June 1, 2006

September 2009 calendar of events for New York City

Tuesday, September 1
“Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art” opens at the Society of Illustrators (through Oct. 17)
Free Whitney Houston concert at Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield for a taping of the “Good Morning America” TV show. Gates open at 11 a.m.
“Macbeth” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival at 8 p.m.
Day 2 of the US Open: schedule of play
New York Liberty vs. Seattle Storm at Madison Square Garden
Author event at the Mid-Manhattan library “Five To Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World” with David L. Bosco at 6:30 p.m.
“The 39 Steps” Broadway ticket giveaway begins (through Sept. 30)
Wednesday, September 2
Free John Fogerty concert at Pier 17 at South Street Seaport at 7 p.m.
Day 3 of the US Open: schedule of play
“La Fille du Régiment” “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
The 9th Annual New York International Salsa Congress (through Sept. 6)
Free NYC Audubon lecture: Seven Ways of Looking at the Hudson, 6 p.m. at Central Park Arsenal
Historic trolley tour at Green-Wood cemetery at 1 p.m.
“American Casino” screens at Film Forum (through Sept. 15)
“Iron Island” from Iran screens at MoMA at 7 p.m. as part of its Recent Film Acquisitions: Continuum series
Eric Michael Gillett plays Feinstein’s at Loews Regency
Pet Shop Boys at Hammerstein Ballroom
Thursday, September 3
“Peter Grimes” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
Rain date make-up for Brooklyn Bridge Park’s free Movies With a View: “Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid”
Free Rooftop Films screening of “P-Star Risning” on the lawn of Ft Greene Park
“Hairspray” screens at MoMA at 4 p.m. as part of its Recent Film Acquisitions: Continuum series
Discover Your “Qi” at Target Free Thursdays at the Museum of Chinese in America
Day 4 of the US Open: schedule of play
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
Free Piano in Bryant Park with Frank Owens from noon to 1:45 p.m.
Friday, September 4
Free New Amsterdam Village opens in Bowling Green Park (through Sept. 14)
Day 5 of the US Open: schedule of play
Mets home game vs Chicago Cubs
“La Bohème” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival
Gleason’s Gym Fantasy Camp (through Sept. 7)
Governors Island Swim
Brewtopia (through Sept. 6)
HOWL Festival in Tompkins Square Park (through Sept. 6)
Rooftop Films screening of “The End of the Line” at The Beach at Governors Island with The Red Hook Ramblers
Church tower tour at 3 p.m. to see the 250-year-old metal bell at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Free First Fridays events at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, including tours of the 19th-century botanical illustrations from the Royal Horticultural Society, music for flute and harp, and refreshments from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Coney Island Rockabilly Festival (through Sept. 7)
2009 Coney Island Cockabilly Festival at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
The Empire State Building will light up red, white and blue for Labor Day (through Sept. 7)
Saturday, September 5
Historic Ship Rally on the Hudson River at Pier 84 (at West 44th Street)
Mets home game vs Chicago Cubs at 1:10 p.m.
Day 6 of the US Open: schedule of play
“Orfeo ed Euridice” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival at 8 p.m.
Marco Antonio Solis and Pepe Aguilar at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Electric Zoo NY’s electronic music festival (and Sept. 6)
Free storytelling in Central Park by the Hans Christian Andersen Storytellers from 11 a.m. to noon: “Emperor’s New Clothes” and “Journey to the West”
Free Central Park Conservatory Garden Saturday Morning Tours at 11 a.m.
New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Posters for the Future at 10 a.m.
WarmUp at P.S. 1 from 2 to 9 p.m. with Rong Music, The Glenn Branca Ensemble and special guests
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China opens at the Met Museum (through Feb. 7)
Coney Island Film Society screens “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” with live piano accompaniment at 8:15 p.m. at the Coney Island Museum
Free Exhibit: Coney Island Bell on View at History Project under the Cyclone from 1 to 6 p.m.
“The Warriors” skate party from 8 p.m. to midnight at Coney Island’s Dreamland
The Edge of New York: Waterfront Photographs opens at the Museum of the City of NY (through Nov. 29)
New York 400: A Visual History of America’s Greatest City opens at the Museum of the City of NY
Here and Now: Labor Day Music Festival at Bargemusic
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House every half hour from 1 to 5:30 p.m.
4 Heads’ Second Annual Governors Island Art Fair (through Sept. 27)
Rooftop Films screening of ‘Storms Expected” on the roof of the Open Road Rooftop
Brooklyn Yard’s A Brooklyn County Fair — Gowanus Hootenany from noon to 9 p.m., all ages, free
Choral Evensong with the North American Guild of Ringers at Trinity Church at 5 p.m.
Jimmy Edgar, Hudson Mohawke and Clark at the World Financial Center at 8 p.m.
Sunday, September 6
17th Annual Tugboat Race and Competition on the Hudson River
Free Brooklyn Urban Arts Market on Myrtle Avenue between Grand Ave and Emerson Place
“Il Trittico” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the Summer HD Festival at 7:30 p.m.
ARC Gospel Choir plays the free Harlem Meer Performance Festival from 2 to 4 p.m. at Central Park’s Charles A. Dana Discovery Center near 110th Street
Free Exhibit: Coney Island Bell on View at History Project under the Cyclone from 1 to 6 p.m.
Fireworks night at Coney Island
Free Guided Tour of Dyckman Farmhouse at 3:45 p.m. (Reservations recommended)
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House every half hour from 1 to 5:30 p.m.
Beautifully Restored Sites of the Lower East Side Tour walking tour with the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy at 11:15 a.m.
Free Cross-Park Promenade walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at 2 p.m.
Hands-on Studio Sunday: From Junk to Jewelry at Museum of Arts & Design
Here and Now: Labor Day Music Festival at Bargemusic
Electric Zoo NY’s electronic music festival
Stanton Street between Allen and Orchard streets goes car free for Stanton Street Summer Sundays from 1 to 6:30 p.m.
Day 7 of the US Open: schedule of play
Mets home game vs Chicago Cubs
Monday, September 7
West Indian American Day Carnival and parade from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
Yankees home game vs. Tampa Bay Rays at 1:05 p.m.
Day 8 of the US Open: schedule of play
“Madama Butterfly” screens for free outdoors in Lincoln Center Plaza for the final night of the Summer HD Festival at 8 p.m.
Free exhibit: Coney Island Bell on view at History Project under the Cyclone from 1 to 6 p.m.
