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.

     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 (left) 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.

     Michael Staudenmaier discusses his new book White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago, a portrait of the Puerto Rican community’s experience of racialization in Chicago.

     Leading the conversation will be Johanna Fernandez, the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History. 

     Thursday night at 7 at Recirculation in Lower WaHi on Riverside Drive near 160th 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.

     Looking for that special tchotchke?

     Misplace a gewgaw and need a new one?

     Or maybe you have too many of both and are ready to say goodbye to them. Either way, the RING garden’s annual flea sale matches buyers and sellers in Uptown’s only publicly accessible private park.

     Saturday at 10 in the Riverside-Inwood Neighborhood Garden at the confluence or Broadway, Riverside Drive, and Dyckman Street. Rain date: May 9.

     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 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.

     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 second Saturday of the month. Through May. 

     Join Morbid Anatomy and the New York City chapter of the Silent Book Club of Death for an afternoon of reading and contemplating mortality.

     You’ll meet in a medieval gallery in a session facilitated by death care worker and death literacy advocate Lauren Seeley. Morbid Anatomy is celebrating almost 20 years as an alternative education organization dedicated to death, life, and the mysteries in between.

     The program will begin with silent reading followed by a game of The Death Deck and an open discussion. Books will be provided, but you’re welcome to take your own.

     Space is limited; registration is required. 

     Free with museum admission. Saturday afternoon from 2 to 5 in the Saint-Guilhem Cloister of the Cloisters museum, in Fort Tryon Park.

     The Cornerstone Chorale explores the nation’s existence through music of some of the communities who have lived here. 

     The Chorale celebrates some of the many peoples who now live together: from many, one. The concert will include music of Copland, Bob Dylan, Undine Smith Moore, Hairston, Rosephayne Powell, Ponds, López-Gavilán, Blackhorse, and others. Conducted by music director Richard Stout.

      $20; students and seniors, $15. Sunday afternoon at 4:30 at Holyrood Church in Hudson Heights, on Fort Washington Avenuet at 179th 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.

     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. 

     The next big job is to replace the roof. The work has started, but on a historic structure like this one it’s slow going. 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.

     An opera with a WaHi connection opens at the Met.

     The Metropolitan Opera premieres El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, the first opera by American Academy of Arts and Letters member Gabriela Lena Frank. The libretto is by Nilo Cruz.

     Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego Rivera.

     The Academcy hosts Frank and Cruz in a talk about the show’s creation, interspersed with solo vocal performances by members of the cast.A reception at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library.

     Sold out. Tuesday evening, May 5, at 6:30 at the Academy on Audubon Terrace, on Broadway at 155th Street.

     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.

     Last month the curious discovered the network of springs, wells, creeks, and canals that dotted northern Manhattan.

     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, May 5, 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.

     Specializing in jazz and free improvisation, the Harlem-based ensemble Dust Roots is led by Colin Babcock, a trombonist, composer, improvisor, and teacher from Pickerington, Ohio.

     Babcock is one of the founders of the New York City Brass Choir and the Brownstone Brass Quintet. He is also a member of William Parker’s Little Huey’s Pocket Watch”, the Fort Greene Orchestra.

     In this concert he will be joined by Dust Roots’ personnel Aakash Mittal, Simon Hanes, and Hans Young-Binter.

     $18.91. Friday night, May 8, at 7 at Our Saviour’s Church of the Atonement, in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 189th 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, May 9, from 1 to 3 in the Cloisters. On the second Saturday of the month.

     Is your mom best represented by “To My Mother,” by Edgar Allan Poe, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, The Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown—or perhaps something more contemporary?

    Honor her at a post–Mother’s Day Muse dedicated to the mothers and caregivers who shape and nurture our lives. You’ll be invited to share out loud a short poem, story, or passage (1–3 minutes) in gratitude or remembrance. Read your favorite text or one you wrote yourself. 

     Free. Monday night, May 11, at 7 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     From Brahms’ lush harmonies to Celtic farewells, the Washington Heights Communityn Choir presents a concert that takes you on a musical journey across cultures and centuries.

     With American spirituals and Scottish folk songs, this concert  weaves together threads of memory, nature, hope, and community.

     Free. Tuesday night, May 12, at 7 at the St. Francis Cabrini Shrine, in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue near 190th Street. Also on May 16 at 3.

        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.

     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, May 16, at 9:30 at the Anne Loftus Playground, in Fort Tryon Park’s Inwood edge. Weekly through September 12.

     Word Up welcomes the mental health advocate and storyteller Leah 수진 Kim to discuss her new book, Mom, Unfiltered: Maternal Mental Health and Finding Freedom Through Motherhood.

     The book is a personal examination of the dire state of maternal and postpartum care for mothers. In conversation with Kim will be Frederick Joseph, author of This Thing of Ours and Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood.

     $5. Satruday afternoon, May 16, at 1 at Recirculation in Lower WaHi, on Riverside Drive near 160th Street.

     The Performing Arts Group at Hudson View Gardens presents the Spanish Connection. 

      Music from the Americas for voice and piano is performed by mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna, tenor José Heredia, and pianist Amber Scherer. The piece is by Alberto Ginastera and Hudson View Gardens resident Raymond Luedke.

     $20; students and seniors, $15. Sunday evening, May 17, at 5 at The Lounge in Hudson View Gardens, in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

     This year’s weeknight Zumbia 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, May 19, 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. 

     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, May 20, at 6:30 in Fort Tryon Park on the Linden Terrace. Through September 9. 

