Hudson River

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 7/26/13

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

SET THE WORLD ON FIRE

Dance the night away with Tegan and Sara and fun.

Sandy: A Storm Diary, Updated Mid-Storm

Perhaps because the waterway is at low tide, the barriers to the Hudson River Park have been removed. Here storm watchers gather on the Christopher Street pier. Despite promises to the contrary in many cases, 95% of the restaurants in the West Village are now closed. Those that remain open, like T ... More >>

IN LIVING COLOR

14th Street will be a little stranger than usual

10 Best Hell's Kitchen NYC Restaurants

These wonderful fried pork-belly tidbits are served with an arepa and lime wedges at Farmers Rotisserie -- for less than $5. [See More 10 Bests: Doughnuts | Gelato] No New York neighborhood offers a denser collection of restaurants, aimed at theater-goers, tourists, local neighborhood types, Time ... More >>

The 6 Best Snacks on the High Line

6. Tacos de Hongos at The Taco Truck -- Mushroom tacos, heaped with pickled purple onions and quite spicy, are a vegetarian delight. At $5.50 for the pair, they're also relatively inexpensive. Just east of the Hudson River and running mainly along 10th Avenue, the recently extended High Line isn't ... More >>

Times Square

New Round of Food Trucks Announced for Choice Streets; Event Officially Sold Out

Fork in the Road is proud to announce another series of participants for the Choice Streets tasting event, to be held on a Hudson River pier with the Battleship Intrepid towering overhead.

FACE-OFF

Will the Nets get revenge on the Knicks?

New York is Nothing But Green Screen

The above video demonstrating visual effects in movies and television proves what we've all secretly known for years: New York City doesn't exist. Times Square, the Hudson River, and the UN building are just post-production illusions. Instead, we live in a world made up of nothing but green walls.

Happy 80th Birthday, George Washington Bridge!

via Wikipedia​On October 24th, 1931, you were dedicated as the "Hudson River Bridge." Soon after, you were renamed, and now everyone calls you George. As the world's busiest bridge, we know you have a lot on your plate today. We just want to quickly say, "Happy Birthday," and let you know how ... More >>

Fall Hudson River Cruise to Bear Mountain

New Yorkers, You Are Slowly Being Surrounded By Sewage

​After a fire on Wednesday night at the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Harlem shut the plant down and forced the city to start pumping raw sewage into the Hudson, we warned yesterday that the Hudson was not exactly fit for swimming or kayaking or fishing or walking near and breathin ... More >>

RED, WHITE, & YOU

More things to do on your day off!

The New World Financial Center Will Be Lousy With Food

A lot to swallow.Brookfield Office Properties​It looks like the Milk Street Café won't be the only mega-food hall to make a massive footprint in the Financial District.

BIRD'S-EYE VIEW

Bring your binoculars to Riverdale

Floater in the Hudson River

​Shortly after midnight Saturday, a passing boater in the Hudson River discovered a body floating off 43rd Street and 12th Avenue. The NYPD Harbor Unit landed the floater on Pier 81; he was, of course, DOA at the scene. No ID at press time. He was described as a bearded white male, 20 to 30 years ... More >>

ROCK AQUATIC

Built to Spill try not to sink the ship

SUNSET, SUNSET

Norma Desmond is ready for her close-up again

Corn Invades the Farmers' Markets Along With Yellow Raspberries, Purple Sugar Snaps, and Reishi Mushrooms

​Sweet bicolor corn is the first variety to hit the greenmarket this summer. It seems that corn arrives earlier and earlier at the farmers' markets each year. While we originally associated the crop with late summer and fall, a few years ago it began to arrive in early August, then late July. ... More >>

Gear Up: Friday Is National Bike to Work Day

​The signs sometimes do align, as in the case of tomorrow, which is our humble nation's official Bike to Work Day. It's been bike month all of May, in fact, but if you've been focused on other things -- masturbation month, anyone? -- well, it's not too late to get involved.

D. A. Pennebaker Is Directing A Webcast For the National

​Right, so, the man who made Don't Look Back and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars will apparently be directing a YouTube stream of a National concert, scheduled for May 15th at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The show's a benefit for the Red Hot Organization, according to Brooklyn Vegan ... More >>

It's a Bird, It's a Military Plane...

​Don't freak. A military plane will be buzzing down the Hudson River and landing at La Guardia at around 11:15 today. Notify NYC alerted us to the news this morning, and we appreciate that. Because that whole Air Force One thing last year? Not cool, guys.

