Discover the best upcoming events, festivals, nightlife, food experiences, and seasonal activities in NYC and beyond.
Featured events worth planning for.
The Feast of San Gennaro returns to Little Italy for its 100th annual edition, filling Mulberry Street with an eleven-day celebration of Italian American food, faith and neighborhood tradition. Visitors can browse street vendors, sample festival favorites and experience one of September’s defining d
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LuminoCity Dino Safari returns to Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station, Long Island, from September 2 through October 18, 2026 — its fourth year at the site. The outdoor festival fills nearly three acres with more than 70 animatronic and illuminated dinosaurs, some up to 45 feet tall, plus light
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AC/DC bring the Power Up Tour to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford on Friday, September 25, 2026. The tour is named for Power Up, the band's latest studio album, which went to No. 1 in 21 countries. Live Nation lists The Pretty Reckless on the bill; check the official listing for set times closer
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Phoebe Bridgers plays the second of three nights at Barclays Center on Friday, September 25, 2026 at 7:30 PM, with Alex G opening on The Lost Tour. Friday is the middle show of the run, which runs September 24 through 26 in Brooklyn. Barclays Center has made all three nights device-free. Phones, sm
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ROLE MODEL brings Chuck On Tour to Radio City Music Hall on Friday, September 25, 2026 at 8 PM, with doors at 7 PM and Samia as special guest. It is the first of two Radio City nights. The Friday night starts the weekend stand before the Saturday, September 26 show. ROLE MODEL's latest record, Chuc
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Daybreaker brings its first sunrise-to-sunset ALIVE festival to Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 3 on Saturday, September 26, 2026, and admission is free. The day runs 6 AM to 8 PM on the East River waterfront and is built as one continuous guided experience rather than a lineup of back-to-back sets: mor
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Climate Week NYC 2026 ends with a pep rally for New York Harbor. LMCC, The New York Climate Exchange and Stony Brook University host Homecoming: For the Harbor on Governors Island on Saturday, September 26, 2026 from 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM, free and open to all ages. The day opens with a Climate-Action
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Reese's Book Club closes out its STORYfest season at Hudson Yards on Saturday, September 26, 2026 with a free outdoor afternoon for readers, themed around book-to-screen adaptations. Danielle Robay, host of the Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club podcast, leads a conversation with Alice Hoffman, whose n
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The Afro-Latineers return to Stuyvesant Square Park on Saturday, September 26, 2026 from 2 to 4 PM for a free outdoor Hispanic Heritage Month performance presented by the Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Association. Led by percussionist Paul "Sabor" Rivera, the multicultural ensemble plays a blend of A
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SVA Theatre in Chelsea screens Netflix's Oscar-winning animated hit KPop Demon Hunters for free on Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 2 PM, followed by a Q&A with production designer Dave Bleich (SVA BFA 1992 Illustration), moderated by current SVA student Matt Leung. The feature is preceded by the NYC
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The Global Citizen Festival returns to Central Park's Great Lawn on Saturday, September 26, 2026 for its 14th year, and it is one of the biggest music days of the NYC fall. The announced lineup pairs Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean — marking the 30th anniversary of the Fugees' The Score — with Lenny
View event →Phoebe Bridgers closes her three-night Barclays Center run on Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 7:30 PM, with Alex G opening on The Lost Tour. Saturday is the final Brooklyn night after shows on September 24 and 25. Barclays Center has made all three nights device-free. Phones, smart watches, cameras
View event →ROLE MODEL plays the second of two nights at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 8 PM, with doors at 7 PM and Samia as special guest on Chuck On Tour. Saturday closes the weekend stand that begins Friday, September 25. Use the Radio City entrances on 50th and 51st streets betwe
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Festival Day is the flagship free day of the Brooklyn Book Festival, and in 2026 it lands on Sunday, September 27 from 10 AM to 6 PM across Downtown Brooklyn. Eight indoor and outdoor stages at Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn Law School, the Center for Brooklyn History, St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Ch
