Over 60 and want to excercise with your crew?

     Columbia invites you for wellness walks and fitness sessions, organized around incentives and rewards for your effort.

     The weekly workouts are held indoors—on the world’s fastest indoor track. (Spiked shoes not required.) To sign up, call (212) 305-9483.

      Free. Tuesday mornings from 10 to 11:30 at the Armory in Lower WaHi on Fort Washington Avenue at 168th Street.

     Four contemporary American artists present their work at Uptown’s storied gallery, the American Academic of Arts and Letters.

     Lucy Sante (above) has been making collages since her teenage years in New Jersey, a practice she has sustained alongside her prolific writing career. After moving to New York, she worked at the Strand Bookstore, where she acquired source material that would fuel her collage work for decades. In the late 1970s, she created collaged fliers for The Del-Byzanteens, a band fronted by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, and other groups in downtown New York. 

     Jessi Reaves makes sculptures (left) that confront the assumptions and values embedded in objects of daily life. Early works incorporate severed limbs of mid-century furniture in constructions that question the elevation of clean lines and rational forms to universal good taste. Recent sculptures have become visually dense, using handiwork and ornamentation to achieve an almost grotesque sense of accumulation.

     Also in the exhibition is Josiane M. H. Pozi, whose films and videos from the last eight years haec been remixed and rearranged into an installation.

     The exhibition is free too. Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 5 at the Academy on Audubon Terrace, at Broadway and 155th Street. Through July 3.

        The history of United Palace, Manhattan’s fourth-largest theater, began in 1930 when it was then one of five Loew’s Wonder Theatres across the boroughs and New Jersey. Designed by the noted architect Thomas Lamb (Cort Theatre, the former Ziegfeld Theater) with interiors overseen by decorative specialist Harold Rambusch (Waldorf Astoria, Radio City Music Hall), it was one of the region’s premier vaudeville and movie houses.

    The Inwood greenmarket is a year-round neighborhood favorite.
    People of all ages, backgrounds, and tastes gather each Saturday to meet and greet their friends and neighbors and do their weekly shopping. Even on the coldest, darkest winter Saturdays, loyal Inwood shoppers come out because they know they can’t get products like this anywhere else.
     A core group of 15 farmers attends every week of the year, and during the peak of the season, five more join to round out the offerings with the summer’s bounty.
     Saturdays from 8 to 3 on Isham Street between Seaman Avenue and Cooper Street. Open year-round.

     Lend a hand to help clean up Manhattan’s Hudson River shoreline. Volunteers will collect trash to keep the waterfront clean.

     The ninety-minute effort is organized by the Inwood Canoe Club and Friends of Inwood Hill Park.

     Trash bags, work gloves, latex gloves, and grabbers will be provided. Wear clothes to get wet in, and take a water bottle and a snack. The canoe club asks that you release it from its potential negligence before volunteering. 

     Free. Saturday morning at 10:30 at the Inwood Canoe Club, where Dyckman Street meets the river—then look to your left.

     Would you like to learn more about the neighborhood you call home?

     Interpreters from the Morris-Jumel Mansion bring New York history to life in a guided walking tour uncovering Uptown’s centuries-old history. It’s a 90-minute, one-mile mobile experience beginning at the  Mansion and ending at Trinity Cemetery on Broadway and 155th Street.

     Meet up with other WaHi residents, history buffs, and the occasional tourist looking for hidden gems of New York City. 

      $23.18. Saturdays at 10:30 and 1:30 starting at the mansion in Lower WaHi, in Roger Morris Park. No 1:30 tour on the second Saturday of the month. Through May. 

     Even in the winter, Fort Tryon Park shares its beauty.

     Join the Urban Park Rangers on a flower walk through the Heather Garden. You can explore the early spring blossoms and learn about the flowers and the history of this little gem.

     At three acres, it’s the largest public garden with unrestricted access in the city, and is home to over 500 varieties of plants. Be sure to come back next weekend for the Shearing of the Heather celebration, on the 11th.

     Free. Sunday afternoon at 1 in the Geather Garden in Fort Tryon Park, near Margaret Corbin Circle in Hudson Heights.

