Planning on heading to a free screening of an amazing Met opera for the Summer HD Festival, running through Monday, September 6th?  Wondering what to do for dinner?  Then consider taking advantage of one of the local restaurants’ picnic specials offered for festival-goers.  Check out the below list of restaurants offering boxed dinners for audiences [...]

Lincoln Center’s campus is bustling with crews to prepare for one of the Upper West Side’s biggest events of the year, the first-ever Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at the complex.  At left, Curbed snapped a photo last week of the tents going up at Damrosch Park (62nd between Columbus and Amsterdam), and progress has been continuing [...]

It’s time for the 2010 season of another fabulous series at Lincoln Center.  The Met’s Summer HD Festival, with a hugely popular debut in summer 2009, returns tonight, bringing screenings of ten productions from the company’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Live in HD series.  The HD productions will be shown for free in Lincoln Center [...]

We’ve got some more neighborhood openings to report… first, a math-specific learning center is coming to the neighborhood in a few weeks.  Mathnasium, with a location on York and 84th, is moving into the old location of do-it-yourself art shop Make, at Amsterdam between 84th and 85th.  Meanwhile, Make is opening a big store on [...]

Above, theater fans line up and make themselves comfortable in the attempt to get the limited free tickets to The Capeman earlier this week.  The Paul Simon musical only ran for three nights, from August 14th to August 16th, at the Delacorte Theater (mid-park near 81st), making the lines for the tickets (distributed at 1:00 [...]

Fashion Week is descending upon the Upper West Side very quickly, with the official events taking place from September 9th to September 16th, and the second Fashion’s Night Out is gearing up to be a huge citywide celebration of fashion.  In addition to the FNO show, the “largest fashion show in history” which takes [...]

The Film Society of Lincoln Center will be putting on the 48th Annual New York Film Festival on September 24th through October 10th, highlighting the best in world cinema and featuring top films from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent.  This year’s lineup was just announced, and film buffs will be excited to [...]

Yes, you got that right… high fashion is moving to the Upper West Side.  The people behind Fashion’s Night Out, the citywide shopping extravaganza coming back for the second year this September, held a press conference on Wednesday to promote the event.  Mayor Bloomberg joined big names in fashion, from Anna Wintour to Donna Karan [...]

Above, hundreds of ballet dancers converge at Central Park’s Naumburg Bandshell (mid-park, near 70th) and simultaneously stand en pointe to break a Guinness World Record on Monday evening.  At least 240 volunteer dancers stood en pointe for one minute and seven seconds, breaking the previous record of 220.  Proceeds from the event benefited the Kips [...]

1,000 ballerinas are expected to come to Central Park today in hopes of breaking a Guinness World Record.  HIT Entertainment announced that ballet dancers age 13 and up are invited to the Bandshell (mid-park, near 70th) to simultaneously stand en pointe for one full minute at 6:30 pm in an attempt to break the current [...]