The summer edition of the thirty-five-day long restaurant “week” features Tannat in Fort George and four restaurants in Inwood: II Sole, Sa’tacos, Buunni Inwood, and Pat’e Palo.

     Eateries choose special menus that offer meals for $21, $39, or $125 for lunch and dinner.

      Find the complete list here. You have until August 22 to tuck in!

     Take your camera, or at least your sharp eyes, and head to the forest for a game of visual hide-and-seek.

     Explore Inwood Hill Park with your family and neighbors on a photo scavenger hunt. Match all of the pictures on your list and walk home with a prize. This course is intended for all ages.

     Free. Monday afternoons at 3:30 at Muscota Marsh in Inwood Hill Park. Through August 16.

     Get out of that pandemic cave and release some tension with an Uptown jam session.

     The musicians of JazzWaHi will ease you back into your groove at a weekly outdoor concert. Take a blanket and a snack for some live, local music.

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

     Scheming a way to save their father’s ranch, the Alvarez brothers (Diego Luna and Will Ferrell) find themselves in a war with Mexico’s most feared drug lord.  

     A bat-crazy satire of the Mexican telenovela, replete with flimsy scenery, soapy dialogue, and over-the-top characters, Casa de mi Padre is also daring and considered a stylistically bold experiment in cinema.

     The 2012 film is in Spanish with English subtitles. The evening begins with a musical performance.

      Get tickets. Food and drink available for purchase. Seating will be provided and capacity is  limited to 100 people.
     Free, but tickets required. Monday night at 8 at The Hudson in the Dyckman Marina, in Inwood Hill Park at 348 Dyckman Street.

      A new effigy of Revolutionary War hero Margaret Corbin takes the form of a tomb at The Cloisters, figuratively and aesthetically stitching together the war battlefield and the medieval French abbeys.

     The Tomb Effigy of Margaret Corbin was created by artist Zaq Landsberg, the 2020 recipient of the Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award.

     Free. In Fort Tryon Park on the Lindon Terrace through June 12.

     Support your health by shopping at a farmers’ market.

     From late spring through the late autumn, the Fort Washington Greenmarket in Lower WaHi offers Mexican herbs, peppers, and greens, honey, cheese, juice pressed from ripe orchard fruit, produce grown in the rich soil of Orange County’s “Black Dirt” region, pastries and fresh bread.

     The collection of food scraps for composting and used textiles for recycling is on hiatus during the pandemic.

     Tuesdays from 8 to 4 on Fort Washington Avenue at 168th Street. Open November 24.

     Does your computer misbehave?

     Does your smartphone withhold its secrets?

     Do your friends use their tablets in ways you can only dream of?

     Learn about your own technology in this informal Q&A. Come by and ask about your tech gear. Whether it's a cellphone, laptop, or tablet, a Media Education coordinator can help.

     Sponsored by the Parks Department.

     Free. Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Muscota Marsh in Inwood Hill Park. Through August 18.

     After a year’s hiatus, sunset yoga classes resume in Fort Tryon Park.

     Led by a certified instructor, Stacey Linden, who has been teaching yoga for twenty years, you’ll learn how yoga should be practiced, not perfected, with many facets to be enjoyed.  

     Arrive early, take water and a yoga mat, and use outdoor Covid safety protocols. The class’s capacity is limited, so attendance is on a first-come, first-served basis. Rain or wet ground cancels the class.

     Free. Wednesday nights from 6:45 to 8 on Abby’s Lawn in Fort Tryon Park. Through September 1.

     A New York farmers’ market offers fresh fruit and vegetables from the Hudson Valley, the Garden State and beyond.

     The Lower WaHi market is open Thursdays on 175th Street between Wadsworth Avenue and Broadway.
     Open through November 19.

     Pete Venzal & The Venzal Combo perform the hot sounds Latin jazz in their own neighborhood.

     Catch a musical preview here.

     Take a blanket and a snack for a concert al fresco.

     Free. Thursday night at 7 on The Café Lawn in Fort Tryon Park.

     Join fans of classic sci-fi and B-movies for a screening of Forbidden Planet (1956), directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielson.

     In this Movies Under the Star show, a starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has.

     Help the Park Department prepare for the crowd when you let them know you're coming by registering on Eventbrite at acfforbiddenplanet.eventbrite.com.

      Free. Friday night at 8:30 on the Indian Road Law in Inwood Hill 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.

     The collection of food scraps for composting and used textiles for recycling is on hiatus during the pandemic.
     Saturdays from 8 to 3 on Isham Street between Seaman Avenue and Cooper Street. Open year-round.

