Summertime Movie Screenings Around the City

Instead of drive-ins, New York, with its foot-traffic culture, offers cinematic sit-ins on rooftops and in parks, soccer fields, and other public spaces around town.
Young woman sits on someone's lap at movie screening.
Photograph by Brian Finke for The New Yorker

Instead of drive-in movies, New York, with its foot-traffic culture, offers cinematic sit-ins—outdoor screenings at public parks and spaces around the city. The Detective Russel Timoshenko Soccer Field (pictured above), on Staten Island, will host “The Avengers,” on June 29; Rooftop Films presents such notable independent productions as “Anbessa” and “The Hottest August” at eighteen sites; and Films on the Green screens thirteen French movies, modern and classic, by female directors.

An earlier version of this article misidentified the movies being screened by Rooftop Films in the summer of 2019.