During the long, warm summer nights you will find some convivial place to while away the evening.

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But with the gentrification and subsequent zillionaireification of neighborhoods such as SoHo and TriBeCa, on warm spring and summer nights there's almost as much action up under the stars as on the street below.

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An accompanying music festival, Warm Up, attracts some 5, 000 to the courtyard on Saturday nights all summer.

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