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"I found it really surprising how much of what people said about the city in the past still felt true today, even though the city itself has changed so much over the years," she says about the quotes she pulled for the Almanac. Her experience at MCNY definitely helped with finding interesting and quirky moments in NYC history to include in the Almanac. She was also Project Director for "New York at Its Core," the museum’s permanent exhibition exploring New York City history from Henry Hudson’s voyage in 1609 through Superstorm Sandy and beyond. Johnson, who has been a long-time resident of NYC, worked at the Museum of the City of New York and by the time she left, she was the Director of Publications there, having worked on more than 30 exhibitions on many different topics-everything from bicycling to basketball, Jackie Robinson, the Gilded Age, the Croton Aqueduct, graffiti in the 1980s, even Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. We wanted it to be a celebration of this city and the vast creativity you can find here." Photograph: courtesy Abbeville Press "As it was coming together last spring it was a real moment of hope that the end of the pandemic was coming. "The Almanac is a few things-it’s a calendar, it’s a guidebook, it’s a planner, a “to-do” list, but mostly it’s a love letter to NYC," Johnson says. It has some of the same trappings-weather predictions and sky events-but instead of articles on natural remedies and the best days to do various outdoor activities, it's useful information on living and having fun here in NYC. You might've already guessed that the book reinvents the Farmer's Almanac, which has helped countless people plan their harvest since 1818, for a New York City life. The organizers gave me a big, wholehearted 'Yes' when I asked if it would happen in 2022," she says.

"I’m also excited about the Juneteenth Festival in East New York and Brownsville (June 17–19). Some lesser-known events she suggests looking into include The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (April 21–24) and the Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory (January 20–30).

June 18, 2022: the Coney Island Mermaid Parade and Ball-"since it was canceled this year, I’m expecting this one to be extra big and extra fun.".

"This time it will be presented in the period rooms of the American Wing-it’s always fun to see a museum use its gallery space in a non-traditional way."

May 5, 2022: The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens the second half of the fashion exhibition In America.

February 22 (at MSG) and Ma(at Barclay’s Center): Elton John is playing his farewell tour at MSG and Barclay's Center.

"It is the Broadway show I’m most anticipating."

February 10, 2022: The Music Manwith Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman open at the Winter Garden.

January 23, 2022: Carnegie Hall is presenting a performance of Penelope that is a collaboration between André Previn and Tom Stoppard, featuring soprano Renée Fleming, the Emerson String Quartet, pianist Simone Dinnerstein, and Uma Thurman as narrator.

Drawing from her Almanac, she picked the following days as her must-do events: We asked Johnso n for her top five picks for what to do in NYC in 2022. You can turn to any page and you'll get an idea of what to do on a specific day, from exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to a New York Knicks game and who they're playing against. RECOMMENDED: The 95 best things to do in NYC for locals and tourists Needless to say, it packs a lot into its tiny pages.

It also contains small ink drawings of NYC's resident rats and pigeons in amusing situations as well as iconic scenes like sailors coming in for Fleet Week and children sledding down a park hill in the wintertime. The little planner, which came out on September 14, lists indoor and outdoor cultural activities, sporting events, foodie happenings and literary events in the five boroughs and includes historical nuggets and quotes from notable New Yorkers (from Edith Wharton to Lin-Manuel Miranda), a monthly "sky watch" forecast of lunar eclipses, supermoons and other celestial phenomena and a monthly horoscope for the city. There's a new book in town that will help ease your FOMO: An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2022 by Susan Gail Johnson is essentially a Bible of events in NYC listed by the day.