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House every half hour from 1 to 5:30 p.m.
Big Onion walking tour: We Built New York at 1 p.m.
Gallery talk at the Museum of Modern Art: The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection at 11:30 a.m.
Normally closed Mondays, the Met Museum is open for a Holiday Monday schedule, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m
Museum of the City of NY is open for a holiday Monday
Labor Day holiday closings list
Tuesday, September 8
NY400 Week begins (through Sept 13) with a Welcoming Ceremony that will feature a parade of ships and a 21-gun salute near the Intrepid at 9:15 a.m.
“God of Carnage” returns to Broadway after summer hiatus with James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels (with original cast at least through Nov. 15)
Michael Feinstein & Christine Ebersole play Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (through Sept. 12)
BAMcinématek Robert Redford: Artist & Activist series begins (through Sept. 16)
Day 9 of the US Open: schedule of play
Yankees home game vs. Tampa Bay Rays
Mets home game vs Florida Marlins
New York Liberty vs. Indiana Fever at Madison Square Garden
American Museum of Natural History’s Fall Bird Walk from 7 to 9 a.m. (advance registration required)
Triangle Theatre Company stages a reading of Meet George Orwell at the Mid-Manhattan Library at 6:30 p.m.
Paley Center for the Media’s Fall TV Preview Party night for FOX: “Glee,” “The Cleveland Show” and “Brothers”
20at20 $20 Off-Broadway ticket deal begins (through Sept. 20)
Launch party for “New Stories from the South” at Idlewild Books
Free Views from the Past walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at 1 p.m.
“Actien Handel: Early Dutch Finance and the Founding of America” opens at the Museum of American Finance (through Oct. 17)
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. for Jay-Z Sept. 11 benefit concert at Madison Square Garden
Wednesday, September 9
Walter Cronkite Memorial at Lincoln Center
President Obama arrives in New York at 9:20 a.m. to attend Walter Cronkite Memorial Service
Beledo, on piano, plays the Starlight Music Series atop 30 Rockefeller Center from 6 to 8 p.m.
New York Philharmonic and Andrea Bocelli at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
Marvel artist Phil Jimenez and Project Runway’s Tim Gunn will sign copies of Models Inc. from Marvel Comics at Midtown Comics
Day 10 of the US Open: schedule of play
Yankees home game vs. Tampa Bay Rays
Mets home game vs Florida Marlins
New York Novelist E.L. Doctorow at the Times Talks series at 6:30 p.m.
Free Midtown Concert at St. Bartholomew’s at 1:15 p.m.
NYC Audubon’s Fall Warblers class: learn to identify the 30 plus species of warblers that visit Central Park during fall migration (and Sept. 13)
Free lecture at the Mid-Manhattan Library “Pursuit of Dreams: The Historic Public Schools of Charles B. J. Snyder,” with Jean Arrington at 6:30 p.m.
Historic trolley tour at Green-Wood cemetery at 1 p.m.
N*E*R*D and Asher Roth play The Beach at Governors Island at 8 p.m.
Free Amble Through the Ramble walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at 11 a.m.
All About Eve screens at 4 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Critical Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 series
MoMA Premiere: Elevated at the Museum of Modern Art
Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet begin previews at the Atlantic Theater (through Nov. 1)
Thursday, September 10
Fashion’s Night Out late-night shopping to kick off Fashion Week
The 82nd Annual Feast of San Gennaro begins in Little Italy (through Sept. 20)
Peaceful Conquerors: Jain Manuscript Painting opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through March 21)
“Bye Bye Birdie” begins previews on Broadway with John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin and Jayne Houdyshell
New Island Festival on Governors Island featuring provocative theatre, site-specific performance, visual arts and DJ sets by Dutch performers (through Sept. 20)
Day 11 of the US Open: schedule of play
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 9 p.m.
Mets home game vs Florida Marlins
An Evening with Tony Orlando at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island
Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid” opens at the Met Museum (through Nov. 29)
Evensong for the Eve of 9/11 at Trinity Church with the choir of Exeter College from Oxford, England from 5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
All-night Day of Remembrance Vigil and Labyrinth Walk at Trinity Church from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
“Pig Roast & Tank of Fish” at Target Free Thursdays at the Museum of Chinese in America from 5 to 9 p.m.
Paley Center for the Media’s Fall TV Preview Party night for NBC: “Community,” “Trauma,” and “Mercy”
Free Cross-Park Promenade walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at 11 a.m.
“Actien Handel: Early Dutch Finance and the Founding of America,” free opening reception at the Museum of American Finance at 5:30 p.m.
Filmmaker in Focus: Roy Andersson opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Sept. 18)
Dumbo Gallery Walk
“Bird” screens for free on the High Line, which stays open an extra hour tonight, to 11 p.m.
Free Solar-Powered Film Festival begins (through Sept. 19)
Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly at Strand Booksat 7 p.m.
Friday, September 11
8th anniversary of WTC attack on Sept. 11, 2001
Tribute in Light
Ringing of the Bell of Hope at 8:46 a.m. at St. Paul’s Chapel (See video)
The September Concert free performances throughout the city all day
September 11th Commemorative Concert at 12:30 p.m. at Hanover Square Park
Staten Island Firefighters’ Remembrance of September 11 at the Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island from 5 to 9 p.m.
Free-admission concert at Bargemusic at 8 p.m. with selected works by Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and Scriabin
Jay-Z concert at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m. to benefit New York Police and Fire Widows’ & Children’s Benefit Fund
Museum of the City of New York screens the HBO documentary “In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01” at 3 p.m.
Yankees home game vs. Baltimore at 7:05 p.m.
Day 12 of the US Open: schedule of play
William Blake’s World: “A New Heaven Is Begun” opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Jan. 3)
New York Philharmonic and Andrea Bocelli at Carnegie Hall
30th Richmond County Fair at Historic Richmond Town (through Sept. 13)
The 12th Annual Park Slope Bluegrass & Old-Time Jamboree (and Sept. 12)
2nd Annual NY Craft Beer Week (through Sept. 20)
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Rooftop Films screening of “Rooftop Shots” on the roof of the Open Road Rooftop
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Paley Center for the Media’s Fall TV Preview Party night for CBS: “Medium,” “Three Rivers, “The Good Wife” and “Accidentally on Purpose”
Dutch Public TV series “The New York Connection” screens at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
Summer on the Hudson: GlobeSonic Sound System Dance Party from 7 to 11 p.m. at Pier 1 of Riverside Park South
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. with Michael Feinberg and Alex Wintz
HOWL Festival at the New Museum Presents: Arthur’s Landing (Songs by Arthur Russell) and Elodie Lauten at the New Museumat 7 p.m.
