Celebrate the 23rd Uptown Arts Stroll throughout WaHi and Inwood. Hosted by the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. 

     The stroll and its assortment of gallery openings, performances and more are underway and run through the end of the month.

     Enjoy an exhibit of recent works by Tania Taubes, a show of her paper art in an outdoor gallery.

     Free. In the Bruce Reynolds Memorial Garden in Isham Park, in Inwood at 10 Park Terrace East (not West). Through July 30.

     Enjoy arts in the outdoors with a dance performance by Harambee Dance Company.

     The performance weaves traditional African and contemporary dance styles and music to share stories of diverse cultures.

     Free. Monday evenings at 6:30 in front of the Hispanic Society of American on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

     Tormented by an abusive situation at home, a young musican contends with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise. Purple Rain became a generational manifesto held together by Prince’s charisma, not to mention a slew of classic songs.

    The screening is part of Inwood Art Works’ summer Film Works al Fresco series. Reserve your seats here.

    Free. Monday night at sunset (8:29) after a 7:30 performance by the Harlem Swing Dance Society at The Hudson in the Dyckman Marina in Inwood.

     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.

     Tuesday from 8 to 4 on 168th Street at Fort Washington Avenue. Weekly on Tuesdays through December 23.

     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.

     Get ready to move and groove with zumba in the park as Samantha Muyet leads a fun-filled, high-energy dance workout.

     The hour-long class is designed for all fitness levels, providing a full-body workout that blends aerobic exercise with Latin-inspired dance moves.

     Wear comfortable clothes and take a bottle of water.

      Free. Tuesday evenings at 6:30 in Fort Tryon Park on the volleyball courts by 190th Street A Train Station Elevators, in Hudson Heights. Through September 9.
 

     Embrace the serenity of sunrise tai chi.

     You’ll relax your mind while improving your balance at the rejuvenating weekly sessions led by instructor Robert Martinez. 

     All experience levels are welcome to this tranquil start to your day. Take a bottle of water.

     Free. Wednesday morning at 6:30 in Fort Tryon Park on the Linden Terrace. Through September 10.

     An exhibit about a daughter’s coming to terms with her father’s death includes an animated documentary and the story of the filmmaker’s creative process.

     Sion Papi follows the story of Anne Fernandez who, after the death of her father, embarks on a two-month journey to return his ashes to his homeland, the Dominican Republic—a place she hasn’t set foot in for sixteen years. As she navigates this journey in an unfamiliar country, Anne begins to discover who her father was.

     Free with museum admission (which itself is free for Uptowners). Wednesdays through Fridays from noon to 4, and on Saturdays from 10 to 4 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street. Through Saturday.

     Wednesday jazz is back.

     Enjoy jams al fresco with Uptown ensembles and your music-loving neighbors every Wednesday with pleasant weather. Organized by Jazz WaHi.

     Free. Wednesday afternoons from 4 to 5:15 in Bennett Park in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue at 183rd Street. Through October.

     Get your physical stretching and mental rebalancing in during a sunset yoga session. 

      Instructor Stacey Linden leads refreshing outdoor classes to strengthen your muscles and breathe deeply as the sun descends across the Hudson. 

     All levels welcome. Take your mat and a bottle of water.  

     Free. Wednesday evenings at 6:45 in Fort Tryon Park on Abby’s Lawn. Through August 27.

     Before it was a month-long global celebration, Pride was a local movement known as the Christopher Street Liberation Day March, or the Gay Liberation Parade.

     Held downtown as a direct response to the Stonewall Uprising of 1969, the march was a call for increased queer visibility at a time when New York still enforced so-called sodomy laws that facilitated the repression of the LGBTQ+ community.

     Taking its title from a common refrain heard at those early marches, the exhibition Out of the Closets! Into the Streets! brings together eighteen photographs by the internationally recognized multi-media artist Francisco Alvarado-Juárez that allow viewers to experience the chaotic and colorful iteration of the first Pride event. The 1975 and 1976 photos by Alvarado, who lives in Uptown, showcase the racial and ethnic diversity of the early Pride parades and reveal the nuanced bonds of kinship formed among marchers from disparate backgrounds.

     Free. Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 5 at the Hispanic Society of America on Audubon Terrace at 155th Street. Through August 31.

