A photo essay by photographer Claudine Williams from the annual Swedish Midsummer Festival -- a celebration of sun and flowers in Battery Park City. / 6 comments
Plus dinner with Jean-Georges on a boat; Swedish Midsummer Festival this weekend; an uptick in break-ins on Broadway.
Plus a month of plays at Federal Hall; another resiliency meeting for Rockefeller; Pride dance party at the Seaport. / 1 comment
Plus Sonic Youth releases a recording of its 2008 show in Battery Park; 10 Corso Como comes to the Seaport; Good Stuff repairs and recycles; Noted reopens, with flowers. / 2 comments
Plus: Gay Pride events on Pier 26 start tomorrow; another retail space on the 30 Park Place plaza; the Swedish Midsummer Festival; "hot new Latin bar concept" opening in FiDi. / 1 comment
James! Thank you ! I love the photo. — Native NYer / Upon the Palace has opened
So by extension, ill will toward the future employees of Hobby Lobby? — Bobbie / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Smartphones and doom scrolling has sucked the life out of our kids. Sometimes you need reminders like this to really... — hmmm / Capturing the lives of Tribeca youth before smartphones took hold
How many times, on a summer afternoon, did I sit on the doorsill at Dudley's Paw with Dudley beside me.... — John Willenbecher / Seen & Heard: Hobby Lobby construction happening?
Yum yum. Looking forward to going here! — SW / Upon the Palace has opened
Yes!!!! My lady and I have been BEGGING for one of these!!!! — Jack Gaff / Chambers Street Wines is opening a wine bar on… Chambers
so, no RIOTS or claims of a “rigged election”; is that the point? 🤔 — baba galacticus / It’s quiet out there