Makre your day off a day on.

     It won’t take much of your time to make a big difference when you donate non-perishable food or a gently used coat to make the most of MLK Day.

     Your contributions will help those experiencing food insecurity and in need of healthy food and warm clothes.

     Monday from 11 to 3 outside Word Up Community Bookshop in Lower WaHi on Amsterdam Avenue and 165th Street.

     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.

     Restaurant Week is coming, when you can enjoy discounted prix-fixe meals around town.

     For this installment, Uptown Garrison is the only Uptown restaurant to join the promotion. The pizzeria will feature three-course dinners at a special price.

     $45. Starting Tuesday at the restaurant in Hudson Heights on 181st Street between Pinehurst Avenue and Cabrini Boulevard. Through February 2.

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

      The “Manhattanhenge” effect works Uptown on days different from the rest of the island’s.

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

     The effect works below 174th and above 174th if you go east of Broadway (for sunrise: sunset views may be blocked by buildings to the west). So if you want to see Manhattanhenge, as it’s dubbed, hope for clear skies on May 29 and July 12.

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

     Inwood Henge: Thursday at dawn and dusk.

     After years of delays, and after years of construction, the new and improved Fort Washington branch of the New York Public Library is finally open again!

     Following a large-scale modernization as part of Library’s Carnegie Renovation Program, you can visit the improved branch to to check out materials, use computers, and connect with staff.

     Then, join the ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the reopening and see for yourself the new furnishings, technology upgrades, programming spaces, improved ADA accessibility, and more. 

     Thursday morning at 10 in Fort George on 179th Street between St. Nicholas and Audubon Avenues.

     Discover the rich history of the estrado—a woman’s private drawing room found in early modern Spain and the Spanish Americas.

     An exhibition at the Hispanic Society and Museum, A Room of Her Own: The Estrado and the Hispanic World, explores the estrado’s long-overlooked role in female agency, social practices, and intercultural exchange. A Room of Her Own features decorative objects, paintings, textiles, rare books, and engravings from the Hispanic Society’s unrivaled collection, with many works on view for the first time.

     Free. Open Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 5 in the Society’s galleries on Audubon Terrace on Broadway at 155th Street. Through March 9.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

     A love letter to Uptown and the women who hold it together, Faces & Façades is an exhibition showcasing new artwork by Andrea Arroyo.

     The paintings blend organic and non-organic forms, taking inspiration from two sources, the female body and the architectural elements of Uptown buildings.

     Join the artist for a toast to the new year on Saturday afternoon, January 18, from 3 to 4:30.

     Free. Thursdays from 1 to 4 and Fridays through Sundays 11 to 4 at the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Roger Morris Park on Jumel Terrace. Through March 23.

     Take a moment to tune into your senses and practice mindfulness in this guided session.

     Throughout the Middle Ages, people from all walks of life retreated to monasteries to contemplate the spiritual and experience inner calm. Taking inspiration from global contemplative practices, as well as the unique art, atmosphere, and gardens of The Met Cloisters, step back from the usual pace of life and connect with the beauty that surrounds us. Practitioners of all experience levels are welcome.  

     Registration is required.

     Free with museum admission. Thursday afternoons at 3 at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park. Through January.

     Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s landmark poem Primero Sueño (First Dream) is widely considered one of the greatest literary works of the Hispanic Baroque. The text is intimate and highly symbolic, full of curiosity and insight on mysticism, feminism, and the power of the natural world at large.

     Now, in a collaboration between composer Paola Prestini and jazz icon Magos Herrera, the words of Sor Juana find an operatic voice for the first time as her spiritual journey transforms into a physical procession through the sacred spaces of the Cloisters. Herrera herself plays Sor Juana alongside the acclaimed Leipzig-based vocal ensemble Sjaella and a team of virtuoso multi-instrumentalists.

     Note that Primero Sueño is a processional performance. The audience will move from gallery to gallery. Seating may be limited. Appropriate footwear is recommended.

