Manhattan Events

A curated calendar of events we think you will like the best during your visit to Manhattan.

June 23 — Bryant Park Yoga

Note:  This is an ONGOING EVENT on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  You must -PRE-REGISTER to ensure a spot.  A free, all-levels hour of yoga on Bryant Park's Upper Terrace, part of the park's long-running summer wellness series presented by Halara, which runs from late May through mid-September. Instructors rotate weekly, drawing from top New York studios and […]

June 24: Black Country, New Road / Horsegirl / Sharp Pins, Central Park

Wednesday, June 24 — Black Country, New Road / Horsegirl / Sharp Pins 5:00 PM | Rumsey Playfield, Central Park — enter at E 69th St & 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10021 A three-act bill for the indie rock crowd: British art-rock band Black Country, New Road, Mercury Prize nominees known for their genre-blurring, […]

Free

June 27: East Village Street Fair- 3rd Avenue and East 6th Street

A classic New York street fair stretching roughly eight blocks through the East Village, with rows of food vendors selling everything from sausage-and-pepper sandwiches to fresh-squeezed lemonade alongside crafts, clothing, and local merchant tables. These citywide fair circuits are typically produced by licensed operators, so the vendor mix is fairly consistent fair to fair, but […]

June 27: J.Period Block Party, Lincoln Center

After a historic run at Lincoln Center celebrating 50 years of Hip-Hop, J.PERIOD is back—bringing the same energy to the block with a dance party for the ages, celebrating movement and community. NYC summer, music up, bodies moving—popping, locking, breaking, and even a line dance or two. Expect special guests in the building, dance battles, […]

Free

Thursday, July 2 — Akram Khan Company: Thikra: Night of Remembering

7:30 PM | Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center — 1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023 English choreographer Akram Khan, known for blending classical kathak technique with contemporary dance, presents the U.S. premiere of a work for nine to eleven women set in the ancient desert landscape of AlUla, Saudi Arabia. The score pairs the London […]

Friday, July 3 | Downtown Independence Weekend Celebration

A pre-Fourth of July street fair through the Financial District, timed to catch holiday-weekend foot traffic from nearby office towers and South Street Seaport visitors. Expect the standard street fair lineup of food stalls, novelty vendors, and live entertainment, with a patriotic theme given the timing. Its Lower Manhattan location makes it an easy pairing […]

Friday, July 3 | Bryant Park Picnic Performances

The kickoff of Bryant Park's free outdoor performance series, presented by Bank of America, which brings 24 dance, music, and theater shows to the lawn over the summer. The park lends out hundreds of free blankets first-come-first-served, plus pre-set bistro chairs around the lawn's edges. Food and drink are available from Hester Street Fair vendors […]

Sunday, July 5 | Independence Weekend Celebration

A second Independence Weekend fair, running the Sunday after the Fourth along 6th Avenue through Chelsea and into the low 30s near Herald Square. Food vendors, crafts, and merchant tables line the avenue for roughly ten blocks, making it one of the longer fair footprints in the city's summer rotation. Its location near major shopping […]

Wednesday, July 8 | Spoon / Ratboys / Bodega

Austin indie rock veterans Spoon, reliably one of the most consistent live acts of the last two decades, headline this Subaru Music Series installment, with Chicago's Ratboys and Brooklyn's Bodega opening. The Subaru series is SummerStage's recurring indie-rock strand, and it tends to draw an older, more music-collector-oriented crowd than some of the festival's other […]