📌 Pinned Missed these? Your neighbors didn't.

🍜 UWS Outdoor Dining + NYT 100 + Where to Watch the Knicks — more than 98,000 of you have used this map. Bonus: a lot of those Knicks-watch spots are running extended hours for the World Cup now too, opening as early as 2:30pm.

🌟 The Summer 10 — nominate a neighbor. We'll tell their stories all summer.

📰 Issue #16: A Title, a Tribute, and a Woman in a Brown Dress — in case you missed last week.

⛺ Summer Camp 2026 Guide

🧩 Inclusive Camp Guide

🎓 To the class of 2026: you made it, and so did everyone who got you here.

It's graduation season on the Upper West Side, which means tiny humans in tiny caps, fifth graders being "elevated" to middle school like minor royalty, high schoolers in gowns that photograph beautifully and feel like a trash bag, and the university grads streaming out of Columbia, Barnard, Fordham, and every other institution up here into the rest of their lives. Pre-K through PhD, congratulations to all of you.

And congratulations to the supporting cast: the parents, the grandparents, the friends, the strangers who clapped on cue, the bodega guy who kept you alive one bacon-egg-and-cheese at a time, and the doorman who watched you leave for school every morning and will deny tearing up at the cap-and-gown photos. Everybody made it. Deep breath.

For the occasion, a few of the better lines from this year's commencement stages:

The gowns come off, the advice fades, the group chat is forever. Go be a little insufferable about it. You earned that too.

🏛️ The city's oldest museum just added a $175 million wing, and a duel.

The New York Historical opened in 1804 and just finished its first expansion in nearly a century, a $175 million one. In the new open-air sculpture court, life-size bronzes of Hamilton and Burr stand ten paces apart, pistols raised, frozen on the morning they did this for real in 1804, the year the museum was born. The new Tang Wing for American Democracy holds the Bible Washington was sworn in on, an early printing of the Declaration from the days after the signing, a permanent shoe museum running from suffragists to Beyoncé, and a rooftop garden with Central Park views.

Through July 4, open until 8pm Thursday to Saturday, PWYW 5 to 8pm. The Declaration printing comes down July 5. And yes, they dropped "Society" from the name for sounding too exclusive. Noble. Futile. You're going to keep saying it anyway.

🥬 The Greenmarket hits 50, and the UWS is hoarding five of them.

Picture a Saturday without it: no arugula bought by the loose handful, no peaches that taste like a peach instead of a rumor of one, no waiting behind someone buying forty dollars of mushrooms with total conviction. For a lot of us, the Greenmarket is the weekend. And this summer it turns 50: the first one opened July 17, 1976, at 59th and Second Avenue with seven farmers who sold out by early afternoon. GrowNYC now runs more than 60, pulling from farms inside a 250-mile radius. Five of them are ours, from 57th Street up to Columbia:

Funding got cut last year, so the farmers could use the foot traffic. Fifty years in, it still comes down to a folding table, someone who drove three hours, and you. Don't send them home full.

🏀 We're still yelling "Go Knicks." Now the Guggenheim is, too.

During the Knicks' run to their first title in 53 years, Jordyn Woods, fiancée of center Karl-Anthony Towns, kept bringing a little orange purse to games, and the team kept winning. A superstition was born. After the championship, Towns declared the bag "undefeated" and said it belonged in the Whitney or the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim, which once accepted a banana duct-taped to a wall, knows a cultural moment when it sees one, and said yes. Her $125 "Tux Clutch Mini" is on display through the weekend, pulling a line of people who came to study a handbag like a Rothko. You can pre-order one; it ships in October, just in time to find out whether the magic was the bag or the team.

Opened: 🍰 Lady M — 1 West 60th St (at Columbus Circle). The global luxury cake house picked its 25th anniversary to plant a boutique at the Circle, Mille Crêpes and all. Twenty paper-thin layers, one quiet flex.

Opened: ☕ Picky Barista — 1241 Amsterdam Ave (at 121st). Fifth location for the family-run shop, and the one where the burek and baklava come out of the oven on site. Coffee with a Balkan accent, way up at the top of the map.