     $120. Thursday through Sunday nights at 7 in the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     For a special haunted tour, join Mariah Kunau, a medium and paranormal investigator who you may have seen on the show Surviving Death exploring Manhattan’s oldest standing home. 

     Experience the innovations that made panel painting one of the most celebrated mediums of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance.

     On this thirty-minute tour, a Metropolitan Museum curator will take you on a deep dive into a selection of panel paintings in the galleries for untold stories from Met insiders. The painting here is the Merode Altarpiece (detail), from the workshop of Robert Campin c. 1427–32, Netherlandish.

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

    Latino and Spanish-speaking workers and immigrants who participated in a workshop to explore theater created a play, El espacio que compartimos / The Space We Share, which they present to Uptown residents. Sponsored by the People’s Theatre Project.

     Friday night at the Centro Cultural Alianza Dominicana in Lower WaHi at 530 West 166th Street.

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

     Start the year with mindful movement. 

     Uptown teacher Haydee Ruiz hosts weekly yoga classes over the winter. Take your own mat; chairs will be provided.

      Register here. Masks are required.

     $15 per class. Saturday morning at 10 at Recirculation in Lower WaHi at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th Street). Through February 22.

     The Rhône Glacier is expected to disappear withing 25 years. To help keep the it frozen as long as possible, residents cover the five-acre surface with thermal blankets each spring.

     A film by Ohan Breiding interweaves footage of the glacier’s calving—when massive pieces of ice break away into rushing water—with scenes of a calf's birth in nearby alpine pastures. The film, Belly of a Glacier, culminates with glacier funerals—a recent ritual for communities to mourn glaciers when they disappear.

     On Saturday at 4, Breiding will talk with performance studies scholar and educator Katie Brewer Ball about how personal narratives intersect with histories of ice in Belly of a Glacier. Reserve your seat early.

     Free. The film is screened Thursdays through Sundays; details here. At the American Academy of Arts and Letters on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 156th Street. Through February 9.

     Sit in when Dr. Nicholas Powers discusses his latest work, Black Psychedelic Revolution, on how psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized trauma.

     He will share an Afrofuturistic take on Black psychedelia toward joy and liberation. In conversation with Powers will be journalist Sidney Fussell.

     $5. Saturday afternoon at 4 at at Word Up Community Bookshop in Lower WaHi on Amsterdam Avenue and 165th Street.

     Discover raptors in a mid-winter trek.

     The Urban Park Rangers will guide you to the best viewing spots in Manhattan’s only untouched forest to see birds of prey. The one-hour program is appropriate for all skill levels and beginners are welcome.

     The Rangers will show you the forest ecosystem and show you how raptors make it their home. Dress for the weather.

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

     Inspired by the art of the Met Cloisters?

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

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

     Free with museum admission. Sunday afternoon at 1 in the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park. Also on February 23.

     Join the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra for a concert with the theme echoes and discover how music that tells the stories of our past affects our present and future.

     Featuring Valerie Coleman’s Tzigane, Emmy Wegener’s Suite for String Trio, Bohuslav Martinů’s Nonet, and Antonin Dvorak’s String Quintet No. 2, op. 77.

     Before the concert, you can take your children to the meet the instruments petting zoo where even the youngest listeners can get up close with their favorite instruments before seeing them come alive onstage. Starts at 2:45.

     $20; seniors $10; children $5. Sunday afternoon at 3 at the Fort Washington Collegiate Church in Hudson Heights on Col. Robt. McGaw Place at 181st 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.

     Curbside composting is now available to all Manhattan residents! No sign-up needed.

     Compost will be picked up every week on your recycling day. The Sanitation Department will pick up all leaf and yard waste, food scraps, and food-soiled paper. That includes meat, bones, dairy, prepared foods, and greasy uncoated paper plates and pizza boxes.

     But do not compost trash such as diapers, personal hygiene products, animal waste, wrappers, non-paper packaging, and foam products.

     And do not compost recyclable materials. Learn more about what to recycle.

     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.

     The Literature to Life program adapts Erika L. Sánchez’s young adult novel in its newest performance.

