Although it seems hard to believe that summer is around the corner while you bundle up for the seemingly millionth time this season, we really are getting close to warmer days.  Here’s another sign that we are approaching the warm season… Community Board 7 has announced a list of 2011 street fairs in the area.  [...]

Come to Symphony Space (Broadway at 95th) starting Monday, March 28th to enjoy the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival 2011.  For over a decade, composer Victoria Bond has brought the finest performers and composers together in this festival, and this year’s series offers a vivid sampling of today’s music.  Both composers who have established [...]

The New York Philharmonic is in the midst of their “Hungarian Echoes” festival, a stunning tapestry of music in which Esa Pekka-Salonen, composer and conductor of groundbreaking music for 30 years, leads a journey through three eras of Hungarian folk music.  The festival, which runs through Saturday, March 26th, still has tickets available starting at [...]

The New York Post reports that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will change their parade route for the second time since 2009.  Starting in the 1920′s, the famous parade had made its way from 77th and Central Park West to Columbus Circle, then went down Broadway to end at Macy’s Herald Square at 34th.  In [...]

The Fall 2011 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is officially over, and crews have been working over the weekend to take down the tents at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park (near 62nd between Columbus and Amsterdam), along with the entrance structure.  After several questions from readers about the logistics of the seemingly floating marble-like entrance structure that welcomed [...]