Repair work to damaged stone walls in Fort Tryon Park is complete.  

     The broken wall over the Henry Hudson Parkway exit/entrance near the Cloisters Lawn is back in good shape. The crew from AAH Construction Corp. of Astoria braved the height of the wall to finish the job they started last month. 

     AAH also repaired two other broken retaining walls. While the Cloisters Lawn wall was damaged when someone drove his car into it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, the two smaller retaining walls above the Alpine Garden were damaged by trees falling during fierce storms this summer.

     Creative Uptowners are invited to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the arts at a mix and meet with visual artists, musicians, festival filmmakers, grantees, crew, writers, producers, and fundraisers of all types and talents.

     You’ll discover like-minded people who share common interests and passions. Free grilled hot dogs, water, and goodie bags are included as long as you register.

     Free. Monday night from 7 to 9 at Happy Munkey Dispensary, in Inwood on Dyckman Street at the corner of Sherman Avenue. 

     Take part in a runway show with fifty  models on stage and throughout the auditorium.

     The evening showcases the work of Dominican fashion designer Giannina Azar. Adding to the of elegance, pianist Maria Del Sol will perform live on stage. Organized by  the Fashion Designers of Latin America.

     Free. Monday night at 7 at the United Palace, in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     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.

     Tuesdays on 168th Street at Fort Washington Avenue. Through December 15.

     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)—and led by health experts from the Columbia Medical Center. 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.

     This year’s weeknight Zumba class brings more heat, better music, fresh erdance moves, and an even higher level of energy. 

     Led by Samantha Muyet, who’s been a licensed Zumba instructor since 2017. Come ready to move, connect, and vibe out. She’ll make this year unforgettable. 

     Free. Tuesday evening at 6:30 on the volleyball courts near the A Train’s 190th Street Station (south elevators) in Hudson Heights, on Fort Washington Avenue near Margarget Corbin Circle. Final week. 

     Take a journey into the life of Jacob Dyckman, a doctor who once resided in the house that now serves as a museum. Dyckman became New York’s commissioner of health before tuberculosis, cut his life short at age 34 in 1822. 

     The exhibition Home Sick explores the role that enslaved people played in caring for their sick enslavers, including Dyckman. It features some of the treatments, too, including leeches.
     In a separate exhibit, you can view Jhanique Lovejoy’s portrayals of her familial and romantic relationships as a queer Jamaican American artist. Using alternative processes, collage, and insights from her musicological studies, Lovejoy explores the themes of family archives, love, and the preservation of Black family history. 

     Both exhibits are free for Uptown residents. Wednesday through Friday from noon to 4 and Saturday from 10 to 4 at the at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street. Through October 24.

     Join Jazz WaHi for a fun, family-friendly performance and jam session. Musicians of all levels welcome to sit in.

     Take a chair or blanket pack a picnic, and enjoy live music outdoors. The house band includes Louise Rogers, voice; Mark Kross, piano; Ethan O’Reilly, bass; and Kaori Yamada, drums. 

     Free. Wednesday afternoons at 4 in Bennett Park in Hudson Heights, near the corner at Fort Washington Avenue at 183rd Street. Through October 28.

      Get ready to get your hips swaying to swing, salsa, and samba. 

      Don’t know the steps? Come for the dance lesson and stay for the concert. 

      Free. Wednesday evening at 6 at the Anne Loftus Playground in Fort Tryon Park, on Broadway and Riverside Drive. Also on September 30.

     On Thursdays, this stretch of Lower WaHi transforms into a bustling marketplace overflowing with fresh local fruits and vegetables. It’s a spot for the neighborhood to find farm-fresh produce, Mexican specialty products, bread, pies and scones made with local flour. 

     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 from 8 to 4 in Lower WaHi on 175th Street between Broadway and Wadsworth Avenue. Through November 19.

     Spend an evening with the noted New York historian Neal Shultz as he presents another fascinating talk on the creation of the Cloisters.

     John D. Rockefeller Jr. was world’s richest man: Buttoned-down, Baptist, reserved. George Gray Barnard was a struggling sculptor: Brilliant, irrepressible, vainglorious. A century ago, they entered into a decades-long dance that culminated in the creation of a unique museum that neither one of them could have built on their own. 

     Sponsored by Fountain Bookshop.

     Thursday evening beginning at 6 with a supper and the talk at 7, at Dutch Baby Bakery in Hudson Heights, on 187th Street.

