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Spring At The Seaport

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There’s something for everyone happening this Spring at The Seaport! All text courtesy of The Seaport. All images by Julienne Schaer. 

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Pier 17

Liquid Lab: Flex your master mixologist muscles at the upcoming Liquid Lab classes at The Greens Indoor Bar on The Rooftop of Pier 17! Classes are 2-hours long and run from 6:30-8:30 pm. Tickets are available here and cost $100 each, which includes light bites and four cocktails. The Greens Indoor Bar on The Rooftop at Pier 17 at 89 South Street | Wednesday, March 9 & April 13 | 6:30-8:30 pm

Private Picasso Paint and Sip: Switch up your weekly routine and visit Pier 17 on Wednesday evenings to create a beautiful work of art, sip on signature cocktails, and take in some of the best views in NYC. Tickets are available here for $60, which includes all art supplies and one cocktail, wine or beer. Pier 17 at 89 South Street | Wednesday, March 9 at Malibu Farm, March 23, April 6 & April 20 at Pearl Alley | 7-8 pm 

 

The Corner

Girl Scout Troop 6000 Cookie Sale: It’s that time of year again when stocking up on cookies has never felt better! Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, is popping-up at The Corner with their annual Girl Scout Cookie sale, offering an array of delicious and cult-favorite Girl Scout Cookies. All proceeds benefit their mission of ensuring that girls and women in the NYC Shelter System can experience and enjoy all the opportunities Girl Scouting has to offer. The Corner at 25 Fulton Street | Thursday, March 10 – Saturday, March 12 | Thursday & Friday, 4-8 pm & Saturday, 12-4 pm

Journaling Workshop: Join us for an afternoon of pen to paper! Journaling enthusiast Emily Chertow will lead two journaling classes—one for children and one for adults—at The Corner. During the 45-minute kids’ session, children will create and decorate their own journals before being guided through journaling prompts focused on mindfulness and goal setting! The adult’s workshop will be focused on gratitude, mindfulness and intention setting including journal decorating, mindful journaling prompts, and discussion with fellow attendees. Tickets cost $15 each and include all journaling materials. More information can be found here for March 20 class and here for April 9 class. The Corner at 25 Fulton Street | March 20 & April 9 | 2-3 pm (children) & 3:30-4 pm (adults)

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The Greater Neighborhood

Book Launch Events: Independent bookstore McNally Jackson is hosting a variety of in-person book launch events at their two-story Seaport location this Spring. For a full schedule of events and a link to RSVP (which is required), please visit here. McNally Jackson | 4 Fulton Street | Varying dates & times

Youth Boxing Classes:  HIIT The Deck, a high intensity boxing inspired workout that combines boxing, core and conditioning, recently introduced Youth Boxing classes to its schedule! Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from 4:30-5:30 pm, young adults ages 13-18 can build strength, endurance, flexibility, and coordination. No prior experience necessary. Guests must bring boxing gloves, hand wraps, a mat, water, towels and as well as any other PPE equipment. HIIT The Deck | 10 Fulton Street | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4:30-5:30 pm

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The Greens Teams with West Side Comedy Club, Hosts Comedy Shows

Reaching out on behalf of The Greens with exciting new programming in partnership with West Side Comedy Club! Starting Wednesday, February 2, the famous NYC comedy destination will be popping up at Pier 17’s indoor rooftop bar to serve up laughs accompanied by seasonal cocktails and delicious bites. Run by Felicia Madison, a comedian and manager who translates her fun, intelligent humor into an atmosphere where comics love to perform and where audiences love to laugh, the West Side Comedy Club shows will occur every other Wednesday and host 4-5 NYC based comics during each show.   

Located at the Seaport on The Rooftop at Pier 17 overlooking the Lower Manhattan skyline, The Greens is a destination dining experience that features 32 custom-built 10’ x 10’ private dining cabins, community cabins, and The Greens bar, where the comedy shows will take place. Complete with intimate lounge seating, toasty fireplaces, and a well-stocked drink selection, The Greens bar is the perfect setting for a night of laughs and good company.

Shows will occur every other Wednesday from 7:00 – 8:30pm, starting February 2, 2022; lineup of comedians includes: 

Mark Normand
Mark Normand

Wednesday, February 2: Ashley Austin Morris, Eagle Witt, Jocelyn Chia, Mark Normand and Adam Gabel 

Wednesday, February 16: Black History Month show (artists TBC) 

Wednesday, March 2: Artists TBC 

Wednesday, March 16: Artists TBC

Wednesday, March 30: Artists TBC 

Wednesday, April 30: Artists TBC

Reservations required. Tickets are $15 (21+ only.)  An a-la-care menu will be available, and all cocktails are $12

For more information, visit thegreens.pier17ny.com

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2021 Downtown Holiday Lights and Events

Photo: J. Kratochvil.

