Central Park

HELPING HANDS

Enjoy the spring weather for charity

WALK THIS WAY

Shape up in Central Park

SUMMER SHARE

Beach House shack up in Central Park

Hamlet

$3 Draft Beers at Central Park's Public Fare

Home to Shakespeare in the Park, Central Park's Delacorte Theater also hosts a seasonal outdoor cafe run by Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group: Public Fare. The outdoor cafe is open for the season, serving hotdogs with crushed barbecue potato chips, scallions and tangy housemade sauce, as ... More >>

THE GREAT INDOORS

Enjoy the pleasure of going outside (without going outside)

Central Park Zoo's Baby Penguins Have a Blog

Have you seen the baby penguins of the Central Park Zoo? There are eight of them, and they are adorable. And like anything adorable, or moderately savvy about the internet in the year 2011, they have a blog! It is called The Real Chicks of Central Park, and it promises "chick flicks, chick pics, an ... More >>

Peanut Butter Prices On the Rise; Topping Meat with Meat at Burger Restos

Newark Mayor Cory Booker announced that he decided to become a vegetarian as part of his anti-animal-cruelty campaign. [NY Post] A new study has shown that it's possible to achieve peanut tolerance by attaching peanut proteins onto blood cells and reintroducing them to the body. [Sun Times] Meanwh ... More >>

Central Park Boathouse Strike Over; Tavern on the Green Food Tracks Pack It Up

​The 44-day strike at the Central Park Boathouse has finally ended, with the the two sides agreeing to a four-year union contract. [NY Times] The above-mentioned contract has both the union and the restaurant hopeful that a deal can be reached at Tavern on the Green. [Wall Street Journal] Me ... More >>

Our 10 Best Hotel Restaurants

Robert SietsemaHead to the Trilby for a calm brunch and nosh on these poached eggs and corned beef hash​In recent years, hotel restaurants have gone from being spots for humdrum steak dinners to some of the most exciting dining destinations around, enticing locals as well as guests to pull up ... More >>

Quality Cakes' Chocolate-Covered Grasshopper Is Childhood in a Cup

Rebecca Marx​ My love of Quality Meats' Quality Cakes is no secret, so when I heard their stay at the restaurant had been extended until October, I decided to celebrate accordingly.

Andrea Bocelli

Central Park Boathouse Management in Hot Water Following Sexual Harassment Charges

The Village Voice​Looks like the management of the Central Park Boathouse restaurant are some real d-bags. According to the New York Daily News, six current and former employees have brought charges against the famed spot, citing a hostile working environment and claiming they were fondled an ... More >>

THE BARD'S LOTTERY

You have eight weeks to make it into Shakespeare in the Park

It's Nice Out! Time to Picnic with These Packed Lunches

flickr/19melissa68A-tisket a-tasket , a lovely wicker picnic basket​The weather might be wonky, fluctuating from cold to hot like a menopausal gal, but that just means you need to take advantage of the sunny day while you can. And the best way to do that would be with a picnic. Now that Fork ... More >>

Ten Things You Can Do With an Ostrich Egg

​The eggs can be used to amaze and mystify children. You've probably seen the display of ostrich and emu eggs at the green-awninged Roaming Acres Farm at the Greenmarkets. The ostrich eggs are bone-white, strangely shiny, and of unbelievable girth. In fact, an ostrich yolk is the world's la ... More >>

SummerStage Announces Its Massive 2011 Lineup

​As the winter thaws out, more summer concerts are showing up on the calendar's horizon. Today, the City Parks Foundation announced the schedule for this year's SummerStage, which takes place from June 7 to September 2 in parks all around the city, with the mainstage happening at Central Park. ... More >>

City Seeks Old-Timey Food Carts for Central Park

The food cart is just out of frame.​Mobile food vendors have been dabbling in the genres of medieval fantasy and even explosive action these days. But, if the Parks Department has its way, we're likely going to see more of them doing period pieces.

Snow, Snow, Snow, Etc.; Beloved Twitter Apps Return; Man Finds Wallet After 40 Years

​• Happy Presidents Day! In case you haven't noticed yet, it snowed. Central Park was reporting 2.5 inches as of this morning. There's a chance of more snow over the afternoon, and again tonight. [Weather, NY1] • Protests in Libya against Muammar Qaddafi's totalitarian rule are spreading, ... More >>

Inexplicable Natalie Portmania Continues in The Other Woman

Georgina Bloomberg Is Movin' on Up. To the Upper West Side. With Central Park Views.