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

     Explore the pre-European history of Manhatta when Sanakori leads the Shorakapok Walk into Inwood Hill Park. 

     This year’s guest of honor is Lenni Lenapexkweyok, a women’s collective from five federally recognized Lenape nations: The Delaware Tribe of Oklahoma, the Delaware Nation of Oklahoma, the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown, the Munsee-Delaware Nation, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans.

     They coordinate homecoming trips for Lenapes residing in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario for intergenerational healing. 

     The moderately difficult hike will last two hours. Wear closed-toed shoes, long sleeves, and consider natural bug repellant. Take a snack and a water bottle too; the hike will pass bathrooms and a water fountain.

     $15 donation. Friday morning at 9; meet at 207th Street and 10th Avenue. 

     Toast the past at Brewing Up History: From Farm to Bar.

     When  you spend an evening learning about New York's agricultural roots, you’ll see how the production of beer and cider in early America connected the farm to the bar.

     At this fund-raiser at Manhattan’s last farm, you’ll enjoy unlimited tastings from Dyckman Beer Co. and Aaron Burr Cidery, light bites from local restaurants, and take home a souvenir tasting glass. 

     For ages 21+ only. IDs will be checked at the door.

     $55.20 early bird price; $71.21 after September 9. Friday evening from 6 to 8 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, in Inwood on Broadway at  204th Street.

     Sit in on an evening of deep lyricism and sublime musical exploration featuring Kevin Delaney, a veteran of New York’s post-punk and singer-songwriter scenes, and Rich Shemaria, a composer, arranger, and pianist extraordinaire.

     Delaney and Shemaria will highlight songs from their High Springs album as well as new tunes.

     Appropriate for young adults and up. Limited seating available. 

     $22.96. Friday night at 7:30 in the Inwood Art Works Studio, on Seaman Avenue between 204th Street and Payson Avenue.

    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.

     You can already snap pretty pics with your cellphone. Would you like to learn how to take creative photographs?

     Join a photo walk with Paul Muratore, who will share techniques for better composition and lighting, and show you prime spots for memorable scenes in Uptown’s crown jewel of a park. Wear comfortable shoes for this two-hour trek and take a bottle of water.

     Free. Saturday morning at 10:00 in Fort Tryon Park; meet at Margaret Corbin Circle in Hudson Heights.

     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. 

      $23.18. Saturdays at 10:30 and 1:30 starting at the mansion in Lower WaHi, in Roger Morris Park. 

     Learn about the natural roots of instruments used in Spanish and Latin American music with the Urban Park Rangers.

     This event honors Hispanic Heritage Month by showing some of the ways nature is used to craft instruments such as strings, woodwinds and percussion. Instruments featured will include the flamenco guitar from Spain, congas, and claves.

     Free. Saturday morning at 11 in Inwood Hill Park, near 218th Street and Indian Road.

     Step inside The People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Inmigrante and experience the organization’s new home in motion.

     During the open house, you can explore performances, workshops, open classes, interactive theater, backstage tours, family activities, and visit with artists, neighbors, and community partners.

     You’ll be among the first to enjoy Liquid Highway, a monumental new mural by the acclaimed Brooklyn Dominican artist Scherezade Garcia. The day culminates with a concert by Jazz Power Initiative.

     Free. Saturday afternoon at 2, with the concert at 5 at the Centro Cultural Inmigrante in Inwood on 206th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

      This year’s Inwood Jazz Festival includes workshops, a family concert, and jam sessions in Uptown’s northernmost neighborhood.

     It starts with a pre-festival jam session with Daniel Sky on Saturday evening from 5 to 7 at Liffy II Bar on Broadway just above Isham Park (near 213th Street). 

     The festival then kicks off with a Senegalese dance workshop featuring Lamine Thiam on Sunday morning at 10:30 in Inwood Hill Park near the Nature Center; enter from 218th Street and Indian Road. 

     Main stage performances start at noon and continue until 5. 

     The after-festival jam session features Melvin “Tiger” Vines at 5:30 at Inwood Farm (not to be confused with the farm in Inwood), on 218th Street and Indian Road.

     Resilience, the theme for this season’s Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra concerts, explores the enduring strength of the human spirit in the face of challenge, change, and renewal.

     The concerts celebrate perseverance by highlighting composers and their works that break barriers, speak up, and search for hope. The season opens Breaking Barriers, a program of bold artistic voices who challenged the expectations of their time.

