Washington Heights Events: June 15–21
Welcome to Uptown’s most electic calendar of events. Here you’ll find concerts, gallery listings, farmers’ markets, treks through our parks, river activities, museum exhibits, stage shows, and more.
Looking to entertain the younger set? Check the most extensive kids’ calendar in Upper Manhattan.
If you’d like to submit an event, use the form under the Uptown Activities section on this page. You can also check for activities on other Uptown calendars at the Harlem Onestop and Heightsites. Find out what’s going on throughout Uptown with The Lighthouse Washington Heights and the podcast Uptown Voices. Enjoy your explorations of the neighborhood!
The Uptown Arts Stroll is back!
As before, the twenty-three-year-old celebration of creativity features gallery shows, performances, exhibitions, concerts, open studios, activities, and much more. The full lineup is here.
Free. During June at sites from Lower WaHi to Inwood.
Monday
Uptowners and staff from the Columbia University Medical Center flock to the Fort Washington Green Market for its bounty of fresh, locally grown offerings.
Mexican herbs, peppers, greens, honey, cheese, juice pressed from ripe orchard fruit—it’s all grown in the rich soil of Orange County's Black Dirt region.
Pastries and fresh bread make this the perfect market for putting together a healthy lunch or stocking up your larder mid-week. Visit the Market Information tent each week for cooking demonstrations, nutritional information, kids’ games and health-related events and activities throughout the season.
Resuming this week. Tuesdays on 168th Street at Fort Washington Avenue. Through December 15.
Meditative Mondays combine a guided meditation with live music.
This week pairs the goal of self reflection with a piece by the mystical minimalist composer Arvo Pärt. You’ll hear “Spiegel Im Spiegel,” which means mirror in mirror, composed in Pärt’s tintinnabular style of a lyrical melody and spare, bell-like accompaniment. The concert continues with John Cage’s “In a Dream.”
$20. Monday evening at 6 at Our Saviour’s Church of the Atonement, in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 189th Street.
Berta Moreno, a jazz saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator from Spain, performs a concert featuring her energetic music.
With an extensive career, Moreno tours and performs as a bandleader and sidewoman in some of the leading jazz festivals. She is deeply involved in the jazz, Latin, and world music scenes, both as a player and a composer. She teaches in partnership with Columbia University and the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance in New York.
Free. Wednesday evening at 6:30 at the Saint Frances Cabrini Shrine, in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue just below 190th Street.
One of Mel Brooks's finest and funniest films, The Producers features standout performances by Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel. In 1996, the film was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Part of the Film Works Al Fresco series, the screening will be proceeded by caberet show by Shana Farr.
Free. Monday night at 7:30 at the Hudson, in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.
Tuesday
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.
This year’s weeknight Zumba class bringd 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. Let’s 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. Weekly through September 15.
Wednesday
Created as a martial art and handed down in families for generations, t’ai chi has come to be prized as a wonderful health art as well, for old and young alike.
Let by a thirty-five-year veteran of t’ai chi classes, Robert teaches the sessions in an easy, gentle, ten-posture form that is adapted from the traditional Yang style. The morning class takes plance in a serene environment to start the day.
Free. Wednesday morning at 6:30 in Fort Tryon Park on the Linden Terrace. Through September 9.
Jhanique Lovejoy is a New York maker of images whose practice engages through the lens of race and culture.
Lovejoy is known for her portrayals of her relationships as a queer Jamaican American artist, encompassing both familial and romantic connections. She uses alternative processes, collage, and insights from her musicological studies, Lovejoy explores the themes of family archives, love, and the preservation of Black family history.
Free. Wednesday through Friday from noon to 4 and Saturday from 10 to 4. Through October 24.
Everyone is welcome to join Stacey’s t’ai chi class, which she adapts to all levels.
She leads you through breathwork, meditation, and asana (physical poses). You’ll get to do tree pose surrounded by some of the very best trees in the city. And the group may even welcome a groundhog guest.
Take a mat or towel, and perhaps some bug spray.
Free. Wednesday evening at 6:45 in Fort Tryon Park on Abby’s Lawn. Through August 26.
Thursday
Lucy Sante, Friendship 7, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Picture Theory.
Jessi Reaves, Building vanity, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Hoffman Donahue Gallery.
Four contemporary American artists present their work at Uptown’s storied gallery, the American Academic of Arts and Letters.
