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Dig your toes in the sand, grab a drink from the pop-up bar, pick up a snack from an assortment of food trucks, and enjoy performances all weekend long on the main stage. Check the website for NYC's best buskers, performances from up-and-coming artists, tribute bands playing the classics, and sets from notable NYC DJs.

Join Amer­i­can Indi­an Com­mu­ni­ty House for gui­tar con­certs from Sage Laca­pa, fea­tur­ing spe­cial guest performances!

Dig your toes in the sand, grab a drink from the pop-up bar, pick up a snack from an assortment of food trucks, and enjoy performances all weekend long on the main stage. Check the website for NYC's best buskers, performances from up-and-coming artists, tribute bands playing the classics, and sets from notable NYC DJs.

Visit Lilac, America's only surviving steam-powered lighthouse tender. A retired Coast Guard cutter that carried supplies to lighthouses and maintained buoys from 1933 to 1972, Lilac is now a museum ship open for tours, exhibits and events while undergoing restoration. Free.

Join a round-robin of shared maritime songs on the deck of tall ship Wavertree. Lead or request a song, belt out the choruses, or just listen in.

Join Amer­i­can Indi­an Com­mu­ni­ty House for gui­tar con­certs from Sage Laca­pa, fea­tur­ing spe­cial guest performances!

Run­ners will get to take a whirl­wind tour of Gov­er­nors Island, com­plete with amaz­ing views. Feel like doing this one inde­pen­dent­ly? You may also choose the vir­tu­al option.

Federal Hall National Memorial will commemorate the 230th anniversary of the Bill of Rights in an unexpected way: with an exhibition of games. “Shall Make, Shall Be: The Bill of Rights at Play'' will open in Federal Hall’s Grand Rotunda July 4, 2022 and remain through August 31. Ten artists and game designers were invited to create playable artworks themed around the individual amendments in the Bill of Rights, drawing on their effects, interpretations, and legal meanings in U.S. culture. On September 25, 1789, 12 Amendments to the still fledgling U.S. Constitution were enacted at Federal Hall by the first Congress. Sent to the States for ratification, ten would be approved and become known as the Bill of Rights. Stewarded by Representative James Madison, this codification of individual rights, was an integral compromise for the unification of the United States. Alongside this history, is the recognition and duty to communicate that this exhibit sits on Lenapehoking: a land stolen from the Indigenous Lenape peoples who continue to live in New York City and beyond. These works are intended to be understood as critical games, using the mechanisms of play to interrogate, critique, and inform common understanding of civil liberties in the 21st century.

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Dig your toes in the sand, grab a drink from the pop-up bar, pick up a snack from an assortment of food trucks, and enjoy performances all weekend long on the main stage. Check the website for NYC's best buskers, performances from up-and-coming artists, tribute bands playing the classics, and sets from notable NYC DJs.

An alliance of organizations with deep roots in Lower Manhattan have come together to make this year’s July 4 celebration particularly special for Downtown.

The Lower Manhattan Historical Association is partnering with cultureNOW, the Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York, Sons of the Revolution, the First New York Continental Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, the Colonial Dames of America, the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society, and the American Legion Lt. B. R. Kimlau Chinese Memorial Post to sponsor multiple observances of Independence Day.

These will include the Veteran Corps of Artillery Flag Raising at Castle Clinton, in Battery Park (at 10:30am), a Cannon Salute on the Boardwalk (behind the View Restaurant, at 10:45am), and an Independence Day March, from Castle Clinton to Pier 16 in the South Street Seaport (starting at 11:30am).

The Veteran Corps of Artillery is the oldest military organization in New York State. It was formed in Manhattan on November 25, 1783—the seventh anniversary of Evacuation Day, when defeated English forces had retreated from Manhattan. Officers of Washington’s triumphant Continental Army organized the Veteran Corp with the aim of preventing another British invasion of New York City. (To date, they have been 100 percent successful in this mission.)