     The power of art to make an emotional connection is on display every Sunday afternoon in Apartment 3F—that’s  Marjorie Eliot’s place, where she invites veteran musicians to play along to her piano accompaniment. 

     Famous and up-and-coming artists perform at Eliot’s weekly sessions and her free concerts are legendary among jazz aficionados.

     Join her live—in her home for Parlor Jazz.

     Free. Sunday afternoons at 3:30 at 555 Edgecomb Avenue, Apartment 3F, in Lower WaHi at 160th Street.

     Manhattan’s oldest surviving house is in need of some renovation. The exterior restoration and accessibility project broke ground at the Morris-Jumel Mansion in the autumn.

     With scaffolding around the front porch columns, the next big job is repairing and replacing the windows. The deep cold and heavy snow of the winter postponed that work, but it’s starting in the spring.

     The next big job is to replace the roof. It will start in spring weather too, and requires that everyone leaves the building—staff and visitors—for four to six months on weekdays during active work on the roof. The good news is that on weekends the mansion will continue to offer programming outdoors and in the basement.

     The mansion closed on December 1. We’ll keep posting its events, though they will be smaller in number.

     Take in an evening of live jazz from Uptown musicians and their collaborators around the city in a weekly performance. The lineup varies, so check this week’s personnel here.

     There’s no charge for the music. Food and drink are on you.

     Tuesday nights at 7:30 at Kismat restaurant in Hudson Heights on 187th Street and Fort Washington Avenue.

     Explore the iconography hidden within the walls of the United Palace.

     After a brief overview of the theater’s remarkable history, you’ll tour the building and encounter the intricate characters and ornamental details woven throughout the space.

     The hosts will share their interpretations of the art’s meanings and make connections to the cultures and traditions that continue to inspire the ministry of the Muse.

     Save your space here.

     Free. Tuesday night, April 7, at 7 at the United Palace, in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     Explore old New York—really old New York. Back before street cars, when Inwood Valley was still agricultural, and look further back before Europeans arrived, and sometimes even earlier.

     Earlier this year, the topic was the Colonial history of Fort Tryon Park.

     Cole Thompson, an armchair historian (and real estate broker) presents stories of Inwood’s history in his series on Uptown’s past. Can you imagine the days when  mastodons roamed the hills and meadows or settlers harvested wheat?

     Tuesday night, April 7, at 7:30 at the Inwood Farm (though not at the farm in Inwood) on 218th Street at Indian Road. On the first Tuesday of the month.

     Hudson Heights is the site of the highest natural point in Manhattan and a vital habitat for varied species of birds.

     Inspired by the birds depicted in medieval artworks, the naturalist Gabriel Willow leads a birding tour through scenic viewpoints within the Cloisters and through Fort Tryon Park. 

     The excursion lasts two hours. Take a bottle of water, maybe a snack, and your binoculars—or request a pair. Space is limited; registration is required. Registration closes Thursday, April 9, 11:59 p.m. 

     $40. Saturday morning, April 11, at 11; meet in the Romanesque Hall of the Cloisters, in Fort Tryon Park.

     Experience the Met Cloisters’ collection through creative drawing challenges in the galleries with expert teaching artists.

     Materials are provided, but you may bring your own sketchbook. Please note, only pencils are allowed in the galleries. Demonstrations repeat every 30 minutes over two hours. For visitors of all ages. First come, first served.

     Free with museum admission. Saturday afternoon, April 11, from 1 to 3 in the Cloisters. On the second Saturday of the month.

     Find the ultimate up in Upper Manhattan.

     Take a tour inside the Highbridge Water Tower to learn about the history of the city’s water supply. You’ll enjoy panoramic views from the top of the 200-foot tower.

     Arrive by 2:45 p.m. Registration is not required.

     Free. Saturday afternoon, April 11, from 1 to 3 in Highbridge Park, in Lower WaHi at the base of the water tower behind the Highbridge Recreation Center and Pool. That’s just off Amsterdam Avenue and 164th Street.

