NYC Young Black Professionals- Weekly Listings

21 September 2010

NYULYP Bragging Rights 2010!!! Official Pre-Party for the Whitney M. Young Football Classic!


When: Friday, September 24 11pm
Where: PT212 (30 W. 24th St.)
Damage: $20/at the door or purchase a bundle package for the game and Pre-Party

Before Howard University and Morgan State go head to head on the field we will be getting it in on the dance floor

Bragging Rights the Official Pre-Party to the NYUL Foot Ball Classic presented by Coors Light
Friday, September 24th 11pm @PT212 (30 W. 24th St.)
Cool Drinks courtesy of Coors Light; Hot music by The Legendary Chris Washington

Get your tickets to Bragging Rights and the Football Classic and save!

Info on seating:
Purchase a game/party bundle and save!
(YP Package) The Great Hall $60– Enjoy the game with members and affiliates of the NYULYP in the Great Hall. Watch the game in plush seating located at the middle of the 50 yard line with access to flat screen TVs and dining.

Coaches Club $90–The Coaches Club is set directly in between the two team locker rooms and provides unmatched, exclusive field level access to the 50 yard line. In the Coaches Club you will enjoy the game while mingling with Mary J. Blige and other celebrity guests and notable persons.

20 September 2010

Atlantic Antic Street Festival


Where: Atlantic Ave and 3rd @ 3:00pm
When: Sunday, September 26th
Damage: Free!!!


The Atlantic Antic is a Brooklyn Institution

Let's meet and go to the Atlantic Antic - Brooklyn's largest street festival! The 36th annual Atlantic Antic features ten live entertainment stages, over 600 vendors, pony rides, and inflatable rides.

Spanning 10 blocks of Atlantic Avenue, from 4th Avenue in Boerum Hill all the way to Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights, the 2010 Atlantic Antic is fun for everyone looking for food, festivities, and finds.

Offering something for everyone, the ten live musical stages showcase free performances all day, featuring blues, rock, country, R&B, jazz, music for kids, drum circles, and belly-dancing. Kids and families enjoy plenty of pony rides, face painting, balloon sculptures, live storytelling, and earrings, earrings, earrings - last possibility to stock up before winter ;-)

We will meet at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and 3rd Ave at 2 pm.

NY Urban League Football Classic: Tailgate Party & Football Game


When: Saturday, September 25th
Where: Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
Damage: Varies

Email me for additional details and transportation options.

The Urban League of NYC will be hosting their own tailgate party at the Annual Football Classic this year @ the New Giants Stadium!!!

The annual classic is a great opportunity to come out and have a great time at the game, while enjoying the shopping among the vendors at the Tailgate party, and meeting and greeting new friends while enjoying the sounds and foods at the Tailgate Party!

We will have our own section/table set up at the event for members to mingle, socialize, grab a seat for a while, drink, eat, dance, etc.

I attended this event last year and whoa!! It's definitely a lot of fun!!!

To purchase a ticket to the actual game, check with Ticket Master and select section 124, row 30 to sit with us.

Note, we will be purchasing seats in the END ZONE section of the Howard Team (SECTION 124, row 30), if you want to buy your tickets and sit with or near the group, or meet up with us later there during the game.

Network Fridays @ 420 Bar & Lounge: Free Admission!


When: Friday, September 24th 6:00pm
Where: 420 Lounge
420 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10024
(212) 579-8450
Damage: Free Duh!!

Happy Hour Special: Come enjoy half priced drinks from 6pm-10pm!!!!!


$3 Domestic Beers
$4 House Wine
$4 Mixed Well Drinks (Rum and Coke, Vodka & Cranberry, Gin & Juice, etc.)
Happy Hour Early Special: 3 for 1 Drinks from 6pm-6:30pm!!!
***DJ L-Trendz will be spinning the latest in Hip Hop, R&B, Old School, Reggae, Salsa, Merengue, Soca and Reggaeton!***

420 is a real chill venue, and there is plenty of room to walk around the very attractive space, while mingling with other Black Professionals within our VIP Meet & Greet section, but with other Latino and Black professionals throughout the rest of the lounge. We will have the entire upstairs floor for our group.

Doors open at 6pm, and the gathering will last officially until 10pm. However, all guests are welcome to hang out and dance the rest of the night away, as the venue does not close until 4am! :)

Please note the details below:
* Free admission all night for you and your guests.
* DJ L-Trendz will entertain you when you arrive. I will arrive @ 6:30 and will facilitate any introductions for you as usual! :)
** * 2 for 1 drinks until 8pm. **3 for 1 drinks from 6pm-6:30pm for the early birds!!!***

NU Jazz: JJ Sansaverino @ SOB's



When: Wednesday, September 22 7:30pm
Where: SOB's
200 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014
Damage: $10


Prepare yourself or an exhilarating evening of "Nu-Jazz" by JJ Sansaverino and his band. This special event will take place at SOBs in the Village, on Wednesday evening September 22, at 7:30pm.

Doors open at 7:30pm and show starts at 8:30pm.
SOBs is a standup club. There is seating available at tables (minimum 1 entree or equivalent per person)

The band features:
JJ Sansaverino on Guitar
Etienne Lytle on Keyboards
Thomas Gooding on Bass
Eric Brown on Drums

There will be special guest performances from Doue Artists

John Legend and the Roots snag Spike Lee to document Webcast


Yeah I know this sounds like its not an event, BUT! it is!!