New Greenmarket May Be Going in at Pier 40

​Long ago, Pier 40 berthed cruise ships. The April issue of the monthly newspaper WestView reports that a new farmers' market may be in the works for Pier 40, the hulking complex that sits at the western end of Houston Street.

Indian Point License Threatened Over Water Quality, Dead Fish

​A draft report sent yesterday from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to Entergy, the operators of the Indian Point Nuclear Plant in Buchanan, NY, found that Indian Point's impact on Hudson River sturgeon was serious enough to deny the plant a Water Quality Certificate. Th ... More >>

Chesley Sullenberger, Help Us! Bird-Plane Collisions Soar Toward Record

Reported collisions between airplanes and birds are climbing toward 10,000 for calendar year 2009, and the figures aren't even final yet. Why? Authorities naturally speculate that reports have increased since hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger fought off geese who killed his engines and and ... More >>

"May The Holidays Bring An Oscar for Mo'Nique...

​And a pawn shop willing to give her equal value for it." That's what the holiday card from the famed comedy club Carolines on Broadway says, among other things. And here are some of the other things:

Man Evades Cops, Jumps Off George Washington Bridge

​Last night around nine a guy pulled his red Pontiac Grand Prix out of the Sunoco station in Englewood Cliffs and headed onto the George Washington Bridge. As he had failed to yield to traffic, a police car came after him. They tried to pull him over, but he pulled the old stop-and-start on th ... More >>

Recession-Wracked Harlem Restaurants Will Pay Your Car Fare

​Restaurants aren't doing so well anywhere in New York. (We saw the headline "Recession is not all bad news for NYC eateries" in Crain's, and the story turned out to be that it was not all bad news for diners -- lower prices at fancy restaurants!) The ViVa (Viaduct Valley) Harlem Restaurant ... More >>

CMJ Farewell: Pig Destroyer, Eyehategod, and Goatwhore, On a Boat (Where Else?)

All photos by yr brave correspondent, who writes: "I got punched in the face but I gave it back worse."​Eyehategod, Pig Destroyer, Goatwhore Rocks Off Concert Cruise, Hudson River Saturday, October 24 The kid in the Suicidal Tendencies t-shirt went down hard, his spindly dark form an inverse ... More >>

ODE TO FREE RENT

Natalie Merchant celebrates the grand opening of Poets House

Deer Tick

Urban Foraging: Blackberries

​ One cup of blackberries, representing about 15 minutes of picking, and bursting with juice. Late summer in the city--generally in the month of August--is the time to forage for blackberries. Bring gloves, since the branches on which the berries grow are covered with serious thorns, and long ... More >>

Scanner+Mountains

Fireworks

I, Locavore--Awesome Deal on Local Chardonnay

The crisp chardonnay of Millbrook Vineyards and Winery (click to taste) As a wine enthusiast, you're no doubt familar with the reasonably priced and often good wines of the North Fork of Long Island, and the pricier product of New York's pristine Finger Lakes region. But a lesser known wine reg ... More >>

More Flight 1549 Porn

Here's the highlight reel of a Con Ed surveillance tape of US Airways Flight 1459 going down on the Hudson River. You can see the first moments of the plane in the water, people filing onto the wings (which from this distance looks rather calm and orderly) and rescuers from the New York Waterways ... More >>

International Booze Tastings

In the event that you're one of the few people in the city who still have the cash to blow on booze tastings, there are two big ones coming up on Monday, January 26th.The Union des Grand Crus de Bordeaux is in town to promote the 2006 vintage. During the day, they'll have a trade tasting, and in the ... More >>

NTSB Tries to Extract Downed Airliner, Fails

The tail of Flight 1459 bobs out of the water, surrounded by disaster personnel. (click to enlarge) Saturday, the city tried for a second time to pull doomed US Airways Flight 1549 out of the soup. After the belly flop into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon, the corpse of the airline--from wh ... More >>

HOWLING AT THE MOON

Kiki Smith and Nico Muhly bring she-wolves to life

White Briefs and Jello Shots

Where—and how—men party in this town

Wednesday 7/26

Listings

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Eight Wonders of the City Parks

Paddling and Galloping

Collision Course

Drop in Enforcement Leaves Kayaks Vulnerable to Jet Skis

1972 Sailboat

Flea Circus

photographs by Sandra-Lee Phipps

West Village, R.I.P.

Developers target a legendary neighborhood's last open spaces

The River Wild

Exploring Manhattan's Hudson Coast before a park plan paves it over