Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best things to do in the Lower East Side, Manhattan over Labor Day weekend 2026 (Sep 5–7): 15 picks.
15 picks · checked Sep 2
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsZu, Don't Play with Fire, Knock Off and Time and Tide play Metrograph in an 11-film Tsui Hark survey — two of them on 35mm prints.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsZu, Don't Play with Fire, Knock Off and Time and Tide play Metrograph in an 11-film Tsui Hark survey — two of them on 35mm prints.
Bowery Ballroom, Lower East Side, ManhattanA two-night punk gathering takes over the Bowery Ballroom, with a combined pass for anyone planning to do both evenings.
Bowery Ballroom, Lower East Side, ManhattanA two-night punk gathering takes over the Bowery Ballroom, with a combined pass for anyone planning to do both evenings.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanTsui Hark's 1984 screwball-musical-romance in a 40th-anniversary 4K restoration he supervised himself, anchoring Metrograph's Tsui Hark series.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanTsui Hark's 1984 screwball-musical-romance in a 40th-anniversary 4K restoration he supervised himself, anchoring Metrograph's Tsui Hark series.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanRay Harryhausen's skeleton army on a 35mm print at noon opening Metrograph's Classical Cinema strand of myth-on-screen.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanRay Harryhausen's skeleton army on a 35mm print at noon opening Metrograph's Classical Cinema strand of myth-on-screen.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanNobuhiko Obayashi's man-eating-piano haunted house plays on 35mm at Metrograph, right up against midnight.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanNobuhiko Obayashi's man-eating-piano haunted house plays on 35mm at Metrograph, right up against midnight.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanWiseman's 1981 plunge into the Manhattan fashion machine, with a live introduction by film scholar Genevieve Yue, as part of a two-week citywide Wiseman celebration.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanWiseman's 1981 plunge into the Manhattan fashion machine, with a live introduction by film scholar Genevieve Yue, as part of a two-week citywide Wiseman celebration.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThe Northern Irish band whose bodhran and accordion shaped Ed Sheeran's Galway Girl plays an early-evening Lower East Side set.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThe Northern Irish band whose bodhran and accordion shaped Ed Sheeran's Galway Girl plays an early-evening Lower East Side set.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanLes Greene and his band close out the Labor Day weekend at Mercury Lounge with a soul and R&B set in the club's back room.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanLes Greene and his band close out the Labor Day weekend at Mercury Lounge with a soul and R&B set in the club's back room.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanFour local bands share the Mercury Lounge back room in an early-evening bill that ends in time for whatever you had planned after.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanFour local bands share the Mercury Lounge back room in an early-evening bill that ends in time for whatever you had planned after.
New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanSarah Lucas won over a jury of Cindy Sherman, Julie Mehretu and Kiki Smith and her sculpture now anchors the free New Museum plaza.
New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanSarah Lucas won over a jury of Cindy Sherman, Julie Mehretu and Kiki Smith and her sculpture now anchors the free New Museum plaza.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanA closing-soon solo presentation on ICP's first floor, included with the ticket you are already buying for the building's other shows.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanA closing-soon solo presentation on ICP's first floor, included with the ticket you are already buying for the building's other shows.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanICP traces how Yves Saint Laurent's clothes reached the world through the camera, from studio portraiture to editorial fashion imagery.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanICP traces how Yves Saint Laurent's clothes reached the world through the camera, from studio portraiture to editorial fashion imagery.
The Slipper Room, Lower East Side, ManhattanNew York's longest-running variety show has been going since 1999, stacking burlesque, comedy and neo-vaudeville acts across a whole evening.
The Slipper Room, Lower East Side, ManhattanNew York's longest-running variety show has been going since 1999, stacking burlesque, comedy and neo-vaudeville acts across a whole evening.
New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanSandstone and glass wrapped in flax pelts and hand embroidery climbs four floors of the New Museum's new atrium stair.
New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanSandstone and glass wrapped in flax pelts and hand embroidery climbs four floors of the New Museum's new atrium stair.
New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanA couple embraces in Tschabalala Self's sculpture, bolted where the New Museum's two buildings kiss and free to see from Bowery.
New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanA couple embraces in Tschabalala Self's sculpture, bolted where the New Museum's two buildings kiss and free to see from Bowery.
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