| Let’s jam. Jose Alvarado Jr. for The New York Times | | | During the Jazz Age, Queens was home to many of the greats. This week, we’re keeping the legacy alive (and staying up very late in the process). | | | If you’re enjoying this newsletter, please share our weekly game plans with your friends and tell them to sign up to get future editions delivered to their inboxes. | | | A-wop-bop a-loo-bop a wop bam boom! Jose Alvarado Jr. for The New York Times | | | Summer Fridays get all the love, but when you’re looking to extend your weekend, don’t forget about long Sunday nights. | | | You’ll find this homey bar, painted splashy orange and blue, tucked into a residential block off a bustling strip of Roosevelt Avenue between Jackson Heights and Elmhurst. Once you’ve ordered off its chalkboard menu, carry your drink up the cast-iron steps to the intimate, trapezoidal loft where you’ll find patrons lining bleacher seats, preparing for the musicians to take the stage. | | | On the night I went, the bandleader entered the room and greeted every person. “¿Cómo estás?” came with a handshake and “¡Salud!” with a clink. He announced the players and their countries of origin — Puerto Rico, Cuba, Korea, Spain, Japan — and then shot around instructions for the tunes to come. A jabby “Autumn Leaves” meandered into improvisations on the trombone, bass and keys, and the trumpet traded convivial bars with the drums. | | | And in the audience, where hands toggled between applause and glasses of sangria, 9:30 p.m. stretched to 2 a.m. At that hour, of course, it was technically Monday, but emerging into the night, the moment was entirely its own. Or perhaps at Terraza 7, it’s the weekend forever. | | | Pro tip: Terraza 7 has more programming on other nights of the week, including karaoke on Mondays and a host of Latin music shows. Check the full schedule here. | | | A mountain of jalea at Warique Jose Alvarado Jr. for The New York Times | | | Warique will change your heart about eating hearts. The newest addition to the neighborhood’s booming Peruvian scene gets its name from the Quechuan words for “special food” and “hidden place,” and one block north of bustling Roosevelt on a sleepy stretch of 37th Avenue, Jimmy Lozano, the owner, may be making the best anticuchos in the city. Don’t miss the jalea, either; the mountain of greaseless fried seafood, capped with pickled red onions, is like a free trip to a coastal fishing village. | | | Juquila is a touch more upscale than other Mexican restaurants in the neighborhood, and its attention to detail shows: crisper salads, more complex salsas, tortillas and huaraches a little more toasted on the comal. It’s also open late — until 1 a.m. every night — and after an evening at Terraza 7, there’s nothing better than a bowl of the house pozole, a lip-smacking soup of pork and hominy that you top with a salad bar’s worth of garnishes. This and a frosty Modelo will restore you. | | | Pouring a perfect pint Jose Alvarado Jr. for The New York Times | | | Ready Penny Inn, on the other hand, is an Irish tavern, a bastion of Jackson Heights. It’s a perfect neighborhood bar for a mellow drink: The Guinness is well poured. The bartender’s Irish brogue is real. The jukebox is well stocked. And the late-night momo carts nearby will prime you for the train ride home. | | | A little pedestrian in Diversity Plaza Jose Alvarado Jr. for The New York Times | | | Diversity Plaza, a pedestrian area just off Broadway, on 37th Road, is a great spot to kick back in the neighborhood before the show. Set up at an outdoor table, perhaps with a non-English newspaper plucked from one of several stands, and enjoy the hum of people wandering through, pausing to gossip, and ordering bites from nearby food windows. | | | Butala Emporium sells all manner of Indian goods in a grocery-size outlet on 74th Street. As you breathe in the aroma of incense, browse herbs, henna and kitchen supplies; thumb through books on philosophy and ayurveda; and maybe leave with a singing bowl or some cricket gear. | | | 5 de Mayo on Roosevelt is one of the neighborhood’s best Mexican markets. Do you need a basketball-size bag of fragrant, pliable dried chiles for a couple of dollars a pound? How about anise-tinged hoja santa leaves, to wrap around logs of goat cheese or muddle into your G & T? Or sweet limes, nance fruits or lesser-known avocado varieties shipped fresh from Mexico? Amble in and pick up some groceries for later. P.S.: The house mole paste is a phenomenal addition to a grilled cheese. | | | The Queens Jazz Trail, like the borough’s jazz history, is expansive. If you want to make a real day of your visit, head over in the early afternoon, and go see the former residences of Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and others. | | | Hitch a ride from Long Island City to Rockaway Beach and back for $20, thanks to Rockaway Brewing Company’s Brew Cruiser. Their shuttle makes six loops every Saturday, and there’s plenty of room on the bus for surfboards and beach chairs. And if you ask, they’ll give you a free tour of their production facility in L.I.C. | | | See celestial sights from Manhattan. At dusk on Tuesdays through October 29, the Amateur Astronomers Association gathers on the High Line at 14th Street for telescope-assisted stargazing. No need to R.S.V.P., just stroll up. And while you’re there, you might as well walk to the recently unveiled Spur, the High Line’s final section at 30th Street. | | | Head to Harlem for Trappy Hour!, a weekly dance party held every Thursday at 9 p.m. at Harlem Nights. “This is a safe space of ratchet healing,” a place where L.G.B.T.Q. patrons can come “feel affirmed, seen and just break from the world around us for a few sweaty hours on the dance floor,” writes Leon C., a Summer reader from Central Harlem (and in full disclosure, the event organizer). You can learn more about the event by signing up for the Trappy Hour! newsletter. | | | Do you have a favorite thing to do in New York City during summer? (And are you willing to share your secret spots with us?) Write us at summer@nytimes.com, and your idea might be featured in our next newsletter. | | | Thursday: See paintings, drawings and sculptures by Timothy Curtis at his Albertz Benda gallery opening. The exhibition is on view until July 27. | | | Friday: On the longest day of the year, the Make Music New York festival invites music makers of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to perform in public spaces in all five boroughs. Check the schedule to find a performance near you. | | | Friday and Saturday: Cheer on international sailing teams as they race high-speed catamarans on the Hudson River at New York SailGP. | | | Tuesday: Do a free culture crawl of Lower Manhattan during Night at the Museums. A number of institutions are open late and offering special programming. | | | Any time: Drive back in time in the Hudson Valley with the historian Russell Shorto. | | | Don't keep Summer to yourself. | | |
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