Editor’s Note: One of the Cheap Chick’s favorite songs is “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” by Green Day. She finds the song’s lines, “Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road, Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go, So make the best of this test and don’t ask why, It’s not a question, but a lesson learned in time,” especially relevant now. We’re all @ a turning point, a fork in the road, controlled largely by time and circumstances largely out of our control. For what it’s worth, we’ve got to make the best of this situation, and hopefully will emerge as better people and a better society, because of this massive turning point that we’ve all been forced to take.
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NYC has officially received the go-ahead to enter Phase 4, on Monday July 20th, 2020, but still NO indoor dining, movies, or “any additional indoor activity like the reopening of malls or cultural institutions.”
Remember the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (the “Met”) has plans to open its Fifth Avenue on August 29th, 2020 and The Museum of the City of New York may be ready to reopen as early as July 23rd, 2020.
Still lots of great stuff from past posts: last week/Bastille Day, posts from July 4th, as well as June 28th, June 16th, and posts from June 5th, May 29th, May 22nd, May 15th, May 1st, and my original ongoing Coronavirus coverage.
And on to this week:
The Great Outdoors
Remember Governors Island and The High Line have reopened, with reservations and timed entry required.
The New York Botanical Garden is reopening to the public on Tuesday July 28th, 2020.
Take a ramble in Central Park’s Ravine in the North Woods.
My friends @ Gothamist share a history of the raccoons @ Central Park’s Delacorte Theater.
Try Tai Chi (live) @ Bryant Park with CK Chu Tai Chi on Tuesday mornings 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., on the Fountain Terrace.
Lights, Camera, (Dance) Action
The Film Society of Lincoln Center Presents “DANCE ON CAMERA FESTIVAL 2020,” which runs from July 17th to July 20th, 2020. “With a program that travels the globe, the festival will be presented digitally for the first time with world premieres, Q&AS, and more!” For more info and tkts go here.
The Play’s the Thing
My friends @ Time Out New York tell me that Will Arbery’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” is streaming TODAY (Saturday July 18th, 2020) for just $5 to raise funds for Playwrights Horizon. Get tkts here.
Museum City
The Museum of the City of New York has a variety of upcoming virtual programming scheduled, including an event re “New York’s Communities of Color and the Police.”
Street Art-Queens Style
The streets of Kew Gardens are alive with art! This outdoor banner project “Here, There and Everywhere: Art in Kew Gardens” with art by 35 adult artists and 22 young artists 4-14, displayed “on gates and fences in the village area of Kew Gardens.” (QNS)
Cooking up Art
From MoMa PS1, “Spending more time in your kitchen than ever before? PS1 chef Mina Stone is sharing recipes and interviewing artists including Anicka Yi, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Hugh Hayden, about their family history with food, their practice, the relationship between artmaking and cooking.”
Outdoor Art and Galleries Oh My!
NYC Plugged has a great roundup of outdoor art and galleries that are currently open to visitors.
Crunching the Numbers
The NYC Math Festival is TODAY (Saturday July 18th) from 2 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. hosted by The National Museum of Mathematics. For more info and to register, go here. (NYT)
“Book” Some Time for Fun
The Center for Fiction’s Bookstore is open for in-store browsing, starting TODAY Saturday October 18th, 2020.
“Book” on over to shop @ Greenlight Bookstore’s many city locations now open from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Fast Food
Smorgasburg launches its “Smorgasburg To Go” in Williamsburg starting Monday July 20th, 2020, seven days a week 11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Order online here.
Like a Moth to a Flame
The Staten Island Museum hosts its regular Moth Night virtually (TONIGHT) Saturday July 18th, 2020, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. (NYT)
Be a (Virtual) Tourist
Stop and smell the roses @ the Bartow-Pell Mansion.
Join the Municipal Art Society for a “walk” on the ghostly side with their virtual “Ghosts of the Five Points” on Sunday July 19th, 2020 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Strain the Brain
QNS has all kinds of puzzles and games to keep your brain busy!
Colorful Dancing
The NYPL has created its “first volume of colorable images from the Dance Division in The New York Public Library’s Digital Collections!”
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Whew! Please note that all of the information posted was true @ the time of publication. All listings/news are subject to change.
The Cheap Chick is constantly updating this page, so please keep checking back for updates and new content re cheap and free NYC-focused distractions during the coronavirus crisis.
Also please feel free to share the cheap and free ways you’re spending time in isolation or if you’re an org offering online programming, please reach out to the Cheap Chick so she can post it online and/or tweet about it.
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