The 11th Annual Taste of the Seaport festival will come to the South Street Seaport tomorrow (Saturday, October 16), with food from more than 30 Lower Manhattan restaurants, wares from local shops, and live music featuring local artists and musicians, plus a KidZone offering interactive demonstrations and activities.
Among the dozens of highly regarded local restaurants participating this year will be Malibu Farm, the Fulton, Eataly, Route 66 Smoke House, Industry Kitchen, Cowgirl Sea-Horse, Harry’s Italian, and Watermark. Adults are also invited to enjoy wine and beer.
For kids, entertainment will be provided by live music, plus activities from the Church Street School for Music and Art, the Craft Studio, the Bright Minds Center, the China Institute, the National Dance Institute, Leman Manhattan Preparatory School, Kidville, and Spotlight Kids.
Sponsored by the Howard Hughes Corporation (which is redeveloping the Seaport neighborhood, in partnership with New York City) and New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, and presented by the South Street Seaport Museum, Taste of the Seaport began in 2009 as the much smaller Taste of Front Street. It has since evolved and grown with the surrounding neighborhood, and now welcomes thousands of guests each autumn. (This year’s festival is the 11th, after taking 2020 off for the pandemic.)
Ticket prices start at $50 for a packet of five “tastes” (defined as, “a delicious sample of food—more than an amuse bouche, less than a full appetizer”), each redeemable for a small plate of the fare served up by any participating restaurant. All proceeds from the Taste of the Seaport help to fun enrichment programs for students at two highly regarded, local public schools: the Spruce Street School and the Peck Slip School.
The fun will take place between noon and 3pm on Piers 16 and 17 (South Street, roughly between John and Beekman Streets). For more information, please email info@tasteoftheseaport.org. Purchase tickets at www.tasteoftheseaport.org.
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Projects for all ages at The Battery Conservancy vegetable farm.
9am-1pm
It’s My Park Day at City Hall Park
City Hall Park is where the Revolutionary War started with a reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1776. It’s My Park Day is an annual event that takes place all around the city. At City Hall Park, activities start at the welcome tables at the Broadway and Warren Street entrance. At 9am dog owners meet to discuss a proposal to build a dog run at the Elk Street parking lot. At 10am there will be leaf raking and daffodil planting. Also Sunday, October 16. Free.
Paint in watercolor or use pastels and other drawing materials to capture the vistas of the Hudson River and the landscape of South Cove. An educator will offer critique. Materials provided. Free.
More than 200 New York City firehouses will open their doors to the public from 11am to 1pm or 1pm to 3pm today and tomorrow. Firefighters will be educating the public about fire and life safety, conducting demonstrations, discussing careers within the department, and offering tours of FDNY engines, ladder trucks, and ambulances. Check this interactive map for addresses and times. Free.
Most printers in early 19th century New York were located where the action was: near the city’s main port of entry at South Street. See where passenger and shipping services printed their tickets, and learn about the typography on these historic buildings. Free.
60 minute vinyasa-based yoga practice on the deck of the tall ship Wavertree. The practice will be followed by a tour of Wavertree. Also at 9am. Free.
9am-1pm
It’s My Park Day at City Hall Park
City Hall Park is where the Revolutionary War started with a reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1776. It’s My Park Day is an annual event that takes place all around the city. At City Hall Park, activities start at the welcome tables at the Broadway and Warren Street entrance. Free.
The Seaport Museum is partnering with Animal Lighthouse Rescue to host a puppy adoption event where you can meet nine puppies transported from Puerto Rico to New York.
More than 200 New York City firehouses will open their doors to the public from 11am to 1pm or 1pm to 3pm. Firefighters will be educating the public about fire and life safety, conducting demonstrations, discussing careers within the department, and offering tours of FDNY engines, ladder trucks, and ambulances. Check this interactive map for the addresses and times. Free.
National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island (take a left exiting the ferry)
Entertainment, arts and crafts, National Lighthouse Museum admission, visiting boats. Compete in the legendary Soup Contest; place your bets at the Ducks Race for $5. Pirate School shows at 1pm and 3pm. $3 suggested donation.
Wednesdays and Saturdays, 8am-3pm (compost program: Saturdays, 8am-1pm)
Bowling Green Greenmarket
Broadway & Whitehall St
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8am-5pm (compost program: 8am-11am)
World Trade Center Oculus Greenmarket
Tuesdays, 8am-5pm
The Outdoor Fulton Stall Market
91 South Street, between Fulton & John Streets
Indoor market: Monday through Saturday,11:30am-5pm
CSA pick-up: Thursday, 4pm-6pm; Friday, 11:30-5pm
Outdoor market: Saturdays, 11:30am-5pm
Today in History
October 14
Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne, was published on this day in 1926. Art by E.H. Shepard.
1066 – In the Battle of Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence.
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
1773 – Just before the beginning of the Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company’s tea ships are set ablaze at the Annapolis, MD seaport.
1884 – George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1926 – Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is published.
1943 – Prisoners at the Nazi Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt, killing 11 SS guards. About 300 of the 600 prisoners escape; about 50 of these survive the end of the war.
1944 – Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommelis forced to commit suicide.
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when a U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot flies over the island of Cuba and takes photographs of Soviet SS-4 Sandal missiles being installed and erected in Cuba.
1964 – Martin Luther King, Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
1968 – Jim Hines is the first man to break the ten-second barrier in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1979 – The National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands “an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people,” and draws 100,000 people.
1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat.
1984 – Baby Fae receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
1994 – Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin, and Foreign Minister of Israel Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
2021 – Artwork by Banksy that was half shredded on purchase in 2018 is sold for $25.4 million.
Births
1641 – Joachim Tielke German instrument maker (d. 1719)
1644 – William Penn, businessman, founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
1882 – Éamon de Valera, Irish republican politician, President of Ireland, born in New York City (d. 1975)
1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, general, politician, 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
1894 – e. e. cummings, poet and playwright (d. 1962)
1916 – C. Everett Koop, admiral and surgeon, 13th United States Surgeon General (d. 2013)
1939 – Ralph Lauren, fashion designer, founded the Ralph Lauren Corp.
1973 – George Floyd, murdered while in police custody in Minneapolis (d. 2020)
1978 – Usher, singer and actor
Deaths
1066 – Harold II, last crowned Anglo-Saxon King of England, dies at the Battle of Hastings, aged about 44
1318 – Edward Bruce, Irish king (b. 1280)
1831 – Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer and educator (b. 1761)
1977 – Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1903)
1990 – Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918)