Opened: 🍕 Casa Louie Waterline — 645 West 59th St (entrance on Freedom Place South). A second act from the Hudson Yards Italian, doing Sicilian square pizza in the old Empellón space. Same Waterline Square complex we flagged for its affordable-housing lottery, in case you won and need a table.

Opened: 🧘 Pilates Addiction — 117 West 72nd St (Columbus–Amsterdam). An LA chain's first New York studio, built around a patented machine called the WundaFormer. The name's either a warning or the business plan.

Reopened: ⛲ Grand Army Plaza South — Fifth Ave at 59th St. Central Park's grandest entrance is back after a two-year, $16 million restoration, Pulitzer Fountain and freshly conserved Pomona statue included.

Coming: 🥯 2788 Bagels — 2790 Broadway (107th–108th). The shop once known as Absolute is taking the old Effy Hair Boutique next door for a to-go and delivery-only counter, built to thin out that weekend line. Same bagels, third name in two years, new door.

🌦️ Friday starts wet, with morning rain clearing to a muggy, 86-degree afternoon. Saturday is the gift: cloudy, breezy, and a manageable 78. Sunday warms back up to 84 under partly sunny skies, dry and bright in time for the march.

Friday, June 26

🖼️ Raphael: Sublime Poetry at the Met. Through Sun 6/28. No American museum had ever mounted a full Raphael survey until this one: more than 170 drawings, paintings, and tapestries by the High Renaissance master who died at 37 and still reshaped Western art. Shows at this scale don't come back around, and this is the last weekend to cross the park for it. Included with admission.

💃 MAJOR at Hearst Plaza. Fri 6/26 and Sat 6/27, 5pm. Brooklyn artist Ogemdi Ude reworks her majorette-dance piece for the outdoors, six Black femmes moving to a live score of Southern rap, horns, and drumlines. Part of Lincoln Center's Summer for the City, about 45 minutes, first-come first-served. Lincoln Center flags adult themes. FREE

🎭 Hamlet at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. Fri 6/26, Sat 6/27, Sun 6/28, 6:30pm. Hudson Classical Theater Company stages Shakespeare outdoors on the monument steps at 89th and Riverside, cushions provided. No reservations and no late seating, so get there by 6:20pm. FREE (they pass the hat after).

Saturday, June 27

🩰 Movement Session with New York City Ballet at David Geffen Hall. Sat 6/27, 11am. An hour-long, all-levels dance workshop led by NYCB dancers in the LeFrak Lobby, part of Lincoln Center's Art of Wellbeing series: a ballet warm-up, guided stretches, and choreography pulled from the Company's repertory. All ages, first-come first-served (or grab a Fast Track pass Monday at noon), and it streams live too. FREE

🧵 The Mending Lab at 2244 Broadway (80th–81st). Sat 6/27, 12pm to 5pm; Sun 6/28, 11am to 4pm. A free two-day pop-up (find the crew at @itsprettyuglyofficial) where designers teach you to fix what you've already got: bring the shirt with the missing button or the hem that gave up, and walk out knowing visible mending, sashiko, smocking, or upcycling. A small stand against the throwaway pile, in a storefront the landlord loaned for the weekend. FREE

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Month Member Tour at the Met. Sat 6/27, 2pm to 3pm. A members-only hour with a guide pulling the LGBTQIA+ stories out of a collection you've probably walked past a hundred times. Meet at the Medieval Choir Screen in Gallery 305, no registration, first-come. Free for members.

🎬 Saturday Afternoon Movie: Force Majeure at St. Agnes Library. Sat 6/27, 2pm. The branch's "Getaways" film series rolls on with Ruben Östlund's 2014 avalanche-and-marriage dark comedy. Adults, rated R, about two hours. FREE

Sunday, June 28

🏳️‍🌈 NYC Pride March — the big one. Sun 6/28, from noon. It steps off from 26th and Fifth, heads down through Midtown into the Village, and finishes near the Stonewall National Monument. Expect thousands of marchers, performers, and onlookers, plus a whole weekend of programming around the city. FREE

The American Museum of Natural History is hosting FIFA World Cup 2026 watch parties on big screens inside the museum: LeFrak Theater, Cullman Hall of the Universe, and the Global Sports Pavilion in Futter Gallery. Free with admission, and on evening matches the museum stays open late, exhibitions and shows included.

