NYC Midsummer or Swedish Midsummer is a Swedish midsummer celebration organized since 1996 in one of New York City's parks on the Friday afternoon close to the June solstice, or St John's Day.

A sizable portion of the Swedish expatriate community in NYC shows up to celebrate Midsummer the Swedish way.

* NYC Midsummer

His homes in NYC and Weston, Ct. became the center of many international festivities including an annual Midsummer Party held at their beloved country home " Tuckaway "; Ambassadors, Consular heads, Miss Sweden and other dignitaries attended and he became a well-known speaker at all these events.

The NYC Swedish Midsummer celebrations in Battery Park, New York City, attracts some 3, 000-5, 000 people annually, which makes it one of the largest celebrations after the ones held in Leksand and at the Skansen Park in Stockholm.

winning Arts in Education program funded by the New York State Council on the Arts in the Rhinebeck Central School System that involved video, painting, sculpture, poetry, theater, music and Native American culture ; the International Catholic Children's Bureau in designing two national conferences: Children and AIDS and Creativity: A Step Toward Spiritual Growth in the Child ; for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC Mothers and Daughters, a Midsummer Celebration ; Simple Beauty, an Arts in Education program that taught children the most advanced theories in physics through the arts ; and a spring event for Belvedere Castle in New York's Central Park ; and the Festa dos Ibeji, a Celebration of Children, particularly Twins.

* Mars LP: The Complete Studio Recordings, NYC 1977 – 1978 – CD, 2003 ( G3G / Spookysound ) ( Spain ; limited edition ) ( later released on LP by Important ) ( reissued by No More in 2008 )

He later played with the band MDC ( Millions of Dead Cops ) from 2001 through 2003., Batross continues to live in NYC and has been the sole American member in three all-Japanese bands to date, curiously enough, also based in NYC called The Plungers, The Spunks and Gelatine.

It was recorded live at The Blue Note in NYC in December 2003.

* PUNKCAST # 349 Live video from CBGB, NYC, on Oct 22, 2003.

* Three Days of Psychogeographic Heaven – An Overview of the PsyGeoConflux 2003 in NYC by Dave Mandl, Christina Ray, et al., Year Zero One Issue # 12-Space, Place and Perception, Summer 2003.

The album was recorded between December 2003 and April 2004 at Empire View Studios, NYC, Globe Studios, NYC and Elegant Too Studios with production and mixing credits including Dan The Automator, DJ Shadow, Steve Jordan, Free Association … David Holmes, Jay Braun, Alan Moulder, Danny Madorsky, Chris Maxwell and Phil Hernandez ( Elegant Too ) as well as the Blues Explosion, Jon Spencer and Russell Simins.

After being taken over by the U. S. military in April 2003, it was renamed after Ronald Bucca, a soldier with the 800th Military Police Brigade and NYC Fire Marshal who died in the 11 September 2001 attacks.

In 2003, Time Out New York Magazine said The Legendary Shack Shakers were " Among Top Ten Live NYC acts of the year ".

On April 1, 2003, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre opened its second official, current space-a 150-seat theater at 307 West 26th Street in NYC in the former Maverick Theater.

*" GARTEL :" DOCUMENTARY-an evening with gartel Anthology Film archives, NYC, 2003

In the 2003 Singapore Arts Festival, Monteiro performed with legendary harmonica player, Toots Thielemans, together with the members of his NYC Trio, bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Adam Nussbaum at the Victoria Concert Hall.

NYC Media was originally called NYC TV when it took over Crosswalks Television in 2003 ; it became NYC Media Group when it acquired control of broadcast stations WNYE-FM and WNYE-TV as well.

Services on most of these channels had previously each been branded as NYC TV or nyctv with a cable channel number since 2003, and before that as Crosswalks Television.

In 2003, he founded the Campaign to Demilitarize the Police in NYC.

* Revolution ( 2003 ), NYC Music

He also was selected in the All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference First Team during his three seasons in Manhattan and was the 2003 and 2004 recipient of the Haggerty Award as the top player in the NYC area-only the eighth player to win the award multiple times in the 70 + year history of the honor.

Other exhibits have taken place at the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council – Glens Falls, New York ( 2004 ); The Taft School – Watertown, Connecticut ( 2003 ); the World Financial Center Gallery – NYC ( 1999 ), and the City University Graduate Center Mall – NYC ( 1976 and 1987 ).

* the Le Songe d ’ une Nuit d ’ Été ( A Midsummer Night ’ s Dream ) collection ( 2003 );

* 2003: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry V

In 2003 he made a notable Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.

In the past three, he put on Hamlet ( 2005 ; using Tom Waits music ); A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 2004 ; using Motown music ); and As You Like It ( 2003 ; using psychedelic rock music ).