10:30 am – 12:15 pm The Feast of St. Francis Day & Blessing of the Animals Ages: AllAnimals Family Free Cathedral of St. John the DivineManhattanville
11 am – 6 pm Annual Woodhaven Street Fair Ages: AllCommunity Family Festivals Annual Woodhaven Street FairWoodhaven
11 am – 8 pm Egyptian Festival 2025 Ages: AllCommunity Family Festivals Archangel Michael & Saint Mena Coptic Orthodox ChurchStaten Island
11 am – 4:30 pm South Street Seaport Museum Announces Free October Family Activity Weekends: Sailors’ Skills En Español Free WavertreeManhattan
Noon – 5 pm L’Alliance New York Announces North American Premiere of Les tutomouves 2025 Crossing The Line Festival En Español Free L’Alliance New YorkManhattan
Noon – 6 pm The Atlantic Antic™ 50th Anniversary Festival Ages: AllArt Attractions Family Atlantic Avenue from Hicks Street to Fourth AvenueBrooklyn
1 – 6 pm Illuminations 2025 Art Exhibit by Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists Art Free BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists CoalitionBrooklyn
1 – 3 pm Adventure Course Free Public Sunday Program Ages: AllFamily Free Outdoors Alley Pond Adventure CourseOakland Gardens
1 – 6 pm Culture and The Urban Experience Take Center Stage in BWAC Fall Exhibitions Art Community Brooklyn Waterfront Artists CoalitionBrooklyn
2 – 5 pm Moana Live in Concert Ages: AllFamily Film Free Lehman Center for the Performing ArtsKingsbridge Heights
2 – 4 pm Trial and Error Launch Party Ages: 5 – 12Books & Readings Family Free Books of WonderManhattan
2 – 6 pm Turtle Island Free Outdoors Hudson River Park Pier 57, Gansevoort Plaza, and The Podium at One World Trade CenterManhattan
2 – 6 pm World’s Fair Diwali and Navaratri Festival and Parade Ages: AllCommunity Craft & DIY Family Unisphere at Flushing Meadows Corona ParkFlushing-Corona
3 – 5:30 pm Regina Opera presents a FREE Oktoberfest Concert Free Music Our Lady of Perpetual Help SchoolBrooklyn
5 – 7:30 pm Rhapsody at Hudson River Park’s Pier 84 with Keigwin + Company Dance Free Pier 84 Hudson River ParkManhattan
6 – 7 pm Sacred Resonance: A World of Faith Ages: AllCommunity Family Free The Brick Presbyterian ChurchManhattan
8 am – 5 pm Gagosian presents Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ first solo exhibition in the United States: Peace Core Free GagosianPark Avenue
Oct. 9, 5 pm Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
Oct. 10, 9:30 am Discover Treasures at Marble Church’s Second Chance Tag Sale Marble Collegiate Church
Oct. 10, 7 pm Unspoken//Unbroken: Performance and Art in Observance of Domestic Violence Awareness CPR-Center for Performance Research
QNS East Elmhurst ISIS supporter gets nearly a decade in prison for plotting mass terror attack in Queens: Feds