This weekend's slate at AMNH:

Knockout rounds keep going next week: Brazil's first round-of-16 match is Mon 6/29 at 1pm, and the parties run through July 3.

Prefer a classy joint? The Wallace Lounge inside The Wallace Hotel on 76th wheeled in a TV and is opening early, at 2:30pm, with an extended happy hour for the afternoon games.

Twenty of you weighed in, and it ended in a tie nobody's celebrating. Seven said "once in a blue moon." Seven more said "never used them anyway." Three are rationing their rides, two switched to their own bikes, and exactly one person out of twenty said worth every penny.

That person was Amanda, and she showed her work: "on the night the Knicks won the championship I took a one-hour joyride throughout the city, and it was worth every penny of $17.05." That's not a transportation cost. That's a souvenir.

The opposing camp was more economical about it. As Kim put it: "You ride once and realize how expensive, and you don't do it again."

🐦Riverside Park Birding Club — Riverside Park, meet at 116th and Riverside. Sat 6/27, 8am to 10am. Conservancy field staff lead a walk to whatever's nesting and passing through right now, all ages and experience welcome, binoculars helpful but not required. FREE

☯️ Tai Chi at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. Sun 6/28, 8am to 9:30am. Silvana Pizzuti leads a slow, all-levels session on the monument plaza. No experience, no equipment, just an hour of moving gently with the river at your back. FREE

🧚 Storytelling at the Hans Christian Andersen Statue in Central Park, by the Boat Pond. Sat 6/27, 11am to 12pm (every Saturday through August 29). In its 70th year, the Saturday-morning tradition brings storytellers and musicians to the shade for fairytales, folklore, and Andersen classics. FREE

Don’t forget: The New York Historical discount code FAMPASS26, good through 7/31.

Friday, June 26

🎈 Last Day of School Party / Summer Kick-Off at Bloomingdale Library. Fri 6/26, 3pm. School's out: swing by for a snack, a small prize, and summer reading sign-ups. Kids and families, no registration. (Teens get their own version same time, with pizza.) FREE

🐾 Summer Kickoff: The Amazing World of Animals at St. Agnes Library. Fri 6/26, 3:30pm. The branch launches its summer reading season with live animals from the New Canaan Nature Center, plus giveaways and free books. Ages 4 and up, no registration. FREE

Saturday, June 27

🎨 Family Studio: Make Your Sports Trading Cards at the Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle. Sat 6/27, 10:30am to 12pm. A 90-minute World Cup-themed workshop where kids 5 and up and their grown-ups reimagine sports trading cards with collage and mixed media, led by artist Katrina Majkut. Preregister; space is limited. Kids 12 and under free; adults $25 ($15 members), museum admission included.

🎤 Pierce Freelon at Hearst Plaza. Sat 6/27, 12pm. The two-time Grammy nominee makes hip-hop and electronic soul built for families, brought outdoors for an hour as part of Summer for the City. Bonus points if your kid already knows his PBS Kids podcast, "Jamming on the Job." FREE

🌈 Proud to be Me! at CMOM — the Children's Museum of Manhattan. Through 6/30 (headliner workshop Sat 6/27, 2pm). A Pride week of drop-in making: decorate a rainbow tote, build a giant Pride flag, sort a sensory rainbow. Saturday's Layers of Pride workshop has Queens artist Shormi Uddin leading kids in 3D paintings inspired by queer landmarks (ages 5 and up, sign up on site). With admission.

🎪 Theater Games at St. Agnes Library. Sat 6/27, 4pm. A 45-minute workshop of warm-ups, reflex games, and improv for ages 7 to 12, no registration. FREE

Sunday, June 28

📚 Sunday Story Time: 'Twas the Night Before Pride at New York Historical, 170 Central Park West. Sun 6/28, 11:30am to 12:30pm. A reading of Joanna McClintick and Juana Medina's picture book about a family getting ready for the Pride march, followed by a make-your-own-crown craft. With admission.

