NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: ‘ALEXANDER HAMILTON: STRIVER, STATESMAN, SCOUNDREL’ (through Dec. 31) It’s the New York Public Library’s turn to take advantage of “Hamilton”-mania. NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: ‘MOZART FOREVER: FIFTY YEARS OF THE MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL’ (through Aug. 27) A second Mozart exhibition has come to Lincoln Center. This one, a companion to “Magical Designs for Mozart’s Magic Flute” (also on view through Aug. 27), celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Mostly Mozart Festival. Wednesday through Aug. 27 at 8 p.m., near Sheep Meadow, Central Park, at West 67th Street, 212-772-0210; free. ROOSEVELT ISLAND NORTH (Sunday) Judith Berdy, president of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society, leads this Municipal Art Society of New York tour of that little island between Manhattan and Queens.

Source: New York Times August 19, 2016 00:22 UTC