagantly, hilariously whacky and over the top film it inspired (the apotheosis of both the purple one’s genius and self caricature), we invite you to don something lacey and ruffled and come get your Prince on. We’ll have lyric subtitles, but you know the words already. Brooklyn’s own live disco orchestra ESCORT plays an opening set, and will lead the sing-along festivities. Rated R. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or guardian.

Friday August 7, 2009
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals | Deer Tick
From 7:00 PM (Gates: 6:00 PM)
Fronted by the Joplin-like vocals and driving Hammond B-3 of their fearless frontwoman, GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS play “blues-based rock with glorious passion.” Hard to categorize—folk? indie rock? alt-country? Americana?—but easy to love, DEER TICK “write and play some of the most soulful, inspired music around, littered with lyrics as sharp as a shot of whiskey and rapid-fire guitar solos strong enough to blow the dust off your boots.” (Brooklyn Vegan)

Saturday August 8, 2009
Big Daddy Kane | Plus Screening of BDK: the Big Daddy Kane Story | Hosted by “The worlds #1 beatboxer” Rahzel
From 7:00 PM (Gates: 6:00 PM)
The Lyricist Lounge returns with a once in a lifetime night of positive hip-hop featuring Brooklyn legend BIG DADDY KANE performing with his live band, preceded by a screening of the short documentary BDK: THE BIG DADDY KANE STORY, directed by Lyricist Lounge’s own Anthony Marshall. Other special guest performers TBA!

Past Events

Monday, June 8, 2009
David Byrne: Songs of David Byrne & Brian Eno
From 8:00 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
Among iconic New York artists, DAVID BYRNE has few peers. In this concert he plays songs from his collaborations with Brian Eno, which began in the late 70s and span three Talking Heads albums, 1981’s groundbreaking My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and last year’s Everything that Happens will Happen Today. An ensemble cast including dancers, background vocalists, and a killer band amplify the spectacle—a legendary Brooklyn night in the making, sure to pass instantly into NYC folklore.

Thursday June 11, 2009
Goran Bregović & His Weddings & Funerals Orchestra
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
Sarajevo-born GORAN BREGOVIC is a seminal figure in the Yugoslav rock world, a film composer who has been likened to Enio Moriconi and Nino Rota, and a co-conspirator with artists as varied as Iggy Pop and Cesaria Evora. With his own massive band, featuring brass, a classical string ensemble, an all-male choir, and traditional Bulgarian and Roma singers, he marries the dance music of a raucous gypsy wedding with Eastern European choral arrangements in “a mind-blowing return trip with no destination or port of arrival…a magnificent concert, one of the greatest marvels to be heard on stage today.” (La Vanguardia, Spain)

Friday June 19, 2009
David Rudder, Samantha Thornhill
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
A performer of such innovation and vitality that Jamaican newspaper The Gleaner called him “the Bob Marley of soca,” DAVID RUDDER changed the face of Caribbean music with his heart pounding mix of classic calypso and soulful pop. Trinidadian born Brooklynite SAMANTHA THORNHILL, an author, educator, and slam poetess of the first order, will prime the crowd with some spoken word derring-do.

Saturday June 20, 2009
Movie: La Nave De Los Monstruos With Live Score by Ethel and Gutbucket
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
“I wish there were more rock bands who played like ETHEL.” (Guardian UK) In a special Celebrate Brooklyn commission, the nation’s premier rock-infused, postclassical string quartet teams up with the artrock wild men of GUTBUCKET to perform a new original score to the vintage Mexican science fiction classic La Nave De Los Monstruos (The Monsters’ Ship, 1959). In the film, the last male on Venus has died and two Venusian hotties embark on a quest to find men on other planets. The two bands dig into this fertile ground after developing the project at a BRIClab residency this spring. GUTBUCKET performs an opening set. Friends of CB pre-performance reception sponsored by Aguayo & Hubner Fifth. See Friends panel for details.

Thursday June 25, 2009
Femi Kuti and the Positive Force | Melvin Gibbs’ Elevated Entity
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
Having long established himself as the heir apparent to his famous father Fela’s superfunky Afrobeat throne, the unstoppable FEMI KUTI returns to the Bandshell to make all of Prospect Park into one giant Nigerian dance party. Brooklyn born MELVIN GIBBS, “the best bassist in the world,” (Time Out NY) starts the night off with his ELEVATED ENTITY project, something of a downtown NYC supergroup, which continues Gibbs’ exploration of African diaspora music with a fusion of Afro-Brazilian rhythms, funk and rap.

