The 63rd Annual Macy’s Fishing Contest
July 14-18, 10am-4pm

The R.H. Macy’s Fishing Contest has been an annual event in Prospect Park since 1947. A rite of passage for tens of thousands of Brooklyn kids over the years, the contest runs for a week each July and is held lakeside at the Peninsula. The event is open to kids 15 years old or under. Equipment is provided free of charge or participants can bring their own! All fishing is done on a catch-and-release basis; fish must be returned to the Lake alive.

The event takes place at Park Drive & Wellhouse drive shoreline. Closest entrance is Vanderbilt Street and Prospect Park Southwest [map it]. 

Photo by R. Baker

Explore Prospect Heights with free Extraordinary People in the Heart of Brooklyn postcards. Learn more about the merchants behind the businesses. Collect all 23 postcards for special deals at participating locations!

Participants on Washington Avenue, Vanderbilt Avenue and side streets include: Abigail Café & Wine Bar, Aliseo Osteria Del Borgo, Amorina Cucina Rustica, AweDacity, Brooklyn Beer & Soda, Café Shane , Cataldo's Restaurant & Pizzeria, Divine Connection Hair Spa, Fermented Grapes , Forest Floor, House of Hair Salon Suite & Spa, idalias Salon Spa Boutique, Jamila's, Mario's Auto Repairs, Mayday Hardware, MET Foodmarkets, NOK Auto Repair , Nu Wave Kultural Kreations, Pieces of Brooklyn, Polish Bar of Brooklyn, Plan B, Teddy's Restaurant and WINK Eco Beauty Bar.

Support provided by: NYC Council Member Letitia James; Heart of Brooklyn; NYC Small Business Services; TD Charitable Foundation; Vanderbilt Avenue Merchants District; Washington Avenue-Prospect Heights Association and M&T Charitable Foundation. 

Tuesdays and Thursdays through August 31, 1-3pm 
Discovery Garden

Put on your thinking cap for a month of plant investigation during July! Workshop participants of all ages will become botanists as they unveil the secrets of plant life. During August workshops, our youngest scientists and artists are invited to make earth-inspired creations. We’ll be crafting with recycled and natural materials all month! Discovery Workshops are free with Garden admission and are on a drop-in basis—join us at any point during workshop hours!

This extraordinary exhibition of nearly 50 paintings is the first major survey in New York since 1989. It focuses on Warhol’s last year’s where he produced more works, on a vastly larger scale, than at any other point in his forty-year career that reveal his vitality, energy, and spirit of experimentation. The Last Decade includes artwork from The Last Supper series and his collaborations with the Jean-Michel Basquiat.

On Friday July 16, attend a special conversation with artist-socialite Brigid Berlin and Vincent Fremont, a filmmaker and the former vice president of Andy Warhol Enterprises, who will share their memories of working with Warhol.

Thursday, July 15, 6:30pm
Central Library

The Big Easy comes to BPL. Dance to favorites by Sidney Bechet, Bob Crosby, and Eddie Condon. Munisteri is a guitarist, singer and songwriter who has performed with Brock Mumford. He has played with Mark O'Conner, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Ed Polcer, Andy Stein and Vince Giordano's Nighthawks. Swing dance instructor Eve Polich will show you some steps at 6:30pm!

For more Plaza events, please visit BPL's website.

July 17 & 18

Local artists invade the Zoo! Join us for wild art activities that help you closely observe animal colors, patterns and behaviors this weekend! Whether you’re a professional painter or just have an appreciation for art and animals, the annual Wild Arts Weekend at Prospect Park Zoo has something for everyone, including:

Pratt Student Art Show – Illustrations of the Zoo’s animals will be on display in the zoo’s Animals in Art Gallery, courtesy of the talented art students from the Pratt Institute. (10am-5:30pm, both days.)

Painting – Members of the local Watercolor Society will bring out their easels and brushes to create images of the zoo’s animals. (10am to noon, both days.)

Kids Crafts – Children can make their own fish print at the Barn and scratch art animals in the Animals in Art building (1-5pm, both days) and much more!

Face-Painting – Have your face painted to look like a zoo animal. (11am to 3pm, Sea Lion Court, both days. Please note the line will close at 2:30.)