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The New York Society for Ethical Culture hosts its street fair on West 64th Street between Broadway and Central Park West on Sunday, September 27, 2026 from noon to 6 PM. The block fills with community organizations, local and ethically minded vendors, international food and children's activities, w
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Brooklyn's biggest and oldest street festival returns for its 51st year on Sunday, September 27, 2026 from noon to 6 PM, rain or shine. Produced by the Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation, the Atlantic Antic takes over roughly 10 blocks of Atlantic Avenue between Hicks Street and Fourth Av
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Weezer bring WEEZER: The Gathering to Barclays Center on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 7 PM, with The Shins and Silversun Pickups on the bill. It is a three-band package of acts that came up in the 1990s and 2000s alternative scene, which makes the undercard as much of a draw as the headliner. B
View event →LuminoCity Dino Safari returns to Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station, Long Island, from September 2 through October 18, 2026 — its fourth year at the site. The outdoor festival fills nearly three acres with more than 70 animatronic and illuminated dinosaurs, some up to 45 feet tall, plus light
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CultureCon NYC brings creatives, entrepreneurs and culture-shapers together at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for a day centered on professional connection, ideas and the business of creativity. Expect a high-energy gathering where panels, conversations and community moments share the spotlight with style,
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New York Comic Con returns to the Javits Center for four days of comics, television, film, gaming, cosplay and fandom culture. The event brings creators, publishers, exhibitors and fans into one of New York’s largest convention weekends, with programming spread across stages, panel rooms and a busy
View event →LuminoCity Dino Safari returns to Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station, Long Island, from September 2 through October 18, 2026 — its fourth year at the site. The outdoor festival fills nearly three acres with more than 70 animatronic and illuminated dinosaurs, some up to 45 feet tall, plus light
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Pangea Dance Collective will present its Fall 2026 season, PANGEA: UNLEASHED, October 10–11 at Peridance KnJ Theater in New York City. Featuring eight world-premiere works by company artists, the program will also mark the highly anticipated return of Carmilla, Pangea's signature full-length contemp
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The Chicks bring the Taking The Long Way 20th Anniversary Tour to the Beacon Theatre, marking 20 years since Taking the Long Way, their 2006 album. The Beacon run has three nights — October 10, 12 and 13 — in a roughly 2,800-seat Upper West Side theater, far smaller than the arenas the group usually
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Steve Lacy brings the Oh Yeah? Tour to Radio City Music Hall on Saturday, October 10, 2026 at 8 PM, with doors at 7 PM. The New York night comes right after the tour's Canadian stops in Toronto and Laval, according to Live Nation's schedule. Use the Radio City entrances on 50th and 51st streets bet
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Don Omar brings The Last King World Tour to Barclays Center on Saturday, October 10, 2026 at 8 PM. It is one of two New York-area nights on the tour: according to the artist's official tour list, he plays Brooklyn on October 10 and Newark on October 11, part of a North American run that began in Rea
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Brand New play Barclays Center on Monday, October 12, 2026 at 8 PM as part of a tour marking the 20th anniversary of The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, the Long Island band's 2006 album. Barclays Center bills the night as "7 Years + 13 of The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me in Concert." For
View event →The Chicks bring the Taking The Long Way 20th Anniversary Tour to the Beacon Theatre, marking 20 years since Taking the Long Way, their 2006 album. The Beacon run has three nights — October 10, 12 and 13 — in a roughly 2,800-seat Upper West Side theater, far smaller than the arenas the group usually
View event →The Chicks bring the Taking The Long Way 20th Anniversary Tour to the Beacon Theatre, marking 20 years since Taking the Long Way, their 2006 album. The Beacon run has three nights — October 10, 12 and 13 — in a roughly 2,800-seat Upper West Side theater, far smaller than the arenas the group usually