     $53.25 for the season; discounts for seniors and students. Saturday night at 7 at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church of the Atonement in Hudson Heights, on Bennett Avenue at 179th Street.

     Get ready to step into the world of Threshing Day and celebrate the release of this chilling new novel with fellow readers and Fourth Wing fans.

     Entrance includes a copy of Threshing Day and a scoop of ice cream. You’ll also enjoy a bracelet-making station, a themed sundae, and a read-along. Come dressed for the occasion and bring your fan art. 

     $35.98. Saturday night at 7 at Fountain Bookshop in Hudson Heights, on 187th 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.

     Summer is coming to a close, with autumn soon changing the leaves and your attitude.

     Get a head start at the Fall Equinox Jam. It will be a celebration of the coming season with words, music, and dance, hosted by the poet and musician Demetrius Daniel.

     Free. Sunday afternoon,at 3:30 at Recirculation, in Lower WaHi on Riverside Drive near 160th Street.

     Manhattan’s oldest surviving house is in need of some renovation. The $10 million exterior restoration and accessibility project broke ground at the Morris-Jumel Mansion last autumn.

     A house with this much history is worth studying. A partnership among the Mansion, the Historic House Trust, and the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College is documenting the restoration project. Students note the revitalization of a 261-year-old wood frame structure. Using photography, archival research, stakeholder interviews, and annotating architectural drawings, the students are drafting a story map rich in detail about the Mansion’s renovation and its history. 

     Moving ahead, roof work was intended to be completed in October, but delays may push back that expectation. 

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

     European climate activists from the A22 Network will discuss direct action, civil resistance, and the future of the climate movement, followed by a workshop. 

     Part of the discussion will come from their book, Soup Throwers and Super Gluers. The session will be led by the authors, Carla Hinrichs, Henning Jeschke, Chloé Bertini, and Thibaut Cantet.

     Tuesday night, September 22, at 7 at Word Up Community Bookshop, in Lower WaHi on Amsterdam Avenue at 165th Street.

     Tom Sanford’s Uptown Visions is the 2026 selection for Art on Audubon Terrace. Sanford draws on his experience as a longtime Upper Manhattan resident to offer a vibrant expression of the joy, rhythm, and layered experience of Uptown summer life.  

     Sanford, who lives in Harlem, will join a conversation with Niria Leyva-Gutiérrez, executive director on the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance.

     Sanford’s installation also pays tribute to Joaquín Sorolla’s monumental mural series Vision of Spain, which documents the people and customs of the Iberian Peninsula, and which has long inspired Sanford’s work. 

     Free. Wednesday afternoon, September 23, at 3 at Hispanic Society Museum & Library, on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street. The installation remains up through November 1.

     Honor George Washington and the dinner he held with his staff in the room where it happened. In the photo is the room where Washington slept in the mansion.  

     The meal commemorates our first president and his administration. It also serves as a fund-raiser for the museum, which is undergoing a transformational renovation.

     $260; guests, $295. Thursday evening, September 24, at 6 at Riverside Church, in Morningside Heights on Claremont Avenue at between 120th Street and Seminary Row.

     Take part in the inaugural Sæbø film festival, an outdoor, two-day celebration of live music and short films by emerging and established local filmmakers.

     Like its namesake village on the Norwegian fjords, the festival promises to be quirky. You’ll find a parking lot cleared of cars and transformed into an open-air cinema as the site’s massive brick wall becomes a 50-foot-wide screen.

     Four filmmakers’ work will be showcased.

     Free. Thursday and Friday evenings, September 24 and 25, with music starting at 6 in the parking lot at the corner of Payson Avenue and Dyckman Street. If you’re following GPS, the street address is 1815 Riverside Drive (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), and the parking lot is to the north.

        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.

     Join art experts for the annual symposium of the Hispanic Society’s Goya Research Center.

     Following the museum’s recent exhibition Goya and the Age of Revolution, this year’s symposium centers on the depiction of war and atrocity in Francisco Goya’s prints. You’ll hear from speakers from the Prada, Harvard, Columbia, and more.

     A cocktail reception concludes the day. Register here.

     Friday morning, September 25, at 9:30 at the Hispanic Society on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

     In the spring, Evelyn Petcher led several Inwood Haven workshops for participants to contribute original lyrics and melodies to a new composition. The Uptowners’ ideas were inspired by the sounds they hear every day in Inwood. 

