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Enjoy Summer at Top 10 Best Rooftop & Garden Bars in NYC

Summers in NYC would not be complete without visiting one of the city’s many rooftop bars and outdoor gardens. For many locals, this is a great escape from our tiny studio-side apartments with windows 3 feet away from the next building. Uh huh! The Hudson’s New Sky Terrace 356 W. 58th Street; 212-554-6000 Located on [...]

P.S.1 Opening Day Celebration: Young Architects Program 2009 Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM “Join us for this very special opening day!” Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Young Architects Program, P.S.1 and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) present Afterparty, an interactive environment serving as a cooling “urban shelter” in [...]

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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 ➪ [...]

Watch Wimbledon tennis LIVE on a big screen and play tennis on a real grass court! Date: Monday, June 22 to Friday, June 26, 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Location: Rockefeller Center Plaza – 5th Ave & 50th/51st Streets Islandwoo Tip: Play on Manhattan’s only grass court! Wear white and call 212-525-4331 to reserve your [...]

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Thanks to all of you who @islandwoo‘d or sent me your awesome photos of the 2009 NYC Bubble Battle in Time Square. Special thanks to @stacykfuller for the fantastic shot below! LIVE photos from some of the other twitterers who captured the excitement and drama of this year’s Time Square Bubble Battle. (Thanks to @tomatoejam, [...]

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Taste of Tribeca showcases the extraordinary food from some great restaurants in the TriBeCa neighborhood of NYC. $40 buys you 6 tasting samples from Ribs to Sushi to Ice Cream. In case you missed it, here’re some awesome photos that hopefully will inspire you to attend in the future. I’m seeking your photos and videos [...]

How does anyone not love Broadway shows and Off-Broadway plays on the world’s best stages in New York City? The biggest stars and newest talent in the nation sweat everyday performing LIVE for you and I! My problem is and maybe you can relate, spending $100 per show every couple of weeks in order to [...]

Central Park SummerStage (map and direction), a program of City Parks Foundation, presents FREE and big name benefit performances to serve the diverse communities of New York City. The artists represent a breadth of genres and cultures and perform in an outdoor setting accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds. 2009 brings big name [...]

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 [...]

The much anticipated LightSaber Battle was over in 30 minutes after it started as the police broke up the seemingly violent crowd. The “massive blacklight cannons” failed to provide the effect that defined this event. Several smaller black lights however were used and kept pockets of the crowd pleased. If you arrived 20 minutes late, [...]