      If you like outdoor geometry, get on the street for sunrise and sunset when the shadows line up with the streets.

      The so-called Manhattanhenge effect works Uptown on days different from the rest of the island’s.

      To see the sun line up with the streets in Hudson Heights (on 181st Street in the photo), where the street grid is aligned differently from most of the borough, get out on August 26; it’s also on April 18 in Hudson Heights Henge. Fort George Henge is on May 28 and 29, and July 12 and 13, the same as Manhattan, and Inwood Henge is on January 23 — the grid there is so katy-wompus that the sun aligns when it is due “south.”

     You can look for the dates in all of the city’s neighborhoods on this map from Carto.

     Hudson Heights Henge: Saturday, April 18, at dawn and dusk.

     Meet the gardeners of the Met Cloisters, who will help you select a medieval garden-inspired plant for your outdoor garden.

     At the museum’s plant sale, you can choose a plant that was cultivated in the Cloisters’ greenhouse. Then, create garden art of your very own to take home.

     Additional plants and seeds are available for purchase.

     Saturday, April 18, from 10 to 3 on the Cloisters lawn in Fort Tryon Park.

     In The Places That Inspire Us, the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra explores music inspired by real-world settings and the emotional landscapes they evoke.

     The program of the season’s final concrrt begins with Anna Clyne’s Restless Oceans, a thrilling contemporary work for chamber orchestra that channels the turbulence and strength of the sea. This work draws inspiration and its title from A Woman Speaks, a poem by Audre Lorde.

     Next on the program, the ensemble is joined by soprano Ariadne Greif, a WaHi resident, for Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a nostalgic meditation on childhood and place, set to the words of James Agee. Concluding the concert is Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 “Scottish,” a sweeping tribute to the rugged romance of the Scottish Highlands.

     $21.50; seniors, $16.25. Saturday night, April 18, at 7:30 at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 179th Street.

     It’s the classic counter-Arthurian tale.

     King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, poorly equipped search for the Holy Grail, encountering many obstacles that are very, very silly indeed.

     Monty Python and the Holy Grail continues this season’s Movies at the Palace series.

     $12.72. Sunday afternoon, April 19, at 3 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     The Performing Arts Group at Hudson View Gardens presents the Harmony 3 Reed Trio. 

     The ensemble of oboe, clarinet, and bassoon players shares a program of dance music from across three centuries. The concert includes pieces by Handel, Beethover, and Rameau. 

     $20; students and seniors, $15. Sunday evening, April 19, at 5 at The Lounge in Hudson View Gardens, in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

     Join Edu Díaz for a workshop in learning to perform as a clown. No experience is necessary.

     It’s part of the monthly NoMAA Labs workshops from the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. The session lasts two hours.

     $10; free to members. Tueesday evening, April 21, at 6 at the NoMAA studio in Fort George on Broadway at 176th Street.

     The Fort Tryon Park Conservancy is making plans to celebrate Earth Day in the Heather Garden and around the park. Once the organizers share the schedule of festivities, we’ll post the lineup here. 

     Saturday, April 25, throughout Fort Tryon Park.

     Sharpen your design thinking and drawing skills with teaching artist Alayna Wiley.

     In the workshop, you’ll learn about the principles, patterns, and geometry of 3D spaces through gothic architecture and designs seen at the Met Cloisters. The session is inspired by the exhibition Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship, at the Metropolitan Museum on Fifth Avenue. 

     Materials and admission are included. Space is limited, so reserve your spot early.

     $55. Saturday afternoon, April 25, from 2:30 to 5 in the Cuxa Cloister of the Cloisters museum, in Fort Tryon Park.

     Join a drop-in art-making workshop, inspired by the medieval world.

     In this open studio, you’ll explore materials and process through artist-led demonstrations, creative activities, and conversations with Met experts.

     For visitors of all ages. All materials are provided.

     Free with museum admission. Sunday afternoon, April 26, from 1 to 4 in the Pontuat Chapter House of the Cloisters museum, in Fort Tryon Park. Also on May 24.