     Teresa Baker creates paintings that juxtapose unexpected materials—AstroTurf and acrylic yarn stitched alongside willow and buckskin—in abstract landscapes that emerge from what she calls her “knack for carrying place with me as I move.”
     Born in North Dakota in 1985, Baker began working with AstroTurf nearly ten years ago, drawn to its unfamiliarity from her Northern Plains upbringing. She discovered AstroTurf’s versatility in forming contours and holding yarn, paint, and other materials, its synthetic surface wryly echoing Plains grasses.
     This exhibition marks a new direction for Baker: two suspended double-sided paintings, made for this gallery, invite viewers to experience them from multiple perspectives.

     Join Baker at an opening reception on Sunday afternoon, April 13, from 3 to 6; she will speak about her work at 4.

     Free. Thursday from noon to 6 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters on Audubon Terrace on 156th Street and Broadway. Open Thursdays through Sundays through July 3.

     When Raven Chacon visited the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the first time, he paused in the North Gallery to clap his hands, then counted how long it took for the room to go silent: around twenty seconds. That’s an extraordinarily long rate of decay.

     Standing in that echoing chamber, Chacon noted the building’s Beaux Arts design by Cass Gilbert, with its imported Spanish tile and cage-like glass ceiling that filters the sky. He became curious to learn the history of the land it sits on, once owned by John James Audubon, who purchased it in 1841 with funds from the sale of his illustrated Birds of America.

     Since late 2023, he has worked on Aviary, his site-specific commission for the North Gallery, creating a soundscape that makes space and time for careful listening. Chacon (b. 1977,  Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation) is a composer and artist.

     Free. Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 6 at the Academy on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 156th Street. Through July 3.

     Wadada Leo Smith is a composer, performer and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters who has influenced decades of musicians and artists.

     In Kosmic Music, Smith’s first solo exhibition in New York, he shares over fifty years of Ankhrasmation, the musical language Smith discovered in 1965.

     The distinctive language uses line, color, and shape to designate musical components such as tonal range and intensity of activity. For Smith (b. 1941, Leland, Miss.), performing Ankhrasmation requires focused practice and “having that space in your heart and mind so that you can play from inspiration.”

     Free. Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 6 at the Academy on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 156th Street. Through July 3.

     The Melting Pot Jazz Series returns.

     Each week highlights a nation’s influence on jazz in a picnic-friendly concert. Celebrate immigrants’ influence on jazz at these outdoor performances.

May 29 Quadrature

June 5 Alex Pastrana Quartet

June 12 Bogna Kicinska Quintet

June 19 Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project

June 26 Berta Morena Afro-Jazz Soul Project

     Free. Thursday evenings at 6:30 on the lawn of St. Frances Cabrini Shrine in Hudson Heghts on Fort Washington Avenue at 189th Street. In case of rain, the concert moves inside the shrine.

        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.

     Where do you call home? James Baldwin thought of it this way: “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” 

     That intangible is the theme for a repertoire of four plays celebrating Pride. 

     June 13 The Cut, by Florence Klein, and Mouth Feel, by Jackie Heck, at 2:30 and 6:30 p.m.
     June 20 The FTM Book Club, by Florence Klein, at 2:30 and 6:30 p.m.

     June 27 Temporary, by Juliet Riggs, at 6:30 p.m.
     All of the plays are intimate in nature, lending themselves to performancesed in a true DIY sense: In a New York apartment.

     $11.63. Fridays at the times above in Inwood at 600 West 218th Street, between Indian Road and Seaman Avenue.

     Explore the Cloisters’ gardens to explore how medieval people utilized plants for sustenance, both earthly and spiritual, with a curator.

    In just thirty minutes, you’ll take a deep dive into a selection of objects in the galleries, hear new insights and surprising stories about the art.

     Free with museum admission. Friday afternoons in June at 3 at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     The Scandinavian Music Festival returned for its twentieth season in Uptown. 

     The final concert in the series features a chamber performance al fresco by the Scandia String Quartet. The program brings together classical Scandinavian string quartets and beloved traditional melodies arranged by the Danish String Quartet:

     Christian Sinding: Quartet in A Minor, Op. 70 (Andante, Allegretto Scherzando)

     Carl Nielsen: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 13 (Allegro Energico)

     Rued Langgaard: Quartet No. 4 “Summer Days”

     Edvard Grieg: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen.

