Hudson River Park

Will a New High-Pressure Gas Line Help New Yorkers—Or Blow Them Up?

Pipe Bomb

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 >>

Hudson River Park Rapist Opts For The Old Four Lokos And Weed Defense

A convicted sex offender accused of violently raping a woman at Hudson River Park last month told police that he doesn't know if he raped the woman because he'd consumed five Four Lokos before the attack -- but that was only after drinking vodka, and smoking weed and K-2, a brand of synthetic mariju ... More >>

The Embers of Paris Glow for 'Born in Flames: New Queer Cinema'

The thrills of '90s queer films still live at BAM

New York City Parks Are Hot Spots For Rapists. Bill de Blasio Credits NYPD "Blind Spots"

New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio says NYPD "blind spots" are partially to blame for a recent spike in sexual assaults in city parks. To fix the problem, de Blasio says the cops need to start tallying park-crime data.De Blasio's suggestion comes just days after a 31-year-old woman was nea ... More >>

Q&A: Black Bananas' Jennifer Herrema On Rad Times Express, Neil Hagerty, Royal Trux, And The Curse Of Opening For The Stones

Jennifer Herrema has helped define the underground rock scene since the 1980s, thanks to her constant pushing forward of both music and style. In her youth, Herrema cavorted with the straight-edge hardcore rascals in D.C. (she felt more at home with the stoners); she scurried off to New York City at ... More >>

Live: Grimes, Wild Nothing, And DIIV Electrify The Hudson River

Grimes w/Wild Nothing, DIIV Hudson River Park/Pier 84 Thursday, August 9 Better than: Halloween. Denizens of New York City know painfully well the dangers of the fabled "free show." Some have risen up against the tyranny of the Vans House Party and lost their lives evenings, while others have stru ... More >>

Art in Odd Places Is Happening on 14th Street: An Interview With One of the Artists

Art in Odd Places is an annual New York City exhibit featuring artists, doing, well, art in odd places. This year (the sixth in New York), the theme focuses on ritual, with 70 artists taking over 14th street from October 1st through the 10th to do hour-long projects on that theme each day. The goal ... More >>

SURFIN' NYC

Pro surfers compete for a cool million

Live: tUnE-yArDs Explodes At Pier 54

tUnE-yArDs w/Austra Pier 54 at Hudson River Park Thursday, July 14 Better than: Standing around with your arms crossed. "Everyone turn around and look at the moon," tUnE-yArDs mastermind Merrill Garbus instructed at the outset of tUnE-yArDs' set last night. She was asking people not just to marv ... More >>

Austra, Class Actress And DOM Are This Summer's RiverRocks Opening Acts

DOM, in the haze. ​The openers for this summer's RiverRocks concert series—three free shows at Hudson River Park's Pier 54, taking place on Thursday evenings in July and August—have been announced: the darkelectro Toronto act Austra will support tUnE-yArDs at this season's July 14 ... More >>

Boat-Building Kids Say the Darndest Things on the Hudson

Esther ZuckermanHenry Creech takes "The Heat" on its maiden voyage. ​In what could have easily been transformed into an episode of Kids Say The Dardnest Things, 16 Brooklyn schoolchildren gathered at Hudson River Park by 26th Street this morning to sets boats they had made themselves to sail. ... More >>

You Can Still Smoke in Some NYC Parks

​The New York City smoking ban went into effect this week, and we noted the lax enforcement language, in which the city admits, "We expect the new law will be enforced by New Yorkers themselves, who will ask people to follow the law and stop smoking." But in Battery Park, it's going to be extr ... More >>

Summer Guide: Don't Take Brad Paisley to the Airport Strip Club

The country star likes six strings, not G-strings. Plus, summer music picks

tUnE-yArDs, Metronomy, Deer Tick To Headline RiverRocks Concerts At Pier 54

​2011 marks the 13th summer that free shows will be presented at Pier 54 (located at the intersection of West Street and 13th Street) by the Hudson River Park's RiverRocks Series; this season's concerts will be headlined by tUnE-yArDs (July 14), Metronomy (July 28), and Deer Tick (August 11). ... More >>

The Weather Is Much Improved: Five Places to Take Advantage in NYC

​This weather is really something! For everyone besides weekend bloggers. You're probably out frolicking already, aren't you. But if you're not -- if you're hungover and melting into a blob in front of Jersey Shore, mired in an existential crisis about what you're doing with your life -- it's ... More >>

"Poor Man's Bermuda" in Staten Island? Not anymore

For a century, 41 families have had a sweet deal on public land in Staten Island. But summer is finally over.

RIVER BLUES

Displaced Southern hospitality?

Things to do on Sunday for (mostly) free

the National Weather Service is promising 82 degrees and disappearing clouds--Broadway on Broadway - the casts from 20 Broadway shows will be performing live on Broadway between 43d and  47th, starting at 11:30. Michael McKean (Spinal Tap, an upcoming play) is hosting.--Brooklyn Book Festival ... More >>

THE HIGH LIFE

See  Pineapple Express the way Mother Nature intended

Tonight! Beach Bums and Goatwhore

We'll run art on Ted Leo when he busts out a floater.If Jack Johnson has taught us anything, it's to never, ever underestimate the sheer marketability of surfing. Obama's entire general election strategy in Hawaii revolved around a single photo-op at the deadly Sandy Beach (see below), just as Johns ... More >>

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists+Radio 4+Extra Golden

The Queer Issue: A Guide for Gays

Summer Guide: Amadou & Mariam's A Global Affair

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

Childhood In Momma's Man; Struggles With Daddy Issues In Hamlet 2

Azazel Jacobs and Andrew Fleming set parent traps

GOLDEN TICKET

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

IBIZA, NY

Don’t forget your glowsticks

Gay Pride is Bringing In The Boys and the Booze

Gay Nightlife: Parties With a Boy Flavor

Hey, sailor, looking for a good time?

NYC Wine and Food Fest: Tickets On Sale Monday!

White Briefs and Jello Shots

Where—and how—men party in this town

Wednesday 7/26

Thursday 7/27

Sunday 7/30

Pride Party Roundup

Before—and after—the parade passes by

Gay and Loud

The new battle over queer kids' ruckus in Greenwich Village

Listings

Pride Guide

Urban Oases

Listings

Close-Up on Clinton (Hell's Kitchen)

Pride Guide

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

9-11, Inc.

Firefighters Are Upset About a Memorial. Other People Are Upset About Fake Memorabilia. Upset?

The Dust May Never Settle

How Dangerous Was That Dark Cloud Hanging Over Manhattan?

Green vs. Green

A Bitter Struggle in New York City Splits the Sierra Club

West Village, R.I.P.

Developers target a legendary neighborhood's last open spaces

Letters

The River Wild

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