Friday June 26, 2009
Blonde Redhead
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
Vaunted NYC underground sensualists BLONDE REDHEAD have shape-shifted from dissonant noise explorations to ethereal, dreamy pop over the course of their career, always inspiring intense devotion from their fans. “It is as if they are pressing on piano keys and each key is a trigger that tugs a wire within the listener. There are keys for longing, possession, despair, and ecstasy—and Blonde Redhead travel fast and skillfully over the whole keyboard.” (PopMatters)

Saturday June 27, 2009
Dr. Dog | Phosphorescent | These United States
From 7:00 PM (Gates: 6:00 PM)
DR. DOG’s foot stomping, back porch blend of “a little folk, blues, indie rock, soul, bluegrass–and a whole lot of down-home harmonizing” (Philadelphia Weekly) channels The Band one moment, the Beach Boys another, and Pavement the next. In the music played by Brooklyn’s Matthew Houck, a.k.a. PHOSPHORESCENT, “you can hear Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Will Oldham—but the modern day folkie has a sound all his own.” (Gothamist) THESE UNITED STATES’ “distinct electro-folk sound” (NPR) rounds out the bill.

Thursday July 2, 2009
Obie Juan BermudÉZ | Cucu Diamantes | Rebel Diaz
From 7:00 PM (Gates: 6:00 PM)
The Latin Grammy-winning Puerto Rican pop star OBIE JUAN BERMUDÉZ, “a talent on par with Juanes or Alejandro Sanz,” (Houston Chronicle) pits his mojo against Yerba Buena singer CUCU DIAMANTES’ fiery mix of “salsa, funk, cumbia, hip-hop, pop-punk, mariachi, tango, disco and flamenco…just for starters,” (NY Times) and the political activist hip-hop of REBEL DIAZ, whose mesmerizing frontwoman Lah Tere unleashes rhymes with hurricane force.

Thursday July 9, 2009
Dance: STREB: Invisible Forces
From 8:00 PM (Gates: 7:00 PM)
The breathtakingly acrobatic Williamsburg-based company celebrates 30 high flying years with Invisible Forces, which combines the thrills of the circus and the velocity of the Indy 500 in one crowd pleasing Action Event. STREB’s new Action Platform, a 20 ft. amped-up rotating floor, the Espana Whizzing Gizmo, and the 2 dimensional vertical pipe grid Airlines will dazzle and amaze. Beautiful bodies engaging sexy hardware in show stopping pieces will keep you on the edge of your seat, heart in throat. “Streb’s unique movement art—kin to sport, circus, physics experiment, and hard labor—has reached a peak of theatricality and dare-all virtuosity.” (Village Voice)

Friday July 10, 2009
Los Amigos Invisibles | Aterciopelados
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
A double shot of unfiltered South American pleasure in which the great Venezuelan party band LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES, a lusty outfit that combines a “love of disco and funk with their reverence for oldfashioned Latin dances like the mambo and bossa-nova,” (NY Post) locks horns with Columbian national heroes ATERCIOPELADOS. Proficient in everything from punk to electro-lounge to jangly Latin folk rock, the velvety ones (English translation, for all you gringos) have an uncanny ability “to take north-of-theborder musical styles…and breathe new life into them.” (Time)

Saturday July 11, 2009
Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert, A Very Special Family Show With They Might Be Giants
From 4:00 PM (Gates: 3:00 PM)
Brooklyn’s own legendary alternative rockers THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS have made some astonishingly good kids’ albums, most recently the 2009 Best Children’s Album Grammy Winner Here Come the 123s, becoming in the process “the ultimate fan- and now family-friendly rock act.” (Billboard) They return to the Bandshell to headline our annual Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert, which also features readings of Keats’ classic stories by WFUV’s Claudia Marshall. Special appearance by Livable Streets Education’s big purple friend ZoZo!