     Take a blanket or lawn chair to enjoy a concert surrounded by the beauty of the outdoors on the cusp of the summer solstice.

     Free. Friday evening at 6 on the Cloisters Lawn in Fort Tryon Park.

    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.

      Welcome summer with two Latin jazz concerts in the streets of WaHi.

      First up is Luisito Quintero, a native of Caracas and a child musical prodigy. His reputation as one of the best percussionists around is solidified by his sixty-plus Grammy awards.

      Next is the Lulada Club, the city’s premier all-women salsa band. The ensemble reimagines classic salsa sound with an empowering twist.

      Free. Saturday afternoons at 1 with Quintero this week and the Lulada Club on June 28 at the Plaza de los Americas in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street. Rain dates are July 5 and 12.

     Step out with La Vecindad, a day with neighbors on Audubon Terrace.

     The Hispanic Society and the American Academy of Arts & Letters provide live music, gallery tours, children’s art activities, a book launch, and a DJ. This is the last chance to see Adriana Varejão’s exhibition at and one of the final weekends of our exhibitions with Teresa Baker, Raven Chacon, Elle Pérez, and Wadada Leo Smith. 

     2–3 Tour of exhibitions on view at the Hispanic Society
     3–6 Art workshop and face painting with Ysabel Abreu at the Hispanic Society
     3–5 Kids Collage and Yarn Activities at Arts and Letters
     3–5 Live Music at the Hispanic Society
     4–4:30 Tour of Teresa Baker and Elle Pérez exhibitions at Arts and Letters
     5–6 Talk with David Felson about his new book, New York City Monuments of Black Americans
     6–7 DJ Bodega Party at Arts and Letters

     Free. Saturday afternoon on Audubon Terrace on Broadway at 155th Street.

     Pack a picnic of hors d’oeuvres to enjoy a concert en plein aire with the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra.

     The summer concerts are casual, last an hour or less, and are open to everyone.

     Free. Saturday afternoon at 4 in Roger Morris Park in Lower WaHi on Jumel Terrace.

     The Allegro Singers return with favorite arias, art songs, and duets by composers from around the world including Rossini, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, and Rimsky-Korsakoff.

     Free. Saturday evening at 6 in the chapel of the St. Frances Cabrini Shrine in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue at 190th Street.

     Discover the great trees on Manhattan’s only untouched forest.

     Join the Urban Park Rangers on a walk to discover the benefits trees provide to the urban environment. You’ll learn to identify many of the park’s native trees while enjoying their shade.  

     Wear comfortable shoes and take a bottle of water for this 90-minute excursion.

     Free. Sunday afternoon at 1 in Inwood Hill Park; meet at Seaman Avenue and Isham Street.

     The Inwood Chamber Players present a classical program of the music of Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Faure, Joseph Haydn, Claudio Monteverdi, Jacque Offenbach, and Giuseppe Verdi. Arrangements by Gilbert Dejean.

     The concert is the last in a series of three.

     $65.58 for the series. Sunday afternoon at 2 at the Good Shepherd Auditorium in Inwood at 620 Isham Street. 

     Enjoy the Cloisters at a different pace.

     Slow down, tap into your powers of observation, and discover a work of art through close looking and discussion over an hour.

     No prior knowledge of art is necessary for this program, and all adult learners are welcome. Stools are provided.

     Free with museum admission. Sunday afternoon at 2 in the Cloisters; meet in the main hall. 

     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 Hudson View Gardens’ Performing Arts Group’s Spring season wraps up with the apartment complex’s own pianist, Evelyne Luest, and the ThEMA Ensemble. They will be joined by the cellist Angela Lee and a guest clarinetist, Nikki Pet. They will perform trios by Beethoven and Brahms.

     $15; students and seniors, $12. Sunday evening at 5 at The Lounge in Hudson View Gardens in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

The performance is postponed and will be rescheduled

     Based on the 1839 slave uprising, the opera Amistad explores the themes of dehumanization, resistance, and justice. 

     The Harlem Opera Theater presents the production, whose music was written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis.

     $25; seniors, students, and groups of four and more, $20. Friday night at 7 at the Church of the Intercession in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 155th Street.

     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.

     A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family. With cocaine pellets in her stomach, Maria flies to New York for the drug drop-off, but finds her new line of work may be far riskier than it seemed.

