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NYC Restaurant Week

Various Locations NY

For four weeks in July and August, some of the city's finest eateries will offer prix-fixe lunches for around $24, while selected restaurants will also offer dinners for $35. Reservations for this foodie favorite event can be made online starting July 8th.

$24 – $35

Bushwick Block Party

Unnamed Venue St. Nicholas Ave at Troutman St., Bushwick

Beloved Bushwick pizzeria Roberta's has teamed up with Vans to host the second annual Bushwick Block Party. The daylong bacchanalia takes place in a roped off area near the Morgan L train stop and features live music and DJs, four food trucks, and demonstrations by 22 artists painting on steel canvases. The lineup is still TBA, but Heems and Andrew W.K. were headliners last year, so expect some bumping beats.

Free

Ride the NYC Beach Bus to Jacob Riis Beach

NYC Beach Bus Meeker Ave & Union Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A mere $12 gets you from Williamsburg to Jacob Riis and back.  Starting July 4th and driving straight through Labor Day, this Rockabus competitor will…

Ride the NYC Beach Bus to Jacob Riis Beach

NYC Beach Bus Meeker Ave & Union Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A mere $12 gets you from Williamsburg to Jacob Riis and back.  Starting July 4th and driving straight through Labor Day, this Rockabus competitor will…

Hester Street Fair

Corner of Hester and Essex Street Hester and Essex, Lower East Side

Every Saturday through the end of October, the Hester Street Fair will be peddling artisanal food, vintage clothing, jewelry, crafts and home-wares in a vibrant outdoor marketplace.

Hester Street Fair

Corner of Hester and Essex Street Hester and Essex, Lower East Side

Every Saturday through the end of October, the Hester Street Fair will be peddling artisanal food, vintage clothing, jewelry, crafts and home-wares in a vibrant outdoor marketplace.

ASPCA Fundraiser at Bunnycutlet Gallery

Bunnycutlet 158 Roebling Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Possibly inspired by the wonder that was The Cat Show earlier this month in the West Village, Shih Tzus and Furbabies are bringing a gang of adoptable puppies to Bunnycutlet for an all-day part, complete with a doggie-kiddie pool that you can bring your own dog to play in, a live drawing session of the pups with Bunnycutlet resident artists, and a self-explanatory Yappy Hour from 6pm onward.

Free

Sixth Annual Pig Roast at 3rd Ward

3rd Ward 195 Morgan Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn

"A summery celebration of gut-splitting proportions. Our friends at Fitzcarraldo will be roasting a pig and serving up delicious summer sides. Plus we will have…

Kris Graves: Discovered Missing

Pocket Utopia 191 Henry St., Lower East Side, New York

Spend an evening in a place that’s nowhere near and nothing like New York at the closing reception for Graves, whose landscape photography depicts the snowy volcanoes of Iceland.

Free

Eastville A-List Comedy Line-up

Eastville Comedy Club 85 E. 4th St., East Village, New York

Three sets of of big name comedians like Janeane Garofalo and Christian Finnegan  rotate weekly at this East Village laugh den.

Eastville A-List Comedy Line-up

Eastville Comedy Club 85 E. 4th St., East Village, New York

Three sets of of big name comedians like Janeane Garofalo and Christian Finnegan  rotate weekly at this East Village laugh den.

Eastville A-List Comedy Line-up

Eastville Comedy Club 85 E. 4th St., East Village, New York

Three sets of of big name comedians like Janeane Garofalo and Christian Finnegan  rotate weekly at this East Village laugh den.

Eastville A-List Comedy Line-up

Eastville Comedy Club 85 E. 4th St., East Village, New York

Three sets of of big name comedians like Janeane Garofalo and Christian Finnegan  rotate weekly at this East Village laugh den.

Game Play 2013

Brick Theater 579 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A month-long theater festival featuring "cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video-gaming and performance." Shows include Dot, A Video Game with No Winner, in which "synchronized sounds and images, played by a “game console” built and programmed by the artist, and controlled by retro videogame joysticks" tell a story, and That Cute Radioactive Couple: A Post-Apocalyptic Comedy, which is "inspired by post-apocalyptic and dystopian video games like Fallout, Wasteland and Bioshock," and "has bittersweet fun with end of the world." - Brick Theater. Showtimes vary; see schedule.