When: September, 23
Where: Terminal 5 NYC
610 w 56th st
New York, NY 10019
(212) 582-6600
Damage: $30 before/$35 @ the door

Spike Lee will direct a live webcast of a concert featuring John Legend and the Roots.
The concert, to be held in New York on Sept. 23, is the second part of "Unstaged," a live concert series presented by American Express. The first was an Arcade Fire concert, whose webcast in August from Madison Square Garden was directed by Terry Gilliam.
The live stream will be webcast on YouTube so come out and be part of history live!!!

Email me or hit my twitter @youngNblackNYC with an RSVP so I can add you to my tix count. If you paypal me the cashola, I'll deliver your tix in midtown before the show anytime.

15 September 2010

Bilal Fan? He'll be at B.B Kings on Saturday!!


When: Saturday, September 18, 8pm
Where: B.B King's Blues Club NYC
Damage:$25.00

For Bilal Sayeed Oliver, dreams started falling into place quite rapidly. A self-confessed jazz junkie from Philadelphia, PA, Bilal started out by singing in small clubs until he began training in jazz and big-band arrangements at the Mannes Music Conservatory in New York. Late 2009, Bilal announced his official second album will be released Summer 2010 via Los Angeles based label Plug Research Music. The new music promises to be progressive while still having its roots placed firmly in the jazz traditions that originally inspired Bilal's music. Bilal describes the new material as "genre-bending music."

Friday Party w/ PETE ROCK and Q-TIP!!!


When: Friday, September 17,2010 10pm
Location:Deity Bar & Lounge
368 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718-222-DNYC
Damage: $10

OMG OMG OMG Do you love Pete Rock like I do??? Well then get ready!!!
Do you love when the DJ plays that good 90's hip hop set @ the party? I'm talkin' about Wu Tang, Nas, Biggie, Mob Deep, Tribe etc! Well, come out this Friday and kick it with two DJs from the90's Hip Hop scene - DJ Pete Rock and special guest DJ - QTip from Tribe Called Quest!
Pete Rock's 90's hip hop set is sickkkk...and yes, I will co-sign on it! ;0)
RSVP gets my number and meetup place
Friday, September 17, 2010
Time: 10pm
Admission: Only $10!!!
Location: Deity (Park Slope, Brooklyn - Google it)

11 September 2010

Network Fridays @ 420 Bar & Lounge**Free Admission**


















When: Sept 17, 2010 (Friday) 6pm-4am
Where: 420 Bar & Lounge 420 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10024
(212) 579-8450
Damage: FREE ADMISSION!


Happy Hour Special: Come enjoy half priced drinks from 6pm-10pm!!!!!


$3 Domestic Beers
$4 House Wine
$4 Mixed Well Drinks (Rum and Coke, Vodka & Cranberry, Gin & Juice, etc.)
Happy Hour Early Special: 3 for 1 Drinks from 6pm-6:30pm!!!
***DJ L-Trendz will be spinning the latest in Hip Hop, R&B, Old School, Reggae, Salsa, Merengue, Soca and Reggaeton!***

420 is a real chill venue, and there is plenty of room to walk around the very attractive space, while mingling with not only other Group members within our VIP Meet & Greet section, but with other Latino and Black professionals throughout the rest of the lounge. We will have the entire upstairs floor for our Meetup! A perfect venue to host our very diverse and multi cultural professional Meetup group!!!

Doors open at 6pm, and the Meetup gathering will last officially until 10pm. However, all members and their guests are welcome to hang out and dance the rest of the night away, as the venue does not close until 4am! :)

Please note the details below:
* Free admission all night for you and your guests.
* DJ L-Trendz will entertain you when you arrive. I will arrive @ 6:30 and will facilitate any introductions for you as usual! :)
** * 2 for 1 drinks until 8pm. **3 for 1 drinks from 6pm-6:30pm for the early birds!!!***

$1 Drinks Afterwork & Afterparty @ Mad River







































When: September 16, 2010 (Thursday)
Where: Mad River New York
1442 Third Avenue at 82nd St
New York, NY 10028
Damage: $10 at the door (Note, you MUST tell the doorman that you are there for the Black/Latino Meetup, or you will have to pay the regular bar fee for admission).


Mad River is a great Sports Venue, located on the Upper East Side. They have TEN 42 inch Plasma screen TV's, showing all the games of the day. Come cheer your favorite teams and talk sports with fellow patrons and Meetup members!


Those looking to dance can enjoy the latest in hip hop, r&b, and reggae while getting your dance and drink on!

**The drink special is good for the entire event, from 6pm until 10pm!!!**


**Note, we will be in the upstairs VIP private party room for our event!!!**

They also have a very extensive menu, featuring many appetizers, wraps, soups, salads, sandwiches, desserts and full entrees as well!

Drink Specials: $1 Coors Light draft & $1 mixed drinks (well drinks)!!!


Dress Code: Business or Business Casual (no sneakers, timbs/workboots, t-shirts, etc).

Train: 4, 5, 6 to 86th Street


So come ready to represent mingle, drink, dance, converse and enjoy a great afterwork event.

It's been forever....I apologize!

I know good and gotdaymn well I should be shot for neglect! I've got no real basis for my incredible laziness however I will again attempt to keep up with all the demands this blog requires. Between my real job and my side jobs and school and whatever else I've just let this go! Well here you go! The events for September!