Your NYC week in review.

The Met's 'Raphael: Sublime Poetry' opens March 29 with 170+ works including loans from the Uffizi and Vatican — the first major U.S. Raphael exhibition ever.

The New Museum's massive expansion opened March 21 to free-admission crowds, and the inaugural show 'New Humans: Memories of the Future' packs 200+ artists from 50 countries into a building that finally has enough room to be as ambitious as its curatorial instincts.

Artnet's review of the 82nd Biennial finds 56 artists grappling with AI, ecological grief, and geopolitical fracture — a show that's more emotionally raw than intellectually distant, which is either a welcome shift or an overcorrection depending on how many biennials you've sat through.

MoMA's new Kahlo/Rivera show (through September) features six paintings and a drawing by Kahlo alongside Rivera works and period photographs, deliberately intimate rather than blockbuster, which makes it a better complement to the Met's Raphael spectacle than a competitor.

The 1975 Al Pacino bank-heist film gets a Broadway adaptation opening March 30 at August Wilson Theatre, starring two of the most watchable actors working right now — Bernthal from The Punisher and Moss-Bachrach fresh off The Bear.

Lithgow reprises his Olivier-winning turn as Roald Dahl in Mark Rosenblatt's play at the Music Box Theatre, which opened March 23 — a one-man excavation of the beloved children's author's ugly 1983 comments that asks whether you can separate the art from the artist, and then makes it very hard to do so.

Variety's review of Radcliffe's one-man show at the Hudson Theatre, where he compiles a list of everything worth living for while pulling individual audience members into the performance — the kind of theater that works precisely because it refuses to stay on the stage.

Ferguson plays the late writer in Jay Presson Allen's 'Tru' at the House of the Redeemer — an intimate off-Broadway revival for under 100 people in an actual Upper East Side mansion, which is about as close to Capote's world as theater can physically get.

"The idea is to remind New Yorkers that these theaters are cultural institutions, not just buildings showing movies." — The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, on the new citywide program backing indie cinemas with free screenings and filmmaker Q&As.

New owner Sal Lamboglia has revived the iconic Ferdinando's Focacceria in Carroll Gardens with Sicilian classics and the same old-school vibe. Re-opens on April 15.

Check out the latest bars, restaurants, and new locations opening soon. Some of our favorites: Bark Barbeque expanding to Bushwick and Ugly Baby returning to Williamsburg.

New York pizza chef and restaurateur Nino Coniglio, known for the recent Lucky Charlie in Bushwick, is leaning more into coal-oven pizza with his next new restaurant. Coniglio's Di Napoli will open in Williamsburg this summer.

A state Senate proposal to tax startup investment gains has VCs threatening to redirect capital out of New York — the kind of jurisdictional game of chicken that plays out every few years, except this time the state might actually call their bluff.

Fauna Robotics, the Brooklyn-based startup behind the Sprout bipedal robot, has been acquired by Amazon — which now owns both the warehouse robots and, potentially, the ones that bring packages to your apartment door.

NYC-based laundromat and dry cleaning platform Cents closed a $140M Series C led by Sumeru Equity Partners, which is the kind of round that makes you realize the mundane infrastructure of city life is worth more than most consumer apps ever will be.

Adonis closed a $40M Series C for its AI-powered healthcare revenue platform, tackling the deeply unsexy but enormously painful problem of medical billing — a market so broken that automating even a fraction of it is worth hundreds of millions.

New interactive dashboards translate the city's notoriously dense budget books into pie charts and searchable data covering FY 2021–2027 — a transparency tool that, if people actually use it, could make budget hearings slightly less opaque.

The FRESH Communities Act would put $10 million toward loans and grants for grocery stores in underserved neighborhoods — a reminder that the city's food scene includes entire ZIP codes where getting fresh produce requires a bus transfer.

Mayor Mamdani announced the end of NYPD criminal summonses for low-level cycling violations, shifting to civil penalties and safety training instead — a policy change that treats people on bikes like transportation participants rather than criminals, which is long overdue.

The third nationwide 'No Kings' demonstration drew large crowds to 7th Ave and Central Park South on March 28, with NYC's turnout among the largest in the country — the kind of civic energy that's hard to sustain but clearly hasn't burned out yet.

The annual car-free 40-mile ride through all five boroughs on May 3 has opened registration with a deadline of April 22 — it crosses the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, which alone is worth the $179 entry fee since you literally can't bike it any other day of the year.

The city's free outdoor fitness program is expanding for spring 2026 with bootcamp, yoga, Zumba, and dance classes in parks citywide — the kind of no-excuse, completely free programming that makes the gym membership you're not using feel even more wasteful.

Free and low-cost outdoor fitness classes are back along the DUMBO waterfront with the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop, which honestly makes running on a treadmill facing a wall feel like a choice you should reconsider.