THE AGENDA IF YOU ARE A… Take advantage of subway-accessible motorboat rental at Smitty’s Fishing Station on Jamaica Bay, next to the Broad Channel stop on the A line.
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Classical music? Floating industrial behemoth? Enjoy Bargemusic, a barge–auditorium off Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn.
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Take advantage of the Brooklyn Bridge Park’s innovative “bike valet” system at its Thursday-evening showings of classic movies like Strangers on a Train (July 20).
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Student With Loans Learn how to gulp down a sword at the Sideshow Skills School in Coney Island.
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Student With Loans Watch Bloc Party, Sonic Youth, Neko Case, and others in the most Williamsburgian of venues, McCarren Park’s abandoned pool.
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Join the Miracle Garden (East 3rd Street between Avenues A and B) in order to exploit its brand-new barbecue pit.
Hipster Enjoy the River to River Festival’s impressively hip and satisfyingly free lineup of indie artists like Belle and Sebastian, Hot Chip, and Ted Leo.
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Pick up sandwiches at the Time Warner Center’s Bouchon Bakery and picnic highbrow-style while Audra McDonald sings and Joan Didion reads at SummerStage.
FopLearn about such subjects as“rigging and derigging” and “important knots” at Manhattan Sailing School’s week- or weekend-long sailing lessons on the Hudson
Fop Have Thursday-night happy hour afloat in New York Harbor on the Circle Line’s new luxe catamaran, the Zephyr yacht.
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Savor the spectacle of exuberant yelping and vigorous shaking taking over the normally staid Lincoln Center Plaza at the Midsummer Night Swing salsa dance (through mid-July).
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Student With Loans Host a garden party, even if you don’t have a garden, by renting Red Table Catering’s private space on Leonard Street in Williamsburg.
FopHunt down rare screaming-child-free public swimming spaces like the lap lanes at the Red Hook public pool (Bay Street between Clinton and Henry Streets) or Manhattan’s Dry Dock on Avenue D and East 10th Street.
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ee if America’s great competitive eating hope, Joey Chestnut, can dethrone five-time champion Takeru Kobayashi at the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest.
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Give your dog a way to cool off, besides slobbering all over everything, at Prospect Park’s fence-enclosed “dog beach” (no people allowed).
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Root for your aspiring-actor friends in Les Halles Brasserie’s Bastille Day waiter’s race, in which wait staff from all over the city attempt to run down John Street with full trays.
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