Above and Beyond
Yoga at the Brooklyn Museum
Bring your mat for a class on the plaza stairs, beneath Daniel Chester French’s sculpture “Allegorical Figure of Manhattan.”
Summer at Fort Tilden
The oceanfront park in the Rockaways, a former U.S. military site, in Queens, overlooking New York Harbor, provides a romantic view worthy of Caspar David Friedrich.
The High-Wattage Holiday Lights of Dyker Heights
Since the mid-nineteen-eighties, the residents of the Brooklyn neighborhood have been turning their homes into dazzling displays between Thanksgiving and the New Year.
A Taylor Mac Holiday Show, Tweaked for the Pandemic
The playwright and performance artist takes the vaudevillian romp “Holiday Sauce” online, with music, costumes by Machine Dazzle, and burlesque.
A Glimpse of Spring at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Whatever the conditions are like outside, visitors to the Steinhardt Conservatory Desert Pavilion are guaranteed warm weather.
A Skyline Fashioned from Foliage
At the New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train Show, miniature buildings are made from twigs, tendrils, and seedpods.
The Cooper Hewitt’s All-Ages Affair
On Thursday evenings, the museum hosts an outdoor party with live music—children are welcome, and there’s a cash bar for the cocktail set.
Visiting the Bronx Zoo’s Endangered Reptiles
The JungleWorld exhibit features needle-nose Indian gharials along with white-cheeked gibbons, painted storks, and Indian fruit bats.
Pop-Up Ping-Pong
Food venders, a full bar, table tennis, and other games will be at Riis Park Beach Bazaar every weekend until Labor Day.