New Island Festival cancels Friday performances due to weather
Saturday, September 12
Free Smokey Robinson concert at Cadman Plaza at 11:15 a.m. (or as early as 11 a.m.)
Mos Def at 9:30 p.m. at Governors Island Water Taxi Beach
Previews begin on Broadway for “Hamlet” starring Jude Law (opening night: Oct. 6)
“Othello” begins performances with John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (through Oct. 4)
Little Red Lighthouse opens for free tours from 1 to 4 p.m.
Broadway Open House at “Shrek” from 10 a.m. to noon with appearances by Brian d’Arcy James and Daniel Breaker
Broadway Open House tours from 10 a.m. to noon at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre and Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Parachute: Coney Island Performance Festival (and Sept. 13)
Free Urban Glass Open House with Crush
Brooklyn Bridge Swim
Opening Reception: “Kitty and Lucky: Photographs of my Aunt Concetta and Uncle Augustine,” by photographer Larry Racioppo at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island at 7 p.m. (through Jan. 6)
Free Fort Totten bike tour at 10 a.m.
Poe’s Cottage, which will soon close for restoration, will open for tours in the Bronx from 10 a.m. to 4 .m.
Free tours of the Conference House on Staten Island from 10 a.m. to 4 .m. as part of the Historic House Trust’s 2nd Annual Historic House Festival
Heritage Weekend at the Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island (and Sept. 13)
Experience Chinatown walking tour at 1 p.m.
Yankees home game vs. Baltimore
Day 13 of the US Open: schedule of play
Lecture: “General Charles Lee: Enigma of the American Revolution” St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Safety Preparedness Weekend at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (and Sept. 13)
My Big Gay Italian Wedding at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island
The Fab Faux at the Beacon Theatre
Coney Island Film Society screens “Night of the Living Dead” at 8:15 p.m. at the Coney Island Museum
New Amsterdam: The Island at the Center of the World opens at the South Street Seaport Museum (through Jan. 3)
Institute of Culinary Education’s Arthur Avenue Walking Tour at 11 a.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s Cooking in the Moment: Greenmarket Cuisine walking, shopping and cooking tour with chef Richard Ruben from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s “Little India” Walking Tour of Queens at 11 a.m.
Staten Island OutLOUD presents The Poetry of Robert Frost and a tour of the Freshkills Park site at 12:30 p.m.
NYC Audubon’s Late Summer Butterfly Count at Jamaica Bay
Honey Weekend at Wave Hill
Free Henry Hudson Puppet Show from 1 to 2 p.m. on the Great Hill in Central Park
Make-up date for WarmUp at P.S. 1 with Timmy Regisford and Duane Pitre
Boekdag: a celebration of stories old and new at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum with Russell Shorto, Deborah Gregory, Javaka Steptoe and Janus Adams
Valentine-Varian House tours at E. 208th St. for the Hudson Quadricentennial Heritage Weekend Celebration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Lecture: The Invisible Irish at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 4 p.m.
Movies in the Park: Jonas Brothers 3D Concert Movie Experience at 7 p.m.
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Free Central Park Conservatory Garden Saturday Morning Tours at 11 a.m.
The 12th Annual Park Slope Bluegrass & Old-Time Jamboree
Rooftop Films screening of “Brooklyn Non-Fiction” on the roof of the Old American Can Factory
Free Exhibit: Coney Island Bell on View at History Project under the Cyclone from 2 to 6 p.m.
Nature’s Air Show at the Bronx Zoo featuring flying demonstrations with eagles, hawks, falcons, and vultures
Bronx Zoo’s Family Overnight Safari
Museum of American Finance walking tour: History of Trading
Bronx River tidal paddle from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Hudson Quadricentennial exhibition at the Valentine-Varian House in the Bronx from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Mansion Mysteries events — docent-led tours, a historic landscape tour, and scavenger hunt — at the Morris-Jumel Mansion from noon to 4 p.m.
Free Grand Army Plaza: Music on Saturdays from noon to 3 p.m.
Individual tickets go on sale for the New York Rangers hockey season
Free admission at Van Cortlandt House Museum from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Friends of Hudson River Park Greenwich Village Walking Tour at 11 a.m.
Free special tours View the Servants’ Quarters at the Merchant’s House Museum from noon to 5 p.m.
Lott House Sneak Peek tours from noon to 4 p.m. in Brooklyn
All About Eve screens at 2 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Critical Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 series
A Clockwork Orange screens at 8 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Critical Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 series
New York Philharmonic and Trey Anastasio at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
Open House Royal Netherlands Navy and NATO ships at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Fireworks scheduled at 9 p.m. for the Hoboken Italian Festival
Free Governors Island show with DJ Armin van Buuren from 1 to 5 p.m.
2nd Annual Waterfront District Fall Festival from noon to 6 p.m. at the Human Compass Garden in Brooklyn
Free Brooklyn Brews talk at Fort Greene Visitor Center at 1 p.m.
Tour of Lewis H. Latimer House Museum and Garden at 1 p.m. in Queens
Crossing the Line 2009 dance fest in East Meadow, Central Park from 2 to 6 p.m.
Free storytelling in Central Park by the Hans Christian Andersen Storytellers from 11 a.m. to noon: REMINISCENCES OF MY FATHER
2009 Labor Day Parade & March up Fifth Avenue from 44th to 72nd street
New Island Festival on Governors Island
Postponed: Free Open House with Alan Gilbert at the New York Philharmonic
Sunday, September 13
Free Brooklyn Book Festival 2009 at Borough Hall
Free Broadway on Broadway show in Times Square at 11:30 a.m.
Theatermania Street Fair from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
NY400 Week: Harbor Day
Free 90-minute bike rentals with Bike and Roll from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. for Harbor Day
Free NY Water Taxi service today from 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. for Harbor Day
Harbor Day Oyster Festival at the Hudson River Park’s Pier 84 (at 44th Street) from 2 to 6 p.m.
