{"id":11505,"date":"2010-04-30T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=11505"},"modified":"2025-09-02T02:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:56:32","slug":"figment-festival-governors-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/11505\/figment-festival-governors-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Roundup: Three Festivals, Two Restaurant Weeks, and One Hotel Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"Figment Festival \" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/4563715741_39851d2da1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"298\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"Figment Festival \" src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/4563715741_39851d2da1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"298\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>The Figment Festival returns to Governors Island with grass couches and zany interactive exhibits June 11-13\u2014but first the event will make a new stop in Boston on June 5. [figmentproject.org]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>If you like salsa music, free admission to cultural institutions, and mingling with local artists and authors, check out the Brooklyn Museum\u2019s 2nd annual Eco Fair on Saturday. [BrooklynBased]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>Randall&#8217;s Island got a new 40-tree orchard this week that will be fruitful and multiply sometime in 2015. [<a title=\"gothamist news item\" href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2010\/04\/28\/apple_orchard.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gothamist<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>The Lucky Rice Asian Food Festival is already underway, and will be followed by its own restaurant week at 20 venues, including Zenkichi in Williamsburg. [luckyrice.com]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>The University District&#8217;s Dining Days will now stretch your prix-fixe appetite for two weeks this summer July 15-29. [<a title=\"Philly dining days\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/the-insider\/UCitys_Dining_Days_expanded_to_two_weeks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">philly.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>For the Kentucky Derby, Floyd in Brooklyn will have $5 Mint Juleps and a prize for the best hat; Union Hall will have backwards bocce and a cookout. [newyorker]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>The much anticipated Le Meridien Philly is reported to open as early as May. [hotelchatter]<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b7 The Figment Festival returns to Governors Island with grass couches and zany interactive exhibits June 11-13\u2014but first the event will make a new stop in Boston on June 5. [figmentproject.org] \u00b7 If you like salsa music, free admission to cultural institutions, and mingling with local artists and authors, check out the Brooklyn Museum\u2019s 2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,325,271],"tags":[40,141,145,440,142,213,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-11505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"category-new-york","8":"category-news","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-dining","12":"tag-eco","13":"tag-festival","14":"tag-governors-island","15":"tag-philadelphia"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}