A Complete Guide to What to Do In New York Over 4th of July Weekend
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- From a Celebrate Brooklyn of the past.
SummerStage/Celebrate Brooklyn!
Nothing says summer like outdoor concerts, right? And there are a couple of big ones going on this weekend in both Prospect and Central Parks. Over at Celebrate Brooklyn, Theophilus London, Les Nubians, and Aabaraki will be bringing their musical stylings to the Prospect Park Bandshell for a free concert (well, it’s $3 suggested donation, and you should really cough that up if possible) on Saturday the 6th. And over in Olmsted and Vaux’s other arboreal masterpiece, Central Park, She & Him and Camera Obscura will be playing a show the same night. Where to go? How to decide? Maybe it’ll make it easier if I inform you that the Central Park show is already sold out? I mean, there’s for sure a way to get tickets if you really, really want to, but it’ll be harder. So maybe your best bet is to pack a picnic dinner and go to Prospect Park, where you can sit in the grass, listen to the music carrying on the sticky summer night air, and feel happy that you didn’t go anywhere this weekend. No, you stayed right where you belong—in New York City.
SummerStage; Rumsey Playfield, enter Central Park on 69th and 5th Avenue
Celebrate Brooklyn!; Prospect Park Bandshell, 9th Street & Prospect Park West, Park Slope
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