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Normal Friday, 8 items, 5 of 8 free: the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival opens tonight for ten days of free garden programming on the Lower East Side, Reservoir and the Live Sex Acts reception both land tonight, San Gennaro rolls into day two, and the weekend shapes up as the Queens Night Market opener (Sat), the 32nd Mexican Day Parade on Madison Ave (Sun) and FONT’s finale (Sun). Live Music LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival — opens tonight, ten days through Sun 9/27: 50-plus events in 30 Lower East Side community gardens and every one of them free — tonight 6pm the Pressure Point Brass Band opens at La Plaza Cultural (674 E 9th St at Ave C), 8–10pm Isabel Estrada Jamison and friends present Afro-Cuban folklore and Rumba de Corazón. Saturday spreads across 12 gardens, including a free jazz run at 11BC Serenity Garden: Rocco John & Ras Burnett 3pm, Eaton / Nahtal / Hertlein 4pm, Ben Stapp 5pm, Ras Moshe 6pm. Full schedule on the festival site. Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) — still on through Sun 9/20; there’s no NYC set tonight (Friday’s bill is in Jersey City), so what’s left is Sat 7pm at Nublu (151 Ave C, $22 — Cole Kamen-Green + AANI) and the 7pm Sunday finale, Volker Goetze Quartet at The Cutting Room ($32.99). Art & Performance Live Sex Acts — opening reception tonight, Fri 9/18 6–9pm at Times Square Space, then Thu–Sat noon–6pm through Nov 15: photographs and artworks by Vivienne Maricevic, Scott Ewalt and Alix Vernet on the sex clubs, peep shows and adult theaters that lined the area from the late ’60s to the mid-’80s, and what happened when they went away. 18+, explicit imagery and mature themes; no price listed, check the site. Reservoir — final performance tonight, Fri 9/18 6:30pm, Barnard Movement Lab, 3009 Broadway (Morningside Heights): free, advance RSVP required, donations welcome — María José Contreras’s lecture/theatre/testimony piece on Santiago’s water supply, the retreating Andean glaciers and the dictatorship-era water code that privatized Chile’s water. Festivals & Markets Feast of San Gennaro — still on, day two of eleven: daily through Sun 9/27, Mulberry St between Canal and Houston plus the Hester and Grand blocks, Little Italy — free to walk the 100th edition. Queens Night Market — still on for Saturday, 9/19 4pm–midnight behind the New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Corona Park: free entry, 100-plus independent vendors and small-scale cultural performances, then every Saturday through Oct 31 (7 train to 111th St, four blocks south; most stalls cash-only). 32nd Annual Mexican Day Parade NYC — Sunday 9/20, steps off at noon, Madison Ave from E 38th St to E 27th St: free — the annual Mexican Independence Day celebration of music, dance, art and community (parade site: themexicandayparadeinc.com). Comedy Alvin Kuai headlines Popcorn Comedy at Oliver’s Astoria — tonight 8pm, Oliver’s Astoria (Broadway, Astoria): touring headliner, code POPCORN for $5 off via the Eventbrite link in the post; ticket price not stated. All gathered items - what was cut and why (9) Critics & Filmmakers: Godfrey Cheshire & Alex Winter - DEDUP: still upcoming and written up in full yesterday, but no new information; Monday sits outside this run’s Fri–Sun window and tonight’s three event-day items took the slots (bluesky · @ifccenter.bsky.social) Piano in Bryant Park - DEDUP: free weekday Parks series, 8th consecutive cut; today already carries LUNGS’ opening night, Reservoir and the Live Sex Acts reception (web · Bryant Park) Ride Queens Bike Tour - DEDUP: 2nd edge; registration capped and Sunday goes to the Mexican Day Parade + FONT finale (web · Time Out) Free Neighborhood Night Market - UNVERIFIABLE: address and hours but still no date anywhere in the text; 2nd run (r/Bushwick) HARLEM RUNWAY SHOW Presented By Marcus Meets Malcom - UNVERIFIABLE: empty body, no date; 5th consecutive run (r/Harlem) CNN got the extended version of the Zohran-AOC “laughing” video and it shows him standing in a somber mood before AOC comes, exchanging greetings and returning to a somber mood thereafter - POLITICS: political-media discourse, not an attendable event (score 289) (r/nyc) The Trader Joe’s 72nd Street Renovation - OFFTOPIC: store-renovation news, not an event (score 262) (r/UpperWestSide) Knicks Pause Ticket Sales After LeBron James Opener Seats Top $1,200 - NEWS: sports-ticketing coverage, not an event you can attend on its own (score 254) (r/nyc) Looking For This Women Who Left Without Paying For Her Haircut - CRIME: doxx-style crime post, not an event (score 226) (r/Greenpoint) 14 events auto-dropped by the timing filter (past dates) - logged in the Obsidian raw dump. ...

