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Weekend Concert Picks: Florence at the Garden, Helloween at the Palladium, Groove Armada in Queens, and More NYC Shows (April 17–22, 2026)

A silhouette of a performer on a stage in front of a massive curved LED screen displaying intricate blue and orange mechanical graphics. A large crowd of people watches the performance with hands raised.

The midweek headline acts may be wrapping up tonight, but this weekend’s concert calendar across New York City is just as loaded — and honestly, more eclectic. From a legendary German power metal band ripping through Times Square to Waxahatchee bringing heartbreak-country to Brooklyn to Florence Welch absolutely commanding Madison Square Garden, the next several […]

Tottenville: NYC’s Quiet Southern Tip Gets a Resilient Makeover

Forest trail through the Staten Island Greenbelt on a sunny spring day

Most New Yorkers have never been to Tottenville. If they know anything about it, they know it’s at the bottom of Staten Island — the southernmost neighborhood in all of New York City, closer to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, than to Times Square. But this quiet, tree-lined community of about 29,500 residents has its own […]

Mott Haven’s Two Speeds: Luxury Towers and Affordable Housing Collide

High Bridge spanning the Harlem River connecting the Bronx to Manhattan

Stand at the corner of East 138th Street and the Bruckner Expressway in Mott Haven and look in any direction. To the west, gleaming glass-and-steel towers from developers like RXR and Brookfield line the waterfront near the Third Avenue Bridge. To the east, longtime residents navigate the same streets they always have — past bodegas, […]

Jackson Heights Faces a Crossroads: Chains vs. Culture

Forest Hills and Rego Park Queens: The Borough's Most — HelpNewYork

Walk down Roosevelt Avenue between 74th and 82nd Streets in Jackson Heights and you’ll pass through a stretch of sidewalk that might be the most diverse eating corridor in the United States. Nepali momos, Colombian empanadas, Indian chaat, Ecuadorian ceviche, Tibetan dumplings — all within a few blocks, all made by immigrants who brought their […]

Sunset Park’s Waterfront Is Becoming NYC’s Climate Lab

Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill Brooklyn: The Most Livable B — HelpNewYork

Sunset Park has always been a neighborhood that does the work. Generations of immigrant families — Chinese, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and more recently South Asian — have built businesses, raised kids, and endured the pollution that comes with living next to one of Brooklyn’s most industrial waterfronts. Now that waterfront is being reimagined as the […]

Washington Heights Is Reshaping Manhattan’s Upper Skyline

Scenic view of Washington Heights neighborhood in upper Manhattan showing the George Washington Bridge, pre-war apartment buildings, and tree-lined streets at golden hour

If you haven’t walked through Washington Heights lately, you might not recognize the skyline. Four new towers are rising above the neighborhood’s ridgeline — the highest natural point on Manhattan Island — and a wave of construction is reshaping this historically Dominican and working-class community in ways that will play out for years. Here’s what’s […]