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October 9-11, 2026
Free in NYC this weekend
214 free events from Friday to Sunday.
214 upcoming
Friday, October 9
Yoga
8:30 AM · Washington Square Park
Free
Cardio Sculpt
9:00 AM · Torsney Playground
Free
Farm Stand
9:00 AM · Powell Street Garden
Free
Forest Fridays: Volunteer Forest Restoration at Van Cortlandt Park
9:00 AM · Van Cortlandt Park
Free
It's My Park at Andrew Haswell Green Park
9:00 AM · Andrew Haswell Green Park · Manhattan
Free
Soundview Park Forest Restoration
9:00 AM · Soundview Park
Free
Prospect Park Wellness Walk
10:00 AM · Prospect Park – Audubon Center / Boathouse · Prospect Park
Free
Quilting Club at Windsor Terrace Library
10:00 AM · Windsor Terrace Library · Windsor Terrace
Free
Restoration Fridays at Highland Park
10:00 AM · Highland Park
Free
Running Group
10:00 AM · Inwood Hill Park
Free
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
11:00 AM · Conference House Park
Free
Neighbors Meet and Chat at Dyker Library
11:30 AM · Dyker Library · Dyker Heights
Free
African Restaurant Week Festival — Day 1
12:00 PM · Restoration Plaza · Bedford-Stuyvesant
Free
Knit and Crochet @ Mill Basin
12:00 PM · Mill Basin Library · Mill Basin
Free
Mahjong For Fun (Chinese Style) at Homecrest Library
12:00 PM · Homecrest Library · Homecrest
Free
Smorgasburg Central Park
12:00 PM · Central Park (Smorgasburg) · Upper West Side
Free
English Conversation Group at Central Library
1:00 PM · Central Library · Prospect Heights
Free
Dyker Singers at New Utrecht Library
2:00 PM · New Utrecht Library · Bensonhurst
Free
NYSCI Friday Free Community Hours
2:00 PM · New York Hall of Science · Corona
Free
Mahjong Club at Gerritsen Beach Library
3:00 PM · Gerritsen Beach Library · Gerritsen Beach
Free
MoMA Free Friday Nights (UNIQLO)
4:00 PM · MoMA · Midtown
Free
Astor Wines — Bayab Gin Tasting
5:00 PM · Astor Wines & Spirits · NoHo
Free
Astor Wines — Spanish Wines Tasting
5:00 PM · Astor Wines & Spirits · NoHo
Free
Evening Birding Tour
5:00 PM · Bryant Park – Info Kiosk (6th Ave across from 41st St) · Midtown
Free
Jazz Evening Champion Shogo Quartet
5:00 PM · Washington Market Park
Free
Summer on the Hudson: Forest Bathing
5:00 PM · Riverside Park
Free
Neptune's Core Live + Signing
5:45 PM · Rough Trade NYC
Free
15-Minute Tour: Highlights of the Exhibition “Untitled” (America)
6:00 PM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
Family Camping: Overnight at the Unisphere
6:00 PM · Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Free
NY Historical Society Free Friday Nights
6:00 PM · NY Historical Society · Upper West Side
Free
Rubin Museum K2 Fridays
6:00 PM · Rubin Museum · Chelsea
Free
Live Music by Marc Ribot, Che Chen, Talice Lee and Barry Weisblat
6:30 PM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
Movies Under the Stars: Halloweentown
6:45 PM · Frederick Douglass Playground
Free
Movies Under the Stars: The Nightmare Before Christmas | PG
6:45 PM · Louis Pasteur Park
Free
15-Minute Tour: Highlights of the Whitney Biennial 2026
7:00 PM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
Morgan Library Free Friday Nights
7:00 PM · The Morgan Library · Murray Hill
Free
NYC Social Night @ Monarch Rooftop: Make New Friends
7:00 PM · Monarch Rooftop · Midtown
Free
NYC Trivia League at Fornino Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6
7:00 PM · Fornino Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 · Brooklyn Bridge Park
Free
Rooftop Fridays at Time Out Market
7:00 PM · Time Out Market New York · Dumbo
Free
Whitney Free Friday Evenings
7:00 PM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
