April 2021

• Free movie nights at the Queens Drive-In is coming back on May 4!
• Indoor dining in NYC will increase to 75 percent capacity on May 7
• Check out these three massive sculptures of real people by Grand Central Station
• We’re obsessed with this building with a piano facade in Brooklyn
• You can order this New Yorker’s delightful Vietnamese-French pastry boxes straight from Instagram
• Eataly has teamed up with Color Factory for a colorful new downtown pop-up
• You can now search through 1,500 fascinating historical maps of NYC
• A restaurant on one of the world’s smallest aircraft carriers reopens in Harlem today
• These NYC libraries are officially reopening for in-person browsing next month
• Madame Tussauds set to unveil a wax figure allegedly of Kamala Harris
• Roberta’s is opening a new location in Domino Park this weekend
• Dia Chelsea
• Olmsted's popular Summer Camp returns to its lush backyard garden
• The best cycling day trips from NYC
• New York City's landmarks will light up green to celebrate essential park workers
• Mayor Bill de Blasio just announced that NYC plans to "fully reopen" on July 1
• New Yorkers are going crazy for tulips right now
• You can attend a free, one-person personal concert at BAM next month
• Chefs Stopping AAPI Hate takeout-based dinner series
• This new restaurant in Essex Market will transport you to Bollywood
• Brooklyn Museum's First Saturday Lite
• New York is officially lifting its restaurant curfew
• These Brooklyn bakers are selling decadent "angel donuts" from their apartment
• New York Comic Con will be held in person this year
• You won't have to order "Cuomo chips" with your drink anymore
• The Plaza hotel is finally re-opening next month
• These New Yorkers are helping to make the future
• "The Angel's Share" is bringing live music to Green-Wood Cemetery
• Everything we know about the coronavirus vaccine in NYC
• These 10 NYC restaurants are serving re-imagined bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches
• Sky-High Yoga at Edge
• Gitano is back with an outdoor mezcal bar that'll transport you to the tropical jungles of Tulum
• Noir Supperclub
• There’s a secret cocktail bar behind an ice cream shop on the UES
• This new interactive art museum lets you create wild optical illusions
• "Almost Home" at 92nd Street Y
• This moving street installation honors immigrants who died during the pandemic
• This insanely beautiful pick-your-own tulip field is just an hour away from New York City
• Check out what the new two-acre park set to open in Williamsburg next spring will actually look like
• A Banksy street art exhibit is taking over New York this summer!
• Fun things to do in NYC based on your comfort with reentering society
• Rent prices have plummeted to record lows in these neighborhoods
• Every single NYC school bus will be electric by 2035
• NYC's only floating lobster shack is back on the Hudson River!
• Here are all the shows that will be playing at Lincoln Center’s new outdoor performing arts space this summer
• Check out all the new delicious cheesecakes launching at Breads Bakery next month
• The Frieze Art Show will be held in-person at The Shed this year
• The Immersive Van Gogh exhibition location has been unveiled
• You can take a whale watching cruise directly from Manhattan this summer
• Bemelmans Bar is reopening on the Upper East Side on May 11
• The best NYC walks to take this spring
• This Lower East Side restaurant serves Chinese-inspired vegan cuisine sure to delight the strictest carnivores
• Barclays Center is hosting a memorial for DMX this weekend
• NYC Roller Skate Week
• Get a first look at the new Legoland coming to New York this summer
• Dingy Penn Station is set to become a classy, light-filled rail station
• You can now devour 5-cent hot dogs on Coney Island for the first time in over 100 years
• A viral TikTok CBD lounge for Gen Z is opening in NYC
• New Cobble Hill eatery Kimpanadas sells empanadas with a comfort food twist
• Devour all sorts of noodles at this new Singaporean restaurant in Washington Heights
• Two Broadway musicians are playing free outdoor garden concerts on the Upper West Side
• Exciting news: Those mini backyards are coming back to Pier 17 this summer
• The adorable Hello Kitty Cafe Truck is returning to NYC
• NYC's Harry Potter flagship store has an official opening date!
• The official Tribeca Film Festival lineup was just announced!
• You can grab a free joint in Union Square today if you can prove you’re vaccinated
• Broadway at the Drive-In
• This eerie exhibit in the East Village will help you mourn and heal from 2020
• 12 ways to celebrate 4/20 in NYC this year
• NYC’s best rooftop music venue reopens for the season on April 30
• This Tulip Festival on the Upper West Side is sure to lift your spirits
• That giant clock in Union Square now has a fascinating new feature
• What to expect in NYC now that weed is legal
• Eight amazing live shows to see in NYC this April
• You can now get vaccinated under the giant blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History
• A herd of sheep will be grazing on Governors Island this summer
• A new public sculpture in Tompkins Square Park is covered in Post-Its revealing New Yorkers’ most foolish moments
• The Bronx's ‘Piazza di Belmont’ is back with outdoor dining on Arthur Avenue
• NYC museums and movie theaters will be able to welcome more visitors starting next Monday
• This interactive map highlights the 700 languages spoken in NYC
• A giant drone being installed on the High Line will hover over 30th St until August 2022
• When will weed be legalized in New York?
• Check out this new mural of the late DMX that was just painted in the Bronx
• There's a new Magnolia Bakery in town, New Yorkers!
