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.
Knicks Watch Parties
Saturday, June 13 at 8:30 p.m.
Manhattan venues and Brooklyn Bowl
Free and ticketed
The Knicks are one game away from their first championship in more than 50 years. While the potentially final game is in San Antonio, Texas, New Yorkers are sure to flood bars, streets and other venues across the five boroughs.
Brooklyn Bowl is hosting a free watch party (with advanced registration required), while Rockefeller Center and Manhattan Center are holding ticketed events. You can also check out the Knicks Official Playoff Bar Network to see which Manhattan watering holes are screening the game.
(AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
World Cup Festivities
June 11 through July 19
Across the city
More information here
The World Cup has begun, and events are underway across the city. In addition to a dedicated “Fan Zone” in each borough — with screenings, music, games, food and more — there will be more than 100 free watch parties throughout the five boroughs during the tournament.
For a full schedule, check here.
Spectators watch the opening match of the World Cup at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Puerto Rican Day Parade
Sunday, June 14, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
More information here
Si te quieres divertir, con encanto y con primor, make your way to Fifth Avenue to celebrate Nueva York’s annual Puerto Rican Day Parade.
The biggest celebration of Puerto Rican pride outside the island itself, organizers say, will march from 44th to 79th streets, all in honor of this year’s theme: “Somos Más Que 100×35.”
The phrase, used by Bad Bunny in his Grammy’s acceptance speech, is an “enduring declaration of pride that affirms the island’s influence far beyond its geographic size.”
(AP Photo)
SummerStage
Shows through Oct. 1
Across the city
More information here
More than 60 shows — most of them free — will take place at 12 locations across the five boroughs this summer as the city’s annual SummerStage program returns for its 40th year.
Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield hosts many of the shows, including benefit concerts that support the City Parks Foundation.
Movies Under the Stars
Events throughout summer
Across the city
More information here
Movies Under the Stars is back at NYC Parks. The city agency is putting on more than 150 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
Head to the Beach
Open for the summer
Across the city
More information here
Beaches across the city will stay open through the weekend after Labor Day.
Lifeguards will be on duty every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Swimming is prohibited during their off-hours.
Mark your calendars: NYC beaches officially open for the season on May 23. Get ready for boardwalk walks, post-swim snacks, ocean breezes, and long summer days by the water! pic.twitter.com/VI7ZXboNL8
— NYC Parks (@NYCParks) May 12, 2026
Queens Night Market
Saturdays from 4 p.m. to midnight through Aug. 22
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
More information here
The Queens Night Market has returned for its 11th season.
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.”
(Spectrum News NY1)
Smorgasburg
Open for the season
Thursdays and Fridays: World Trade Center
Saturdays: Marsha P. Johnson State Park, Williamsburg
Sundays: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
More information here
The city’s annual warm weather food frenzy is back, and organizers say it features one of their biggest lineups yet.
More than 70 vendors offering global bites, longtime favorites and experimental new concepts will set up in Manhattan every Thursday and Friday — and then in Brooklyn every weekend — through October.
If you can’t make it out to one of their sites, you can still enjoy dining al fresco at a restaurant near you, as the city’s roadway dining program has officially returned for the season.
Luna Park
Open for the season
Coney Island, Brooklyn
More information here
Luna Park in Coney Island is 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.
‘The Promise of Liberty: Words That Shaped a Nation’
Now open
South Street Seaport Museum, Manhattan
More information here
A free exhibit at the South Street Seaport Museum celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States by putting on display some of the most important documents in American history.
There’s an official edition of the U.S. Constitution printed on Sept. 17, 1787, the Emancipation Proclamation, an advanced copy of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech from the 1963 March on Washington — without the “I Have a Dream” passage, which he ad-libbed — and items from the women’s suffrage movement, among others.
💫Now open: “The Promise of Liberty: Words That Shaped a Nation!”
This timely exhibition explores how speeches, publications, and personal narratives shaped the ongoing struggle for liberty, equality, and democracy in the US.
Plan your visit today! https://t.co/I5hxfhYOTa pic.twitter.com/RseMW9sItu
— Seaport Museum (@SeaportMuseum) May 27, 2026
‘Greater New York’
Open through Aug. 17
MoMA PS1, Queens
More information here
MoMA PS1 calls its annual “Greater New York” exhibit a “signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area.”
This year’s sixth edition spans all levels of the museum’s school building and features the work of more than 50 multidisciplinary artists.
Whitney Biennial 2026
Open through Aug. 23
Whitney Museum, Manhattan
More information here
The Whitney Museum says its biennial exhibit is the “the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States.”
The 82nd edition features the work of 56 artists and reflects the current moment by examining “interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports.”
‘Flower Power’ at NYBG
Open through Oct. 18
New York Botanical Garden, the Bronx
More information here
This recently-opened exhibit at 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)
‘For the Win’
Now open
American Museum of Natural History
More information here
A new 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
More information here
The New Museum in Manhattan has reopened 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.’”