Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best date night in the Lower East Side, Manhattan over Labor Day weekend 2026 (Sep 5–7): 6 picks, refreshed weekly.
6 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.
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.
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.
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