    From 2004, Maria Full of Grace is in Spanish with English subtitles.

    The screening is part of Inwood Art Works’ summer Film Works al Fresco series. Reserve your seats here.

    Free. Monday night, June 23, at sunset (8:31) after a 7:30 performance by the Samuel Torres Trio feat: Felipe Fournier and Ahmed Alom at The Hudson in the Dyckman Marina in Inwood.

     In these uncertain times, the city’s elected officials are the one with the power and authority to stand up for us when we’re challenged. The primary election will determine who is on the ballot in November.

     Get to the polls to choose who will run for mayor, comptroller, publick advocate, borough president, and the Manhattan D.A.

     Early voting runs from Saturday, June 14, to Sunday, June 22.

     Tuesday, June 24, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Find your polling place here.

      The annual shareholders’ meeting of the 447 Fort Washington Owners’ Corporation opens on Wednesday night, June 25, at 7 on Zoom.

      Owners are asked to attend and if they cannot, to fill out a proxy form and hand it to a neighbor who will attend or a board member.

     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.

     Thursday, June 26, from 8 to 4 in Lower WaHi on 175th Street between Broadway and Wadsworth Avenue. Weekly on Thursdays through November 20.

     Join the musicians of Silentwoods Collective on the lawn of the Manhattan’s last farmhouse for Echoes Across the Pond, a performance of lively, traditional New England fiddle music and early country dances. The concert will be led by the expert violinist and master fiddler Jimmy Drancsak and performed on eighteenth-century period instruments.

     Free. Thursday evening. June 26, at 5 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     The composer Michael Gordon has been a staple of New York’s avant-garde music scene since the 1980s. For this Met commission, he presents a spatialized, site-specific work for 20 percussionists playing a wide array of instruments.

     Join the premiere to see the Cloisters transformed like never before—both indoors and outdoors—with choreography and direction by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar.

     The performance will include both indoor and outdoor components. Seating may be limited, and appropriate footwear is recommended.

     $70. Friday through Sunday nights at 7, June 27 through 29, at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     Stroll through the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum while listening to the beautiful sounds of José Luis’ harp.
     You can enjoy his live performances on occasional Saturdays through June.

     Free with museum admission. Saturday, June 28, from noon to 2 at the farmhouse in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     Inspired by the art of the Met Cloisters?

     Join an open studio. where you’ll explore materials and process through artist-led demonstrations, drop-in art-making activities, and conversations with Met experts.

     The session last three hours and are for visitors of all ages. All materials are provided.

     Free with museum admission. Saturday afternoon, June 29, at 1 in the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     Pack a picnic of hors d’oeuvres to enjoy a concert en plein aire with the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra.

     The summer concerts are casual, last an hour or less, and are open to everyone.

     Free. Saturday evening, June 29, at 5 in Fort Tryon Park on the Café Lawn, near Margaret Corbin Circle in Hudson Heights. 

     The 23rd Uptown Arts Stroll concludes another successful festival with a send-off for everyone. The party includes music by Flexiglass, featuring Sweet Lee.

     Free. Sunday evening, June 30, at 6 at the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Lower WaHi in Roger Morris Park.

     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.

     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, July 1, 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.

     The No Name Comedy/Variety Show producer Eric Vetter brings the city’s best established and emerging authors and storytellers together for a monthly revue.

     Stories, humor, and poignancy are all part of the super storyteller party.

     Free. Tuesday night, July 1, at 7 at Word Up Community Bookshop in Lower WaHi on Amsterdam Avenue at 165th Street. Monthly on the first Tuesday.

     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 will be in the summer. Class is held at Columbia in Morningside Heights and Manhattanville.

     Join the Shorewalkers on a hike to Bear Mountain.

     On this Independence Day trek, you’ll walk the second leg of the journey, over the George Washington Bridge, down 400 steps and continuing along the Palisades. The first leg, from Battery Park to the GWB, took place on Memorial Day.

     Even if you missed the first leg, you’re welcome to join the group for the grand conclusion.

     Register here.

     On the Fourth of July at a place and time shared with registrants.

     In celebration of the 100th anniversary of The Met’s acquisition of The Cloisters Collection, delve into topics that unveil special moments and objects in the museum’s history.

     Join museum experts, including curators, conservators, scientists, and scholars, for a deep dive into a selection of objects in the galleries. Hear new insights and untold stories from Met insiders and take a closer look. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions. 