     Join the Fort Tryon Park Trust and park stewards at a seasonal kick-off volunteer event.

     Help clean out the Broadway berm from winter natural debris and weeds and you’ll connect with the earth. With pandemic-related cuts to the parks’ budget, your help is all the more important.

     The tools are supplied; wear clothes to get dirty in and take water and a snack.

     Saturday morning from 9 until 1. Meet in the park at the Broadway and Arden Street entrance. On the second and fourth Saturdays through November.

     In a city dotted with foreign consulates and populated with missions to the U.N. comes the most unusual diplomatic posting ever.

     The Parks Department is looking for ambassadors to trash.

     That’s the name they’re giving to volunteers in Inwood Hill Park who will help clean up visitors’ litter. Four-hour shifts will collect discards and detritus over the weekends from the spring through the autumn.

     Sign up to help by getting in touch with Maria Febus at Maria.Febus@parks.nyc.gov.

     Saturdays and Sundays at 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. You’ll meet at either Seaman Avenue and Isham Street or the Peninsula entrance at 218th Street. Through October 31.

     The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra offers pop-up performances this summer to bring music to Uptown parks. The exact locations aren’t revealed until just hours before the performance begins, so we’ll update here when we can. Or just stroll through the park and listen.

     July 24: Brass quintet in Inwood Hill Park.

     Free. Saturday morning starting at 10.

     Get your running shoes out for an Uptown race.

     The Dyckman Run Club hosts the Red Hook 10k run/walk to support the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. That’s the group that organizes the Uptown Arts Stroll.

     The running group is new and looking for runner to join its regular workouts, too. The race will feature a bag check and participants recieve a T-shirt. Register here.

     $33.46. Saturday morning at 10 at The Hudson in Dyckman Marina. The course will “pass a bit over” Jeffrey’s Hook and the Little Red Lighthouse.

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

     Before the pandemic, Eliot welcomed aficianados to her Inwood apartment to listen live. Now she streams her performances.

     Free. Sunday afternoons at 3:30 online.

     Taking advantage of the city’s only recoding studio dedicated to classical music, the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra recorded a concert at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in Midtown.

     The string players came together to record four works by Uptown composers in a video concert they’re sharing online.

     Free. Sunday night at 8:30 on a streaming service to be named later.

      Among the things WaHi is famous for is the noise. Lots of it!

      But does it seem eerily quiet now? You may not miss the auditory assaults, but the sounds of people mingling and waiters serving are becoming memories.

      Refresh yours with the New York Public Library’s new online album: Missing Sounds of New York. It probably won’t win any Grammys, but each track uses a combination of sounds to create familiar canvases on which mini stories are placed: a glass breaking in a bar, a dance performance on the subway, an overly enthusiastic baseball fan.

      It’s free and it’s available from the library. (No need for a library card!)

     When the temperature goes up, the city offers help to those who don’t have air conditioning.

     Cooling centers are open when the temperatures is higher then normal. Typically they are libraries, community centers, senior centers, and schools. In Uptown:

Hudson Heights P.S. 187, 349 Cabrini Boulevard

Fort George J.H.S. 143, 511 West 182nd Street

Lower WaHi P.S. 008, 465 West 167th Street

Sherman Creek P.S. 5, 3703 10th Avenue

Inwood Paula Hebdavny School, 421 West 219th Street

     Cooling centers are generally open during business hours. For the location of other centers, call 311 or visit https://maps.nyc.gov/cooling-center/.

     Commuters are seeing changes in Fort George over the next year.

     Tthere is no 1 service at 181 Street Station in 2021. The MTA is completely replacing the elevators (they're over 80 years old!) that provide access to the station.

     The work is scheduled to last until December. A variety of shuttles will be available, and there’s the A Train and its new elevators at 181st Street and Fort Washington Avenue.

     The High Bridge—New York City’s oldest standing bridge—is a landmark that connects walkers and cyclists with Manhattan and the Bronx.
     The High Bridge is a path from the neighborhoods of Washington Heights to Highbridge across the river, and is accessible from both boroughs.
     Free. Daily from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Enter from Highbridge Park, in Lower WaHi on Amsterdam Avenue in the 170s.

     Robert Snyder, the author of Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City, which traces the neighbohood’s history since the Great Depression, leads a discussion of how Uptown has changed.

     Snyder, who grew up in WaHi in the 1980’s, tells how “disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate house, build new schools, restore parts, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear.” Snyder is now a professor of American studies at Rutgers.

     Cornell University Press published the book in 2014.