Open House NATO ships at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Clearwater public sail as part of the Harbor Day flotilla
New Amsterdam Market monthly Public Market on South Street at the old fish market
Yankees home game vs. Baltimore
NY Giants home game vs. Washington
New York Liberty vs. Washington Mystics at Madison Square Garden
Day 14 of the US Open: schedule of play
Monet’s Water Lilies opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through April 12)
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life opens at the Jewish Museum (through Feb. 7)
HOWL Festival at the New Museum Presents: Autobiographical Reading by Richard Hell at 4:30 p.m.
Lecture: Gloria Feldt on Margaret Sanger at the Brooklyn Museum at 2 p.m.
29th Annual Antique Motorcycle Show at Queens County Farm Museum
Nature’s Air Show at the Bronx Zoo featuring flying demonstrations with eagles, hawks, falcons, and vultures
A Sea Change: Imagine a World Without Fish lecture at the American Museum of Natural History
Safety Preparedness Weekend and National Grandparents Day celebrated at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Heritage Weekend at the Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island
Free Exhibit: Coney Island Bell on View at History Project under the Cyclone from 2 to 6 p.m.
Urban Oyster tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Historic House Festival
Free Cellar-to-Attic tour of the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum at 11 a.m.
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Historic House Festival Program: “Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1864” at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 1 p.m.
Free Woodlawn Cemetery concert at 2 p.m. by the Bardekova Ensemble
Free special tours View the Servants’ Quarters at the Merchant’s House Museum from noon to 5 p.m.
A Knickerbocker’s Walking Tour of New Amsterdam at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.
NYC Audubon’s Biking & Birding: Cloisters and Fort Tryon at 9 a.m.
Free Amble Through the Ramble walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at 2 p.m.
92Y Excursion: Four Hundred Years in America: Colonial Period Tour at 11 a.m.
Big Onion walking tour: Annual Pre-Rosh Hashanah Jewish Lower East Side at 1 p.m.
Justin Ferate Tours of the City tour of Governors Island
Seth Meyers, Jason Sudeikis, Pete Grosz and Jordan Peele at the New Island Festival on Governors Island at 8:30 p.m.: tickets
John Hughes Roller Skating Marathon at LoLa Staar’s Dreamland Roller Rink at Coney Island from 3 to 7 p.m.
Parachute: Coney Island Performance Festival
Free Summer on the Hudson: 7th Annual West Side County Fair at Riverside Park from 1 to 6 p.m.
Hudson River Historic Concert Series at Wave Hill: Vassily Primakov recreates the 1922 all-Chopin recital by musician, politician, and Polish patriot Ignacy Paderewski
Harmony on the Hudson from 1 to 6 p.m. with music by Tom Chapin & Friends and Funky Fritters’ at Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park
Czech legend Karel Gott plays Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Redford: Film & Conversation at BAM
Allen Toussaint at Joe’s Pub at noon
MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall
MotorExpo at the World Financial Center (through Sept. 18)
NYC Audubon’s Fall Warblers class: learn to identify the 30 plus species of warblers that visit Central Park during fall migration
Free Brooklyn Urban Arts Market on Myrtle Avenue between Grand Ave and Emerson Place
Stanton Street between Allen and Orchard streets goes car free for Stanton Street Summer Sundays from 1 to 6:30 p.m.
Montague Summer Space as Montague Street between Hicks and Clinton streets goes car free from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tickets available at noon for the Met Opera Open House: free dress rehearsal of “Tosca”
Monday, September 14
Pres. Obama at Federal Hall on Wall St at “midday” to deliver a speech on the financial crisis
Day 15 of the US Open: schedule of play
Celebrity Autobiography performance at 7:30 p.m. at the Triad Theater with Scott Adsit, Craig Bierko, Rachel Dratch, Jackie Hoffman, Kristen Johnston, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Michael Urie, Karen Ziemba, and Alan Zweibel
The Piven Monologues at Joe’s Pub at 7:30 p.m.
With a Little Help from My Friends: The Cast of Hair Sings a Benefit for Lindsay Thomas at 9:30 and 11:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Woody Allen & The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band play The Carlyle (Mondays through Dec. 7)
“Hannah and Her Sisters” screens at 4:30 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Critical Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 series
Paley Center for the Media’s Fall TV Preview Party night for CW: “Melrose Place” and “The Vampire Diaries”
Conversations with the Architects of the Barclay Center at Brooklyn Borough Hall at 6 p.m.
Book event: Wilborn Hampton on “Horton Foote: America’s Storyteller” at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 7:30 p.m.
Presentation, reading and book signing by Bonnie Tsui: American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods at the Museum of Chinese in America at 6:30 p.m.
Author event at the Mid-Manhattan Library “Art and the Subway: New York Underground,” with Tracy Fitzpatrick at 6:30 p.m.
Explorers Club lecture: 2012 and the Arrival of the 13th Bak’tun – Misunderstanding the Maya Calendar
NYC Audubon class on Beginning Birding: Jamaica Bay, with a Sept. 20 trip
La Tanya Hall plays Feinstein’s at Loews Regency
Tuesday, September 15
Previews begin on Broadway for “The Royal Family” (opening night: Oct. 8; through Nov. 22)
“In-I” with Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan begins performances at BAM’s Harvey Theater (through Sept. 26)
Yankees home game vs. Toronto at 7:05 p.m.
Magna Carta and the Foundations of Freedom goes on display at the Fraunces Tavern Museum (through Dec. 15)
Exuberant Grotesques: Renaissance Maiolica from the Fontana Workshop opens at The Frick Collection (through Jan. 17)
“John Brown: The Abolitionist and his Legacy,” and ” Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School ” exhibitions open at the New-York Historical Society (through March 25)
Jon Secada plays Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (through Sept. 19)
Kelli O’Hara plays The Carlyle (through Sept. 26)
2nd annual Alfred Hitchcock look-alike contest on stage at Broadway’s “The 39 Steps”
Kids go free for Kids Night On Broadway
A Conversation with Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn at the Times Talks series at 6:30 p.m.
Official launch party for “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters” at Idlewild Books at 7 p.m.
Photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel discuss The Edge of New York: Waterfront Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
Amy Sohn at Book Court in Brooklyn at 7 p.m.
Asia Society book event: H. M. Naqvi (‘Home Boy’) and Akhil Sharma at 6:30 p.m.
Free Cross-Park Promenade walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at 1 p.m.
Hidden Harbor Tour departing from Pier 16 at the South Street Seaport at 6 p.m.
The 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly convenes (with general debate Sept. 23 through 30.)
