Over 60 and want to excercise with your crew?

     Columbia invites you for wellness walks and fitness sessions, organized around incentives and rewards for your effort.

     The weekly workouts are held indoors—on the world’s fastest indoor track. (Spiked shoes not required.) To sign up, call (212) 305-9483.

      Free. Tuesday mornings from 10 to 11:30 at the Armory in Lower WaHi on Fort Washington Avenue at 168th Street.

     Four contemporary American artists present their work at Uptown’s storied gallery, the American Academic of Arts and Letters.

     Lucy Sante (above) has been making collages since her teenage years in New Jersey, a practice she has sustained alongside her prolific writing career. After moving to New York, she worked at the Strand Bookstore, where she acquired source material that would fuel her collage work for decades. In the late 1970s, she created collaged fliers for The Del-Byzanteens, a band fronted by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, and other groups in downtown New York. 

     Jessi Reaves makes sculptures (left) that confront the assumptions and values embedded in objects of daily life. Early works incorporate severed limbs of mid-century furniture in constructions that question the elevation of clean lines and rational forms to universal good taste. Recent sculptures have become visually dense, using handiwork and ornamentation to achieve an almost grotesque sense of accumulation.

     Also in the exhibition is Josiane M. H. Pozi, whose films and videos from the last eight years haec been remixed and rearranged into an installation.

     Take part in the exhibition’s opening celebration on opening night, from 4 to 7 p.m. It’s free once you reserve your spot here.

     The exhibition is free too. Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 5 at the Academy on Audubon Terrace, at Broadway and 155th Street. Through July 3.

     The Ivalas Quartet served as the graduate resident string quartet at The Juilliard School from 2022 to 2024, where they studied with the Juilliard String Quartet.  

     For this performance, they will play Haydn’s Quartet in B-flat Major, Skye’s Deliverance, and Beethoven’s Quartet No. 15 in B-flat Major.

     $20. Friday night at 8 at the Frances Cabrini Shrine in Hudson Heights, on Fort Washington Avenue just below 190th Street.

     Indulge yourself in music from the ancient highlands and emerald isles in Celtic Woman: A New Era.

     The concert blends the ensemble’s sound with fresh arrangements, exquisite harmonies, and world-class musicianship brought to life by sopranos Mairéad Carlin, Muirgen O’Mahony, Sean-Nós singer Caitríona Sherlock, and fiddle player Ciara Ní Mhurchú, joined by the Celtic Woman band and dancers.

     $46.20 to $123.20. Friday night at 8 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi, on Broadway at 175th Street.

    The Inwood greenmarket is a year-round neighborhood favorite.
    People of all ages, backgrounds, and tastes gather each Saturday to meet and greet their friends and neighbors and do their weekly shopping. Even on the coldest, darkest winter Saturdays, loyal Inwood shoppers come out because they know they can’t get products like this anywhere else.
     A core group of 15 farmers attends every week of the year, and during the peak of the season, five more join to round out the offerings with the summer’s bounty.
     Saturdays from 8 to 3 on Isham Street between Seaman Avenue and Cooper Street. Open year-round.

     Would you like to learn more about the neighborhood you call home?

     Interpreters from the Morris-Jumel Mansion bring New York history to life in a guided walking tour uncovering Uptown’s centuries-old history. It’s a 90-minute, one-mile mobile experience beginning at the  Mansion and ending at Trinity Cemetery on Broadway and 155th Street.

     Meet up with other WaHi residents, history buffs, and the occasional tourist looking for hidden gems of New York City. Bundle up!

      $23.18. Saturdays at 10:30 and 1:30 starting at the mansion in Lower WaHi, in Roger Morris Park. No 1:30 tour on the second Saturday of the month. Through the spring. 

     Bird watchers will enjoy Ryan Goldberg’s tales in Bird City: Adventures in New York’s Urban Wilds.

     Goldberg will read from the book, take your questions, and then lead you on a walk looking for birds in For Tryon Park. If you have binoculars, take them with you, along with a bottle of water. Reserve your spot here.

