Your NYC week, all in one place.

Monday, May 18 at the New York Society Library: Columbia Law professor Tim Wu, the scholar who developed Net Neutrality, discusses "The Age of Extraction" and the political economy of tech platforms, AI, attention, and inequality. In person in the Members' Room and online.

The two-year-old startup, which automates permitting and licensing workflows for local government agencies, pulled in a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners — the rare GovTech story where the product solves a problem every New Yorker has felt at a DOB counter.

The governor's package would expand age-verification rules, set stricter defaults on social platforms for minors, and limit certain AI chatbot features for children — part of the wider state push that already produced last year's Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act.

Wednesday, May 20 at the Cultural Center at Lycée Français de New York: a free panel traces Art Deco from the 1925 Paris exposition to New York's vertical, metropolitan version of the style. Part of Villa Albertine's Oui Design Festival with NYCxDESIGN; the talk is followed by a cocktail reception.

Sunday, May 31 at Brooklyn Public Library: the 2026 Kahn Humanities Series puts Angela Y. Davis in conversation with Jelani Cobb for a slow, line-by-line reading of the Declaration on the eve of its 250th anniversary. The kind of one-off public-intellectual programming that gets booked rarely enough to be worth blocking the calendar for.

Gothamist's interview with Yuskavage follows the painter into her 10th David Zwirner exhibition, where women, models, artists, and canvases-in-progress become a meditation on what creative work feels like from inside the studio. On view at the gallery's 19th Street space through June 26.

The North American debut of "Sculpting the Senses" opens Saturday with more than 140 of the Dutch designer's pieces — including the algae dress from her 2025 "Sympoiesis" collection and the crimson plissé gown made for Anne Hathaway in "Mother Mary." On view through January 3, 2027.

Sunday, May 31 at the Beacon Theatre: John Oliver and Seth Meyers continue their monthly two-man residency, with another June date already on the books and new fall shows now extending the run through December. LateNighter notes the format: a standup set from each host, then a joint audience Q&A.

Trey Everett's new play, directed by Andrew Barth Feldman, is running in the intimate East Village Basement through May 30. The setup is deliberately close-quarters and interactive.

The Bach festival's final week, which brings some of the world's finest Bach interpreters to small UWS venues.

Saheem Ali's Free Shakespeare in the Park production, which opens May 22 at the Delacorte (the first Romeo & Juliet there in nearly 20 years). Runs through June 28; tickets free via Public Theater Patron ID.

This spring guide rounds up nine of the best outdoor bars for spritz weather — Armada (Orchard), Bar Bianchi (Alphabet City, cult grande spritz), Bar Pisellino (West Village), Café Maud, Williamsburg's duckduck, Nightly's (UES), The Beast Next Door (LIC), The Laurels (East Village), and Havana Cafe (Bronx). The map you actually want.

Grub Street's Matthew Schneier reviews Hiroki Odo's East 5th Street spin-off as a fine-dining izakaya: the bones of a seasonal kaiseki meal, loosened into a choose-your-own procession of sashimi, grilled fish, soups, sake, and small dishes that mostly stay under $20.

Eater reports that Sushiro, the Osaka-born conveyor-belt sushi chain with 800+ locations worldwide, will open its first American restaurant this fall at 667 Eighth Avenue by Port Authority. The three-floor, 170-seat room is set to run on booth kiosks, moving belts, and a menu of sushi, ramen, somen, chawanmushi, and desserts.

The Brooklyn institution opened a third weekly outpost at the southwest corner of Central Park and Columbus Circle on May 14, after more than a decade of being a Brooklyn-only ritual.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday unveiled a $124.7 billion budget that he said would close a projected $12 billion deficit [...] but the plan relies heavily on state aid and delayed pension payments.

A 3,500-worker strike across five LIRR unions began this weekend after final-hour talks collapsed over a wage increase.

Sunday, May 31 at 92NY: retired four-star general and former CIA director David Petraeus sits down with New York Times columnist Bret Stephens for a Recanati-Kaplan Talk on Iran, Israel, Ukraine/Russia, American influence, and the shifting balance of global power. In person at Buttenwieser Hall and streaming.

The new section of East River Park just south of the Williamsburg Bridge is nearing the finish line of a five-year, $1.45 billion climate-resiliency rebuild.