     Free with museum admission. Friday afternoons in July (including Independence Day) at 3 in Fort Tryon Park.

     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, July 5, at 1 in the Cloisters. On the first 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.

     Fort George Henge: Saturday and Sunday, July 12 and 13, at dawn and dusk.

     Pack a picnic of hors d’oeuvres to enjoy a concert en plein aire with the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra.

     The summer concerts are casual, last an hour or less, and are open to everyone.

     Free. Saturday afternoon, July 12, at 4 near the flag pole in Bennett Park in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue at 183rd Street.

     Raise a glass with friends to raise funds for the Morris-Jumel Mansion, Manhattan’s oldest remaining residence. At the historic home you can revel in a way American revolutionaries would be proud of.

     On this night, the mansion returns to its roots as an old New York City tavern. You’ll experience the lively historic music, entertainment, and fun that was found in an eighteenth-century tavern, including drinks that George Washington himself would be envious of.

     $55.20 to $108.55; discounts for members. Friday evening, July 18, at 6 at the mansion in Lower WaHi in Roger Morris Park.

     Peek at technique and learn—through handling tools and materials—how the Met Cloisters came to be.

      This program marks the museum’s centenary with hands-on demonstrations and conversations with educators, conservators, artists, and more. Demonstrations repeat every 30 minutes. For visitors of all ages. 

     Free with museum admission. Sunday afternoon, July 20, from 1 to 4 at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

     In Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful), Roberto Benigni’s infectious energy and sharp comedic talents deliver a beautiful message of hope and love among such horror and tragedy.

     In Italian with English subtitles. Come early for a concert by Hot Pstromi before the film. The screening is part of Inwood Art Works’ summer Film Works al Fresco series. Reserve your seats here.

     Free. Monday night, July 21, at sunset (8:21) at The Hudson in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.

     Shakespeare Sports Theatre Company, a classically based arts & education troupe, presents The Comedy of Errors.  

     A merry dance of mistaken identity, wacky characters, wild staging, and love—romantic and brotherly.      Shakespeare Sports features classic renaissance Commedia masks.

     Pack a picnic basket and take a blanket.

     Sunday afternoon, July 27, at 2 in Inwood Hill Park on Pat’s Lawn, on 218th Street and Indian Road.

     Movies at the Palace presents two episodes of the 2021 Starz series Blindspotting.

     Making a special appearance will be Jasmine Cephas Jones, one of the show’s stars, for a post-screening discussion with Lin-Manuel Miranda.

     Free but tickets required. Monday night, July 28, at 7 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     A 1931 Spanish military deserter finds himself on a lonely farm until the farmer’s four daughters pay a visit and he falls for all of them. Penelope Cruz stars in Belle Epoque, a deceptively sharp satire on religion, politics and family morality. 

     In Spanish with English subtitles. Come early for a performance by Xianx Barrera Flamenco. The screening is part of Inwood Art Works’ summer Film Works al Fresco series. Reserve your seats here.

     Free. Monday night, July 28, with the dance at 7 and the film at sunset (8:15) at The Hudson in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.

     Pack a picnic of hors d’oeuvres to enjoy a concert en plein aire with the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra.

     The summer concerts are casual, last an hour or less, and are open to everyone.

     Free. Saturday evening, August 2, at 5 on the lawn of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the league pennant. In Damn Yankees (1951), Gwen Verdon is a knockout as Lola, and Ray Walston is arguably the definitive movie Devil.

     Come early for a performance by the Double Entendre Music Ensemble. The screening is part of Inwood Art Works’ summer Film Works al Fresco series. Reserve your seats here.

     Free. Monday night, August 4, with the concert at 7 and the film at sunset (8:07) at The Hudson in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.

     The origin and rise of the most famous Dominican wrestler of all time, Rafael Sánchez a.k.a. Jack Veneno, and his arch-nemesis, José Manuel Guzmán a.k.a. Relámpago Hernández. Starring uptown resident Manny Perez in the title role: Veneno: La Primera Caida, El Relampago de Jack.

     In Spanish with English subtitles. Come early for a performance by Curtis Turney and his Afro-Caribbean Septet. The screening is part of Inwood Art Works’ summer Film Works al Fresco series. Reserve your seats here.