     Now it’s time to hear their musical ideas come to life. Petcher’s latest composition will premiere at an outdoor performance.

     Free. Friday night, September 25, at 5 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     A fearless, funny, and moving play about a father turned activist, GUAC explores the aftermath of the Parkland shooting.

     Manuel Oliver, the playwright and performer, channels his love, loss, and rage after his son Joaquin “Guac” Oliver was killed in the Florida attack. From pepperoni bacon pizza to air guitar solos, Oliver paints a portrait of a vibrant life cut short—and a father’s relentless fight for a better future. In Spanish and English.

     $35 to $65. Previews on Friday–Sunday and Thursday nights, September 25–27 and 30, at 7:30; then Thursday through Saturday nights, October 1–3, and Wednesday through Saturday nights, October 7 through 10, at 7:30, with matinees on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, October 2, 3, and 10, at 2, at the Centro Cultural Inmigrante in Inwood on 206th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

     Enjoy some energetic dancing when an Uptown institution kicks off its Saturday series of summer salsa socials.

     Whether you’re a first-time dancer or experienced  salsero, all levels are welcome. The session starts with 30 minutes of  introductory dance lessons, followed by an hour of open dance accompanied by live music.
     Registration is required. 

     Free. Saturday afternoon, September 26, from 3:30 to 5 at the Hispanic Society of America, on Adubuon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street. 

    In The Game features interlocking shows by Christopher Williams (b. 1956, Los Angeles), Monika Baer (b. 1964, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), Aria Dean (b. 1993, Los Angeles), and Abraham Cruzvillegas (b. 1968, Mexico City). The collaboration unfolds like a game of exquisite corpse. Through July 2.
     Yoshitaka Amano (b. 1952, Shizuoka, Japan) has been drawing for as long as he can remember. The works in this exhibition draw on the visual language he developed creating character illustrations for anime and video games. Through February 7.

     Opening Saturday, September 26, with a reception from 4 to 7 p.m., and then Thursdays through Sundays at the Academy on Audubon Terrace, on Broadway at 155th Street.

     Raise your voice in peaceful protest. 

     Learn how to make a joyful noise that promotes justice for society, singing in the Civil Rights tradition. No experience is required for this 90-minute session.

     Free. Saturday afternoon, September 26, at 4 at the Frances Cabrini Shrine in Hudson Heights, on Fort Washington Avenue below 190th Street.

     Try your hand at interpreting medieval art.

     The open studio experience this month at the Cloisters features creatures of myth and Imagination. Through  artist-led demonstrations, drop-in art-making activities, and conversations with experts, you’ll  explore materials and process.

     For visitors of all ages. All materials are provided.

     Free with museum admission. Sunday afternoon, September 27, from 1 to 4 at the museum in Fort Tryon Park. On the last Sunday of the month through December.

     A community concert features the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with arrangements by Gilbert Dejean.

     Take your family and meet new friends while enjoying classical music performed by the Inwood Chamber Players.

     A reception with light snacks and beverages follows the performance. Proceeds benefit Good Shepherd School.

     $12.31 to $28.29. Sunday afternoon, September 27, at 2 at the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Inwood on Broadway at Isham Street.

     It’s a classic that’s absolutely worth seeing on the big screen.

     In Sunset Boulevard, a screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star who’s determined to make a triumphant return.

     As Robert Ebert wrote, “In one of the greatest of all film performances, [Gloria] Swanson’s Norma Desmond skates close to the edge of parody; Swanson takes enormous chances with theatrical sneers and swoops and posturings, holding Norma at the edge of madness for most of the picture, before letting her slip over.”

     Starring William Holden, Swanson, and Eric von Stroheim. Directed by Billy Wilder. Are you ready for your close-up?

     $12.72. Sunday afternoon, September 27, at 3 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi, on Broadway at 175th Street.

      The Mexican film Rudo y Cursi (2008)  tells the story of two small-town brothers who dream of becoming soccer stars.

     Come early for a performance by the Samuel Torres Trio. Hosted by the Hispanic Society.

     Free. Thursday evening, September 27, with the concert at 6 and the film at 7 on Audobun Terrace, at Broadway and 155th Street.

     Bloom Readings returns with two gatherings this autumn.

