🎙️ Walk in the footsteps of music legends like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald as you visit the sites where they lived and performed!

Billie Holiday’s Harlem and the Birth of The Jazz Age
🗓️ Sunday, August 24th at 11:00 AM ET

Join a Harlem local and music industry insider for a stroll down Swing Street, Strivers Row, and more, to visit the locations where Jazz legends were made. 🎶

Friday, July 25th

Jazz & Gin: A Speakeasy Soirée

🗓️ 7pm - 11:59pm ET
📍Prospect Park South, Brooklyn

Dance the night away at The Urbane Arts Club's monthly Speakeasy Soirée! Join Prohibition Productions for hot jazz, cocktails, and dancing at a former 1920s Brooklyn speakeasy, now an elegant art nouveau salon. Each month features NYC’s best swing bands and swing DJs, classic burlesque, craft cocktails, and a free dance lesson.

More Friday Events

🚂. Beat the heat with an indoor tour of Grand Central Terminal, offered at 10am and 2pm ET

🤣 Head out to the Catskills for the weekend to celebrate the Borscht Belt Festival and enjoy a lineup of comedy, music, a street fair, and more fun nostalgic activities in this former vacation destination

Saturday, July 26th

Hard Hat Tour of Ellis Island's Abandoned Hospital

⏰ 11:30am-3pm ET
📍Ellis Island
Once the standard for US medical care, later transformed into a US Coast Guard base and FBI detention center, this 29-building complex has been vacant for over 60 years. Explore the old laundry building, contagious disease wards, autopsy rooms, staff house, and so much more as you walk in the footsteps of the immigrants who were there a hundred years ago, guided by a Save Ellis Island docent.

NYC Underground Subway Tour

⏰ Every Saturday at 10am & 2pm ET
📍Fulton Center, Manhattan

Explore the world’s largest subway system, the beating heart of the city that never sleeps! Discover its fascinating beginnings and explore spaces even the most seasoned commuter might not know about.

⭐ Buy 1 ticket and get the 2nd 50% off with code SUMMERINTHECITY

More Saturday Events

🌷 Walk through blossoming gardens of native plants on over 24,000 square feet of green roof at the 9th Annual Kingsland Wildflowers Festival where you can experience live performances, see art, engage with community organizations, and take part in all-age activities focused on green infrastructure and native ecology.

Sunday, July 27th

Remnants of the World's Fairs Tour

⏰ 1pm-3pm ET
📍Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

Track down architectural souvenirs left over from the two Queens World's Fairs, from buried, hidden time capsules to the iconic New York State Pavilion and Unisphere.

More Sunday Events:

👨‍🎨 Meet the Artists behind Wave Hill's group exhibition, Trees we breathe, on a guided walkthrough of the gallery space

🇲🇽 Take part in Ballet Folklórico Mexicano de Nueva York’s Annual Guelaguetza Festival at Socrates Sculpture Park, a free celebration (donation suggested) featuring vibrant traditional costumes, dance, and song

Next Week

Monday, June 28th

⛵ Enjoy a relaxing sunset sail while munching on tapas on this seasonal cruise of NYC's waterways

Tuesday, July 29th

🎄 Celebrate Christmas in July with an outdoor screening of the movie Elf and art activity at Domino Square, followed by music from DJgirlcrush and a second feature, Party Girl

Wednesday, July 30th

🏙️ Mark the Art Deco Centennial in a free virtual talk, A Guide to the Jazz Age Style in Our Neighborhoods, City, and World, at 6pm ET, presented by Village Preservation, Art Deco Society of New York, East Village Community Coalition, and the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative

Thursday, July 31st

🏛️ Step inside a hidden French bookstore and uncover more secrets of Fifth Avenue's Gilded Age mansions on an expert-led walking tour

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