New York, day by day

New York's tracked calendar is the biggest on Dayfari (447 listings across 334 venues) and, counterintuitively, the most local. The leading categories are not arena shows: fitness leads with 142 listings, then art with 89 and nature with 62, the everyday programming of the city's parks and recreation system. Wave Hill, the garden estate in the Bronx, is the single busiest venue with 9 listings; after it come the rec rooms and gardens: the Multi-Use Room at Williamsbridge Oval, the East Fourth Street Community Garden, Garibaldi Plaza in Washington Square Park, the Dance Room at Highbridge Park. Film (21) and music (19) run well behind the classes and garden days.

So read this page as the city's daily fabric rather than its headline nights: exercise classes, art sessions, nature walks and park programmes, sorted by date across all five boroughs' worth of venues. The Near row still serves the weekend escape: Philadelphia is 130 km, Boston 306, Washington DC 328. The digests re-issue weekly, and the month view is where the long tail of community programming lives.