It’s time for another street fair… if you’re craving some tasty street meat and bargain shopping, head over to Columbus between 66th and 86th for the Columbus Avenue Festival anytime today. The street will be closed, and we expect the usual vendors to come out and sell their food, drinks, and merchandise.
Columbus Avenue Festival
Sunday, September [...]
It’s time for another four-legged social hour! Each warm weather month, Central Park PAWS holds a Bagel Bark, where you can bring your dog to a pet-friendly area in Central Park for doggy socializing and breakfast for the owners. This month’s Bagel Bark is at the Dene, located on the east side the park between [...]
Because of inclement weather last weekend, the 2009 Riverside Park Oyster Festival has been rescheduled to today. The Hudson Beach Café (105th at the Promenade) is hosting the festival, which offers freshly shucked oysters, beer, other tasty food, and live music. The lineup of acts include The Creamsicles, Mary O’Dowed, and Enda Keegan. In addition, [...]
Bacchus Wines (Broadway between 70th and 71st) presents another fabulous wine tasting tonight, this time with a focus on the diverse and interesting Pinot Noir. The “Passion for Pinot” event will explore the wine also known as Burgundy. This wine can be delicate and light or complex and full. According to Bacchus, “with simple flavors [...]
The new Whole Foods Market at 808 Columbus (near 97th) is putting on many in-store events where you can come and enjoy some of their food, drinks, and entertainment, all while getting meal ideas. Each Monday at the store, veggie lovers can get some great ideas at Meatless Mondays. The store will be host to [...]
Riverside Park will be a little bit country today for the 7th Annual West Side County Fair. Come out to the park between 59th and 72nd for carnival rides and games, music, square dancing, sideshow performers, a petting zoo, a farmers’ market, and more. The kids can also come to the “Green Acre” environmental corner [...]
Come to Riverside Park tomorrow for the 2009 Riverside Park Oyster Festival. The Hudson Beach Café (105th at the Promenade) is hosting the festival, which offers freshly shucked oysters, beer, other tasty food, and live music. The lineup of acts include The Creamsicles, Mary O’Dowed, and Enda Keegan. In addition, children’s performers will entertain, faces [...]
Tonight, Community Board 7 (the Upper West Side advisory board on land use, zoning matters, and community concerns) will have a meeting for the Business & Consumer Issues Committee. On the agenda for the public meeting is a handful of applications for on-premise liquor licenses. The applications indicate that several locations (some now empty) may [...]
The newest popular approach to buying groceries, buying locally produced food, has experienced a lot of buzz lately, with articles coming out constantly about the environmental benefits as well as the benefits of supporting small farms that now have opportunities to compete with larger farms. Buying local isn’t just to help farmers and the environment, [...]
The Metropolitan Opera’s free Summer HD Festival continues through Labor Day, and Bar Boulud is now offering a way to make the evening even more enjoyable. The high-end eatery created by acclaimed chef Daniel Boulud serves an “Opera Pique-Nique” outside the restaurant (Broadway between 63rd and 64th) from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. For only [...]
