June 13, 2025 / 
The photo above or at right was taken at a Queen Boro Dance Festival performance in a prior year. The dance festival resumed its summer performances last week.
Saturday, June 14, 2025 from 12 noon - 5 pm - Annual Brooklyn Pride Festival. The festival takes place along 5th Avenue between Union and 9th Street in Prospect Park / Park Slope. The Pride Festival includes food, shopping and an entertainment area on 4th Street. This is preceded by a 10 am 5K Run / Walk, includes a family event at the Old Stone House, and is followed by a twilight parade [see below]. Brooklyn parades in Prospect Park / Park Slope. For details see - https://brooklynpride.org
Saturday, June 14, 2025 from 12 noon to 4 pm - The 22nd Annual Hunts Point Fish Parade & Festival. The event begins with pre-parade registration & activities usually beginning at 11 am [free]. The parade begins at 12 noon at The Point CDC at 940 Garrison Avenue and marches east to Hunts Point Riverside Park at 1409 Lafayette Avenue at Edgewater Road [just across the Bronx River from Soundview Park] where the festival begins, generally around 1 pm. The festival includes games, music, food and raffles. Organized by the Point CDC. Bronx street fairs in Hunts Point. Fish parades in the Bronx NYC. For details see - https://www.thepoint.org or FB - https://www.facebook.com/THEPOINTCDC/
Saturday, June 14, 2025 from 12 noon to 5 pm - Cottage Row Curiosities - for details use the street fair link below.
June 6, 2025 / 
Tribeca _ Wednesday through Sunday, June 4 - 15, 2025 - The Tribeca Film Festival - at Spring Studios at [6 St Johns Lane] but generally the entrance on Varick between York and Laight Streets in Tribeca is the most frequently used. There are a multitude of free and paid live and online events and films covering a variety of subjects including but not limited to LGBTQ, LatinX and Juneteenth to view at various venues around the city. For details see - https://tribecafilm.com
Pride Parade in Sunnyside Queens?
Friday - Sunday, May 30 to June 8, 2025 at various times - the Brooklyn Film Festival - at three live location venues including Windmill Studios at 300 Kingsland Avenue, the Wythe Hotel at 80 Wythe Avenue, and the Round Table Brewery at 245 South First, as well as online. There will be 145 films presented in 42 programs, spanning six categories including Feature, Documentary, Short Documentary and Narrative, Experimental and Animation. Last year [2024] there WAS also a full day of panels and talks but I don't see anything like that for 2025. The primary location for live viewing is at Windmill Studios on 300 Kingsland Avenue [and the other two locations noted above] in Greenpoint Brooklyn. For $15 / $12 tickets and details see - https://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/
Saturday, May 24, 2025 - Orchard Beach Opens for the Summer.
Friday, June 6, 2025 at 6 pm - Staten Island Pridefest - is hosting an event at the St. George Theatre at 325 St. Marks Place on Staten Island. For details see - https://www.pridecentersi.org/pridefest-events-2025.jpeg)
May 31, 2025 / 
May 23, 2025 / 
One Big BOOTY-FILLED Bill. Republican Majority Leader Mike Johnson, with the help of 215 Republicans in Congress, passed a budget bill which will severely cut Medicaid, and possibly cut over $600 billion from Medicare over the next ten years. The bill is reported to eliminate tax credits for clean energy usage, and give the wealthiest people on the planet even lower taxes compared to the rest of us - netting them trillions in extra wealth, while those earning less than $17,000 will pay $1000 or more than currently. It's a democracy destroying budget bill, that will shift $3 trillion onto the next generation and impoverish them, so that the wealthiest people in the world can contribute at even lower levels to the public good, than they already do.
The reason the federal government is running a deficit - is because Presidents Reagan, Bush Jr. and Trump all gave the rich huge tax cuts, which they funded by dumping debt on America's children. It's not because the federal government is bloated. After months of telling us waste, fraud and abuse, they came up with about $60 billion in cuts - but those were to the Air Traffic Control System which anyone who's flow into or out of Newark Airport knows wasn't a good idea. They cut investments in clean energy, which anyone who's been paying attention, knows that that is not an intelligent choice if you expect to live more than the next 10 - 20 years. They are cutting the federal government's compliance function like the IRS and 17 Inspectors General who make sure we have little waste, fraud and abuse. Why? So people like Musk, who do business with the federal government don't have to answer to the public. And as you can see by the American Legion headline above, they're going to cut the hell out of the VA.
