Mount Sinai has expanded its Center for Post-COVID Care—the first and largest center of its kind—to another location to better serve patients in East Harlem and the South Bronx. The new site will help meet the needs of a growing number of patients with long-term symptoms from COVID-19 needing access to world-leading care. It will…
This Thursday is, impossibly, the Fourth of July—seriously, summer in NYC is flying by—and if you’ve been fretting about what and where you’re going to pack a picnic to catch those awesome fireworks, we’ve got your perfect Independence Day planned. First, we’ve got a handy list of the best picnic spots in NYC, whether you want a bustling park or intimate garden. And the folks over at Brooklyn Kura have put together a basket preloaded with sake-fueled deliciousness, so all you have to do come July 4th is to celebrate patriotically.
Ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, craft sake brewery Brooklyn Kura will be offering to-go picnic baskets available for pickup at their Industry City taproom (34 34th Street near Greenwood Heights).
Each basket is filled with all of the essentials for a gourmet charcuterie board, including Brooklyn Kura’s freshly baked, two-tone focaccia seasoned with furikake, as well as seasonal pickled fruit and vegetables nutty Manchego cheese and spicy chorizo. You can wash that all down with your choice of Brooklyn Kura’s flagship sakes, such as an aromatic and crisp Number Fourteen or a full-bodied and earthy Blue Door sake. (Each basket will come with one 750ml bottle with which to toast the USA.
And, of course, if you don’t want to shlep those premade picnic bundles to a park for alfresco snacking, they’ll do just fine as accouterments to your backyard barbecue, too.
Baskets are $45 and are available for preorder on BrooklynKura’s website. Do note, though: orders must be placed by Tuesday, July 2 for pickup on the morning of Thursday, July 4, between 10am and noon in the taproom. Get a peep of the Brooklyn Kura baskets’ tasty offerings below:
Westbeth Artists Housing announced today an inaugural Art Take-Over to reopen and transform three historic mixed-use spaces within the famed interior courtyard space. Four original spaces – including the Westbeth Gallery – are hosting innovative exhibitions to activate the spaces with publicly accessible art offerings for the neighborhood. The exhibitions are now open and run…
When is Din Tai Fung opening in New York City? Well, it looks like we finally have an answer: the long-awaited NYC location of the highly acclaimed, Taiwan-based restaurant chain will officially throw open its doors in midtown Manhattan on Thursday, July 18. And in even better news, you can secure a reservation at the Michelin-starred dim sum den as early as tomorrow.
Yes, Din Tai Fung reservations are going live on Yelp tomorrow, July 2, for the new location at 1633 Broadway between West 50th and 51st Streets, which will not only be the brand’s first outpost on the East Coast but also its biggest global location yet. (The chain boasts a whopping 171 locations worldwide, from Seattle to Shanghai, from Manila to Melbourne.)
Be sure to set a phone reminder if you want to score one of the 450 seats at the reservations-only spot, given the sheer fervor that’s been worked up over the NYC newcomer before it’s even opened, we have a feeling that booking a table is going to be a digital Hunger Games.
To commemorate the grand opening on July 18, the Din Tai Fung team will hold a ribbon cutting as well as opening remarks before the restaurant kicks off with its usual parade of dumpling steaming, beef searing, soup simmering and the like. Diners will actually see those dumplings being made fresh—over 10,000 daily—via an open kitchen visible behind a glass wall, reports Grubstreet.
The Din Tai Fung brand began as a cooking oil shop in Taipei in 1958 by thelate Yang Bing-Yiand his wife Lai Pen-Mei. The popularity of Yang’s xiao long bao, or soup dumplings, however, resulted in the owner phasing out his oil business and turning Din Tai Fung into the full-fledged restaurant that it is today. Those deliberately creased dumplings, known for their golden ratio of “18 folds” made by hand, are still a signature of the franchise.
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There’s nothing quite like taking in live music or theater in the great outdoors, especially in NYC’s gorgeous parks. More often than not, these al fresco shows are free and that’s the case with Little Island’s Glade Series, which kicks off on July 10.
The fairly new 2-acre venue, which opened in 2021 as NYC’s first “floating” park, announced earlier this summer that it’d have a summer lineup of star-studded performances, including nine commissioned world premieres of live performances across music, dance, theater, opera, comedy, jazz, pop and funk.
From July 10 to 14, the Glade Series will feature a concert each night that will be paired with a conversation between Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and an expert of some kind. “Greens & Blues” will feature blues legend Ruthie Foster and a talk between Parks and Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx, designer Daisy Wang, freestyle emcee Corey James Gray, Columbia astronomy professor Jane Huang, harpist Brandee Younger and historian Eric Foner. Parks will also put on a Psychedelic Soap Box—a post-bop jazz collective with spoken word. Then on June 13, she’ll do one of her “Watch Me Work” sessions, where she holds a creative writing workshop and discussion, with a special guest, then she’ll perform with her band Sula & the Joyful Noise.
