While there take in the World’s Largest Lemonade Stand, with well over a thousand gallons of fresh lemonade blended inside a specially-designed rooftop water tank.

Info:

Target High Line Street Festival
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 12:00 Noon – 5:00 PM
On Gansevoort Street
Between Ninth Avenue and Washington Street

For more information visit the Highline Here

Since 1992, the success of NYC Restaurant Week has only grown. It has expanded to include both lunch and dinner offerings—three-course, prix-fixe meals for $24.07 and $35 respectively—and extended to two weeks each in the summer and winter.

Today, NYC Restaurant Week stands apart as one of the City’s most exciting and anticipated events. More than 235 restaurants participate—a cross-section of the NYC culinary scene that encompasses a diverse range of cuisines and includes some of its most time-honored restaurants and buzz-worthy newcomers. Through its evolution, however, the driving force behind the program remains the same: to give visitors and residents the opportunity to experience the quality, variety and hospitality that embody the NYC dining experience. (From NYCVisit.com)

Here is a partial list of participating Restaurants:

21 Club
5′s at The Peninsula New York
AJ Maxwell’s – Steakhouse
Amalia
Asia de Cuba – New York
Bar Boulud
Beacon
Blue Smoke
Butter
Café Society
Calle Ocho
Central Park BoatHouse
China Grill – New York
Craftbar
Eleven Madison Park
Gramercy Tavern
Le Cirque
Mesa Grill
Morimoto New York
Nice Matin
Oceana
Petrossian
Rosa Mexicano
Spice Market
Tabla
The Water Club
Tribeca Grill
Water’s Edge

Get the full list here or search for a place here!

But you don’t have to wait in line any longer! The Public Theater has unveiled  (What I think is new) a virtual line, where you can order tickets online vie there website and pick up your tickets at will call. Though only a limited tickets will be available this way it is indeed a better way to go for tickets if your busy and don’t want to sit in the hot sticky sun all day wondering if the guy in front of you with the absurfly amount of back hair is going to take his shirt off.

Register for an account here

Currently Playing:

HAMLET
By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Directed by OSKAR EUSTIS

May 27 – June 29
*Added perf June 16 and June 23
No perf June 18 and June 24
Perf on June 19 starts at 8:30PM
Limited ticket distribution on: June 4, June 23,
No distribution/Stand-by line only on: June 17

The Parade is characterized by participants dressed in hand-made costumes as Mermaids, Neptunes, various sea creatures, the occasional wandering lighthouse, Coney Island post card or amusement ride, as well as antique cars, marching bands, drill teams, and the odd yacht pulled on flatbed.

Each year, a different celebrity King Neptune and Queen Mermaid rule over the proceedings, riding in the Parade and assisting in the opening of the Ocean for the summer swimming season by marching down the Beach from the Boardwalk, cutting through Ribbons representing the seasons, and tossing fruit into the Atlantic to appease the Sea Gods.

In the past, David Byrne, Queen Latifah, Ron Kuby, Curtis Sliwa, Moby, and David Johansen have graced our shores, presiding over the assembled masses.

Get all the poop here

And don’t forget the Mermaid Ball

Admission to the event is free. Take in the sights, sounds and smells of the event – from great live music to engaging seminars and cooking demonstrations – without ever dropping a dollar. The country’s best barbecue is available from top pitmasters for only $8 per plate.

Now if you don’t get there early you can pretty much forget tasting anything remotely grilled. This event is always jammed pack with carnivores who fast for days before to make the necessary room in their digestive system.

Mad Cow disease has new cogitations at this block party which has nothing to do with the fare just the crowd.

Get all the info here and enjoy all that finger licking love!

And if you want to try your hand at getting some free passes (Warning: You have to write haiku’s, poetry, and other crazy stuff) try going to Serious Eats contest here

Matt is the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software that runs this site and thousands of other sites around the world. The website says WordPress is “a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform” also known as a Content Management System or CMS.

I registered and hope to hear from someone and give my two cents to arguably the best blogging platform on the internet today.

Hope to see you there!

Read the post by Matt here

Take the survey and Register here

I find that in the winter time gloves litter the city streets and come spring summer socks become more prevalent. The cycle of life.

Below are just some of the gloves that have been dropped, lost, or discarded

Have you lost a glove in NYC? (Between December 2007 – April 2008)

Check out the complete list of Lost Gloves here

What you will see here will be (hopefully) an engaging, informative and humorous blog full of useful/less information. If I know you and I haven’t spoken to you for some time please forgive me as life has kept me busy with many new adventures.

I’ll be adding some of the more popular posts from my other blog to here so if you see something from a year or two ago and nothing fresh don’t be alarmed I’m just updating.

Okay so I wrote more than a paragraph I consider this a triumph! I know this is m y first post so let’s see if I can keep this going long enough to attract an eye ball or two.

More to come,

Marco Lombardini