Wednesday, September 16
Previews begin on Broadway for “Superior Donuts” (opening night: Oct. 1; open-ended run)
Kids go free for Kids Night On Broadway
New York Philharmonic’s Opening Night Gala: Gilbert & Fleming (with a free jumbo screen broadcast into Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center)
Free NY Philharmonic dress rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.
The Joan Capra String Quartet plays the Starlight Music Series atop 30 Rockefeller Center from 6 to 8 p.m.
Yankees home game vs. Toronto
75 Years of Grace: A Celebration of the Bryant Park Trees from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Museum of American Finance screens “We All Fall Down: The American Mortgage Crisis” for a 12:30 p.m. brown-bag lunch
The Presents of the Past discussion at the Museum of the City of New York with Daniel Czitrom, Phillip Lopate, and Mike Wallace at 6:30 p.m.
92Y discussion: This American Life: Behind the Scenes with Ira Glass and Others at 8 p.m.
Paley Center for the Media’s Fall TV Preview Party night for ABC: Hank, The Middle, Flash Forward, Modern Family, and Cougar Town
Mid-Manhattan Library author event: “The F-Word” lecture at 6:30 p.m. with Jesse Sheidlower , the current Editor at Large of the Oxford English Dictionary
Book event: Paul Rudnick on “I Shudder” at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 7:30 p.m.
Historic trolley tour at Green-Wood cemetery at 1 p.m.
NYC Audubon begins its Fall Migration Birdwalks
NYC Audubon’s Stuyvesant Strolls at 6 p.m. through Stuyvesant Cove Park
Fine Japanese Works of Art auction at Bonhams
Let Us Eat Local restaurant gala
Free screening of “Iron Man” at Brooklyn Borough Hall
Free, reservation-required event Call for Community: The Mom & Pop Store at Murray’s Cheese at 7 p.m.
Thursday, September 17
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction exhibition opens at the Whitney (through Jan. 17)
Met Opera Open House: free dress rehearsal of “Tosca”
Aretha Franklin at Radio City Music Hall
New York Philharmonic: Gilbert Conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Najee live performance and autograph signing at J&R Music World at 6 p.m.
Afghanistan Today lecture by Peter Bergen at the Met Museum at 6 p.m.
Book talk on the The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson with Peter C. Mancall at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
South Street Seaport Museum’s sunset sail and wine tasting onboard the historic schooner Pioneer from 7 to 9 p.m.
92Y Food Outing: SoHo Chocolate Tour at 11 a.m.
Friday, September 18
“Kandinsky” exhibition opens at the Guggenheim (through January 13)
Previews begin on Broadway for “After Miss Julie” with Sienna Miller (opening night: Oct. 22; through Dec. 6)
“Cinderella” begins performances at the New Victory Theater (through Sept. 28)
Free workshop reading of Stuck Elevator — Prompted by the real-life story of Ming Kuang Chen, Stuck Elevator is an operatic solo performance about a Chinese restaurant deliveryman trapped in an elevator for three days — at the Museum of Chinese in America at 6:30 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Gilbert Conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 2 p.m.
MoMA Presents: Bob Byington’s Harmony and Me (through Sept. 24)
Mets home game vs. Washington Nationals at 7:10 p.m.
Victorious Ones exhibition opens at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Feb 15)
Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margarita Van Varick exhibition opens at at the Bard Graduate Center (through Jan. 3)
Free Friday events at the South Street Seaport Museum: Henry Hudson and the Early Explorers
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. with The Erin Hobson Compact, Marc Barnhill and Kathy Zimmer
Church tower tour at 3 p.m. to see the 250-year-old metal bell at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb screens at 8:30 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Critical Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 series
Members of South Africa’s Generation X panel: Mandela’s Ego at the New Museum at 7 p.m.
New York Hispanic and Latino Book Fair in Jackson Heights (through Sept. 20)
Miss Coney Island Burlesque Beauty Pageant at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
Park(ing) Day NYC
Tickets go on sale at noon for The New Yorker Festival
Saturday, September 19
Mets home game vs. Washington Nationals
Free Broadway Open House from 10 a.m. to noon
Little Red Lighthouse Festival from noon to 5 p.m.
Lupe Fiasco plays The Beach at Governors Island at 8 p.m.
52nd Annual German-American Steuben Parade and Central Park Oktoberfest
27th Annual Queens County Fair at Queens County Farm Museum (and Sept. 20)
The Amazing Maize Maze opens at the Queens County Farm Museum (through Nov. 1)
Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald at the Beacon Theatre
Coney Island Film Society screens “Dead Alive/Braindead” at 8:15 p.m. at the Coney Island Museum
Free Freshkills Park site tours at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Bridge the Gap arts festival at the Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island
South Street Seaport Museum family program: Celebrating Dutch New Amsterdam
Mauro Zamora, Sunroom Project Space opens at Wave Hill gardens (through Nov. 1)
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Free Central Park Conservatory Garden Saturday Morning Tours at 11 a.m.
Nature’s Air Show at the Bronx Zoo featuring flying demonstrations with eagles, hawks, falcons, and vultures
Free Amble Through the Ramble walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at 11 a.m.
Free Views from the Past walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at 2 p.m.
Free storytelling in Central Park by the Hans Christian Andersen Storytellers from 11 a.m. to noon: “The Swineherd” and “The Ugly Duckling”
United Nations closes to the public (through Sept. 28)
African Film Festival at the New Museum presents South African Cinema Now: A Film Series at 3 p.m.
Bolivian Diversity Festival from noon to 7 p.m. at the Queens Museum
Blackout Film Festival
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer—Levels of Nothingness will be performed at the Guggenheim at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, September 20
Mets home game vs. Washington Nationals
NY Jets home game vs. New England
Hometown Heroes Day at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Derek Keeling plays Feinstein’s at Loews Regency
Montague Summer Space as Montague Street between Hicks and Clinton streets goes car free from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Kid’s Day at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
Allen Toussaint at Joe’s Pub at noon
Free Bronx Native American Festival from noon to 5 p.m. at Pelham Bay Park
Walking tour: Henry Hudson’s Mannahatta
Apple Festival at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum from noon to 4 p.m.
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Pocahontas: An Algonquin Icon Multimedia Talk at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at noon
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer—Levels of Nothingness will be performed at the Guggenheim at 7:30 p.m.
Children’s Author Series: Shel Silverstein Birthday Celebration with Jack Grace, Rachel Trachtenburg’s Homemade World, and the Beach Animals, at The Beach at Governors Island at 1 p.m.