     At the first event, you’ll hear from two interesting poets reading together: Constantine Contogenis and Tracy Jones.

     Free. Sunday night, September 27, at 7 in The Lounge of Hudson View Gardens, in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street. Also on November 1.

     In Ted Bushman’s musical Pocket Universe, sixteen-year-old June lives an idyllic life with her father in a picture-perfect suburban town. What she doesn’t know is that her dad is actually a wizard—and that six years ago, he created the town inside a pocket universe to protect her from something terrifying.

      Sit in on a reading of the musical to find out what June finds out. Organized by Sæbø Arts, which is building a quirky reputation as a champion of the arts.

      Registering gets you in the room: info@saebo.org.

      Free. Thursday night, October 1, at 7 in Inwood at 4700 Broadway (between Dongan Place and Arden Street), Apartment 6F.

     The Harlem Chamber Players celebrate Hispanic composers in a concert featuring works by Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Ignacio Rosado, Tania León, and Joaquín Turina.

     Free. Thursday night, October 1,  7 at the Hispanic Society, on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

     Find your next Spanish-language read at a Feria de Libros.

     Whether you’re looking for children’s books, YA literature, poetry, or non-fiction, you’ll find it at this book fair sponsored by Word Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria.

     Free. Sunday afternoon, October 3, at 2 in the Sorolla Gallery of the Hispanic Society, on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

      Growing up in Paterson, Oscar obsesses over fantasy novels, falling in love, and the curse that has plagued his family for generations. In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the Dominican teen remains true to himself despite the endless taunting from friends, family, and foes. But he can’t escape the past: The family curse declares its power and the violence of Oscar's family history collides with his present. 

     Literature to Life presents this adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that chronicles the life of an overweight science-fiction enthusiast who dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien. Performed by Jean Perez, a Dominican-American actor and filmmaker from the Bronx.

     $23.32. Monday night, October 5, at 7 at the United Palace, in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     The Broadway icons Robin de Jesús and Linedy Genao come Uptown for a cabaret performance celebrating the music, memories, and mischief that make New York feel like home.

     This Uptown Cabaret is part Broadway concert, part Latin music fever dream, and part family party with a playlist that moves from Juan Gabriel to Sunday in the Park with George. 

     $45 to $75. Monday night, October 5, at 7:30 at the Centro Cultural Inmigrante in Inwood on 206th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

     Celebrate Caribbean histories at a Taíno language workshop followed. The lessons will be followed by a musical performance honoring the Puerto Rican and Irish diasporas.

     Organized by the Hispanic Society.

     Free. Saturday afternoon, October 10, with the workshop at 3 and the music at 6 on Audubon Terrace, on Broadway at 155th Street.

     A creative improvised music series, Uptown Out  features musicians from Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. 

     Space is limited, so save your spot early.

     $10. Thursday night, October 9, at 7 at Recirculation, in Lower WaHi on Riverside Drive near 160th Street. Monthly on the second Thursday. 

     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, October 11, from 1 to 3 in the Cloisters. On the second Saturday of the month.

     Sit in on an evening of poetry and discussion celebrating the work of the Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik.

     The program is presented in partnership with the Feria Internacional del Libro en Español, which held its book fair on the third.

     Free. Tuesday evening, October 13, at 6 at the Hispanic Society, on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

     Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes, creators of the Tony Award-winning musical In The Heights, sit for a conversation.

     Ahead of New York City Center’s gala production of In the Heights, the pair revisit the production’s journey from WaHi to Broadway and its lasting influence on American theater and popular culture. 

     Free, but reservations are required. Tuesday night, October 13, at 7:30 at the Centro Cultural Inmigrante in Inwood on 206th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

     Learn about stitching and its artistic expression in a conversation with the artist  Esperanza Cortés, who will discuss her exhibition, Embroidered Allegories.

     Her artwork is the 2026 selection for Arte en el Alto Manhattan, presented by the Hispanic Society Museum & Library.

     Thursday evening, October 15, at 6 at the Hispanic Society, on Broadway at 155th Street.

     UPtown Theater’s annual fundraiser takes place in the neighborhood’s newest theater. 
     The Onward and Upward Gala celebrates the troupe and honors its person of the year (who will be named over the summer). 

      Wine, food, music, raffles, and auctions make the event festive, and you’ll get to explore the stunning, new cultural facility that another troupe, the People’s Theatre, calls home.