Movie Under the Stars: Inside Out 2 | PG
7:15 PM · Lieutenant John H. Martinson Playground
Free
"The Rooftop Remix" Late After Work
8:00 PM · Bliss Terasu Rooftop At The Four Points By The Sheraton Hotel
Free
15-Minute Tour: The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
8:00 PM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
Movies Under the Stars: Coco
8:00 PM · The Pearly Gates
Free
NYC Trivia League at Blondie's Sports
8:00 PM · Blondie's Sports · Upper West Side
Free
NYC Trivia League at SingleCut Beersmiths
8:00 PM · SingleCut Beersmiths · Astoria
Free
Arodes *4hr Set* w. ARYMÉ & Martim Rola
10:00 PM · 99 Scott - Main Room
Free
Friday Nights at The DL
10:00 PM · The DL Rooftop · Lower East Side
Free
Ian Friday & Silent H
10:00 PM · Le Bain · Meatpacking
Free
Reggaeton Fridays at The DL
10:00 PM · The DL Rooftop · Lower East Side
Free
Reggaeton Rooftop Fridays — DrinkUpinNYC at Hotel Chantelle
10:00 PM · Hotel Chantelle
Free
Silhouette "An Exotic R&B + Hip-Hop Party"
10:00 PM · Deluxx Fluxx
Free
holiCHIC NYC Diwali Sample Sale
holiCHIC
Free
New York City Career Fair
Hilton
Free
October | Lavender Literary Society: Gay American History at 50!
The New York Historical
Free
Saturday, October 10
The Foliage Ride 2026
7:00 AM · Bensonhurst Park
Free
It's My Park at Lillian D Wald Playground
8:00 AM · Lillian D Wald Playground · Manhattan
Free
Forest Fitness
8:30 AM · Fort Tryon Park
Free
NYRR Open Run: Astoria Park
8:45 AM · Astoria Park
Free
NYRR Open Run: Baisley Pond Park
8:45 AM · Baisley Pond Park
Free
NYRR Open Run: Canarsie Park
8:45 AM · Canarsie Park
Free
NYRR Open Run: Highland Park
8:45 AM · Highland Park
Free
NYRR Open Run: Inwood Hill Park
8:45 AM · Inwood Hill Park
Free
NYRR Open Run: Shore Road Park
8:45 AM · Shore Park and Parkway
Free
NYRR Open Run: Soundview Park
8:45 AM · Soundview Park
Free
Every Play Counts, Every Player Matters
9:00 AM · Starlight Park
Free
Farm Stand
9:00 AM · Powell Street Garden
Free
Inwood Hill Park Forest Restoration
9:00 AM · Inwood Hill Park
Free
It's My Park at Northerleigh Park
9:00 AM · Northerleigh Park · Staten Island
Free
NYRR Open Run: Crocheron Park Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration Run
9:00 AM · John Golden Park
Free
NYRR Open Run: St. Marys Park Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration Run
9:00 AM · St. Mary's Annual 5K Start
Free
Seton Falls Park Plug and Shrub Planting
9:00 AM · Seton Falls Park
Free
Zumba
9:00 AM · Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach
Free
Morning Yoga
9:30 AM · Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3 Central Lawn · Brooklyn Heights
Free
2026 Jesse Owens Track & Field Youth Program – Fall
10:00 AM · Randall's Island Park · Randall's Island
Free
31st Annual Panamanian Parade
10:00 AM · Franklin Avenue · Crown Heights
Free
Birding in the park with the West Harlem Art Fund
10:00 AM · Morningside Park
Free
Bollywood & Bhangra
10:00 AM · Hudson River Park – Pier 46 · West Village
Free
Broadway Beautification
10:00 AM · Fort Tryon Park
Free
Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary Wetland Cleanup
10:00 AM · Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary
Free
Fall Volunteer Workday
10:00 AM · The Garden by the Bay
Free
High Line Tour: From Freight to Flowers
10:00 AM · The High Line · Meatpacking District / Chelsea
Free
It's My Park at Leif Ericson Park
10:00 AM · Leif Ericson Park · Brooklyn
Free
It's My Park at Mapes Park
10:00 AM · Mapes Park · Bronx
Free
It's My Park at Owl's Head Park
10:00 AM · Owl's Head Park · Brooklyn
Free
It's My Park Day: Fall Edition!