Freemasons play The Beach at Governors Island at 6:30 p.m.
Nature’s Air Show at the Bronx Zoo featuring flying demonstrations with eagles, hawks, falcons, and vultures
Free Brooklyn Urban Arts Market on Myrtle Avenue between Grand Ave and Emerson Place
Woodlawn’s Lost Symbols Tour of Freemason gravesites including Irving Berlin, Alexander Herrmann, Duke Ellington and James Cash Penney
John Hughes Roller Skating Marathon at LoLa Staar’s Dreamland Roller Rink at Coney Island from 3 to 7 p.m.
Maysles Cinema at the New Museum presents Living With Conviction: A Black Panther Party Film Series at 3 p.m.
Walking tour: Henry Hudson’s Mannahatta
2nd Annual Multicultural Art & Crafts Festival from noon to 6 p.m. at the Queens Museum
CINEMAROSA presents Queers in the City: A collection of shorts from local filmmakers from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Queens Museum
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine tour: Behind the Beauty: Spotlight on Geometry and Numerology
Monday, September 21
NYPD list of U.N.-related street closures for the week
Opening Night Gala: “Tosca” at the Met Opera
Free live broadcast of Puccini’s “Tosca” in Times Square at 6:30 p.m. (plus a broadcast in Lincoln Plaza that requires tickets)
Project Shaw reading of “Back to Methuselah” Part 1, at The Players on Gramercy Park South at 7 p.m. with Marc Kudisch, Madeleine Martin, Tanya Elder, Simon Kendall, Jeff Steitzer and Tanya Elder
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer—Levels of Nothingness will be performed at the Guggenheim at 7:30 p.m.
New York Television Festival begins (through Sept. 26)
Will & Anthony Nunziata: “Our Time” play Feinstein’s at Loews Regency
The Coterie plays Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Marty Thomas at Splash Bar
Mets home game vs Atlanta at 7:10 p.m.
Explorers Club lecture: Southeast Asian mega-droughts and hydroclimate extremes, and the demise of Angkor
Tété-Michel Kpomassie, author of “An African in Greenland,” reads at Idlewild Books at 7 p.m.
NYC Audubon’s Beginning Birding: Central Park class
Tickets go on sale to the general public for “A Streetcar Named Desire” at BAM with Cate Blanchett, Joel Edgerton and Robin McLeavy
Bon Appetit Supper Club and Cafe opens on 57th Street (through Sept. 25)
Tuesday, September 22
Mets home game vs Atlanta at 7:10 p.m.
Carrie Fisher’s “Wishful Drinking” begins previews on Broadway
New York Philharmonic: Gilbert Conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Grand Opening of the redesigned and relocated Museum of Chinese in America
Free admission at the Museum of Chinese in America for its grand re-opening celebrations (through Sept. 26)
Watteau, Music, and Theatre opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Nov. 29)
Robert Frank: The Americans opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 3)
Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44 opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through March 21)
Free, candlelight tour of Grant`s Tomb after Dark at 8 p.m.
Chelsea Hotel Art & History Tour at noon
Lecture: The Last Dutch General: Jaap Jacobs on Petrus Stuyvesant at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
South Street Seaport Museum’s Fall Equinox Sail from 7 to 9 p.m. aboard Pioneer, featuring special guest presenter Mama Donna Henes, NYC’s Urban Shaman
Guggenheim’s “Architecture as Potential” benefit luncheon featuring Richard Armstrong and Frank Gehry
A Taste of Red Hook benefit dinner at Kidd Yellin Gallery
Book event: Frank Bruni: “Born Round The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater” at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 7:30 p.m.
David Byrne book event at the Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
E.L. Doctorow at Book Court in Brooklyn at 7 p.m.
James Ellroy at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Book event for Henry Kaufman’s “The Road to Financial Reformation” at the Museum of American Finance at 5:30 p.m.
“Jane” screens at IFC Center at 8 p.m.
Stranger Than Fiction film series begins at the IFC Center
Free Broadway Salutes 4 p.m. ceremony in Duffy Square in Times Square honoring the artists, technicians and craftspeople who work in theater
“DARFUR/DARFUR” photo exhibition projected onto the plaza adjacent to the International Center of Photography from 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 23
Concert presentation at Carnegie Hall of “Kristina” by ABBA songwriters Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
Previews begin for “Memphis” on Broadway
The Mark Berman Trio plays the Starlight Music Series atop 30 Rockefeller Center from 6 to 8 p.m.
The Blue Rider in Performance at the Guggenheim at 8 p.m.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs play Radio City Music Hall
Free Feel Free A National Parks Celebration in Central Park with Counting Crows, Augustana, Eric Benet, Gavin DeGraw, Jose Feliciano, Carole King and others at 6:45 p.m. for the new PBS documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea”
Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Mary Wilson of The Supremes plays Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (through Sept. 26)
Broadway new plays panel at Sardi’s Restaurant at 5:30 p.m. with Mark Brokaw, director (After Miss Julie;) Keith Huff, playwright (A Steady Rain;) Tracy Letts, playwright (Superior Donuts;) and Sara Ruhl, playwright (In the Next Room, or the vibrator play) with moderator Patrick Pacheco
Mets home game vs Atlanta
“DARFUR/DARFUR” photo exhibition projected onto the plaza adjacent to the International Center of Photography from 7:30 p.m.
Book talk at the Tenement Museum: The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited: A History Guide to a Legendary New York Neighborhood with Joyce Mendelsohn, at 6:30 p.m.
Tad Friend at Book Court in Brooklyn at 7 p.m. for “Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor”
Free ranger-led tours of Governors Island at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Free Views from the Past walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at 11 a.m.
Historic trolley tour at Green-Wood cemetery at 1 p.m.
Panel discussion: Restoring the Water Quality in the Estuary at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
Workshop: Collecting Basics: Part I, Fine Art, at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 7 p.m.
“Hannah and Her Sisters” screens at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Critical Favorites: The New York Film Critics Circle at 75 series
Thursday, September 24
Concert presentation at Carnegie Hall of “Kristina” by ABBA songwriters Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
New York Philharmonic: Brahms’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
“Tosca” at the Met Opera
An Evening with Marianne Faithful at Town Hall
Ellis Island opens to public access at night
Lecture at the Fraunces Tavern Museum: How the Founders, All of Them, Redefined the Polity, presented by Ray Raphael
Fashion Conversations at Museum at FIT at 6 p.m.: Isabel and Ruben Toledo, in conversation with Valerie Steele
Free Views from the Past walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at 11 a.m.
