Wet Sunday, 8 items, 6 of 8 free and 7 of 8 today: Bushwick Open Studios closes on its final afternoon, the 57th African American Day Parade fills Harlem from 111th to 138th, a free Queens bike tour rolls at 10am rain or shine, and LUNGS’ garden festival stays on through 9/27 even though the festival’s own schedule has rained out today’s eleven-garden program.
Live Music
- Festival of New Trumpet Music — finale: Volker Goetze Quartet — finale tonight 7pm at The Cutting Room, 44 E 32nd St, $32.99: trumpet/flugelhorn, bass clarinet, bass and percussion close FONT’s week after nights at Nublu, the Jazz Gallery and the Sultan Room.
- Music for Action, a Climate Week Concert: Young the Giant / St. Lucia / DREEEMY DJ Set — Tue 9/22, 7–10pm, doors 6, SummerStage in Central Park at E 71st St — free, first come first served until it fills; RSVP only enters you for VIP passes. Young the Giant headline the Capital One City Parks Foundation’s Climate Week show.
Art Openings
- Bushwick Open Studios 2026 (BOS2026) — final day today, 1–4pm: the volunteer-run Arts in Bushwick weekend closes with hundreds of studios, galleries, performance spaces and shops open across the neighborhood, the Seeking Spaces group exhibition on view, and free maps (one per person) — free entry on Sunday; pull the official map PDF first.
Harlem & Uptown
- 57th Annual African American Day Parade — today: pre-parade show 11am, steps off 12:30pm down Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd between 111th and 138th — free to watch, theme “Good Businesses Sustain Our Future,” with floats, band and dance battles, giveaways and kids’ activities; 2/3 to 125th St puts you in the middle of it, and expect closures on ACP, Lenox and St Nicholas.
Festivals & Markets
- 15th LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival — still on, day 3 of 10 through Sun 9/27, every event free — with one change: the festival’s own schedule now reads “all events are postponed this Sunday September 20 — rain delay” for today’s eleven lower-garden programs, so check the page for makeup dates. The rest of the week stands as listed: Dick Griffin’s trombone set Wed 9/23 7pm at 11BC Serenity Garden, the Elizabeth St salsa block party Thu 9/24, Robin Wall Kimmerer Fri 9/25, closing day Sun 9/27. Saturday’s twelve-garden program ran as planned.
- Maker Faire Coney Island — still on today and Mon 9/21, 11am–5pm daily at the Coney Island Amphitheater: robotics, interactive installations, workshops; ticketed via Eventbrite.
Screenings & Street
- Ride Queens 2026 bike tour — today 10am, starting and ending at Flushing Meadows Corona Park: the inaugural free borough-wide ride with 12- and 25-mile route options along the Eastern Queens Greenway, aimed at 2,000 riders, held rain or shine.
- L Train Movie Club: free Street Fighter screening — tonight at Talon Bar, Bushwick: hang out at 6, movie at 6:30, free — the club’s monthly free screening, timed to the new movie’s release.
All gathered items - what was cut and why (11)
- Queens Night Market returns for fall season this Saturday - EVENT_PAST: Saturday’s fall-season edition wrapped last night; weekly again Sat 9/26 (r/Queens)
- Pottery in the Park workshop this Sunday 9/20 - EVENT_PAST: the 9/20 workshop was cancelled for weather and moved to Sun 9/27 3pm, so the 9/20 posts are superseded (r/Brooklyn; one of 5 cross-posts, also r/Greenpoint, r/williamsburg, r/longislandcity)
- Free screening of The Matrix, 09/20 in Gowanus - DEDUP: a second free film screening on the same day, sourced only through an aggregator listing; the L Train screening takes the slot (r/Brooklyn)
- Jazz in the Park at Ralph Ellison - DEDUP: the weekly Sunday series through 10/25 has been carried in earlier digests and is outdoors, unconfirmed in today’s rain; slots closed (web)
- 32nd Annual Mexican Day Parade NYC - DEDUP: written up 9/18 and 9/19 with nothing new; Sunday’s parade slot goes to the African American Day Parade (web)
- Prospect Park bikers - it is on you to slow down for safety, not on everyone else to help you maintain your line - OFFTOPIC: the pool’s top scorer was a neighborhood rant, not an event (score 869) (r/Brooklyn)
- Dumped senior cat needs a home! - OFFTOPIC: a dumped 13-year-old cat needing a home, not an event (score 536) (r/nyc)
- First time checking the Streeteasy in two years and I gotta say… - OFFTOPIC: a Streeteasy-listing parody, not an event (score 482) (r/Astoria)
- What’s a very little perk of living in a major city like NYC that’s easy to take for granted? - OFFTOPIC: a discussion thread, not an event (score 319) (r/AskNYC)
- Knicks Pause Ticket Sales After LeBron James Opener Seats Top $1,200 - NEWS: sports-ticketing coverage, not an attendable event (score 295) (r/nyc)
- Looking For This Women Who Left Without Paying For Her Haircut - CRIME: doxx-style crime post, not an event (score 261) (r/Greenpoint)
32 events auto-dropped by the timing filter (past dates) - logged in the Obsidian raw dump.