Tudor City Fest! (Pics + Recap)
Last Night, A Good Time Was Had By All.
Let’s set the stage properly for this: It has been a rainy week with the kind of little whippersnapper thunderstorms that cancel Mets games going on all week. It’s also June and you never know when a 95 degree day with mad humidity is gonna appear.
But! This event is sold out. Excitement is building and the weather forecast seems to open up a spot just for our neighborhood.
All is well on this Wednesday June 24th, 2026. The North Park gets closed off around 5, an entire team from the Tudor City Association starts working on getting the party going, and, at around 6:50 p.m., the gates open. People rush in en masse and laugh joyously, drink responsibly, and eat some of the best of local cuisine! It’s magic, I tells yas!
OK, I guess I’m not really just embellishing at this point, but for reals... All this is just to say that the Tudor City fest this year was a really wonderful neighborhood party. I was privy to any number of conversations and the through-line between all of them was that there is a hunger for us all to know our neighbors and our history.
I loved hearing people say to one another “Ooooh, you live in 5? Do you have a view when there are fireworks?” It was a like a coded language that everyone here understands. We all came together with respect for each other: Lovely music, good food, drinks and unity. It’s so unlike those cookie-cutter block parties that are basically just the guy selling Mozzarepas being on this side or that side of the person selling blended smoothies.
So a big thank you to Event Organizer Molly Miller and Association President Michael Gribin. Michael led the way and gave a thoughtful speech about the Tudor City Association and was helped by a whole bunch of other folks who built a party that went off without a hitch. I heard a woman say to a friend “Do they do this every month?”
Check some photos below:
And, of course, here are the sponsors:
All we can ask for… a good time had by all.
-TCV