Normal Tuesday, 8 items and all 8 free: free live music tonight in the LES gardens (Laraaji’s equinox set at Elizabeth Street Garden, Michael Eaton’s solo sax at 11BC) plus the free SummerStage show in Central Park, a new free SoHo exhibition opening today, and the first uptown art window of the week tomorrow, since the Studio Museum is dark Mon–Tue.
Live Music
- 15th LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival — still on, day 5 of 10 through Sun 9/27, 50+ events in 30 LES community gardens, all free, no tickets. Tonight: Laraaji’s Autumn Equinox set 6–8pm at Elizabeth Street Garden (seasonal tea from The Alchemist’s Kitchen, face painting), Michael Eaton’s solo sax 6pm at 11BC Serenity Garden, and a 7pm sustainability film-shorts program at La Plaza Cultural. The festival page still carries the Sun 9/20 rain-postponement banner and has posted no makeup dates yet; tonight’s program is unaffected.
- Music for Action: Young the Giant / St. Lucia / DREEEMY DJ set — tonight 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.
- Trans party at Kween — Sun 9/27, 7pm at Kween, Astoria — no cover, 21+: Afterly’s first party, with DJ Dinah on music and a set from Nani Storm.
Comedy & Film
- Another Free Comedy Show @ Rose’s R&R Bar — Wed 9/23, 457 Graham Ave, Williamsburg — free, 21+: a new bi-weekly show mixing stand-up, sketch and character work with New York history, hosted by Christine Fiala, a Brooklyn comic and licensed NYC tour guide. The post gives no start time — check the thread.
- Free screening of Street Fighter (1994) at Freddy’s Bar — Sat 9/26, 5pm at Freddy’s Bar, South Slope — free: a bar-side screening of the same movie the L Train Movie Club ran Sunday. RSVP through the Partiful link in the post.
Art & Exhibitions
- NOW / THEN: ARC’TERYX x BEAMS — opens today, Tue 9/22 through Thu 9/24, 11am–7pm at 45 Grand St, SoHo — free: 25 years of the Arc’teryx × BEAMS collaboration as archival pieces, photography and film.
- New Dendrology at the Arsenal Gallery — weekdays 9am–5pm, through Fri 11/6, Arsenal in Central Park (Fifth Ave at 64th St) — free: eleven artists whose work contributes to the study of trees, on the connection between humans and their arboreal neighbors. The opening reception (9/10) has passed; the show runs all fall.
- Studio Museum in Harlem: Geometries — still on through Jan 31, 2027, 144 W 125th St — free with timed tickets: the museum is dark Mondays and Tuesdays, so Wednesday 11–6 is the first open window uptown this week. Al Loving, Alma Thomas, Julie Mehretu, Jack Whitten, Torkwase Dyson and 25 more on the question of geometry.
All gathered items - what was cut and why (12)
- Divas of Music Television - Janet • Paula • Cyndi • Madonna - DEDUP: free and still tomorrow at the Forest Park bandshell, but fully described yesterday; today’s free-music slots went to LUNGS and SummerStage (web · nycgovparks.org)
- Cj Hendry’s Flower Market - DEDUP: opens Thu 9/24 at Rockefeller Center, still upcoming, last digest’s write-up stands (web · nycforfree.co)
- Museum of the City of New York: Halumii Ktapihna + Raise Your Voice: New York Activism - DEDUP: both Friday 9/25 openings are still upcoming and described yesterday; the Friday slot is held (web · mcny.org)
- Pretty good PBS Documentary on NYC airing now - OFFTOPIC: New York: A Documentary Film is a broadcast tonight and tomorrow night, not a place you can attend (score 116) (r/nyc)
- The Frozen Surfboard, Father Duffy Square - DEDUP: real, free and today-only (7am-10pm) but edged by the two free-music keeps; watch list (web · timessquarenyc.org)
- Greenpoint StoopFest on Sun, Oct 4th: a free, first-of-its-kind neighborhood fest - STALE: free and genuinely promising, but a second cut at 12 days out; watch list (score 27) (r/Greenpoint)
- WTF, Wall St just now - OFFTOPIC: a photo post, not an event (score 1260) (r/nyc)
- First time checking the Streeteasy in two years and I gotta say… - OFFTOPIC: a rent-listing parody thread, not an event (score 1182) (r/Astoria)
- Prospect Park bikers - it is on you to slow down for safety, not on everyone else to help you maintain your line and speed - OFFTOPIC: a neighborhood rant, not an event (score 925) (r/Brooklyn)
- Dumped senior cat needs a home! - OFFTOPIC: a rehoming post for a dumped 13-year-old cat, not an event (score 628) (r/nyc)
- Police and Dept of Sanitation have raided the Myrtle-Wyckoff Market - CRIME: enforcement raid, not an attendable event (score 217) (r/Bushwick)
- man in hospital gown and wheelchair - NSFW: exhibitionism photo post, not an event (score 109) (r/Greenpoint)
33 events auto-dropped by the timing filter (past dates) - logged in the Obsidian raw dump.