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Open House New York Weekend unlocks architecture, infrastructure and design sites across the five boroughs, creating unusual access to spaces that often sit outside everyday public view. The citywide program is expected to span more than 300 locations, with tours, talks and self-guided experiences t
View event →LuminoCity Dino Safari returns to Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station, Long Island, from September 2 through October 18, 2026 — its fourth year at the site. The outdoor festival fills nearly three acres with more than 70 animatronic and illuminated dinosaurs, some up to 45 feet tall, plus light
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Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds bring the Mutiny for the Masses 2026 Tour to Barclays Center on Friday, October 16, 2026 at 8 PM. Johnny Blue Skies is the name Sturgill Simpson has recorded and toured under recently, and the Dark Clouds are his band for this run. Barclays Center opens doors 60
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The Knicks open the 2026–27 NBA season at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, hosting the Philadelphia 76ers at 7 PM ET. It is the first game at the Garden since the Knicks were crowned NBA champions, their first title in 53 years, and by league tradition the reigning champion opens
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Revelation Nights comes to Barclays Center for a large-scale community gathering in Brooklyn. The official venue listing confirms the October 20 date and 7:00 PM start, giving attendees a central source for current access, entry and ticket information. Expect an arena-format evening designed for a s
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Arcángel brings La 8va Maravilla World Tour to Barclays Center on Friday, October 23, 2026 at 8 PM. The Brooklyn stop sits in the middle of an East Coast swing that, according to Live Nation's tour listing, also takes the reggaetón and Latin trap veteran to Orlando, Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte and Wal
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Thundercat brings the Distracted AF Tour to Kings Theatre in Flatbush on Friday, October 23, 2026 at 8 PM, with TiaCorine opening. The tour supports Distracted, the two-time GRAMMY-winning bassist and singer's first album since 2020, released in April 2026. Openers rotate across the run — Channel T
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The Brooklyn Nets host the Indiana Pacers at Barclays Center on Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 6 PM ET — an early-season Sunday evening game, according to NBA.com and the Barclays Center schedule. Barclays Center opens doors 90 minutes before tipoff for Nets games. The arena is at Atlantic and Flatbus
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Rod Wave brings the Don't Look Down Tour to Barclays Center on Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at 8 PM, with Fridayy opening. It is the first of two consecutive Brooklyn nights; Barclays Center lists shows on October 27 and 28. Live Nation's listing also offers a separate Fridayy VIP meet-and-greet upgra
View event →Rod Wave plays the second of two Brooklyn nights on the Don't Look Down Tour on Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 8 PM at Barclays Center, with Fridayy opening. The night follows the Tuesday, October 27 show and closes the Brooklyn stand. Doors open 60 minutes before showtime. If the first night sells
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Rawayana bring the ¿Dónde Es El After? World Tour to Barclays Center on Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 7 PM — a Halloween night show in Brooklyn. The Venezuelan band, winners of GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY awards, announced the North American and European legs of the tour in March 2026, adding to a previ
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The Village Halloween Parade transforms Sixth Avenue into New York’s biggest public Halloween procession, bringing puppets, costumed marchers, performers and an enormous spectator crowd through Greenwich Village. Watching from the route is free, and the annual event remains one of the city’s signatu
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Fright Night NYC Halloween Party 2026 🎃 New York City, Halloween night — FRIGHT NIGHT is back. Join us Saturday, October 31st for one of NYC’s biggest Halloween parties as City Elite Group takes over BK Loft 26 in Brooklyn for a massive night of music, costumes, drinks and Halloween energy. Come d
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The TCS New York City Marathon carries runners through all five boroughs before its Central Park finish, creating one of the city’s most visible annual sports days. Spectators can cheer free along much of the course as waves move from Staten Island through Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx.