     $131.60. Friday evening, October 16, at 6 at the Centro Cultural Inmigrante in Inwood on 206th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

      Join the conversation.

      The People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Immigrante hosts Wayfinding: Señas del Camino, an opportunity for Uptown artists and their supporters to meet and discuss the future.

      Details to follow.

      Sunday, October 17, at a time to be announced later at the Centro Cultural Inmigrante in Inwood on 206th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

      Experience the beloved 1984 classic film Ghostbusters as you never have. At this screening the music will be performed on stage by an orchestra.

     The film will presented on a large HD cinema screen, fully synced to a live performance of Academy Award-winning composer Elmer Berstein’s score.

     $53.76 to $80.64. Saturday night, October 17, at 8 at the United Palace, in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     Step inside the historic cottage at Fort Tryon Park for a rare opportunity to explore one of the park’s original structures.

     Built as the gatehouse for the early twentieth-century Billings Estate, the cottage now serves as the offices for NYC Parks and the Fort Tryon Park Conservancy. Drop by to learn about the building’s architecture, its connection to the Billings Estate, and its continuing role in the stewardship of the park.

     The open house is part of Open House New York.

     Free. Sunday, October 18, from noon to 4 in the cottage on the path where Cabrini Boulevard meets Margarget Corbin Circle in Hudson Heights.

     Humanities professor Jonathan Goldman will tell the story of the Puerto Rican experience in 1920s New York.

     In Hidden Histories of Jazz Age: New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange, Goldman unearths stories of everyday life and marginalized communities. In sections that intertwine entertainment, politics, art, technology, crime, shopping, eating, and recreation, the book portrays sweeping events such as the Harlem Renaissance, Prohibition, and immigration reform through anecdotes of individual experiences that counter the era’s popular conceptions of ballooning wealth and uproarious celebration. 

     Free. Thursday evening, October 22, at 6 at the Hispanic Society, on Audubon Terrace at 155th Street.

     Join the fun at a block party celebrating alegría: joy.

     Hosted by the People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Immigrante, the second annual Uptown fall festival offers games, food, and fun.

     Details to follow.

     Saturday, October 24, at a time to be announced later in Inwood, on 206th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

     Dive into a sixteenth-century religious play at a reading of the Nahua text Antichrist and the Hermit.

     The event begins with a presentation led by translator, Ben Leeming. The play was written by the nobleman Fabían de Aquino and tells the story of the Aztec Antichrist, whose efforts were directed at convincing converted Nahuas to return to the religious practices of their ancestors. Drawing from the history of Nahautl-Christian texts, this play, written for Indigenous audiences, reveals how Nahuas made sense of Christianity and helped form its colonial image.

     A reading and discussion will follow.

     Free. Sunday afternoon, October 24, at 3 at the Hispanic Society, on Broadway at 155th 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.

     The JACK Quartet and violinist Keir GoGwilt explore an essential New York composer’s hypnotic sound.

     The meditative, time-stretching works of Morton Feldman (1926–1987) endure 100 years after his birth for their muted beauty and radical innovation. Join the ensemble for a performance of one of Feldman’s final works, Violin and String Quartet (1985). The expansive experiment in duration and instrumental conversation is set against the medieval splendor of the 12th-century Fuentidueña Chapel.

     $70. Saturday afternoon, November 12, at 2 at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     Step back in time and experience the sights and sounds of the Revolutionary War at the historic Commemoration of the Battle of Fort Washington.

     The re-creation brings history to life with a dramatic live battle reenactment, eighteenth-century demonstrations, and hands-on activities for all ages.

     In addition to skirmishes between the Redcoats and the rebels, you’ll enjoy blacksmiths demonstrating traditional craftsmanship, live eighteenth-century music, and guided battlefield tours with reenactors in full costume. You may even meet Margaret Corbin, in the painting at left, and find out how she become the namesake of a park entrance.

     You can even dress in your colonial best and immerse yourself in the past. Pack a picnic lunch and enjoy an autumn afternoon celebrating your local history.

     Free. Sunday, November 15, from noon to 3 on the café lawn in Fort Tryon Park; enter from Margaret Corbin Circle in Hudson Heights.

     Three secretaries turn the tables on their obnoxious boss in 9 to 5.

     Starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton, the 1980 film shows the who holds the power behind the throne. Arrive early for a special pre-show tribute concert honoring the late country music legend, Dolly Parton.