     Hosted by the YM & WHA of WaHi and Inwood. On Zoom; meeting ID: 939 8471 8516. Contact avotaw@ywashhts.org with questions.
     Thursday morning, July 29, at 10:30 online.

     Celebrate 86 years of Fort Tryon Park and  honor the late New York City Council Member Stan Michels with live jazz by local impresario Marjorie Eliot, her son Rudel Drears, and their ensemble.

     The event unfolds beneath the majestic elms on the Stan Michels Promenade, alongside the beautiful Heather Garden and overlooking the Hudson River.

     Stan Michels represented Northern Manhattan in the City Council for 24 years until 2001. He was a steadfast advocate for parks, allocating over $50 million for park improvements in WaHi, Inwood, and Harlem, including nearly every playground in the district.

     Registration details coming.

     Free. Saturday afternoon, July 31, at 1 in Fort Tryon Park. In the event of rain, the concert will be canceled.

     Come to the first indoor, post-COVID concert from the Hudson View Gardens’ Performing Arts Group. You’ll enjoy live music performed by your friends and neighbors. 

     The evening features jazz vocalist Suzanne Lorge’s trio (John Di Martino, piano, and Sophia Reyes, flute), pianist Evelyne Luest, guitarist Daniel Levy, and HVG’s newest resident, conductor and cellist Jordan Brown.

     The program includes music by Beethoven, Bach and Elgar, and jazz standards from the American songbook.

     Masks are mandatory; vaccinations are required. If you are not a member of Hudson View Gardens, you must bring proof of vaccination.

     Free. Sunday evening, August 1, at 6 at The Lounge of Hudson View Gardens in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

     Near the turn of the twentieth century, New York’s housing, street grid, and subway infrastructure were about to reshape the bucolic landscape of Northern Manhattan from one of verdant farmland to flat cityscapes.

     But the urban revolution was to come at a steep price: not just at the cost of a couple of million dollars, but to the ancient and invaluable relics belonging to the Lenape people, Dutch settlers, and the Revolutionary War still buried beneath Uptown’s untouched soil.

     Hear the incredible story of a rag-tag group of amateur archeologists who joined forces in a race to save the history of Manhattan before it was gone for good. 

     Hosted virtually by the New York Adventure Club. Register here.

     $12.57. Monday evening, August 2, at 6 online.

     Once upon a time in old New York, glittering castles adorned the high ground of Uptown's rolling hills, occupied by merchant princes, captains of industry, and real estate titans.

     By the end of the twentieth century most of these gilded palaces had been knocked down and paved over, their legacy all but forgotten.

     The New York Adventure Club tells the story of the magnificent homes and eclectic characters of a lost era, and how they shaped WaHi and New York for generations to come. The presentation will include the palace of C.K.G Billings, Tryon Hall, on the current site of Fort Tryon Park. Billings was so crazy-rich that he once hosted a 14-course dinner on horseback, which included caviar, flaming peaches, and Champagne served from saddlebags.

     Register here. BYO Champagne.

     $12.57. Tuesday evening, August 3, at 5:30 online.

     The Higher Ground Festival hold its sixth outdoor exhibition of Uptown performing artists sharing their work with everyone.

     Artists from Upper Manhattan use the festival to build a multi-disciplinary art repertory company in WaHi and Inwood to help  promote their art. 

     Over a long weekend in August on dates and at a location yet to be named.

     A photographer recovering from a broken leg (Jimmy Stewart) spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. Embedded in its day and yet totally relevant, Rear Window is perhaps the most entertaining of Hitchcock’s oeuvre.

     The 1954 thriller runs 115 minutes and will be presented in English with Spanish subtitles  Appropriate for young adult. A pre-show musical performance begins at 7:30 p.m. 

     Get Tickets. Food and drink available for purchase. Seating will be provided and capacity is  limited to 100 people.

     Free, but tickets required. Monday night, August 9, at 7:30 at The Hudson in the Dyckman Marina, in Inwood Hill Park at 348 Dyckman Street.

     An evening of Euro Dance Music Entertainment featuring Thomas Anders & Sandra, both with live bands.

     Featuring The Gentleman Of Music: Thomas Anders accompanied by the Modern Talking Band. Sandra accompanied by her own band to perform her hits from the 80s such as Maria Magdalena, In the Heat of the Night, Everlasting Love.

     $74.50 to $178. Saturday night, August 14, at 7:30 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi.

     Jennifer Lopez helps tall the true story of Selena, a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult status to having chart-topping albums on the Latin music charts.  

     The 1992 musical drama Selena is in English with Spanish subtitles. It runs 132 minutes and is appropriate for young adult. A pre-show musical performance begins at 7:30 p.m. 