     Join Morbid Anatomy and the New York City chapter of the Silent Book Club of Death for an afternoon of reading and contemplating mortality.

     You’ll meet in a medieval gallery in a session facilitated by death care worker and death literacy advocate Lauren Seeley. Morbid Anatomy is celebrating almost 20 years as an alternative education organization dedicated to death, life, and the mysteries in between.

     The program will begin with silent reading followed by a game of The Death Deck and an open discussion. Books will be provided, but you’re welcome to take your own.

     Space is limited; registration is required. 

     Free with museum admission. Saturday afternoon, May 2, from 2 to 5 in the Saint-Guilhem Cloister of the Cloisters museum, in Fort Tryon Park.

     The Performing Arts Group at Hudson View Gardens presents the Spanish Connection. 

      Music from the Americas for voice and piano is performed by mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna, tenor José Heredia, and pianist Amber Scherer. The piece is by Alberto Ginastera and Hudson View Gardens resident Raymond Luedke.

     $20; students and seniors, $15. Sunday evening, May 17, at 5 at The Lounge in Hudson View Gardens, in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

     Join the Shorewalkers on a hike to Bear Mountain.

     On this Memorial Day trek, you’ll walk from Battery Park to the GWB.

     The second leg of the journey, over the George Washington Bridge, down 400 steps, and continuing along the Palisades, takes place on Independence Day.

     Register here.

     Monday, May 25, at a place and time shared with registrants.

     The eleventh Inwood Film Festival showcases the sights, sounds, people, and talents of the filmmakers of Inwood and its surrounding neighborhoods. 

    The festival screens films produced in the last year by Uptowners and some in the Bronx. They’ve all been chosen for their quality. Have one to submit? The details are here. 

     The festival runs over a long weekend and include panel discussions, evening parties, and chances to meet the filmmakers.

     Ticket prices to be announced soon. Thursday through Sunday, May 28–31, at Columbia’s Campbell Sports Center in Inwood on Broadway at 218th Street.

     A cyborg from the future, identical to the one that failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten-year-old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg. Terminator 2: Judgment Day stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and was directed by James Cameron.

     $12.72. Sunday afternoon, May 31, at 3 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 165th Street.

     Help sow the seeds of music by supporting Prelude Opera and its programming for children. 
     At the opera soirée you’ll enjoy hors d’oeuvres in Fort Tryon Park and hear the premiere reading of the troupe’s new children’s opera, The Brementown Musicians. Meet the composer, Laura Jobin-Acosta, and the librettist, Joanie Brittingham. Prizes will be raffled and you’ll get to show your prowess at opera trivia.

     $79.10 until April 10; then $105.70. Thursday evening, June 4, at 6 at the Bonnefont Restaurant on the café lawn; enter the park from Margaret Corbin Circle in Hudson Heights.

     Uptowners and staff from the Columbia University Medical Center flock to the Fort Washington Green Market for its bounty of fresh, locally grown offerings.

     Mexican herbs, peppers, greens, honey, cheese, juice pressed from ripe orchard fruit—it’s all grown in the rich soil of Orange County's Black Dirt region.

    Pastries and fresh bread make this the perfect market for putting together a healthy lunch or stocking up your larder mid-week. Visit the Market Information tent each week for cooking demonstrations, nutritional information, kids’ games and health-related events and activities throughout the season.

     Resuming in the spring. Tuesdays on 168th Street at Fort Washington Avenue.

     On Thursdays, this stretch of Lower WaHi transforms into a bustling marketplace overflowing with fresh local fruits and vegetables. Neighbors show up to mix and mingle while purchasing produce, Mexican specialty products and bread, pies and scones made with local flour. In many ways, the market doubles as classroom and social center. 

     Greenmarket’s farmers and fishers come from parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and New England, providing a bountiful array of fresh foods.

     Opens in the spring. Thursday from 8 to 4 in Lower WaHi on 175th Street between Broadway and Wadsworth Avenue.

     The Performing Arts Group at Hudson View Gardens presents Jazz in the gardens. 

