Susan Russo
Park rules for ALL parks: NO glass containers (baby bottles OK); alcohol; smoking; drugs; dogs off leashes YES blankets or towels (but NO plastic or tarps); restrooms; food vendors/stands
MOVIES
Manhattan
Bennett Park (Fort Washington Avenue and West 183rd Street, Pinehurst Avenue)
Thursday, July 21 Show starts at 8:30pm. – Ray
St. Nicholas Park – Historic Harlem Parks Film
Festival (St. Nicholas Plaza at St. Nicholas Avenue and West 135th Street) Shows start at sundown; seating area opens at 6:00pm.
Monday, July 18 – Within Our Gates (“earliest surviving feature by an African-American director”)
Wednesday, July 27 – The Wiz (1978)
Rodgers Amphitheater, Marcus Garvey Park
(East 120th to 124th Streets and Madison Avenue) Show starts at sundown; seating area opens at 6:00pm.
Monday, Aug 1 – Purple Rain
Morningside Park (114th Street at Morningside Drive) Show starts at sundown; seating area opens at 6:00pm.
Monday July 25 – Mavis Staples and the Staples Singers
Thomas Jefferson Park (First Avenue between 111th and 114th Streets) Show starts at 8:30pm.
Thursday, July 28 – Annie (2014)
Sherman Kreek Peninsula Park (10th Avenue, Between Academy Street and the Harlem River) Shows start at sundown; seating area opens at 6:30pm.
Wednesday, July 13 – Inside Out
Tuesday, August 9 – Fly Away Home
Randall’s Island Park (“at Touchdown of the 103rd Street Footbridge”) Shows start at 8:00pm. Sunday, July 31 – The Goonies
Sunday, Aug 28 – Inside Out (at Randall’s Island Connector) Show starts at 8:00pm.
Sunday, Aug 14 – The Good Dinosaur
103rd Street Community Garden (103rd Street east of Park Avenue) Show starts at 7:45pm.
Tuesday, Aug 30 – The Incredibles
Pier I Picture Show (Riverside Park South – enter at 66th Street at the Hudson River) Shows start at 8:30pm; seating starts at 6:30pm.
Wednesday, July 13 – Basquiat
Friday, July 15 – Un Flic (film noir in French)
Wednesday, July 20 – Arthur (1981)
Wednesday, July 27 – Dog Day Afternoon
Wednesday, Aug 3 – The Royal Tenenbaums
Wednesday, Aug 10 – “Audience vote” – Mary and Max or Carol or The Warriors
Wednesday, Aug 17 – Auntie Mame
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Bryant Park (behind the 42nd St. Main Library) 42nd to 40th Streets, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Shows start at sundown; gravel areas around the lawn open at 5:00pm (chairs and bench seating available); the lawn area opens at 6:00pm.
Mondays, July 18 – The Omen
July 25 – Three Days of the Condor
Aug 1 – Harvey
Aug 8 – High Plains Drifter
Aug 15 – The Big Chill
Aug 22 – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
At this park only – BAG CHECKS are made before entering. So you should know, seats and lawn spaces are are taken fast; it’s best to send a friend to hold space with a blanket EARLY.
Bellevue South Park (East 26th to 28th Streets at Second Avenue). Show starts at 8:30pm.
Friday, July 29 – Forbidden Planet (1956)
Hudson River Park – Pier 63 (enter at 24th or 22nd Streets and 12th Avenue) Free popcorn (while it lasts). Shows start at 8:30pm.
Wednesdays, July 13 – Jurassic World
July 20 – Train Wreck
July 27 – The Big Short
Aug 3 – Creed
Aug 10 – Hunger Games Part II
Aug 17 – The Martian
Thursday, July 21 – Grease (1978) – “SINGALONG”
Fridays, July 15 – The Peanuts Movie
July 22 – Shaun the Sheep
July 29 – Kung Fu Panda
Aug 5 – Penguins of Madagascar
Aug 12 – Goosebumps
Aug 19 – The Princess Bride
Union Square Park, North Plaza (17th Street between Broadway and Fourth Avenue). Shows start at 8:00pm.
Thursdays, Aug 4 – The Goonies
Aug 11 – Grease
Stuyvesant Square (North Lawn, East 15th and 17th Streets, Rutherford Place to Perlman Place). Shows start at 8:00pm.
