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Taste of Tribeca, the annual food-fest that benefits P.S. 234 and P.S. 150, will take over Duane Street tomorrow (Saturday, May 21, between Hudson and Greenwich Streets, from 11:30am to 3pm) with delectables from more than 60 local restaurants, including six (Bubby’s Tribeca, Bouley, Duane Park Patisserie, Gigino Trattoria, Tribeca Grill, and Walker’s) that have participated every year since the festival’s founding in 1994. Among the culinary draws will be gourmand favorites such as American Cut, Il Mulino, and the Palm.

Food tickets (called “Tasting Cards”) are priced at $55 if purchased in advance (at TasteofTribeca.com) or $65 on the day of the event, and provide six tastes from any of the participating restaurants. Those wishing to support the schools (where arts and enrichment programs are funded largely with proceeds from Taste of Tribeca) at a higher level can purchase premium reserved seating, priced at $700 for a table of four and $1000 for a table of six, which includes food tickets for each seat at the table. Premium seating also includes table service by personal food runners, staffed by student volunteers from local high schools, plus a designer t-shirt and gift bag from Taste of Tribeca sponsors for each guest at the table.

Live music will be provided by City Winery at the soundstage (Greenwich Street, near Harrison) with acts including Cynthia Sayer, the Church Street School for Music and Art, and the Tribattery Pops.

Guests are also encouraged to bring children, for family-friendly fun in the KidsZone (located in Duane Park), featuring arts and crafts with Craft Studio and Spotlight Kids, games with Cocoon, edible art with Cricket’s Candy, coding with The Coder School, and reading at Book Nook. There will also be performances by the Fashion Squad School, Dance with Miss Rachel, Arc Athletics, BB Skate Club, and Nicol Squash.

Slightly older youngsters can head to the Family Zone (at Greenwich and Duane Streets), where they'll find STEAM and robotics projects from Léman Manhattan Preparatory School, art activities (including face painting and tote bag design), and tastings of spring vegetables. At the Sports Zone (further west, at Greenwich and Harrison Streets) Manhattan Youth, will offer clay-making and sports-themed carnival games for young athletes.

The family behind the iconic shopping brand, Century 21, has announced that the Platonic ideal of off-priced luxury retail will return to its longtime sanctuary at 25 Church Street (between Cortland and Dey Streets) in the spring of next year.

Trinity Church has resurrected its Compassion Meals program, which provides breakfast, lunch, and dinner to those in need, on a rotating schedule, six days per week.

Congressman Jerry Nadler has introduced federal legislation to address safety and noise pollution concerns caused by non-essential helicopter flights over New York, which have emerged as chronic source of irritation for Lower Manhattan residents in recent years.

On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, visit the exhibitions and the ships of the South Street Seaport Museum for free. At 12 Fulton Street, see “South Street and the Rise of New York" and “Millions: Migrants and Millionaires aboard the Great Liners, 1900-1914," and at Pier 16, explore the tall ship Wavertree and lightship Ambrose.

At 5:20 on May (the fifth month) 20th, enjoy a performance by Demolition Brass Band at the South Street Seaport waterfront. The significance of 5:20 and 5/20? New York City, a city of islands, has a total of 520 miles of waterfront. On this day, the NYC Department of City Planning celebrates waterfronts around the City with free walking tours and other entertainment. The Demolition Brass Band will perform songs related to themes found in the NYC Comprehensive Waterfront Plan. See the lineup of 5/20 events here.

Artists Mary Miss and Shuli Sadé discuss South Cove and its relationship to nature. South Cove was conceived by Mary Miss, Stanton Eckstut, and Susan Child as an artwork that was also a public space. With Bird’s Eye View by Shuli Sadé, South Cove becomes a site for art as well as an artwork itself. Both artists will also discuss how they address environmental issues in their work.

Singer/songwriter Terre Roche leads this weekly singing program with the beautiful backdrop of the setting sun in New York Harbor. For all singers, from beginners to seasoned crooners. Free

Concert.

City Hall Park

Volunteer with the Friends of City Hall Park to spruce up City Hall Park. 

Paint in watercolor or use pastels and other drawing materials to capture the vistas of the Hudson River and the landscape of South Cove. An artist/educator will help participants of all levels with instruction and critique. Materials provided. Free.

Join experienced anglers for catch-and-release fishing and learn about life in the Hudson River. Help observe and identify the fish caught and released. The day also includes an art project, a nature walk and a live performance of Sing with Suzi featuring Suzi Shelton and special guest The Culture Queen. Free.