     I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter takes place in modern day Chicago and focuses on the idea of finding one’s identity and breaking free from societal, cultural, and familial expectations.

     The performance is in partnership with Freedom Reads, the only organization in the nation transforming the experience of incarceration by opening libraries in prison housing facilities.

     $23.64. Monday night, January 27, at 7 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     Space is the place for alumni of the Sun Ra Arkestra. But this time, go no further than Lower WaHi for a series of performances.

     Details to follow.

     Saturday afternoon, February 1, from 1 to 6 at Recirculation at 876 Riverside Drive at 160th Street.

     Enjoy the Cloisters at a different pace.

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

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

     Free with museum admission. Sunday afternoon, February 2, at 2 in the Cloisters; meet in the main hall. Also on Saturday, April 5, and Sunday, June 22.

     Three poets are the first visitors in this year’s Bloom Readings cycle.

     Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches at The 92nd Street Y and is Associate editor-at-large of Plume Poetry. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her third book, Echolocation, was on the long list for the Julie Suk Award in 2019.

     Susana H. Case is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, most recently, If This Isn't Love, and co-editor with Margo Taft Stever of I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe. The first of her five chapbooks, The Scottish Café, was re-released in an English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka, and as an English-Ukrainian edition, Шотландська Кав'ярня.

     Chris Hansen-Nelson is the author of two collection of poetry, The Book of Clay and Fathers, Sons and Holy Ghosts. He is the director of Bloom Readings.

     $10. Sunday evening, February 2, at 6 in The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

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

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

     Tuesday night, February 4, at 7:30 at the Inwood Farm (though not at the farm in Inwood) on 218th Street at Indian Road. On the first Tuesday of the month.

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

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

     Free. Tuesday night, February 4, at 7 at Word Up Community Bookshop in Lower WaHi on Amsterdam Avenue at 165th Street.

     Learn how artists tell stories in a variety of media in a workshop hosted by a Broadway actor and Uptown neighbor.

     Note: February’s workshop has not been posted yet; check with the sponsor before heading out.

     $10; members free. Thursday evening, February 6, at 6 at the NoMAA studio in Lower WaHi at 4140 Broadway, near 176th Street. On the first Thursday of the month.

     Dive into a multi-hued experience in The Colorful World of Pancho Fierro, Afro-Peruvian Painter, with a special curator’s tour.

     Dr. Marcus Burke will discuss Fierro’s vivid depictions of Peruvian society, highlighting the extraordinary upward social mobility that was possible in nineteenth-century Lima, as well as the trans-Pacific networks of exchange that carried Fierro’s watercolors across the globe.

     The talk will also examine the scientific studies of these works recently completed by a team of scientists from Nottingham Trent University, casting Fierro’s watercolors in a new light.

     Free. Friday morning, February 7, at 10 at the Hispanic Society on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

     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, February 8, at 1 in the Cloisters.

     Sponsored by Carnegie Hall, Ensemble Connect presents a community concert performed by fellows in its two-year program.

     The Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute support the endeavor in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.

     Free. Sunday evening, February 9, at 5 at Our Saviour’s Church of the Atonement in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 189th Street.

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

     Discover Uptown’s storied past with the Urban Park Rangers as your guide.

     On this one hour walk-through of Fort Tryon Park, rangers will discuss the rich history of the hills and dales that make up today’s crown jewel of a park. You’ll learn about the previous landowners, the creation of the park, and the land’s role in the Revolutionary War.

     Wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather.

     Free. Saturday afternoon, February 22, at 1; meet at the park entrance at Margaret Corbin Circle in Hudson Heights.

     Calling all green (or not so green) thumbs …

     In this workshop for New Yorkers without land out back, you’ll learn the basics of plant care and propagation, and how to start and maintain an indoor garden. Flowers and herbs will be included for your windowsill plantings.

     The 90-minute session will be led by the Urban Park Rangers.

     Free. Sunday afternoon, February 23, at 1 in Inwood Hill Park; meet at 218th Street and Indian Road.