10:00 AM · Riverside Park (various gardens) · Upper West Side / Riverside Park
Free
Jesse Owens Track & Field Youth Program
10:00 AM · Thomas Jefferson Park
Free
Member Mornings: Art of Manga
10:00 AM · Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights
Free
Member Mornings: Iris van Herpen
10:00 AM · Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights
Free
Prehistoric New York
10:00 AM · Pelham Bay Park
Free
Volunteer Workday: Howard Garden
10:00 AM · Howard Garden
Free
Volunteering at Conference House Park - The Blue Wave
10:00 AM · Conference House Park
Free
Autumn Meditation Hike
11:00 AM · Willowbrook Park
Free
Avenue of the Americas Autumnfest
11:00 AM · 6th Avenue · Midtown
Free
Broadway Astoria Festival
11:00 AM · Broadway (Astoria) · Astoria
Free
Community Paddle at The Bronx Zoo
11:00 AM · Bronx Park
Free
Extend Your Growing Season with Low Tunnels
11:00 AM · Karol's Urban Farm - Castle Hill (NYCHA)
Free
It's My Park at Seaside Wildlife Nature Park
11:00 AM · Seaside Wildlife Nature Park · Staten Island
Free
Jewish Museum Free Saturdays
11:00 AM · Jewish Museum · Upper East Side
Free
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
11:00 AM · Conference House Park
Free
Phoenix Community Garden Farm Stand
11:00 AM · Phoenix Community Garden
Free
Pinocchio and Gepetto's Big Apple Adventure (PuppetMobile)
11:00 AM · City Parks Foundation PuppetMobile (see calendar for park)
Free
Saltwater Fishing
11:00 AM · West Harlem Piers
Free
Smorgasburg Williamsburg
11:00 AM · Marsha P. Johnson State Park · Williamsburg
Free
Total Body Reset
11:00 AM · Herbert Von King Park
Free
Feel the Flow(ers): Opening Celebration
11:30 AM · Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights
Free
African Restaurant Week Festival — Day 2
12:00 PM · Restoration Plaza · Bedford-Stuyvesant
Free
Boo Bash in the Bronx
12:00 PM · St. James Park · Fordham
Free
Bronx Night Market — Fall Edition
12:00 PM · 161st Street & Grand Concourse · Concourse
Free
Smorgasburg Central Park
12:00 PM · Central Park (Smorgasburg) · Upper West Side
Free
Brooklyn Writers Circle at Windsor Terrace Library
12:30 PM · Windsor Terrace Library · Windsor Terrace
Free
Andalusian Music Event
1:00 PM · Kenkeleba House Garden
Free
Bridge Club at South Hollis Library
1:00 PM · South Hollis Library · South Hollis
Free
Children's' Harvest Festival
1:00 PM · Far Rock Farm
Free
Weekend Art: Saturday Sketch Club
1:00 PM · Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights
Free
Annie’s x Suzy Ultman Picklefest
2:00 PM · Park Slope
Free
Bargemusic Concerts
2:00 PM · Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse – Visitor Center · Brooklyn Heights
Free
The Light That Shines Through the Universe: Monuments to War (Lecture & Meditation)
2:30 PM · The High Line · Hudson Yards
Free
Astor Wines — Natural Wines Tasting
3:00 PM · Astor Wines & Spirits · NoHo
Free
Astor Wines — NYDC Whiskies Tasting
3:00 PM · Astor Wines & Spirits · NoHo
Free
Community Quilt: Freedom to Read at Mill Basin Library
3:00 PM · Mill Basin Library · Mill Basin
Free
Dia de los Muertos Celebration
3:00 PM · 6 River Terrace · Battery Park City
Free
Guggenheim Pay-What-You-Wish Saturdays
4:00 PM · Guggenheim · Upper East Side
Free
Guggenheim PWYW Saturdays
4:00 PM · Guggenheim · Upper East Side
Free
O.R. – ONLY REGGAE | NYC’s Ultimate Rooftop Reggae Experience
4:00 PM · The Ivory On Park
Free
Queens Night Market
4:00 PM · Queens Night Market (behind New York Hall of Science) · Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Free
Back to The 80s Saturdays
