Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best things to do in the Upper East Side, Manhattan the weekend of Sep 18–20, 2026: 17 picks, refreshed weekly.
17 picks · checked Sep 7
Fifth Avenue, 68th to 86th Street, Upper East Side, ManhattanLederhosen, dirndls and dozens of German, Austrian and Swiss bands march Fifth Avenue from 68th to 86th before the party spills into Central Park.
Fifth Avenue, 68th to 86th Street, Upper East Side, ManhattanLederhosen, dirndls and dozens of German, Austrian and Swiss bands march Fifth Avenue from 68th to 86th before the party spills into Central Park.
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Jewish Museum New York · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsJewish ceremonial silver shown with Christian treasures from Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral, in the Warburg mansion on Museum Mile.
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Jewish Museum New York · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsJewish ceremonial silver shown with Christian treasures from Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral, in the Warburg mansion on Museum Mile.
Upper East Side, ManhattanJet Lowe · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsSimon Stone's North American premiere resets Chekhov's last play in present-day Seoul, performed in Korean with English captions inside a transparent glass house in the Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall.
Upper East Side, ManhattanJet Lowe · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsSimon Stone's North American premiere resets Chekhov's last play in present-day Seoul, performed in Korean with English captions inside a transparent glass house in the Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanTaryn Simon's interactive Guggenheim installation combines never-before-seen photographs with text, video and sculpture.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanTaryn Simon's interactive Guggenheim installation combines never-before-seen photographs with text, video and sculpture.
Third Avenue, 66th–86th Streets, Upper East Side, ManhattanTwenty car-free blocks of Third Avenue, 66th to 86th — the Upper East Side's big Manhattan Chamber of Commerce street fair, with craft booths, food vendors and nonprofit tables.
Third Avenue, 66th–86th Streets, Upper East Side, ManhattanTwenty car-free blocks of Third Avenue, 66th to 86th — the Upper East Side's big Manhattan Chamber of Commerce street fair, with craft booths, food vendors and nonprofit tables.
Dan Bakery, Upper East Side, ManhattanA New Jersey pastry shop known for its layered honey cake opened its first Manhattan storefront on York Avenue this August. Central Asian baking, plus a coffee counter.
Dan Bakery, Upper East Side, ManhattanA New Jersey pastry shop known for its layered honey cake opened its first Manhattan storefront on York Avenue this August. Central Asian baking, plus a coffee counter.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanKandinsky, Franz Marc and Natalia Goncharova hang together in the Guggenheim's galleries as European abstraction takes hold.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanKandinsky, Franz Marc and Natalia Goncharova hang together in the Guggenheim's galleries as European abstraction takes hold.
Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Met gathers artists' cloud studies in Gallery 852, including Jean-Michel Cels's 1840 Cloud Study in the Late Afternoon from the Thaw Collection.
Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Met gathers artists' cloud studies in Gallery 852, including Jean-Michel Cels's 1840 Cloud Study in the Late Afternoon from the Thaw Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Costume Institute's new blockbuster reframes fashion as fine art, with sculptural gowns staged alongside masterpieces from the Met's collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Costume Institute's new blockbuster reframes fashion as fine art, with sculptural gowns staged alongside masterpieces from the Met's collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanFlip Sides turns 50 Korean treasures around at the Met — hidden linings, sealed interiors and reverse faces, over half never shown in public.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanFlip Sides turns 50 Korean treasures around at the Met — hidden linings, sealed interiors and reverse faces, over half never shown in public.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAna Paula Hirama · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA new Met show explores how artists across centuries have rendered the body as instrument and music as form—opening day at one of the city's biggest museums.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAna Paula Hirama · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA new Met show explores how artists across centuries have rendered the body as instrument and music as form—opening day at one of the city's biggest museums.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAround 180 objects from 12 Met departments — Ingres, Delacroix, Gerome and Osman Hamdi Bey — across four connected galleries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAround 180 objects from 12 Met departments — Ingres, Delacroix, Gerome and Osman Hamdi Bey — across four connected galleries.
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe women designers of Vienna's Wiener Werkstatte get the Jewish Museum's Fifth Avenue galleries and Saturday admission there is free.
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe women designers of Vienna's Wiener Werkstatte get the Jewish Museum's Fifth Avenue galleries and Saturday admission there is free.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanSeventy large-format photographs of American factories fill the Carnegie Mansion, with a pay-what-you-wish hour daily.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanSeventy large-format photographs of American factories fill the Carnegie Mansion, with a pay-what-you-wish hour daily.
The Met Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met — nearly 80 portraits from the museum's own vaults, Picasso to Alice Neel, included with admission.
The Met Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met — nearly 80 portraits from the museum's own vaults, Picasso to Alice Neel, included with admission.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanWarhol to Maurizio Cattelan, hung along Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral: the Guggenheim's own Pop holdings and what came after.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanWarhol to Maurizio Cattelan, hung along Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral: the Guggenheim's own Pop holdings and what came after.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanPaul Émile Chabas · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsFour monumental Liu Wei sculptures sit in the niches of The Met's Fifth Avenue facade, built around the motif of the human hand.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanPaul Émile Chabas · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsFour monumental Liu Wei sculptures sit in the niches of The Met's Fifth Avenue facade, built around the motif of the human hand.
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