A government of, for and by The People doesn't work if the people don't seek out truthful information sources so they know who's who, and what's what, so they can make smart - not manipulated choices - when they go to vote for candidates, so we get government officials who have integrity, unlike so many of them now in office. So many of the current set of government officials and candidates have proven track records of cheating their fellow New Yorkers / Americans in order to get rich people's campaign funding and / or fill their own pockets at our expense.
I don't think most - or even all Veterans - risked their lives to be governed so disrespectfully, nor to have their rights to government funding and services be cancelled, so that the billionaires can cash in on a major feeding at the public trough, even more than they usually do.
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There always seems to be construction going on in NYC, and yet somehow we have an affordable housing shortage. Neither the billionaire Network TV News, nor the pols are being honest about what's really going on.
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Updated May 16, 2025 / 
Wednesday - Sunday, April 30 - June 1, 2025 beginning at 8 pm most evenings [Saturday Matinee] - The United States vs Ulysses - at the Irish Arts Center at 726 11th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. They describe the play as follows, " ... It’s 1933, and James Joyce’s sexually explicit Ulysses has been banned in the U.S. for a decade. But now, a hungry young publisher and an ambitious lawyer have teamed up to take on the Puritans. Can they convince the judge that Ulysses is not obscene? And what will happen when Ulyssesgets under their skin—and Molly Bloom gets into their heads? ...". For details and $25 - $76 tickets see - https://irishartscenter.org
Thursday through Sunday, May 15 - 18, 2025 runs 5 pm - 11 pm Thursday & Friday, and 1 - 11 pm Saturday & Sunday 12 noon to 10 pm - 51st Annual Greek Festival at St Demetrios Church on 31st Avenue and 30th Drive. Old fashioned town fair including traditional Greek food, good rides and prizes for the kids, and Greek cultural music and dance entertainment. [OLD Click here for 
Downtown Brooklyn / Boerum Hill / Cobble Hill & Brooklyn Heights _ May 10 - 18, 2025 from noon to 6 pm - Atlantic Avenue Art Walk in Brooklyn - along Atlantic Avenue from 4th Street to the Waterfront in Brooklyn. They describe the event as follows, "... This 1.5-mile, self-guided tour along Atlantic Avenue ... and its immediate side streets, will feature art from different mediums while showcasing approximately 150 emerging and established Brooklyn artists at 70+ participating businesses ... eclectic shops, diverse restaurants, galleries and wide range of vital businesses and organizations ... [along a] tree-lined avenue that stretches through charming Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, and Boerum Hill to Downtown Brooklyn ...". Organized by Atlantic Ave LDC - https://www.atlanticave.org/artwalk
Friday, May 16, 2025 - Last Call for Nest Music Camp - which runs July 7th - August 15th, 2025. See MCAL link above for details.
Saturday, May 17, 2025 from 10 am to 5 pm - Cottage Row Curiosities - at Snug Harbor Cultural Center - use the search box up top & search [st fairs] or use the link below for details..jpeg)
Updated May 10, 2025 vs 5.9.25 / 
Wednesday - Sunday, April 30 - June 1, 2025 beginning at 8 pm most evenings [Saturday Matinee] - The United States vs Ulysses - at the Irish Arts Center at 726 11th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. They describe the play as follows, " ... It’s 1933, and James Joyce’s sexually explicit Ulysses has been banned in the U.S. for a decade. But now, a hungry young publisher and an ambitious lawyer have teamed up to take on the Puritans. Can they convince the judge that Ulysses is not obscene? And what will happen when Ulyssesgets under their skin—and Molly Bloom gets into their heads? ...". For details and $25 - $76 tickets see - https://irishartscenter.org
May 10 - 18, 2025 _ UPDATES Coming Later _ from noon to 6 pm - Atlantic Avenue Art Walk in Brooklyn. Along Atlantic Avenue from 4th Street to the Waterfront in Brooklyn. They describe the event as follows, "... This 1.5-mile, self-guided tour along Atlantic Avenue ... and its immediate side streets, will feature art from different mediums while showcasing approximately 150 emerging and established Brooklyn artists at 70+ participating businesses ... eclectic shops, diverse restaurants, galleries and wide range of vital businesses and organizations ... [along a] tree-lined avenue that stretches through charming Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, and Boerum Hill to Downtown Brooklyn ...". Organized by Atlantic Ave LDC - https://www.atlanticave.org/artwalk
Bronx _ May 5 - 18, 2025 - Bronx Weeks - Multiple events at various locations in the Bronx. Parades and street fairs in the Bronx. For details see - https://www.ilovethebronx.com/bronx-week-2025
Updated May 3, 2025 vs 5.1.25 / 
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, May 2, 3 & 4, 2025 at various times but generally from 10 am to 5 pm - Janes Walk Weekend - at 200 locations in all five boroughs. Various art, culture, history and architectural tours throughout all five boros of NYC. Free. They describe the event as follows, " ... MAS staff organize a fleet of volunteer walk leaders, to create 200+ FREE, in-person, virtual, and on-demand walks with over 10,000 participants ... During Jane’s Walk NYC weekend, the simple act of exploring the city is enhanced with personal observations, local history, and civic engagement."... Organized by the Municipal Art Society. Not a street fair so much as a streets tour. For details including a map of locations, copy & paste - https://www.mas.org/janes-walk-nyc-2025/
Saturday, May 3, 2025 from 7 to 8.30 pm - JCAL Closing Reception of Free Your Mind Exhibit - at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning at 161-40 Jamaica Avenue in Queens. Free. For details & to rsvp copy & paste - https://jcal.org
Sunday, May 4, 2025 from 12 noon to 6 pm - Church Avenue Festival by the newly merged Church Avenue and Flatbush Avenue BIDs. See street fairs link below for details.