Thursdays, July 14 – North by Northwest
July 21 – Maleficent
July 28 – The Birds
Tompkins Square Park (Old Bandshell Lawn, Tenth Street between Avenues A and B). Shows start at 8:30pm.
Fridays, July 22 – Cleo From 5 to 7 (in French)
July 29 – Boyfriends and Girlfriends (in French)
Tony Dapolito Recreation Center (Clarkson Street and Seventh Avenue South). Shows start at 8:30pm.
Monday, July 12 – Adventures in Babysitting
Tuesday, July 26 – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Bronx St. Mary’s Park Recreation Center. Show starts at 8:30pm.
Thursday, July 14 – The Girls in the Band
Crotona Park Amphitheater. Show starts at 8:30pm; seating starts at 7:30pm.
Saturday, July 16 – Star Wars VII – The Force Awakens
Bathgate Community Garden (1818-1836 Bathgate Avenue). Shows start at 8:35pm.
Tuesdays, July 19 – The Book of Life
Aug 16 – The Land Before Time
Queens
Socrates Sculpture Park. Shows start at sundown; seating starts at 7:00pm.
Wednesdays, July 13 – L’Atlante (in French)
July 20 – Sonita (Iran/Germany)
July 27 – Rivers and Tides (UK/Germany)
Aug 3 – Girl Asleep (Australia)
Aug 10 – Suzhou River (China)
Aug 17 – Aguirre, Wrath of God (Germany)
Aug 24 – Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia)
Unisphere (Flushing Meadows Corona Park). Show starts at 8:00pm.
Wednesday, Aug 3 – Jurassic World
Mauro Playground (Flushing Meadows Corona Park). Show starts at 8:00pm.
Sunday, July 31 – The Good Dinosaur
Virgilio Playground (Flushing Meadows Corona Park). Show starts at 8:30pm.
Wednesday, July 13 – Back to the Future
Show starts at 8:00pm.
Sunday, Aug 14 – The Land Before Time
111th Street Parking Lot (Flushing Meadows Corona Park). Show starts at 8:00pm.
Tuesday, Aug 23 – Norm of the North
LIC Landing Events Space (Hunter’s Point South Park). Shows start at 8:30pm. Thursdays, July 14 – Spider-Man
Aug 11 – August Rush
Show starts at 8:00pm.
Aug 25 – Zootopia
Rainey Park
Shows start at 8:30pm.
Thursday, July 14 – The Muppets Take Manhattan
Saturday, July 16 – Shaolin Soccer
George U. Harvey Park Hockey Rink
Show starts at 8:30pm. Friday, July 15 – Monsters, Inc.
Athens Square
Shows start at 8:30pm. Sunday, July 17 – Mary Poppins
July 24 – The Wizard of Oz
Katzman Playground (in Yellowstone Park). Show starts at 8:30pm.
Thursday, July 21 – Finding Nemo
Juniper Valley Park
Show starts at 8:30pm.
Friday, July 22 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Waylanda Park
Show starts at 8:30pm.
Saturday, July 23 –The Avengers
Highland Park (Elton Street and Jamaica Avenue). Shows start at 7:30pm.
Friday, July 22 – The Incredibles
Monday, Aug 8 – Goosebumps
Astoria Park Lawn
Shows start at 8:30pm.
Mondays, July 25 – Big Hero 6
Aug 2 – Mary Poppins
Aug 8 – Minions
Aug 15 – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Aug 22 – Jaws
ARROW Field House (Astoria). Shows start at 8:15pm.
Wednesdays, July 13 – Jaws
July 27 – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Police Officer Edward Byrne Park. Show starts at 8:30pm.
Thursday, July 28 – Monsters University
Crocheron Park (At 35th Avenue and Cross Island Parkway)
Shows start at 8:00pm. Fridays, July 29 – Jurassic World
Aug 5 – Minions
Aug 12 – The Avengers
Tudor Park (Addabbo Memorial Park)
Show starts at 8:30pm. Saturday, July 30 – Grease (Buddy Monument)
Show starts at 8:30pm. Saturday, July 30 – Grease
Show starts at 7:30pm.
Mondays, Aug 1 – Hotel Transylvania
Aug 15 – Finding Nemo
Aug 29 – Guardians of the Galaxy
Baisley Pond Park (155th Street and Baisley Boulevard). Show starts at 8:00pm. Friday, July 29 – Jurassic World
Rockaways (Beach 17th Street and Seagirt Boulevard). Shows starts at 8:00pm.