Next week

🎶 Music Storytime with Intersection Music and Arts at David Geffen Hall. Wed 7/1, 11am and 1pm. A 50-minute sing-along storytime built around Ian Falconer's "Olivia Forms A Band," with rhythm sticks and shakers handed out, presented with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. FREE

🎬 Monday Matinee: Glory at Bloomingdale Library. Mon 6/29, 12pm. Edward Zwick's 1989 drama about the 54th Massachusetts, the Union's first all-Black volunteer regiment, and the film that won Denzel Washington his first Oscar. A heavy, great one to give a free Monday afternoon to. Adults, about two hours. FREE

🔬 Fellows Forum: Gilded Age New York and the Birth of Modern Oncology at New York Historical, on Zoom. Tue 6/30, 5pm to 6pm. A free talk on how the city's first cancer hospitals in the 1880s helped birth modern oncology, with fellow Leland Jasperse and curator Anne Garner. FREE

🍿 The Floaters at JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. Tue 6/30, 7pm. The Uptown Film Center's Tales of Summer series hosts the NYC premiere of this Jewish-summer-camp comedy, shot at a real Catskills camp, with a cast deep enough to include Seth Green, Steve Guttenberg, and Aya Cash. A burned-out musician gets roped into wrangling misfit campers to save the place. $12 with code uptown26 at checkout.

🎤 Community Hamilton Sing-Along at Bloomingdale Library. Thu 7/2, 3:30pm. A screening of the filmed Broadway production with audience singing encouraged, timed to the 250th. All ages, rated PG-13. FREE

🚢 Sail4th 250 Tall Ship Tours at the Intrepid, Pier 86. July 3 to 7 (reservations required July 5, 6, and 7). For the country's 250th, three international training ships dock and open for free deck tours: Italy's 329-foot Amerigo Vespucci, Sweden's HMS Gladan, and Uruguay's Capitan Miranda. Minimum age 5, closed-toe shoes, and leave the big bags at home. FREE

🛟 Harbor Hooray! at CMOM — the Children's Museum of Manhattan. July 1 to 5. Maritime making pegged to the Sail4th 250 celebration: float-or-sink boat experiments, recycled paper ship sculptures, and nautical letter flags. With admission.

🎷 Songs of America at New York Historical. Thu 7/2 to Sat 7/4, 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Free live music in the new Tang Wing alongside Jazz at Lincoln Center, during the museum's pay-as-you-wish evening hours (PWYW 5 to 8pm through July 4). Richard Julian's Interstate 10 plays Americana Thursday, and DJ Kultured Child with Birsa Chatterjee bring soul and jazz Friday and Saturday.

✈️ International Aerial Review over the Hudson River Greenway. Sat 7/4, 10:15am. A patriotic flyover with more than 150 aircraft led by the Navy's Blue Angels, best watched from the Greenway, with prime spots down at Piers 84 and 86. FREE

🎺 Concert and BBQ at Grant's Tomb — Riverside Drive and 122nd. Sat 7/4, 12pm to 2pm. The Grant Monument Association throws a free Fourth of July party at the overlook: Juilliard jazz musicians, the Antebellum Marine Band, and one of the best perches in the city to watch the tall ships parade up the Hudson. President Grant himself, by way of Ken Serfass, holds court. Complimentary BBQ and cake from 11:30am while it lasts. FREE

👕 Miracle Monday clothing drive at St. Paul & St. Andrew, 263 W 86th St. Sun 6/28 12pm to 1pm and Mon 6/29 7:30am to 9:30am. The Resource Fair and Respite Center added extra June donation days, taking casual summer clothing in good-to-excellent shape for kids and adults (no plus or XXXL), plus toys, bikes, backpacks, strollers, suitcases, and Fresh Direct bags. No household goods, books, or winter clothing, and up to five Fresh Direct bags' worth at a time.

Be the neighbor you think you are.

🎹 Eric Scott Reed Trio: Out Late at Dizzy's Club. Fri 6/26 and Sat 6/27, sets at 7pm and 9pm. The pianist runs through his album Out Late with Danton Boller on bass and Willie Jones III on drums, leaning into the loose, after-hours feel the record is named for. Tickets $30 to $65, plus a $25 food-and-drink minimum.

