Friday Night in the Lower East Side, Sep 18

Friday night, Sep 18 · 7 picks hand‑checked by Stumblday against organizer pages · 1 free in the top 7 · updated Oct 5

The 7 best things to do in the Lower East Side on Friday night, Sep 18

  1. Metrograph: Prints, Restorations and Q&As — Friday, Sep 18 - Sunday, Sep 20 · Lower East Side
  2. Elephant Stone at Mercury Lounge — Friday, Sep 18, 9:00 PM · Lower East Side
  3. 15th Lungs Harvest Arts Festival — Sep 18–27 · Free · Lower East Side / East Village
  4. Left-Handed Girl with Director Shih-Ching Tsou — Friday Sep 18, 6pm · Lower East Side
  5. Ghost in the Shell: 30th Anniversary Remaster at Metrograph — Friday Sep 18–20 · Lower East Side
  6. Gorilla Gorilla World Premiere Film Screening with Rooftop Films — Friday Sep 18; doors 7pm, film 8pm · Lower East Side
  7. Phoebe Ryan — Friday September 18 at Mercury Lounge · Lower East Side
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Elephant Stone at Mercury LoungeMercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThis photo was taken by participant/team Team Dustizeff as part of the Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan project on Octobe... · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Friday, Sep 18, 9:00 PMTicketed

Elephant Stone at Mercury Lounge

Lower East Side, Manhattan

Montreal psych-rockers Elephant Stone swirl sitar into fuzzed-out grooves at Mercury Lounge, the LES's essential 250-cap rock room.

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Gorilla Gorilla World Premiere Film Screening with Rooftop FilmsNew Design High School, Lower East Side, ManhattanAndre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Friday · Sep 18, 2026; doors 7pm, film 8pm, Q&A and afterparty to followTicketed

Gorilla Gorilla World Premiere Film Screening with Rooftop Films

Lower East Side, Manhattan

A filmmaker's cursed second feature, In Memory of Anne Heche, unravels on set in Gorilla Gorilla, premiering with a Q&A and afterparty.

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Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best things to do in the Lower East Side on Friday night, Sep 18: 7 picks, refreshed weekly.

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