      The Randal Dispommier Quarter features the New Orleanian namesake on saxophone and vocals, Jason Yeager on keyboards, Aaron Holthus on bass, and drummer Jay Sawyer.

     $20; students and seniors, $15. Sunday night, June 14, at 7:30 at The Lounge in Hudson View Gardens, in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

     Want to learn about the golden age of cinema? Discover Paris for romantics? Take a class at Columbia University.

     The university’s School of Professional Studies invites adults who are not enrolled in college to attend selected courses for free from the University’s offerings in the Arts and Sciences during the academic year.

     It’s a community benefit available to Uptown residents. Class auditors are silent participants in class who are encouraged to keep up with the reading. No examinations or papers are required, no grade is assigned, and no credit is granted for course completion.

     Find the current list of open courses and sign up for class.

     Free. The deadline to sign up for the fall semester is in July. Class is held at Columbia in Morningside Heights and Manhattanville.

     In this third program of the Still Here series, WildLine  celebrates ungovernable bodies, and the ways in which we are still here.

     The concert features fresh perspectives from installation artist Yiseul LeMieux, in collaboration with WildLine’s flute, cello and piano trio of Tessa Brinckman, Chris Gross and David Friend.

     WildLine is a new, project-based chamber music ensemble based in Uptown that imagines.

     Free. Thursday night, September 17, at 7:30 at Our Saviour’s Church of the Atonement, in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 189th Street.

https://unitedpalace.org/ghostbustersinconcert/     Experience the beloved 1984 classic film Ghostbusters as you never have. At this screening the music will be performed on stage by an orchestra.

     The film will presented on a large HD cinema screen, fully synced to a live performance of Academy Award-winning composer Elmer Berstein’s score.

     Buy your tickets early, on April 2, with the code: Staypuft.

     Saturday, October 17, at a time to be announced later at the United Palace, in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     It’s time to get back to standard time and stop saving daylight.

     This is when we gain an hour, so set your clocks and watches back an hour—unless they’re bluetoothed, Wi-Fi’ed, ethernetted or otherwise connected to the cloud—and get ready for brighter mornings.

     Sunday morning, November 1, at 2.

     Spend some time on Thanksgiving to remind yourself of the Lenape people and the blessings of their land we now call home.

     Shorakopoch Rock is fabled to be the spot where the Lenape traded the island to Peter Minuit for goods worth 60 Dutch guilders. In pre-pandemic years, a short ceremony honored inhabitants’ duty to Mother Earth and responsibility to the forest, the river, and each other.

     Did you know that the location is in Manhattan’s only untouched forest? The Shorakopoch Preserve was inducted into the Old-Growth Forest Network last year.

     At Shorakopoch Rock in Inwood Hill Park. From the intersection of 214th Street and Indian Road, follow the path that runs along the water; the boulder is on the far side of a large, open field.

    You’ve had plenty of turkey and too much pie, so now’s the time to burn some calories.
     On this Shorewalkers trek, you’ll start at the southern tip of Manhattan, walk the Hudson River Greenway, and end in Fort Washington Park at the Little Red Lighthouse.

     Sign up here. Dress for the weather, take a snack, and wear comfortable shoes.

     Saturday morning, November 28, at a time and meetup spot shared with the participants.

     Start 2025 by stretching your legs and your expectations.

     The Shorewalkers’ Happy New Year’s Day Hike starts in Inwood Hill Park and from there strolls along the east side, taking you  under the three great bridges that span the Harlem River in High Bridge Park.

     Dress for the weather, wear comfortable shoes, pack some water and take a snack.

     Friday morning, January 1, at a time and an Uptown meet-up spot shared with participants.

     Take a step toward the New York Marathon at the Salsa, Blues, and Shamrocks 5K.

     Both races are sponsored by the New York Road Runners, so the perennial Uptown jaunt is a qualifying race for the fabled autumn marathon. The course takes you from Lower WaHi, up through Hudson Heights,  turning around at the edge of Fort Tryon Park to head back downhill.

     On a Sunday morning in early March in Lower WaHi on Fort Washington Avenue between 172nd and 173rd Streets.