Issue? No! 🤙: Everyone just go to the beach

Helloha Groovies: Last week, I was out of the city on my legally allowed annual One Trip Somewhere Else and I came back to find I myself once again stuck with the deflating pang of missing something awesome. This time it was a screening of the personally-very-important-to-me movie Blue Crush in the alleyway outside Phase Surf, the cute and friendly coffee shop/board rental spot on B95th Street. Next time? Who knows, it could be something even better, maybe a screening of Point Break inside the barrel of a wave? Best to proceed directly to the beach and not risk it.

Team Groove is off at the beach this week for our annual summer break; it's humid out there and the city is empty so we're encouraging you to do the same. Summer lasts until Halloween now so you've got still got some horizon in front of you, but don't sit inside too long. Just like in Blue Crush, you just need to get that one perfect wave of a day to make it count.

We went ahead and rounded up a few of our best tips for staying cool to ride out the rest of the summer below.

🎤 First, go ahead and mark your calendar for Sept. 1: we're bringing Hamilton Nolan (How Things Work) and Liz Hynes (Last Week Tonight) to talk about the history of organized labor in New York City. Be cool and grab a cheap early bird ticket now even.

❄️ The Groove guide to staying cool

Swim in the Hudson River (after reading this post first please):

How to swim in the Hudson River this summer

The Hudson River is right there, cleaner than you might think and as easy to get into as falling out of a boat

The New York GrooveValerie Askinazi

Perhaps you should take some advice from this 90-year-old man whose friend is a bird?

11 Questions with the ‘Guardian of Jamaica Bay’

90-year-old Don Riepe has been watching over the city’s wildest places for decades, and has some wild stories too

The New York GrooveJess Joseph

Go use industrial air conditioning:

A guide to maximizing free tickets from the libraries’ Culture Pass

The often-slept-on program offers free tickets to museums, botanic gardens, theaters, movies and more

The New York GrooveVirginia K. Smith

Or hide out indoors in public private space:

POPS can be the cure for winter cabin fever — if they’re open

Privately owned public spaces are everywhere, but how public they actually are varies wildly

The New York GrooveJess Joseph

Get out of town (if you must), but without a car:

The best car-free summer day trips in New York City’s exotic suburbs

Whether your thing is beaches, Gilded Age mansions, sprawling gardens, jousting or the mall, we’ve got you covered

The New York GrooveAaron Short

Two wheels, two legs can’t lose: The quickie guide to bike tourism in and around New York City

Gas prices being what they are, it’s time for a different kind of road trip.

The New York GrooveDave Colon

Hideout with the reptiles (indoors):

8 of the coldest, darkest places in New York City

Escape the August humidity with our members-only guide to dark, cold hideouts

The New York GrooveJess Joseph

Crack open a cold one in a weird place:

54 extremely fun places to drink outside in the city

Enjoy the sun, not the line for an elevator

The New York GrooveThe Groove

(By the way did you know that Kate Bosworth got married at the Rockaway Hotel? To the star of Tusk!)

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