     $5. Saturday at noon at the Fountain book store in Hudson Heights. on 187th Street near Fort Washington Avenue.

     Try your hand at painting en plein air.

     The Urban Park Rangers lead the Nature’s Workshop series, exploring water color painting in depth so you can develop a skill in a hands-on project.

     Indulge your curiosity as you get inspired by the season changing from winter to spring and let the colors of buds and blooms flow in your artwork. The Rangers will provide the supplies for this one-hour session. All you need to bring is your creativity.

     Free. Saturday afternoon at 1 in Fort Tryon Park; meet at Margaret Corbin Circle.

     Get a view that puts the up in Upper Manhattan.

     Climb to the top of the Highbridge Water Tower to learn about the history of New York City’s water supply and enjoy the panoramic views from 200 feet. You’ll climb stairs to the top, so wear comfortable shoes.

     Arrive before 2:45 to gain admittance.

     Free. Saturday afternoon from 1 to 3 at the tower in Highbridge Park in Lower WaHi, off Amsterdam Avenue at 173rd Street. (Behind the recreation center and pool.)

     Plants have been used as tools of healing for centuries.

     Join the Urban Park Rangers to discover which local plants in Manhattan’s only untouched forest were traditionally used to make medicine and how we may still use them today.

     Wear comfortable shoes and take a bottle of water on this one-hour walk.

     Free. Sunday afternoon at 1 in Inwood Hill Park; meet at 218th Street and Indian Road.

     Tormented by an abusive situation at home, a young musician, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise. Purple Rain (1984) stars Prince, Apollonia Kotero, and Morris Day.

     Part of this year’s Movies at the Palace series.

     $12.72. Sunday afternoon at 3 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     The power of art to make an emotional connection is on display every Sunday afternoon in Apartment 3F—that’s  Marjorie Eliot’s place, where she invites veteran musicians to play along to her piano accompaniment. 

     Famous and up-and-coming artists perform at Eliot’s weekly sessions and her free concerts are legendary among jazz aficionados.

     Join her live—in her home for Parlor Jazz.

     Free. Sunday afternoons at 3:30 at 555 Edgecomb Avenue, Apartment 3F, in Lower WaHi at 160th Street.

     The Performing Arts Group at Hudson View Gardens presents the Uptown’s own David Kalhous, who will be joined by the award-winning violinist, Benjamin Sung. 

     The program features music by some of the most celebrated German and Czech composers: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonata in E Major for violin and harpsichord, Leoš Janáček’s Sonata written in 1914, and a work by one of the most original Czech composers of the early twentieth century, Vítězslava Kaprálová. A highlight of the program is the Fantasy in C Major by Franz Schubert, which is one of the most challenging pieces in the violin-piano repertoire.

     $20; students and seniors, $15. Sunday evening at 5 at The Lounge in Hudson View Gardens, in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

     To celebrate women’s history month, sit for a session with eight women of Jazz WaHi performing some of their original music.

     The concert features Gina Benalcázar on trombone, Jhoely Garay on guitar, Emiko Hayashi on piano, Lauren Hendrix on bass, Kaori Yamada on drums, Annette Aguilar as the rhythm section, and vocals by Audra Bowers and Louise Rogers.

     Free. Sunday evening at 5:30 at the St. Frances Cabrini Shrine’s retreat room, in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue just below Margaret Corbin Circle. 

     Manhattan’s oldest surviving house is in need of some renovation. The exterior restoration and accessibility project broke ground at the Morris-Jumel Mansion in the autumn.

     With scaffolding around the front porch columns, the next big job is repairing and replacing the windows. The deep cold and heavy snow of the winter postponed that work, but it’s starting in the spring.

     The next big job is to replace the roof. It will start in spring weather too, and requires that everyone leaves the building—staff and visitors—for four to six months on weekdays during active work on the roof. The good news is that on weekends the mansion will continue to offer programming outdoors and in the basement.

     The mansion closed on December 1. We’ll keep posting its events, though they will be smaller in number.