Lucy Sante (above) has been making collages since her teenage years in New Jersey, a practice she has sustained alongside her prolific writing career. After moving to New York, she worked at the Strand Bookstore, where she acquired source material that would fuel her collage work for decades. In the late 1970s, she created collaged fliers for The Del-Byzanteens, a band fronted by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, and other groups in downtown New York.
Jessi Reaves makes sculptures (right) that confront the assumptions and values embedded in objects of daily life. Early works incorporate severed limbs of mid-century furniture in constructions that question the elevation of clean lines and rational forms to universal good taste. Recent sculptures have become visually dense, using handiwork and ornamentation to achieve an almost grotesque sense of accumulation.
Also in the exhibition is Josiane M. H. Pozi, whose films and videos from the last eight years haec been remixed and rearranged into an installation.
Free. Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 5 at the Academy on Audubon Terrace, at Broadway and 155th Street. Through July 3.
By in the late eighteenth century, the American and French Revolutions and the Peninsular War in Spain had transformed western politics. These conflicts, and the Enlightenment ideals that inspired them, deeply affected the work of Goya.
To mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Goya and the Age of Revolution presents a selection of works by artist and his circle, broaching the subjects of war, revolution, and independence, from the horrors of battle to the promise of egalitarianism. Featuring paintings as well as a rotating selection of prints from Goya’s series The Disasters of War, this exhibition is an initiative of the Hispanic Society’s Goya Research Center.
Free. Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 5 at the Hispanic Society on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street. Through June 28.
From the moment European mapmakers transformed a continent into abstract, ownable space, taxonomy has served as a tool of power in the history of the Americas. By naming, claiming, and regulating territory, maps seek to define the terms by which life and memory are organized, determining which histories are protected, whose lives are valued, and which experiences are rendered visible or invisible.
The work of the Los Angeles Chicana artist Sandy Rodriguez challenges the assumption that visualizing space is a neutral act. In Tierra Insurgente, the earth emerges as a living archive—shaped by violence and care, erasure and survival.
Free, but tickets are required.
Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 5 at the Hispanic Society, on Audubon Terrace at Broadway at 155th Street. Through June 28.
The annual Melting Pot Jazz series is back.
Jazz Wahi produces the family-friendly concerts that celebrate immigrants’ influence on American jazz. Fittingly, the concerts take place on the lawn at the final resting place of the patron saint of immigrants.
May 28 Helio Alves Quartet, from Brazil
June 4 Bogna Kicinska Quartet, from Poland
June 11 Digba Ogunbiyi Quartet, from Nigeria
June 18 Slavo-Rican Assembly, from Slovenia and Puerto Rico
June 25 Camila Cortina Quintet, from Cuba
Take a blanket and even a picnic.
Free. Thursday evening, at 6:30 at St. Frances Cabrini Shrine, in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue just below Margaret Corbin Circle. In case of rain, the concert moves indoors.
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.
Emmaia Gelman launches her new book, The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, (out 6/16/26), the first-ever history of the Anti-Defamation League and its determined, century-long alliance with Western empire. Sit in on a reading and ask questions.
Gelman is the founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She has taught social and cultural analysis at NYU and social sciences at Sarah Lawrence College.
Space is limited so register here.
$5 donation. Thursday night at 7 at Recirculation, in Lower WaHi on Riverside Drive near 160th Street.
Friday
Prepare for Independence Day by learning more about the Declaration of Independence.
Robert Snyder leads a history roundtable discussing and explaining the motivations of the colonists and the meanings behind the words and phrases that many Americans can recite by heart. The sentiments behind the famous document would have been on the mind of Margaret Corbin, right, who fought in the Battle of Fort Washington after her husband was killed by the British.
Free. Friday evening at 6 on the back porch of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.
Saturday
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.
Make a run through the forest.
The New York Road Runners offer a 5k course for runners and walkers of all ages, abilities, and experience levels.
The course makes three loops on hilly trails and walkways through woods and along a salt marsh.
Free. Saturday mornings at 9 in Inwood Hill Park; meet at the entrance near Seaman Avenue and Isham Street.
Get out and get active during Zumba with Grace, where every step is filled with energy, confidence, and joy.
From Latin beats to high-energy cardio, this class is all about feeling good in your body and embracing your inner glow. Come ready to sweat, smile, and shine on the dance floor.
Free. Saturday morning at 9:30 at the Anne Loftus Playground, in Fort Tryon Park’s Inwood edge. Weekly through September 12.
Discover Uptown artists and their creations.
It’s the annual art show at the Riverside-Inwood Neighborhood Garden. You’ll also get to watch dance performances and listen to live music.
