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The Queens Night Market has returned for its 11th season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
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Bird Bonanza<\/p>\n
Saturday, May 9 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Randall’s Island Park Alliance invites New Yorkers to come discover local birds and those migrating through for spring at their Bird Bonanza event on Saturday.<\/p>\n Organizers say there will be crafts, games, educational activities and a guided tour of the different park landscapes where birds of all kinds make their home.<\/p>\n This Saturday, 5\/9, join us for our Bird Bonanza on the Urban Farm from 10 AM – 1 PM! \ud83d\udc26\ud83e\udd86\ud83e\udd85<\/p>\n Enjoy a bird tour around the island, a presentation (featuring live birds!), and Storytime Stretches. Registration recommended for the bird tour.<\/p>\n Details: https:\/\/t.co\/UeQ8xI0nnn<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/UgOttELeyZ<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Randalls Island Park (@randallsisland) May 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Free Whitney Museum Admission<\/p>\n Sunday, May 10 The Whitney Museum will be free to enter from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday as part of their Free Second Sundays program.\u00a0<\/p>\n The museum will offer tours, storytime and other activities throughout the day. Check out the full list of events here.<\/a><\/p>\n Though free, tickets are still required<\/a> for entry and advance booking is strongly recommended.<\/p>\n Open Stages<\/p>\n Saturday, May 9 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music hosts its sixth-annual Open Stages free music festival on Saturday. There will be more than 200 musicians performing across 17 stages throughout Park Slope \u2014 including stoops, sidewalks, playgrounds and caf\u00e9s.<\/p>\n Organizers say Open Stages is a family-friendly event, and includes kid’s activities like a singalong, puppets and a “Tot’s Turf” stage. Open Stages showcases dozens of genres and will include a stage\u00a0dedicated to Latin American dance music.<\/p>\n Smorgasburg<\/p>\n Open for the season The city’s annual warm weather food frenzy is back, and organizers say it features one of their biggest lineups yet.<\/p>\n More than 70 vendors offering global bites, longtime favorites and experimental new concepts will set up in Manhattan every Thursday and Friday \u2014 and then in Brooklyn every weekend \u2014 through October.<\/p>\n 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<\/a> has officially returned for the season.<\/p>\n Outwit, Outplay, Outlast:\u00a0Celebrating 50 Seasons of ‘Survivor’<\/p>\n Open through May 31 The Paley Center for Media is marking the 50th season of “Survivor” with an exhibit celebrating the reality juggernaut’s history.<\/p>\n Fans can check out props from the show like torches and hidden immunity idols, take a seat at Tribal Council, view rare behind-the-scenes photos and see a timeline of the show’s most iconic moments.<\/p>\n ’45 Years of Pac-Man’<\/p>\n Open through May 31 Also at the Paley Center for Media is a celebration of 45 years of Pac-Man, including two floors of memorabilia related to the iconic arcade character.<\/p>\n Visitors will see items dating back to his creation in Japan in 1980, including Pac-Man lunchboxes, mini-games and Pac-Man-inspired products like Oreos, Krispy Kreme donuts and ramen noodles. There will also be plenty of opportunities to play the game itself, according to the Paley Center.<\/p>\n Stories and Set Designs for ‘The Sopranos’<\/p>\n Open through May 31 A new exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria draws from the personal archive of David Chase \u2014 showrunner for “The Sopranos” \u2014 to present “scripts, notes, and research material that document the development” of the series as it moved from a pilot into the first season.<\/p>\n The exhibit also showcases how four of the series’ main settings \u2014 Dr. Melfi\u2019s office, the Soprano home, the Bada Bing\u00a0strip club, and\u00a0Satriale\u2019s\u00a0Pork Store \u2014 were created “through a mix of on-location filming in New Jersey and constructed sets at Silvercup Studios in Queens.”<\/p>\n Keith Haring Exhibit<\/p>\n Runs through May 31 A new exhibit on display at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center in the East Village features pieces created by renowned artist Keith Haring<\/a> during his formative years, including his well-known subway chalk drawings.