Wheels of NYC<\/a> returns to the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Saturday, October 17, transforming the massive Agger Fish Warehouse into a one-day festival built around more than 120 curated cars, alongside DJs, a live portrait studio, a fashion and collectibles marketplace, food, drinks, and a dedicated kids zone.<\/p>\nRunning from 12 \u2013 6 pm, this auto-marvel is gearing up to be one of October\u2019s hottest events. Here are all the details and how to snag last-minute tickets.<\/p>\n
From an Instagram account to one of NYC\u2019s biggest car culture events<\/p>\n
The crazy part of this event is that it didn\u2019t start as an event at all. <\/p>\n
Founder Oren Hod began Wheels of NYC as an Instagram page documenting parked cars around the city, spending roughly two years just spotting and photographing whatever caught his eye on the street. <\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t until he started tracking down the actual owners of those cars, inspired by the storytelling format of Humans of New York, that the idea for something bigger clicked.<\/p>\n
In 2021, Hod started organizing small weekly meetups in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop. <\/p>\n
Especially right after the pandemic isolation, Hod has said the first meetup was packed \u2014 proof that what he\u2019d built wasn\u2019t just an audience of followers but an actual community of people who wanted a reason to show up in person again.<\/p>\n
From there, Wheels evolved into full-scale warehouse takeovers, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard became its home base. The Agger Fish Warehouse previously hosted a Wheels of NYC collaboration with Nike and Hypebeast built around the Air Max DN8 sneaker launch, an event that filled the same floor with cars from the \u201990s and early 2000s, including a Ferrari F50 that became the unofficial centerpiece of the night.<\/p>\n
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What\u2019s actually inside the warehouse this fall<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Fall Edition is built to feel less like a car show and more like a full cultural takeover, with automobiles as the anchor rather than the entire point.<\/p>\n
Inside, expect:<\/p>\n
More than 120 curated cars spanning rare classics, \u201980s and \u201990s icons, and modern collectibles rarely seen together in one space<\/p>\n
Cars available for sale on-site, for anyone who leaves more inspired than expected<\/p>\n
Live DJs running sets throughout the day<\/p>\n
A live portrait studio capturing attendees and their cars<\/p>\n
A fashion and collectibles marketplace curated by Alfargo\u2019s<\/p>\n
Food and drinks from some of the city\u2019s go-to vendors<\/p>\n
A dedicated kids zone with hands-on activities<\/p>\n
Special brand activations and pop-up surprises throughout the floor<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s edition is supported by partners including Nissan, eBay, and Steve Madden Men, continuing the event\u2019s pattern of pulling in brands that don\u2019t traditionally sit inside a car show, part of what\u2019s made Wheels feel less like a niche gearhead meetup and more like a genuine crossover between car culture, fashion, and design.<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t need to know anything about cars to enjoy this<\/p>\n
That\u2019s true even for people who couldn\u2019t tell a Skyline from a Supra. <\/p>\n
The event has built its identity specifically around pulling in people drawn to music, style, and design first, with the cars functioning more like art installations than a trade show floor. <\/p>\n
Attemping to draw New Yorkers from all walks (and interests) of life together under one roof has always been the main goal for this show, and this October edition proves it.<\/p>\n
The details<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udccd Brooklyn Navy Yard, Agger Fish Warehouse (Building 269), Brooklyn, NY<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udd7f\ufe0f Guest parking: 141 Flushing Avenue, Building 303<\/p>\n
\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f Saturday, October 17, 2026, 12 pm to 6 pm<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udc76 Kids 12 and under get in free<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f Tickets are limited and non-refundable, available through DICE\u2019s official events page<\/a><\/p>\n\u2614 Rain or shine, so dress for whatever mid-October decides to throw at Brooklyn that day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York has plenty of car meets, and most of them happen in parking lots, last an hour,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-360566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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