Thursday July 16, 2009
Kronos Quartet | Luminescent Orchestrii
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
For more than 35 years KRONOS QUARTET has pushed, made fun of, made irrelevant, and pretty much pulverized the standard notion of the string quartet, assembling in the process “a body of work unparalleled in its range and scope of expression.” (NPR) Their repertoire runs the gamut from Bartók to Charles Mingus to Jimi Hendrix, and their collaborators have been as diverse as Philip Glass, Asha Bhosle, and Nine Inch Nails. They share the Bandshell stage with the frenzied and slightly diabolical LUMINESCENT ORCHESTRII, a Gypsy punk string ensemble that “plays renditions of Appalachian and Gypsy tunes that run from lively and infectious to deeply melancholy.” (Time Out NY)

Friday July 17, 2009
The Robert Cray Band | the Sweet Divines
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
The five time Grammy-winning Stratocaster titan ROBERT CRAY’s “soul-infused blues has become the bridge between traditional and contemporary blues;” (Rolling Stone) he remains a strong persuader, as potent as ever after three decades of recording and touring. THE SWEET DIVINES, four young ladies with a smoking band behind them, pay homage to the traveling soul revues of the 60s with an authentic sound that evokes Stax, Aretha, James Brown, and funky New Orleans. “Sign them up, and let them bring the funk to the masses!” (BBC) Friends of CB pre-performance reception sponsored by Betancourt Realty & Associates. See Friends panel for details.

Saturday July 18, 2009
African Festival With King Sunny Adé | Freshly Ground | The Mandingo Ambassadors | Cheikh M’Baye & Sing Sing | Abena Koomson | Yasser Darwish
From 2:00 PM (Gates: 1:00 PM)
Our annual day-long festival of music, food and crafts features a lineup of bands that will keep the dancers moving from day till night, with the great KING SUNNY ADÉ of Nigeria leading the charge. The bill includes South Africa’s FRESHLY GROUND, making a rare US appearance to whip the revelers into a frenzy with its mix of indigenous African sounds and contemporary urban styles; THE MANDINGO AMBASSADORS, from NYC by way of Guinea, whose music “has been structured to make you feel good” (NY Times); wild Senegalese drum troupe CHEIKH M’BAYE & SING SING; powerful Brooklyn born Ghanaian vocalist ABENA KOOMSON; and whirling traditional Egyptian dancer YASSER DARWISH.

Thursday July 23, 2009
Dance: Stephen Petronio Company
From 8:00 PM (Gates: 7:00 PM)
“One of the few contemporary dancer makers who have created an instantly recognizable style,” (NY Times) STEPHEN PETRONIO celebrates his company’s 25th Anniversary Season with the dynamic and elemental I Drink the Air Before Me, an evening length work inspired by the power of extreme weather and storms both atmospheric and internal. Petronio’s predeliction for forward thinking popular music (his dancers have moved to Rufus Wainwright and Antony in the past) is satisfied here by a score from new classical composer and crossover sensation Nico Muhly.

Friday July 24, 2009
Buckwheat Zydeco | the Holmes Brothers
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
Swamp boogie accordion master BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO and his band “spit out the kind of crackling music that’s been missing since the heyday of Stax Records…on stage the attack is relentless.” (Wall Street Journal) THE HOLMES BROTHERS harmony-filled blend of American roots jumps from church to the juke joint and “recalls the era when soul seceded from gospel music,” (Mother Jones) with a healthy dose of blues, funk and country thrown in. Friends of CB pre-performance reception sponsored by Warren Lewis Realty Associates. See Friends panel for details.

Saturday July 25, 2009
Kailash Kher | Electro Morocco
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
The South Asian superstar, Bollywood icon, and judge of Indian Idol KAILASH KHER moves “among styles without hesitation, adding elements of folk, reggae and rock to Indian pop…(he) has a voice as appealing as it is thrilling.” (Wall Street Journal) Comprised of five NYC-based Israelis, ELECTRO MOROCCO combines buzzing guitars with synths and beats to concoct a dance floor friendly mix of retro rock, Middle Eastern folk, and warped electro.

Thursday July 30, 2009
Burning Spear | Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
From 7:30 PM (Gates: 6:30 PM)
Roots reggae legend BURNING SPEAR brings his Rastafarian message of positivity back to the Bandshell for another epic performance. Last year’s vital Jah Is Real featured contributions from Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrel; Spear has never sounded better. “Four decades and still dropping knowledge: no other artist, with the possible exception of Toots Hibbert, can lay claim to being reggae’s true elder statesman.” (PopMatters) The evening begins with the righteous harmonies and church-inflected soul of NAOMI SHELTON & THE GOSPEL QUEENS.

