Labor Day week is stacked: the Met Opera’s free Summer HD Festival opens tomorrow at Lincoln Center, three free screenings across the week (Demolition Man Wed, Tales from the Hood Sat, School of Rock Sun), free comedy + SocaFest Friday, and the West Indian Day Parade Monday — plus lunchtime piano in Bryant Park today. Seven of eight free.
Live Music
- Piano in Bryant Park — TODAY 12:30–2:30pm, Upper Terrace, Bryant Park: the free weekday ragtime/stride/jazz series runs every weekday through Oct 1.
- Met Opera Summer HD Festival — opens Wed 9/2 and runs through Labor Day, Josie Robertson Plaza, Lincoln Center: five free opera screenings on the giant outdoor screen — Tristan und Isolde (9/2–3), I Puritani (9/4), Eugene Onegin (9/5), El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego (9/6), La Bohème (9/7). Free, ~2,500 first-come seats a night.
- SocaFest at Brooklyn Museum — Fri 9/4 8pm–3am, Brooklyn Museum: the Labor Day-weekend Caribbean kickoff with Kes the Band, Bunji Garlin, Fay-Ann Lyons and WCK — ticketed.
Film & Screenings
- Free Demolition Man screening — Wed 9/2, Lucky 13 Saloon, Gowanus: free with RSVP, $5 optional donation; arrive early for trivia + pre-show.
- Tales from the Hood — free outdoor screening — Sat 9/5, doors 8pm / film 8:30, The Tiny Cupboard, 10 Cooper St (Bushwick/Bed Stuy, J to Chauncey): the 1995 Black horror anthology on the patio — free, no RSVP, 21+.
- L Train Movie Club: School of Rock — Sun 9/6, hang at 8:30 / film 9, Talon Bar, Bushwick: free screening, next edition of the recurring club.
Comedy
- Bomb Shelter — free comedy, every Friday — Fri 9/4 7pm, Shillelagh Tavern, Astoria: the 10-year Manhattan show adds a Queens night — no cover, free drinks & swag, free RSVP on Eventbrite.
Festivals & Culture
- West Indian Day Parade / Carnival — Mon 9/7 (Labor Day), Eastern Parkway, Schenectady Ave → Grand Army Plaza: North America’s largest Caribbean parade — mas bands, sound systems and 2 million people, free.
All gathered items - what was cut and why (6)
- NYC Council asks Brooklyn Navy Yard to stop holding raves - NEWS: news about events, not an event; top electronic-music item in pool (r/nyc)
- Columbia University still closed to public - NEWS: neighborhood vent, not an event; score 1089 (r/Harlem)
- Data Shows NYC Major Crime Is Declining Overall, but Felony Assaults Remain High - CRIME: crime stats, not an event (r/nyc)
- 33rd Annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at Marcus Garvey Park - EVENT_PAST: finale ran 8/29–30, already covered Sunday (r/Harlem)
- X @michellehui weekly tech roundup (5 posts) - OFFTOPIC: non-configured account, 25th run; AI/tech meetups, no digest value (X)
- Bluesky #CasSunday vibes post - OFFTOPIC: no event (Bluesky)
24 events auto-dropped by the timing filter (past dates) - logged in the Obsidian raw dump.