\u00a0<\/p>\n The gallery itself sits inside a unique location: a former Con Edison substation on East 6th Street.<\/p>\n (Spectrum News NY1\/Roger Clark)<\/p>\n Buddha Sculpture on the High Line<\/p>\n Newly installed Although many New Yorkers are still mourning the loss of the pigeon “Dinosaur,”<\/a>\u00a0“The Light That Shines Through the Universe” \u2014 a 27-foot-tall sandstone Buddha sculpture \u2014 has taken its place in the\u00a0regularly rotating exhibition.<\/p>\n Created by Tuan Andrew Nguyen in\u00a0in Vietnam,\u00a0the fifth commission for the\u00a0Plinth program is an homage to the ancient Bamiyan Buddhas,\u00a0two sixth century statues in central Afghanistan that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.<\/p>\n New Museum<\/p>\n Open Tuesday to Sunday The New Museum in Manhattan has reopened\u00a0following a 60,000-square-foot expansion<\/a>. The new space features twice the gallery size, new elevators, new venues, an entrance plaza and an atrium staircase, among other additions.<\/p>\n Alongside several new commissions, “New Humans: Memories of the Future” will be the inaugural\u00a0exhibition. 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.’\u201d<\/p>\n Luna Park<\/p>\n Open for the season Luna Park in Coney Island is open for the season, with its full lineup of rides, treats and \u201chigh-flying excitement.\u201d<\/p>\n Visitors can ride the iconic Cyclone roller coaster, play arcade games, get food or shop around.<\/p>\n Endangered Pygmy at the Bronx Zoo<\/p>\n Open daily A pygmy slow loris \u2014 an endangered species native to Southeast Asia \u2014 was recently born at the Bronx Zoo’s updated \u201cWorld of Darkness\u201d exhibit.<\/a><\/p>\n The Wildlife Conservation Society said infants are born fully furred with their eyes open and grow to about one pound when they reach adulthood.<\/p>\n Now a few months old, the pygmy slow loris will become fully weaned around six months of age, according to the WCS.<\/p>\n (Courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society)<\/p>\n ‘Greater New York’<\/p>\n Open through Aug. 17 MoMA PS1 calls its annual “Greater New York” exhibit a “signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area.”<\/p>\n This year’s sixth edition spans all levels of the museum’s school building and features the work of more than 50 multidisciplinary artists.<\/p>\n Whitney Biennial 2026<\/p>\n Open through Aug. 23 The Whitney Museum says its biennial exhibit is the “the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States.”<\/p>\n 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.”<\/p>\n ‘Noguchi’s New York’<\/p>\n Open through Sept. 13 To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the\u00a0Noguchi Museum in Long Island City has launched “Noguchi’s New York.”<\/p>\n The exhibit\u00a0focuses on the relationship between\u00a0Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi and New York City.<\/p>\n New Yorkers may recognize some of his works, like\u00a0the Red Cube at 140 Broadway and Liberty Street, and the Sunken Garden at Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza in Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Miguel de Guzman and Rocio Ro<\/p>\n mero)<\/p>\n ‘Inspired by MetroCard’<\/p>\n Open through Oct. 26 The life of the MetroCard as New York City’s primary transit tool may have come to an end, but the icon lives on in the form of art.<\/p>\n The “Inspired by MetroCard” exhibit at the Grand Central location of the New York Transit Museum features paintings, collages, mosaics and even clothing made from the payment method introduced in 1994.<\/p>\n (Spectrum News NY1\/Roger Clark)<\/p>\n ‘The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered’<\/p>\n Now open through Dec. 31, 2026 Nearly 250 years after the pivotal Revolutionary War battle, the Center for Brooklyn History is spotlighting the Battle of Brooklyn with a new exhibit.<\/p>\n Although they were outmatched by British troops, a dramatic overnight evacuation led by George Washington in August 1776 helped preserve the revolutionary cause.<\/p>\n The exhibition brings the battle to life through artifacts, including uniform buttons and a cannonball, alongside artwork and historical interpretations that trace how the conflict unfolded across Brooklyn.<\/p>\n (Spectrum News NY1\/Roger Clark)<\/p>\n ‘He Built This City’<\/p>\n Open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends It took Joe Macken more than 21 years to build by hand, but his 50-by-27-foot model of New York City is now on display at the Museum of the City of New York.<\/p>\n The model, made from balsa wood and foam board, includes more than 320 sections. Macken says it began with 30 Rockefeller Plaza in 2004.