Free. Saturday from noon to 5 in the RING garden, in Inwood at the confluence of Riverside Drive, Broadway, and Dyckman Street.
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. No 1:30 tour on the first and second Saturdays this month. Through June.
An often-overlooked treasure of creativity, the American Academy of Arts and Letters hosts an exhibition of what it calls its articles of distinction. When the collection was started in 1915, it was to create “a treasure house of literary and artistic Americana.”
Early gifts included Mark Twain’s pipe, a Winslow Homer watercolor, and a plaster cast of Robert Frost’s nose. As the collection continued, it gained formal portraits, musical manuscripts, bronze busts, and more—over a century of creative lives accumulated. For the exhibition, current academy members selected objects they found compelling. Some were drawn to archival documents while others considered paintings, artists’ tools, death masks, and furniture. The composer Annea Lockwood selected Charles Ives’s metronomes, describing him as “a generative ancestor.”
The exhibition is open Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 5 in the academy’s galleries on Audubon Plaza, on Broadway at 155th Street. Through July 3.
A genre-crossing program by Trio Fadolín—an innovative ensemble featuring the newly invented fadolín—explores immigrant stories and Eastern European musical traditions.
The concert is part of the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra’s outdoor summer picnic series, informal performances throughout the neighborhood. Pack a picnic, and take blanket or chairs.
Free. Saturday afternoon at 2:30 on the Morris-Jumel Mansion’s lawn, in Lower WaHi in Roger Morris Park.
It’s time again for Latin Jazz In The Heights.
The celebration starts with Latin genre dance lessons with Junior Belone, followed at 5 by Boba’s Latin Jazz Ensemble with Isidro Bobadilla (El Boba), a master percussionist and arts educator.
Free. Saturday afternoon at 3 in La Plaza de Las Americas, in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.
Explore the role of family photographs in Caribbean and Black diasporic archival traditions, oral histories, and intergenerational preservation.
Moving from discussion to practice, participants will use archival tools and methods by digitizing personal photographs, negatives, and ephemera from their own archives with a high-resolution scanner.
The workshop and discussion will be led by the image-making artist Jhanique Lovejoy, whose work is on display in the museum.
What to take: five 4 x 6 family photos or an 8 x 10 photo along with two smaller photos. You may alternatively take two to five negatives, newspaper clippings, and archival documents from your family’s history instead.
Free. Saturday afternoon at 4 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Stret.
A concert of violin and piano features LuEllen Abdoo and Christopher Oldfather. The program includes Mozart’s Sonata in E minor, K 304, Brahms’ G Major Sonata, Op. 78, and the Violin and Piano Sonata by Philip Glass, movements II & III.
$10. Saturday evening at 6 at the St. Frances Cabrini Shrine, in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue just below Margaret Corbin Circle.
Join Magpie Duo over the course of two concerts a week apart for a selection of their favorite repertoire from the past year.
They call it Magpie Fest, and it begins with the sunset concert concept, which opens with a familiar piece and moves to more experimental realms. Then it reverses the format, with shorter works building up to George Enescu’s lush Impressions d’Enfance.
Then, on June 27, the series concludes with For John Cage. It takes you back to Morton Feldman’s whispery work of the same name.
Free, with a $20 donation requested. Sunday night at 8 at Our Saviour’s Church of the Atonement, in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 189th Street.
Sunday
Paddle up and down the Hudson and see Manhattan as you won’t any other way.
The Inwood Canoe Club offers three guided 20-minute kayak trips a week so you can explore the Hudson River just north of the GWB. If you can swim, you’re eligible.
Wear clothes you can get wet in and leave your pets and valuables at home. Complete the 2026 season waiver before showing up.
Free. Sunday morning at 9:45, 10:30, and 11:15. Meet at the club, on Dyckman Street where it meets the river. Sundays through September 6.
The Scandinavian Music Festival concludes this weekend with a
concert featuring the full New York Scandia Symphony, led by music director Dorrit Matson.
The program, including Sibelius and Grieg, celebrates the power and beauty of Scandinavian orchestral music, bringing together sweeping melodies and bold, dramatic works from the Nordic tradition.
Take a blanket, pack a picnic, and relax under the trees to a spirited performance.
Free. Sunday afternoon at 2 on the Billings Lawn in Fort Tryon Park.
Eliot at the piano in her WaHi apartment.
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.
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Extreme heat kills. More than 500 New Yorkers died prematurely last year from preventable heat illness. If you're elderly or have other health conditions like heart disease or asthma, you're at even higher risk, among other factors.