Saturday’s best free option is a pier, a DJ booth, and the harbor. Papi Juice returns to Pier 6 Plaza at Brooklyn Bridge Park for the last dance party of the season — four hours of daylight, two hours of sunset, no cover. It’s the kind of event that gets described as a “party” and then turns out to be mostly people sitting on blankets eating takeout while the music plays. That’s the appeal. ...

Harlem’s own parade is 57 years old, it runs the length of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, and it costs nothing to watch. The 2026 edition is Sunday, Sept. 20 — and if you live uptown, you can walk to it. The weekend actually starts Saturday, with a quieter, more useful event attached to it: a free health and literacy fair at the Harlem State Office Building Plaza. Then Sunday the marching bands take the avenue. ...

Most published fall fair lists skew toward Midtown and Brooklyn. The fair organizer’s own schedule — the page vendors use to book tables — is a better source for what is actually closing near you, because it lists every date with exact cross streets. For upper Manhattan and western Queens, the fall calendar lands close to home. Sunday, Sept 20 — Broadway Fall Fair. Broadway (W) between 86th and 96th Streets. Walking distance from most of central Harlem, or one short bus ride. Saturday, Sept 26 — Upper Broadway Fall Fair. Broadway (E) between 110th and 116th Streets. That is Harlem proper, right by Columbia. Saturday, Sept 26 — 63rd Drive “Rego Park” Festival. 63rd Drive from Queens Boulevard to Austin Street, a few blocks from the 63rd Drive–Rego Park station. Sunday, Sept 27 — Lexington Avenue fair. Lexington Ave from 79th to 96th Streets, plus Fordham Road fairs in the Bronx. Sunday, Oct 18 — Forest Hills Autumn Fair. 71st/Continental Avenue between Queens Boulevard and Austin Street. Sunday, Oct 25 — Upper Broadway Harvest Fair. Broadway (W) between 96th and 106th Streets. Two Saturdays in a row, the avenue closest to home is the one closed to cars: Broadway on Sept. 20, then Broadway again on Sept. 26 — a ten-block stretch each time, roughly 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ...

Fall is the best season for street life in New York, and the reason is simple: the avenues stop being unbearable and the city starts closing them to cars on purpose. Secret NYC compiled the full 2026 autumn schedule of fairs, parades, and bazaars — borough by borough, with cross streets. Almost none of it requires a ticket or a reservation. You check the date, you check the streets, you show up. ...