The American architect and sculptor Maya Lin became famous when, as a college student in 1981, her anonymous entry won the competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Learn about Maya through a read-aloud of Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines by Jeanne Walker Harvey. Then, incorporating themes of nature and world peace, create collages of landscapes. Ages 7+. RSVP required. Free

Tak­ing place along the tree-lined King Avenue, nes­tled between his­toric ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry build­ings, this idyl­lic mar­ket features a rotat­ing line­up of 30+ mak­ers, design­ers, artists, and small busi­ness­es, with hand­craft­ed jew­el­ry, art, appar­el, bath and body care, table­ware, home fur­nish­ings, arti­sanal pack­aged food and more.

See May 20.

This workshop will take place in the Piet Oudolf-designed perennial gardens throughout The Battery, with topics covering plant division, cut back, soil replenishment, weed control, and other basic care. After a hands-on plant division activity, participants will be invited to take the plants they divide home with them. Ages 13 and up. Free. Registration required.

The Bee Con­ser­van­cy is host­ing a fam­i­ly-friend­ly event at the Urban Farm on Gov­er­nors Island in part­ner­ship with Earth Mat­ter and GrowNYC, and spon­sored by Zarbee’s. Sign up for Session 1 (12pm-2pm) or Session 2 (2pm-4pm). Free.

Piano sex­tet Grand Band per­forms New York Keys fea­tur­ing works of four New York com­posers, includ­ing a world pre­mière by Grand Band mem­ber Eri­ka Dohi, and, for his 85th birth­day cel­e­bra­tion, an orig­i­nal arrange­ment of Philip Glass’s Part 9 from his ground­break­ing Music in Twelve Parts, Julius Eastman’s Gay Gueril­la and Paul Kerekes’s bloom. At 1pm and 3pm, in Nolan Park. Free.

Opening of artist Paul Pagk's work at the Hionas Gallery.

Pier 17

Concert.

Six dancers will revisit the old black and white silent movie era, with their signature mix of street style and club dance culture, such as waacking, locking and house dance. $30

Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Music Ensemble in New York with two programs that will introduce Chinese orchestral music to the general public. 12pm-12:45pm: Introduction of Chinese Orchestra by Professor Jindong Cai. 1pm-2:30pm: observing music making with Chinese orchestra rehearsal.

The choruses from Trinity and partner programs join forces in a spring concert with programming focused on spreading love, hope, and joy. Alumni of the Jazz House Kids program will be joining to accompany the choirs. Free.

A riveting spectacle by the 40-performers-strong National Folklore Ensemble of Macedonia will take you on a mesmerizing journey through 2000 years of human history and culture. $45-$65

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The Repast of the Lion, by Henri Rousseau, (May 21, 1844 - Sept. 2, 1910)

1293 - Earthquake strikes Kamakura, Japan; 30,000 killed

1303 - Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to the English and arranges for marriage of English Prince Edward to French Princess Isabella

1609 - Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by publisher Thomas Thorpe

1631 - Magdeburg in Germany seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire under Earl Johann Tilly. Most inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.

1704 - Elias Neau forms school for slaves in New York

1845 - HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All sailors are lost.

1867 - Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria

1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent the first blue jeans with copper rivets

1882 - St. Gotthard railroad tunnel between Switzerland and Italy opens

1891 - First public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

1892 - George Sampson patents the clothes dryer

1895 - First commercial movie performance, at 153 Broadway in NYC

1926 - Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies

1927 - Pilot Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris in the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight

1930 - First airplane catapulted from a dirigible

1932 - Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become the first woman fly solo nonstop across Atlantic

1956 - Hydrogen bomb dropped from a plane on the Bikini Atoll

1961 - White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama

1967 - BBC bans the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" because of drug references

1990 - Hubble Space Telescope sends its first photographs from space

1992 American rapper Tung Twista raps 597 syllables in under 60 seconds

2013 - Yahoo purchases Tumbler for $1.1 billion

1743 - Toussaint Louverture, leader of the Haitian revolution

1759 - William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Washington, DC)

1844 - Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter

1851 - Emile Berliner, inventor (flat phonograph record)

1928 - Jack Kevorkian, controversial medical doctor

1944 - Joe Cocker, rock singer

1946 - Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian], singer and actress

1972 - Busta Rhymes, rapper

1503 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian patron (b. 1463)

1506 - Christopher Columbus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55

1834 - Marquis de Lafayette, military leader (b. 1757)

2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)

2002 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)

2019 - Niki Lauda, Formula One driver (b. 1949)