$15

Game Play 2013

Brick Theater 579 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A month-long theater festival featuring "cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video-gaming and performance." Shows include Dot, A Video Game with No Winner, in which "synchronized sounds and images, played by a “game console” built and programmed by the artist, and controlled by retro videogame joysticks" tell a story, and That Cute Radioactive Couple: A Post-Apocalyptic Comedy, which is "inspired by post-apocalyptic and dystopian video games like Fallout, Wasteland and Bioshock," and "has bittersweet fun with end of the world." - Brick Theater. Showtimes vary; see schedule.

$15

Game Play 2013

Brick Theater 579 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A month-long theater festival featuring "cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video-gaming and performance." Shows include Dot, A Video Game with No Winner, in which "synchronized sounds and images, played by a “game console” built and programmed by the artist, and controlled by retro videogame joysticks" tell a story, and That Cute Radioactive Couple: A Post-Apocalyptic Comedy, which is "inspired by post-apocalyptic and dystopian video games like Fallout, Wasteland and Bioshock," and "has bittersweet fun with end of the world." - Brick Theater. Showtimes vary; see schedule.

$15

Game Play 2013

Brick Theater 579 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A month-long theater festival featuring "cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video-gaming and performance." Shows include Dot, A Video Game with No Winner, in which "synchronized sounds and images, played by a “game console” built and programmed by the artist, and controlled by retro videogame joysticks" tell a story, and That Cute Radioactive Couple: A Post-Apocalyptic Comedy, which is "inspired by post-apocalyptic and dystopian video games like Fallout, Wasteland and Bioshock," and "has bittersweet fun with end of the world." - Brick Theater. Showtimes vary; see schedule.

$15

Together/Far Apart at Culture Project

Culture Project 49 Bleeker Street, East Village, New York

This poetry and performance mash-up is presented as part of the Women Center Stage Festival.  Riffing off themes of "art, time, space and distance," Monica L.…

$12

Here Lies Love

The Public Theater 425 Lafayette, East Village, New York

"Within a pulsating dance club atmosphere, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim deconstruct the astonishing journey of Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos retracing her meteoric rise to power and subsequent descent into infamy and disgrace at the end of the People Power Revolution. Here Lies Love is a 90-minute theatrical experience. Set within a dance club atmosphere, audiences will stand and move with the actors. Comfortable shoes and clothing are recommended. Dancing is encouraged." - The Public Theater

$95

Here Lies Love

The Public Theater 425 Lafayette, East Village, New York

"Within a pulsating dance club atmosphere, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim deconstruct the astonishing journey of Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos retracing her meteoric rise to power and subsequent descent into infamy and disgrace at the end of the People Power Revolution. Here Lies Love is a 90-minute theatrical experience. Set within a dance club atmosphere, audiences will stand and move with the actors. Comfortable shoes and clothing are recommended. Dancing is encouraged." - The Public Theater

$95

Here Lies Love

The Public Theater 425 Lafayette, East Village, New York

"Within a pulsating dance club atmosphere, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim deconstruct the astonishing journey of Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos retracing her meteoric rise to power and subsequent descent into infamy and disgrace at the end of the People Power Revolution. Here Lies Love is a 90-minute theatrical experience. Set within a dance club atmosphere, audiences will stand and move with the actors. Comfortable shoes and clothing are recommended. Dancing is encouraged." - The Public Theater

$95

Here Lies Love

The Public Theater 425 Lafayette, East Village, New York

"Within a pulsating dance club atmosphere, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim deconstruct the astonishing journey of Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos retracing her meteoric rise to power and subsequent descent into infamy and disgrace at the end of the People Power Revolution. Here Lies Love is a 90-minute theatrical experience. Set within a dance club atmosphere, audiences will stand and move with the actors. Comfortable shoes and clothing are recommended. Dancing is encouraged." - The Public Theater

$95

The 2 3/4 Hour New Music Festival

Brooklyn Fire Proof 119 Ingraham St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

New music performances by Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut,  Laura Cromwell, Adam Cain, and Kevin Shea.

$5