Free sunset music in Greeley Square tonight, San Gennaro’s 100th feast opens on Mulberry St, Reservoir’s free performance piece opens uptown, and tomorrow brings the first new art opening in a month plus ten days of free garden programming at the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival — six of eight items free. Live Music Golden Hour at Greeley Square Park — tonight Thu 9/17, 6:30–8:30pm, Greeley Square Park (Broadway between 32nd & 33rd): free, no ticket — the Parks sunset series, with Americana, jazz and emerging indie acts curated by keystone cultural partners. Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) — still on through Sun 9/20, and tonight is the NYC double bill: Kal Ferretti’s Big Band feat. Ingrid Jensen 7pm plus Akili Bradley 9pm at The Jazz Gallery (1158 Broadway, 5th fl), $33. The rest of the week: Sat 7pm at Nublu (151 Ave C, $22 — Cole Kamen-Green + AANI) and the finale, Volker Goetze Quartet, Sun 7pm at The Cutting Room ($32.99). Friday’s FONT bill is at The Statuary in Jersey City, so the NYC run is Thu/Sat/Sun only. Art & Performance Reservoir — opens tonight Thu 9/17, also Fri 9/18, 6:30pm, Barnard Movement Lab, 3009 Broadway (Morningside Heights): free, advance RSVP required, donations welcome — María José Contreras’s lecture/theatre/testimony piece on Santiago’s water supply, the retreating Andean glaciers and the dictatorship-era water code that privatized Chile’s water. Part of the Citizen Arts Festival. Live Sex Acts — opening reception Fri 9/18, 6–9pm at Times Square Space (timessquare.art), then Thu–Sat noon–6pm through Nov 15: the first fresh dated art opening to surface in about a month. Photographs and artworks by Vivienne Maricevic, Scott Ewalt and Alix Vernet on the sex clubs, peep shows and adult theaters that lined the area from the late ’60s to the mid-’80s, and what happened when they went away. 18+, explicit imagery and mature themes; no price listed, check the site. Festivals & Markets Feast of San Gennaro — day one is today, Thu 9/17, then daily through Sun 9/27, Mulberry St between Canal and Houston plus the Hester and Grand blocks, Little Italy: free to walk the street — the 100th edition. LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival — opens tomorrow, Fri 9/18 through Sun 9/27: 50-plus events in 30 Lower East Side community gardens, every event free — music, poetry, puppets, film, theater, workshops and art in the gardens neighbors built and still tend. Saturday’s garden slot includes free jazz from Rocco John & Ras Burnett, 3–4pm at 11BC Serenity Garden (E 11th St at Ave B/C). Queens Night Market — opens Saturday 9/19, 4pm–midnight, in the lot behind the New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Corona Park: free entry — 100-plus independent vendors plus small-scale cultural performances, then every Saturday through Oct 31 (7 train to 111th St, four blocks south; most stalls cash-only). Film Critics & Filmmakers: Godfrey Cheshire & Alex Winter — Mon 9/21, 7:30pm, IFC Center (323 Sixth Ave, West Village): one night only — the critic and the writer-director-actor (Bill & Ted, Zappa) talk careers, filmmaking and the changing job of criticism, illustrated with clips, tied to Cheshire’s new collection Cheshire on Film: Life and Writings. Book signing follows. Tickets through the IFC Center site. All gathered items - what was cut and why (9) New York Sings Yiddish: Passing the Torch to a New Generation - DEDUP: announced 9/14, carried 9/15, cut yesterday; tonight already carries Golden Hour, Reservoir’s opening and San Gennaro’s opening day, and there is no new information (web · City Parks Foundation) This Saturday: Queens United Women’s Market - DEDUP: fully written up yesterday; Saturday is anchored by the Night Market opener and the LUNGS garden lineup (r/astoria) THIS SUNDAY! Come Celebrate the Release of a New Street Fighter Movie by Joining the L Train Movie Club - DEDUP: described yesterday, no new details; Sunday goes to the FONT finale and LUNGS (r/Brooklyn) [Fri 9/18] Side by Side: A Community Singing Gathering @ Queens Plaza Studios - DEDUP: described in full yesterday; Friday now carries LUNGS’ opening day and the Live Sex Acts reception (r/LongIslandCity) Free Neighborhood Night Market - UNVERIFIABLE: posted today with address (44 Wyckoff Ave) and hours (7pm–12am) but no date anywhere in the text; the flyer is an image with no readable caption (r/Bushwick) Mayor Mamdani Opens The Little Apple, Delivering Free Child Care to City Workers - NEWS: top item in the pool (score 692) but policy coverage, not an attendable event (r/nyc) CNN got the extended version of the Zohran-AOC “laughing” video and it shows him standing in a different spot - POLITICS: political-media discourse, not an event (score 287) (r/nyc) Marine Park Young Adults has achieved 501(c)(4) nonprofit status - NEWS: organizational announcement, not an event (score 289) (r/Brooklyn) Man Brutally Attacked by Dogs - Upper Ditmars - CRIME: crime alert, not an event (score 20) (r/LongIslandCity) 12 events auto-dropped by the timing filter (past dates) - logged in the Obsidian raw dump. ...