Death & Mourning in Mid-19th Century Home exhibition at the Merchant’s House Museum (through Nov. 2)
Broadway Open Call Karaoke in Duffy Square in Times Square from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
British Television Advertising Awards, 2009: Award-Winning British Commercials at the Museum of Modern Art (through Sept. 27)
MoMA Presents: Michael Almereyda’s Paradise film series (through Sept. 30)
Asia Society lecture: Sri Lanka’s Challenges Ahead: Ensuring Sustainable Peace featuring Honourable Ratnasiri Wickramanayake, Prime Minister, the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka at 6 p.m.
Book event for Joshua Lyon, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, and Lesley Arfin at the PowerHouse Arena at 7 p.m.
Joy of Sake tasting event at Webster Hall from 6 to 9 p.m.
Book talk at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.: LES Stories: Kids in Gotham
Free ranger-led tours of Governors Island at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Federal Hall program and events marking September 1776
Phoenix play at the Apple SoHo store at 8:30 p.m.
Harvest in the Square benefit food event in Union Square
Friday, September 25
NY Film Festival (through Oct. 11)
sept 25 - Housewarming events for the Poets House Grand Opening (and Sept. 26)
The New York Anime Festival at the Javits (through Sept. 27)
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox at 7:05 p.m.
Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009 opens at NYPL’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through June 26)
The Art and Technique of the American Commercial: The AICP Show at MoMA, 2009 (and Sept. 26)
Free Folk Festival of Japan at Carnegie Hall
It Came from Brooklyn concert at the Guggenheim from 8 p.m. to midnight with Julian Plenti (Paul Banks of Interpol) and I’m In You, readings from Rivka Galchen and Hampton Fancher, and comedian Eugene Mirman as MC
The Blue Rider in Performance at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre at 8 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Brahms’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann at Avery Fisher Hall at 11 a.m.
Harmonic Brass plays Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. with Barbara & Terry Brunette, Thomas Bryan Eaton and Spitzer Space Telescope
Phoenix plays Rumsey Playfield in Central Park at 7 p.m.
Yo La Tengo play Roseland
Broadway Dance Studio at 5 p.m. in Duffy Square in Times Square
Midnight screening of “The Shining” at the IFC Center
Free screening of the documentary “Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story” at 6:30 p.m. in the Great Hall at The Cooper Union
Bronx Talks: “It’s Just Begun” book signing with DJ Disco Wiz at the Bronx Museum at 6 p.m.
Big Onion walking tour: Revolutionary New York at 11 a.m.
Liberty Island opens to public access at night
Lenny Clarke from “Rescue Me” at Comix (and Sept. 26)
Burlesque on the Beach show at Coney Island at 10 p.m.
The Great North-East Sacred Sexuality Round-Up (through Sept. 27)
13th Annual Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival
Saturday, September 26
Free LaGuardia Airport Kiwanis Club Kid’s Day from noon to 4 p.m.
Free Barbara Streisand performance at Village Vanguard
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
“The Tempest” performed at 3 p.m. on the Coney Island beach and boardwalk for free by he beach, the ocean and the sky are all real, and so are most of the seagulls. The one thing the Brave New World Repertory Theater
FAB! Festival & Block Party in the East Village from 1 to 7 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Brahms’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
40 NYC museums offer free access for Smithsonian’s Museum Day
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Met Museum lecture: Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid: Discreet Object of Desire at 6 p.m. by Walter Liedtke, Curator of European Paintings
Free-admission concert at Bargemusic at 1 p.m.
Free Folk Festival of Japan at 2 p.m. at Carnegie Hall
The Classical Lgacy of Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Free NYC Police Museum Family Day
Buckethead at 8 p.m at Governors Island Water Taxi Beach
The Headlocks at Snug Harbor’s Music Hall on Staten Island at 7 p.m.
MoMA MIXX benefit dance party at the Museum of Modern Art from 8 p.m. to midnight
Coney Island Film Society screens “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” at 8:15 p.m. at the Coney Island Museum
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Return of the King screen at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Recent Film Acquisitions: Continuum series
Institute of Culinary Education’s Cooking in the Moment: Greenmarket Cuisine walking, shopping and cooking tour with chef Richard Ruben from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s Chinatown Dim Sum Tour at 11 a.m.
92Y Excursion: Central Park in the Dark—Nocturnal Creature Tour at 7:30 p.m.
NYC Audubon roadtrip: Drinking & Birding, Vineyard Tour On The North Shore
NYC Audubon’s Jamaica Bay Sunset Cruise from 4 to 7 p.m.
Free Central Park Conservatory Garden Saturday Morning Tours at 11 a.m.
Free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Broadside: Emerging Empires Collide discussion and screening at the Museum of the City of New York at 3:30 p.m.
Family workshop: Discovering New Amsterdam at the Museum of the City of New York at noon
Garden Clean-Up Volunteer Day at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum from 10 a.m.
Bronx Zoo’s Family Overnight Safari
Nature’s Air Show at the Bronx Zoo featuring flying demonstrations with eagles, hawks, falcons, and vultures
Free Amble Through the Ramble walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at 1 p.m.
Little Red Lighthouse Swim
Dutch Literary Afternoon at the Brooklyn Museum from 1 to 5 p.m.
Free Grand Army Plaza: Music on Saturdays from noon to 3 p.m.
South Street Seaport Museum’s Harbor Explorers sail
Edible Manhattan’s Harvest Party from 4 to 8 p.m.
Free storytelling in Central Park by the Hans Christian Andersen Storytellers from 11 a.m. to noon: “The Banyan Deer” and “Opening the Heart”
SNL season opener with U2 and Megan Fox
New, delayed date: Opening reception for Donald Webber: Russian Archive at the Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island from 2 to 6 p.m.
