NYC Digest - 2026-09-24

Music-heavy Thursday: 8 items, 5 of them free — a free sunset festival in Greeley Square tonight, day 7 of the all-free LES garden festival, Bikini Kill tomorrow at Brooklyn Steel, a small Bushwick triple bill Sunday, and a free art installation opening at Rockefeller Center today.

Live Music

• Golden Hour at Greeley Square Park — tonight 6:30–8:30pm, Greeley Square Park (32nd–33rd & Broadway) — free: the Parks department’s sunset series with Americana, jazz and emerging indie acts, curated with keystone cultural partners.
• Bikini Kill + Lambrini Girls at Brooklyn Steel — Fri 9/25, 8pm, 319 Frost St, Williamsburg — $50 face: the reunion-era Bikini Kill with Lambrini Girls opening. An r/Williamsburg poster is selling one spare at face value ($50, no AXS fees) in the thread.
• Trash Romantics / Žaltys / Costumes + DJ .DLL at Sleepwalk — Sun 9/27, doors 7pm, 251 Bushwick Ave, East Williamsburg — tickets from ~$15: a four-band garage/post-punk bill in a small room, the cheap end of the week’s live music.
• 15th LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival — still on, day 7 of 10 through Sun 9/27, 50+ events in 30 LES community gardens, all free, no tickets. Tonight: Musique Libre Femmes 6pm then Maputi (Shona mbira) 7pm at 11BC Serenity Garden, a salsa block party at Elizabeth Street Garden (lessons 6:30pm, live music by Lulada Club + UnAbrazo DJ 7–9:30pm), and short films by Bill Morrison, Laurie Olinder and others 7pm at Francisco “Pancho” Ramos Garden. Friday closes strong: Robin Wall Kimmerer 3–7:30pm at El Jardin del Paraiso (register) and Pinc Louds / Betty at La Plaza from 5pm.

Art & Exhibitions

• Cj Hendry’s Flower Market — opens today through Sun 9/27, Center Plaza, Rockefeller Center — free: the giant plush-flower installation returns, this year with new designs and one free bloom per guest. It’s opening day of a four-day run, so go early.
• Studio Museum in Harlem: Geometries — still on through Jan 31, 2027, 144 W 125th St — free with timed tickets, open today 11–6 (dark Mon–Tue): Thelma Golden’s geometry show with Al Loving, Alma Thomas, Julie Mehretu, Jack Whitten and Torkwase Dyson.

Festivals & Performance

• Celebrating Jim Henson’s 90th Birthday at MoMI — opens today through Sun 9/27, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave, Astoria: today is free gallery admission 2–6pm, The Muppet Show best episodes 2:30–6pm, Puppet Prom 6–9pm and Jim Henson’s Harmonious Hoopla 7pm in the Redstone Theater; the weekend adds the Swa(m)p Meet, panels and Sunday courtyard music.
• Brooklyn Book Festival — Festival Day — Sun 9/27 (Children’s Day Sat 9/26), Borough Hall and Downtown Brooklyn — free: the city’s largest free literary festival, with 250+ publishers in the Northeast’s biggest book market and Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, Namwali Serpell and Douglas Stuart on the stages. Nine days of programming end Sunday.