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Tuesday Sep. 23, 2025

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Waterfront Walks

Ages: All
Family
Free
Tours

Brooklyn Bridge ParkBrooklyn

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8 am – 5 pm

Gagosian presents Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ first solo exhibition in the United States: Peace Core

Free

GagosianPark Avenue

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9 am – 5 pm

Adapt/Evolve

Art
Free

FIT Art and Design GalleryManhattan

10 – 11:30 am

Tot Time Tuesdays

Ages: 4 and under
Family
Free

Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve, Nature Interpretive CenterStaten Island

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11 am – 6 pm

Bowery Gallery’s 34th Annual Juried Exhibition

Art
Free

Bowery GalleryChelsea

FAD Market Empire Stores

11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Fall Pop-up [Dumbo]

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11 am – 6 pm

Rachel Siporin: Bathers

Art
Free

Bowery GalleryChelsea

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Noon – 6 pm

Homage: Queer lineages on video

Art
Free

Wallach Art GalleryManhattanville

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Noon – 5 pm

L’Alliance New York Announces North American Premiere of Les tutomouves 2025 Crossing The Line Festival

L’Alliance New YorkManhattan

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Noon – 6 pm

Heather Stivison – Ebb & Flow: The Many Faces of Water

Art
Free

Pleiades GalleryChelsea

Untitled Artwork

Noon – 6 pm

UPROSE x Hip Hop Caucus

The Climate Justice CenterBrooklyn

3:30 – 4:15 pm

Dance and Learn Spanish

Leonard LibraryBrooklyn

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5 – 6:30 pm

Buying Into Brooklyn | September 2025

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5 – 6:30 pm

Tip Off Basketball Season with Optimum

Ages: All
Community
Family
Free

Cross Bronx Optimum StoreBronx

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6 – 7:30 pm

Step Into Dance: Ballroom Workshop Series at the Sheepshead Bay Library

Dance
Free

Brooklyn Public Library Sheepshead BayBrooklyn

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6:30 – 7:30 pm

Emmelie Prophète Discusses Cécé

flatbush libraryBrooklyn

7 – 8 pm

We Love a Theme: A Storytelling Show

Pete’s Candy StoreBrooklyn

Adam Gabel at WSCC 2

8 – 9:30 pm

Not Ripe Bananas

Comedy
Free

West Side Comedy ClubUpper West Side

8 – 10 pm

The Overthinking Hour Comedy Show

HalyardsBrooklyn

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