fall foliage report for new york state: for all your fall foliage fun, check out i heart ny’s ‘live’ leaf map of prime peeping conditions across the state. >>

cultural fests / street fairs / food events / markets / shopping events (free admission, unless noted otherwise):

► fri + sat (fri 5-8:15pm, sat 12-8pm): downtown brooklyn arts festival: the plaza at 300 ashland place (fort greene). >>

► fri-sun: nyc yarn crawl: nine participating stores in manhattan and brooklyn. >>

► fri-sun: empire state rare book and print fair: city college of new york (west harlem). $60 friday preview, $10-20 sat + sun. >>

► sat 9am-5pm: annual west 44th st annual garage sale: 44th street between 9th + 10th aves (midtown west / hell’s kitchen). >>

► sat 11am-5pm: vinyl revolution record show: bohemian hall + beer garden (astoria). $5 admission ($10 for 10-11am early entry). >>

► sat 12-8pm: magical girls festival celebration of magical girls from sailor moon, cardcaptor sakura, pretty cure, tokyo mew mew, and more: japan village (industry city). >>

► sponsored: sat 1-4pm + 6-9pm: brooklyn whiskey and spirits fest: brooklyn navy yard building 77. save 40% on advance tickets with promo code ‘theskint’ >>

► sun: national coffee day: score a free hot or iced coffee at krispy kreme with any purchase. >>

► sun 10am-5pm: nyc art bazaar at grand bazaar nyc: indoors and outdoors at 100 w 77th st at columbus ave (uws). >>

► sun 10am-6pm: 51st annual 3rd avenue festival: 3rd avenue between 69th + 94th streets (bay ridge). >>

► sun 11am-6pm: 27th annual hoboken arts + music festival: washington street between observer highway + seventh st. >>

► sun 12-6pm: 49th annual atlantic antic street festival: along brooklyn’s atlantic avenue from 4th avenue to hicks street. >>

► mon 4-10pm (monthly thru october): brooklyn night market: industry city. >>

► mon 5-9pm: annual fall clothing swap: footlight underground at the windjammer (ridgewood), free admission (donations welcome). >>

three film fests / series:

► fri 6:30pm: art21 presents: big night of shorts: the paley center for media (midtown), $12. >>

► sat 5pm + 7:30pm: 20th nyc short film festival: symphony space (uws), $15 general, $12 seniors, $10 students. >>

► thru 10/14: 62nd new york film festival: lincoln center venues and other theaters in the boroughs. various prices. >>

friday

fri (various times): free outdoor movies (weather permitting):
encanto at pool deck in highbridge park (washington heights) >>
luca at dyckman marina in inwood hill park >>
monsters, inc. at brighton playground (brighton beach) >>
you’ve got mail at hudson yards public square + gardens >>

thru 6/22/2025 (closed mondays): real clothes, real lives: 200 years of what women wore, the smith college historic clothing collection: tracing how women’s roles have changed and evolved dramatically over the decades across the spectrum of race and class, a new exhibition at the new-york historical society museum + library (uws) examines the everyday clothing of ordinary women, from hard-worn house dresses to psychedelic micro minis and modern suits to fast-food workers’ uniforms. $24 general, $19 seniors, $13 students, pay-what-you-wish fridays 5-8pm. >>

thru mon: 19th annual brooklyn book festival: nyc’s largest free lit fest continues with a series of ‘bookend’ events (thru 9/30, citywide), a children’s day (sat 10am-4pm at brooklyn commons at metro tech) and the main festival day and outdoor marketplace (sun 10am-6pm, brooklyn borough hall and surrounding nearby venues). various prices (most events are free). >>

thru sun (12-8pm): ‘the people’s museum of north korea: the story of divided families’: ‘the people’s museum of north korea: the story of divided families’ presents an immersive experience where you can explore recreations of a north korean and a south korean living room, highlighting the stark contrasts between the two koreas. 2 rivington street (les), free admission. >>

thru sun: subjective art festival: three days celebrating art and technology, the inaugural subjective art festival at lume studios (tribeca) features six floors of immersive experiences from artists and curators, educational panel discussions with leaders in the digital art space, as well as live performances. $21 with promo code ‘subjective’ (reg. $30). >>

thru sun: bushwick open studios: more than 60 artists working in a wide range of mediums open their creative spaces to the public. $10-15 admission for the opening party friday, free admission to the open studios sat + sun. >>

