{"id":12366,"date":"2010-06-11T09:32:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T13:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=12366"},"modified":"2021-08-24T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:37:26","slug":"bird-watching-governors-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/12366\/bird-watching-governors-island\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup: Bird Watching, Biking and Biergartens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" title=\"Red Tail Hawk in NYC, photo by rbs10025\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/4690182703_ff5be67cd9_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"334\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" title=\"Red Tail Hawk in NYC, photo by rbs10025\" src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/4690182703_ff5be67cd9_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"334\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>Go to Governors Island on Saturday, get out your trusty binoculars\u2014proceed downloading the iPhone app\u2014and prepare yourself for the truly unique New York City experience of <strong>bird watching <\/strong>with the Wildlab Team. Bird\u2019s the word. [<a title=\"The Wild Lab organization\" href=\"http:\/\/bird.thewildlab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TheWildLab<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>A <strong>new high-speed ferry<\/strong> <strong>route<\/strong> will take New Yorkers to New London this summer. [<a title=\"The Day article on ferry from NY to New London\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theday.com\/article\/20100608\/NWS01\/306089893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TheDay<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>The <strong>Great American Food and Music Festival<\/strong> is this Sunday, and will have everything from Jim\u2019s Philly cheesesteaks to Junior\u2019s Cheesecakes and the stars of the Food Network. (<strong>Note:<\/strong> offManhattan is<span><span><span> giving away four tickets to this event! For a chance to win, just follow @offmanhattan!<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bHgwab\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>) [<a title=\"Great American Food and Music Festival 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanfoodandmusicfest.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GreatAmericanFoodandMusicFest<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>Yet <strong>another Biergarten<\/strong> has opened in NYC, and this one, Loreley, is the kind of place your Oma and Opa would be proud of. [Thrillist]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>The World Cup starts today with South Africa vs. Mexico and France vs. Uruguay, so check out offManhattan&#8217;s guide to <strong>where to watch the games in NYC<\/strong>. [<a title=\"Where to Watch the World Cup -- offManhattan article\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2010\/06\/01\/watch-world-cup-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oM<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>This Sunday, <strong>Brooklyn by Bike<\/strong> is hosting a ride from the Grand Army Arch to Governors Island\u2014where there are over five miles of car-free paths and a funky art exhibit. [<a title=\"Brooklyn by Bike ride to Gov Island\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynbybike.com\/rides\/?utm_source=Brooklyn+by+Bike+Rides&amp;utm_campaign=909dc99362-Brooklyn_by_Bike_Rides_to_Governors_Island&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BrooklynbyBike<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>The <strong>Malaysian Restaurant week<\/strong> is June 14-22, and will include restaurants like Curry Leaves in Flushing, Penang in Princeton, and Satay in Hoboken. [MalaysiaKitchenNYC]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 <\/strong>Get your tickets early for the <strong>10th Annual Bicycle Film Festival<\/strong> starting next week. [BicycleFilmFest]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Red-tailed hawk shot courtesy of <a title=\"RBS10025 photos on flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rbs10025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rbs10025<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b7 Go to Governors Island on Saturday, get out your trusty binoculars\u2014proceed downloading the iPhone app\u2014and prepare yourself for the truly unique New York City experience of bird watching with the Wildlab Team. Bird\u2019s the word. [TheWildLab] \u00b7 A new high-speed ferry route will take New Yorkers to New London this summer. [TheDay] \u00b7 The [&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":[345,381,142,150,125,213,20,449],"class_list":{"0":"post-12366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"category-new-york","8":"category-news","9":"tag-beer-garden","10":"tag-biking","11":"tag-festival","12":"tag-film-screening","13":"tag-food","14":"tag-governors-island","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-restaurants"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366","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=12366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}