Tips to stay comfortable in hot weather are here.
To help New Yorkers who lack adequate cooling at home, the city opens cooling centers on days when the temperature is well above normal. Their hours vary, so check before heading to one. Here’s a list:
Hudson Heights Agudath Israel Moriah Older Adult Luncheon Club, 90 Bennett Avenue
Fort George Fort Washington Library, 535 West 179th Street
Fort George Washington Heights Neighborhood Senior Center, 650 West 187th Street
Fort George YM & YWCA of Washington Heights and Inwood, 54 Nagle Avenue
Lower WaHi Highbridge Recreation Center, Highbridge Park at 2301 Amsterdam Avenue
Uptown non-profits
One of the reasons to enjoy our neighborhood is the creativity around us. Your financial support of any of these Uptown non-profits will help make Hudson Heights, Fort George, Inwood, and Washington Heights a better place to live. An alternative way to make a difference is to donate your time to an Uptown organization that could use your talents.
Performing Arts
Cornerstone Chorale, an ensemble of Uptown singers
The Crypt Sessions, whose subterranean concerts are part of the Death of Classical series
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, the troupe with a home in Hudson Heights
MOSA Concerts, the Music at Our Saviour’s Atonement series in Hudson Heights
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, which sponsors the Uptown Arts Stroll
Pied Piper Children’s Theatre, a showcase for Uptown talent
Prelude Opera connects kids with opera with light-hearted performances
United Palace of Cultural Arts, the site of plays, concerts, and classic film screenings
Up Theater Company, which stages new plays
Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, holding Uptown concerts throughout the year
Culture
American Academy of Arts & Letters, an honor society of artists who foster interest in the arts
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, the only remaining farmstead in Manhattan
Hispanic Society & Museum, whose exhibitions are free to everyone
Morris-Jumel Mansion, the Colonial home of “the room where it happened”
Word Up Community Bookshop/Libraría Comunitaria, Uptown’s non-profit bookstore
Education
Boricua College, on Audubon Terrace
Columbia University Medical Center, which teaches nursing, public health, dentistry, and more
Uptown Stories, the host of writing workshops for kids
Yeshiva University, in Fort George
Parks
Fort Tryon Park Conservancy, whose volunteers maintain the park
Friends of Inwood Hill Park, which lists it own set of neighborhood charities
Social
Armory Track Foundation, which holds enrichment activities for kids
Columbia Community Service’s annual toy drive
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, at the Columbia Medical Center
Washington Heights and Inwood Development Council, which aids Uptown businesses
Washington Heights/Inwood Food Council, a group promoting heathly foods and gardening
Did we miss an important Uptown charity? Let us know!
Planning ahead
Scaffolding surrounds the mansion in April.
Manhattan’s oldest surviving house is in need of some renovation. The exterior restoration and accessibility project broke ground at the Morris-Jumel Mansion in the autumn.
Scaffolding surrounds the front porch columns, and the windows were replaced in April. Testing the porch’s soundness is complete too.
The next big job is to replace the roof. Once the city inspects the work done so far, the roof process will begin. If all goes well the completion date is October. The project requires that everyone leaves the building—staff and visitors—on weekdays. The good news is that on weekends the mansion will continue to offer programming outdoors and in the basement.
The mansion closed on December 1. We’ll keep posting its events, though they will be smaller in number.
Take in an evening of live jazz from Uptown musicians and their collaborators around the city in a weekly performance. The lineup varies, so check this week’s personnel here.
There’s no charge for the music. Food and drink are on you.
Tuesday nights at 7:30 at Kismat restaurant in Hudson Heights on 187th Street and Fort Washington Avenue.
Wesly Snipes plays Nino Brown in a gritty crime drama. New Jack City (1991) follows the rise of a ruthless Harlem drug lord during the crack epidemic, and the determined undercover cops trying to take him down.
Part of the Film Works Al Fresco series, the screening will be proceeded with music from an Uptown DJ.
Free. Monday night, June 22, at 7:30 at the Hudson, in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.
Get out and vote!
It’s primary election day, when we get to choose who will appear on the ballot in November. In WaHi that includes the U.S. House, where Rep. Espaillat is being challenged, and our representatives in Albany.
The state’s comptroller’s race is also up for grabs.
Early voting stared June 13 and ends on June 21..
Election day is Tuesday, June 23, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Find your polling place here. Pinehurst residents vote at the Armory, in Lower WaHi on Fort Washington Avenue at 169th Street.
