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Time Out
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The 2025 Macy's July 4 fireworks will be launched from NYC's East River
Good news for East Siders and Brooklynites: The Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks are returning to the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River for 2025. Specifically, the show will launch from the iconic Brooklyn Bridge and four barges positioned on the lower East River in the Seaport District. Macy's hasn't yet provided a list of best viewing spots, but you can expect miles of prime public viewing. The spectacular display is the largest Independence Day in the nation, which paints the skyline in an extraordinary display of light and sound. It's been a pyrotechnic tradition since 1976 for good reason—the show is truly incredible. Though exact timings haven't been announced, last year's show began at 9:25pm, so keep that in mind when making your plans for Friday, July 4. As for viewing locations, any anywhere with an unobstructed view of the sky above the lower East River should do the trick. In the coming weeks, keep an eye out for additional details on public viewing, as well as a city-sponsored lottery for free public viewing tickets. Last year, the fireworks were hosted on the west side of the city, delighting west siders and New Jerseyans. For a decade prior to that, the fireworks had been launched from the East River, and now they're back. "Macy's doesn't just light up the sky—we ignite a shared tradition," said Will Coss, Macy's 4th of July Fireworks executive producer, in a press release. "By bringing the fireworks to New York City and communities across the country, we create a spectacular event that celebrates joy, unity and togetherness. We are proud to bring people together year after year to honor the traditions that connect us all." While the show brings hordes of New Yorkers to sidewalks and viewing parties, it's also broadcast across the nation on NBC and Peacock for all to enjoy beginning at 8pm.
Time Out
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Where to see Manhattanhenge this week even if you're not in Manhattan
The biggest celebrity sighting in NYC this week? The sun. The twice-yearly solar spectacle known as Manhattanhenge returns Wednesday, May 28 and Thursday, May 29. On these days, the setting sun aligns just so with the Manhattan street grid, creating an Instagram-perfect glow that slices through the city's skyscraper canyons. Wednesday night features a 'half sun' at 8:13 pm, and Thursday delivers the full solar showstopper at 8:12 pm. But good news for outer borough dwellers: you don't need to be elbowing tourists on 42nd Street to get the full Manhattanhenge experience. 'You want to be as far east as you can get,' Dr. Jackie Faherty, astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History, told the New York Post. That means Queens, Brooklyn and even Randall's Island offer top-tier vantage points, without the Midtown mayhem. Hunter's Point South Park in Long Island City is the only outer-borough spot officially endorsed by NYC Parks for Manhattanhenge. Its waterfront perch gives crystal-clear views—and bonus points for East River reflections. A bit north, Gantry Plaza State Park is Dr. Faherty's personal fave: 'It's got a really good long view,' she told the Post. Want even more drama? Head to the pedestrian path on the Queensboro Bridge for panoramic views over the river and the Manhattan skyline. Brooklynites don't have a ton of ideal spots, but Greenpoint scrapes into the viewing zone. Find a west-facing street or rooftop view north of 59th and south of 110th, and you're golden—literally. While it's technically still Manhattan, Roosevelt Island's southern tip at Four Freedoms Park offers a centered perspective on the phenomenon, and you can even catch it from the iconic tram. Over on Randall's Island, head to the ballfields for unobstructed views minus the skyscraper squeeze. And even if you are stuck in Manhattan for the sighting, you don't have to battle the crowds. With more than 150 crosstown streets in Manhattan, you can seek out your own secret spot to frame the sun. So whether you're in Queens, Brooklyn or somewhere in between, cue up your sunset playlist and grab your camera. The solar party is on, and everyone's invited!