A herd of life-size buffalo puppets moves through two boroughs this week, roaming and running through streets, plazas, and parks with live music, poetry, gospel choirs, dance troupes, marching bands, and Lakota and Lenape ceremonies along the route. Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi is free and non-ticketed, presented by St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Walk Productions, and KBH Arts. Friday, Sept. 18 — Lower Manhattan, 5–7:30 p.m. Start at Bowling Green Park, follow the herd to Foley Square Saturday, Sept. 19 — Downtown Brooklyn, 2–4:30 p.m. From Abolitionist Place to Brooklyn Bridge Park Cost — Free. No tickets, no RSVP. You register separately only if you are joining as a puppeteer or formal participant Route map — St. Ann’s publishes a Google map plus a Bloomberg Connects guide with the artists scheduled for each day On the bill — Laurie Anderson, Rhiannon Giddens, Davóne Tines & THE TRUTH, Rosario Dawson, Sam Waterston, Susan Sarandon, Resistance Revival Chorus, Pilobolus Dance Company, Fogo Azul marching band, Brooklyn United Marching Band, Native Pride Dancers, and others How it was made — Conceived by Amir Nizar Zuabi in partnership with Elders of the Lenape and Lakota Tribes; puppetry design by Ukwanda Puppets of South Africa Two practical notes. The route is a moving procession with pop-up performances, not a seated show, so pick a segment in advance and let the herd come to you rather than chasing it — Foley Square on Friday and Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday are the natural endpoints. And the Saturday afternoon slot pairs directly with Papi Juice’s free dance party on Pier 6, which starts at 4 p.m. right where the Brooklyn procession lands. ...

For fifteen years, Morningside Lights has closed out September by sending a mile-long river of handmade lanterns through Morningside Park and up to Columbia’s campus. The lanterns are built by neighbors in open workshops the week before, then carried in a procession that is free, non-ticketed, and open to anyone who shows up. This year’s theme is A Common Thread — quilt-inspired patterned panels stitched together by a winding red line. ...

FC Bayern Munich and Paulaner are bringing an actual Bavarian Oktoberfest setup to Time Out Market Union Square on Friday, September 18, from 1 to 7 p.m. Paulaner is one of only six breweries officially permitted to pour at the original Munich festival, so the beer is the real thing rather than a themed tap takeover, and admission is free if you RSVP. When — Friday, Sept. 18, 1:00-7:00 p.m. Where — Time Out Market Union Square, Manhattan Cost — Free with RSVP; some ticketed tiers around $15; group tables include a bucket of beers The match — FC Bayern vs. Union Berlin live on the big screens, kickoff 2:30 p.m. ET Also — Oktoberfest dishes from Market vendors, Bavarian games, stein-hoisting contests, live DJ sets Shopping — Classic Football Shirts pop-up: retro jerseys, current kits, the FC Bayern Oktoberfest special-edition shirt Dress code — Lederhosen and dirndls encouraged If you want to watch the match, the 2:30 kickoff is your anchor — everything else runs around it. Show up at 1, get a beer and a table, and you have a seat before Bayern and Union Berlin line up. Group table bookings include a bucket of beers, which is the cheaper route if you are coming with people rather than solo. ...

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, NYC Parks, and Transportation Alternatives are staging the first-ever Ride Queens Bike Tour on Sunday, September 20 — a free mass ride that starts and ends at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. You pick your distance: a 12-mile loop through Central Queens, or a 25-mile route that pushes out through Northern and Eastern Queens. When — Sunday, Sept. 20, 10 a.m., rain or shine Where — Starts and finishes at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens Routes — 12-mile Central Queens loop, or 25-mile Northern/Eastern Queens route Cost — Free Registration — Required, capped at 2,000 riders After — Festival at the park: international food vendors, performances, giveaways Sign up — queensbp.nyc.gov/ridequeens/ The 2,000-rider cap is the part that matters. This is not a roll-up-and-ride event, and a first-year borough-sponsored ride with three organizers behind it will fill. If you want in, register now rather than the night before. ...