Sandy Rodriguez’s latest exhibition, Tierra Insurgente, is the suject of a panel discussion at the gallery.
Rodriguez’ first solo exhibition in town brings the artist’s socially engaged works into dialogue with rarelyexhibited maps, manuscripts, globes, and codices from the Hispanic Society’s historic collection.
In addition to Rodriguez, panelists include Diana Magaloni, Deputy Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the writer Veronica Pesantes, and Hispanic Society Senior Educator and exhibition co-curator Ryan Pinchot.
Free. Wednesday evening, June 24, at 6 at the Hispanic Society of America, on Audubon Terrace at Broadway at 155th Street.
The eleventh year of Bruce’s Garden summer readings includes fiction, non-fiction, and a memoir.
This month’s topic is the written stories of New York, from the nineteenth century through today. The discussion is led by Katie Uva, the online editor of the Urban History Journal, and the editor Geoff Wisner. His book, George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries, and Uva’s blog posts should be the sources of a lively discussion.
Free. Wednesday evening, June 24, with refreshments at 6:30 and the reading at 7 in Isham Park at Bruces’s Garden, in Inwood across from 10 Park Terrace East (not West!), near 215th Street.
On Thursdays, this stretch of Lower WaHi transforms into a bustling marketplace overflowing with fresh local fruits and vegetables. Neighbors show up to mix and mingle while purchasing produce, Mexican specialty products and bread, pies and scones made with local flour. In many ways, the market doubles as classroom and social center.
Greenmarket’s farmers and fishers come from parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and New England, providing a bountiful array of fresh foods.
Opens in the summer, on June 25. Thursday from 8 to 4 in Lower WaHi on 175th Street between Broadway and Wadsworth Avenue. Through November 19.
Listen in on a conversation with the internationally recognized multi-media artist Francisco Alvarado-Juárez. He will be discussing his latest book, Gay Liberation: New York City Pride Parades 1975–1976, featuring images from Francisco’s 2025 exhibition, Out of the Closets! Into the Street!: New York City Pride March 1975-1976.
The exhibition featured 18 photographs, showcasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the early Pride parades and revealed the nuanced bonds of kinship formed among marchers from disparate backgrounds.
Thursday evening, June 25, at 6 at the Hispanic Society of America, on Audubon Terrace at Broadway at 155th Street.
Arts and Letters is a place to gather with art and one another. This summer, the storied institution opens its terrace for drinks with Uptown artists and their supporters.
More information is available here.
Free. Friday evening, June 26, at 6 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, on Audubon Terrace at Broadway ant 155th Street. On the last Friday of summer months.
Learn to use the historical printing method of cyanotype photography. It uses iron salts and ultraviolet light to create images in a deep Prussian blue.
To work with cyanotype photography is to stand at the intersection of science and intuition. The process that reveals how light touches the world. Join the image-maker Jhanique Lovejoy to make your own cyanotype photograph at a drop-in workshop. You can also enjoy Lovejoy’s exhibit, on display at the museum through the autumn.
Free. Saturday, June 27, from noon to 3 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood, on Broadway at 204th Street,
Step into the world of George Washington and the early years of the nation as you learn social dances enjoyed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America.
The workshop with the New York Baroque Dance Company includes dances to the music of Francis Johnson, the celebrated American composer and bandleader whose music brought the whole nation to the dance floor. You'll practice elegant figures and spirited steps to live music, just as guests did at Morris-Jumel Mansion.
Free. Saturday afternoon, June 27, at 3 at the mansion in Roger Morris Park.
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, June 27, from 3:30 to 5 at the Hispanic Society of America, on Adubuon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street. Also on July 25, August 29, and September 26.
Join the global excitement of the World Cup without having to hitch a ride to Miami.
You can catch all of the excitement of Colombia vs. Portugal on a big screen with hundreds of other soccer fans where the world comes to play.
Bar and food will be available.
Free. Saturday night, June 27, at 6:30 at the United Palace, in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.
Adults and young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism are invited to a tour and workshop.
The experience focuses on art making inspired by exhibition Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas.
The program typically starts with a welcome in the classroom, a visit to the galleries, and then a workshop back in the classroom. All levels of art-making skills are welcome.
Assistive listening devices, ear defenders, fidget tools, wobbly cushions, stools, lap desks, adaptive art-making materials, sighted guides, and verbal descriptions are available. ASL interpreters are available by request with at least two weeks’ notice.
Space is limited, so registration is required; click on the links by age below.