Friday July 31, 2009
The Royal Family: Soulive’S 10Th Anniversary Celebration
From 7:00 PM (Gates: 6:00 PM)
The exceptional jazz-funk trio SOULIVE celebrates 10 years of “simmering instrumental funk” (Entertainment Weekly) by busting out THE ROYAL FAMILY, a hard hitting conglomeration of various side projects and special guests that will come together for the jam of the summer. Ivan Neville’s DUMPSTAPHUNK, “musically hard-nosed and rooted in 1970s inner city funk,” (Offbeat)” kicks off the show with a set of New Orleans’ nastiest grooves.

Benefit Concerts

Proceeds help support free shows at Celebrate Brooklyn!
July 1: MGMT (Sold out)
July 21: Jackson Browne
Aug 11: TV on the Radio
Aug 12: Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal
Aug 14: Animal Collective (Sold out)
Aug 15: Animal Collective

Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Movies With A View returns for its 10th Anniversary Season on Thursday, July 9, 2009. This summer, sidle up, nab a patch of grass and enjoy a night of fabulous entertainment FREE. Come down (walk across the Brooklyn Bridge or scoot) to the park to enjoy one of the city’s premiere outdoor film series with an eclectic line-up of films and breathtaking views of the NYC waterfront & Brooklyn Bridge.

The films are chosen by an all-volunteer Film Committee and each feature is preceded by a short film. DJs from Brooklyn Radio kick off the evening, spinning tunes as the sun sets, while RICE sells delicious dinners on-site. The theme for this summer’s films is Stolen Summer – the season of capers, thrillers and heists!

July Film Schedule

(Activities start at 6PM)

Thursday, July 9 – Feature Film: Raising Arizona
Short: Ami Underground directed by D.W. Young
DJ: DJ DRM
Thursday, July 16 – Feature Film: The Maltese Falcon
Short: Under the Rollercoaster directed by Lila Place
DJ: MonkOne
Thursday, July 23 – Feature Film: Paper Moon
Short: The Coffee Bird directed by Bryan Brinkman
DJ: Tim “Love” Lee
Thursday, July 30 – Feature Film: To Catch A Thief
Short: Icebox Blues directed by Jesse Ash
DJ: DJ Ayres

August Film Schedule:

Thursday, August 6 – Feature Film: The Return Of The Pink Panther (1975)
Short: It’s Good to Be Green directed by Michael Garvey
DJ: Soulstatic
Thursday, August 13 – Feature Film: Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Short: Birdman of Brooklyn directed by JL Aronson
DJ: Nick Name
Thursday, August 20 – Feature Film: Catch Me If You Can
Short: 6 a.m. directed by Carmen Vidal
DJ: DJ Emch
Thursday, August 27 – Feature Film: Edward Scissorhands
Short: I Am Not Obsessed directed by Imani Dean
DJ: Oneman

UPDATE: 2010 Events available for April | May | June | July | August | September. Summer event schedules are being finalized and will be updated as soon as they’re available. Please follow @UniqNYC on twitter or facebook.com/UniqNYC for updates.

[−] July Events

➪ Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival
➪ New York Philharmonic Summer Concerts
➪ Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest
➪ City of Water Day
➪ Jamaica Underwear Run
➪ New York City Nautica Triathlon
➪ The Siren Music Festival
➪ Bastille Day on 60th Street
➪ Cool Japan Festival
➪ Met Opera in the Parks – Summer Recital Series
➪ Washington Square Music Festival

Summer Events Starting in July
➪ Movies With A View – Brooklyn Bridge Park
➪ PS1 Warm Up
➪ Socrates Sculpture Park Outdoor Cinema
➪ Lincoln Center Out of Doors
➪ Broadway in Bryant Park
➪ Summer Screen at McCarren Park
➪ Hudson River Flicks
➪ Hudson River Flicks Kids
➪ Hudson River MoonDance
➪ Hudson River Rocks Concerts