The Feast of San Gennaro started in 1926 as a one-day neighborhood block party. This year it runs 11 days — Thursday Sept. 17 through Sunday Sept. 27 — and it is the 100th annual feast. Mulberry Street closes to cars between Canal and East Houston, the lights go up over the middle of the street, and the sausage and pepper griddles run from late morning until late at night. Admission is free. ...

Battery Park City just published its fall programming, and every single event on it is free. The centerpiece is Illumination NYC, the outdoor light-art festival that takes over the recently reopened Wagner Park from Sept. 17 through 19 for its fifth year — more than 10 large-scale installations by New York and international artists, projection mapping across the park’s architecture, live performances and DJ sets under the skyline. Illumination NYC — Thu Sept 17 to Sat Sept 19, Wagner Park. Nightly 7–11 p.m. Free. More than 10 installations, projection mapping, live performances, DJ sets. Silent disco — Saturday night only, Quiet Events with three DJs and wireless headphones. Free; wear neon or glow accessories if you want to blend in with the art. Food and drink — Food trucks on site plus a kiosk selling beer and wine. The only part of the festival that costs money. Climate Week — Sept 20–26. Beginner-friendly fishing, urban beekeeping, forest-bathing meditation in Teardrop Park, and a panel plus walking tour on how Lower Manhattan is preparing for rising seas and coastal storms. Fall concerts — Son Rompe Pera (Mexican cumbia and marimba), Sept 24. Broadway’s Betsy Wolfe in concert, Sept 28. Pat Oleszko’s We Are the Resist-Ants: Anthem, an “absurdist picnic spectacle,” Oct 3–4. October — Día de los Muertos celebration, sunset jazz from the Tribeca Jazz Institute, catch-and-release fishing in the Hudson, a Brooklyn Contra barn dance, and campfire stories plus Halloween crafts at Teardrop Park on Oct 24. Holiday Lights Celebration — Dec 3, Rockefeller Park. Tree lighting, carols, treats. Free. The light festival is the one to catch this week: it’s three nights, it’s free, and Wagner Park only reopened recently, so most of the crowd will be seeing the new waterfront for the first time. After that, the Climate Week programming is the more interesting stretch — the coastal resilience walking tour is the rare city event that deals with sea-level rise on the actual block where it will happen. ...

