(Awesome update at the bottom) After an amazing perfect Sunday in Battery Park this past weekend, I am determined to spend as much time as possible enjoying the outdoors in the city this summer (I'm not in the summer share tax bracket). One of my favorite things to do in New York in the summer is see a movie in Bryant Park on a Monday night (I love the HBO dance!)
Anyway, I haven't been for the past few years because the slate of movies has been disappointing, or I've been out of town when the better ones were playing. But I just checked out this year's schedule and OMG the first one is ANNIE HALL!
If I have to take Monday, June 18 off work in order to get their early enough to set up a blanket in a prime area for my friends, I am willing to make that sacrifice.
UPDATE: I was just researching other outdoor movies this summer and just died:
Thursday, July 5 at the Brooklyn Bridge Park: THE PRINCESS BRIDE
I stopped going to the Bryant Park series a few years back when they got too crowded. I don't mean that in the "I hate things that get too popular" sense, but the crowds changed the vibe from neighborly to adversarial. I can't take the shoving matches over where someone's blanket is.
The BBP series was still acceptable last time I went, but that was a while ago. I'm still hoping they'll reinstate the horror movies in Green-Wood Cemetary.
Posted by: radosh | May 16, 2007 at 02:25 PM
I can't overestimate how early I'm willing to get there, though. And I have unemployed (er, "freelancing") friends to help me hold down our blanket!
Posted by: lindsay | May 16, 2007 at 02:35 PM