Saturday, May 3, 2025 beginnning at 10 am - Run the Bronx - at Bronx Community College at 2155 University Avenue in University Heights in the BFor $30 rsvps and event details copy & paste - https://www.bcc.cuny.edu/about-bcc/bcc-foundation/foundation-events/run-the-bronx/
April 25, 2025 / 
The photo above or at right was taken a couple of weeks ago in the Elizabeth Street Garden in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. They are trying to get the city to preserve the area as a permanent community green space, and to build the proposed 'affordable housing' elsewhere. The city has been threatening to close the garden any day now, but given it's an election year, Adams may wait until after he loses it. We'll have an update of Eric Adams' latest shenanigans later today or over the weekend.
Sunrise 7.08 am. Sunset 7.02 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting two hours and 39 minutes more sunlight than we were the weekend of the Winter Solstice on December 21, 2024, which is the shortest day of the year. Spring is next Thursday, March 20, 2025, when sunrise will be at 6.58 am and sunset at 7.08 pm. The true equinox, when we have equal amount of daylight and nighttime actually falls between March 16th and 17th.
Trump Tries to Withdraw Adams Case without Prejudice. So, consider this, these seven highly paid professional U.S. federal prosecutors forfeited their income and their positions, because they refused to follow the orders of Trump's Acting Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bove, who apparently was instructed by Trump to withdraw the case without prejudice.
Trump announced that the U.S. is exiting from the World Health Organization [WHO - helps manage global disease breakouts], cuttingthe budgets of the National Institute of Health [NIH - health / scientific research] and cutting the Center for Disease Control [CDC], without doing some sort of in-depth analysis first. Trump announced he's cutting most of the Department of Education. And he's announced he's going to try to cut the entire Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB].
NYC Weather. Sunrise 7 am. Sunset 5.20 pm. We're getting an hour and five more minutes of sunlight than we were the weekend of the Winter solstice in late December. Spring Forward Daylight Savings Time is Sunday, March 9th, 2025 - only four weeks away.
December 3, 2024 vs 11.29.24 / 
The City of Yes for Housing Opportunities bill passed yesterday afternoon / evening in the City Council Chambers at City Hall. The City of Yes or NYC Municipal Legislative Bill - L.U. 181 & Res 689 - App. N 240290 ZRY (City of Yes Zoning for Housing Opportunity) amendment of the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York, modifying multiple Sections to expand opportunities for housing within all zoning districts, Citywide. *
NYC Weather Forecast as of 11.1.24 - Sunrise 7.27 am & Sunset at 5.51 pm. The temperature high on Friday will be in the high 70's and then hover around 60 for the rest of the weekend. The temperature lows will descend gradually over the weekend from 50 degrees on Friday to the low 40's the rest of the weekend. Winds will range from 10 - 20 mph Friday, 5 - 10 mph Saturday and 3 - 5 mph on Sunday.
Project 2025 was put together by a group, of very conservative, right wing groups working in concert. This includes, according to a CNN report, 140 Trump affiliates, of which more than a dozen played some role in the first Trump Administration.
4. 'Cut the growth of the federal government to reduce inflation'. First take note that the last time Donald Trump was president, he significantly increased government spending, and super-sized the national debt from $20 trillion to $28 trillon - breaking all records by a landslide. So quite frankly, this is simply not believable.
