New York City is a multicultural hub with dozens of museums, hundreds of parks and millions of people. The number of potential things to see and do can feel overwhelming, but NY1 has you covered with some of the highlights taking place this weekend across the five boroughs.
Tunnel to Towers 5K
Sunday, Sept. 27 at 9:30 a.m.
Red Hook, Brooklyn to West and Murray streets, Manhattan
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Watch as participants follow the footsteps of firefighter Stephen Siller on a 5K run from Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan to honor the first responders of Sept. 11.
Siller made the trek in full FDNY gear 25 years ago. The Tunnel to Towers nonprofit, started by Siller’s brother, aims to help the families of first responders and veterans.
Brooklyn Book Festival
Children’s Day on Saturday, Sept. 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Brooklyn Borough Hall
Festival Day on Sunday, Sept. 27 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Brooklyn Borough Hall and surrounding venues
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New York City’s largest free literary festival, according to organizers, continues this weekend with original programming and events.
The annual Children’s Day includes readings, workshops, performances, book signings and art projects with dozens of children’s authors. Then on Sunday, the Festival Day and Literary Marketplace features dozens of authors hosting their own workshops, panels, signings and other events.
CBGB Festival
Saturday, Sept. 26 starting at 2 p.m.
Under The K Bridge Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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More than 15 bands will play across two stages throughout the day Saturday in a festival that bridges “punk’s origins to its future torchbearers” in a celebration of New York City’s “sticker-covered past.”
Icons like Patti Smith and Bikini Kill will be there, as well as up-and-coming acts like Bad Nerves and High Vis. The venue itself was chosen for the “gritty industrial nature of the site,” and will have plenty of local food and beverage options, plus relics from the original CBGB venue once in the East Village.
Atlantic Antic Festival
Sunday, Sept. 27 from noon to 6 p.m.
Atlantic Avenue from Hicks Street to Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn
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The annual Brooklyn institution returns in a free, rain-or-shine event featuring live music and performances, food, shopping and kid-friendly activities.
More than 80 food vendors and 130 local food merchants will set up shop, plus three dedicated family areas will host pony rides, bounce houses and face painting.
Poseidon Parade
Sunday, Sept. 26 at 1 p.m.
Rockaway Beach Boardwalk, Queens
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Ocean-themed marchers will make their way from Beach 106th Street to Beach 95th Street on the Rockaway Beach Boardwalk as they pass the judges’ table hoping to win one of several categories in the sea creature strut.
Free to spectate and $5 to march, there will also be a DJ and kid-friendly activities on offer.
The Feast of San Gennaro
Open through Sunday, Sept. 27
Little Italy, Manhattan
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The Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy closes after this weekend following 11 days of food, tradition and celebration.
The annual feast, which marks its 100th year, pays tribute to San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, Italy. Visitors can enjoy Italian favorites including sausage and peppers, pizza, meatballs, pastries, cannoli and freshly fried zeppole while exploring the many vendors and activities throughout the neighborhood.
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Queens Night Market
Saturdays from 4 p.m. to midnight through Halloween
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
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The Queens Night Market is back from hiatus this weekend, and Saturday marks the first opportunity since August to check out the price-capped local fare.
The market is a family-friendly, open-air event that features 100 independent vendors selling merchandise, art and food. There are also performances that organizers say, along with the vendors, celebrate “the rich cultural diversity and heritage of NYC and Queens.”
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Snoopy in Style NYC
Open daily though Sept. 26
25 Little West 12th St., Manhattan
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The Charles M. Schulz Museum, named for the famed creator of “Peanuts,” has curated what it says is a collection of “one-of-a-kind Snoopy and Woodstock plush dolls dressed in custom designer creations.”
The installations seek to celebrate the iconic characters through the lens of fashion, and also feature rare archival pieces that highlight Schulz’ legacy and impact on pop culture, fashion, sports and music.
Movies Under the Stars
Events through September
Across the city
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NYC Parks’ Movies Under the Stars runs through the end of the month, with family-friendly film screenings across the five boroughs.
Bring your own blanket, chairs and snacks and find a free event near you here.
