AWESOME THINGS HAPPENING IN NYC THIS WEEKEND! October 4th-6th edition!

Once again this weekend there are AWESOME THINGS HAPPENING IN NYC.  Here are my top picks for this weekend!

If you have some money to spend, check out The New Yorker Festival!  This is a series of panels with various celebrities ranging from Burlesque Stars, to Malcolm Gladwell, to media personalities examining New York a year after Hurricane Sandy.  Tickets to the panels range from $35-$50.  Click here to see a full list of panels you can attend this year.  

If you're feeling like reveling in the autumn, check out the Queens County Farm Kick Off to Fall.  (This is where me and my friends will be Sunday - which means I am so excited about this I will be missing my beloved Baltimore Ravens play the Miami Dolphins.)  Dating back to 1697, Queens County Farm is the largest undisturbed farmland remaining in New York City!  The Kick Off to Fall will include cider, donuts, a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, and live music!  Admission to this event is free, so it's good for starving artists.  If you can't make it to the Kick Off to Fall, check out all of the other events they have going on this October!  

If you don't fell like trekking out to Queens, but want a free event, check out the Giuseppe Verdi Bicentennial Parade Sunday, October 6 at 12:30 p.m. at Verdi Square on 72nd Street and Broadway.  The public will come and sing "Va Pensiero" from Verdi's Opera Nabucco.  The parade will continue downtown from Verdi Square to St. Stephen's Church at 120 West 69th Street concluding with a concert in the church at 2 p.m.  For all the official information checkout this website. 

If you're looking for contemporary art, make your way over to Lincoln Center.  There you will find 14 colorful sculptures by an artist named Aaron Curry.  These sculptures make up an installation known as "Melt to Earth."  The installation will remain until January 16th, but this is its first weekend inhabiting Lincoln Center so if you want to be first in line to see it, go now.  Here is an article the New York Times published expounding on the installation and Aaron Curry's career.  

I leave you now with this photo of a very festive apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.  They are getting into the Halloween spirit NYC style!