5:00 PM · Hotel Chantelle · Lower East Side
Free
Evening Birding Tour
5:00 PM · Bryant Park – Info Kiosk (6th Ave across from 41st St) · Midtown
Free
NYC'S GARBA X BOLLYWOOD @ 230 Fifth Rooftop
5:00 PM · 230 Fifth Rooftop Bar · Flatiron
Free
Cooper Hewitt Free Saturday Nights
6:00 PM · Cooper Hewitt · Upper East Side
Free
Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Transnational
6:00 PM · Feeding Tree Community Garden
Free
Movie Under the Stars: Ghostbusters | PG
6:45 PM · Frank Principe Park
Free
Movies Under the Stars: Ghostbusters
6:45 PM · Jacob H. Schiff Playground
Free
Movies Under the Stars: The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
8:00 PM · Julio Carballo Fields
Free
Rooftop Saturdays - Afrobeats + R&B + Reggae Dance Party NYC (HB Rooftop)
8:00 PM · High Bar New York
Free
MAMACITA : A Latin/Hip-Hop Party
10:00 PM · Deluxx Fluxx
Free
Rooftop Saturdays at The DL
10:00 PM · The DL Rooftop · Lower East Side
Free
Tony Humphries all night
10:00 PM · Le Bain · Meatpacking
Free
Build Your First App | Saturday Workshop for Kids & Coffee
188 7th Ave
Free
CONNECT: Turning Tragedy Into Triumph
Spring Studios, Main Stage
Free
Fall Fest at Atlantic Terminal Mall Plaza
Atlantic Terminal Mall
Free
holiCHIC NYC Diwali Sample Sale
holiCHIC
Free
Holiday & Kids: Memberships & Clubs for Kids & Teens - Annual Gift Options
New York
Free
ISS Stitch Club for Kids Ages 8-12 - Fall Winter 2026
137 Henry St
Free
Kids Cookie Creations @ Partake NYC
Partake NYC
Free
Kids Eat Free Saturdays
The Dram Shop Bar
Free
Kids Paint + Munch @ Partake NYC
Partake NYC
Free
Saturday Family Storytime
NYPL
Free
Zach & Canvas n Company Sip and Paint: Kids Edition
The Horseshoe Kitchen & Bar
Free
Sunday, October 11
NYRR Open Run: Conference House Park
8:45 AM · Conference House Park
Free
NYRR Open Run: Cunningham Park
8:45 AM · Cunningham Park
Free
NYRR Open Run: Marine Park
8:45 AM · Marine Park
Free
BPC Farmers Market
9:00 AM · River Terrace at Irish Hunger Memorial · Battery Park City
Free
Girl's Softball Clinic
9:00 AM · Ballfield 11
Free
Adventure Course Free Public Sunday Morning Program
9:30 AM · Alley Pond Park
Free
It's My Park at Forest Park
9:30 AM · Forest Park · Queens
Free
It's My Park at McKinley Park
10:00 AM · McKinley Park · Brooklyn
Free
It's My Park at Owl's Head Park
10:00 AM · Owl's Head Park · Brooklyn
Free
It's My Park at Sunset Park
10:00 AM · Sunset Park · Brooklyn
Free
Montague Street Open Streets
10:00 AM · Montague Street · Brooklyn Heights
Free
Pilates
10:30 AM · Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3 Central Lawn · Brooklyn Heights
Free
All Ages Artmaking: Roy Lichtenstein Mural of Tape
11:00 AM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
All Ages Artmaking: Windowscape Drawings
11:00 AM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
All Ages Printmaking: Roy Lichtenstein with Blackburn Printshop
11:00 AM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
Greenpoint Avenue Sunnyside Festival
11:00 AM · Greenpoint Avenue · Sunnyside
Free
How to Look at Plants: Observing Your Urban Ecosystem workshop
11:00 AM · Green Oasis Community Garden/Gilbert's Garden
Free
It's A Horse of Course Hike and Greet
11:00 AM · Crotona Park
Free
Lower Broadway Fair
11:00 AM · Broadway (FiDi) · Financial District
Free
Ongoing Outdoor Museum Exhibit: Alice's Terracotta Garden
11:00 AM · Conference House Park
Free
Smorgasburg Prospect Park
11:00 AM · Breeze Hill, Prospect Park · Prospect Heights
Free
Storytime
11:00 AM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
West Side Broadway Fair
