Tag: parks

  • Summer Picnic Essentials

    Summer Picnic Essentials

    The sun is out, the sky is blue, and the subway is an icebox. In New York, these signs can only indicate one thing: It is officially picnic season. Now we love to complain about how crowded this city is — all those people smushed in the cracks between a mishmash of buildings that would…

  • June Playlist: Songs to Lounge in Parks By

    June Playlist: Songs to Lounge in Parks By

    Normally, the first week of June would find us in full-blown summer mode: sweltering subway platforms followed by refrigerated cars, snow-white legs breaking free of tights for the first time all year, the tinkling of Mr. Softee trucks haunting our dreams. This year, however, Mother Nature appears to be confused. While the end of May…