Plus a local landscape architect gets national recognition; a block party in BPC; Chris Hemsworth at the Greenwich Hotel.
Plus Shopboy adds a gallery space; Venezuelan show at Apexart; Australian new wave movies in BPC. / 3 comments
Plus Noel Anderson's "Black Exhaustion" at Shirley Fiterman; Il Mulino is now Il Giglio; a coastal resiliency expo for Fidi and the Seaport. / 4 comments
Plus the 9/11 Memorial 5K is set for April 30; the puppy who escaped the salon is back; a Broadway actress tours NBC around Tribeca.
Plus the painter Bullet Shih at Steven Amedee; Washington Market Pediatrics moves to Washington Street; Alvin Eng reads in the East Village.
Plus Diana Switaj leaves CB1; Brooklyn Robot Foundry is offering franchises; the Friends of City Hall Park will host a working walking tour.
Plus open studios at the New York Academy of Art; concert tonight for Cinco de Mayo; making it rain on Murray Street; a housewares swap event at Pace on Monday. / 4 comments
The new 14-plex has reclining seats, table service during the show, a bar outside with 48 taps and oddly -- a letterpress inking custom prints for events. Oh and no texting -- or else. / 4 comments
Plus movies and exercise start now at the Seaport; River to River starts next week; a new Chinese restaurant opens in Fidi.
The Battery Park City movie theater will open on April 23 at 25 percent capacity, max of 50 in each auditorium. It's something. Also opening: The Roxy Cinema.
Regal Battery Park is still on hold till the state allows movie theaters something better than 25 percent; The Roxy Cinema will open in April in the meantime. / 2 comments
Last chance to catch the nominees before the Oscars on Sunday.... Plus: "Alice in Wonderland" opens! Tilda Swinton in crisis! Jean Harlow and Clara Bow! And "The Muppet Movie"!
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