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The Freak Show: NYC Halloween Day Party 2026 | Big Apple Brunch Big Apple Brunch & City Elite Group present THE FREAK SHOW — a Halloween Day Party taking over HK Hall in New York City on Sunday, November 1st! Halloween weekend isn’t over yet. Come dressed up and ready for an unforgettable NYC Hallow
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WWE Monday Night Raw comes to Barclays Center for a live night of sports entertainment in Brooklyn. The official listing confirms doors at 6:00 PM and the event at 7:30 PM. Fans can expect the scale, entrances and arena production associated with a televised WWE event, while the exact match card and
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The New York Rangers host the St. Louis Blues at Madison Square Garden for a 7:00 PM NHL matchup. The start time was rechecked across authoritative schedule and official-ticketing sources before publication, resolving the earlier audit conflict. Expect a full Garden game-night atmosphere in Midtown,
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The Christmas Spectacular returns to Radio City Music Hall for its 2026 holiday season, opening November 4 and continuing through January 5, 2027. The production pairs the precision of the Rockettes with Radio City’s large-scale staging and long-running seasonal traditions. Multiple performances are
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The Brooklyn Nets host the Charlotte Hornets at Barclays Center on Wednesday, November 4, 2026. It is a weeknight Eastern Conference matchup in the first month of the 2026–27 NBA season, confirmed on both NBA.com and the Barclays Center schedule. Barclays Center opens doors 90 minutes before tipoff
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Young Miko closes the Late Checkout Tour at Barclays Center on Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 8 PM. Pollstar reported that the Puerto Rican rapper and singer-songwriter's 31-date, 11-country tour began with European festival dates in July, moved through a North American arena run, and wraps in Brookl
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The New York Comedy Festival returns with a citywide run of stand-up and live comedy across venues of different sizes. This main festival listing covers November 6–15 without creating thin pages for every individual performance. Expect a mix of major theater dates, club shows and special events, wit
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Dave Chappelle returns to New York City with Karmageddon for two nights at Madison Square Garden as part of the New York Comedy Festival. One of comedy's biggest names takes over The Garden on November 6 and November 7 for two major NYC performances. Show dates: Friday, November 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Disney Descendants, ZOMBIES & Camp Rock: Worlds Collide Concert Tour arrives at Barclays Center for a family-focused arena production built around music from the three Disney franchises. The official venue and tour sources confirm the Brooklyn date and 7:00 PM start. Expect a staged concert experien
View event →Dave Chappelle returns to New York City with Karmageddon for two nights at Madison Square Garden as part of the New York Comedy Festival. One of comedy's biggest names takes over The Garden on November 6 and November 7 for two major NYC performances. Show dates: Friday, November 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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New York City’s Veterans Day Parade returns to Fifth Avenue for a public tribute to veterans, active-duty service members and military families. The procession brings together marching units, service organizations and spectators along the Manhattan route. Viewing is free, making it one of November’s
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Dave Matthews Band play the first of two nights at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 7:30 PM, with doors at 6:30 PM. The band's official announcement says the Fall 2026 Tour opens November 4 at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin, runs through Nashville, Chicago, Baltimore an
View event →Dave Matthews Band close their Fall 2026 Tour at Madison Square Garden on Friday, November 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM, with doors at 6:30 PM. According to the band's official announcement, the tour opens November 4 in Madison, Wisconsin, and this Friday night is the second of two MSG shows that end the run
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The 2026 League of Legends World Championship Final comes to Barclays Center, bringing the game’s top competitive stage to Brooklyn. The venue lists a noon event time, but this page does not publish that as the final start until Riot’s official broadcast and competition schedule confirms it. Fans ca
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Mojo Brookzz brings the Outta Pocket Comedy Tour to the Beacon Theatre on Sunday, November 15, 2026 as part of the New York Comedy Festival, with two performances at 6:30 PM and 9:30 PM. Tickets are sold per performance, so check which showtime you are booking. According to the festival, Dyon "Mojo
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The Brooklyn Nets host the Philadelphia 76ers at Barclays Center on Monday, November 16, 2026. For New York fans, it is the first chance to see this season's 76ers in Brooklyn — NBA.com notes LeBron James is starting his record 24th season with Philadelphia after joining the team. Barclays Center o
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Stevie Wonder brings his Songs in the Key of Life Performances 50th Anniversary Tour to Madison Square Garden on Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 8 PM, with doors at 7 PM. The tour celebrates the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, his 1976 double album. The international run moves through
