Park Here returns to Openhouse Gallery

What: Throughout Park Here, Openhouse Gallery is bringing in NYC food vendors to serve up tasty dishes and drinks. HK Street Cart, Lizzmonade, Macaron Parlour, Mimi + Coco NY, Perfect Picnic NYC, Snap Food Truck, Stuffed Artisan Cannolis, The Jam Stand, YaYa Tea Garden, Filled with Sweets, Robicelli’s, Nolita Mart and Intoxicating Confections lead a rotation of fresh fare. Keith Klein’s Milk Truck will make surprise visits outside 201 Mulberry St. and ScoutMob will descend on Park Here like SantaClaus providing park guests with free food.


In true pop-up form, Openhouse Gallery’s Park Here is a robust collaboration. Fatboy USA decked out the park with imaginative, colorful lounge chairs; NewGrass is throwing down the plush (70% recycled) custom-made grass; MagicMurals.com provided the spectacular life-sized wall art; American Foliage dressed Park Here with colorful foliage and a booming fountain; and LAFCO/Santa Maria Novella is scenting the pop-up park with luxurious aromas.


Check out the full Park Here schedule at ParkHere.info, which includes a fantastic party and fundraiser for 180 Grados as well as well as a free-beer and photo-op Friday afternoon with Who You Love fashion. Follow Openhouse on Twitter for up-to-date news and join us on Facebook for contests and free Fatboy USA giveaways. 


When: Now thru Feb. 15
Where: 201 Mulberry St, NoLita

Good Riddance Day

What: Out with the Old, in with the New! Say goodbye to your worst memory from 2011 once and for all on Good Riddance Day!
Whether you're bidding farewell to pink slips or parking tickets, credit cards or Valentine's Day cards, the one percent or the 99 percent, your bad memories from 2011 will be destroyed, never to be seen again. This is a chance to start fresh in 2012!
A Cintas secure, mobile shredding truck along with a dumpster and sledgehammer will be on hand to discard any of your distasteful, embarrassing and downright depressing memories from this year.
Stationary will be available onsite to write your worst memory from 2011. Can’t make it to Times Square? Submit memories online here to be shredded on your behalf.  Most creative entry wins an iPad2 courtesy of Cintas!
Good Riddance Day is inspired by a Latin American tradition in which New Year’s revelers put artifacts from the previous year into giant dolls and set them on fire.

When: December 28, 2011 12pm-1pm
Where: Broadway Plaza between 43rd and 44th Streets

**Please note: Good Riddance Day is a symbolic event for shredding single memories or ideas. It is not a mass shredding or disposal event, and we are unable to accommodate requests to shred large amounts of paper material.

Haute Holiday Shopping Party

What: The Shop Addicts Haute Holiday Party returns for Part III. Get Pampered!!! by Dessert Spa Massages, Enjoy the Lash Bar @Chic Studios Beauty Section, Facials by Arbonne, Celebrity hair Styles by Gregory purcell........plus every brink purchased enters you into a free raffle for Fashion Week Tickets.
When: Wed, Dec 14 at 6PM - Wed, Dec 14 at 11PM
Where: Veranda Lounge New York: 130 7th Avenue South
FREE

Digital Media Networking Holiday Party

What: The 6th Annual Digital Media Events Holiday Party is just around the corner and you are invited! A great networking event for people in the media/social media world, so bring your business cards with you...oooh and there will be free wine from 6-7pm to really get the party started!
RSVP to: Max@DigitalMediaEvents.com
When: Wed, Dec 14 at 6PM - 10PM
Where: MPD: 73 Gansevoort Street

The Vintage Tea & Swing Dancing Party

What: Join NY's First Family of Tour Guides and the NYC Swing Dancers for a back to back celebration of NYC's old-timey train lines! On Saturday December 17th, lovers of swing dancing as well as dandies and debutantes with tea cozies and finger sandwiches will converge on the 2nd Avenue station to celebrate the Vintage Trains from the 1920s onwards! At 12:30pm, NYC Swing Dancers will occupy the subway cars and dance to live music by live swing and dance music by some of NYC's hottest Vintage Jazz Bands! Once the trains take off (at 12:57pm), the dancing continues until the end of the line; that's when the train u-turns and comes back to the Easy Village. 

Then at 2pm, join (non-political, non-aggro) tea partiers from around the city to enjoy a Vintage Tea party on the Vintage NYC Subway Trains.  Read More>>

When: Saturday Dec. 17 12pm - 4pm

Where: 2nd Avenue Subway Station, M line, Uptown Track.

Hanukkah Festival and Crafts Fair

What: Join in on the holiday shopping, children's activities, entertainment and storytelling.
When: December 18, Noon-5 p.m.
Where: Central Queens Y, 67-09 108th St., Forest Hills
Adults free; children $5. 

A Hanukkah Celebration

What: Interactive performance by singer Louie Miranda and his band. Come early and make your own Star of David.
When: December 18, 2 p.m.
Where: Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Queens
Children $16; Adults $16

Toys For Tots

What: Celebrate the one year anniversary of "Toys for Tots" with an evening of cocktails and dancing. Music by Zeus & Lucas Fable and DJ Rekha strikes again! There will be an open bar and baked goods. And it's not a sweet party without raffles and giveaways!

When: Sat. Dec. 10 @9:30pm

Where: RARE Salon: 317 Church St. 

*Entry with a new & unwrapped toy* RSVP* 212-343-9133