Great event taking place this Saturday (5/11) on the Upper West Side: Crawfish For Cancer is hosting the 5th Annual NYC Crawfish Boil at the UWS Boat Basin Cafe to raise funds for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.

Free and cheap events in the neighborhood on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013… Kids Eat Free At Big Nick’s Big Nick’s Burger & Pizza Joint (2175 Broadway, between 76th & 77th) All Day Kid’s 12 & under eat free (dine-in only, kids menu, minimum $10 check with adult) Martial Arts Class For Adults Joan of Arc [...]

The 84th Street AMC Loews on Broadway is undergoing renovations, resulting in three of its six screens being temporarily closed and the entire theater shuttering for five days next week. It looks like one of the improvements will be the installation of La-Z-Boy-esque reclining seats.

Free and cheap events in the neighborhood on Monday, May 6th, 2013… Hampton’s Summer Preview Party Empire Hotel (44 W. 63rd, at Columbus & Broadway) Doors open at 6:00, Live music from 6:30 – 9:30 pm FREE (Cash bar) Sackler Brain Bench: Why We Eat What We Eat with Drew Ramsey & Amy Bentley Museum [...]

The 12th Annual New York City Irish Dance Festival takes place on the Upper West Side this afternoon. The event is free and there are activities for people of all ages.

UPDATE, 12:35 pm: UWS Photo Of The Day: Cinco De Mayo Parade Heading Down W. 106th To CPW It’s Cinco de Mayo today, and the official parade takes place on the Upper West Side. The action goes down on Central Park West, between 96th & 106th Streets. I believe the celebration runs for most of [...]

Street fair time again… Today it’s the Valley Restoration LDC Amsterdam Avenue Festival. The action runs from 12:00 – 5:00 pm on Amsterdam Avenue, between 96th & 106th Streets.

A quick note if you’re looking for some family fun in the neighborhood today (Saturday, 5/4): The Calhoun School is hosting their 50th annual Spring Carnival.

Free and cheap events in the neighborhood on Monday, April 29th, 2013… Wine Tasting/Meet The Winemaker: Tal Pelter of Pelter Winery 67 Wine (179 Columbus, at 68th) 4:00 – 7:00 pm FREE Community Discussion On Preventing Gun Violence, with Congressman Jerrold Nadler Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (30 W. 68th, between Columbus & CPW) 7:30 – [...]

One of the things I love about New York is that you never know what random thing you’re going to see at any given moment… If you were at the 66th Street/Lincoln Center subway station yesterday morning, you would have happened upon Grammy Award winner Michael Buble singing a capella. Daily News has a couple [...]

Summer is getting closer… Earlier this week the lineup for SummerStage 2013 was released. This morning, Good Morning America followed suit with the announcement of the 2013 GMA Summer Concert Series schedule. 15 free concerts will take place in Central Park on Friday mornings from late-May to the end of August. This year’s concert series [...]

Free and cheap events in the neighborhood on Thursday, April 25th, 2013… Beyond Wine with Beverly: Food & Wine Demo Wine Store @ Columbus Square Whole Foods (808 Columbus, at 97th) 5:00 – 7:00 pm FREE “Thursday Thursdays”: Free Beer Tastings On Tap @ Columbus Circle Whole Foods (Time Warner Center) 5:00 – 8:00 pm [...]

Free and cheap events in the neighborhood on Wednesday, April 24th, 2013… After Hours Programs: Adventures in the Global Kitchen — The Art of Fermentation Linder Theater @ American Museum Of Natural History (W.77th, btw. CPW & Columbus) 6:30 pm — Ticket holders also receive complimentary after-hours admission to Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture [...]

The wind chill is in the 30s as I type this, but we’re a week away from May and it’ll be June before you know it. In a telltale sign that summer is just around the corner, yesterday the City Parks Foundation released the schedule for SummerStage 2013, New York City’s largest free performing arts [...]

Free and cheap events in the neighborhood on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013… Kids Eat Free At Big Nick’s Big Nick’s Burger & Pizza Joint (2175 Broadway, between 76th & 77th) All Day Kid’s 12 & under eat free (dine-in only, kids menu, minimum $10 check with adult) Veggiecation Kids Culinary Class Whole Foods, Columbus Square [...]