The best things to do in New York City the weekend of Sep 25–27, 2026 — concerts, festivals, art, markets, and free outdoor events, hand-curated and refreshed weekly.
363 picks · checked Sep 1
Boerum Hill, BrooklynDetroit Publishing Co. (w) , publisher. · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsBrooklyn's biggest and best-loved street festival marks its 51st year, taking over Atlantic Avenue for six hours of live music, food and hundreds of local businesses and vendors.
Boerum Hill, BrooklynDetroit Publishing Co. (w) , publisher. · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsBrooklyn's biggest and best-loved street festival marks its 51st year, taking over Atlantic Avenue for six hours of live music, food and hundreds of local businesses and vendors.
Mulberry Street, Little Italy, Little Italy, ManhattanMusikAnimal · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe feast's centrepiece: floats, celebrities and the gondola down Mulberry Street.
Mulberry Street, Little Italy, Little Italy, ManhattanMusikAnimal · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe feast's centrepiece: floats, celebrities and the gondola down Mulberry Street.
Central Park, ManhattanPhotograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe free, action-earned Global Citizen Festival returns to Central Park's Great Lawn with Ms. Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey and TOMORROW X TOGETHER.
Central Park, ManhattanPhotograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe free, action-earned Global Citizen Festival returns to Central Park's Great Lawn with Ms. Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey and TOMORROW X TOGETHER.
Hudson Yards, ManhattanPercy Rainford [1] · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsNew York's flagship international art fair returns to the Javits Center with roughly 230 galleries, a 2026 program spotlighting Caribbean art, large-scale installations, performance and a new after-hours.
Hudson Yards, ManhattanPercy Rainford [1] · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsNew York's flagship international art fair returns to the Javits Center with roughly 230 galleries, a 2026 program spotlighting Caribbean art, large-scale installations, performance and a new after-hours.
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, QueensKing of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons300+ exhibitors of artists' books, zines and rare printed matter fill MoMA PS1's old schoolhouse for the fair's 20th anniversary.
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, QueensKing of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons300+ exhibitors of artists' books, zines and rare printed matter fill MoMA PS1's old schoolhouse for the fair's 20th anniversary.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Main Slate lands at Lincoln Center with the year's Cannes and Venice titles, most screenings introduced by their directors.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Main Slate lands at Lincoln Center with the year's Cannes and Venice titles, most screenings introduced by their directors.
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Midtown, ManhattanPhotograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsNew York City Center's 23rd Fall for Dance Festival packs world-class companies — The Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Miami City Ballet, The Australian Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, A.
Midtown, ManhattanPhotograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsNew York City Center's 23rd Fall for Dance Festival packs world-class companies — The Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Miami City Ballet, The Australian Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, A.
Greenpoint, BrooklynDetroit Publishing Co. (w) , publisher. · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsThe revived CBGB Festival packs 17 bands onto two stages under the Kosciuszko Bridge, headlined by Patti Smith, the Sex Pistols (with Frank Carter), Morrissey, Interpol, Bikini Kill, Buzzcocks and Circle Jerks.
Greenpoint, BrooklynDetroit Publishing Co. (w) , publisher. · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsThe revived CBGB Festival packs 17 bands onto two stages under the Kosciuszko Bridge, headlined by Patti Smith, the Sex Pistols (with Frank Carter), Morrissey, Interpol, Bikini Kill, Buzzcocks and Circle Jerks.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanDon Ramey Logan · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTakashi Yamazaki world-premieres his Godzilla Minus One sequel at NYFF64, with the director and cast on hand for both Q&A screenings.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanDon Ramey Logan · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTakashi Yamazaki world-premieres his Godzilla Minus One sequel at NYFF64, with the director and cast on hand for both Q&A screenings.
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.
Jack Shainman Gallery, 46 Lafayette Street, Tribeca, ManhattanGordon Parks' civil-rights photographs return with new written reflections from the families of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X in a landmark Tribeca show.
Jack Shainman Gallery, 46 Lafayette Street, Tribeca, ManhattanGordon Parks' civil-rights photographs return with new written reflections from the families of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X in a landmark Tribeca show.
Theater District, ManhattanPhotograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsFor one Sunday a year Broadway sells itself off folding tables: shows and theater organizations line West 44th and West 45th Streets with posters, props and costume pieces, with a silent auction in Shubert.
Theater District, ManhattanPhotograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsFor one Sunday a year Broadway sells itself off folding tables: shows and theater organizations line West 44th and West 45th Streets with posters, props and costume pieces, with a silent auction in Shubert.