Downtown NYC is filling up with the holiday spirit! We’ve included here a roundup of upcoming holiday lighting ceremonies and fun festivities.

*South Street Seaport’s Chanukah Family Fun Day, Nov. 28, 3pm-5pm

Photo: J. Kratochvil.

Festivities begin with the Grand Ice Carving of Menorah Show – 3:00pm – 3:30pm

  • Indoor and Outdoor Activities and Entertainment – 3:00pm – 4:30pm
  • Families can enjoy a variety of winter themed and Chanukah activities and projects including balloons, coloring books, and donut decorating. RSVP for Chanukah crafts here.
  • Grand Menorah Lighting – 4:30pm – 5:00pm
  • Celebrate the start of Chanukah with your loved ones as neighborhood figureheads light the first candle at sundown.

Brookfield Place Luminaries, Nov. 29-Jan. 2

Brookfield Place Luminaries
Brookfield Place Luminaries

This installation and holiday tradition features a canopy of colorful lights emanating from hundreds of suspended lanterns. Luminaries was created by the LAB at Rockwell Group for Brookfield Place, inspired by the season’s traditions of sharing, giving, and community.

Touchless wishing stations located on the ground allow visitors to send a motion-activated ‘wish’ into the canopy of lanterns above, prompting a magical display of lights and colors. For each wish made and each interaction with Luminaries, Brookfield Place will donate $1 up to $25,000 to City Harvest, New York City’s largest food rescue organization.

This year, Luminaries debuts Maestro, a new interactive experience that will enable guests to conduct their own symphony. Maestro leverages skeletal tracking technology which allows you to show off your creativity as your own unique light show is displayed in unison with holiday music. The kiosk is an organic form, inspired by an abstraction of global instruments from harps to guitars, and is manufactured by Timbur and made of CNC-milled plywood.

NYSE Tree Lighting, Dec. 1, 2pm-6pm

The NYSE’s Tree Lighting prepares for its 98th holiday season. Head over to Experience Plaza, on the corner of Wall and Broad Streets. The event will feature performances by the Harlem Globetrotters, The Salvation Army Band, Senri Oe, the Léman Manhattan Preparatory School Choir and the USMC Toys for Tots Kettle Bell Ringers; holiday-ready companies like Build-a-Bear, Barkbox and Coca-Cola will also be getting in on the festivities-Santa may also be stopping by! Refreshments will be served. The event will livestream beginning 4:15pm. nyse.com

The Seaport Christmas Tree Lighting Block Party, Dec. 2, 5pm-8pm

Ring in the holidays with live music, pictures with Santa, hot chocolate, apple cider, and kids crafts the block party will have indoor and outdoor activities open to the public. Schedule breakdown:
Holiday crafts and live music – The Corner, 25 Fulton St. (RSVP here)
Kids’ coloring activities – McNally Jackson Books, 4 Fulton St.
Hot chocolate at Cobble & Co. and hot apple cider from Fulton Stall Market – Cobble & Co., 19 Fulton and St. Fulton Stall Market, Corner of Fulton St. and Water St.
Mulled wine and spiked hot chocolate – Garden Bar, 19 Fulton St.
Hester Street Pop-Up Marketing – 205 Front St. (5:00pm – 9:00pm)
Sip & shop at SJP – SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker, 93 South St.
Christmas tree cookies – Funny Face Bakery, 6 Fulton St.
Upcoming Exhibit Previews – The South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St.
Live music performances – (5:30pm – 8:00pm)
Photobooth with Santa – 8 Fulton St.
Christmas Tree Lighting – 6:45pm
Watch the Howard Hughes Corporation and special music guests light the locally sourced tree and enjoy the Christmas magic.
The Ugly Sweater Party – 8:00pm – 12:00am
Unwind and celebrate the start of the holiday season with specialty cocktails and music from special guest DJ Mel Debarge at Pearl Alley. RSVP free for the Ugly Sweater Party here.

Holiday Lights at Battery Park, Dec. 2, 6pm

Celebrate the fifth night of Chanukah and see the annual tree lighting at Battery Park’s Holiday Lights event! Special appearances by Sing Harlem Choir, PS/IS 276 Advanced Chorus, and you-know-who! Free RSVP here. 

