Things To Do in NYC in July 2023 include 4th of July, Brasil Summerfest, Peruvian Parade, Bastille Day, SummerStage, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Shakespeare in the Park and Restaurant Week. July weather is peak summer. It’s hot with average temperatures of 69-84°, but it’s the best time to enjoy rivers and the ocean. July Holidays The […]
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Salsa Dance
Salsa Dance NYC The New York Salsa Dance Scene New York is the world salsa capital. The Origin of Salsa Dance Salsa originates in the African Diaspora, so you can trace it back to Mother Africa. That’s a long journey, so we’ll start in Cuba, the living heart of Caribbean culture. Most human culture begins […]
I’m a Storyteller and This is My Story “Lo Co-qui” Keith Widyolar
Buenas. ¿Todo bien? If I am any one thing, it is creative. Whether writing, singing, marketing, designing, photographing, dancing, or just having fun with friends; I am a storyteller. My first mentor taught me to write. My second taught me that marketing is always having an answer. I learned that lesson myself doing beauty photography […]
Mexican NYC
Mexican NYC News January 2023 The Prototype Festival 2023 of contemporary opera and musical theater presents new voices, including Mexican folk singer Silvana Estrada’s beautiful “Marchita;” at Here in Hudson Square and other NYC venues; for one week Thursday, January 5-13, 2023. From $40. prototypefestival.org 🇲🇽 The PBR Buck Off 2022 professional bull rider’s rodeo […]
Lower East Side NYC
Lower East Side News January 2023 Sueño de Reyes – Dream of Kings; children’s theater that imagines the Three Kings arriving in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico instead of Bethlehem; is at Teatro SEA in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; Saturday-Sunday, December 10-11 & 17-18, 2022 at 3pm; Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 7pm; and Saturday-Sunday, January […]
Tribeca NYC
Tribeca NYC (TRIangle-BElow-CAnal) is a family neighborhood filled with the movie industry, restaurants, and art galleries. Canal StWest Side Hwy | Tribeca | BroadwayVesey St Tribeca grew into a commercial neighborhood in the 1850s-60s. It was the home of Washington Market, NYC’s main produce market, until that was replaced by the World Trade Center in […]
Sunnyside, Queens
Sunnyside, Queens is a diverse residential neighborhood in West Queens. Among others, it has Ecuadorian, Colombian and Mexican communities. The main streets are Queens Blvd and Greenpoint Avenue. The Sunnyside Shines business improvement district promotes the neighborhood. sunnysideshines.org Latin Culture in Sunnyside, Queens Bárbara Martínez joins Danza España Flamenco Co for Spanish flamenco at the […]
Venezuelan NYC
Venezuelan NYC is most present in Modern Art, Salsa, Latin Rock and Fashion. The Venezuelan Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, is one of the most important Latin contemporary art collections. The Cisneros Institute at MoMA makes the Museum of Modern Art a world center of Latin art. Venezuela has Andean Culture, Caribbean Culture and Trinidad […]
Things To Do in NYC in January 2023
Three Kings Day, Martin Luther King Day
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Italian NYC
Today, Italian NYC is mostly in Throgs Neck & Morris Park The Bronx; Staten Island; and Harlem, and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Italians are one of the communities that defines New York City and the United States. The big wave of immigration came between the 1850s and 1930s. Many Southern Italians came between 1880 and 1920. Italy […]
Hell’s Kitchen NYC
Hell’s Kitchen NYC (also called Clinton or Midtown West) is an old residential neighborhood along Manhattan’s west side from 34th St to 59th St. Many young actors live here. It used to be a center of Irish power in New York City. Restaurant Row on 46th St is popular for pre-theatre dining because it is […]
Times Square Theater District
Latin dance, festivals, food, music, theatre
Nigerian NYC
Nigerian NYC is centered in Crown Heights and East New York, Brooklyn; Concord-Fox Hills, Staten Island; and Unionburg-Newark Heights, New Jersey. You can find Nigerian products in the West African section of 115th St in Harlem, in and around the Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market. Nigeria has over 250 ethnic groups. Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba are […]
Bolivian NYC
Bolivian NYC is centered in Queens and Paterson, New Jersey. Bolivia has Andes and Amazon regions. It was part of the Inca Empire. Spanish colonizers stole the Bolivian silver mountain at Potosí. Bolivians speak Spanish, Quechua, Aymara and other Indigenous languages. Indigenous culture remains strong. Indigenous colonial Mestizo Baroque art is quite beautiful. There is […]
Things To Do in NYC in November 2022
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Harlem
Harlem is NYC’s iconic African American neighborhood. It is famous for Jazz, Swing, Rhythm and Blues, Rap, great food and fun nights. 155th StHudson River | Harlem | Fifth AvenueCentral Park North (110th) A lot of history was made here. The Harlem Renaissance produced legendary artists in the 1920s and 30s. The Black Arts Movement […]
Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square is No More
2019 was the last
LINCOLN SQUARE
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Washington Heights NYC
