'Movies Under The Stars' Returns To Brooklyn This Weekend
BROOKLYN, NY — With the promise of balmy spring days ahead, a long-running, free outdoor movie series is returning to Brooklyn this weekend.
This May, "Movies Under the Stars" will bring super heroes, the latest tour de force from Daffy Duck and (hu)man's best friend to Brooklyn Parks. So bring your kids (or not), a blanket, snacks and drinks (no glass bottles or booze, please) and enjoy the spring weather, your neighbors and some action-packed ... action.
Here's the line up with links to the Parks Department for details:
Sunset Park Playground in, you guessed it, Sunset Park
Friday, May 6, 8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
John Paul Jones Park in Bay Ridge
Saturday, May 7, 2022 8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Owl's Head Park at 68th Street and Colonial Road in Fort Hamilton
Saturday, May 14, 8:15 p.m.–10:15 p.m.
Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Sunset Park Playground
Friday, May 20 8:15 p.m.–10:15 p.m.
Prospect Park
Friday, May 27, 2022, 8:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Remember rain or extreme weather can prompt a screening's cancellation — one Manhattan showing this Friday, for instance, was called off, possibly because rain is in the forecast, but, at the time of this article's publication, the "Spider-Man: No Way Home" was still on Friday's calendar.
The screenings this weekend are among more than 150 citywide that will show this summer, all of which are free of cost.
Movies Under the Stars begin at dusk, meaning the screenings at the beginning of the season — such as the two this weekend — start at 8 p.m., but get progressively later, instead starting at 8:15 p.m. or 8:30 p.m., as the summer continues.
Seats are generally first-come-first served, so event organizers encourage movie-goers to bring their own blanket and arrive early, but some chairs are reserved for seniors and people with disabilities (contact (212) 360-1430 or accessibility@parks.nyc.gov for accessibility information).
Movie-goers are also encouraged to bring things to eat and drink, but glass bottles and alcoholic beverages are prohibited, according to organizers.
Movies Under the Stars is one of several citywide, outdoor movie events during the summer, many of which gained popularity at the onset of the pandemic — outdoor alternatives to theaters that will likely see favor this summer, too, as the city raises its COVID-19 alert to "medium" amid a rise in cases due to new, highly contagious variants.
Find out more about Movies Under the Stars on the NYC Parks website.
'Movies Under The Stars' Returns To Brooklyn This Weekend originally appeared on the Park Slope Patch
