https://nyc42.lol/ What changed in New York City, checked against the source and dated. en-US Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://nyc42.lol/news/trick-or-streets-2026-160-car-free-streets/ https://nyc42.lol/news/trick-or-streets-2026-160-car-free-streets/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Halloween 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. https://nyc42.lol/news/humm-opens-in-the-west-village-on-october-10/ https://nyc42.lol/news/humm-opens-in-the-west-village-on-october-10/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Food 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. https://nyc42.lol/news/no-pumpkin-flotilla-on-the-harlem-meer-this-year/ https://nyc42.lol/news/no-pumpkin-flotilla-on-the-harlem-meer-this-year/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Halloween 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. https://nyc42.lol/news/a-firehorse-leads-the-halloween-parade/ https://nyc42.lol/news/a-firehorse-leads-the-halloween-parade/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Parade New York's 53rd Village Halloween Parade steps off at 7pm on 31 October under the theme Body & Soul, led by a Firehorse built for the Year of the Horse. NY1 carries it live from 8pm. https://nyc42.lol/news/lucas-museum-opens-on-a-tuesday/ https://nyc42.lol/news/lucas-museum-opens-on-a-tuesday/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Museums George Lucas and Mellody Hobson's 300,000-square-foot museum opens with 1,300 works across 30-plus galleries. For a New York museumgoer the draw is not Star Wars, it is the room of reproductions. https://nyc42.lol/news/okefenokee-becomes-a-world-heritage-site/ https://nyc42.lol/news/okefenokee-becomes-a-world-heritage-site/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Outdoors UNESCO inscribed the Okefenokee in July: the largest subtropical lowland freshwater peatland on earth. For a New York reader it is the rare World Heritage site reachable without a passport. https://nyc42.lol/news/sxsw-badges-go-up-on-september-17/ https://nyc42.lol/news/sxsw-badges-go-up-on-september-17/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Convention The cheapest way into Austin next March closes in nine days. SXSW puts the gap between the early-bird badge and the walk-up rate at up to $900. https://nyc42.lol/news/nearly-a-billion-dollars-of-pet-costumes/ https://nyc42.lol/news/nearly-a-billion-dollars-of-pet-costumes/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Halloween The National Retail Federation's most recent survey puts total Halloween spending at a record $13.1 billion — and $1 billion of that on costumes for animals. The most popular one is a pumpkin. https://nyc42.lol/news/fifty-buffalo-are-walking-through-two-boroughs/ https://nyc42.lol/news/fifty-buffalo-are-walking-through-two-boroughs/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Free Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi brings a herd of fifty puppets through New York — Lower Manhattan on 18 September, Downtown Brooklyn on 19 September. It is free. https://nyc42.lol/news/moma-what-closes-and-what-opens-this-autumn/ https://nyc42.lol/news/moma-what-closes-and-what-opens-this-autumn/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Museums At MoMA in New York, the Kahlo and Rivera show ends 12 September and the Peggy Weil on 4 October. Between 15 September and 14 November, six more open — here are all the dates in one place. https://nyc42.lol/news/seven-days-of-free-classes-in-bed-stuy/ https://nyc42.lol/news/seven-days-of-free-classes-in-bed-stuy/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Free Asase Yaa’s Art Is Alive runs 13–19 September on MacDonough Street in Bed-Stuy, New York: 90-minute classes all week, free, ending in a block party on the Saturday. https://nyc42.lol/news/hubble-found-a-decagon-in-its-own-old-pictures/ https://nyc42.lol/news/hubble-found-a-decagon-in-its-own-old-pictures/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Science A ten-sided wave now circles Saturn’s south pole. Hubble had photographed it since 2023; it took two amateurs in 2024 to say what it was. https://nyc42.lol/news/the-parade-turns-100-a-century-and-two-years-late/ https://nyc42.lol/news/the-parade-turns-100-a-century-and-two-years-late/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Parade New York's Thanksgiving parade on November 26 brings a record 100 inflatable elements, a Hogwarts Great Hall float, a new Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey and the return of Underdog. https://nyc42.lol/news/fire-museum-reopens-after-two-years/ https://nyc42.lol/news/fire-museum-reopens-after-two-years/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Museums Closed since May 2024 over the structural integrity of its 1904 firehouse, New York City's fire museum reopened on 20 August — days before 11 September 2026. https://nyc42.lol/news/lenape-legacies-at-the-museum-of-the-city/ https://nyc42.lol/news/lenape-legacies-at-the-museum-of-the-city/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Museums The Museum of the City of New York opens a show organised with the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective, with more than 30 artists — and no past tense. https://nyc42.lol/news/transit-museum-bus-festival-turns-fifty/ https://nyc42.lol/news/transit-museum-bus-festival-turns-fifty/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT City Saturday 19 September, 10am to 3:30pm, free in Brooklyn Bridge Park — vintage New York buses at street level in the year the museum reaches its fiftieth. https://nyc42.lol/news/broadway-autumn-is-a-play-season/ https://nyc42.lol/news/broadway-autumn-is-a-play-season/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Theatre Broadway's autumn in New York: eleven plays to four musicals, and eight of the fifteen are revivals. That ratio says more about the economics than any grosses report. https://nyc42.lol/news/apple-from-350-billion-to-four-trillion/ https://nyc42.lol/news/apple-from-350-billion-to-four-trillion/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Business Tim Cook handed Apple to John Ternus on 1 September. The run he closes out is the largest single-tenure value creation the market has recorded, and it is not repeatable. https://nyc42.lol/news/venice-hands-out-a-lion-new-york-refuses-to-rank/ https://nyc42.lol/news/venice-hands-out-a-lion-new-york-refuses-to-rank/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Film The 83rd Venice festival opens 2 September with a jury, a competition and a Golden Lion. The New York Film Festival opens 13 days later with none of the three, and that is a decision. https://nyc42.lol/news/broadway-week-which-shows-are-worth-it/ https://nyc42.lol/news/broadway-week-which-shows-are-worth-it/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Theatre Twenty-five New York shows take the two-for-one from 8 to 20 September. They are not equally worth it, and the reason has less to do with the shows than with what each one costs the rest of the year.