Travel & Transportation Blog

New York in late August belongs to tennis. For three weeks, the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Queens draws the world's best players and hundreds of thousands of fans to one of sport's most electric stages. The US Open 2026 runs from August 23 through September 13, spanning 22 days...

The sun drops behind a converted barn, a food truck sends woodsmoke across the gravel lot, and the only decision left is whether to try the farmhouse ale or the double IPA. That's an August afternoon at a Hudson Valley brewery. From Warwick's Black Dirt farmland to the riverfront in Peekskill, dozens of family-run operations...

Hutton Brickyards has seen a century and a half of transformation. What began as one of the Hudson Valley's most productive 19th-century industrial sites, its clay fired into the bricks that raised much of New York City, now stretches across 100 acres of rolling riverfront, rough-hewn beauty, and open sky. On August 14, it becomes...

Ninety-six years of World Cup finals have passed without a halftime performance. That changes on Sunday, July 19, when the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final arrives at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Alongside the game that will decide the tournament champion, the event will introduce the first halftime show ever staged during a...

By early August, the streets above 125th feel different after the sun drops. Music carries from a stage somewhere near the water, someone's grandmother is dancing near a food cart, and a crowd that stretches a full city block moves to the same beat without anyone telling it to. Few neighborhoods in Manhattan hold their...

Morning light spreads across a glassy mountain lake, coffee cools on a wide wooden porch, and the loudest sound is wind moving through the pines. That picture sits far closer to Manhattan than most New Yorkers imagine. A two-hour drive in almost any direction swaps sidewalks and sirens for spa suites, ocean air, and open...

The hillside fills before anyone touches a microphone. Blankets go down across the lawn, the Catskills ridge turns from green to grey in the fading light, and by the time the first note lands, the whole bowl of this place is already alive. There is something particular about an outdoor show where the landscape itself...

Some evenings have a way of surprising you. The jazz starts playing, the water opens up ahead of the boat, and somewhere between the first song and the second drink, Manhattan stops feeling like a city you live near and starts feeling like something genuinely worth celebrating. Evening cruises along the Hudson do that reliably,...

Few cities know how to celebrate Independence Day like New York. In 2026, the city takes center stage for something even bigger than the annual fireworks display. America marks its 250th birthday on July 4, 2026, and New York will host many of the signature events tied to the Semiquincentennial. From tall ships filling the...

By Friday, Belmont starts appearing across New York long before anyone reaches the track. Garment bags move through hotel lobbies. Steakhouses near Penn Station start filling with linen jackets and wide-brimmed hats before sunset. Outside several Manhattan hotels, black SUVs idle at the curb while groups reorganize race-day plans over cocktails and late dinners. Saturday...