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Tuesday Sep. 23, 2025

3:30 – 4:15 pm

Dance and Learn Spanish

Leonard LibraryBrooklyn

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5 – 6:30 pm

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5 – 6:30 pm

Tip Off Basketball Season with Optimum

Ages: All
Community
Family
Free

Cross Bronx Optimum StoreBronx

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6 – 7:30 pm

Step Into Dance: Ballroom Workshop Series at the Sheepshead Bay Library

Dance
Free

Brooklyn Public Library Sheepshead BayBrooklyn

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6 – 7 pm

Pamela Z performance at the Public Art Fund installation “Torkwase Dyson Akua” in Brooklyn Bridge Park

Art
Free

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6:30 – 7:30 pm

Emmelie Prophète Discusses Cécé

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7 – 8 pm

We Love a Theme: A Storytelling Show

Pete’s Candy StoreBrooklyn

Adam Gabel at WSCC 2

8 – 9:30 pm

Not Ripe Bananas

Comedy
Free

West Side Comedy ClubUpper West Side

8 – 10 pm

The Overthinking Hour Comedy Show

HalyardsBrooklyn

Wednesday Sep. 24

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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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9 am – 5 pm

Adapt/Evolve

Art
Free

FIT Art and Design Gallery

10 – 11 am

Le Carrousel Extravaganza

Ages: All
Family
Free

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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Noon – 6 pm

Homage: Queer lineages on video

Art
Free

Wallach Art GalleryManhattanville

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Noon – 8 pm

Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Art
Free

The Museum at FITChelsea

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Noon – 5 pm

L’Alliance New York Announces North American Premiere of Les tutomouves 2025 Crossing The Line Festival

L’Alliance New York

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Noon – 6 pm

Heather Stivison – Ebb & Flow: The Many Faces of Water

Art
Free

Pleiades GalleryChelsea

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1 – 3 pm

EmblemHealth Neighborhood Care Food Distribution Jackson Heights

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3 pm

Double Dutch Dreamz: Wednesday Wonders

Ages: All
Family
Free
Games

Abolitionist PlaceBrooklyn

3 – 5 pm

Pickleball Open Class

Ages: All
Classes
Family
Free

Gantry Plaza State Park – Handball CourtsLong Island City

4 pm

Hispanic Heritage Month – Card Games

Ages: 13 and up
Craft & DIY
Family
Free

Bronx Library CenterFordham Manor

Manhattan West

5 – 7:30 pm

Works & Process Announces 2025 Performances at Manhattan West

Manhattan West Plaza

5:15 – 6:45 pm

SSE: Youth Soccer Stars

Ages: 5 and up
Classes
Family
Free

Williamsbridge Oval Recreation CenterBronx

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5:30 – 7 pm

Opera Italiana is in the Air

Ages: All
Community
Family
Free

Central Park – Naumburg BandshellCentral Park

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6 – 10 pm

1996 Classic Pool Tournament

Parkside LoungeLower East Side

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7 – 9:30 pm

Evening Showcase: Photography, Jazz & Solidarity

Fridman Gallery

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7 – 9 pm

10th Anniversary of Latina Equal Pay Campaign at Milly’s

Milly’sBrooklyn

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9 – 11:30 pm

Follow the Yellow Brick Rave 🌪 DJ Sunshine’s in NYC

Free
Music

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Thursday Sep. 25

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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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