Quiet Monday, 8 items, 6 of 8 free and 2 today-actionable: LUNGS’ garden festival is still on (a free film at La Plaza tonight), Maker Faire Coney Island closes this afternoon, and the week ahead brings a free Queens bandshell revue Wednesday plus two uptown museum openings Friday.
Live Music
- Divas of Music Television — Janet • Paula • Cyndi • Madonna — Wed 9/23, 7:30–9pm at the George Seuffert Sr. Bandshell in Forest Park, Queens — free. Nikki Torres’ high-energy tribute revue is the last free bandshell show of the Parks season, and the closest thing to a big outdoor concert this week.
- Music for Action: Young the Giant / St. Lucia / DREEEMY DJ set — tomorrow, 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.
Art & Museums
- Studio Museum in Harlem: Geometries — on view through Jan 31, 2027, 144 W 125th St: Thelma Golden’s fall show puts Al Loving, Alma Thomas, Julie Mehretu, Jack Whitten, Torkwase Dyson and 25 more to the question of geometry (“even a box can be a self-portrait”). Admission is free but timed tickets are required, and the museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays — Wednesday afternoon (11–6) is your first window uptown.
- Museum of the City of New York: Halumii Ktapihna + Raise Your Voice: New York Activism — both open Fri 9/25, 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St: one on the living cultures of the Lenape/Lunáapeew, the original people of Lenapehoking, and one on 250 years of NYC activism and the tactics movements actually used. NYC residents pay-what-you-can, free for everyone Wednesdays — two uptown openings the same day, four blocks from the 103rd St 6.
- Cj Hendry’s Flower Market — Thu 9/24–Sun 9/27 at Rockefeller Center’s Center Plaza (Thu 1–8pm, Fri–Sun 10am–8pm) — free: the artist’s plush-flower installation returns with new designs, original works for sale, and a free plush bloom for every guest.
Festivals & Gardens
- 15th LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival — still on, day 4 of 10 through Sun 9/27, every event free: today it’s Only the Bad Die Old, Charles Krezell’s film, 7pm at La Plaza Cultural (674 E 9th St). Sunday’s rained-out programs are being rescheduled on the festival’s own page, and the rest of the week is now firm — Tue Michael Eaton’s solo sax at 11BC 6pm and Laraaji’s Autumn Equinox set at Elizabeth Street Garden 6–8pm; Wed Ras Moshe 6pm then trombonist Dick Griffin 7pm; Thu Lulada Club’s salsa block party on Elizabeth St; Fri Pinc Louds, Rossi & Reed, Betty at La Plaza; Sun closing day across the gardens.
- Maker Faire Coney Island — final day today, 11am–5pm at the Coney Island Amphitheater — robotics, interactive installations and workshops; ticketed.
Free Workshops
- Bodies of Work: figure drawing — Tue 9/22: two free tickets for first-timers with code REDDITFREE at checkout, plus two at 50% off with REDDIT50 — all skill levels, community drawing night. Time and venue are in the signup link in the thread.
All gathered items - what was cut and why (14)
- Feast of San Gennaro - DEDUP: still on through 9/27 but a fifth straight digest with nothing new to add; the earlier write-ups stand (web)
- Great show happening at QED on Thursday 9/24 @ 7:30 pm - DEDUP: Sharon Spell’s Welcome to Midday: History Repeating is real, dated and ticketed, but edged out a seventh time and Thursday is already full (r/Astoria)
- Greenpoint StoopFest on Sun, Oct 4th: a free, first-of-its-kind neighborhood fest - STALE: free and genuinely promising, but 13 days out; watch list (r/Greenpoint)
- Once Upon a Time in Harlem - Official Teaser Trailer - In Select Theaters October 16 - STALE: the MoMI NYFF screening is a $35 ticket 13 days out; theatrical release 10/16 (r/Harlem)
- Two Wolves Tavern: Grand Opening! 10/1-4 - STALE: board-game tavern retail opening, 10 days out (r/Bushwick)
- Come learn how to hand-sew in this relaxing session. 10/4. - OFFTOPIC: paid session, 13 days out (r/longislandcity)
- First time checking the Streeteasy in two years and I gotta say… - OFFTOPIC: a listing-parody post, not an event (score 999) (r/Astoria)
- Prospect Park bikers - it is on you to slow down for safety, not on everyone else to help you maintain your line - OFFTOPIC: a neighborhood rant, not an event (score 904) (r/Brooklyn)
- Dumped senior cat needs a home! - OFFTOPIC: a rehoming post for a dumped 13-year-old cat, not an event (score 604) (r/nyc)
- 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 388) (r/AskNYC)
- Knicks Pause Ticket Sales After LeBron James Opener Seats Top $1,200 - NEWS: sports-ticketing coverage, not an attendable event (score 296) (r/nyc)
- Looking For This Women Who Left Without Paying For Her Haircut - CRIME: doxx-style crime post, not an event (score 284) (r/Greenpoint)
- Police and Dept of Sanitation have raided the Myrtle-Wyckoff Market - CRIME: enforcement raid, not an attendable event (score 171) (r/Bushwick)
- Open Air Drug Market and Junkie Mecca at S 1st and Hooper - CRIME: neighborhood complaint thread, not an event (score 86) (r/williamsburg)
33 events auto-dropped by the timing filter (past dates) - logged in the Obsidian raw dump.