Things To Do in NYC This Weekend - St Patrick's Day Month

The St. Patrick's Day Festivities in the Rockaways, Sunnyside in Queens & on Staten Island; Beer Week ending in Brooklyn, Orchid Show Opened & Storming of the Capitol in the Bronx; and Photos & Bumper Cars in Manhattan

March 4, 2022 / Things To Do NYC / NYC Neighborhoods / Gotham Buzz NYC.

Weather. The temperature highs will be in the high 30's on Friday, rising to the mid 40's on Saturday and possibly breaking a record high of 70 degrees on Sunday. The temperature lows will be in the low 20's on Friday, rising about 30 on Saturday and up to the mid 40's on Sunday. A small amount of rain is possible Sunday morning, ending around noon. Humidity will be 40% - 50% on Friday, rising to 50% - 70% on Saturday and then staying at around 70% on Sunday. Winds will be 5 - 10 mph on Friday and Saturday, rising to 10 - 15 mph on Sunday.

The photo at right was taken in a prior year at the St Pat's for All Parade in Sunnyside Queens. This year the temperatures are expected to hit 70 degrees, so I don't think we'll be seeing any snow this year.

Things to do in Queens This Weekend

The Queens County St. Patrick's Day Parade is Saturday at Beach 130th and Newport Avenue beginning at 1 pm in the Rockaways neighborhood of Queens.

The St. Pat's for All Parade begins with speeches at 12 noon on Sunday, and then kicks off at Skillman Avenue and 43rd Street in Sunnyside, Queens.

The Museum of the Moving Image is hosting an exhibit that began December 18, 2021 and runs through May 15, 2022 entitled Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen. The exhibit explores how fact becomes distorted and fictionalized via the moving image screen. At the centerpiece of it all is the distortion of the Apollo 11 moon mission. The museum is open Friday from 2 - 8 pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 12 noon - 6 pm. For details and tickets see www.movingimage.us. Admission $15 / $11 / $9.

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Things to do in Staten Island This Weekend

The St. Patrick's Day Parade on Staten Island begins at 12.30 pm on Sunday along Forest Avenue from Harts Blvd to Jewett Avenue in the Westerleigh / Elm Park neighborhoods of Staten Island.

At the Staten Island Museum located in the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in the Randall Manor neighborhood is an exhibit entitled Magicicada by Jennifer Angus. The work explores shapes inspired by the Staten Island Museum's cicada collection, which we are told is one of the largest in the world. Cicadas emerge from the ground in large numbers every 13 and 17 years. They cite E.O. Wilson's description of insects as "the little things that run the world". They are open Friday - Sunday from 11 am - 5 pm. Details and $8 tickets at www.statenislandmuseum.org.

Things to do in Brooklyn This Weekend

NYC Beer Week ends this weekend. On Saturday from 7 pm - 11 pm for $40 you can sample five flights of locally brewed beers paired with pastries at Craft Culture at 59-04 Myrtle Avenue in Ridgewood. On Sunday the closing round is hosted by the Greenpoint Brew Company at Brouwerij Lane at 78 Greenpoint Avenue in Greenpoint Brooklyn.

The 10th Annual Winter Festival in Bay Ridge continues along Third Avenue. It's a collaboration of the Bay Ridge Arts & Cultural Alliance and the Merchants of Third Avenue in Bay Ridge. Participating merchants have provided wall / display space for local artists to exhibit their work. This runs through March 27th.

In the Peter Jay Sharp Building at the Brooklyn Academy of Music aka BAM at 30 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, they will be showing various films all weekend starting at 1.15 pm, with the last showtime at 9.40 pm. CoVid protocols remain in effect and tickets [$16 / $11] may be purchased online at www.bam.org.

Things to do in Bronx This Weekend

The Orchid Show began at the NY Botanical Garden last week and continues through April.

The Storming of the Capitol exhibit at the Bronx Doc Film Center at 614 Courtlandt Avenue in the Bronx opened Saturday, January 29th and runs through March 20, 2022. The exhibit contains photographs of the attempted coup by the Trump insurrectionists. The Bronx Doc Film hours are Thursday / Friday from 3 - 7 pm and Saturday and Sunday from 1 - 5 pm. See www.bronxdoc.org for details and tickets.

Things to do in Manhattan This Weekend

A number of exhibits and events that normally happen in Manhattan in March, have been rescheduled to September including the Paper Show, the Armory Show and the Clio Art Fair.

There's an exhibit by African American photographer, Micaiah Carter, entitled Black Beauty Vol. 1, which opened on February 11 and runs through March 27th [from 12 noon - 8 pm Wednesdays through Sundays] in the gallery of SN37 at 204 Front Street in the South Street Seaport. The exhibit is intended to broaden the spectrum of images that Americans have of African Americans.

You can rent a Bumper Car in Bryant Park between the hours of 2 - 8 pm weekdays and 11 am - 5 pm Saturdays and Sundays between now and March 6, 2022. Tickets for a ten minute ride are $20 which you can can rsvp at www.bryantpark.org.

Have a nice weekend and Éire go Brách.