The Space Lady plays a free East Village garden set tonight, FONT’s festival week carries through Sunday, Reservoir runs Thursday and Friday, San Gennaro opens tomorrow and Queens Night Market opens Saturday — six of eight items free. Live Music The Space Lady with Nina Ryser — tonight Wed 9/16, 5:30–7:30pm, 6BC Botanical Garden (East Village): free, no ticket — the outsider street-performer set presented by Mississippi Records and 360 Record Shop. Side by Side: A Community Singing Gathering — Fri 9/18, Queens Plaza Studios, LIC: free, details and RSVP on Luma — warm-ups, then the song learned together by call-and-response; this month it’s “Memories” (Maroon 5). No singing experience, no sheet music, no audience. Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) — still on through Sun 9/20: the free Sun Ra lecture-demo is done, but the week keeps going with $20–33 sets — The Jazz Gallery 7pm Wed (Skylar Tang Quartet / Miranda Agnew, $33) and Thu (Kal Ferretti Big Band feat. Ingrid Jensen, $33), The Sultan Room Wed 7:15pm ($20), Nublu Sat 7pm ($22), Cutting Room finale Sun 7pm ($33). Art & Performance Reservoir — still on Thu 9/17 and Fri 9/18, 6:30pm, Barnard Movement Lab, 3009 Broadway (Morningside Heights): free, advance RSVP required, donations welcome — María José Contreras’s lecture/theatre/testimony piece on Santiago’s water supply, the retreating Andean glaciers and the dictatorship-era water code that privatized Chile’s water. Part of the Citizen Arts Festival. Festivals & Markets Feast of San Gennaro — opens tomorrow Thu 9/17, then daily through Sun 9/27, Mulberry St between Canal and Houston plus the Hester and Grand blocks, Little Italy: free to walk the street — the 100th edition. Queens Night Market — opens Saturday 9/19, 4pm–midnight, in the lot behind the New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Corona Park: free entry — 100+ independent vendors plus small-scale cultural performances, then every Saturday through Oct 31 (7 train to 111th St, four blocks south). Cash is still king at most stalls. Queens United Women’s Market — Sat 9/19, 1–6pm, on the 31st Ave Open Streets (Astoria): free to browse — women-owned vendors, with apple cider donuts, vegan lamingtons, Jamaican rum cake and chocolate bonbons among the stalls; pairs well with the Astoria farmers market the same weekend. Film L Train Movie Club: free screening of the original Street Fighter — Sun 9/20 at Talon Bar (Bushwick): free — hang out from 6pm, film at 6:30, timed to the new Street Fighter release; the club’s usual bar-screening setup, no RSVP mentioned. All gathered items - what was cut and why (9) New York Sings Yiddish: Passing the Torch to a New Generation - DEDUP: fully written up yesterday; Thursday already carries San Gennaro’s opening night and Reservoir (web · City Parks Foundation) Scream Scene: The Slumber Party Massacre - DEDUP: described yesterday; Saturday’s slots went to the Queens Night Market opener and the Women’s Market (r/Brooklyn) Gallery Show of Traditional Chinese Landscape Paintings - UNVERIFIABLE: empty post body, no gallery, no date (r/LongIslandCity) Is it hard to listen to live music under the K bridge for free? - OFFTOPIC: The Prodigy question thread, not an announcement; the verified show is ticketed and 9 days out (r/Greenpoint) Turntable: Visions of the Jazzmen - STALE: Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba reception Sat 10/3, 17 days out (Bluesky) Mayor Mamdani Opens The Little Apple, Delivering Free Child Care to City Workers - NEWS: top item in the pool (score 682) but policy coverage, not an attendable event (r/nyc) CNN got the extended version of the Zohran-AOC “laughing” video - POLITICS: political-media discourse, not an event (score 283) (r/nyc) Marine Park Young Adults has achieved 501(c)(4) nonprofit status - NEWS: organizational announcement, not an event (score 288) (r/Brooklyn) Package Thief (Gravesend) - CRIME: crime alert, not an event (score 58) (r/Brooklyn) 24 events auto-dropped by the timing filter (past dates) - logged in the Obsidian raw dump. ...

The fall Brooklyn Bike Jumble takes over the plaza outside the Old Stone House on Saturday — the city’s long-running in-person bicycle swap, and one of the few places in New York where you can compare a dozen used bikes side by side in an afternoon instead of scrolling a marketplace app. Admission is free. When — Saturday, Sept. 19, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., rain or shine Where — Old Stone House, Washington Park, Park Slope; the Jumble is spread across the 4th Street Plaza between 5th and 4th Avenues (336 3rd St., Brooklyn) Cost — Free What’s there — New and used bicycles, replacement parts, and back-to-school bargains; you can test-ride before buying RSVP — Free registration via Eventbrite, linked from the Parks listing; walk-ups have been the norm Questions — (718) 768-3195 · info@theoldstonehouse.org · NYBikeJumble.com Access — Listed as an accessible location; reachable from the 4th Ave./9th St. and Union St. stations The pitch from the organizers is deliberately seasonal: gear up for commuting season, test out a new ride, buy the kids’ bikes before the holiday markup. That’s a fair summary of what a swap is good for. A used commuter bought in person, from someone who will answer questions about the drivetrain, costs a fraction of retail and skips the shipping-and-regret cycle entirely. ...

Every Tuesday night through the end of October, the High Line hands its 13th Street overlook to the Amateur Astronomers Association, which sets up high-powered telescopes on the elevated walkway and lets anyone walking by look through them. It’s free, it’s open to all ages, and you don’t need to know anything about astronomy going in — the volunteers do the aiming and the explaining. When — Tuesdays, 8:15–10:00 p.m., running through Oct. 27. Remaining 2026 dates: Sept. 22, Sept. 29, Oct. 6, Oct. 13, Oct. 20, Oct. 27 Where — On the High Line at 13th Street, under The Standard, Manhattan Cost — Free. No RSVP, no registration, no age minimum Gear — Telescopes provided between sunset and park closure; nothing to bring History — The Amateur Astronomers Association has run this on the High Line since the park opened Weather — Cancelled for clouds or rain, and cancellations are posted as alerts on The High Line’s webpage, not the Parks calendar Two practical notes. First, check the High Line site before you go: an August or September overcast night kills the session and the Parks listing won’t tell you. Second, calibrate expectations on the sky itself — this is a rooftop in Chelsea, so you are mostly getting the moon, the planets, and the handful of stars bright enough to punch through the city’s light. The telescopes and the people running them are the reason to go. ...