11:00 AM · Broadway (UWS) · Upper West Side
Free
African Restaurant Week Festival — Day 3
12:00 PM · Restoration Plaza · Bedford-Stuyvesant
Free
Autumn Volunteer Day
12:00 PM · El Coqui Community Garden
Free
Exhibition Tour: “Untitled” (America)
12:00 PM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
Fall Festival with Councilmember Vernikov
12:00 PM · Asser Levy Park
Free
It's My Park at Hamilton Metz Field
12:00 PM · Hamilton Metz Field · Brooklyn
Free
New York Hispanic Day Parade
12:00 PM · Fifth Avenue · Midtown
Free
Paint, Party & Connect: Artists & the Garden Harvest
12:00 PM · Concerned Residents of Barbey Street Community Garden
Free
Pop-Up Audubon I
12:00 PM · Prospect Park Audubon Center · Prospect Park
Free
Smorgasburg Central Park
12:00 PM · Central Park (Smorgasburg) · Upper West Side
Free
15-Minute Tour: Highlights of the Whitney Biennial 2026
1:00 PM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
Adventure Course Free Public Sunday Afternoon Program
1:00 PM · Alley Pond Park
Free
Chess for Adults at Bay Ridge Library
1:00 PM · Bay Ridge Library · Bay Ridge
Free
Double Take: Intergenerational Dialogue
1:00 PM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
Garden Highlights Walk
1:00 PM · Wave Hill
Free
Garden Sound Bath and Potluck
1:00 PM · Welcome Home Garden
Free
Historic Harlem Parks Super Hike
1:00 PM · Morningside Park
Free
Nature In A Warming World
1:00 PM · Inwood Hill Park
Free
Russian-Language Gallery Tours
1:00 PM · Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights
Free
Sunday Football on the Rooftop
1:00 PM · 230 Fifth Rooftop · Flatiron
Free
SUNDAY FOOTBALL ON THE ROOFTOP | FREE ENTRY @ 230 Fifth Rooftop
1:00 PM · 230 Fifth Rooftop · Flatiron
Free
15-Minute Tour: The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
2:00 PM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
Bargemusic Concerts
2:00 PM · Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse – Visitor Center · Brooklyn Heights
Free
Charlotte Mayerson's Overlook Concerts
2:00 PM · Riverside Park
Free
Jazz in the Park at Ralph Ellison
2:00 PM · Ralph Ellison Plaza
Free
Tiki Disco in The Ruins
2:00 PM · Ruins at Knockdown Center
Free
Weekend Art: Sunday Art Hang
2:00 PM · Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights
Free
World of Echoes Sunset with Francois K
2:00 PM · Le Bain · Meatpacking
Free
A Closer Look: Guided Close-Looking Through Dialogue
3:00 PM · Whitney Museum · Meatpacking District
Free
Langroops Brooklyn Language Exchange (10-11)
3:00 PM · Washington Commons · Prospect Heights
Free
SOLUNA Day Party @ 230 Fifth Rooftop
3:00 PM · 230 Fifth Rooftop · Flatiron
Free
Ensemble in Process: The Medieval Chronicles
3:30 PM · Washington Park
Free
Comedy Mob Open Mic
5:30 PM · New York Comedy Club East Village · East Village
Free
Creatures of the Night: Bats
6:00 PM · Crocheron Park
Free
Family Camping: Staten Island
6:00 PM · Blue Heron Park
Free
NYC Trivia League at The Alvin Public House
6:00 PM · The Alvin Public House · Upper East Side
Free
Movies Under the Stars: Sister Midnight
6:45 PM · Police Officer Edward Byrne Park
Free
NYC Trivia League at Pubkey NYC
7:00 PM · Pubkey NYC · Greenwich Village
Free
NYC Trivia League at Scrappleland
7:00 PM · Scrappleland · Greenpoint
Free
Funkbox: Stretch Armstrong, Tony Touch, Ejoe
9:00 PM · Le Bain · Meatpacking
Free
BROADWAY KIDS ON BROADWAY!
Chelsea Table & Stage
Free
Comic Book Art Class For Kids
Anyone Comics
Free
Sundae Funday: Kids Craft Club at New Heat Studios
New Heat Studio
Free
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