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Annual
Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing, Queens (FREE) The Annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York, a multicultural celebration and sporting event is the largest festival of its kind in the US. With over 100 teams, encompassing more than 1000 participants from across the US and Canada competing for cash and prizes, this years festival will be notable for both its scale and fierce competition. This much anticipated world-class, multi cultural event features
two exciting days of Dragon Boat Racing, wonderful performances
and an international food court. Please join us at the largest multi-cultural Festival in New York!! Visit the official site for additional information. |
Chinatown Summer Street Festival 2010
August 1 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Come down and help Celebrate
Immigrants. On hand will be Entertainment featuring traditional cultural
performances as well as other activities for the family. You could learn
more as well at the Asian Americans for Equality website.
This event will take place at Bayard Street between Baxter & Elizabeth
Streets; Columbus Park
1st Annual New York State Yo-Yo Contest and International Yo-Yo Open
Cancelled for 2010
This new item will bring to New York the best yo-yo players from around the worlf for a day long affair featuring entertainment, education and fantastic yo-yo tricks.
The event will draw competitors from Brazil, Italy, France, Japan, and across the United States. In addition to watching head-spinning tricks, visitors can enjoy live music, DJs, breakdancers, jugglers, and spin-top and diabolo performers, as well as check out the best in yo-yo equipment for beginners and experts. All Ages.
To learn more visit the official site: http://www.yoyoopen.com/
Summer Streets in Manhattan
August 7, 14, 21
7:00 am until 1:00 pm
Traffic Free Streets For All to Enjoy!!!!
Summer Streets is back! Saturdays August 7th, 14th, and 21st.
The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.
This event takes a valuable public space - our City's streets - and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia's Ciclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event will be part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings.
This event is for people of all ages and ability levels to share the streets respectfully.
For more information please visit this online official page.
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Times Square Kiss In -
62nd Anniversary The Kiss-In, sponsored by Maybelline and with a special appearance by Dancing with the Stars’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy, exemplifies many of the qualities that make Times Square unique – massive crowds gathered at the Crossroads of the World to passionately celebrate a historical moment, the role of the U.S. Armed Forces, and, of course, the unmistakable undercurrent of desire that has been a neighborhood hallmark for more than a hundred years. The morning portion of the event will include a historical and reflective segment presented in partnership with Keep the Spirit of ’45 Alive!, a national grassroots campaign championed by the late Edith Shain to recognize the Greatest Generation with live music from the era, a chance to meet veterans, and reflections on the significance of that historical day. The first 250 “kissers” to arrive will receive complimentary sailor’s caps or roses. Also at stake, the couple deemed “Most Symbolic” or “Best Themed” of the day will win a Grand Prize, two- night stay at The W New York at Times Square, along with dinner at B. Smith on Restaurant Row and tickets to the 2010 Tony Award-Winning Broadway Smash MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET. Two First Place prizes will offer a one night stay at The Westin New York in Times Square with dinner at Carmine’s or Virgil’s Real Barbecue, as well as a one night stay at Hotel Mela with dinner at Ruby Foo’s or Blue Fin. Runner Up prizes will include gift certificates at Brasserie 1605, Planet Hollywood and Encore Restaurant. You can read more at the Times Square BID page regarding this event. |
Harlem Week 2010
taking place in July and August
Learn about and participate in this series of events celebrating this community and the folks who populate it and make it what it is. This item which has been going on for over 3 decades celebrates the various cultures which make up this important neighborhood of NYC.
If you'd like to learn more then why not pay a visit to the official site at:
http://harlemweek.com/
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15th Annual New York Ship & Model Boat Festival So come on down and visit the following pages as well to learn more about this event and the surrounding area: South St. Seaport Museum Events Page on New Yorkled, Official Site, Main Seaport Pages. |
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Central
Park Film Festival See the list of films which'll be showing at Rumsey Playfield within
Central Park at the |
US Open
Taking place in Flushing, Queens
August 30 - September 12
Here's this annual tournament in which the stars
of tennis will take hold of everyone's attention as they vie for the
win.
Visit the official
website for detailed information.
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Who can help but enjoy not only a good Shakespeare performance, but one for free? Well, in NYC of course! From the Bronx to Manhattan and other outdoor spots within our city there's plenty going on as usual in as far as the Great Bard's work is concerned. So get out there and enjoy what's happening and what's to come! |
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New Yorkled's own compilation of all those great free/cheap concerts in New York City. From Chelsea Piers to the South Street Seaport, from various locations in Central Park to up and down the avenue here and there, from the Bronx to Brooklyn there's so much in the way of musical offerings which go on every year in NYC. So hop aboard and join in on this ride that'll put shivers up your spine, hairs that'll stand at attention on your arm and those feet a'hoppin! Come along and help New Yorkled in its Celebration of New York City! SO, in the meantime, visit the New Yorkled Free/Cheap Concerts page that's been updated with much more to come! |
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