Time Out
28-04-2025
- Business
- Time Out
Discount grocery store Lidl is opening a new location in Brooklyn
Brooklynites, ready your shopping carts: Lidl is finally expanding in the borough. The discount grocery giant, famous for its low prices and surprisingly fancy imports, will open a new Brooklyn outpost at 490 Fulton Street on Friday, May 23. Early risers can snag a free croissant and coffee starting at sunrise, with the official ribbon-cutting happening at 7:40am. Already beloved across Europe (and, more recently, the East Coast), Lidl US brings an edited mix of private label products, global treats and household essentials to the area, all wrapped up in a no-frills, easy-to-shop layout. Translation: you can be in and out fast without dodging maze-like aisles. The new Downtown Brooklyn store will feature all the hits Lidl fans rave about: the famous 49-cent croissants, fresh-baked throughout the day; juicy produce and top-notch meats (including their new Butcher's Specialty private label line); and the Midl of Lidl aisle, a rotating treasure trove of limited-time deals on everything from kitchen gadgets to outdoor gear. New to the bakery? Keep an eye out for the "special guest lineup" launching May 2, starting with iced lemon muffins. Dessert fans will also want to raid the freezer for their cult-favorite Bon Gelati Mini Mix ice cream bars and authentic frozen tiramisu. Oh, and for anyone who loves a shortcut to dinner, Lidl's imported pizzas and chilled Italian pastas are here to rescue your weeknights. Shoppers can also score exclusive coupons and rewards through the MyLidl app and every purchase is backed by the 'Lidl Love It Guarantee,' meaning if you don't love it, you can return it for a full refund and replacement.
New York Times
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Trumpeters. Friends. Rivals. 60 Years Ago, the Pair Made Jazz History.
'There was a bar right there,' a Crown Heights, Brooklyn, resident named James said in early March, pointing to the deli at 835 Nostrand Avenue, at the intersection with President Street. 'Long time ago, though.' Sixty years ago, the Black social club that once occupied that corner hosted a jazz concert that is so storied, it has a title: the Night of the Cookers. Of the dozens of performances that the trumpet star Freddie Hubbard led in the mid-1960s, his two nights at La Marchal on April 9 and 10 featuring his friend and chief rival, Lee Morgan, are heralded as arguably the most celebrated jazz gig in the borough's history. 'That was one of the records that made me say, 'You gotta go find your own thing,'' the trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard said in a phone interview, referring to the recordings from the gig that were first released on LP in 1966. 'They both had great sounds on their instruments, but they were very different.' The Night of the Cookers was a night of tension. Hubbard and Morgan, both born in 1938, were the hottest trumpet players in the business as they turned 27, though each was at his own crossroads. Hubbard, always ambitious, was securing his future as a bandleader; Morgan was struggling with addiction while watching the improbable rise of his hit record, 'The Sidewinder,' on the pop charts. An engineer named Orville O'Brien was rolling tape as the bandstand filled with heavyweights including James Spaulding on alto saxophone and flute, the pianist Harold Mabern Jr., the bassist Larry Ridley, the drummer Pete LaRoca and another special guest, Big Black, on congas. Well-dressed Brooklynites, including musicians like the trumpeter Kenny Dorham, filled the spot to capacity. A crowd of standees hovered near the bar. 'When anybody mentions Night of the Cookers, I can see it as if I was there again,' said the trumpeter Eddie Henderson, who sat in the front row both nights. 'I was at their feet, looking up at Freddie and Lee, and I was screaming and yelling. When I hear that record, I can hear my voice.' Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
28-02-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
If Cuomo Became Mayor, Would He Really Stand Up to Trump?