🎷 The Wallace Lounge at The Wallace Hotel (76th). Live jazz all weekend:

🎺 Morrisania Band Project at the 96th Street tennis courts, Riverside Park. Sat 6/27, 7pm to 8:30pm. The sunset series rolls on with the Bronx cover band voted the borough's best two years running, doing R&B, soul, and funk over the Hudson. Seating's first-come, and heavy rain cancels. FREE

🎧 DJ Bongohead: Silent Disco on The Dance Floor, Josie Robertson Plaza. Fri 6/26, 10pm. An all-vinyl silent disco of classic salsa, hits and deep cuts, from the Peace & Rhythm Records co-founder. Headphones on. FREE

🎤 J.PERIOD Presents The Block Party on The Dance Floor. Sat 6/27, 7:30pm. The DJ behind Lincoln Center's 50-years-of-hip-hop run throws an outdoor dance party with special guests and dance battles, so warm up the knees. FREE

🪩 Sincere Light: A Tribute to D'Angelo on The Dance Floor. Sat 6/27, 10pm. DJ Reborn spins a neo-soul silent disco honoring the late D'Angelo, presented with The Apollo. Headphones, moonlight, and "Brown Sugar." FREE

🎼 Center at West Park: Pop-to-Classical Soirée at St. Paul & St. Andrew, 263 W 86th St. Tue 6/30, reception 5:45pm, concert 6:15pm. A genre-hopping intergenerational concert moving from classical piano to contemporary pieces inspired by Middle Eastern and Latin influences to previews of new Broadway musicals. PWYW

🅿️ Alternate Side Parking is suspended Friday and Saturday, July 3 and 4, for Independence Day.

🚧 The loading-zone update, such as it is.

A few weeks back we promised to find out how loading-zone enforcement actually works up here: what triggers a ticket, what it costs, what counts as "actively" loading, whether a parent wrestling kids and gear to the curb gets any grace. The DOT pointed us to the NYPD. We wrote the department's press office on June 18, followed up Wednesday, and asked for answers by Thursday to make this issue. It is now Friday. Are we surprised there's no reply? We are not. Did we want to be surprised? Badly. The questions are still good, their inbox is still open, and we'll keep asking until someone answers or we age out of caring, whichever lands first.

🎩 A neighbor had a Tuesday. Micah Lasher, who lives up here, won the Democratic primary for the open House seat, and the watch party packed Jacob's Pickles until it spilled onto Columbus. Among the résumé lines nobody saw coming: accomplished childhood magician. The room introduced him as "the mensch of Manhattan."

🍻 A tip of the hat to reader Stacey Gilles, who flagged that the Wallace Lounge is opening early for the World Cup (see above). This is the dream: you spot something, you tell us, we tell the block, and the whole neighborhood ends up at the same bar. Send us yours.

🍔 Allison G. didn't want to tell you this: "I don't know if people realize how good the food at Nobody Told Me is. I hate to share and have the spot blow up, but the burger, chicken sandwich, and Caesar salad all rock." We see the bind, Allison. You just leaked a restaurant called Nobody Told Me, which may be the most on-brand betrayal we've ever printed. The burger intel is noted. Your secret's safe with us and a few thousand of our closest friends.

📝 Paul D. sent over what he's calling the Ultimate UWS List: the W 87th Street Garden, the ancient phone booth at 90th and West End, the St. Agnes basement book sale, Le French Wine Shop, Lily's Roasters (his best latte up here), Barney Greengrass (best breakfast), Moshe's (best falafel), and Malka (best schnitzel). Paul, half this list is "best [something] on the UWS" and the other half is a garden and a phone booth, which means you're either a secret food critic or simply a man who pays attention. Either way, we're free for dinner. Name the date.

🌟 The Summer 10. Still taking nominations. We want the neighbor who makes your block feel like your block. The one your kid waves to every morning. The one who always has a chair outside. Could be the rent-stabilized lady in your building who's seen five presidents from the same apartment. Could be the new folks who just moved in and already know the super by name. Fill out the form. We'll tell their stories all summer.

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Whatever you graduated from this week (school, a hard year, a long winter), congratulations. Eat the peaches. Wear the rainbow. We're back next Friday.

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— The West Sider