     $12.72. Sunday afternoon, November 22, at 3 at the United Palace, in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th 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.

     Did you know that the location is in Manhattan’s only untouched forest? The Shorakopoch Preserve is part of the Old-Growth Forest Network, a recognized landscape of protected, old-growth, native forests.

     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 meet-up spot shared with the participants.

     Join a celebration of emerging playwrights at the New Horizons Play Reading Festival. The theme is bravery / valor.

     Hosted by the People’s Theatre. 

     Details to follow. Wednesday and Thursday, December 2 and 3, at the Centro Cultural Immigrante, in Inwood on 206th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues.

    The winter holidays come alive with voices echoing off a Renaissance cloister’s resplendent stone halls.

     Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the acclaimed quartet New York Polyphony with a performance that spans a millennium of seasonal music in the twelfth-century Fuentidueña Chapel, one of the city’s most resonant rooms. 

     $95. Two performances: Saturday afternoon, December 5, at 2 and 4 at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     Experience the largest production of The Nutcracker in North America. It’s a breathtaking holiday spectacle featuring  international dancers, gravity-defying acrobatics, magnificent costumes, and towering puppets.

     Set to Tchaikovsky’s indelible score, the grand production has become an annual treasure.

     $49.50 to $213.40. Saturday evening, December 5, at 5:45 at the United Palace, in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     Old and new sounds come together when you hear the crystalline voices of Trio Mediæval, the Grammy-nominated Norwegian vocal ensemble. The group’s vast repertoire stretches from the earliest sacred and folk traditions to brand-new works written especially for them.

     Old and new collide in this holiday concert, set in one of the city’s most sonically satisfying spaces: the glorious twelfth-century Fuentidueña Chapel.

     $95. Two performances: Sunday afternoon, December 6, at 2 and 4 at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     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.

     Resilience, the theme for this season’s Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra concerts, explores the enduring strength of the human spirit in the face of challenge, change, and renewal.

     The concerts celebrate perseverance by highlighting composers and their works that break barriers, speak up, and search for hope. The winter chamber concert features unyielding voices, highlighting both individuals and musical works that endure across time.

     $53.25 for the season; discounts for seniors and students. Saturday night, January 16, at 7 at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church of the Atonement in Hudson Heights, on Bennett Avenue at 179th Street.

      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.

      Except for Fort George. To see the sun line up with the streets in Fort George, where the streets are aligned with most of Manhattan, head out on May 28 and 29, and July 12 and 13, the same as Manhattan. 

     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.

     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.

     Inwood Henge: Saturday, January 23, at dawn and dusk.

     Resilience, the theme for this season’s Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra concerts, explores the enduring strength of the human spirit in the face of challenge, change, and renewal.

     The concerts celebrate perseverance by highlighting composers and their works that break barriers, speak up, and search for hope.  The season concludes with Harboring Hope, a celebration of the many ways music can sustain, uplift, and unite.

     $53.25 for the season; discounts for seniors and students. Saturday night, April 17, at 7 at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church of the Atonement in Hudson Heights, on Bennett Avenue at 179th Street.

     Listen to advanced students from Juilliard’s Historical Performance department perform historical music on period instruments.

     The concert engages in conversation that explores connections with the Museum’s collection.

     Free with museum admission. Friday morning, May 7, at 11 at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     A shapeshifting, collaborative baroque ensemble comes Uptown with its playful approach to early music.

     Ruckus performs with soprano Song Hee Lee (the recent Grand Finals winner at The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition) in a program featuring the cantatas of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre.

     Saturday and Sunday, May 8 and 9, at times to be announced next year, at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     Join the Shorewalkers on a hike to Bear Mountain.

     On this Memorial Day trek, you’ll take the first of two parts of the walk, this one starting at Batter Park and ending on the other side of the George Washington Bridge.

     The hike continues on Independence Day, when it starts at the GWB in Fort Lee, descends 400 steps, and continues north along the Palisades to your destination.

     Registration info will come in the spring.

     Monday morning, May 31, at a place and time shared with registrants.

     Artek performs L’Amfiparnaso,  a rowdy, madrigal comedy by Orazio Vecchi (1597). The concert also features elegant madrigals for a hilarious and touching entertainment.

     The encsemble’s singers will perform with accompaniment from strings and myriad continuo instruments.

     Free. Saturday evening, June 5, at 5 at the Church of the Intercession, in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 155th 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.