Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best things to do in NYC This Sunday the weekend of Sep 25–27, 2026: 101 picks, refreshed weekly.
101 picks · checked Sep 7
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, ManhattanMusikAnimal · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe feast's centrepiece: floats, celebrities and the gondola down Mulberry Street.
Mulberry Street, Little Italy, ManhattanMusikAnimal · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe feast's centrepiece: floats, celebrities and the gondola down Mulberry Street.
Flushing, QueensThe USA International Dragon Lion Dance Cultural Festival shuts Main Street and Sanford Avenue for a China Day Mid-Autumn parade, sending dragon and lion troupes through the heart of downtown Flushing.
Flushing, QueensThe USA International Dragon Lion Dance Cultural Festival shuts Main Street and Sanford Avenue for a China Day Mid-Autumn parade, sending dragon and lion troupes through the heart of downtown Flushing.
Theater District, ManhattanFor 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, ManhattanFor 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.
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.
Jackson Heights, QueensHispanic Heritage Month's Queens parade runs the length of 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, from 69th Street to 89th Street, with floats, bands, dance groups and community organisations.
Jackson Heights, QueensHispanic Heritage Month's Queens parade runs the length of 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, from 69th Street to 89th Street, with floats, bands, dance groups and community organisations.
Ditmas Park, BrooklynVictorian Flatbush's street fair, running since 1975, closes Cortelyou Road between Coney Island and Ocean Avenues for food booths, live music on multiple stages, a beer and wine garden, pony rides and.
Ditmas Park, BrooklynVictorian Flatbush's street fair, running since 1975, closes Cortelyou Road between Coney Island and Ocean Avenues for food booths, live music on multiple stages, a beer and wine garden, pony rides and.
Sunset Park, BrooklynBrooklyn's Chinatown closes Eighth Avenue from 50th to 60th Street for its Mid-Autumn moon cake festival, a permitted street parade through the middle of Sunset Park's Chinese business district.
Sunset Park, BrooklynBrooklyn's Chinatown closes Eighth Avenue from 50th to 60th Street for its Mid-Autumn moon cake festival, a permitted street parade through the middle of Sunset Park's Chinese business district.
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.
Bay Ridge, BrooklynBay Ridge's biggest street festival, run by the volunteer Merchants of Third Avenue, closes the length of Third Avenue through the neighbourhood for vendors, food and live music.
Bay Ridge, BrooklynBay Ridge's biggest street festival, run by the volunteer Merchants of Third Avenue, closes the length of Third Avenue through the neighbourhood for vendors, food and live music.
Upper East Side, ManhattanFifty-six dealers of twentieth-century art, in the Breuer building for the first time. The fifth edition and it runs only.
Upper East Side, ManhattanFifty-six dealers of twentieth-century art, in the Breuer building for the first time. The fifth edition and it runs only.
Marcus Garvey Park: Amphitheater, ManhattanAn all-day open-air music jam takes over Marcus Garvey Park's amphitheater — Harlem rhythm traditions ring out from the historic stage, free.
Marcus Garvey Park: Amphitheater, ManhattanAn all-day open-air music jam takes over Marcus Garvey Park's amphitheater — Harlem rhythm traditions ring out from the historic stage, free.
Lincoln Square, ManhattanSee-ming Lee from Hong Kong SAR, China · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsGustavo Dudamel leads the New York Philharmonic in Mahler's Symphony No. 5 alongside the world premiere of Imagenes mestizas, a Philharmonic commission from Pulitzer Prize winner Tania Leon, at David Geffen.
Lincoln Square, ManhattanSee-ming Lee from Hong Kong SAR, China · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsGustavo Dudamel leads the New York Philharmonic in Mahler's Symphony No. 5 alongside the world premiere of Imagenes mestizas, a Philharmonic commission from Pulitzer Prize winner Tania Leon, at David Geffen.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanThe No Other Land co-directors return with a rooftop-shot documentary on the targeting systems behind Israel's bombing of Gaza. North American premiere.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanThe No Other Land co-directors return with a rooftop-shot documentary on the targeting systems behind Israel's bombing of Gaza. North American premiere.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanChris Rock's Hollywood drama gets its U.S. premiere at NYFF64, with Rock in person after both weekend shows and Rosalind Eleazar leading the cast.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanChris Rock's Hollywood drama gets its U.S. premiere at NYFF64, with Rock in person after both weekend shows and Rosalind Eleazar leading the cast.
The Drawing Center, SoHo, ManhattanEdward Lamson Henry · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsAsmaa Walton's 800-volume Black Art Library takes over The Drawing Center's bookstore as a free reading room. Closes Sunday.
The Drawing Center, SoHo, ManhattanEdward Lamson Henry · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsAsmaa Walton's 800-volume Black Art Library takes over The Drawing Center's bookstore as a free reading room. Closes Sunday.
Dumbo, BrooklynDaniel Fish restages the 1993 televised confrontation between Dr. Anthony Fauci and Larry Kramer over the AIDS crisis, with Will Brill and Thomas Jay Ryan, opening at St. Ann's Warehouse.
Dumbo, BrooklynDaniel Fish restages the 1993 televised confrontation between Dr. Anthony Fauci and Larry Kramer over the AIDS crisis, with Will Brill and Thomas Jay Ryan, opening at St. Ann's Warehouse.
Anthology Film Archives, East Village, ManhattanEden, Janine and Jim · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsCassavetes on 35mm, screened to launch a new LP of Bo Harwood's music pulled straight from the composer's own master tapes.
Anthology Film Archives, East Village, ManhattanEden, Janine and Jim · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsCassavetes on 35mm, screened to launch a new LP of Bo Harwood's music pulled straight from the composer's own master tapes.
Chelsea, ManhattanSonya 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, ManhattanSonya 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.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanJulia Loktev's six-hour sequel follows exiled Russian journalists across Europe. One NYFF screening only, with Loktev and five of her subjects onstage.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanJulia Loktev's six-hour sequel follows exiled Russian journalists across Europe. One NYFF screening only, with Loktev and five of her subjects onstage.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSakamoto's final concert film screens with cinematographer Bill Kirstein and producer Albert Tholen, in conversation moderated by filmmaker Kogonada.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSakamoto's final concert film screens with cinematographer Bill Kirstein and producer Albert Tholen, in conversation moderated by filmmaker Kogonada.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThe Brooklyn Museum opens its survey of sculptor Michael Richards — killed in his World Trade Center studio on 9/11 — deliberately on the 25th anniversary of his death.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThe Brooklyn Museum opens its survey of sculptor Michael Richards — killed in his World Trade Center studio on 9/11 — deliberately on the 25th anniversary of his death.
Anthology Film Archives, East Village, ManhattanAnthology flies the Bay Area experimental filmmaker east for three programs of 16mm and video work, with Merritt present at every screening.
Anthology Film Archives, East Village, ManhattanAnthology flies the Bay Area experimental filmmaker east for three programs of 16mm and video work, with Merritt present at every screening.
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.
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