     Celebrate the vinyl LP at the second Uptown Record Fair. The event features specialty sale items from the Recirculation archives, plus record vendors, vinyl DJs, and more. 

     The fair last year was stocked to the rafters with thousands of books collected by the book shop’s late friend and volunteer Tom Burgess, and also by his records. Organizers have set aside scores of specialty items, which will make up the core of one booth Several other vendors will set up tables to offer goods across the musical spectrum–jazz, rock, hip-hop, blues, experimental, and more.

     Providing the soundtrack to the day will be vinyl-centric DJs from uptown and beyond, including a special set culled from Tom Burgess’ collection. 

     Donations appreciated. Saturday, March 1, from noon to 6 at Recirculation in Lower WaHi at 876 Riverside Drive at 160th Street.

     Sit in on a one-night only cabaret performance of The Astrology of Sondheim.

     Performed by Ashley O’Neill, the literary manager of the UP Theater Company, the evening will offer what the heavens themselves might observe about a certain American musical singularity.

     Saturday night, March 1, at a time and place to be announced later.

     The spring performance from UP Theater is Bread of Life, by Inwood resident Frank Pagliaro.

     The company’s sixteenth mainstage production, the drama was chosen from a Dead of Winter reading. It tells the timely story of a mysterious messiah, and the tragic upheaval thrust upon a disciple’s family—through the eyes of the wife of one of Jesus’ disciples.

     At a date, time, and location in the spring to be announced later.

     See Manhattan as you’ve never seen it before.

     The Great Saunter covers the 32 miles around the shore of our island on foot. It’s physical and mental challenge that celebrates individual effort and an ever-changing city. Each year the Saunter brings 3,000 walkers together to circumnavigate Manhattan, staying as close to the shoreline as possible.

     You’ll meet people from around the world, delight in the city’s newest parks, and groan at some of the detours needed to strengthen its resilience. And you’ll make note of the neighborhoods without access to the waterfront, showing how lucky we are to live in Uptown.

     The group typically starts passing through Fort Washington Park before noon.

     Registration required.

     Saturday morning, May 3, at a start (and finish) location shared with registrants.

     Half of North American adults suffer from chronic illness, a fact Western medicine views largely in terms of individual predispositions and habits.

     Gabor Maté, a retired physician with experience in palliative care, explains how a society dedicated to material pursuits rather than genuine human needs and spiritual values stresses its members and offers solutions.

     $86.90 to $344.30. Saturday and Sunday nights, May 3 and 4, at 8 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

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

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

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

     Free. Thursdays through Sundays, opening May 8, from noon to 5 at the Hispanic Society of American on Audubon Terrace at 155th Street. Through August 31.

     Join the UP Theater company when it honors the UPstanding person of 2025. Last year’s honorees Elias Gurmu and Sarina Prabasi of Bunnii Coffee.

     Wednesday night, May 14, at a time to be announced later at Mamajuana in Inwood on Dyckman Street.

     The string players of the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra are featured as the ensemble concludes its season with Landscapes, a musical homage to the distant lands that are a part of our heritage.

     Featuring Fela Sowande’s African Suite for Strings and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.

     Before the concert, you can take your children to the meet the instruments at a petting zoo when even the youngest listeners can get up close with their favorite instruments before seeing them come alive onstage. Starts at 2:45.

     $20; seniors $10; children $5. Saturday afternoon, May 17, at 3 at the Fort Washington Collegiate Church in Hudson Heights on Col. Robt. McGaw Place at 181st Street.

     Join the Shorewalkers on a hike to Bear Mountain.

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

     Don’t worry, that’s not all in one day: It’s separated into two parts. The second takes place on Independence Day.

     Register here.

     Monday morning, May 26, at a place and time shared with registrants.

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

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

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

     Tuesday, June 3, from 8 to 4 on 168th Street at Fort Washington Avenue. Weekly on Tuesdays through December 23.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

     Saturday, September 20, at a time to be announced later starting on Abby’s Lawn in Fort Tryon Park.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

     Start 2025 by stretching your legs and your expectations.

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

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

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