<\/p>\n (Spectrum News NY1\/Roger Cl<\/p>\n ark)<\/p>\n ‘FAREwell, MetroCard’<\/p>\n Now open After more than three decades in use, the MetroCard is retiring. A new exhibit at the New York Transit Museum invites visitors to learn about its history, including its debut in 1994, the technology behind it and its lasting legacy.<\/p>\n At Chelsea Market in Manhattan, art made from MetroCards is hanging on the walls near the Ninth Avenue entrance, including framed creations of cats, the five boroughs and a school bus.<\/p>\n Street Food City<\/p>\n Open Thursdays to Sundays from noon to 6 p.m. An exhibit at the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) in Brooklyn is dedicated to the city\u2019s smallest food businesses and the immigrant entrepreneurs who have shaped the city\u2019s flavor and culture.<\/p>\n Organizers say Street Food City “traces the challenges faced by street food entrepreneurs of the past to today\u2019s fight for vendor rights.” The exhibit’s curator, Catherine Piccoli, and MOFAD president Nazli Parvizi also joined NY1 to discuss the exhibit.<\/a><\/p>\n Purchase tickets here.<\/a><\/p>\n Studio Museum in Harlem<\/p>\n Open daily 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Studio Museum in Harlem has reopened after being closed for nearly eight years<\/a>.<\/p>\n The museum, which is dedicated to presenting and collecting the work of Black artists, returns with a variety of exhibits on display.<\/p>\n (Spectrum News NY1\/Roger Clark)<\/p>\n ‘Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs’<\/p>\n Now open A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History looks at the impact of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs\u00a066 million years ago.<\/p>\n The exhibition also explores how the Earth recovered from the event, including how it paved the way for new species.<\/p>\n (Spectrum News NY1\/Roger Clark)<\/p>\n ‘Encounters in the Milky Way’<\/p>\n Now open “Encounters in the Milky Way” is a new show at the Hayden Planetarium that gives visitors a “front-row seat to spectacular moments in our solar system’s past and future.”<\/p>\n Narrated by Pedro Pascal, the show takes viewers through the paths of stars, comets and other interstellar debris. It’s part of the Rose Center for Earth and Space’s celebration of 25 years since its opening.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude80A new Hayden Planetarium Space Show, narrated by Pedro Pascal, is opening June 9! In Encounters in the Milky Way, you\u2019ll get a front-row seat to spectacular moments in our solar system’s past and future, including the paths of stars, comets, interstellar debris, and more. pic.twitter.com\/jZtZLeaHFq<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 American Museum of Natural History (@AMNH) May 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nSaturdays: Marsha P. Johnson State Park, Williamsburg
\nSundays: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
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\nPaley Center for Media, Manhattan
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\nPaley Center for Media, Manhattan
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\nMuseum of the Moving Image, Queens
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\nBrant Foundation Art Study Center, Manhattan
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\nThe High Line at West 30th Street and 10th Avenue, Manhattan
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\nConey Island, Brooklyn
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\nMoMA PS1, Queens
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\nWhitney Museum, Manhattan
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\nThe Noguchi Museum, Queens
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\nNew York Transit Museum at Grand Central
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\nCenter for Brooklyn History
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\nMuseum of the City of New York, Manhattan
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\nNew York Transit Museum, Brooklyn
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\nMuseum of Food and Drink, Brooklyn
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\n144 West 125th St., Manhattan
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\nAmerican Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
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\nAmerican Museum of Natural History, Manhattan
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