     Free. Monday night, August 11, with the concert at 7 and the film at sunset (7:58) at The Hudson in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.

     After a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be. Featuring witty dialogue and deft performances by Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, In Bruges (2008) is an effective mix of dark comedy and crime thriller elements.

     In English with Spanish subtitles. Come early for a performance by Liz Hanley & the Murphy Beds. The screening is part of Inwood Art Works’ summer Film Works al Fresco series. Reserve your seats here.

     Free. Monday night, August 18, with the concert at 7 and the film at sunset (7:49) at The Hudson in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.

     Famous for its shower scene and immortal for its contribution to the horror genre,  Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho leaves an indelible series of images. The film crafts an unforgettable story about a secretary on the run for embezzlement who takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a Anthony Perkins as a repressed man — and his overbearing mother.

     Come early for a performance by the Leadlights Ensemble. The screening is part of Inwood Art Works’ summer Film Works al Fresco series. Reserve your seats here.

     Free. Monday night, August 25, with the concert at 7 and the film at sunset (7:38) at The Hudson in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.

     Put on your walking shoes and follow the poet Paul Rabinowitz through Fort Tryon Park to see and hear dance, music, and poetry performed on benches, lawns, stairways, pathways, near rock faces, and under trees.

     The Uptown Dance Collective is an ensemble of contemporary artists who are inspired by nature and the elegance of the park. Their performances draw from modern, post-modern, flamenco, jazz, folk, and African lineages and styles. Choreographed by Amy Kail.

     Saturday afternoon, September 20, at 3 starting on Abby’s Lawn in Fort Tryon Park.

     It’s been ninety years!

     Fort Tryon Park opened to the public on October 13, 1935, with remarks by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., whose family donated the land.

     The park’s design was entrusted to the Olmsted Brothers, the renowned landscape architecture firm led by the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park. Their vision transformed the rocky terrain into a scenic retreat featuring rolling lawns, curving pathways, and meticulously planned gardens.

     Spend some time this month exploring the park that’s called a crown jewel of Manhattan. Here are resources from the Fort Tryon Park Trust and from the NYC Parks.

     The final work Franz Schubert completed in his too-short life, the String Quintet in C Major, is generally agreed to be one of the most deeply moving, transporting pieces of music ever written.

     The work moves between sorrow, serenity, and sublimity, with a slow movement so utterly celestial that the legendary pianist Artur Rubinstein called it “the arrival at the gates of heaven,” and had it played to him at his deathbed.
     To perform this masterpiece, the Parker Quartet along with the cellist Jay Campbell perform an underground concert.

     $95. Tuesday and Wednesday nights, October 27 and 28, at both 7 and 8:30 in the Crypt of the Church of the Intercession in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 155th Street.

     Mark your calendar for the eighth annual Washington Heights Jazz Festial.

     Organzied by Jazz WaHi, the festival highlights the best jazz that Upper Manhattan has to offer. Last year sixteen bands – over 60 musicians – performed in various venues around the neighborhood, reflecting Uptown’s musical and cultural variety.

     Thursday through Sunday, November 6 through 9, at locations across Hudson Heights.

     Step into a journey through musical archives when the Spanish pianist Antonio Galera investigate anecdotes and highlights musical references found in the correspondence of the collection of the Hispanic Museum and Library.

     In Musica y Letra, Galera shares letters from other renowned Hispanic artists who traveled to New York City throughout the Museum’s history, including Joaquín Sorolla, Concha Piquer, Zenobia Camprubí, and many others.

     Free. Thursday evening, November 20, at 6 in the society’s library on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

     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.

     Notable this Thanksgiving: The Shorakopoch Preserve was inducted into the Old-Growth Forest Network last month.

     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 29, at a time and meetup spot shared with the participants.

     For his fourth and final concert, the Spanish pianist Antonio Galera presents Cuadros de una Exposición, featuring works by Granados and Mussorgsky, as well as the world premiere of two solo piano pieces by Francisco Coll, commissioned by the Hispanic Society and Antonio Galera. The acclaimed Valencian composer has created two contrasting pieces inspired by Goya and Zurbarán, both represented in the museum’s collection. 

     Free. Thursday evening, December 4, at 6 at the Hispanic Society and Museum on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

     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.

     Thursday 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 Shamrocks, Blues, and Salsa 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.

     Annually in March, usually on the first Sunday morning.