Free. Sunday, June 28, from 11 to 12:30 for 5- to 13-year-olds and for 14- to 22-year-olds; and from 2 to 3:30 for those 23 and older. At the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.
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, June 28, from 1 to 4 at the museum in Fort Tryon Park.
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery includes her transformation into one of America’s greatest heroines.
In Harriet, the abolitionist’s courage, ingenuity, and tenacity show how she freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history. Starring Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monáe, and Leslie Odom Jr. Directed by Kasi Lemmons.
The Harlem Children’s Choir performs before the screening.
$12.72. Sunday afternoon, June 28, at 3 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi, on Broadway at 175th Street.
Celebrate one of Uptown’s treasures when the Fort Tryon Conservancy gardener Craig Peden inaugurates the magnificent great ginkgo as one of NYC Parks’ celebrated Great Trees.
Following the ceremony, enjoy an outdoor concert by Jhoely Garay and her Viva la Tierra ensember, blending jazz and Latin American rhythms into music to highlight climate awareness and overlooked histories. Take in nature, music, and community beneath the canopy of a great ginkgo.
Free. Sunday afternoon, June 28, at 4 on the Cloisters Lawn in Fort Tryon Park.
Sit in on a a talk centered on family archives as living repositories of Black history. The discussion invites you into a dialogue about memory, storytelling, and archival ethics, focusing on domestic archives.
In Jamaicanisms, Jhanique Lovejoy and Kat Thompson share their practices as Jamaican American artists. Through photography and textiles, Lovejoy and Thompson examine Black memory, family histories, and the material traces of the Jamaican diaspora.
Free. Tuesday evening, June 30, at 6 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, in Inwood on Broadway at 204th 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.
Join the Shorewalkers on a hike to Bear Mountain.
On this Independence Day trek, you’ll walk over the George Washington Bridge, down 400 steps, and continuing north along the Palisades to your destination.
It’s a continuation of the Memorial Day trek, which started at Battery Park and ended at the GWB.
Saturday, July 4, at a place and time shared with registrants.
Kevin Costner is at his funniest and most charismatic in Bull Durham, the 1988 film that’s as wise about minor league baseball as it is about relationships among a talented rookie, a veteran catcher, and a spiritual mentor.
Part of the Film Works Al Fresco series, the screening will be proceeded with Bharatanatyam dance by the Skyler Hagner Quartet.
Free. Monday night, July 6, at 7:30 at the Hudson, in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.
Enjoying water from a spring east of Broadway and 185th in the 1890s.
Explore old New York—really old New York. This occasional series covers topics back before street cars, when Inwood Valley was still agricultural, and sometimes looks further back. You can find out who lived here before Europeans arrived, and how the land appeared 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 7, at 7:30 at the Inwood Farm (though not at the farm in Inwood) on 218th Street at Indian Road. Often on the first Tuesday of the month.
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, July 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, July 11, from 1 to 3 in the Cloisters. On the second Saturday of the month.
If you like outdoor geometry, get on the street for sunrise and sunset when the shadows line up with the streets.
The so-called Manhattanhenge effect works Uptown on days different from the rest of the island’s.
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 July 12 and 13. Fort George Henge is also 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 in Hudson Heights.
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: Sunday and Monday, July 12 and 13, at dawn and dusk.
Summer Shorts presents an hour of films from this spring’s Inwood Film Festival.
It features a selection of award-winning and poignant shorts that showcase the resilience, creativity, and multi-cultural diversity of Northern Manhattan. Appropriate for families.
Reservations are required. The outdoor screening is part of Inwood Art Works’ summer Films al Fresco series. Before the film starts, enjoy a rock ’n’ roll concert by Edge at 7:30.
Free. Monday night, July 13, at 8 at The Hudson, in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.
Calliope Brass returns to Uptown to perform pop and jazz favorites alongside selections from their latest album, Second Nature.
The concert is part of the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra’s outdoor summer picnic series, informal performances throughout the neighborhood. Pack a picnic, and take blanket or chairs.
Free. Saturday afternoon, July 18, at 4 near the flag pole in Bennet Park, in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue at 183rd Street.
Enjoy an outdoor performance at a family farm.
The back porch concert features live music and music for everyone. Details to come.
Free. Saturday evening, July 18, at 5 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.
On the Lower East Side, Dominican teen and aspiring ladies’ man has nothing but girls on his mind in Raising Victor Vargas (2003), a touching coming-of-age film.