     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, May 20, at 6:45 in Fort Tryon Park on Abby’s Lawn. Through August 26. 

     Smile wide when you see the lavender on Columbia’s dentists graduating in the Class of 2026.

     Their outfits have roots in the nineteenth century, with a crown that dates to colonial days when Columbia was King’s College. Curious for more? Read here how blue, lavender, crowns and more came together on their dress.

     Thursday morning, May 21, at 10 at the Armory in Lower WaHi, on Broadway at 168th Street.

     Join a drop-in art-making workshop, inspired by the medieval world.

     In this open studio, you’ll explore materials and process through artist-led demonstrations, creative activities, and conversations with Met experts.

     For visitors of all ages. All materials are provided.

     Free with museum admission. Sunday afternoon, May 24, from 1 to 4 in the Pontuat Chapter House of the Cloisters museum, in Fort Tryon Park. 

     Join the Shorewalkers on a hike to Bear Mountain.

     On this Memorial Day trek, you’ll walk from Battery Park to the GWB.

     The second leg of the journey, over the George Washington Bridge, down 400 steps, and continuing along the Palisades, takes place on Independence Day.

     Register here.

     Monday, May 25, at a place and time shared with registrants.

     Celebrate the arts Uptown at A Night at the Palace Gala, a fundraising event held in conjunction with the 2026 Uptown Arts Stroll. 

     A total arts event, the gala recognizes supporters of the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance and celebrates the art and culture that make the neighborhood a creative powerhouse.

     $1,000. Wednesday evening, May 27, at 6 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi, on Broadway at 175th Street. 

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

      The so-called Manhattanhenge effect works Uptown on days different from the rest of the island’s.

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

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

     Fort George Henge: Thursday and Friday, May 28 and 29, at dawn and dusk.

     The eleventh Inwood Film Festival showcases the sights, sounds, people, and talents of the filmmakers of Inwood and its surrounding neighborhoods. 

    The festival screens films produced in the last year by Uptowners and some in the Bronx. They’ve all been chosen for their quality. Find the full line-up here.

     The festival runs over a long weekend and include panel discussions, evening parties, and chances to meet the filmmakers.

     $17.64 for individual films; $65.58 for festival pass. Thursday through Sunday, May 28–31, at Columbia’s Campbell Sports Center in Inwood on Broadway at 218th Street.

     A cyborg from the future, identical to the one that failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten-year-old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg. Terminator 2: Judgment Day stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and was directed by James Cameron.

     $12.72. Sunday afternoon, May 31, at 3 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 165th Street.

     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 will be available later in May.

     Free. Throughout June in locations from Lower WaHi through the tip of Inwood. 

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

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

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

     Resuming on June 2. Tuesdays on 168th Street at Fort Washington Avenue. Through December 15.

     Help sow the seeds of music by supporting Prelude Opera and its programming for children. 
     At the opera soirée you’ll enjoy hors d’oeuvres in Fort Tryon Park and hear the premiere reading of the troupe’s new children’s opera, The Brementown Musicians. Meet the composer, Laura Jobin-Acosta, and the librettist, Joanie Brittingham. Prizes will be raffled and you’ll get to show your prowess at opera trivia.

     $105.70. Thursday evening, June 4, at 6 at the Bonnefont Restaurant on the café lawn; enter the park from Margaret Corbin Circle in Hudson Heights.

     When it opened in 2011, Word Up Community Bookshop/Librerí Comunitaria was Uptown’s only bookstore.

     Celebrate Word Up’s 15th birthday,  celebrated as a quinceañera. You’ll find poetry and music, food and drink, books and a kids’ zone with crafts, magic, and bubbles.

     Free. Friday afternoon, June 5, from 4 to 8 on Audubon Plaza in Lower WaHI.

     The Hispanic Society’s annual summer party kicks off the season in style.

     You’ll enjoy an evening of delicious food and lively rhythms dedicated to helping the society preserve the art and culture of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. 

     Ticket information will be available later.

     Thursday evening, June 11, in the courtyard of the society on Audubon Plaza, on Broadway at 154th Street.

     The Performing Arts Group at Hudson View Gardens presents Jazz in the gardens. 

      The Randal Dispommier Quarter features the New Orleanian namesake on saxophone and vocals, Jason Yeager on keyboards, Aaron Holthus on bass, and drummer Jay Sawyer.

     $20; students and seniors, $15. Sunday night, June 14, at 7:30 at The Lounge in Hudson View Gardens, in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd 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.

     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. 

     $12.72. Sunday afternoon, June 28, at 3 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi, on Broadway at 175th 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.

     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.” Details to come.

     Saturday night, July 25, at a time to be announced later at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, in Lower WaHi in Roger Morris Park.

     It’s inconceivable that you haven’t sees The Princess Bride in an actual movie theater.

     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 Palce in Lower WaHi, on Broadway at 175th Street.

     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.

     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.

     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 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.

https://unitedpalace.org/ghostbustersinconcert/     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.

     Buy your tickets early, on April 2, with the code: Staypuft.

     Saturday, October 17, at a time to be announced later 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.

     Take a step toward the New York Marathon at the Salsa, Blues, and Shamrocks 5K.

     Both races are sponsored by the New York Road Runners, so the perennial Uptown jaunt is a qualifying race for the fabled autumn marathon. The course takes you from Lower WaHi, up through Hudson Heights,  turning around at the edge of Fort Tryon Park to head back downhill.

     On a Sunday morning in early March in Lower WaHi on Fort Washington Avenue between 172nd and 173rd Streets.