Flea Market Betty

This flea market organized by commercial real estate broker Jill Pescatore offers a mix of food, used and locally designed clothing, crafts and accessories. Read…

Steve Keene's Brooklyn Experience

Central Library 10 Grand Army Plaza, New York

Steve Keene, speed painter extraordinaire and cover artist for Pavement and Soul Coughing among others, is Brooklyn Public Library's artist-in-residence for the summer. An exhibition of…

Free

Hester Street Fair

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

Manhattan's counterpart to Brooklyn Flea has expanded into Seward Park this year, which means more food and vintage and craft vendors. Among those debuting this…

Free

Smorgasburg

East River State Park Williamsburg

Every week, rabid foodies bounce from stall to stall at this cornucopia of food vendors, each with their own gimmick. There tend to be lines…

Free

Tiki Disco at Output

Output 74 Wythe Ave, Williamsburg

Since 2009, this party -- which has stinted at Roberta's and Rockaway Beach -- has been a dependable, if often packed, way to get loose…

$10

PS1 Warm-Up

MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City

The lineup of this annual courtyard rave features a lot of new blood. Plus sets from Todd Edwards (a producer on Daft Punk’s last album),…

$18 – $20

The Quantum Eye at Theatre 80

Theatre 80 80 St Marks Pl , East Village

Mentalist Sam Eaton performs in this weekly magic and mentalism show that explores the limits of perception and deception.

$51 – $81

Brooklyn Night Bazaar

165 Banker Street 165 Banker Street, Brooklyn

It used to be that Brooklyn Flea had the lock on North Brooklyn mega bazaars, but the BK Night Bazaar upped the ante with live…

Free

Todd Barry at EastVille

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

Just off his Crowd Work Tour, during which he did nothing but work the crowd (buy the documentary on Louis CK's site), the wriest comedian…

$20

Too Many Lenas 3: Let Them Eat Cake

A surreal (second) take on the Girls phenomenon form the Carroll Simmons collective. Six Lena Dunhams are stuck in a small space together, hashing out their…

"Clown Bar" at The Box

The Box 189 Chrystie St, New York

Back for a limited-engagement encore, Clown Bar is a dark-comedy-slash-whodunit about a clown searching for the answers to his brother’s murder. The show is critically…

$25

What I Did For Love at UCB East

UCB East 153 E 3rd St , East Village

Some of Upright Citizens Brigade's top improvisers grill audience members for love life details then perform comedic versions of their tales.   Performers include, 30 Rock writer, Tracey…

$10

Mr. Choade's Upstairs Downstairs

Slipper Room 167 Orchard St, Lower East Side

This long-running variety show merges sideshow/vaudeville acts, go-go girls, comedy, and burlesque, often to raunchy effect (performers include Donny Vomit of Coney Island Sideshow fame…

$15 – $20