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

Die Jim Crow Pop-up Exhibition

M’Finda Kalunga Garden The Rivington St crossway in Sara D. Roosevelt Park, between Chrystie and Forsyth St, New York City

Anti-mass incarceration activist Fury Young and his team are planning a cross-country road-trip, in order to begin production on a concept album that will give…

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

New Museum 235 Bowery, Lower East Side, New York

This exhibition is New York's first gallery-wide exhibition of artists from the Arab world, and is appropriately (and devastatingly) dedicated to exploring the ethics of representation and the…

$16

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

LOT LIC Music & Film Fest

LOT LIC 43-29 Crescent St, Long Island City

The LOT LIC Music & Film Series is an eight-week summer party in Long Island City. It’s a free event, with music on Saturdays and film on Thursdays. We…

Free

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

Le Bingo! w/Linda Simpson

le poisson rouge 158 Bleecker St., New York

Drag queen Linda Simpson, who got her start in the East Village's Pyramid Club in the '90s, has been hosting bingo for years. Each evening…

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

Get Me a Guy at Under St Marks

Under St. Marks 94 St. Marks Pl., New York

New Yorkers are not only constantly dramatizing their own already rather dramatic love lives, but also adore consuming dramatizations of other such love lives: see Sex…

$18

Rooftop Films: 'A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night'

Knockdown Center 52-19 Flushing Ave., Ridgewood, Queens, New York City

Between Onur Tukel's Summer of Blood and Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, artsy vampire films are officially a thing. Ana Lily Amirpour's debut black-and-white…

Bayside! The Musical!

Theatre 80 80 St Marks Pl , East Village

This super raunchy send-up of everyone's favorite '90s show has seen drop-ins from the actors who played the original Mr. Belding and Screech. But even…

Dick Dale at Brooklyn Bowl

Brooklyn Bowl 61 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg

The surf guitar legend hits Brooklyn Bowl just in time for the dog days of summer.

$20

Roses at Cake Shop

Cake Shop 152 Ludlow St. , New York City

Roses are a Brooklyn-based rock band with a lead singer whose voice you might recognize because he was formerly at the front of Deer Tick. They…

$10

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