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Jessie Reyez brings the A Little Vengeance Tour to Barclays Center on Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 8 PM. The 13-date North American run supports A LITTLE VENGEANCE, the R&B and hip-hop singer-songwriter's fourth album, released in June 2026. The tour opens November 3 in Seattle and wraps November
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The Brooklyn Nets host the Orlando Magic at Barclays Center on Friday, November 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM ET in an NBA Cup group-stage game. NBA.com lists the matchup in East Group A, so the result counts toward the in-season tournament standings as well as the regular season — a small edge of stakes for
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Matt Rife brings the Stay Golden World Tour to UBS Arena at Belmont Park on Friday, November 20, 2026 at 8 PM. The UBS Arena date was part of a 40-plus-date expansion of the tour across North America, Europe and the U.K., announced by the arena and Live Nation, which produces the tour. UBS Arena is
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The Neighbourhood bring THE WOURLD TOUR to Barclays Center on Saturday, November 21, 2026 at 7 PM, with Nessa Barrett and Noise Dept. opening. The tour supports (((((ultraSOUND))))), the band's album on Warner Records. This Saturday show is the only Brooklyn night with openers: Barclays Center note
View event →The Neighbourhood play their second Barclays Center night on THE WOURLD TOUR on Sunday, November 22, 2026 at 6 PM — an hour earlier than the Saturday show. The tour supports (((((ultraSOUND))))), the band's album on Warner Records. Barclays Center notes that openers Nessa Barrett and Noise Dept. pe
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sombr brings the You Are The Reason Tour to Madison Square Garden on Monday, November 23, 2026 at 7 PM, with doors at 6 PM and special guests Dove Cameron and Hannah Jadagu. It is the first of two consecutive MSG nights, with the second on Tuesday, November 24. Both openers are listed for both nigh
View event →sombr plays the second of two nights at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, November 24, 2026 at 7 PM, with doors at 6 PM and special guests Dove Cameron and Hannah Jadagu on the You Are The Reason Tour. The Tuesday show follows the Monday, November 23 date and closes the MSG stand. The show falls tw
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Victoria Monét brings the Frequency Of Love Tour to the Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, November 24, 2026 at 8 PM, with doors at 7 PM. The 27-city North American tour celebrates Frequency Of Love, the three-time GRAMMY winner's album due October 2, 2026 on Lovett Music/RCA Recor
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade marks its 100th anniversary in 2026, making this centennial edition a major New York seasonal milestone. The public spectacle brings giant balloons, floats, marching bands and performance groups through Manhattan toward Herald Square. Street viewing is free along desig
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The Frozen Apple brings Cornell Big Red men’s hockey and the Maine Black Bears to Madison Square Garden for a marquee college matchup. The event gives alumni, students and New York hockey fans a chance to see both programs on the Garden ice in a standalone late-November game. The exact start time sh
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John Summit brings his CTRL ESCAPE ARENA TOUR to Barclays Center on Saturday, November 28, 2026 at 7 PM — the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The tour is the house DJ and producer's 2026 North American arena run, putting a club-rooted set into an arena production. Barclays Center notes that ages 18+ a
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Brent Faiyaz brings Brent Faiyaz Live: I Spent The Night With Brent Faiyaz to Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Thursday, December 3, 2026, with the show starting at 8:00 PM and doors opening at 7:00 PM. The New York date is the middle stop of a three-city arena run with Chicago and Los Angeles — his f
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Marilyn Maye — a working cabaret singer into her late nineties and a genuine American songbook institution — plays her New Year's Eve Extravaganza in the downstairs Birdland Theater. The room is small, the arrangements are live and unhurried, and the between-song storytelling is half the reason peop
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Trumpeter Chris Botti finishes his annual Blue Note holiday residency on December 31, closing the run on New Year's Eve in the basement room on West Third Street. Botti's residency is a Village institution — a small stage, a band that has played these rooms for years, and a set that leans on ballads
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Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. in Times Square hosts a Fire & Ice New Year's Eve celebration on Dec. 31, 2026. Tickets include an all-night premium open bar, a full entrée buffet, ice sculptures, flambé and fire stations, a DJ and a champagne toast at midnight. Guests must be 18 or older, and 21 or older to
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Two performances of the Christmas Spectacular run at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday, December 31, 2026: 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM. Both are the full production — the Rockettes' precision kick line, the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, the double-decker bus number through a digital New York and the Livin
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August Wilson's Seven Guitars plays a 1:00 PM performance at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse on December 31. The Newhouse is a thrust stage with roughly 300 seats, so Wilson's 1948 Pittsburgh backyard — blues, grief, comedy, a murder told backwards — happens a few feet from the audience.