Last week, 60 or so mostly wealthy Democrats gathered uptown in a Fifth Avenue apartment, chicly done in modernist white, to hear what Andrew Cuomo had to say about New York City, and the prospect, wished for by so many who had come, that he would be their next mayor. Front of mind was the question about what New Yorkers could do to counter some of the expected blows of the second Trump presidency. 'He is the bully in the schoolyard,' Mr. Cuomo told the assembled. It was a characterization that critics of the former governor have consistently made about him throughout his own career. 'He puts his finger in your chest. And if you take one step back, he's going to continue to put his finger in your chest.' As Mr. Cuomo saw it, the president was sticking his finger in the chests of prominent Democrats all too often now, and the Democrats were receding, problematically. 'I can tell you,' he said, 'having dealt with him many, many times, that does not work.' The notion that Mr. Cuomo, in all his combative, masculine oomph, is the only one who can stand up to Donald Trump extends beyond the world of moneyed Upper East Side centrists, for whom it has emerged as a kind of civic catechism. I have heard Elizabeth Warren-loving Brooklynites make the same claim, however quietly — that management by way of roughneck efficiency is the only way forward for a city that can seem as if it has fallen into a state of chaos, diminished by the migrant and mental health crises that turned some New Yorkers into Trump voters in November. The possibility of an announcement for a maybe candidacy has been dangled for so long now, it can feel as if we are witnessing a movie trailer in development for a movie trailer. Earlier this week, Representative Ritchie Torres, of the Bronx, said he would back Mr. Cuomo in the mayoral race — a race Mr. Cuomo has yet to enter but nevertheless leads in the polls. 'He has the courage to stand up to extremist politics — both from the far left and far right,' Mr. Torres told The New York Post. 'Nice' was irrelevant. 'We need a Mr. Tough Guy.' How much Mr. Cuomo would attack the Trump White House seems purely a matter of conjecture. Since the inauguration last month, he has not publicly criticized the president's return to Washington, something State Senator Zellnor Myrie, one of several progressive candidates running for mayor in a Democratic field many contenders long, described recently as a 'conspicuous silence.' When asked about this, someone close to Mr. Cuomo pointed out that he was not yet a candidate and that we would be hearing from the former governor when the time came. Six months into President Trump's first term, eight years ago, Mr. Cuomo was rebuked by members of his party for failing to condemn him by name. When the president announced on Twitter in July 2017 that transgender people would be banned from the military, Mr. Cuomo was attacked for criticizing 'Washington's directive' rather than directly confronting the man who issued it. ('Newsflash: it came from Trump not George Washington,' one labor leader posted on social media.) At the time, Mr. Cuomo said that he hadn't found 'nasty ad hominem attacks on a person whose cooperation is needed to help your state' very useful. The former governor moved even further out of the Democratic mainstream in December, when he appeared on a radio show co-hosted by the supermarket titan and former Republican mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis. In a discussion largely about the failures of his own party, Mr. Cuomo said that the legal cases against Mr. Trump filed by the Manhattan district attorney's office and the office of the New York State attorney general were 'political.' The moment of war between Mr. Cuomo and the president that New Yorkers are perhaps most apt to remember occurred during the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 2020. It was a year before Mr. Cuomo resigned amid a raft of sexual harassment allegations. In that speech, he went after the federal government's mishandling of Covid and the president predictably fired back, calling the governor 'Crooked & Incompetent!' By one vantage, their similarities — both sons of Queens and dominant fathers, both very comfortable with retribution, both at the center of sexual misconduct scandals — make them appear nearly too alike to forge a sincere enmity. (The implications of such a comparison, the person close to the former governor said, were silly and conspiratorial.) There is a sense in many quarters of the city that Mayor Cuomo is an inevitability in part because of the increasing hunger for a paternal style in politics, in part because he would be the best known contestant and in part because of the perception that the various progressive candidates would land in the voter's mind as indistinguishable from one another. Few of them can credibly claim to be 'Mr. Tough Guy.' At the same time, if Mr. Cuomo were to position himself against City Hall corruption, he would face an army of contenders reminding everyone that as governor, he disbanded the Moreland Commission, meant to delve into state ethics reform, a year after he created it. Any effort to market what he did well during Covid leaves him vulnerable to the same army's eagerness to replay what he did wrong — the needless deaths in nursing homes, a vaccination program hampered by early delays. In the end, it may be simply the bomber-jacket virility of his popular daily briefings during the pandemic that voters want to relive. The event last week was part of a series on leadership conducted by the Common Good, the nonpartisan public policy forum founded by Patricia Duff, the political influencer and philanthropist. It was officially neither a fund-raiser nor a campaign event. Still, it was clear that in the eventuality of a Cuomo bid, funds would very easily be raised. With Ms. Duff as the evening's host and the room full of a certain class of Manhattan power broker — the venture capitalist Alan Patricof, the literary agent Lynn Nesbit — the former governor was thanked for his service during Covid. 'Everybody wants you to run,' one member of the audience remarked. 'It's in your blood. It's in your family's blood. We love you. We want you.'
