{"id":22663,"date":"2011-07-15T11:47:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T15:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=22663"},"modified":"2025-09-02T02:57:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:57:48","slug":"city-of-water-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/22663\/city-of-water-day\/","title":{"rendered":"oM Weekend Agenda: City of Water Day, Cultural Festivals, Dinner on the Farm, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Free boating, kayak demonstrations, fishing and music are all a part of <strong>City of Water Day<\/strong> on Saturday. [Brooklyn Bridge Park]<\/li>\n<li>Great Performances hosts a <strong>gourmet dinner at Katchkie Farm<\/strong> this Saturday; take Amtrak to Hudson station, then call Rick&#8217;s Taxi at 518.828.3356 for a quick ride to the farm. [GP]<\/li>\n<li>An <strong>exhibit chronicling the creative career of Jim Henson<\/strong> opens Saturday at the Museum of the Moving Image, complete with original muppets, drawings and movie screenings. [Museum of the Moving Image]<\/li>\n<li>Grand Army Plaza hosts the first <strong>Prospect Park Food Truck Rally<\/strong> of the summer on Sunday. [Prospect Park<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Marilyn! film series<\/strong> ends this Sunday at BAMcin\u00e9matek. [BAM]<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival<\/strong> finishes Saturday with something for everyone: Family day, music and a graffitibattle. [Brooklyn Bodega]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tug and Barge Week<\/strong> opens in Brooklyn Bridge Park Friday, offering free tugboat trips and barge tours through July 24. [Brooklyn Bridge Park]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bike the River Valley\u2019s<\/strong> scenic cycling event along the Hudson is this Sunday. [Bike the River Valley]<\/li>\n<li>Sunday is <strong><a title=\"National Ice Cream Day website\" href=\"http:\/\/thetakedowns.com\/?p=1867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Ice Cream Day<\/a><\/strong>, so why stop the celebrating at one scoop? The Bell House in Brooklyn will have 20to 30 types of ice cream for you to taste at the Ice Cream Takedown. [The Takedown]<\/li>\n<li>Handsaw players from all over the world make the annual pilgrimage to Astoria this Saturday for the <strong><a title=\"Musical Saw Festival website\" href=\"http:\/\/musicalsawfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Musical Saw Festival<\/a><\/strong>. [Musical Saw Festival]<\/li>\n<li>The <a title=\"Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hvshakespeare.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival<\/strong><\/a> continues at <a title=\"HVSF review on offManhattan.com\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2009\/08\/21\/hudson-valley-shakespeare-festival-garrisson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boscobel<\/a> this weekend with a Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, and a wine tasting.\u00a0 [HVSF]<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Beer Garden Opens in hoboken\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2011\/05\/27\/hoboken-beer-garden-pilsener-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Pilsener House &amp; Biergarten opens<\/strong><\/a> today, adding another rooftop hotspot in Hoboken. [offManhattan]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><!--more--><\/strong><em>Photo: Courtesy of Etienne Frossard<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free boating, kayak demonstrations, fishing and music are all a part of City of Water Day on Saturday. [Brooklyn Bridge Park] Great Performances hosts a gourmet dinner at Katchkie Farm this Saturday; take Amtrak to Hudson station, then call Rick&#8217;s Taxi at 518.828.3356 for a quick ride to the farm. [GP] An exhibit chronicling the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":22675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,4,325],"tags":[345,381,142,254,436,586,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-22663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archive","8":"category-events","9":"category-new-york","10":"tag-beer-garden","11":"tag-biking","12":"tag-festival","13":"tag-free","14":"tag-kayaking","15":"tag-live-music","16":"tag-museum"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":22675,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/4910741815_a54a0f4bb9-300x199.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22663","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}