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Disney's Aladdin plays a 1:00 PM performance at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 31 — a Broadway matinee on 42nd Street, two blocks from the Times Square ball. Friend Like Me and the flying carpet still land the way they did on opening night, and the restored 1903 theater is worth the ticket on
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The Harlem Gospel Choir plays the Blue Note's 1:30 PM brunch set on New Year's Eve — a full choir, a live band and a Village jazz basement in daylight. It is one of the club's longest-running weekend traditions and an easy answer for visitors who want live music in New York on December 31 without co
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New York City Ballet's George Balanchine's The Nutcracker plays a 2:00 PM matinee on New Year's Eve at the David H. Koch Theater. The roughly two-hour production follows young Marie into a dream world of mice, swirling snow and sweets, set to Tchaikovsky's score, with the famous growing Christmas tr
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Zarna Garg brings Million Dollar Excuses to the Beacon Theatre on New Year's Eve, with doors at 4:30 PM and the show at 5:30 PM. The immigrant-mom comedy that built her following online plays very differently in a 2,800-seat Upper West Side landmark: big room, sharp pacing, an audience that came for
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RiseNY, the Times Square attraction that combines a soaring flyover ride with museum-style galleries, hosts an all-ages New Year's Eve from 6:00 PM to 1:00 AM. Guests can explore galleries on New York finance, skyline, TV, fashion, music, Broadway and film, then take the flying-theater ride that lif
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The Times Square ball drop is the anchor of New Year's Eve in New York City, and it is still free and open to the public. Viewing areas fill from the afternoon along Broadway and Seventh Avenue, with the crowd funneled into pens by the NYPD from side streets — once you are in a pen you cannot leave
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The Times Square EDITION runs two separate New Year's Eve events at 701 Seventh Avenue: A Night at 701West, a seated dinner experience from 7:00 PM to 2:00 AM at $2,995 per person, and The Garden Party from 9:00 PM to 2:00 AM at $1,500, held in the hotel's terrace-and-greenery space. Both put you i
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Margaritaville Resort Times Square turns its two-story restaurant space into a tropical New Year's Eve party a short walk from the ball drop. The Gala in Paradise runs from 7:00 PM to 2:00 AM and welcomes all ages, with a separate 21+ party scene inside. The night includes a five-hour premium open
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Broadway favorite Liz Callaway rings in 2027 at 54 Below, the intimate nonprofit cabaret beneath Studio 54. The Emmy winner and Grammy- and Tony-nominated singer performs with her band, moving through stage and screen favorites, timeless standards and a few surprises across an early-evening New Year
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Masquerade runs a 7:15 PM performance on December 31 at its West 57th Street home, a few blocks from Columbus Circle. The production is built around movement through the venue rather than a fixed proscenium, so it suits people who would rather be inside a show than watching one from row H. The earl
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230 Fifth opens its rooftop and heated enclosed penthouse for New Year's Eve from 7:30 PM to 2:00 AM, with the Empire State Building filling the view directly north. It is the most recognizable rooftop party in the city on this date and the reason the robe-and-heat-lamp photos circulate every Januar
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M Social on West 52nd Street runs the longest New Year's Eve night on this list — 8:00 PM to 4:00 AM — across the hotel's bar and event spaces a few blocks north of the ball drop. General admission is listed at $1,024.58 and includes the open bar and food service that make up the bulk of the price.
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Planet Hollywood's 42nd Street flagship, half a block from One Times Square, hosts an all-ages New Year's Eve party from 8:00 PM to 1:00 AM. The multimedia restaurant's huge digital displays set the scene, with a DJ, an open bar (non-alcoholic for guests under 21), appetizers and a midnight toast.
