Category: Arts & Entertainment

Tom Cruise’s Big Upper West Side Night Started With a Disaster and Ended With a Few Very Lucky Strangers

Mike Mishkin July 17, 2026 Arts & Entertainment, Celebrities No Comments

You can blame the thunderstorm for the delay, but you can thank it for everything that happened after. IMAX had a screening of “The Odyssey” Read More...

PHOTOS: Manhattanhenge and the 79th Street Block Party — and One Last Chance Tonight

Mike Mishkin July 12, 2026 No Comments

The American Museum of Natural History handed West 79th Street over to chalk, salsa and Double Dutch on Saturday — and by 8 p.m., the Read More...

Lincoln Center’s Free Outdoor Movie Series Returns Next Month With an All-Soccer Lineup

Mike Mishkin June 29, 2026 Arts & Entertainment No Comments

Film at Lincoln Center’s free outdoor movie series is back at Hearst Plaza next month, running July 9 through 18, and this year every film Read More...

After More Than a Century, the Upper West Side’s Oldest Museum Just Unveiled Its Biggest Addition Yet

Mike Mishkin June 23, 2026 No Comments

After nearly three years of construction, the largest expansion an Upper West Side institution has attempted in generations is finally open to the public. That Read More...

Free Summer Jazz Is Returning to Dante Park — Here’s the Full 2026 Lineup

Mike Mishkin June 22, 2026 Arts & Entertainment No Comments

Dante Park is about to get loud again — in the best possible way. Read More...

‘Only Murders in the Building’ Is Stacking Its London Season With a Guest List the Arconia Couldn’t Hold

Mike Mishkin June 16, 2026 Arts & Entertainment No Comments

The Hulu comedy that recast the Upper West Side's Belnord as the fictional Arconia — one of television's most recognizable addresses — is packing its bags for season six, and … Read More...

Olivia Rodrigo Just Shot Her New Music Video All Over the Upper West Side — and a Neighborhood Cat Stole the Show

Mike Mishkin June 14, 2026 Arts & Entertainment No Comments

The clip opens the way a thousand ordinary mornings on the Upper West Side begin: a young woman steps out of a building on a leafy side street, the limestone … Read More...

Lincoln Center’s ‘Summer for the City’ Kicks Off Wednesday With a Free All-Day Dance Party

Mike Mishkin June 8, 2026 Events, Arts & Entertainment No Comments

One of the neighborhood’s biggest summer traditions is back this week, and getting in on opening day won’t cost a thing — not the storytimes, Read More...

Lincoln Center Breaks Ground on Amsterdam Avenue Project: NEW RENDERINGS

Mike Mishkin May 12, 2026 Arts & Entertainment No Comments

A major transformation on the Upper West Side officially moved from planning to construction on Monday, as shovels hit the ground on one of the Read More...

Central Park SummerStage 2026: Lineup Announced

Mike Mishkin April 28, 2026 Arts & Entertainment No Comments

The avant-garde Afrofuturist collective Sun Ra Arkestra took the stage at Central Park’s Naumburg Bandshell in June 1986 to launch what would become one of Read More...