     Take in an evening of live jazz from Uptown musicians and their collaborators around the city in a weekly performance. The lineup varies, so check this week’s personnel here.

     There’s no charge for the music. Food and drink are on you.

     Tuesday nights at 7:30 at Kismat restaurant in Hudson Heights on 187th Street and Fort Washington Avenue.

     Professor Elizabeth F. S. Roberts discusses her new book about understanding chemical dependency.

     In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World, explores a transformative way of understanding addiction, and offers an invitation to find a connection in the pleasures of life we know are bad for us.

     In conversation with Roberts will be authors Alissa Quart and Maia Szalavitz.

     $5 donation. Tuesday night, March 24, at 7 at Word Up Community Bookshop in Lower WaHi, on Amsterdam Avenue at 165th Street.

     Journey along the ancient Camino de Santiago with Skylark Vocal Ensemble as it performs Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles.

     The music traces the steps of Spain’s most enduring pilgrimage through four theatrical movements, with seventeen voice parts that illuminates the universal experiences of journey, transformation, and spiritual discovery.

     A limited number of free tickets are available to each concert. Space is limited, so if you don’t purchase a ticket, reserve your seat.

     $75. Thursday and Friday evenings, March 26 and 27, at 6:30 at the Hispanic Society of America on Audubon Terrace, on Broadway at 155th Street.

     The five-time Emmy-award winning composer Jeff Beal returns to the underground to perform the World Premiere of Volume II of his acclaimed New York Études for solo piano.

     These intimate, reflective works were born from Beal's experience of living with the chronic illness multiple sclerosis, and the performances will take place during MS Awareness Month. Beal will release the recording of New York Études, Vol. II, on the Platoon label.
     When Beal was diagnosed, he began searching for ways to push back against its effects on both body and his mind. New York Études grew out of that commitment: To stay mentally agile, physically present, and creatively alive. This performance is part of the Death of Classical series.

     $95. Thursday and Friday nights, March 26 and 27, at 7 and 9:30 in the crypt of the Church of the Intercession in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 155th Street.

     Celebrate women’s history month with a concert honoring the strength, artistry, and legacy of mothers through music and storytelling.

     Led by the master percussionist Annette A. Aguilar and StringBeans, and in collaboration with the Women In Latin Jazz Festival, the performance blends Latin jazz rhythms with tributes to the women who inspire generations. 

     $12.51; seniors and students, $7.18. Friday night, March 27, at 7 at Acts and the Eliza in Inwood, on Broadway between Dyckman and Academy Streets.

     Sit in on a celebration of women composers, with performances by writer Sharon Mesmer in collaboration with WildLine’s flute, viola, guitar trio, speaking to all the ways in which we are “still here.”

     The concert includes works by Carolyn Yarnell, Sarah Bassingthwaighte, Elisenda Fábregas, Yu Hui Chang, Kirsten Volness, Lynn Bechtold and Jean Coulthard.

     WildLine is a new chamber music ensemble, initiated by flutist Tessa Brinckman, that imagines, nurtures and performs all kinds of sound worlds, ancestries and futures.

     Space is limited; reservations are required.

     Free. Friday evening, March 27, at 6 in the Trinity Church Cemetery Mausoleum in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 155th Street.

     Mushrooms come in a variety of colors, sizes, and shapes. Some of them are even edible.

     On this 90-minute hike, the Urban Park Rangers take you through the forest to learn how to identify fungi. Participants will learn about the crucial role that mushrooms play in an ecosystem and how natural decomposition takes place. You’ll also experience the sometimes stinky world of decomposition.

     Free. Saturday afternoon, March 28, at 1 in Inwood Hill Park. Meet at Isham Street and Seaman Avenue.

     The Ensemble Échappé returns to Uptown for a salon concert of contemporary works by recipients of 2025 Arts and Letters Awards in Music. A reception will follow.

     Mark Applebaum performs Flashlight. Raven Chacon performs Old Song and Atsiniltłish’ iye. Sylvie Courvoisier performs Rouages, and Tamar Muskal performs Argaman.