Washington Square Park Tree Lighting, Dec. 8, 6pm 

Washington Square Park Christmas Treet
Washington Square Park Tree Lighting Ceremony

NYC’s iconic park in the heart of Greenwich Village prepares for the holiday season. There will also be a Meta/Facebook live event, streaming The Rob Susman Brass Quarter along with singalong holiday songs. Santa may make an appearance. Also, there will be Christmas Eve caroling Dec. 24, at 5pm. washingtonnyc.org

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An ASL Performance for Regina Comet

“A Commerical Jingle for Reginia Comet” is *running* an ASL-interpreted performance of their show on November 20th at 3pm. The performance is part of a partnership with Broadway SIGNs! and show producer Jo-Ann Dean. Regina Comet is the story of two nobodies dreaming of writing one hit song for everybody…and a diva. It stars Alex Wyse (Spring Awakening, Waitress) and Ben Fankhauser (Newsies) as two struggling songwriters and Bryonha Marie Parham (Prince of Broadway) as the eponymous Regina Comet. Wyse and Fankhauser also wrote and composed the book for the show. Tickets are available at reginacomet.com.

Since their opening in September, Regina Comet has drawn audiences, laughs, and rave reviews, including from this website. The show follows two struggling songwriters, so anonymous that they go unnamed in the show and are billed as “Man 2” and “Other Man,” who get the chance of a lifetime when over-the-hill diva Regina Comet hires them to write a new song to advertise her new fragrance, “Relevance.” The results are creative, endearing, and hilarious. 

The November 20th ASL-interpreted show also marks one of the last performances of the show at the DR2 theatre. 

So hop online now and check out A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, running through November 21st, 2021.

Regina Comet Description

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Steinway & Sons Launches Hi-Res SPIRIOCAST, With Kris Bowers Performance

Photo: Chronicle Media Lab/Monic Félix

Steinway & Sons recently made history with its first public SPIRIOCAST. During the launch, Steinway artist and Oscar®- Emmy®- and Grammy®- nominated composer Kris Bowers performed a short set at their Beverly Hills location, and his performance was enjoyed remotely, in real-time, in the recital room at Steinway Hall New York City, along with dozens of other locations around the country.

Photo: Erin Clendenin 

This “live” cross-country performance signaled the next step in the evolution of the piano with Steinway & Sons’ SPIRIOCAST, high resolution, live broadcast from one SPIRIO | r, the world’s finest high-resolution player piano, to another.

Following the SPIRIOCAST premiere, Kris Bowers said, “I am delighted by the possibilities that SPIRIOCAST offers me both as a pianist and as a composer for moving my music forward.”

“Steinway & Sons has always represented the high note in craftsmanship and the Spirio line of player pianos are just a continuation of the brand’s history of excellence,” says Deb Martin, Editor in Chief, Downtown Magazine. “The new iteration, SpirioCast, is brilliant because besides being an acoustically perfect instrument, it also brings concert-level performances right into your home. What could be better than that? It’s exciting to think that a vast catalog of musical performances is literally at your fingertips.”

In 2020, Academy Award winner Jon Batiste (co-composer, Soul) graced the cover of Downtown Magazine’s Creators issue, and was photographed giving an impromptu performance on a Steinway & Sons Baby Grand Piano at 3 World Trade Center.

For more information on Steinway & Sons’ SPIRIO technology, visit steinway.com.

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Sapien Tribe Celebrates Network, Sells NFTS for Charity, at Cipriani 25

Sapien founders Rob Giometti and Ankit Bhatia at launch party at Cipriani 25.

Sapien, a new tokenized social network created by Berkeley students Ankit Bhatia and Rob Giometti in 2016, recently launched their digital network, at a large downtown bash at Cipriani 25. 

Dubbed “The Sapien Nation Tribe,” they are a tokenized social network now 100,000 + plus strong, built on decentralization and privacy, utilizing ethereum blockchain technology, that protects members’ intellectual property, as well as rewards and inspires its members to create digital content. In their terms, they are “first sovereign digital nation.”

“It’s about love, it’s about making [members] own their decisions, and to feel fundamentally empowered,” said Ankit Bhatia at the event. “It’s about protecting freedom of speech.”

Starring front and center at the event was a 7 foot statue of Harambe the Gorilla, who in late October had been in the news, for facing the Charging Bull on Bowling Green, as a symbolic gesture of how “out of touch Wall Street has become with the needs of the everyday people,” according to their site.  Harambe had also recently traveled to California, where he stood opposite the corporate offices of Facebook, now known as Meta. Harambe is modeled after the gorilla was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016.

Sales from NFTs (non-fungible tokens) at the event created by Sapien Tribe artists were donated to several charities, including the Sanneh Foundation, Harambee Foundation, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and Bye Bye Plastic.

For more information on Sapien, visit sapien.network. They can also be found on Twitter and Discord.