Part of the Film Works Al Fresco series, the screening will be proceeded with a concert by Curtis Turney and his Afro-Caribbean Septet .
Free. Monday night, July 6, at 7:30 at the Hudson, in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.
The eleventh year of Bruce’s Garden summer readings includes fiction, non-fiction, and a memoir.
Leslie Day is this year’s Sid Horenstein Memorial Reader. Dr. Day is an accomplished and prolific writer about the natural world, particularly in New York City. She will read from and discuss her latest book, River–A Hudson Memoir, a love letter to the city, its famous waterway, as well as the environment around us and the people who shape it.
Free. Wednesday evening, July 22, with refreshments at 6:30 and the reading at 7 in Isham Park at Bruces’s Garden, in Inwood across from 10 Park Terrace East (not West!), near 215th Street.
Enjoy some colonial revelry at a recreation of an eighteenth-century tavern.
The fun takes place in a home of the era, Manhattan’s oldest standing house and the location of “the room where it happened.” Open bar, live music, tavern games, and tours of the mansion are all included.
$50 and up. Saturday evening, July 25, at 6 at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, in Lower WaHi in Roger Morris Park.
Honor the art and artists of Uptown at an evening of smooth bourbon, local brews, dancing, and live blues at the Bourbon, Brews, and Blues fundraiser.
Inwood Art Words invites you to its outdoor soirée. The event features a premium bourbon tasting, specialty cocktails, wine, unlimited craft beer from Dyckman Beer Co., delicious hors d’ourves from The Hudson, and dancing to The Faustones. The backdrop is the evening sun and gorgeous views of the Hudson River.
$120; arrive and hour later for $75. Sunday afternoon, July 26, from 4 to 7 at The Hudson in Inwood, where Dyckman Street meets the river.
It’s inconceivable that you haven’t seen The Princess Bride on a screen of proportions as epic as the tale’s.
When a bedridden boy’s grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate, we are all entranced by the story of obstacles, enemies, and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love. Starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, and Mandy Patinkin. Directed by Rob Reiner. Written by William Goldman.
$12.72. Sunday evening, July 26, at 5 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi, on Broadway at 175th Street.
As formally audacious as it is narratively brilliant, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope connects a powerful ensemble in service of a darkly satisfying crime thriller. Famous for Hitchcock’s decision to make the film appear to be shot in one take, it stars Jimmy Stewart. From 1948.
Part of the Film Works Al Fresco series, the screening will be proceeded with a concert by the Cinema Quartet.
Free. Monday night, July 27, at 7:30 at the Hudson, in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.
Lend a hand to help clean up Manhattan’s Hudson River shoreline. Volunteers will collect trash to keep the waterfront clean.
The ninety-minute effort is organized by the Inwood Canoe Club and Friends of Inwood Hill Park.
Trash bags, work gloves, latex gloves, and grabbers will be provided. Wear clothes to get wet in, and take a water bottle and a snack. The canoe club asks that you release it from its potential negligence before volunteering.
Free. Saturday morning, August 1, at 10:30 at the Inwood Canoe Club, where Dyckman Street meets the river—then look to your left. On the first Saturday of the month through September.
The principal bass player of the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, Milad Daniari, will be joined by friends for an afternoon of music.
Make it a night out: pack a picnic and take a blanket.
Free. Saturday evening, August 1, at 5 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street. In case of rain, the concert moves to Our Saviour’s Church of the Atonement, in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 179th Street.
Enjoy the sounds of the annual Stan Michels Jazz Festival, the first of the three summer outdoor jazz extravaganzas in Uptown parks.
Details are still being worked out, and when they’re announced we’ll post them here.
The other festivals are in Roger Morris Park on August 22 and 23, and in Inwood Hill Park on September 20.
Free. Saturday, August 8, in Fort Tryon Park at a time to be shared later.
When two metro reporters showed how the leader of the free world tried to upend democracy, the president took responsibility and resigned.
Their story is memorably told in All the President’s Men, the filmed version of the book by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The pair uncovered the details of the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon's downfall, screened 52 years to the day he unceremoniously left the White House.
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, and Jack Warden. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Written by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, and William Goldman.
$12.72. Sunday afternoon, August 9, at 3 at the United Palace, in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.
Uptown is known for its love of jazz and jazz festivals.
Join Marjorie Elliot on the piano for Jazz at the Mansion, one of the neighborhood’s rites of summer. Musicians from around town and from across the region perform outdoors on the lawn of Manhattan’s oldest standing house.
Take lawn chairs or a blanket.