     You’re invited to a reception after the concert. Reserve your seat here.

     Free. Sunday afternoon, March 29, at 3 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

        The history of United Palace, Manhattan’s fourth-largest theater, began in 1930 when it was then one of five Loew’s Wonder Theatres across the boroughs and New Jersey. Designed by the noted architect Thomas Lamb (Cort Theatre, the former Ziegfeld Theater) with interiors overseen by decorative specialist Harold Rambusch (Waldorf Astoria, Radio City Music Hall), it was one of the region’s premier vaudeville and movie houses.

     Lend a hand to help clean up Manhattan’s Hudson River shoreline. Volunteers will collect trash to keep the waterfront clean.

     The ninety-minute effort is organized by the Inwood Canoe Club and Friends of Inwood Hill Park.

     Trash bags, work gloves, latex gloves, and grabbers will be provided. Wear clothes to get wet in, and take a water bottle and a snack. The canoe club asks that you release it from its potential negligence before volunteering. 

     Free. Saturday morning, April 4, at 10:30 at the Inwood Canoe Club, where Dyckman Street meets the river—then look to your left.

     Even in the winter, Fort Tryon Park shares its beauty.

     Join the Urban Park Rangers on a flower walk through the Heather Garden. You can explore the early spring blossoms and learn about the flowers and the history of this little gem.

     At three acres, it’s the largest public garden with unrestricted access in  the city, and is home to over 500 varieties of plants. Be sure to come back next week for the Shearing of the Heather celebration, on the 11th.

     Free. Sunday afternoon, April 5, at 1 in the Geather Garden in Fort Tryon Park, near Margaret Corbin Circle in Hudson Heights.

     Explore old New York—really old New York. Back before street cars, when Inwood Valley was still agricultural, and look further back before Europeans arrived, and sometimes even earlier.

     Earlier this year, the topic was the Colonial history of Fort Tryon Park.

     Cole Thompson, an armchair historian (and real estate broker) presents stories of Inwood’s history in his series on Uptown’s past. Can you imagine the days when  mastodons roamed the hills and meadows or settlers harvested wheat?

     Tuesday night, April 7, at 7:30 at the Inwood Farm (though not at the farm in Inwood) on 218th Street at Indian Road. On the first Tuesday of the month.

     Experience the Met Cloisters’ collection through creative drawing challenges in the galleries with expert teaching artists.

     Materials are provided, but you may bring your own sketchbook. Please note, only pencils are allowed in the galleries. Demonstrations repeat every 30 minutes over two hours. For visitors of all ages. First come, first served.

     Free with museum admission. Saturday afternoon, April 11, from 1 to 3 in the Cloisters. On the second Saturday of the month.

      If you like outdoor geometry, get on the street for sunrise and sunset when the shadows line up with the streets.

      The so-called Manhattanhenge effect works Uptown on days different from the rest of the island’s.

      To see the sun line up with the streets in Hudson Heights (on 181st Street in the photo), where the street grid is aligned differently from most of the borough, get out on August 26; it’s also on April 18 in Hudson Heights Henge. Fort George Henge is on May 28 and 29, and July 12 and 13, the same as Manhattan, and Inwood Henge is on January 23 — the grid there is so katy-wompus that the sun aligns when it is due “south.”

     You can look for the dates in all of the city’s neighborhoods on this map from Carto.

     Hudson Heights Henge: Saturday, April 18, at dawn and dusk.

     In The Places That Inspire Us, the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra explores music inspired by real-world settings and the emotional landscapes they evoke.

     The program of the season’s final concrrt begins with Anna Clyne’s Restless Oceans, a thrilling contemporary work for chamber orchestra that channels the turbulence and strength of the sea. This work draws inspiration and its title from A Woman Speaks, a poem by Audre Lorde.

     Next on the program, the ensemble is joined by Ariadne Greif for Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a nostalgic meditation on childhood and place, set to the words of James Agee. Concluding the concert is Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 “Scottish,” a sweeping tribute to the rugged romance of the Scottish Highlands.