Ongoing Events
➪ Street Fairs in July
➪ Williamsburg Pool Parties
➪ SummerStage Central Park & More
➪ Celebrate Brooklyn! In Prospect Park
➪ Summer in the Square at Union Square
➪ Shakespeare in the Park at Central Park
➪ River to River Festival
➪ Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
➪ Midsummer Night Swing
➪ Water Taxi Beach
➪ BKLYN Yard Summer Events
➪ Luna Park Amusement Park
➪ Good Morning America Summer Concert Series
➪ DUMBO First Thursdays Gallery Walk
➪ NBC Rockefeller Plaza Concerts
➪ Rooftop Films Summer Series
➪ Big Bambú at the Met Rooftop
➪ Red Hook Ballfields Food Trucks

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I will add new things to do to this list as I find out about them. Be the first to be notified by following me on twitter or facebook

UPDATE: 2010 Events available for April | May | June | July | August | September. Summer event schedules are being finalized and will be updated as soon as they’re available. Please follow @UniqNYC on twitter or facebook.com/UniqNYC for updates.

[−] June Events

➪ Bubble Battle Times Square
➪ Museum Mile
➪ Figment NYC
➪ World Naked Bike Ride NYC
➪ Japan Day Festival
➪ Heritage of Pride (LGBT) March & Pridefest
➪ Big Apple BBQ Block Party
➪ Puerto Rican Day Parade
➪ Mermaid Parade
➪ Belmont Stakes
➪ NYC Food Film Festival
➪ NYC Jazz Festival

Summer Events Starting in June
➪ Williamsburg Pool Parties
➪ SummerStage Central Park & More
➪ Celebrate Brooklyn! In Prospect Park
➪ Summer in the Square at Union Square
➪ Shakespeare in the Park at Central Park
➪ River to River Festival
➪ Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
➪ Midsummer Night Swing

Ongoing Events
➪ Street Fairs in June
➪ Water Taxi Beach
➪ BKLYN Yard Summer Events
➪ Luna Park Amusement Park
➪ Good Morning America Summer Concert Series
➪ DUMBO First Thursdays Gallery Walk
➪ NBC Rockefeller Plaza Concerts
➪ Rooftop Films Summer Series
➪ Big Bambú at the Met Rooftop
➪ Red Hook Ballfields Food Trucks

Jump to June Events | July Events | August Events

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McCarren Park Pool on the border of McCarren Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the crackling, depression-era public swimming pool that hosted the infamous summer pool parties & concerts for the past three summers. This summer however, it is set to become a swimming pool again (renovations are set to begin on schedule this summer) leaving thousands of New Yorkers wondering if there can ever be a replacement for the slip-n-slide and pick-up dodgeball games! (Awesome Photos and Videos of last year’s McCarren Pool Parties)

This year, the pool-less “pool parties” will move to its new home on the Williamsburg waterfront. The 6,000 capacity waterfront strip along the East River (between North 8th and 9th Streets just a few blocks from McCarren Park Pool) has a skyline view of Manhattan (kind of like the Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City) and will offer a breezier and very “different” aesthetic appeal than McCarren Park Pool. The organizers (JellyNYC) promised to include the popular slide-n-slide and dodgeball games as well as a few surprises to be announced with the eight consecutive shows from July 12-August 30. The organizers are still working hard to finalize have finalized the logistics and bands so that we can all enjoy free outdoor concerts in Williamsburg again this summer. I can’t wait!

2009 Concert Schedule

This is the official concert schedule as of 7/3. Gates open each Sunday at 2PM.
Sunday, July 12
Mission of Burma, Fucked Up & Ponytail & Jemina Pearl
Sunday, July 19
Magnolia Electric Co. & Dirty Projectors and White Denim
Sunday, July 26
Health & Grupo & Fantasma & Trail of Deal & Black Lips
Sunday, Aug 02
Dan Deacon, No Age & Deerhunter
Sunday, Aug 09
Simian Mobile Disco DJ set & Fiery Furnaces & Dark Meat & The Netherlands & Finger on the Pulse
Sunday, Aug 16
Del the Funky Homosapien & Prince Paul & Gravy Train & DD/MM/YY & Kenan Bell
Sunday, Aug 23
Girl Talk, Max Tundra and Wiz Khalifa
Sunday, Aug 30
Grizzly Bear and Beach House

Did you know?
- The waterfront will also be used for classical and opera concerts throughout the summer.
- The Pool Parties are also going national this summer, so even if you’re not in the Brooklyn area, you can still experience the uniqueness of the free concert series out on the West Coast in San Francisco’s Treasure Island.
- “We see the Pool Parties not just as another show, but a real ‘party’ — a giant back yard BBQ with all your closest friends that the best bands in the business just ‘happen’ to show up at…” said Sarah Hooper from JellyNYC.

