Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best things to do in Lincoln Square, Manhattan over Labor Day weekend 2026 (Sep 5–7): 9 picks, refreshed weekly.
9 picks · checked Sep 2
Lincoln Center Plaza, Lincoln Square, ManhattanAsmik Grigorian sings Tatiana's letter scene on a screen the size of the Met's facade, with 2,500 free plaza seats below.
Lincoln Center Plaza, Lincoln Square, ManhattanAsmik Grigorian sings Tatiana's letter scene on a screen the size of the Met's facade, with 2,500 free plaza seats below.
Lincoln Square, ManhattanPhotograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsLa Boheme closes the Met's 17th Summer HD Festival on Labor Day, screened free on a giant outdoor screen above Josie Robertson Plaza with about 2,500 seats and no tickets required.
Lincoln Square, ManhattanPhotograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsLa Boheme closes the Met's 17th Summer HD Festival on Labor Day, screened free on a giant outdoor screen above Josie Robertson Plaza with about 2,500 seats and no tickets required.
Lincoln Square, ManhattanPhotograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Met throws its Live in HD capture of Bellini's I Puritani onto a giant screen over Josie Robertson Plaza. About 2,500 seats go out, admission is free and no tickets or reservations are issued.
Lincoln Square, ManhattanPhotograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Met throws its Live in HD capture of Bellini's I Puritani onto a giant screen over Josie Robertson Plaza. About 2,500 seats go out, admission is free and no tickets or reservations are issued.
Lincoln Center Plaza, Lincoln Square, ManhattanFrida Kahlo returns from the dead for one Dia de Muertos in Gabriela Lena Frank's Spanish-language opera, free on the Met's facade.
Lincoln Center Plaza, Lincoln Square, ManhattanFrida Kahlo returns from the dead for one Dia de Muertos in Gabriela Lena Frank's Spanish-language opera, free on the Met's facade.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanFrantisek Vlacil's 1967 medieval epic — routinely called the greatest Czech film ever made — opens Friday in a 4K restoration, three shows a day.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanFrantisek Vlacil's 1967 medieval epic — routinely called the greatest Czech film ever made — opens Friday in a 4K restoration, three shows a day.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Square, ManhattanAdjoajo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA guided walk through the sixteen-acre campus behind the Met Opera, David Geffen Hall and the New York City Ballet's home stage.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Square, ManhattanAdjoajo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA guided walk through the sixteen-acre campus behind the Met Opera, David Geffen Hall and the New York City Ballet's home stage.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsFilm at Lincoln Center runs Chronovisor across four daily showtimes at the Walter Reade and Elinor Bunin Munroe screens.
Film at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Square, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsFilm at Lincoln Center runs Chronovisor across four daily showtimes at the Walter Reade and Elinor Bunin Munroe screens.
Lincoln Square, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSixty self-taught artists - Henry Darger, Bill Traylor, Morris Hirshfield, Horace Pippin, Thornton Dial Sr. among them - depict and define themselves on their own terms. Free and down after Sunday.
Lincoln Square, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSixty self-taught artists - Henry Darger, Bill Traylor, Morris Hirshfield, Horace Pippin, Thornton Dial Sr. among them - depict and define themselves on their own terms. Free and down after Sunday.
Lincoln Square, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA semiquincentennial show on how vernacular makers built and complicated American identity, from an Edward Hicks Peaceable Kingdom to an Uncle Sam whirligig.
Lincoln Square, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA semiquincentennial show on how vernacular makers built and complicated American identity, from an Edward Hicks Peaceable Kingdom to an Uncle Sam whirligig.
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