Friday, July 29 – Goosebumps
Saturday, Aug 27 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Beach 59th Street and Seagirt Boardwalk)
Show starts at 8:00pm. Friday, July 29 – Goosebumps (Broad Channel Park)
Show starts at 8:00pm. Saturday, Aug 13 – Zootopia
Forest Park, George Seuffert Bandshell. Show starts at 7:30pm.
Monday, Aug 22 – The Good Dinosaur
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1 (at entrance to Park). Shows start at 7:00pm; seating at 6:00pm.
Thursdays, July 14 – Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
July 21 – Purple Rain
July 28 – It Happened One Night
Aug 4 – American Graffiti
Aug 11 – Selma
Aug 18 – A League of Their Own
Aug 25 – “Public Vote” The Sandlot or Milk or La Bamba
Target Brooklyn Community Garden. Shows start at 8:00pm.
Wednesdays, Aug 10 – Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Aug 17 – Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Jane Bailey Memorial Garden (Fort Greene). Shows start at 8:00pm.
Wednesdays, Aug 24 – Buck and the Preacher (1972) (Sidney Poitier)
Aug 31 – Paris Blues (1961) (Sidney Poitier)
Staten Island
Timoshenko Soccer Field (FDR Boardwalk/Beach). Show starts at 8:30pm.
Tuesday, July 12 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Conference House Park (Hyland Boulevard/Satterlee Street). Show starts at 8:30pm.
Wednesday, July 13 – Wreck It Ralph
Greenbelt Recreation Center (Blood Root Valley) Wednesdays July 20 – Rear Window (starts at 8:20pm)
Aug 3 – Vertigo (starts at 8:00pm)
Aug 17 – North by Northwest (at 7:50pm)
Aug 31 – Notorious (starts at 7:30pm)
Sunday, July 31 – The Girls in the Band (at 8:00pm)
Westervelt Community Garden (St. George). Show starts at 7:55pm.
Tuesday Aug 23 – An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
FREE
PLAYS AND OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS
(IF you’re too tired to handle LONG waits online for Central Park’s Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida)
Manhattan
Broadway in Bryant Park 12:30-1:30pm.
Thursdays July 14, 21, 28 and August 4 and 11
Hudson Warehouse Summer Stage (at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Plaza at 89th Street and Riverside Park). Performances at 6:30pm
Thursdays through Sundays only “Pay what you can” Now playing, through July 24 Lysisarah “Let’s Make America Great Again” [adapted and ‘updated’ from] Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
July 24 –Aug 21 Othello [Shakespeare’s]
New York Euripides Summer Festival
(At the East River Park, from Avenue C, walk towards the East River to the East River Amphitheater)
Friday July 29, and Saturday, July 30
Performances from 6:00-7:30pm of Euripides’ Cyclops
(At the Marcus Garvey Park, Rodgers Auditorium)
Tuesdays August 2 and August 3
Performances from 12:30-1:30pm of Euripides’ Cyclops
The Bronx
Van Cortlandt Park Classical Playground
Thursday, July 14, 10-11:30am– Chinese Acrobat Li Liu
Queens
Unisphere (Flushing Meadows Corona Park) From 6:30-10:0pm.
Wednesdays, July 27 – Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Aug 10 – Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Crocheron Park (At 35th Avenue and Cross Island Parkway) From 6:30-10:00pm
Thursdays, July 28 – Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Aug 25 – Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Highland Park (Elton Street and Jamaica Avenue) From 6:00-7:30pm Wednesday, July 27 – You’re a
Good Man, Charlie Brown
From 6:00-7:00pm Wednesday, Aug 3 – Patty Cake Theater – Mr. Amoeba and the Geos 111th Street Parking Lot (at 53rd Avenue, Flushing Meadows Corona Park)
From 11:00am to 12:00pm
Tuesday, Aug 16 – PuppetMobile –Puss in Boots
Alley Pond Park (76th Avenue/Springfield Boulevard) From 10:30 to 11:30am
Tuesday, Aug 23 – PuppetMobile –Puss in Boots
COMPILER’S NOTE: PLEASE check online for dates and/or times of the events, as there may be changes in schedules for reasons other than for inclement weather! – Susan Russo