Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best things to do in Lincoln Square, Manhattan the weekend of Oct 9–12, 2026: 54 picks, refreshed weekly.
54 picks · checked Sep 15
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsNYFF's final weekend at Film at Lincoln Center: 32 Main Slate films from 31 countries, closing with Ava DuVernay's world premiere of 14th.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsNYFF's final weekend at Film at Lincoln Center: 32 Main Slate films from 31 countries, closing with Ava DuVernay's world premiere of 14th.
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Square, ManhattanNYC Ballet pairs Balanchine's La Source and The Four Temperaments with Robbins' Chopin comedy The Concert in its final fall performances.
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Square, ManhattanNYC Ballet pairs Balanchine's La Source and The Four Temperaments with Robbins' Chopin comedy The Concert in its final fall performances.
Alice Tully Hall and Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanAva DuVernay's sequel to 13th, on attacks against the 14th Amendment, premieres as NYFF's closing film with AOC and Hasan Piker on screen.
Alice Tully Hall and Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanAva DuVernay's sequel to 13th, on attacks against the 14th Amendment, premieres as NYFF's closing film with AOC and Hasan Piker on screen.
Francesca Beale Theater and Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanRami Malek plays a 1980s New York cabaret star living with AIDS in Ira Sachs's new drama, with Malek and Ebon Moss-Bachrach at the Q&A.
Francesca Beale Theater and Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanRami Malek plays a 1980s New York cabaret star living with AIDS in Ira Sachs's new drama, with Malek and Ebon Moss-Bachrach at the Q&A.
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The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Square, ManhattanErmell · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsLise Davidsen and Quinn Kelsey lead the Met's new Macbeth, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting Verdi's power-mad couple.
The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Square, ManhattanErmell · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsLise Davidsen and Quinn Kelsey lead the Met's new Macbeth, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting Verdi's power-mad couple.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanDon Ramey Logan · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsPedro Almodóvar's Bitter Christmas, a film about an actress writing her friends into a script, gets late screenings at Lincoln Center.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanDon Ramey Logan · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsPedro Almodóvar's Bitter Christmas, a film about an actress writing her friends into a script, gets late screenings at Lincoln Center.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanJesse Eisenberg's musical comedy stars Julianne Moore as a New Jersey housewife auditioning for a mysterious new show, with 13 original songs.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanJesse Eisenberg's musical comedy stars Julianne Moore as a New Jersey housewife auditioning for a mysterious new show, with 13 original songs.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanPedro Pascal plays a cellist rebuilding his life in Tony Gilroy's Behemoth!, the NYFF Centerpiece, back on screen at Lincoln Center.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanPedro Pascal plays a cellist rebuilding his life in Tony Gilroy's Behemoth!, the NYFF Centerpiece, back on screen at Lincoln Center.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanJohn Turturro plays an aging Bronx pickpocket racing across the boroughs in Noah Segan's love letter to New York, at NYFF.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanJohn Turturro plays an aging Bronx pickpocket racing across the boroughs in Noah Segan's love letter to New York, at NYFF.
The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Square, ManhattanMozart's Così fan tutte moves to a 1950s Coney Island boardwalk, with fire-eaters and sword-swallowers woven into Phelim McDermott's staging.
The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Square, ManhattanMozart's Così fan tutte moves to a 1950s Coney Island boardwalk, with fire-eaters and sword-swallowers woven into Phelim McDermott's staging.
The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Square, ManhattanPuccini's La Bohème plays a weekend matinee at the Met in Franco Zeffirelli's famous staging, its Latin Quarter café scene packed with performers.
The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Square, ManhattanPuccini's La Bohème plays a weekend matinee at the Met in Franco Zeffirelli's famous staging, its Latin Quarter café scene packed with performers.
Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Square, ManhattanPhoto: Andreas Praefcke · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsBradley Whitford and Tom Blyth face off in Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama, staged by Michael Arden on the Beaumont's wide thrust.
Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Square, ManhattanPhoto: Andreas Praefcke · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsBradley Whitford and Tom Blyth face off in Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama, staged by Michael Arden on the Beaumont's wide thrust.
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanOffice of the Press Secretary · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsKate and Rooney Mara play sisters who speak in unison in Werner Herzog's first NYFF film since Fitzcarraldo, shot in Irish caves.
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanOffice of the Press Secretary · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsKate and Rooney Mara play sisters who speak in unison in Werner Herzog's first NYFF film since Fitzcarraldo, shot in Irish caves.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanEleanor Coppola's on-set diary from Versailles shows Sofia Coppola making Marie Antoinette, narrated by Diane Lane, at NYFF.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanEleanor Coppola's on-set diary from Versailles shows Sofia Coppola making Marie Antoinette, narrated by Diane Lane, at NYFF.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanPaul Rudd, Paul Giamatti and John Turturro re-create a 1980 climate summit in Tom McCarthy's A Statement, a NYFF world premiere.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanPaul Rudd, Paul Giamatti and John Turturro re-create a 1980 climate summit in Tom McCarthy's A Statement, a NYFF world premiere.
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Square, ManhattanBillie Grace Ward from New York, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsNew York City Ballet pairs Balanchine's The Four Temperaments and La Source with Jerome Robbins's laugh-out-loud piano-recital spoof, The Concert.
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Square, ManhattanBillie Grace Ward from New York, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsNew York City Ballet pairs Balanchine's The Four Temperaments and La Source with Jerome Robbins's laugh-out-loud piano-recital spoof, The Concert.
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Square, ManhattanNew York City Ballet pairs Wheeldon's Continuum, Ratmansky's Mahler-set Solitude and Balanchine's 42-dancer Bourrée Fantasque.
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Square, ManhattanNew York City Ballet pairs Wheeldon's Continuum, Ratmansky's Mahler-set Solitude and Balanchine's 42-dancer Bourrée Fantasque.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanJonathan Glazer handed London schoolkids cameras at Abbey Road for War Child's HELP(2) sessions with Olivia Rodrigo and Arctic Monkeys.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanJonathan Glazer handed London schoolkids cameras at Abbey Road for War Child's HELP(2) sessions with Olivia Rodrigo and Arctic Monkeys.
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanLee Chang-dong's Venice Silver Lion winner pits a laid-off factory worker's family against the filmmaker documenting them, 164 minutes deep.
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanLee Chang-dong's Venice Silver Lion winner pits a laid-off factory worker's family against the filmmaker documenting them, 164 minutes deep.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanMarcy Hargan from New York City (Manhattan), USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsAndrew Haigh, director of All of Us Strangers, sets a family drama in the 1950s Mountain West, where a mother vanishes into a blinding snowstorm.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanMarcy Hargan from New York City (Manhattan), USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsAndrew Haigh, director of All of Us Strangers, sets a family drama in the 1950s Mountain West, where a mother vanishes into a blinding snowstorm.
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanA washed-up New York party promoter meets the 10-year-old British son he never knew about in Jordan Firstman's A24 comedy debut.
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanA washed-up New York party promoter meets the 10-year-old British son he never knew about in Jordan Firstman's A24 comedy debut.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanMike Leigh's Tender Loving Care follows a child-protection worker and her parents through post-Brexit England's fraying care system.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanMike Leigh's Tender Loving Care follows a child-protection worker and her parents through post-Brexit England's fraying care system.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanHamaguchi's 196-minute All of a Sudden, whose two leads shared Best Actress at Cannes, screens in the New York Film Festival Main Slate.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanHamaguchi's 196-minute All of a Sudden, whose two leads shared Best Actress at Cannes, screens in the New York Film Festival Main Slate.
Howard Gilman Theater, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanA Paris photographer wakes up in Léa Seydoux's body after a party hookup in this body-swap drama from the co-writer of Anatomy of a Fall.
Howard Gilman Theater, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanA Paris photographer wakes up in Léa Seydoux's body after a party hookup in this body-swap drama from the co-writer of Anatomy of a Fall.
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