Washington Heights is a residential neighborhood around the I-95 crossing in Upper Manhattan. It is NYC’s Little Dominican Republic. Sub-neighborhoods include Hudson Heights and Fort George. Washington Heights News November 2022 The 11th Dominican Film Festival New York 2022 is at the United Palace and Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights, Cinépolis Chelsea, and […]
Union Square
Union Square is a residential/commercial district around Union Square Park. It was Manhattan’s entertainment district in the 1870s. 17th StFifth Ave | Union Square | Lexington14th St 14th Street is the dividing line between Midtown and Downtown, Manhattan. Latin culture in Union Square includes Zara Spanish fast fashion. The park is home of the popular […]
Brazilian Day NYC 2022 is Back in Little Brazil as a Street Fair Only
Sunday, September 4, 2022
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Things to Do in NYC in August 2022
DANCE: BAAND Together & Battery Dance Festival
FESTIVALS: Afribembé, Arte Pa’ Mi Gente, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Harlem Week, Summer For the City, SummerStage, Summer Streets
FOOD: Creole Food Festival, NYC Restaurant Week
MUSIC: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
PARADES: Dominican & Ecuadorian
THEATRE: Shakespeare in the Park
SPORTS: US Open Tennis
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Things to Do in NYC in July 2022
4th of July, Colombian Parade, Peruvian Parade, Bastille Day, SummerStage, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Shakespeare in the Park, and NYC Restaurant Week
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Things to Do in NYC in June 2022
Things to do in NYC in June 2022 include SummerStage, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, NY Puerto Rico Week and the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade and NYC Pride Parade. June is NYC Pride Month. It’s also Caribbean Heritage Month and African-American Music Appreciation Month. June is a great month to visit because the […]
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico really is the island of enchantment. Famous for some of the world’s best beaches, the mountain heartland is even more beautiful. We are both contemporary and conservative. Old ways survive, especially in the mountains. The drum is alive in Puerto Rico. The island is so many things you never imagined. It is famously […]
Inwood
Inwood is Manhattan’s northernmost neighborhood. It’s the home of Inwood Hill Park and the former site of the Native American Lenape village. This largely Hispanic neighborhood has a large Dominican community. Like everywhere it is changing, but Inwood is one of the last places where you can find remnants of the old ways of life […]
Governors Island
Governors Island is an island in New York Harbor with parks and cultural events from May through October. The location is strategic. The island, between the Battery at Manhattan’s southern tip and Red Hook, Brooklyn, is in the mouths of the East River and Hudson River. It was a military installation in the American Revolutionary […]
Things to do in NYC in November 2020
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Things to do in NYC in September 2020
1-24 US Open Tennis (ESPN)
2 Corn Moon
3 Whitney Museum reopens
4-7 Labor Day Weekend
4 NY Carnival Brass Fest 🇹🇹
5 Morgan Library reopens
6 Roberto Clemente Day 🇵🇷
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7 Labor Day
7 NY Carnival Virtual Road 🇹🇹
7 Brazilian Independence 🇧🇷
9 American Museum of Natural History reopens
11 Remember 9/11
11-16 FDLA Fashion Designers of Latin America 🇩🇴
12 El Museo del Barrio reopens
12 Brooklyn Museum reopens
13-16 RUNWAY360 (NYFW) 🇨🇱 🇻🇪
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15-15 Hispanic Heritage Month
15 Independence of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua 🇨🇷 🇸🇻 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇳🇮
16 Mexican Independence 🇲🇽
17 MoMA PS1 reopens
18 Chilean Independence 🇨🇱
18-28 High Holidays 🇮🇱
18-20 Rosh Hashanah 🇮🇱
19 Procession of San Gennaro 🇮🇹
20 African American Parade
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25-11 NY Film Festival
26 NY Carnival Panology 🇹🇹
27-28 Yom Kippur 🇮🇱
Things to do in NYC in August 2020
COVID-19
Large outdoor events cancelled to at least the end of September
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Open Streets : Open Restaurants (Fri-Sat)
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1 Pachamama (At home)
1 “Liquidus” Tabula Rasa Dance Theater (YouTube)
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6 Bolivian Independence
9 Dominican Parade (Virtual)
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10 Ecuadorian Independence
14 Shakespeare in the Park (TV)
14-16 Jazz Masters & All Stars Weekend (Virtual)
14-22 Battery Dance Festival (Virtual)
16 Dominican Restoration Day
16-23 Harlem Week (Virtual)
18 19th Amendment
23 Subway Series (TBS)
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19-20 Al-Hijra (school holiday)
21 Haitian Revolution
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25 Uruguayan Independence
28 Remember Emmett Till
28 “I Have a Dream”
29 Metropolitan Museum plans to open
30 MTV VMA Video Music Awards (TV)
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31-13 US Open Tennis (ESPN)
Things to do in NYC in July 2020
COVID-19
Large outdoor events cancelled to at least the end of September