The Brooklyn Bridge spans over one mile connecting Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan and offering pedestrians who walk and bike across the bridge spectacular views of city skylines. Recently one of the four NYC Waterfalls is constructed underneath the Brooklyn Bridge visible from the Manhattan side.

Although walking across the Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan offers a more dramatic skyline view, the opposite path is equally charming. How else are you going to get to the Brooklyn Bridge Park for Movies with a View? Of course be sure to stop once in a while and turn around to soak in the views.

Pedestrian access to the Brooklyn Bridge from the Brooklyn side is from either Tillary/Adams Streets (in between the auto entrance/exit), or a staircase on Prospect St between Cadman Plaza East and West. In Manhattan, the pedestrian walkway is accessible from the end of Centre Street, or through the unpaid south staircase of Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall IRT subway station.

The Brooklyn Bridge has a wide pedestrian walkway open to walkers and cyclists, in the center of the bridge and higher than the automobile lanes. While the bridge has always permitted the passage of pedestrians across its span, its role in allowing thousands to cross takes on a special importance in times of difficulty when usual means of crossing the East River have become unavailable.

During transit strikes by the Transport Workers Union in 1980 and 2005 the bridge was used by people commuting to work, with Mayors Koch and Bloomberg crossing the bridge as a gesture to the affected public. Following the 1965, 1977 and 2003 Blackouts and most famously after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the bridge was used by people in Manhattan to leave the city after subway service was suspended.

Related Post: Scooting over the Brooklyn Bridge

Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge is a great experience for anyone. Scooting over the Brooklyn Bridge is a unique experience that is becoming more common as New Yorkers look for more effective ways of navigating around the city.

Come along for a exciting ride on a Vespa across the Brooklyn Bridge, under the Manhattan Bridge and glimpse at the NYC Waterfalls in the evening sky.

April 5 – July 13, 2008, Brooklyn Museum of Art

The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami includes more than ninety works in various media that span the artists entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space. The Tokyo born artist has exhibited his work all over the world but is possibly best known for his 2003 collaboration with designer Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton. Together they created a hugely successful line of Monogram bags, notably the Louis Vuitton Multicolore brand.

Having made fans out of Hollywood actors, fashionados, and musical artist like Kanye West who’s album art for “Graduation” was done in collaboration with Murakami. Marc Jacobs describes the opening ceremony for the exhibit as a “fantastic collision of fashion, art, and music,” adding that Murakami’s cross-branding style is “reminiscent of the old days, where creative people didn’t stay in their box but bonded with each other and collaborated with each other.”

If you missed the Exhibit, this video will give you a partial look at an Exhibition that was absolutely amazing! (Don’t miss Hiropon and the Lonesome Cowboy in the segment “Milk and Cream”)

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7/4 – 21 contestants competed for the 92nd Annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest marketed as “The Rematch II” in Coney Island, NY. This year’s contestants include last year’s winner Joey Chestnut, who ate 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes; Takeru “Tsunami” Kobayashi, who ate 63; Crazy Leged Conti, Arturo Grande Rios, Erik The Red Denmark, Eric Bandlands Booker,  Juliette The Violet Lee, Tim Gravy Brown, Sonya The Black Widow Thomas, and Tim The X Janus.

The time limit for this year’s hot dog eating contest changed from 12 minutes to 10 minutes (speeding up the eating process a little) and well, it was an unprecedented finish that you’ll just have to witness yourself (by watching the video provided here). Enjoy!

So who won? Watch the winners carry their trophies out!

Planning a trip to Coney Island? There’re activities ranging from amusement park rides to games like “shoot the freak” to eating a variety of hot dogs at Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog or just stroll the boardwalk and enjoy a day at the beach.

Islandwoo Tips to make your trip to Coney Island a little better: If you plan on attending future Hot Dog Eating Contests on July 4th, be prepared to arrive as early as 10AM (2 hrs early) to secure a spot close enough to see the contestants (You can tell from the video that I was rather tardy). If you prefer to arrive on time, bring a step ladder, or crate to stand on. You don’t want to miss the show that took you an hour to get to. As for the Nathan’s hot dog pick: go with the onions and pepper. And if you can’t make it to Nathans in Coney Island, there’s the supermarket version which tastes just as good!