If you've been reading my work, especially in recent times, you'll notice how increasingly frustrated I have become with TV News. If you want to know why America doesn't seem quite right, it's because the TV folks rarely seem to do any real reporting. In times gone by, the real reporting was done by the journalists working for the newspapers, and then the TV newspeople essentially rewrote and then reread the newspaper journalists' work on air.
It takes one to know one.
October 23, 2024 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Real Estate & Business / Gotham Buzz NYC.
October 22, 2024 / Government & Politics / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
by America's 44 previous presidents in the prior 225 years of the nation's existence.
Updated October 5, 2024 vs 10.4.24 / 
September 22 - 30, 2024 - The United Nations General Assembly begins. Dignitaries and diplomats will begin convening in earnest Sunday. Already this Friday 9/20/24, various groups that want to be heard, will be protesting the mishandling of their issues by various governments around the world. Road closures along the east side of Midtown, near the U.N. [generally in the low 40's streets], begin as early as Saturday evening at 8 pm, so be prepared for extra traffic jams in Manhattan.
Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Last MoMA Summer Sounds Concert & Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit Closed in Manhattan; Oracabessa Festival, Rockaway Beach Music Series, U.S. Open, Sri Krishna Janmashtami, Queens Boro Dance Festival & Queens Jazz Trail Concert in Queens; West Indian American Day Parade & J'ouvert, Battle of Brooklyn, 24th Street Festival and Coney Island Fireworks in Brooklyn; Latin Foto Festival in Hunts Point, Bronx Writers' History at the Bronx Historical Society and Orchard Beach in the Bronx; and Do Portugal Circus at Staten Island Mall, the British are Coming & the Richmond County Fair on Staten Island
August 30, 2024 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analytis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
NYC Weather Forecast as of 8.30.24. Sunrise 6.20 am & Sunset at 7.31 pm. Some rain expected Saturday night and early Sunday morning, so it should be a good weekend. Temperatures in the 80's during the day and 70's at night. A gentle breeze and humidity climbs gradually during the weekend, falling again on Monday.
In the photo at right, is one of Historic Richmond Town's finest citizens, doing his thing in the woodwork shop. The man reminded me of, Geppetto, the kind and fatherly woodcarver who created Pinocchio, the fictitious wooden puppet who comes alive.
Saturday 8.31.24 Final Weekend Edition @ 11.45 am. All done. Looks to be a fair weather weekend with plenty of fun things to do as the unofficial end of the summer arrives. Enjoy your three day / end of summer weekend. Fall events to follow in September.
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August 27, 2024 / 
NYC Weather Forecast as of 7.19.24. Sunrise 5.41 am & Sunset at 8.22 pm. The temperature highs will be in the mid 80's all weekend, while the temperature lows will be in the low 70's all weekend. Winds will be a light breezy 4 - 7 mph all weekend. The humidity will be 40% - 60% on Friday, rising to 50% - 70% on Saturday and Sunday. No rain is in the weekend forecast. Not a bad weekend.
On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, from 8 am to 8 pm, there's a protest against alleged War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu at the Capitol in in Washington, D.C.
As I conducted my research, I decided that NOT to inquire about the Mayor's - seemingly unappreciated or underappreciated - Herculean effort to manage the huge influx of immigrants into NYC. This situation, turned crisis, began when Texas Governor Greg Abbott began bussing immigrants from Texas border towns, beginning in August 5, 2022, to NYC. Governor Abbott began transporting immigrants here without any communication nor coordination with NYS Governor Hochul or NYC Mayor Adams.
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The Jouvert then marched east along Empire Boulevard before turning south on Nostrand Avenue and terminating at Winthrop. I arrived a bit before noon, at Empire Blvd and Nostrand, where the Jouvert Parade had already passed. The Jouvert Parade involves participants adorning themselves with paint and powder, sometimes sharing it with others in a style that reminded me of the Indian Holi celebration.
Four years ago, on August 31, 2019, I visited the Floyd Bennett Airfield with the intention of doing a story on it, which - until now - I had not had an opportunity to do. On that visit, I biked the airfield, took photos in both the museum and peeked through the dusty windows of the hangars and warehouses on the airfield, to photographed our recent past.
Weather. There's a 60% probability of about a third inch of rain beginning sometime between 3 and 6 pm Sunday. The rest of the weekend should be clear. The temperature highs will be around 80 and the lows in the mid 60's all weekend. Humidity will range from 50% - 60% all weekend, except Sunday night when it rises to near 80% due to the rain. The winds will vary throughout the weekend from about 15 mph Friday, to 5 mph Saturday and 10 mph Sunday. All in all, not a bad weather weekend.