Free. Saturday and Sunday, August 22 and 23, at times to be announced later at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, in Lower WaHi in Roger Morris Park.
Relax with the Riverside Brass Quintet and enjoy a program with music by George Gershwin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, John Batiste, Will Aaronson and more.
The ensemble aims to redefine contemporary chamber music through novel performances, projects and collaboration.
The concert is outdoors, so pack a picnic and take a blanket.
Free. Saturday afternoon, August 29, at 2 on Pat’s Lawn in Inwood Hill Park. Rain date: Sunday at 2.
The Uptown Arts Stroll concluded in June, but the conversation continues.
As we pause before Labor Day, forty-six Uptown artists gather to answer the question, America, the Beautiful? As you may suspect, there’s no single answer, and many of the artists’ points of view will fall outside the mainstream of America in its 250th year.
Free. Wednesday evening, September 2, at 6 at the NoMAA Gallery in Fort George, on Broadway between 175th and 176th Streets.
Into autumn
In this third program of the Still Here series, WildLine celebrates ungovernable bodies, and the ways in which we are still here.
The concert features fresh perspectives from installation artist Yiseul LeMieux, in collaboration with WildLine’s flute, cello and piano trio of Tessa Brinckman, Chris Gross and David Friend.
WildLine is a new, project-based chamber music ensemble based in Uptown that imagines.
Free. Thursday night, September 17, at 7:30 at Our Saviour’s Church of the Atonement, in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 189th Street.
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, September 19, 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, September 20, 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.
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.
Thursday evening, September 24, at a time to be announced later at the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Lower WaHi in Roger Morris Park.
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 Richard 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 28, at 3 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi, on Broadway at 175th Street.
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.
It’s time to get back to standard time and stop saving daylight.
This is when we gain an hour, so set your clocks and watches back an hour—unless they’re bluetoothed, Wi-Fi’ed, ethernetted or otherwise connected to the cloud—and get ready for brighter mornings.
Sunday morning, November 1, at 2.
Spend some time on Thanksgiving to remind yourself of the Lenape people and the blessings of their land we now call home.
Shorakopoch Rock is fabled to be the spot where the Lenape traded the island to Peter Minuit for goods worth 60 Dutch guilders. In pre-pandemic years, a short ceremony honored inhabitants’ duty to Mother Earth and responsibility to the forest, the river, and each other.
Did you know that the location is in Manhattan’s only untouched forest? The Shorakopoch Preserve was inducted into the Old-Growth Forest Network last year.
At Shorakopoch Rock in Inwood Hill Park. From the intersection of 214th Street and Indian Road, follow the path that runs along the water; the boulder is on the far side of a large, open field.
You’ve had plenty of turkey and too much pie, so now’s the time to burn some calories.
On this Shorewalkers trek, you’ll start at the southern tip of Manhattan, walk the Hudson River Greenway, and end in Fort Washington Park at the Little Red
Lighthouse.
Sign up here. Dress for the weather, take a snack, and wear comfortable shoes.
Saturday morning, November 28, at a time and meetup spot shared with the participants.
Start 2025 by stretching your legs and your expectations.
The Shorewalkers’ Happy New Year’s Day Hike starts in Inwood Hill Park and from there strolls along the east side, taking you under the three great bridges that span the Harlem River in High Bridge Park.
Dress for the weather, wear comfortable shoes, pack some water and take a snack.
Friday morning, January 1, at a time and an Uptown meet-up spot shared with participants.
Columbia University invites Uptowners to apply to join the 14th cohort of A’Lelia Bundles Community Scholars.
For three years, Bundles Scholars are given access to Columbia’s academic resources, including libraries, course auditing, and campus events. They also receive a university email address, an ID card, and an annual stipend of $500.
Scholars have opportunities to share their work and build relationships across the University. Past scholars have worked on a wide variety of projects, including developing nonprofits, writing books, and conducting research in their area of interest. Up to five scholars are selected each year and projects with a community connection are greatly encouraged.
If you live Uptown, have at least a high school diploma or GED, and are not already affiliated with Columbia, you are eligible to apply.
The deadline is in May.
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 Shorakkopoch (“edge of the water”).
The celebration will be led by Louis Mofsie and the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers with Host Drums Heyna Second Sons. Mohawk Elder, Tom
Porter, will give the opening Thanksgiving Address and ceremonial Tree of Peace Planting.
Free. Usually on the first Sunday from 11 to 6 in Inwood Hill Park at Indian Road and 218th Street.
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