New day, new sites to see for Open House New York. A tour of Maple Grove Cemetery by the Friends of Maple Grove Cemetery had caught my eye because the cemetery is so close to my house. I knew it was an historical site that featured Civil War and Revolutionary War re-enactors and had people […]
Time for my second site for Open House New York. I left the African Burial Ground about 12:30pm and started walking uptown. There are no buses from that far downtown (Broadway and Duane Street) that go up all the way to north of Sugar Hill. I could have taken the subway all the way or […]
Every year there are several fun events in October in NYC. There’s Fall for Dance, the New Yorker Festival, and Open House New York. I’ve taken part in the first two and rtb takes part in all three. Sometimes there’s overlap and rtb has to make hard choices. This year TNYFest and OHNY were separate […]
I found my notes for the Gad Elmaleh show and the NY Philharmonic concert so there’s a short addendum to each. My plan was to have all the past shows posted by this week but I feel all written out right now. I still haven’t written up everything for June and now I’ve got a […]
My third and final event of the day and of the New Yorker Festival was a screening of Jeff Nichols’ Loving at the MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre 1 on 23rd Street. After the screening, Nichols would be interviewed by Hilton Als. The movie is scheduled for release in November. This time I decided to […]
My trip to the second event I was seeing on Sunday at the New Yorker Festival was 20 blocks north and 5 (long) blocks east from where I was. Normally I have enough time between events to walk to each location. This panel was supposed to take place at the same venue as the John […]
My third and final day of the New Yorker Festival started with an interview of John Goodman by Lawrence Wright at the Acura at SIR Stage 37. This time I got off at the closest subway station but still had some distance to walk since the room is past 10th Avenue on 37th Street. As […]
Since I had plenty of time to get uptown and to eat after the New Yorker Festival event and before the fifth and final program of the Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center for 2016, I decided to walk. It was not a great evening for walking. It had been drizzling and […]
This was the second event of the day at Casa Neta for the New Yorker Festival. Anyone with tickets for the second event had to go outside and stand on a special line. We would be getting back into the restaurant before the others who had not attended the first event. Since I was very […]
On Saturday both New Yorker Festival events that I was attending were free. One led into the other – the first focusing on Mexican food and the second on mezcal. Both events touched on Day of the Dead celebrations. The events took place at Casa Neta, a mezcaleria and tequileria serving small plates in the […]
