Inside Belvedere Castle's $12M Makeover; Seinfeld Experience Pop-Up Coming to Gramercy; Broadway's Ticker Tape Parade History

There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately.

• Bklyner ⇒ Getaway Brings New Options for Nightlife in Greenpoint
• Brooklyn Based ⇒ Get to Know Greenpoint and a Hip Hop Throwback
• Brownstoner ⇒ Explore Brooklyn's Folk and Immigrant Traditions With a Day of Performances in Prospect Park
• Bushwick Daily ⇒ Bushwick Nightly: The Best Diverse and Intersectional Parties in and Around Bushwick
• Curbed NY ⇒ Part of Broadway Will Become an Urban Garden for the Summer.
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The 1896 F. W. Esper's Stable - 457-459 West 150th Street
• Gothamist ⇒ Man Busted in Brooklyn for Using Mannequin to Avoid Traffic
• Joe's NYC ⇒ The Hudson River
• LIC Talk ⇒ The Dog Days of Summer in LIC
• New York Times ⇒ Central Park’s Castle Gets a $12 Million Fairy-Tale Makeover
• New York YIMBY ⇒ YIMBY Tours Office Floors of One Willoughby Square, in Downtown Brooklyn
• QNS.com ⇒ Grassroots Forest Hills Film Festival Enters the Big Leagues With New Name and Scale
• Staten Island NYC Living ⇒ What to Do on Staten Island NYC This Weekend July 12,13 and 14
• The Real Deal New York ⇒ One Vanderbilt Goes Viral
• The Villager ⇒ Store About Nothing: 'Seinfeld Experience' Coming to Gramercy
• Thrillist ⇒ Everything You Need to Eat, Drink, See and Do in NYC This Weekend
• Untapped Cities ⇒ See the History of Ticker-Tape Parades Beneath Your Feet on Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes