GOVERNORS ISLAND FERRIES STEP UP FOR SUMMER
Governors Island will expand expanded ferry service and extended late-night hours for the 2026 summer season starting Memorial Day. Through Labor Day weekends, ferries will run every 15 minutes during peak travel times, including weekends and holidays from 10a to 6p and weekday mornings from 7:30 to 11a. Seasonal weekend ferry service from Brooklyn Bridge Park and Red Hook will also return May 23 through November 1.

THE SOUNDS OF TRIBECASTAN
My college pal Brad Ring was leading a bike and wine tour around Mexico and one of his guests was a former member of the band TriBeCaStan! You can give a listen here. Read a fun feature on the band from 2010 here. See Brad’s cool beer tours here and wine tours here.

Photo by Richard Bowditch

SAILING SEASON OPEN SOON AT THE SEAPORT
The South Street Seaport Museum’s sailing season for the 1885 schooner Pioneer and the 1930 tugboat W.O. Decker opens May 29 and runs through October. Tickets range from $5–$70 to sail New York Harbor and are on sale now. Get them here. You can also book a private charter. See info here.

EDIE BASKIN PHOTOS AT THE SOHO GRAND
Edie Baskin: Live From My Studio is up at the The Gallery at Soho Grand — it’s the first comprehensive exhibition of the photographer and title designer for Saturday Night Live from the first show in 1975 until 2000. Open through September 13, the exhibit shows Baskin’s distinctive photographic language, one that has shaped popular culture, media and the visual identity of modern portraiture.