Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best things to do in Midtown, Manhattan the weekend of Sep 25–27, 2026: 22 picks, refreshed weekly.
22 picks · checked Sep 7
Midtown, ManhattanNew 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, ManhattanNew 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 West, ManhattanMore than a hundred curator-driven projects on the theme HIDE N SEEK, in a raw Midtown office floor. The scrappier half of the city's art week.
Midtown West, ManhattanMore than a hundred curator-driven projects on the theme HIDE N SEEK, in a raw Midtown office floor. The scrappier half of the city's art week.
Midtown, ManhattanA Miffy and Just Dutch shop inside Kinokuniya's Sixth Avenue bookstore, free to browse, in its final week.
Midtown, ManhattanA Miffy and Just Dutch shop inside Kinokuniya's Sixth Avenue bookstore, free to browse, in its final week.
The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, ManhattanJason Persse · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThirty works of digital and analog information design in MoMA's street-level gallery, which is free and open to the public.
The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, ManhattanJason Persse · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThirty works of digital and analog information design in MoMA's street-level gallery, which is free and open to the public.
Midtown, ManhattanThe Who's frontman brings his A Great Night Out solo tour to The Town Hall with a semi-acoustic band, mixing Who classics, rarities and solo material. Leslie Mendelson opens.
Midtown, ManhattanThe Who's frontman brings his A Great Night Out solo tour to The Town Hall with a semi-acoustic band, mixing Who classics, rarities and solo material. Leslie Mendelson opens.
Madison Square Garden, Midtown, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTourist History played front to back at the Garden, with Phantogram, STRFKR and Friendly Fires stacked underneath it.
Madison Square Garden, Midtown, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTourist History played front to back at the Garden, with Phantogram, STRFKR and Friendly Fires stacked underneath it.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Midtown, ManhattanMoMA's fall photography opening: Marianne Wex's 1977 feminist landmark in dialogue with seven contemporary artists, every contemporary work new to the museum's walls.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Midtown, ManhattanMoMA's fall photography opening: Marianne Wex's 1977 feminist landmark in dialogue with seven contemporary artists, every contemporary work new to the museum's walls.
Madison Square Garden, Midtown, ManhattanHarry Styles plays back-to-back Garden nights on his 30-show residency — his only U.S. dates this year, with Jamie xx opening both.
Madison Square Garden, Midtown, ManhattanHarry Styles plays back-to-back Garden nights on his 30-show residency — his only U.S. dates this year, with Jamie xx opening both.
Radio City Music Hall, Midtown, ManhattanErmell · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsROLE MODEL's Chuck On Tour hits Radio City with Samia opening - a fast jump from clubs to the Art Deco room on Sixth Avenue.
Radio City Music Hall, Midtown, ManhattanErmell · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsROLE MODEL's Chuck On Tour hits Radio City with Samia opening - a fast jump from clubs to the Art Deco room on Sixth Avenue.
Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, ManhattanMoMA's Yuen Woo-ping survey hits its best weekend: Kung Fu Hustle, both Once Upon a Time in China films and The Grandmaster in its Hong Kong cut.
Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, ManhattanMoMA's Yuen Woo-ping survey hits its best weekend: Kung Fu Hustle, both Once Upon a Time in China films and The Grandmaster in its Hong Kong cut.
Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, ManhattanMoMA marks 60 years of the Film-Makers' Cooperative and Millennium Film Workshop with nine thematic programs of New York underground cinema.
Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, ManhattanMoMA marks 60 years of the Film-Makers' Cooperative and Millennium Film Workshop with nine thematic programs of New York underground cinema.
Midtown, ManhattanA Saturday-afternoon reggae day party at Sony Hall, with a seven-piece live band, a resident DJ and an MC playing lovers rock and golden-era reggae.
Midtown, ManhattanA Saturday-afternoon reggae day party at Sony Hall, with a seven-piece live band, a resident DJ and an MC playing lovers rock and golden-era reggae.
Midtown, ManhattanA seated dinner-and-show night at Sony Hall, with live vocalists and a full band running the Motown and classic soul canon.
Midtown, ManhattanA seated dinner-and-show night at Sony Hall, with live vocalists and a full band running the Motown and classic soul canon.
Midtown, ManhattanTwenty-two professional and amateur MMA and kickboxing bouts and Flex Fight Series' first card at the Infosys Theater inside Madison Square Garden.
Midtown, ManhattanTwenty-two professional and amateur MMA and kickboxing bouts and Flex Fight Series' first card at the Infosys Theater inside Madison Square Garden.
The Derby Club, Midtown East, ManhattanAn American tavern in Neary's old East 57th Street room, serving an unapologetically 1980s menu of pot pie and steak Diane.
The Derby Club, Midtown East, ManhattanAn American tavern in Neary's old East 57th Street room, serving an unapologetically 1980s menu of pot pie and steak Diane.
Midtown East, ManhattanThe Noguchi Museum reunites Isamu Noguchi with Lever House seventy years after his unrealized plan for its plaza, filling the lobby and courtyard of Gordon Bunshaft's 1952 landmark with sculpture, models and.
Midtown East, ManhattanThe Noguchi Museum reunites Isamu Noguchi with Lever House seventy years after his unrealized plan for its plaza, filling the lobby and courtyard of Gordon Bunshaft's 1952 landmark with sculpture, models and.
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Midtown, Manhattan(vincent desjardins) from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsWinnie-the-Pooh's original stuffed animals, a Gutenberg Bible and Jefferson's handwriting, free inside the Fifth Avenue library.
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Midtown, Manhattan(vincent desjardins) from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsWinnie-the-Pooh's original stuffed animals, a Gutenberg Bible and Jefferson's handwriting, free inside the Fifth Avenue library.
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Midtown, ManhattanThe library behind the lions marks 250 years of the Declaration with founding documents, free to walk in and see.
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Midtown, ManhattanThe library behind the lions marks 250 years of the Declaration with founding documents, free to walk in and see.
Midtown, ManhattanThe choreographer takes over MoMA's Marron Atrium as a daily workspace, dancing with a rotating cast during museum hours - and s turning the room over to anyone who wants it.
Midtown, ManhattanThe choreographer takes over MoMA's Marron Atrium as a daily workspace, dancing with a rotating cast during museum hours - and s turning the room over to anyone who wants it.
Laura Pels Theatre, Midtown, ManhattanA Catskills bungalow colony, a traveling blouse salesman and the summer of the moon landing — the film, remade as a musical.
Laura Pels Theatre, Midtown, ManhattanA Catskills bungalow colony, a traveling blouse salesman and the summer of the moon landing — the film, remade as a musical.
The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, ManhattanMoMA opens a century of animation from its own collection, from early hand-drawn cells to contemporary experiments.
The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, ManhattanMoMA opens a century of animation from its own collection, from early hand-drawn cells to contemporary experiments.
The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, ManhattanWiiii · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Indian painter's first solo show in New York - five decades of work on displacement, memory and Kashmir, co-organized with KNMA.
The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, ManhattanWiiii · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Indian painter's first solo show in New York - five decades of work on displacement, memory and Kashmir, co-organized with KNMA.
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