Wednesday, Aug 5: 8 events — free SummerStage shows Thursday and Friday, a free Coney Island photo-show opening with a documentary screening, and the CHAIN film festival starts this Friday.
Live Music
- Free SummerStage this week — Andrew Bird w/ Wordless Music Orchestra Thu 8/6, Funk Flex Birthday R&B Picnic Fri 8/7 — Rumsey Playfield, Central Park (enter 69th St & 5th Ave); free, first-come until capacity; 40th-anniversary season, doors an hour before showtime (r/AskNYC)
Art Openings
- James Hamilton “Uncropped” — opening night Fri 8/7, 6–11pm, Freak Bar Gallery, 1208 Surf Ave, Coney Island — career-spanning show of the Village Voice photographer’s work, on view through Oct 11; free 8pm screening of the doc Uncropped plus Q&A with Hamilton and Mark Jacobson. Free (r/Brooklyn)
- Ippodo Gallery “Summer Symphony” — final days, closes Sat 8/8 — archive works from the kogei gallery at 35 N Moore St, Tribeca; the only “go now” art deadline this week (Bluesky · asiaweekny)
Film & Festivals
- CHAIN NYC Film Festival — Fri 8/7 through Sat 8/15, Chain Theatre, LIC — themed short/feature blocks most nights with filmmaker talkbacks; White Meat: Appetizer screens opening week; schedule at chainfilmfestival.com (Bluesky)
- L Train Movie Club: free screening of Shanghai Noon — Sun 8/9, hangout 7:30, movie 8pm — free outdoor-ish movie club near the L in Bushwick; venue in thread (r/Bushwick)
Food & Markets
- Night Market — Fri 8/7, 6pm–midnight, 44 Wyckoff Ave, Bushwick — free to attend, local makers, evening market (r/Bushwick)
- Farmer’s Gate — new farmers market at Central Park North, Harlem — recently opened market on the park’s north edge; recurring, check the thread for hours (r/Harlem)
Outdoor & Free
- 31st Ave Open Street — Season 7 Week 15 — weekly weekend street programming in Astoria; next up: Outlaw Wrestling at the last Community Cookout of the season Aug 22 and a Box Set Cinema ET (1982) screening; farmers market Sundays (r/Astoria)
All gathered items - what was cut and why (6)
- New Yorkers will need to show some form of ID to access the city-owned grocery stores - NEWS: policy news, not an event (r/nyc)
- MTA to get rid of Museum of Sex bus ads - NEWS: policy news, not an event (r/nyc)
- Fresh Meadows man charged with hate crimes vandalizing kosher bagel store twice - CRIME: not an attendable event (r/Queens)
- McCarren Park Walk & Talk - EVENT_PAST: was Tues Aug 4, ran last night (r/Greenpoint)
- Who is performing at Summerstage today? - UNVERIFIABLE: a question with no named show; mined as the lead for the SummerStage keep above (r/AskNYC)
- Art Gallery/ Art Therapy Event in BK Sunday August 16th - DEDUP: edged out by the Hamilton and Ippodo art items; $10–15 suggested and 11 days out (r/Brooklyn)