Greeley Square Park is a triangle of Broadway between 32nd and 33rd Streets — small enough to cross in fifteen seconds, a block below Herald Square — and it is running one of the densest free schedules in Manhattan this month. Almost all of it repeats on the same weekday at the same hour, so it works as a standing habit rather than a one-time event. Everything is free and nothing requires registration. ...

There is a free gallery show in Tribeca right now about women who painted what they said was talking back to them. Conduits of the Unseen: Women Artists Imagine Other Worlds collects eighteen artists across the twentieth century who gave form to spirits, cosmic forces, and other planes of consciousness — mediums working through séance and spirit contact on one end, Surrealists building alternate realities on canvas on the other. ...

A free Sun Ra lecture-demo at The New School opens the week-long Festival of New Trumpet Music today, Reservoir’s free Chile-water-crisis performance piece runs uptown Thursday and Friday, Queens Night Market’s fall season opens Saturday, and San Gennaro’s 100th feast opens Thursday. Seven of the eight items below are free. Live Music Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) — runs through Sun 9/20. Free today: Ahmed Abdullah’s The Music of Sun Ra and its Potential for Spiritual Empowerment in the 21st Century, 2–3:30pm at The New School, Arnhold Hall room I202, 55 W 13th St (free registration) — a reading and lecture-demonstration with students and ensembles, open to the public. The rest of the week is ticketed but cheap: The Jazz Gallery 7pm Wed (Skylar Tang Quartet / Miranda Agnew, $33) and Thu (Kal Ferretti Big Band feat. Ingrid Jensen / Akili Bradley, $33), The Sultan Room Wed 7:15pm (Beyondo Band, Peaceful Faces, Milena Casado, $20), Nublu Sat 7pm (Cole Kamen-Green + AANI, $22), Cutting Room finale Sun 7pm (Volker Goetze Quartet, $33). ShoutHouse ft. J. Hoard + Amanda Barise — tonight Tue 9/15, 7pm–midnight, Nublu 151 (East Village): $22, 21+ — the nine-piece genre-fluid band running hip-hop, jazz and orchestral arrangements into each other with flute up front. The Space Lady with Nina Ryser — Wed 9/16, 5:30–7:30pm, 6BC Botanical Garden (East Village): free, no ticket — the outsider street-performer set presented by Mississippi Records and 360 Record Shop. New York Sings Yiddish: Passing the Torch to a New Generation — Thu 9/17, 7pm, SummerStage, Central Park (Rumsey Playfield): free — National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s big-tent night, the one rained out on June 22 and moved to this slot; musical director Zalmen Mlotek leading YidLife Crisis, Yair Keydar, Riki Rose and Daniella Rabbani. Art & Performance Reservoir — Thu 9/17 and Fri 9/18, 6:30pm, Barnard Movement Lab, 3009 Broadway (Morningside Heights): free, advance RSVP required, donations welcome — María José Contreras’s interdisciplinary piece blending lecture, theatre and embodied testimony on Santiago’s water supply: the retreating Andean glaciers and the dictatorship-era water code that privatized Chile’s water. Part of the Citizen Arts Festival. Festivals & Markets Queens Night Market — fall season opens Sat 9/19, 4pm–midnight, in the lot behind the New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Corona Park: free entry — 100+ independent vendors selling food, merch and art, plus small-scale cultural performances; then every Saturday through Oct 31 (7 train to 111th St, four blocks south). Cash is still king at most stalls. Feast of San Gennaro — opens Thu 9/17 and runs through Sun 9/27, Mulberry St between Canal and Houston plus the Hester and Grand blocks, Little Italy: free to walk the street — the 100th edition, eleven days of stalls, music and the Grand Procession. Thursday is already the week’s busiest night. Film Scream Scene: free screening of The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) — Sat 9/19, doors 6pm / film 6:30, Pine Box Rock Shop, 12 Grattan St (Bushwick): free, no RSVP, 21+ — the slasher classic with a drinking game and a themed cocktail menu; spooky season starting early, cheap and indoors. All gathered items - what was cut and why (12) Piano in Bryant Park - DEDUP: the weekday lunchtime series cut again; today’s free-music slot went to FONT’s Sun Ra lecture-demo (web · NYC Parks) Stand up comedy - DEDUP: Tuesday nights at Corner Lounge Bistro, 32 E 130th St, East Harlem - real, recurring and uptown, but the post gives no time or cover (r/Harlem) Comedy Show: Sep 17 Grove 34 - DEDUP: dated and real, but Thursday already carries the free Yiddish night, Reservoir and San Gennaro’s opening (r/astoria) 10th Annual Art Is Alive Festival - DEDUP: fourth consecutive digest with no new information; Saturday’s finale is covered by the Queens Night Market opener and the slasher screening (web · Asase Yaa) Golden Hour at Greeley Square Park - DEDUP: free weekly Parks series held back; Thursday’s free music is SummerStage (web · NYC Parks) Midtown Music in Greeley Square Park - DEDUP: free Wednesday edition held back; Wednesday’s free music is The Space Lady (web · NYC Parks) Mayor Mamdani Opens The Little Apple, Delivering Free Child Care to City Workers - NEWS: top item in the pool (score 680) but policy coverage, not an attendable event (r/nyc) CNN got the extended version of the Zohran-AOC “laughing” video - POLITICS: political-media discourse, not an event (r/nyc) R Train - Peanut Butter Gate - CRIME: assault story, not an event (r/astoria) is anyone tryna #free #pee and how much %% - OFFTOPIC: NSFW solicitation post, not an event (r/Bushwick) [Promotional brand content (Harper’s-Bazaar-adjacent junk)](no URL found) - OFFTOPIC: brand promotions, not events (web) @DoNYC Summer Sendoff Staycation sweepstakes - OFFTOPIC: promo, not an event (X) 22 events auto-dropped by the timing filter (past dates) - logged in the Obsidian raw dump. ...