     $21.50; seniors, $16.25. Saturday night, April 18, at 7:30 at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 179th Street.

     It’s the classic counter-Arthurian tale.

     King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, poorly equipped search for the Holy Grail, encountering many obstacles that are very, very silly.

     Monty Python and the Holy Grail continues this season’s Movies at the Palace series.

     $12.72. Sunday afternoon, April 19, at 3 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     The Performing Arts Group at Hudson View Gardens presents the Harmony 3 Reed Trio. 

     The ensemble of oboe, clarinet, and bassoon players shares a program of dance music from across three centuries. The concert includes pieces by Handel, Beethover, and Rameau. 

     $20; students and seniors, $15. Sunday evening, April 19, at 5 at The Lounge in Hudson View Gardens, in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

     Join Edu Díaz for a workshop in learning to perform as a clown. No experience is necessary.

     It’s part of the monthly NoMAA Labs workshops from the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. The session lasts two hours.

     $10; free to members. Tueesday evening, April 21, at 6 at the NoMAA studio in Fort George on Broadway at 176th Street.

     The Performing Arts Group at Hudson View Gardens presents the Spanish Connection. 

      Music from the Americas for voice and piano is performed by mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna, tenor José Heredia, and pianist Amber Scherer. The piece is by Alberto Ginastera and Hudson View Gardens resident Raymond Luedke.

     $20; students and seniors, $15. Sunday evening, May 17, at 5 at The Lounge in Hudson View Gardens, in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

     Join the Shorewalkers on a hike to Bear Mountain.

     On this Memorial Day trek, you’ll walk from Battery Park to the GWB.

     The second leg of the journey, over the George Washington Bridge, down 400 steps, and continuing along the Palisades, takes place on Independence Day.

     Register here.

     Monday, May 25, at a place and time shared with registrants.

     The eleventh Inwood Film Festival showcases the sights, sounds, people, and talents of the filmmakers of Inwood and its surrounding neighborhoods. 

    The festival screens films produced in the last year by Uptowners and some in the Bronx. They’ve all been chosen for their quality. Have one to submit? The details are here. 

     The festival runs over a long weekend and include panel discussions, evening parties, and chances to meet the filmmakers.

     Ticket prices to be announced soon. Thursday through Sunday, May 28–31, at Columbia’s Campbell Sports Center in Inwood on Broadway at 218th Street.

     A cyborg from the future, identical to the one that failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten-year-old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg. Terminator 2: Judgment Day stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and was directed by James Cameron.

     $12.72. Sunday afternoon, May 31, at 3 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 165th Street.

     Help sow the seeds of music by supporting Prelude Opera and its programming for children. 
     At the opera soirée you’ll enjoy hors d’oeuvres in Fort Tryon Park and hear the premiere reading of the troupe’s new children’s opera, The Brementown Musicians. Meet the composer, Laura Jobin-Acosta, and the librettist, Joanie Brittingham. Prizes will be raffled and you’ll get to show your prowess at opera trivia.

     Thursday evening, June 4, at 6 at the Bonnefont Restaurant on the café lawn; enter the park from Margaret Corbin Circle in Hudson Heights.

     Uptowners and staff from the Columbia University Medical Center flock to the Fort Washington Green Market for its bounty of fresh, locally grown offerings.

     Mexican herbs, peppers, greens, honey, cheese, juice pressed from ripe orchard fruit—it’s all grown in the rich soil of Orange County's Black Dirt region.

    Pastries and fresh bread make this the perfect market for putting together a healthy lunch or stocking up your larder mid-week. Visit the Market Information tent each week for cooking demonstrations, nutritional information, kids’ games and health-related events and activities throughout the season.

     Resuming in the spring. Tuesdays on 168th Street at Fort Washington Avenue.

     On Thursdays, this stretch of Lower WaHi transforms into a bustling marketplace overflowing with fresh local fruits and vegetables. Neighbors show up to mix and mingle while purchasing produce, Mexican specialty products and bread, pies and scones made with local flour. In many ways, the market doubles as classroom and social center. 

