Last Chance! Final Summer Stroll Until 2016! (Bay Ridge Datebook August 14 – 20)

Your last chance to go to the Summer Stroll before 2016 is this Friday. (Photo by Hey Ridge)
Your last chance to go to the Summer Stroll before 2016 is this Friday. (Photo by Hey Ridge)

That’s right. Summer went by that fast. Friday evening is the last Summer Stroll of the year, and on Saturday, it will be time for back-to-school shopping.

Also on Friday evening is the outdoor screening of Ghostbusters at the Narrows Botanical Garden. Watch this Honest Trailer to help you get in the spirit:

Oh, and there’s a ton of stuff happening at the Bay Ridge library branch this coming week. Check it all out below, and as always, you can view our full events calendar at any time.


Movies Open at the Alpine

August 14 @ 10:00 am – 11:55 pm

The Alpine, 6817 Fifth Avenue

Straight Outta Compton, Underdogs and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. open today at the neighborhood movie theater.


Summer Stroll

August 14 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

At the last installment of this annual celebration of pedestrianism and eating outside, part of Third Avenue, from Bay Ridge Avenue to 80th Street, will be closed to traffic.


Ghostbusters Outdoor Screening

August 14 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Narrows Botanical Garden, 7200 Shore Road

Be proud, Bay Ridge: the winner of the Narrows Botanic Garden’s audience choice was Ghostbusters.


Library Book Sale

August 15 @ 10:30 am – 4:30 pm

Bay Ridge Library, 7223 Ridge Boulevard

The Bay Ridge Branch Friends Group offers bargains at a book sale.


Puppet Club Performance

August 18 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Bay Ridge Library, 7223 Ridge Boulevard

The Bay Ridge Library Drama Club performs puppet productions for kids of Lucia and the Light and Theseoctopus and the Penguinotaur.


Shore Road Park Concert – Radio Daze

August 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Shore Road Park – 79th Street Entrance

1970s and 1980s party music from the Marty Golden concert series.


C. Alexander London Reading

August 20 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Bay Ridge Library, 7223 Ridge Boulevard

The middle-grade (The Wild Ones) and YA (Proxy) author visits the Bay Ridge library.