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[−] 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

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This post is inspired by the recent hoopla over the $15.5M installation of four “New York City Waterfalls” created by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson placed along the East River.

As many of you know, New York City is already home to numerous man-made waterfalls ranging from naturally set waterfalls in Central Park to waterfalls inside Midtown’s most prominent office towers, rental properties and hotels to waterfalls inside NYC Restaurants such as Rosa Mexicano and Highline in Manhattan and East Buffet in Elmhurst, Queens.

The most notable NYC waterfalls are:

• Central Park Waterfalls (100th to 105th street) – “Waterfall in the Loch” (at the footsteps of a wonderful hiking trail through Central Park in the Fall)

• Japanese Hill & Pond Garden Waterfalls in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden

• Bronx River Waterfall in the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx

• Paley Park’s 20 foot waterfall on 53rd Street and 5th Avenue (taken with my iPhone)

• Hearst Tower “Ice Falls” on 57th Street and 8th Ave – a cascading waterfall at the entrance of the building spanning 27 feet tall and 75 feet wide over glass.  Water is recycled from rain-water collected on the roof of the building that is piped to a 14,000 gallon tank in the basement

• Olympic Tower Three-tiered waterfall on 5th Ave btw 51st and 5nd streets

• Trump Tower Waterfall on 5th Ave and 57th street – a 7-story, 20 foot wide waterfall down a rose granite surface

• W Time Square Hotel Waterfall on Broadway and 47th Street – Guests wait for the elevator under a glass bottom of a pool that diverts water down a transparant wall

• Aon Center/Park Plaza Waterfall on 52nd Street and Madison Ave – a granite backed cascade waterfall that is 40 foot wide

Please feel free to comment and add your own NYC waterfall to this list!

Starwood Hotels & Resorts launched its 8th hotel brand called Aloft (A Vision of W Hotels) featuring loft-style hotel spaces with pool table, full cocktail bar, gourmet snack and drink bar, separate bedroom(s), just to name a few.

Starwood’s loyalty program ‘Starwood Preferred Guest’ (SPG) hosted its Aloft Launch Party In Hawthorne, NY on June 12, 2008 inviting 75 SPG platinum members plus their guests. A very special guest, Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child, performed (debut) from her new album

Here’s a video of the event and space.

Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child was the special guest star at Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG)’s Aloft Launch Party in Hawthorne, NY on June 12, 2008. Starwood Hotels & Resorts launched it’s 8th hotel brand called Aloft featuring loft-style hotel rooms. Amongst an intimate 150 SPG Platinum members, Michelle Williams and her dance entourage of three performed a debut from her new album called “Unexpected” with her first single “We Break the Dawn.” It was an amazing night and here are a couple of video clips of Michelle’s performance:

Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child performing her new single – ‘We Break the Dawn’

Michelle Williams of Destinys Child performing her new single – ‘Stop This Car’

‘We Break the Dawn’ – Full Album version
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I have two ‘We Break the Dawn’ CDs signed/autographed by Michelle Williams to give away. The CD includes the Album Version as well as five remixes. I will give them to two random Michelle Williams fans who link back to this post through any social media site or blog. Send me an email with the link location. Good luck!