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SummerStage (Virtual)
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4 U.S. Independence
5 Venezuelan Independence
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9 NYCFC soccer season start (TV)
9 Argentine Independence
11 New York Red Bulls soccer season start (TV)
11 Manhattanhenge
11-14 Bastille Day on 60th St (Virtual)
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13 Shakespeare in the Park (Virtual)
14 Bastille Day
16-26 Colombian Film Festival New York
17-20 Dance on Camera Film Festival (Virtual)
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20 Colombian Independence
23 Yankees & Mets baseball (TV)
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28 Peruvian Independence
30 Eid al-Adha
Things to do in NYC in February 2020
Black History Month
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Broadway Week
Off-Broadway Week
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3-12 New York Fashion Week
5-19 MoMA Doc Fortnight
8 VILLALOBOS BROTHERS
8-11 Westminster Dog Show
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14 Valentine’s Day
14 President’s Day Weekend
14 PISTOLERA
14 Neighboring Scenes Film Festival
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17 PRESIDENTS DAY
21 Carnival weekend
21-15 International Children’s Film Festival
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25 Mardi Gras
26 Ash Wednesday
26 ADAA Art Show
27 Dominican Independence Day
Things to do in NYC in January 2020
1 Haitian Independence
3-5 PBR Professional Bull Riders
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6 Three Kings Day Parade
9-18 Winter Jazzfest
10-14 APAP
12 globalFEST
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17 MARTIN LUTHER KING WEEKEND
17-18 Black Comic Book Festival
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20 Martin Luther King holiday
24-2 Winter Antiques Show
25-1 Master Drawings
26 Grammys
Things to do in NYC in August 2019
2-4 Carnaval del Barrio Street Fair
3 Summer Streets
4 Ecuadorian Parade
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10 Ecuadorian Independence Day
10 Eid al-Adha
10 Summer Streets
11 Dominican Day Parade
11 Battery Dance Festival
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12-18 New York Latino Film Festival
16 Dominican Restoration Day
17 Summer Streets
18 Ecuadorian Festival
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24-25 Afropunk
25 Uruguayan Independence Day
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26-8 US Open Tennis
29-2 NY Salsa Congress
30-2 LABOR DAY WEEKEND
Things to do in NYC in July 2019
JULY 2019
SummerStage
Midsummer Night Swing
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn
Shakespeare in the Park
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
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4 U.S. Independence Day
5 Venezuelan Independence Day
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9 Argentine Independence Day
9-13 LAMC Latin Alternative Music Conference
12 Colombian Flower Festival Gala
12-13 Afro-Latino Fest NYC
14 Colombian Flower Festival Parade
14 111th Street Salsa Street Fair
14 Latin Culture Carnival Bronx
14 Colombian Independence Pride Festival
14 Bastille Day NYC
14 Disability Pride NYC
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16-24 ‘Coriolanus’ Shakespeare in the Park
16-25 Jazz in July Festival
20 Colombian Independence Day
21-3 Brasil Summerfest
21 Junta Hispana Street Fair
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22-16 NYC Restaurant Week
23-28 Dominican Film Festival
24-11 Lincoln Center Out of Doors
25 Peruvian Parade Gala
28 Peruvian Parade
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Tribeca Film Festival 2019
TRIBECA, NYC | Daily Apr 24 – May 5, 2019 | Film festival | Argentine, Bolivian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Honduran, Indigenous, Mayan, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Spanish and more stories
Things to do in NYC in February 2019
Black History Month
1-3 Cinema Tropical film festival
5 Lunar New Year
6-10 Film Comment Selects
8-16 New York Fashion Week
9-12 Westminster Dog Show
11-24 Off-Broadway Week
14 Valentine’s Day, Carnival
18 Presidents Day
21-28 MoMA Doc Fortnight
22-17 Int’l Children’s Film Festival
22-26 Neighboring Scenes film festival
28-3 ADAA Art Show
28-10 Rendez-vous with French Cinema
Things to do in NYC in January 2019
Three Kings Day, Winter JazzFest, Under the Radar Festival, PBR Monster Energy Buck Off, globalFEST, Restaurant Week, Jewish Film Festival, Antiques Week, Winter Antiques Show, Outsider Art Fair, Women’s March, Martin Luther King Jr Day, Dominican Heritage Month and Master Drawings
“Boom for Real” Jean-Michel Basquiat
IFC CENTER, West Village, Manhattan ~ Documentary about the iconic Haitian Puerto Rican artist’s early years and the City that formed him. 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Harlem Havana 2017
Harlem
August 12-23, 2017
Saul Zaks embraces the ends of the world (Interview)
The Argentine conductor talks about conducting, Tango, the immigrant experience, and the ends of the world before conducting the world premiere of Martín Palmieri’s Tango Credo at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center
Harlem Havana 2016
Celebrate Cuban music and culture at venues in Harlem and across metropolitan New York City from August 14-21, 2016