fri 5-9pm: the intrepid’s free friday with astro live: astronomy night: go to the moon and beyond at the intrepid sea, air + space museum’s free astronomy night, where you can hear a talk from former nasa astronaut and author tom jones (space shuttle stories: firsthand astronaut accounts from all 135 missions) and former astronauts mike massimino and sidney m. gutierrez, ponder the cosmos with telescope viewing on the flightdeck, and participate in family-friendly programming. >>

fri 6pm: no swimsuit required: public art fund launches no swimsuit required, a series of films, performances, and sound installations in empty nyc public pools during their off-season. tonight’s event features experimental films that explore bodies of water, accompanied by a live performance by sound artist maria chávez at hamilton fish pool–an olympic-sized pool and architectural landmark on the lower east side. free admission. >>

fri 6pm (series finale): stand-up comedy at new-york historical society: comedian, tour guide, and nyc history nerd tom delgado hosts an early-bird hour of comedy with a gotham spin at the new-york historical society museum + library (uws). tonight: caitlin peluffo (colbert), anthony moore (netflix), and peter revello (comedy central). free with museum admission (pay-as-you-wish hours tonight are 5-8pm). >>

fri 7pm: the harlem chamber players: season opening concert: ‘iconic classics’: the harlem chamber players open the season with a program that features works by brahms, mahler, pärt, and prokofiev at broadway presbyterian church (morningside heights). $20 general, $15 students/seniors. >>

fri 7-10pm (fridays thru 10/25): dreamland roller disco: lola star’s themed skate parties continue at prospect park’s lefrak center for the fall season. tonight’s theme: beyoncé. $25 admission includes skate rental. >>

fri 7:30pm: laugh it off – a comedy show in a dog cafe: bring your problems and your pups to the laugh it off variety show, where audience members submit their everyday problems and comedians try their best to ‘fix’ them. drinks and food will be available for purchase. boris and horton (east village), $12.95. >>

fri 7:30pm (monthly): gay shame: sheria mattis and ely kreimendahl head this queer comedy show, where they wrestle shamefully gay anecdotes from a lineup of comics, the crowd, and each other. featuring zach zimmerman, dorian debose, sureni weerasekera, and carson olshansky. union hall (park slope), $10 adv, $15 door. >>

fri 8pm: nosferatu with radiohead: a silents synced film: austin’s blue starlite mini urban drive-in owner josh frank brings his ‘silents synced’ series to nyc. combining classic silent cinema with rock albums, tonight’s screening pairs f.w. murnau’s nosferatu (1922) with radiohead’s kid a (2000) and amnesiac (2001). frank will be in-person for an intro and q+a. cinéma village (greenwich village), $12 general, $8 seniors/students. >>

fri 8:30pm: bitches brew comedy show: see what all the brew-ha-ha is about at this women-produced and-hosted comedy show, returning to the back room at halyards (gowanus) with stand-up by dan davies, caitlin mcdevitt, haley drescher, gastor almonte, and adam hmada. free admission (a tip jar will be passed around at the end of the show). >>

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saturday

sat thru 12/28 (saturdays at 10:15am): taproom yoga at talea beer co.: spirit meets spiritual at female-founded taproom and brewery talea beer co., where you can take a 60-minute yoga class and enjoy a post-class beverage as you wind down. williamsburg and cobble hill locations. $20 admission includes $5 off a drink (non-alcoholic options are also available).

sat + sun (11am-2:30pm sat, 12-3:30pm sun): free bike helmets: the department of transportation continues its bike helmet distribution program this weekend, with opportunities to get a personally fitted one at st. catherine’s park in lenox hill (sat) and east 115th street in east harlem (sun). while supplies last. >>

sat thru 10/13 (weekends 12-5pm): 4heads art fair: portal rockaway: for three weekends at rockaway artist alliance studio 7 gallery in fort tilden, 34 artists make a splash with contemporary painting, drawing, installation, indoor and outdoor sculpture, and performance. opening reception 9/28. free admission. >>

sat 3pm-midnight: new york modular society fifth anniversary and expo: the new york modular society, a collective dedicated to sharing love and knowledge about modular synthesizers, celebrates its fifth b-day at culture lab lic with 30 artists performing across three stages and a mini vendor expo with 10 synth and plugin makers. free-$10. >>