The Stone Street Oyster Festival
Free Broadway Open House from 10 a.m. to noon
Phoenix plays Rumsey Playfield in Central Park
Kitchen Block Party from noon to 5 p.m. on West 19th St. between 10th and 11th avenues
Midnight screening of “The Shining” at the IFC Center
Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Chusok: The Korean Harvest Festival in Queens (and Sept. 27)
Housewarming events for the Poets House Grand Opening
The Art and Technique of the American Commercial: The AICP Show at MoMA, 2009
The New York Anime Festival at the Javits (through Sept. 27)
Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile
Twin Lights Ride biking through the Monmouth Countryside
Sunday, September 27
Yankees home game vs. Boston Red Sox
NY Jets home game vs. Tennessee
Tour of the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel
Diabetes Expo NY at the Javits Center
Broadway Cares 23rd annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction - moved indoors to Roseland Ballroom
Nature’s Air Show at the Bronx Zoo featuring flying demonstrations with eagles, hawks, falcons, and vultures
Free Brooklyn Urban Arts Market on Myrtle Avenue between Grand Ave and Emerson Place
Montague Summer Space as Montague Street between Hicks and Clinton streets goes car free from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Urban Oyster tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Free Views from the Past walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at noon
New York Marble Cemetery at 41 1/2 Second Ave., the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in NYC, opens to the public for the day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Special, free second-floor tours of the Lefferts Historic House at Prospect Park every half hour from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Festival of Puerto Rican Composers at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m.
Woodlawn Cemetery’s Jazz Greats of Woodlawn Tour at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
John Hughes Roller Skating Marathon at LoLa Staar’s Dreamland Roller Rink at Coney Island from 3 to 7 p.m.
Tunnel to Towers Run/Walk through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to commemorate FDNY’s Stephen Siller’s 9/11 run
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine tour: Signs and Symbols: Spotlight on Symbolism
The Tempest” performed at 3 p.m. on the Coney Island beach and boardwalk for free by he beach, the ocean and the sky are all real, and so are most of the seagulls. The one thing the Brave New World Repertory Theater
Turkish Days in New York kicks off from from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in at Nethermead in Prospect Park
Brooklyn Record Riot at Warsaw from noon to 8 p.m.
Tickets go on sale to the general public for The Addams Family” on Broadway
Monday, September 28
St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble performs at 6 p.m. at the first night of the free Bryant Park Fall Festival
New York Musical Theatre Festival begins (through Oct. 18)
Yankees home game vs. Kansas City at 7:05 p.m.
“Tosca” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m. - with substitutions
Book event: David Small and Josh Neufeld: Stitches and A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, at the PowerHouse Arena at 7 p.m.
ADC Young Guns: Clay Weiner at the Apple SoHo store at 6:30 p.m.
Eun Jung Kim on cello at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
True Colors Cabaret at Feinstein’s with Cyndi Lauper, Stephanie J. Block and Melinda Doolittle at 8 p.m.
Cara Dillon plays Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Evi Siamanda Sings Mimis Plessas at Jazz at Lincoln Center at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
NYC Audubon starts its Evening Autumn Migration Bird Walks
Morimoto Sushi & Sake Cruise on Yacht Manhattan
Tuesday, September 29
Opening night on Broadway for “A Steady Rain” with Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig (through Dec. 6)
Previews begin on Broadway for David Mamet’s “Oleanna” with Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles (opening night: Oct. 11)
Free “The Wizard of Oz” 70th Anniversary Emerald Gala Celebration in Central Park with Jennifer Hudson, ?uestlove and Julianne Hough
Bargemusic performers play a free concert at 6 p.m. for the Bryant Park Fall Festival
Judy Collins plays The Carlyle (through Oct. 8)
Yankees home game vs. Kansas City at 7:05 p.m.
Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter exhibition opens at the American Folk Art Museum (through March 7)
Panel discussion on The Privatization of Risk at the Museum of American Finance at 5 p.m.
Book talk at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.: Gangsters, Murderers and Weirdos of New York Citys East Side with Eric Ferrara
Public tour from noon to 1 p.m. of the Grolier Club’s exhibition In Pursuit of Knowledge: Six Hundred Years of Leipzig University, 1409-2009
Free discussion: Neil Sheehan: A Fiery Peace in a Cold War at the Great Hall of The Cooper Union at 6:30 p.m.
“County of Kings” begins performances at the Public Theater (opens Oct. 12)
Leslie Uggams, Alan Campbell and Clifton Davis in the staged reading of Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj’s “Little Rock” at the Union Square Theatre (and Sept. 30)
Anthony Rapp at Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays at The Greene Space at 7 p.m.
Deborah Lloyd and Tim Gunn at Bloomingdale’s from 6 to 8 p.m. for a Kate Spade event
Post-show Talk Back at Broadway’s “Burn the Floor”
Wednesday, September 30
Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection opens at the Museum of Arts & Design (through Jan. 31)
Madeleine Albright discusses “Read My Pins” exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design at 6 p.m. (free/reservation required)
New Photography 2009 opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Jan. 11)
Paul Sietsema exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Feb. 15)
Steve Wolfe on Paper opens at the Whitney (through Nov. 29)
Free art talk on the High Line with Spencer Finch on his The River That Flows Both Ways blue-glass installation at 6:30 p.m.
Yankees home game vs. Kansas City at 7:05 p.m.
“The Daily Show” & Friends at Comix at 8 p.m. with Adam Lowitt, Scott Jacobson, Rory Albanese, Janeane Garofalo and John Oliver
New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players perform at 6 p.m. at the free Bryant Park Fall Festival
Beledo, on Spanish guitar, plays the Starlight Music Series atop 30 Rockefeller Center from 6 to 8 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m. (plus an open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.)
Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Gov’t Mule play Brooklyn Bowl
A Redele with Jake Shulman-Ment at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 7 p.m.
Mary Wilson of The Supremes plays Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (through Oct. 3)
Prelude theater and performance festival begins (through Oct. 3)
Broadway “leading ladies” panel discussion at 5:30 p.m. at the TheTimesCenter with Laura Benanti, Sutton Foster and Alice Ripley, moderated by Howard Sherman
Leslie Uggams, Alan Campbell and Clifton Davis in the staged reading of Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj’s “Little Rock” at the Union Square Theatre
Slide Lecture: All Over the Map at the Society of Illustrators with artist Peter Kuper
Book event: Garrison Keillor on “Pilgrims A Wobegon Romance” at 7:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle
Book talk at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m.: Louis Brandeis: A Life with Professor Melvin Urorfsky
Book event at Asia Society: Stephen Roach on The Next Asia at 5:30 p.m.
Free discussion: Sam Tanenhaus: The Death of Conservatism at the Great Hall of The Cooper Union at 6:30 p.m.
Museum of American Finance walking tour: Women of Wall Street at 1 p.m.
Historic trolley tour at Green-Wood cemetery at 1 p.m.
Free Cross-Park Promenade walking tour with the Central Park Conservancy at 1 p.m.

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