Vintage Mermaid Parade Photos; Jazz Age Lawn Party Photos; Best Places to Drink Outdoors in NYC

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.

• Bowery Boogie ⇒ East Broadway Mall Beneath the Bridge Hopes to ‘Revitalize’ Space with New Direction
• Brownstoner ⇒ The NYC Brownstone in Photos
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The Queen Anne Holdout at No. 406 West 52nd Street
• DNAinfo New York ⇒ See Nearly Two Decades of Photos from Coney Island's Mermaid Parade
• Ephemeral New York ⇒ The Two Vintage Cannons on a Central Park Bluff
• Free Williamsburg ⇒ Norm Brodsky Rejects City's Measly $100 Million Offer for Bushwick Inlet Park
• Gothamist ⇒ Photos:The Jazz Age Lawn Party Brought Governors Island Back to the 1920s
• New York Magazine ⇒ A Nearly Secret Albany Bill Could Bring a Row of 80-Story Skyscrapers to Your Block
• New York YIMBY ⇒ 53W53 Shows Its Exoskeleton at 53 West 53rd Street, Midtown
• The Onion ⇒ New York City Abuzz Over New Resident
• Thrillist ⇒ Where to Drink Outside in NYC