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Other performances will include dancer Melissa Toogood between July 17 and 21; cabaret from Mx Justin Vivian Bond from July 24 to 28; comedy from acts such as Morgan Jay, Jay Jurden, Neel Gosh, and Sarah Tollemache between August 7 and 11; and a show about the world’s most linguistically diverse city with the Endangered Language Alliance and speakers from endangered, Indigenous, and minority languages alongside poetry, music, and movement. There will be a multilingual soundscape using sounds from more than one hundred languages and visuals from ELA’s digital landscape map and creative translanguaging translation strategies.
Interestingly, Little Island will also host an Oyster Market with local vendors, July 31-August 4, curated and overseen by New Amsterdam Market’s founder. There will be live oyster shucking and an The Oyster Radio Hour in The Amph.
Later on, August 21-25, Grammy Award-winning artist Cécile McLorin Salvant will curate performances that include jazz vocalist Vanisha Gould, folk artist June McDoom, multi-instrumentalist Lua Noah, pianist Sullivan Fortner, and more.
Finally, from August 28 to September 1, Gio Escobar will host a series of concerts, including a bomba and a salsa night, before taking the stage with his own avant-garde collective, “Standing on the Corner.”
Here’s the full lineup at Little Island:
THE GLADE SERIES
JULY 10-14 / SUZAN-LORI PARKS: “Tell Me More”
A series of performances and conversation curated and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks. Each evening, conceived around a pair of ideas, will feature a musical act and a conversation between Parks and a cultural luminary.
Wednesday, July 10, 7pm
Blues & Greens: Conversation with Suzan-Lori Parks and Majora Carter / Performance by Ruthie Foster
Thursday, July 11, 10pm
The Runway & The Street: Conversation with fashion designer Daisy Wang / Performance by MC Corey James Gray & Freestyle Monday
Friday, July 12, 10pm
Outer Space & Inner Space: Conversation with Columbia Astronomy Professor Jane Huang / Performance by Psychedelic Soap Box
Saturday, July 13, 7pm
Work & Play: Watch Me Work w/ Suzan-Lori Parks & Special Guest / Performance by Suzan-Lori Parks’s Sula & the Joyful Noise
Sunday, July 14, 2024, 7pm
Past & Future: Conversation with Suzan-Lori Parks and Eric Foner / Performance by Brandee Younger
JULY 17-21, 9:30pm / MELISSA TOOGOOD: “Epilogue: Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Day For Night’”
Melissa Toogood dances an epilogue to choreographer Pam Tanowitz’s Day for Night, playing at 8:30pm each night in The Amph.
JULY 24-28 / JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND: A Week of Cabaret
Wednesday, July 24 & 25, 28, 6:30pm
Friday, July 26 & 27, 10pm
July 31-August 4 / NEW AMSTERDAM OYSTER MARKET
A week of food. Curated by Roberta LaValva & the New Amsterdam Market
AUGUST 7-11 / MORGAN JAY & FRIENDS: A Week of Comedy
Wednesday, August 7, 7pm
Morgan Jay, Usama Siddique, Isa Medina, Daniel Bridgegadd
Thursday, August 8, 7pm
Morgan Jay, Sean Donnelly, Tatiana Frank, Myq Kaplan
Friday, August 9, 10pm
Morgan Jay, Sahib Singh, Shane Torres, Jordan Jensen
Saturday, August 10, 7pm
Morgan Jay, Jay Jurden, Carmen Lynch, Neel Gosh
Sunday, August 11, 7pm
Morgan Jay, Sarah Tollemache, Leclerc Andrew, Erin Jackson
AUGUST 14-18 / ENDANGERED LANGUAGE ALLIANCE: “Language City”
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If you told electronic music star and now global dance icon John Summit that he’d be selling out the “World’s Most Famous Arena” just a few years ago, he’d probably say it was a fever dream.
But Saturday night was no fever dream.
It was a full-blown production, the result of years of hard work to reach the music venue pinnacle that only few dance artists have (Black Coffee, Fred again.., Skrillex, Four Tet, Swedish House Mafia).
Summit’s meteoric rise to fame over the past 2-3 years is nothing short of historic, and that’s exactly the world I’d use to describe his largest “Comfort in Chaos” tour stop yet…a sold out show at Madison Square Garden.
The Chicago-born DJ grinded the hard way, most notably mentioning in many interviews about leaving his corporate accountant life behind for a shot at the spotlight. Growing up in the birthplace of house music, it’s only just another element to his fairytale story.