New York keeps a large amount of actual forest inside city limits, and City of Forest Day is the one Saturday a year the parks system leans into it. This year it falls on October 3, and the Urban Park Rangers are running free walks and stewardship events in all five boroughs. Most of them are drop-in. One needs registration. Staten Island, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — City of Forest Day Hike at High Rock Park, meeting at the Nevada Avenue parking lot. Flora, fauna, and forest ecology in one of the city’s real woodland preserves. Bronx, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. — A Great Tree in a Great Forest at Raoul Wallenberg Forest, Independence Ave and W 232nd Street. A restored urban forest, on the ridge above the Hudson. Queens, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — Forest Restoration Walk in Forest Park, Myrtle Avenue and Park Lane South, with the Forest Park Trust and the Natural Areas Conservancy. Registration required, and it opens Monday, Sept. 21. Staten Island, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — Park Stewardship at Allison Pond Park, Prospect Avenue and Brentwood Avenue. Actual volunteering: help care for the woodlands. Manhattan, 1:00–2:30 p.m. — Great Trees of Inwood Hill Park, W 218th Street and Indian Road. Native tree ID and what trees do for the city. Brooklyn, 3:00–4:30 p.m. — Woodland Restoration Walk at the Salt Marsh Nature Center in Marine Park. Coastal woodland restoration, and the species that depend on it. All six are free, and the spread of times means you can realistically stack two in one day if you are willing to cross a borough in between. ...

Hart Island sits off the Bronx in Long Island Sound and has served New York City since 1869 — the largest public cemetery in the country, still used for city burials. It has also been, at various points, a military training ground, a quarantine station, a psychiatric hospital, a reform school, a rehabilitation facility, a missile base, and a jail. The Urban Park Rangers run free walking tours of it. The next one is the South Island tour, and the lottery for it opens this week. ...