​Making up for that whole being dumped by man and horse debacle, Georgina Bloomberg, the mayor's younger daughter, has purchased herself a little pick-me-up to the tune of a co-op on Central Park West. The 27-year-old shelled out "very close" to the asking price of $4.15 million, reports the N ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Robe ... More >>

Is There $10,000 Buried in New York City? Maybe.

​You may have heard: Two guys who wish to remain anonymous and who produce puppet videos are promoting a scheme in which they've allegedly buried a wooden chest containing $10,000 in golden dollar coins (an alloy of copper, zinc, manganese and nickel) somewhere in the five boroughs (but not Ce ... More >>

the xx

It's a Visor; It's a Yarmulke; It's a Yamulkap?

via Gothamist​Wearing a Yamulkap makes a statement: Religious observance and sun protection are not mutually exclusive. The cap, sporty and understated, with a brim to shade from the sun attached to a yarmulke to keep with Jewish tradition, might be one of the smartest inventions of our time, ... More >>

JUST DANCE (ON WHEELS!)

Good thing that jeans

Here Is The Set List For Pavement's First Reunion Show

​They began, as all high-profile indie-rock reunions must, in New Zealand, rocking out to "In the Mouth a Desert," which I'm sure was cathartic.. This dude has most of the set list; this dude breaks it down by album. "Fight This Generation" tends to be particularly violent live, so that's good ... More >>

Clip Job: Peace March, 1966

Ginsberg at the Peace March, photo by Fred W. McDarrah​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 31, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 24 Peace March, 1966 By Paul Warren I live on 103rd Street near Central Park West, one of the very few whites in a block of Negroes and Puerto Ricans. ... More >>

Week in Review: Get Ready #Bonnaroo You're Gonna Be My Bitch For the Weekend

Rebecca Smeyne In the week we didn't go to the mud-soaked hobbit/hippie fest that is Bonnaroo (well, except for the top secret one of us who did, and is even now Twittering about it), all three members of SOTC did go to Prospect Park, where we wandered the green green grass 27,000 parents and thei ... More >>

Tavern on the Green Night Club Announcement was a Hoax

Yesterday, a press release pinged into our mailbox announcing that the Tavern on the Green would be turned into a "trendy club" on Thursdays. The release was so comically stupid, with talk of bottle service, lines throughout the park, and making Central Park "exclusive," that we wrote a little post ... More >>

Summer Guide: Amadou & Mariam's A Global Affair

Damon Albarn lends this "blind couple from Mali" a dash of Britpop

Naked Bike Rides Kick Off, Head to NYC

Your Daily Nude, which has been experiencing a drought, says thank you, Jesus for the World Naked Bike Ride, this year's edition of which has kicked off in several cities, including Melbourne, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Eugene, Oregon, and Newcastle. It has something to do with cars, pollution etc. And it' ... More >>

Falling Tree Menace Hits Central Park

How many times have we warned you about these trees? Now that their mayhem is not longer restricted to Queens, perhaps you'll listen. A tree in Central Park gave several people "quite a scare" when it unexpectedly fell on Saturday. In NY1's footage it looks to be close to 40 feet high, and had it f ... More >>

Gioia: Put Jumbotrons in Parks for Obama Inauguration

Sheraton Turns Sheep Meadow Into Office

Possibly 4th Street 17: Indigo Girl Amy Ray

Hair's Central Park Revival Still Shines With Youthful Energy; Buffalo Gal Skillfully Reworks Chekhov

Still grows on you 40 years later; Gurney's new play tells a more rueful comeback story

Voice Choice: Mike Birbiglia

Memorial Day Special: Lazy Picnic Eats

Saturday

Ladies & Gents: No Luck of the Irish

A bloody, desolate Dublin

Ah, What Urinetown Hath Wrought! (NSFW)

No Sleep Til Brooklyn: Beastie Boys @ McCarren Tix Go on Sale at Noon

1959

How to Create a Riot

Sunday in the Park Without George

Democracy in the Park puts the grass in grassroots organizing

The Cheap Detective

Polka-dot housewares and G.W. Bush coasters fill the shelves of Nolita

Listings

Spring in Her Step

One Person's Journey From Walking to Running

The Knobbies '00

The Year in Princely Cock-Ups