As Summer gets closer, you might want to start planning some beach getaways. Want to take a trip to Rockaway beach this Memorial Day? Well, the NYC Beach Bus has got you covered, for the holiday and the rest of the season.
NEED TO KNOW
US Assures Arab Allies of Continued Support [Washington Post]
Amtrak Was Trying to Install New Safety Measure Just Before Crash [New York Times]
Cuomo's Job Plan Not Creating Jobs Quickly [New York Times]
De Blasio Housing Plan Stokes Fears [New York Times]
No Charges for Train Engineer in Bronx Derailment [New York Times]
WEATHER
Partly cloudy, highs around 75 [Full Report]
SPORTS
Yankees fell to the Rays, 6-1
Mets fell to the Cubs, 6-5
Tonight
Yankees play the Royals at 8:10
Mets play the Brewers at 7:10
ON STAGE TONIGHT
TONIGHT (Friday the 15th):
Orleans and friends featuring Paul Barrere And Fred Tackett of Little Feat @ the Tarrytown Music
Hall
The Psychedelic Furs (with Black English) @ the Paramount
Matt And Kim (with Waters) @ Terminal 5
Jane’s Addiction (with A Place To Bury Strangers) @ the Starland Ballroom
Esperanza Spalding (with Alan Hampton) @ Le Poisson Rouge
The Manhattan Transfer and Take 6 @ the Klein Memorial Auditorium
Jane Monheit @ the Towne Crier Café
Rebecca Loebe, Jesse Terry, Abbie Gardner and Tracy Grammer @ Outpost in the Burbs
Tommy Castro And The Painkillers @ the YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts
Matthew Ryan And The Northern Wires / Tracy Bonham @ the Living Room
Crosby, Stills And Nash @ the Kings Theatre (Tonight and tomorrow)
Judy Collins @ Café Carlyle (Tonight and tomorrow)
Bruce Cockburn @ City Winery (Tonight and tomorrow)
Dark Star Orchestra @ the Space at Westbury (Tonight and tomorrow)
Wayne Shorter featuring The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis @ the Rose Theater at Jazz at
Lincoln Center (Tonight and tomorrow)
TOMORROW (Saturday the 16th):
Brian Wilson @ the State Theatre
Jorma Kaukonen @ the Towne Crier Café
Delbert McClinton (with Brian Dunne) @ the B.B. King Blues Club and Grill
The Psychedelic Furs (with Black English) @ the Wellmont Theater
The Feelies @ the Bell House
Tennis (with Kuroma) @ Mercury Lounge
The Edwin McCain Trio @ the YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts
Moonalice featuring Pete Sears, John Molo and more (with Doobie Decibel System and Brothers Keeper) @ the Cutting
Room
SUNDAY (the 17th):
Patti Smith, Loudon Wainwright III, Kaki King, Nicole Atkins and more @ City Winery
Bruce Cockburn @ the South Orange Performing Arts Center
David Lindley @ the Turning Point
Willie Nile @ the Budarz Theater at The Ossining Public Library
Tom Rush with Sophie And David Buskin @ the Towne Crier Café
Blues Traveler (with Lovetester) @ the Bergen Performing Arts Center
Glen Phillips and Emerson Hart @ the YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts
Tommy Castro And The Painkillers @ the Turning Point
Billy Vera @ Iridium
Rik Emmett of Triumph @ the Highline Ballroom
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today in 1940, McDonald's opens it's first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