     Get Tickets. Food and drink available for purchase. Seating will be provided and capacity is  limited to 100 people.
     Free, but tickets required. Monday night, August 16, at 7:30 at The Hudson in the Dyckman Marina, in Inwood Hill Park at 348 Dyckman Street.

     A festival of monthly outdoor concerts by Leadlights celebrates the resilience of New Yorkers during the Covid-19 pandemic and brings the energy of live music to WaHi streets.

     Play On, Washington Heights, features music by people of color and women, including the highly acclaimed Black composer Jessie Montgomery, Puerto Rican composer Angélica Negron, and one of the earliest classical composers of African descent, Chevalier de Saint-George.

     Free. Wednesday evening, August 18, at 5 at Word Up Community Book Shop in Lower WaHi on Amsterdam Avenue at 165th Street. On the third Wednesday of the month through October.

     Last month’s cookout sold out, so the feast is back by popular demand.

      Inwood Art Works hosts a second grill-fest so you can show your support of its free summer programming while enjoying a hot lunch of summer picnic favorites. Meet hip neighbors and artists, and relax on one of the most beautiful back porches in all of Northern Manhattan.

     Chef Simms will be grilling homemade burgers and hot dogs. You’ll also face an array of side dishes, desserts, beer and soft drinks.

     Make your reservation here: only 40 spots are available.

     $28.38 per person. Saturday, August 21, from noon to 2 at 97 Park Terrace West (not East!) in Inwood. Rain date: September 4.

     Fonseca & Andres Cepeda make an Uptown stop on their Comrades Tour.

     $62.80 to $330.96. Sunday night, August 22, at 7:30 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.    

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

      The “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 April 18; it’s also on August 26 in Hudson Heights Henge. Fort George Henge is on the same dates 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.”

     The effect works below 174th and above 174th if you go east of Broadway (for sunrise: sunset views may be blocked by buildings to the west). So if you want to see Manhattanhenge, as it’s dubbed, hope for clear skies on May 30 and June 12.

     Hudson Heights Henge: Thursday, August 26, at dawn and dusk.

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

     The Panamanian singer, rapper and songwriter Sech comes to WaHi for an otherworldly show.

     He’s been on the scene since 2018 with his Rich Music World debut single “Little Miss Lonely” and hasn't looked back.

     Tickets may be available here (Ticketmaster’s site is a bit buggy). Friday night, August 27, at 8:30 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     The reading series Bloom presents a variety of authors and genres.

     Bloom’s literary readings and discussions will get you to shake off your assumptions and think hard about everything.

     More information at www.bloomreadings.org.

     Free.  Sunday evening, September 19, at 5 online. Monthly on the third Sunday (usually), September through May but not December.

     Regarded as the most romantic of Spanish singers, Dyango has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. He was born José Gómez Romero and is nicknamed The Voice of Love.

     $53 to $163.83. Saturday night, October 16, at 8 at the United Palace Theater in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     One way or another, the Fourth Annual Washington Heights Jazz Festival shares the enthusiasm of Uptown musicians.

     Sponsored by Jazz WaHi.

     Thursday, November 4, throuh Sunday, November 7, either in Husdon Heights on online.

     A yearly gathering on Thanksgiving will remind you of the Lenape people and the blessings of their land we now call home.

     A short ceremony honors our duty to Mother Earth and our responsibility to the forest, the river, and each other.

     Free. Thanksgiving morning at 9 at Shorakkopoch 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.

     Only in New York ...

     One day late in most springs, The Great and Glorious Grand Army of The Bronx comes together to claim the neighborhood of Marble Hill which, the group suggests, belongs to the only borough on the mainland on the basis that it was annexed by Bronx Borough President James Lyons in the 1930s.
     Care to fight back? Everyone is welcome, even hecklers.
     Free. Postponed by the pandemic, but typically a Saturday in early May beginning with pre-invasion cocktails at Mr. McGoo’s Pub in Kingsbridge on Broadway; the battle of Marble Hill commences once the tab is settled.

     The annual Drums Along the Hudson began in 2002 as a traditional Pow Wow to celebrate Native American heritage and culture, and also to commemorate the Lenape people who first inhabited Inwood Hill Park, or Shorakapok (“edge of the water”).

     The event features dancers and drummers from around the world, combining Native American heritage, culture and art with the diversity of New York City. Activities include a Tree of Peace planting, international cuisine, Native American storytelling, a Pow Wow and crafts.
     The event has attracted a growing audience, numbering from 400 in the first year to over 8,000 in recent years.
     Free. A Sunday in early June in Inwood Hill Park at Indian Road and 218th Street.