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The Knickerbocker's Saints & Sinners party is the closest thing to a private balcony over the ball drop: the 1906 hotel sits at 42nd Street and Broadway, and its rooftop looks straight down the Times Square bowtie. Entry is tiered by arrival time at 8:00, 9:00 and 10:00 PM, running to 1:00 AM. Pack
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The Marriott Marquis on Broadway hosts two New Year's Eve events above Times Square. Luxe & Lights runs 8:30 PM to 1:00 AM in the hotel's ballroom levels and admits all ages, which makes it one of the few Times Square-adjacent countdown parties families can actually attend. The View Lounge Soirée, f
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Musica, the two-level club on West 50th Street near the Hudson, opens at 9:00 PM on New Year's Eve and runs late. It is a proper nightclub rather than a hotel ballroom: separate rooms with different DJs, bottle-service tables around the floor, and a sound system built for dance music rather than a c
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Versa, the Midtown rooftop lounge on West 35th Street, hosts a New Year's Eve party from 9:00 PM to 2:00 AM. A DJ plays open-format Top 40, hip-hop, house and mashups and leads the midnight countdown. Tickets include a five-hour premium open bar and light fare early in the evening. VIP tickets add
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Circle Line runs New Year's Eve sailings from Pier 83 at West 42nd Street, with boarding at 9:00 PM and the cruise out on the Hudson from roughly 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM. Midnight happens on the water with the Midtown skyline on one side and the Statue of Liberty run behind you — no crowd pens, no cover
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SILO on Meadow Street hosts Gravagerz for New Year's Eve, doors at 9:00 PM, with tickets at $53.05 through DICE. This is the Brooklyn warehouse version of the night — a dark room, a serious rig, and a crowd that came for the music rather than a balloon drop. SILO sits in the East Williamsburg–Bushw
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Marc Rebillet plays Bowery Ballroom on New Year's Eve, doors at 9:00 PM. Rebillet builds everything live — loop pedal, keyboard, whatever the room hands him — so no two shows land the same way, which makes a midnight-adjacent set in a 575-capacity Lower East Side room about as high-variance as NYE e
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Bar 54 sits on the 54th floor of the Hyatt Centric Times Square — the highest rooftop bar in the neighborhood — and runs a 9:00 PM to 2:00 AM New Year's Eve party with sightlines over the Times Square blocks below. This is the premium end of the night: packages start around $1,499 per person and in
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This New Year's Eve party at the Hard Rock Hotel New York on West 48th Street takes place on December 31, 2026, in the hotel's NYY Lounge event space just steps from Times Square. Tickets include a four-hour premium open bar from 9 PM to 1 AM, passed light bites from 10 to 11:30 PM, DJs all night an
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Sony Hall, the Theater District concert venue on West 46th Street, becomes a full-scale New Year's Eve dance party from 9:00 PM to 4:00 AM. A DJ plays club, Top 40, hip-hop and mashups with the venue's sound, lighting and effects, then leads the countdown at midnight. Tickets include a five-hour pr
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Boston horn-driven funk band Ripe headline New Year's Eve at Brooklyn Bowl, doors at 6:00 PM and the show at 10:00 PM. Brooklyn Bowl is the rare NYE venue that is a concert hall, a bowling alley and a fried-chicken restaurant at once, which makes the long gap between doors and showtime useful rather
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Melodic bass producer William Black closes out the year at Brooklyn Steel, doors at 10:00 PM. The converted industrial space off Frost Street is built for exactly this — a big sound system, a wide floor and a late start that puts the countdown mid-set rather than at the door. It is a 21+ standing e
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Laugh your way into 2027 uptown. Comedy In Harlem's New Year's Eve show is hosted by Nicky Sunshine and Jamie Roberts, with a lineup of New York comedians carrying the night up to the countdown and a champagne toast at midnight. Doors open at 10:00 PM and the show begins at 10:30 PM. Tickets are $4
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Three-time Tony nominee Jennifer Simard, star of Broadway's Death Becomes Her, takes the 54 Below stage for the late show on New Year's Eve, carrying the room right through midnight into 2027. Expect a specially built set list that leans into her powerhouse voice and razor-sharp comedic timing. Doo
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The Birdland Big Band takes the New Year's Eve late set at 11:00 PM with vocalist Emma Smith out front, which means the countdown happens with a full horn section in the room on West 44th Street. It is a sit-down club show a block from Times Square: reserved seating, a food and drink minimum, and a
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New York Road Runners sends the Midnight Run off at 11:59 PM on December 31, so the four-mile race starts as the year turns and fireworks go up over Central Park. There is a costume parade and a dance party beforehand, and the crowd is a mix of serious club runners and people who signed up on a dare
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