     Greenmarket’s farmers and fishers come from parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and New England, providing a bountiful array of fresh foods.

     Opens in the spring. Thursday from 8 to 4 in Lower WaHi on 175th Street between Broadway and Wadsworth Avenue.

     The Performing Arts Group at Hudson View Gardens presents Jazz in the gardens. 

      The Randal Dispommier Quarter features the New Orleanian namesake on saxophone and vocals, Jason Yeager on keyboards, Aaron Holthus on bass, and drummer Jay Sawyer.

     $20; students and seniors, $15. Sunday night, June 14, at 7:30 at The Lounge in Hudson View Gardens, in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

     Want to learn about the golden age of cinema? Discover Paris for romantics? Take a class at Columbia University.

     The university’s School of Professional Studies invites adults who are not enrolled in college to attend selected courses for free from the University’s offerings in the Arts and Sciences during the academic year.

     It’s a community benefit available to Uptown residents. Class auditors are silent participants in class who are encouraged to keep up with the reading. No examinations or papers are required, no grade is assigned, and no credit is granted for course completion.

     Find the current list of open courses and sign up for class.

     Free. The deadline to sign up for the fall semester is in July. Class is held at Columbia in Morningside Heights and Manhattanville.

     In this third program of the Still Here series, WildLine  celebrates ungovernable bodies, and the ways in which we are still here.

     The concert features fresh perspectives from installation artist Yiseul LeMieux, in collaboration with WildLine’s flute, cello and piano trio of Tessa Brinckman, Chris Gross and David Friend.

     WildLine is a new, project-based chamber music ensemble based in Uptown that imagines.

     Free. Thursday night, September 17, at 7:30 at Our Saviour’s Church of the Atonement, in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 189th Street.

     It’s time to get back to standard time and stop saving daylight.

     This is when we gain an hour, so set your clocks and watches back an hour—unless they’re bluetoothed, Wi-Fi’ed, ethernetted or otherwise connected to the cloud—and get ready for brighter mornings.

     Sunday morning, November 1, at 2.

     Spend some time on Thanksgiving to remind yourself of the Lenape people and the blessings of their land we now call home.

     Shorakopoch Rock is fabled to be the spot where the Lenape traded the island to Peter Minuit for goods worth 60 Dutch guilders. In pre-pandemic years, a short ceremony honored inhabitants’ duty to Mother Earth and responsibility to the forest, the river, and each other.

     Did you know that the location is in Manhattan’s only untouched forest? The Shorakopoch Preserve was inducted into the Old-Growth Forest Network last year.

     At Shorakopoch Rock in Inwood Hill Park. From the intersection of 214th Street and Indian Road, follow the path that runs along the water; the boulder is on the far side of a large, open field.

    You’ve had plenty of turkey and too much pie, so now’s the time to burn some calories.
     On this Shorewalkers trek, you’ll start at the southern tip of Manhattan, walk the Hudson River Greenway, and end in Fort Washington Park at the Little Red Lighthouse.

     Sign up here. Dress for the weather, take a snack, and wear comfortable shoes.

     Saturday morning, November 28, at a time and meetup spot shared with the participants.

     Start 2025 by stretching your legs and your expectations.

     The Shorewalkers’ Happy New Year’s Day Hike starts in Inwood Hill Park and from there strolls along the east side, taking you  under the three great bridges that span the Harlem River in High Bridge Park.

     Dress for the weather, wear comfortable shoes, pack some water and take a snack.

     Friday morning, January 1, at a time and an Uptown meet-up spot shared with participants.

     Take a step toward the New York Marathon at the Salsa, Blues, and Shamrocks 5K.

     Both races are sponsored by the New York Road Runners, so the perennial Uptown jaunt is a qualifying race for the fabled autumn marathon. The course takes you from Lower WaHi, up through Hudson Heights,  turning around at the edge of Fort Tryon Park to head back downhill.

     On a Sunday morning in early March in Lower WaHi on Fort Washington Avenue between 172nd and 173rd Streets.