This Week NYC In Focus is tracking 1498 public events across New York City, from City-permitted parades and street fairs to concerts, museum programs and neighborhood happenings. Here are 70 picks across all five boroughs, with times and places. Details come from official NYC permits, organizers’ own calendars and ticket listings, and can change, so check with the organizer before you go.
Standouts
- Mon 10:00 AM · Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Native Plant and Bird Tour · Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main Street
- Mon 10:00 AM · North Brooklyn Development Corp Pop Up Fair · Bedford Avenue between Metropolitan Avenue and North 12 Street
- Tue 10:00 AM · Hart Island Tour (North Island)
- Tue 6:00 PM · Arm's Length & Holding Absence: North American Co-Headliner Tour 2026 · Irving Plaza Powered By Verizon 5G
- Thu 9:30 AM · Dodge Poetry Festival Single Day – Thursday · New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark
- Thu 2:00 PM · Public Gallery Tour · Wave Hill
- Sat 10:30 AM · Accessible Birding Tour with Verbal Description · Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 990 Washington Avenue
- Sat 11:00 AM · Harvest Festival · Pier 6, Brooklyn Bridge Park
Manhattan
- Mon 9:00 AM · New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery · Arsenal in Central Park
- Mon 10:00 AM · COLUMBUS DAY FESTIVAL · Broadway between Liberty Street and Battery Place
- Mon 11:15 AM · Columbus Day Parade · East 43 Street between Madison Avenue and 5 Avenue Manhattan
- Mon 5:00 PM · Uptown For Palestine: Ceasefire Now Vigil – WEEKLY Mondays · 720 West 181st St., Manhattan
- Mon 7:00 PM · De'Wayne, Phoenix James · Night Club 101 · Get tickets
- Mon 7:30 PM · Preseason: New York Knicks v Minnesota Timberwolves · Madison Square Garden
- Tue 8:00 AM · Ft Washington Greenmarket Tuesday · Ft Washington Avenue between West 168 Street and West 169 Street
- Tue 10:15 AM · Storytime at The Met—Drip! Drop! Splash! · The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 Fifth Avenue
- Tue 6:00 PM · Arm's Length & Holding Absence: North American Co-Headliner Tour 2026 · Irving Plaza Powered By Verizon 5G
- Thu 1:00 PM · Functional Yoga · The Interchurch Center
- Sat 12:00 PM · 36th Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade · East 13 Street between Avenue A and Avenue B
- Sat 7:00 PM · Coming Home: Tibetan Singer Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert · La MaMa Experimental Theatre 66 EAST 4TH STREET NEW YORK, 10003
Brooklyn
- Mon 8:00 AM · Rain or Shine Diaper Distro – WEEKLY Mondays · The Living Gallery (Bushwick / Bed-Stuy)
- Mon 10:00 AM · North Brooklyn Development Corp Pop Up Fair · Bedford Avenue between Metropolitan Avenue and North 12 Street
- Mon 6:00 PM · Palestine: Fiber Friends of Falastin! [Interference Archive] · Park Slope
- Mon 7:30 PM · The Bechdel Cast 10 Year Anniversary Tour · The Bell House, Brooklyn
- Mon 8:00 PM · Brand New: 7 YEARS + 13 OF THE DEVIL AND GOD ARE RAGING INSIDE ME IN CONCERT · Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Avenue
- Mon 8:00 PM · Vibration Bowl: Soundbath with Charlotte & Kirk Douglas · Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn · Get tickets
- Tue 10:00 AM · Kids In Motion: Nostrand Playground
- Tue 4:00 PM · 🇵🇸 Sunset Park Ceasefire Vigil – WEEKLY Tuesdays & Saturdays · NE corner of 44th St. and 5th Avenue, across from Key Food in Sunset Park
- Tue 6:00 PM · Built To Move Circuit Training · Brooklyn Public Library – Flatbush
