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HomeExchange Day: Meet home swappers and learn more in NYC

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Mishpachah Festival: A Celebration of Heritage, Genealogy, & Immigration

Ages: 5 and up
Dance
Family
Festivals

Museum of Jewish HeritageBattery Park City

68th Annual Puerto Rican Day Parade

Ages: All
Family
Festivals
Free

National Puerto Rican Day ParadeManhattan

Manhattan Community Pride Mural

Community Pride Mural

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

The Whitney Museum of American ArtManhattan

GRAND OPENING OF “KINGSBRIDGE REMEMBERS THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,” SPECIAL EXHIBIT OF THE KINGSBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Free

Kingsbridge Historical SocietyBronx

The Happening: Free Community Block Party

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

Church Street School for Music & ArtTribeca

Lucky Strike Chelsea Piers Lucky Launch Party

Lucky Strike Chelsea PiersManhattan

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Creature Feature: The Science of Monster Movies & Community Filmmaking 

Ages: All
Family
Free

Museum of the Moving ImageAstoria, NY

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Second Sunday Castle Tours

Bayside Historical SocietyBayside

Clay Pit Care

Ages: 9 and up
Family
Free
Outdoors

Clay Pit Ponds State Park PreserveStaten Island

June 8th

BAMBA Fest: Kingsbridge Block Party

Broadway & W 239th StBronx

Flute and Music

Concert Flute Choir of New York

Free
Music

Glendale Maspeth United Methodist ChurchGlendale

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Karen Fleisch Designs Presents LES Artist Salon & Market

Victoria!NYC

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Book Launch ~ Coney Island USA

Coney Island USABrooklyn

Israelfest Celebrate Israel Concert

Eisenhower ParkEast Meadow

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