Travel & Transportation Blog

Westchester County can take you from a historic Hudson River home to a formal garden, a wooded carriage road, or the shores of Long Island Sound, all within the same county. That variety makes a day here interesting. It can also make a first visit surprisingly difficult to plan. When you're looking for things to...

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...

The 2026 FIFA World Cup Final at MetLife Stadium is done. Spain defeated France 2–1 on July 19 in front of 80,663 spectators, and the first halftime show in World Cup Final history delivered exactly the scale it promised: Madonna, Shakira, BTS, and Justin Bieber on the same stage, watched by an estimated 1.5 billion...

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...