• There are giant tentacles hovering above the Coney Island boardwalk right now
• 'In the Heights' will officially open this year's in-person Tribeca Film Festival
• Big Bird stars in this year's Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden Commission
• Here's what Lincoln Center's new David Geffen Hall will look like when it reopens
• A free outdoor cabaret show is happening in the middle of a Harlem street this weekend
• A delightful new grocery store is opening on the Lower East Side this weekend
• There's more Yayoi Kusama art coming to NYC this summer!
• You can see a play performed inside store windows in the Meatpacking District this summer
• A gorgeous new greenhouse-themed restaurant is opening on the roof of Eataly NYC Flatiron
• Kymer’s Camping Resort
• YMCA Fairview Lake Family Camp
• Starting next week, NYC bars and restaurants will be allowed to stay open until midnight
• Brooklyn Flea, Williamsburg
• Curious-on-Hudson
• Breads Bakery is now selling New York-style pizza by a Michelin-starred chef
• It's official: New York City restaurant visits are up almost 50% since the beginning of 2021
• Great news: Both adorable Alice's Tea Cup locations are reopening next week
• A sultry new underground lounge is opening this month in Chelsea
• The first-ever Michelin-starred ramen shop in the world is opening in NYC
• These delectable cookies from a NY-based mother-daughter team are absolutely dreamy
• Art in the Garden: Spring Weekends
• Manhattan Barbershop NYC
• Film at Lincoln Center announces reopening with an amazing slate
• See inside Taco Bell's fully-digital cantina opening in Times Square tomorrow
• This hotel one hour outside of NYC is poised to become the greenest in the U.S.
• Lincoln Center is transforming its iconic plaza into an expansive park
• Today's Google Doodle features the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park is getting a major facelift
• Check out New Yorkers' gorgeous ideas for new parkland in Gowanus
• These Manhattan and Brooklyn neighborhoods lost the most residents this year
• This year’s Costume Institute exhibition at The Met has been announced
• SummerStage will be back with in-person concerts this summer!
• Shop through thousands of finds belonging to a former New Yorker at this pop-up bookstore in Washington Heights
• These mini free libraries around NYC only carry books by BIPOC authors
• You will still have to pay broker fees in NYC
• You can now buy a singing telegram that a Broadway star will perform over the phone
• State budget opens the door to casinos in NYC
• St. Ann’s Warehouse is bringing back concerts to the Brooklyn waterfront next week
• This new digital art exhibition argues New York isn’t dead
• The concert pavilion in Prospect Park has reopened after seven years
• The Brooklyn Bridge is finally getting a bike lane before the end of the year
• The first Dippin’ Dots store in NYC is now open
• The first live in-person performance at Lincoln Center in over a year was astounding
• P.P.O.W.
• The Met Gala is actually happening this year
• This Hamptons-inspired rooftop is now open for summer
• This shop on the Lower East Side sells used books and pickles
• Apparently, pop-up street pools could be a thing in NYC this summer
• This new exhibit will transport you into crazy-looking apocalypse bunkers
• These NYC vaccine sites now take walk-ins
• NYC's beaches will be open for Memorial Day Weekend!
• This new exhibit in midtown seeks to combat anti-Asian hate
• A new musical about Neil Diamond is likely coming to Broadway
• You can now order a curated cookie box to support New York City restaurants
• NYC’s Tavern on the Green officially opens at the end of this month
• "Whispering Libraries" are coming to Brooklyn this summer
• BAM’s first in-person show of the year is an ice skating performance in Prospect Park
• There are now 20 mobile vaccine buses administering COVID-19 shots all around New York City
• Coney Island amusement parks are opening for the first time since 2019 on Friday
• Katz's Deli is giving out free bagels and schmears to folks that place orders in Yiddish today
• You'll be able to play mini-golf on the Williamsburg waterfront this summer
• Governors Island is officially opening on May 1
• This artist in Greenpoint paints local scenes and then hides them around the neighborhood
• Eleven Madison Park is launching a food truck for New Yorkers in need
• The Bronx Night Market is officially back
• 12 gorgeous photos of cherry blossoms in NYC right now
• Here is what the first in-person Broadway performance since the pandemic hit looked like
• A New Yorker changed the Fulton St subway sign for April Fools' Day
• You can now book a tent to go glamping on Governors Island this summer
• Live indoor shows return to NYC today—here’s what you need to know
• Folks can take and leave art for free at this tiny public gallery in Greenpoint
• The Empire State Building is lighting up like a giant Easter egg this weekend
• Check out this new memorial honoring the victims of Hurricane Maria now in Battery Park City
• NYC's iconic Loeb Boathouse is now open!
• The Wonder Wheel at Coney Island is opening for the season next week
• This handy dandy website tells you whether you're overpaying for your NYC apartment
• The iconic East Village venue Pyramid Club is closing its doors for good
• Time Out New York is teaming up with Stoop Stories to share the stories of fascinating New Yorkers
• Brooklyn families share how they're currently coping in this new photo series
• New outdoor market Hester Flea is opening on the Lower East Side in a couple of weeks
• This map tells you where to find the best blooms in Central Park
• This is what the Waldorf Astoria’s Grand Ballroom is going to look like once it reopens