sat 5pm: an hour of your life with savannah desormeaux + rebecca weiser: ‘proudly brunette’ comedians savannah desormeaux (adult swim, betches and rebecca weiser (vulture, reductress) co-headline an early evening of stand up at union hall (park slope). $10 adv, $15 door. >>

sat 7pm: drunk planet earth: mst3k meets animal planet meets drinking game at brian morabito and stephen buckley’s participatory drunk planet earth show. the show revolves around watching animal planet iii, drinking, and the audience trying to stump the hosts with animal trivia. new location: caveat (les), free admission. >>

sat 7:30pm: kimberly dinaro: raccoon of the opera: join standup and musical comedian kimberly dinaro (fallon, reductress) as she and her friends perform a night of weird songs, jokes, and stories. also featuring rachel green (hbo) and mark benjamin (netflix). sid gold’s request room (chelsea), $5. >>

sat 7:30pm (monthly): the odd rock comedy hour: comedy musician rob paravonian, known for his viral ‘pachelbel rant’ and other videos, hosts a music and comedy variety show with performances by aly g, chloe schneider, and others at q.e.d. (astoria). $10. >>

sat 8pm: string orchestra of brooklyn (sob): founding sob conductor eli spindel leads the orchestra and guest pianist marika bournaki through works by schumann and brahms. st. ann and the holy trinity church (brooklyn heights), $15 general, $10 seniors/students in advance, $20 day-of. >>

sat 8pm doors: my kinda night! a queer variety show: billie bullock hosts an evening filled with drag, music, comedy, and more at dromedary: coming out (bushwick). featuring: miss bussy, majesty jekyll, aj thompson, sunny laprade, and jay jayy. bonus: free misguided spirits shot before 9pm. free admission (bring $ to tip the performers). >>

sunday

sun: 12-6pm: artmageddon art + music festival: 200 brooklyn-based artists, musicians, and bands take over more than 50 lawns, homes, and storefronts in historic victorian flatbush, brooklyn for the semi-annual artmageddon art + music festival. free admission (donations welcome). >>

sun 5pm (monthly): good god comedy show: audience members can anonymously share their craziest, cringiest secrets for the hosts to read aloud at this stand-up comedy variety show hosted by caitlin cook, brittany carney, naomi karavani, and shane torres. tonight’s lineup: judah friedlander, jes tom, caitlin peluffo, nick hopping, nico carney, and dan rosen. union hall (park slope), $10 adv, $15 door. >>

sun 9pm (+ tues): sweet comedy show: sweet 20: seth herzog’s long-running live comedy/variety show celebrates its 20th anniversary with two nights of sweet at chelsea music hall. special guest appearances include richard kind (only murders in the building), alex moffat (the bear), adam pally (happy endings), mark normand (inside amy schumer), janeane garofalo (wet hot american summer), todd barry (netflix), dave hill (netflix), and ray angry (the roots). $16.38 with promo code ’20years’ (reg. $19.38). >>

monday

thru 10/13: 2-for-1 off-broadway tickets: get twice the thrills for half the bill during nyc off-broadway week. this seasonal promotion offers 2-for-1 ticket deals to 30 shows, including bad kreyol, big gay jamboree, the counter, sump’n like wings, vladimir, and more. >>

mon 10am: movies at the united palace with lin-manuel miranda and gael garcía bernal: tickets become available this morning: the movies at the united palace (washington heights) series continues its 2024 season with a screening of cassandro, followed by a discussion with lin-manuel miranda and star gael garcía bernal. free tickets to the 10/10 event will be released starting at 10am this morning. >>

mon 7:30pm: free outdoor movie (weather permitting): school of rock at the rooftop at pier 17 (seaport) >>

mon 7pm: gaga: portrait of a lady: comedian, musician, and drag artist eliza kingsbury performs a solo musical sketch comedy show as lady gaga, featuring original songs and choreography at ucb (east village). tonight’s show is paired with improv team go dummy (2 shows for the price of one). $10 adv, $15 day of. >>

mon 7pm doors (+ 10/14): vale cinema series: the william vale hotel’s 23rd floor bar, the turf club, continues its summer screening series (‘the only rooftop cinema experience in brooklyn that features the iconic manhattan skyline’) with bring it on (2000). drinks and snacks will be available for purchase. $20-28. >>

ongoing

our roundup of 50+ ongoing events and attractions: oktoberfest celebrations, outdoor activities, and more. >>

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– the skint