It really all started to take shift in 2019/20, after garnering the support from legends and labels in the scene (Lee Foss, Toolroom Records, Defected Records) who shared the vision of the tech-house sound he was essentially creating in his bedroom (and releasing YouTube tutorials on his creations for that matter).
Fast forward to 2024 and not only has he checked off Coachella, his own Experts Only label, and much more from his music bucket list, but he’s also getting ready to launch the biggest benchmark (musically) in Comfort in Chaos, a studio album which arrives nearly in sync with his biggest NYC show to date.
Source / Emma Goldschmidt & MSG Entertainment
Few possible ways are to describe how much Summit loves music and curating a dance floor unless you’ve seen it yourself, and Saturday night showed every ounce of passion fully on display.
Too many fans’ surprise, Summit stunned The Garden with an impressive 5 hours of dance music, pulling hits out from all over his catalogue and sprinkling ID’s from his own record label as well as others throughout.
When doors opened at 7 pm I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was gladly welcomed to what he would later call a “throwback” set. Situated uniquely in the GA floor crowd opposite of where the main stage is, Summit got up close and personal with adoring fans playing out some of his biggest smash songs like “Thin Line” and “Seen It All.”
Nostalgia officially was peaking in the moment and he himself could even feel it, constantly glancing around the 200s sections of MSG which were already filling up just minutes after hitting the B stage. Fans (including myself) were quite thrilled to see the throwback set, a chance for OG fans to get a whiff of that “old Summy sound” that got us hooked all those years ago.
Act 2 came in the form of a mysterious B2B that had everyone in the arena wondering who it was going to be. Would he pull out his good buddy Dom Dolla to recreate another New York City “Everything Always” moment or go for someone a little more unexpected? In the end he made an incredible choice, fellow Chicago house veteran Green Velvet.
To say these two have an unmatched chemistry when performing together would be an understatement. Backed by a panel of lights, the two “turned MSG into the world’s biggest nightclub” Summit said over the mic before one of the drops…and he wasn’t wrong.
Weaving between his own hits like “Where You Are” and Green Velvet’s anthems like “Laser Beams” everyone was dancing…and I mean everyone! The two clocked in one of the better duo performances I’ve seen in quite some time, and it felt overall like the perfect appetizer for what was to come…the Comfort in Chaos set.
Source / Emma Goldschmidt & MSG Entertainment
“New York, how the f*** we feelin’ baby” he yelled as the lights went down…a slogan which has taken on a life of its own in the past year or so. To a crowd’s roar he opened up with his Cassian-approved remix to his mega-smash “Shiver,” seemingly paying homage to the Australian DJ who had to reschedule his set for the night’s afterparty due to illness.
From there he ripped through over 2 hours of music, playing through new album cuts like “Resonate” with Kaskade, “Give Me Everything” with Elderbrook, “EAT THE BASS” and so many more.
Perched up on his meticulously constructed rhombus stage, he dominated the room…engaging fans (who even wrapped 360° behind the stage) all night long. There was everything…lasers, pyro, fireworks, and even some very special guests.
Summit welcomed some of his favorite live collaborators to bring his Comfort in Chaos vision to life including Hayla, who performed both “Shiver” and “Where You Are” together. London-based vocalist Stevie Appleton even made an appearance to sing the highly appropriate “What a Life” — an uplifting retrospective as to say “I just sold out Madison Square Garden…what a life.”
Emma Goldschmidt & MSG Entertainment
After a few hours of debuting new and unreleased music, the magical night came to a close with a grand finale of “Go Back” — an industry-shifting track that has been all the buzz in 2024. The record, with vocals from Julia Church and production collaboration from Sub Focus was a live moment like I’ve never experienced before.
Building up to the now-famous DnB drop of the song that has touched airwaves and fan’s hearts everywhere, it felt like the end to a historic movie — fireworks, a shaking dance floor, friends hugging each other, and John Summit himself taking it all in with a huge grin.
All in all, Summit’s massive Madison Square Garden show will go down as one of NYC’s largest moments for house music. Seeing the genre, which he helped pioneer from the ground up, come to life on the world’s biggest stage in 2024 is extremely electrifying.
His brand new album, the aforementioned Comfort in Chaos, is due out on July 12th and I’m extremely hyped to see where it takes him.
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Following the Fourth of July, no other lights are listed on the Empire State Building’s calendar until August so you won’t want to miss the spectacle! Not to mention, the Empire State Building typically sets off their own little firework display on the holiday.
The lights should be visible on Thursday, July 4th from sunset (~8:30pm) until 2am when the lights get turned off.
