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Friday Sep. 26, 2025

6 – 9 pm

Starlight Cinema: Free Movies in Van Cortlandt Park

Ages: 3 and up
Family
Film
Free

Parade Ground in Van Cortlandt ParkBronx

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6 – 8 pm

Free Movie Nights at Hudson Yards – 80’s Throwback with FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF

Ages: All
Family
Free

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6 – 8 pm

Free Movie Nights at Hudson Yards

Ages: All
Family
Film
Free

Backyard at Hudson Yards, Public Square & Gardens

6 – 7:30 pm

The BCCO Gets WICKED! at the Old Stone House

Ages: All
Art
Family
Free

JJ Byrne Playground @ Old Stone House & Washington ParkBrooklyn

6:15 pm

Movies in the Park: E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial

Ages: All
Community
Family
Film

Conference House ParkStaten Island

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6:30 – 11 pm

Illumination NYC: Light Festival

Ages: All
Art
Dance
Family

Wagner ParkBattery Park City

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6:30 – 11 pm

Illumination Light Art Festival

Ages: 5 and up
Art
Attractions
Family

Wagner ParkBattery Park City

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7 – 9 pm

Oculus Outdoors

Film
Free

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade CenterFinancial District

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7:30 – 9:30 pm

Ocean Beach Chamber of Commerce Summer Movie Series

Free

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7:30 – 10 pm

“She Ate” The Ultimate Drag Dinner Show at Branded Saloon

Art
Comedy

Branded SaloonBrooklyn

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8 – 10 pm

Sunset Jazz at Culture Lab LIC – Every Friday, August-October, 2025

Free

Culture Lab LICLong Island City, New York

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10:30 pm

Sinatra Under The Stars

Somewhere Nowhere NYCManhattan

Saturday Sep. 27

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All day

LIVE in THE LOT at Culture Lab LIC – August-September, 2025

Free
Music

Culture Lab LICLong Island City, New York

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2 am – 3 pm

Public Gallery Tour

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7 am – 7 pm

Ryder Cup Live at Rockefeller Center

Free
Sports

Rockefeller Center Plaza

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8 am – 3 pm

Maria Hernandez Farmers Market

Maria Hernandez ParkBrooklyn

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8 am – 5 pm

Gagosian presents Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ first solo exhibition in the United States: Peace Core

Free

GagosianPark Avenue

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8 am – 2 pm

A Walk on Water (AWOW) Surf Therapy Day in Rockaway Beach

Rockaway BeachQueens

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9 am – 5 pm

Adapt/Evolve

Art
Free

FIT Art and Design Gallery

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9:30 – 11:30 am

City Harvest: Mobile Market (Sunset Park)

Brooklyn

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10 am – 11 pm

New York City Congenital Heart Walk

Flushing Meadows Corona ParkFlushing

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10 am – 5 pm

Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Art
Free

The Museum at FITChelsea

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10 am – noon

Book Event— Michael Kenna: “Japan / A Love Story”

International Center of PhotographyLower East Side

10 am – 6 pm

Woodside Fall Festival 2025

Woodside Memorial ParkWoodside

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10 am – noon

Daffodil Bulbs Giveaway

RISE, 58-03 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Far Rockaway, NY 11692Far Rockaway

KIDS-harvestfest-2025

10:30 am – 8 pm

6/15 Green Fall Festival

Free
Music

615 GreenBrooklyn

FAD Market Empire Stores

11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Fall Pop-up [Dumbo]

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11 am – 6 pm

Rachel Siporin: Bathers

Art
Free

Bowery GalleryChelsea

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11 am – 1 pm

ICP Photobook Club: Miwa Susuda on “Editions of Intimacy”

International Center of Photography (ICP)Lower East Side

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11 am – 3 pm

FREE NYC Emergency Management Family Preparedness Day

Ages: 5 and up
Family
Free

Staten Island Children’s MuseumStaten Island

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11 – 11:45 am

Celebrate the Equinox with Sisa Pakari

Ages: All
Attractions
Family
Free

National Museum of the American Indian New York

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