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Feather-clad parade-goers strut their stuff at the West Indian Day Parade on Labor Day every year. Paul Martinka
The best things to do in Brooklyn this summer!
JULY
Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating
Contest
The world’s greatest sports competition
returns to Coney Island! Will returning
champion Joey Chestnut retain the
mustard belt? Join the throngs outside
of Nathan’s Famous to fi nd out!
Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International
Hot Dog-Eating Contest 1310 Surf Ave. at
Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island, (718) 333–
2202, www.nathansfamous.com. July 4 at
10:45 a.m. Free.
Macy’s Fourth of July
Fireworks
This year the spectacular patriotic
display will launch from the Brooklyn
Bridge and from barges along the East
River nearby — which means the best
spots to view the extravaganza will be
from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade
and from Brooklyn Bridge Park. Show
up early — crowds of picnickers will
make a day of it.
Watch from Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier One
(Old Fulton Street at Furman Street in Dumbo,
www.macys.com/social/fi reworks). Free.
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Twilight Tours of Green-
Wood Cemetery
Take a walking tour of notable graves
inside Brooklyn’s biggest boneyard,
complete with a stop at the underground
Catacombs, which are normally offlimits.
Bring comfortable shoes and a
fl ashlight.
Start at Green-Wood Cemetery’s Gothic Arch
500 25th St. at Fifth Avenue in Greenwood
Heights, (718) 210–3080, www.rooftopfi lms.
com. July 5–6, 19–20, and 26–27 at 7:30 p.m.
$25.
Oddisee
The Brooklyn rapper delivers hip-hop
infl uenced by with jazz and soul. He will
split the bill with Palestinian-Jordanian
electro Arabic shamstep band 47Soul.
Iraqi-Canadian rapper Narcy opens.
Prospect Park Bandshell enter at Ninth Street
and Prospect Park West in Park Slope, (718)
683–5600, www.bricartsmedia.org/cb. July 6
at 7 p.m. Free.
Dancing of the Giglio
The 12-day Giglio Italian Feast (July
10–21) is most famous for its 70-foot
tower, which is hoisted by a 125-man
platoon and paraded through the streets
while a brass band plays.
At Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (275 N.
8th St. between Havemeyer Street and Meeker
Avenue in Williamsburg, www.olmcfeast.com).
Dancing of the Giglio, July 14 at 1:30 p.m. Free.
Fantastic Negrito and the
Brooklyn United Drumline
Band
The Grammy-winning blues musician
from Oakland plays an afternoon
concert in Brooklyn’s Downtown,
backed up by a drum and dance corps
made of Brooklyn high school students.
Part of the Brooklyn Academy of
Music’s weekly R&B Festival.
Metrotech Commons (Myrtle Avenue between
Lawrence and Bridge streets, www.bam.org).
July 18, noon––2 p.m. Free.
“The Pine Barrens”
Just inside the gates of Green-Wood
Cemetery, Rooftop Films screens a
documentary about New Jersey’s
inhospitable swampland, presented
with a live score from the Ruins of
Friendship Orchestra. With a local band
before the screeningfollowed by a dance
party outside the Green-Wood Chapel,
complete with free drinks from sponsors
Corona and Ketel One Vodka.
Green-Wood Cemetery’s Gothic Arch 500 25th
St. at Fifth Avenue in Greenwood Heights,
(718) 210–3080, www.rooftopfi lms.com. Friday,
July 19. $16.
Cha Wa
New Orleans comes to Brookyn with
this brass band, which wears elaborate
outfi ts inspired by Mardi Gras Indians
and plays infectious funk. Part of the
Brooklyn Academy of Music’s weekly
R&B Festival.
Metrotech Commons (Myrtle Avenue between
Lawrence and Bridge streets, www.bam.org).
July 25, noon––2 p.m. Free.
Broken Social Scene
The legendary indie-rock collective
plays in Prospect Park. Singersongwriter
Nilufer Yanya opens.
Prospect Park Bandshell enter at Ninth Street
and Prospect Park West in Park Slope, (718)
683–5600, www.bricartsmedia.org/cb. July 25
at 7:30 p.m. Free.
Fela! the Concert
A live, 10-piece Afrobeat band plays
music from the Tony-winning Broadway
show Fela!, about the life of Fela Kuti,
the founding father of Afrobeat.
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