Crown Square Pizza, Rockaway Beach, QueensSeany Pizza's Sean Aiken opened a Detroit-style shop on Rockaway Beach Boulevard and unlike most of the boardwalk it stays open all year.
Crown Square Pizza, Rockaway Beach, QueensSeany Pizza's Sean Aiken opened a Detroit-style shop on Rockaway Beach Boulevard and unlike most of the boardwalk it stays open all year.
Hauser & Wirth, 542 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, ManhattanKorean icon Lee Bul fills Hauser & Wirth with major new sculptures — cyborg bodies and glittering future ruins probing technology, nature and history.
Hauser & Wirth, 542 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, ManhattanKorean icon Lee Bul fills Hauser & Wirth with major new sculptures — cyborg bodies and glittering future ruins probing technology, nature and history.
The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, ManhattanBeyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsJulie Mehretu, Alma Thomas, Jack Whitten and William T. Williams anchor a Studio Museum show on geometry as a way of thinking, newly opened in Harlem.
The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, ManhattanBeyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsJulie Mehretu, Alma Thomas, Jack Whitten and William T. Williams anchor a Studio Museum show on geometry as a way of thinking, newly opened in Harlem.
Lincoln Square, ManhattanSee-ming Lee from Hong Kong SAR, China · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Met opens its 2026-27 season with a new production of Verdi's Macbeth: Quinn Kelsey in the title role, Lise Davidsen as Lady Macbeth, Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducting, Louisa Proske directing in her Met.
Lincoln Square, ManhattanSee-ming Lee from Hong Kong SAR, China · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Met opens its 2026-27 season with a new production of Verdi's Macbeth: Quinn Kelsey in the title role, Lise Davidsen as Lady Macbeth, Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducting, Louisa Proske directing in her Met.
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.
Forest Hills, QueensBillie Grace Ward from New York, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe indie- and pop-forward All Things Go festival returns to Forest Hills Stadium for three days, expanding its New York edition alongside its flagship DC weekend.
Forest Hills, QueensBillie Grace Ward from New York, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe indie- and pop-forward All Things Go festival returns to Forest Hills Stadium for three days, expanding its New York edition alongside its flagship DC weekend.
Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanProvocateur Jordan Wolfson debuts a room of uniformly scaled new sculptures at Gagosian, each one built around found color and archival photographs.
Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanProvocateur Jordan Wolfson debuts a room of uniformly scaled new sculptures at Gagosian, each one built around found color and archival photographs.
Loreley Beer Garden, Lower East Side, ManhattanSix weeks of liter steins, twelve sausages and a heated Rivington Street garden, with free keg tappings Saturdays and a pig roast Sundays.
Loreley Beer Garden, Lower East Side, ManhattanSix weeks of liter steins, twelve sausages and a heated Rivington Street garden, with free keg tappings Saturdays and a pig roast Sundays.
El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, ManhattanThe first major retrospective of Teddy Sandoval, a central figure of LA's queer Chicano avant-garde, opens at El Museo del Barrio for its New York run.
El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, ManhattanThe first major retrospective of Teddy Sandoval, a central figure of LA's queer Chicano avant-garde, opens at El Museo del Barrio for its New York run.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanDon Ramey Logan · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsKen Russell's banned 1971 shocker screens on a newly restored 35mm print with the censored footage restored, plus a Q&A with critic Mark Kermode.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanDon Ramey Logan · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsKen Russell's banned 1971 shocker screens on a newly restored 35mm print with the censored footage restored, plus a Q&A with critic Mark Kermode.
Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, Livingston, Staten IslandEpicgenius · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe museum's front lawn at Snug Harbor becomes an open-air gallery of Staten Island painters, potters and printmakers, plus a biergarten.
Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, Livingston, Staten IslandEpicgenius · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe museum's front lawn at Snug Harbor becomes an open-air gallery of Staten Island painters, potters and printmakers, plus a biergarten.
Chelsea, ManhattanJet Lowe · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsSonya Tayeh's dance elegy for Sinead O'Connor, performed by an all-female company of ten to O'Connor's own recordings with narration from her memoir, plays its closing performances at the Joyce.
Chelsea, ManhattanJet Lowe · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsSonya Tayeh's dance elegy for Sinead O'Connor, performed by an all-female company of ten to O'Connor's own recordings with narration from her memoir, plays its closing performances at the Joyce.
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