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What's on in New York City

Museums and theatre, the river and the parks, and the things the seasons open and close. What is on, what changed this week, and when.

Events

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Five small dogs in costumes, the first in a witch's hat, walking in a line past a row of autumn trees with a pumpkin among them, on a dark brown ground

Halloween

Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade 2026

Avenue B and Tompkins Square Park, East Village · New York City

Skaters on an outdoor rink with two dome kiosks, string lights and a city skyline at dusk

Christmas

Winter Village at Bryant Park

Bryant Park · New York

A long avenue between rows of brownstones lined with glowing pumpkins and paper lanterns, a large jack-o'-lantern face in a starry night sky

Halloween

Park Slope Halloween Parade 2026

Seventh Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn · New York City

On now

Two identical orange theater seats side by side on a dark red ground

Theatre

Off-Broadway Week: 2-for-1

New York

A row of flat cut-paper wine glasses in many tones standing side by side against a plain ground

Festival

NYC Wine & Food Festival 2026

Invesco QQQ Festival Campus, Pier 17, the Seaport · New York City

A paper cutaway of stacked building floors with a rooftop water tower

Architecture

Open House New York Weekend 2026

All five boroughs · New York City

News

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A flat overhead map of city blocks with small orange pumpkins lined along an empty street

Halloween

160 car-free Halloween streets

New York's Department of Transportation hands a record 160 Open Streets and plazas to Halloween this October, with free trick-or-treating, costume contests and one signature party in each borough.

A roast chicken on a plate beside a martini glass, on a dark brown ground

Food

HUMM opens in the West Village

The Eleven Madison Park chef's à la carte sister restaurant opens at 435 Hudson Street, New York, on Saturday, October 10, with a roast chicken for two and a martini cart.

Six carved jack-o'-lanterns lined up on a spit of shore beside a dark, empty lake, with a thin crescent moon high above

Halloween

No Pumpkin Flotilla this year

New York's Pumpkin Flotilla will not cross the Harlem Meer this Halloween: the Central Park Conservancy says the free event drew more people than its setup could safely handle. No replacement in 2026.