- Tue 8:00 PM · Tokyo Tea Room – Feel Forever Tour · Music Hall of Williamsburg
- Wed 8:00 AM · HHFM Kings County Hospital Market · Clarkson Avenue between East 37 Street and East 38 Street
- Thu 9:15 PM · There's Something Here · Brooklyn Improv (The Lab), Brooklyn · Get tickets
- Sat 10:00 AM · BMS COMMUNITY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BRIDES WALK · Mother Gaston Boulevard between Pitkin Avenue and Livonia Avenue
- Sat 10:30 AM · Accessible Birding Tour with Verbal Description · Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 990 Washington Avenue
- Sat 11:00 AM · Harvest Festival · Pier 6, Brooklyn Bridge Park
- Sat 7:00 PM · My Hero Academia in Concert · Kings Theatre, Brooklyn
- Sun 7:00 PM · Abandonarium Chapbook Launch Party · Sea Witch Tavern 703 5th Ave, South Slope
Queens
- Mon 10:00 AM · Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Native Plant and Bird Tour · Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main Street
- Mon 10:30 AM · Senior Cardio Sculpt · Sunnyside Community Services
- Mon 11:30 AM · CANCELED: Gentle Yoga · Queens Public Library – Bayside
- Mon 12:00 PM · Rockaway Fall Festival · Beach 17 Playground (O'Donohue Park): Beach 17th Street Performance Space
- Mon 8:30 PM · Our Lady of Fatima Procession · 10612 Liverpool Street
- Tue 8:00 AM · Elmhurst Greenmarket Tuesday · 41 Avenue between 80 Street and 81 Street
- Tue 10:00 AM · HPD in Your District Council District 20 · 136-21 Latimer Place, Suite 1D
- Tue 7:00 PM · Reading! · Sculpture Center 44-19 Purves St Long Island City
- Wed 6:00 PM · St. John's Red Storm Men's Basketball v. Drexel (Exhibition) · Carnesecca Arena, Queens
- Thu 6:00 PM · Gentle Yoga · Queens Public Library – Bayside
- Sun 12:00 PM · Queens Botanical Garden Harvest Fest · Main Street between Dahlia Avenue and Peck Avenue
- Sun 12:00 PM · Flower parade · 69 Street between 37 Avenue and 34 Avenue
Bronx
- Mon 11:00 AM · NYJTL Fall Festival · Crotona Park
- Mon 2:00 PM · The Three Sisters: From Garden to Bowl · Wave Hill, 4900 Independence Avenue
- Tue 8:00 AM · Poe Park Greenmarket Tuesday · East 192 Street between Grand Concourse and Valentine Avenue
- Tue 10:00 AM · Hart Island Tour (North Island)
- Tue 10:30 AM · S. 10/13, RALLY TO STOP MAMDANI ANTI PROTEST TROOPS · Office of Council Member Oswald Feliz @ 573 E Fordham Rd, Bronx
- Wed 4:00 PM · Arts, Culture & Fun: BE BOLD – Ballet Programming · Multi-Use Room (in Williamsbridge Oval)
- Thu 9:00 AM · Trail Work Thursdays · VCPA Learning Garden (in Van Cortlandt Park)
- Sat 8:30 AM · Bronx Witness for Life · 448 College Avenue
- Sat 8:00 PM · Milly Quezada y Miriam Cruz · Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, Bronx
- Sun 8:30 AM · Riverdale Temple Fall of Love 5K-10K Run\/Walk · Independence Avenue between West 246 Street and West 239 Street Bronx
Staten Island
- Mon 11:00 AM · Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden · H.H. Biddle House in Conference House Park
- Tue 7:00 PM · Letter Writing to Political Prisoners at Ridgewood Commons · 5-85 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood
- Thu 7:00 PM · Basic Bootcamp · Greenbelt Recreation Center (in Blood Root Valley)
- Sat 12:00 PM · Rice Ave Block Party 2026 · Rice Avenue between Slosson Avenue and Fairview Avenue
- Sat 2:00 PM · Archtober Tour · Alice Austen House, 2 Hylan Boulevard
- Sat 2:00 PM · Word Art Workshop and Artist Talk with Roemello Agjmurati · Staten Island Museum
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