Join us for a free flick near you! Bring your blankets to cozy up to one of our Movies Under the Stars across the five boroughs all summer long! pic.twitter.com/pkBmRu4COJ
— NYC Parks (@NYCParks) May 28, 2026
Smorgasburg
Thursdays and Fridays: World Trade Center
Saturdays: Marsha P. Johnson State Park, Williamsburg
Sundays: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
World Trade Center location open through September
Brooklyn locations open through October
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Organizers say the city’s annual warm weather food frenzy features one of their biggest lineups yet.
More than 70 vendors offering global bites, longtime favorites and experimental new concepts set up in Manhattan every Thursday and Friday, and then in Brooklyn every weekend.
If you can’t make it out to one of their sites, you can still enjoy dining al fresco at a restaurant near you thourgh the city’s roadway dining program.
Luna Park
Open for the season
Coney Island, Brooklyn
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Luna Park in Coney Island is still open for the season, with its full lineup of rides, treats and “high-flying excitement.”
Visitors can ride the iconic Cyclone roller coaster, play arcade games, get food or shop around.
‘Flower Power’ at NYBG
Open through Oct. 18
New York Botanical Garden, the Bronx
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This exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden celebrates flowers as a cultural symbol of peace and love.
In addition to flowers, visitors can expect to see all things related to the “flower power” movement — like art and fashion from the ’60s, including works from Andy Warhol and Milton Glaser. There are also painted Volkswagen vans, giant peace signs and large hand-painted fabric canopies.
Plenty of activities are scattered throughout the exhibit, including friendship bracelet-making and ticketed liquid light shows with live bands.
Flower Power is a new exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, opening May 23. (Spectrum News NY1)
‘Uptown Visions’
Open through Nov. 1
Hispanic Society Museum & Library, Manhattan
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This year’s selection for the Hispanic Society Museum & Library’s “Art on Audubon Terrace” exhibit, “Uptown Visions” by Harlem-based painter Tom Sanford is meant to capture the “joy, rhythm, and layered experience of Uptown summer life.”
Featuring scenes of basketball, cart vendors and communal energy, the work was inspired by Joaquín Sorolla’s mural series, “Vision of Spain,” which depicted the people and customs of the country.
‘In Their Honor’ Exhibit
Now open
9/11 Memorial & Museum, Manhattan
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To mark 25 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, a new exhibition on view until January 2030 at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum examines “the enduring impact of the countless acts of service that followed.”
The museum’s mission is to highlight the “individuals and communities [that] transformed grief into action,” and show that, a quarter-century later, the legacy of 9/11 that endures is the acts of compassion and service it inspired.
Courtyard Commission: Precious Okoyomon
Now open
MoMA PS1, Queens
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The courtyard at MoMA PS1 has been transformed into a “living forest of plants, interactive sculpture, and sound” by artist and poet Precious Okoyomon.
The museum says “Among the Flowers I Learned to Love: A Garden of Decreation” is Okoyomon’s largest outdoor installation to date. Visitors will see a world of grasses, flowers, weeds, sedges, pollinators and vines — plus a giant teddy bear they can climb through.
MoMI LAB
Now open
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens
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Queens’ Museum of the Moving Image has opened a free new space for people to check out newly emerging technology.
The MoMI LAB is located in the museum’s lower level, and welcomes the public to “discover, create, and reflect in this space where people from varied backgrounds can interact with new technologies and each other.”
‘For the Win’
Now open
American Museum of Natural History
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An exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History celebrates “the objects that define athletic greatness.”
There are more than 70 items covering over 150 years of sports history, including gold medals, trophies and championship rings.
New Museum
Open Tuesday to Sunday
235 Bowery, Manhattan
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The New Museum in Manhattan reopened earlier this year following a 60,000-square-foot expansion. The new space features twice the gallery size, new elevators, new venues, an entrance plaza and an atrium staircase, among other additions.
Alongside several new commissions, “New Humans: Memories of the Future” will be the inaugural exhibition. The museum says it showcases “works by more than 200 artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers to explore how dramatic technological and societal changes have spurred new conceptions of what it means to be ‘human.’”