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Today’s Calendar
Thursday July 18
8AM
Sunrise Yoga at Wagner Park
Battery Park City Authority
Rise and shine to begin your morning with an outdoor yoga class that will help align your chakras and invigorate your day. Instructors focus on movements meant to enhance posture alignment and increase flexibility and balance. All levels welcome. Bringing your own mat is encouraged, as provided accessories are first come, first served. Wagner Park.
1PM
Fraunces Tavern Museum Guided Tour
Fraunces Tavern MuseumSixty minute guided tour of Fraunces Tavern Museum. 54 Pearl Street.Free with admission ($4, $7) http://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/group-tours
6:30PM
Washington’s War 1779
Fraunces Tavern Museum
In this lecture, Benjamin Huggins will explore George Washington’s relatively unknown generalship. Focusing on 1779, this lecture will highlight several lesser-known aspects of Washington’s leadership in the Revolution: the rouser-in-chief, urging his countrymen to recover the spirit of ’76 and take action to support the army; his diplomacy; his military aggressiveness; and his plan to drive the British from New York City and end the war in 1779. 54 Pearl Street. $10 http://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/events-calendar
7PM
Crys Matthews
Brookfield Place New York
A southeastern North Carolina native who blends Americana, folk, jazz, blues, bluegrass and funk into a performance steeped in traditional melodies and punctuated by honest, original lyrics. Brookfield Place Waterfront Terrace.
7PM
River & Blues: Low Cut Connie
Battery Park City Authority
The contagious joy of a Low Cut Connie show starts onstage and quickly spreads throughout the crowd. The rootsy, soulful sounds explode into high-octane, red-blooded, American rock-and-roll driven by the pounding piano of frontman Adam Weiner. Wagner Park. http://bpcparks.org/events/2019-07/
7PM
Showcase Reading Series: Brenda Shaughnessy, Roberto Tejada, Cody-Rose Clevidence & Shayla Lawson
Poets House
Readings by poets. 10 River Terrace.
8PM
Rooftop at Pier 17
Comedy performance
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The Tale of the Ticker Tape,
or How Adversity and Spontaneity
Hatched a New York Tradition
What was Planned as a Grand Affair became a Comedy of Errors
While the festivities in New York Harbor didn’t go as scripted that afternoon, the spontaneous gesture it generated from the brokerage houses lining Broadway famously lives on more than a century later.
On October 28, 1886, Liberty Enlightening the World was to be unveiled to New York City and the world as it stood atop its tall base on Bedloe’s Island. But the morning mist had turned to afternoon fog, blurring the view of the statue from revelers on the Manhattan shore and the long parade of three hundred ships on the Hudson River.
John Simko
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