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Today’s Events—Saturday, August 5
Free Water Park, Ziplining & Walking Tours for Summer Streets 2017 (Saturdays Through August 19)
2017 Brooklyn Beach Sports Festival (Through Sunday, August 6)
Boardwalk & 10th St., Brooklyn
2017 History Day at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park & the Coney Island History Project
Coney Island USA, Brooklyn
MCA Day 2017—A Final Celebration to Honor the Life of Adam Yauch
Littlefield, Brooklyn
2017 Press Play Fair
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
Free Brooklyn Museum 1st Saturday—CaribBEING with Performances, Film, Tours & More
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
2017 Warm Up Music Series in MoMA PS1's Courtyard (Saturdays Through September 2)
MoMA PS1, Queens
Free Sunset Central Park Tour ($52 Value)
Cheap Tickets to ‘The Imbible’—Boozy Brunch & Cocktail History (Through Sunday, August 27)
Free Cruise! See Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Skyline & More ($31 Value)
Free Tickets to 'A Never-Ending Line'—Female Stories in Song (Through Thursday, August 10)
Make an Offer at This Pop-Up Thrift Store & Budget Art Gallery (Through Sunday, August 13)
Flux Factory, Queens
Music & More at Brasil Summerfest 2017 (Through
Pay-What-You-Wish Shakespeare: 'Henry V' (Through Sunday, August 20)
Riverside Park, Pier I, Manhattan
Rooftop Quiet Clubbing on the Cheap (Saturdays Through September 30)
2017 Coney Island Brewery Anniversary Bash
Coney Island Brewery, Brooklyn
Find a Furry Best Friend at 2017 Adoptapalooza Prospect Park
Free Silent Summer Dance Party
Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Manhattan
2017 Central Park Great Jazz on the Great Hill
Kid Capri’s Block Party + Free DJing Workshop
Crotona Park, Bronx
Release a Palm Leaf Lamp into the East River at Brooklyn Bridge Park's Aarti Ceremony
Free Concert: Nels Cline / Sam Amidon
Prospect Park Bandshell, Brooklyn
Free Lincoln Center Concert: Nick Lowe / Los Straitjackets / Cut Worms
Damrosch Park, Manhattan
Free Screening of 'Ghostbusters' (2016) at the Oculus + Eataly & Drinks
Free Film: 'Finding Nemo'
Rosemary’s Playground, Queens
Live in a Musical During This Drag Queen Tour of NYC
Tomorrow’s Events—Sunday, August 6
3 Hours of Unlimited Wine + Live Music
Free Basement Bhangra 20th Anniversary Party in Central Park
Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan
'Jaws' Screening + Beach Party with Tahitian Dancing & More (Discount)
The United Palace, Manhattan
Cross-Cultural Drumming Performances & Activism at Lincoln Center
Damrosch Park, Manhattan
Free Film: 'Hidden Figures'
Parkside Playground, Brooklyn
Jadakiss—Free Concert
Tremont Park, Bronx
Free Live Opera in Sycamore Bar's Garden
Sycamore Bar Brooklyn, Brooklyn
Cheap Tickets to ‘The Imbible’—Boozy Brunch & Cocktail History (Through Sunday, August 27)
Pay-What-You-Wish Shakespeare: 'Henry V' (Through Sunday, August 20)
Riverside Park, Pier I, Manhattan
FAD Market at Coney Island Art Walls
Free Chillin' & Grillin' 2017 BBQ
Trending: free & cheap films, concerts, Shakespeare
Ending This Weekend
Doing / Living Health & Wellness Pop-Up (Through Saturday, August 5)
‘Spy Vs. Us’: 2017 Annual MoRUS Film Fest (Through Saturday, August 5)
2017 Asian American International Film Festival (Through Saturday, August 5)
Gaming Meets Performance at 2017 Game Play Festival (Through Saturday, August 5)
The Brick, Brooklyn
Ai Weiwei & Jacques Herzog Surveillance State Exhibit (Through Sunday, August 6)
Park Avenue Armory, Manhattan
Ongoing
See more ongoing & upcoming NYC events
Discounted Admission to the Museum of Sex (Through Sunday, December 31)
Museum of Sex, Manhattan
Cheap Brooklyn Heights & DUMBO Walking Tours (Through Saturday, November 25)
'Counter-Couture: Handmade Fashion in an American Counterculture' (Through Sunday, August 20)
Museum of Arts and Design, Manhattan
Cheap NYC Night Bus Tours (Through Thursday, August 31)
Follow the Work of the Legendary Handbag Designer at 'Judith Leiber Crafting a New York Story' (Through Tuesday, August 8)
Museum of Arts and Design, Manhattan
Free Roller Skating + Skate Rental in Prospect Park (Through Saturday, September 30)
'The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s' (Through Sunday, August 20)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Manhattan
Cheap Unlimited Ride Passes at Luna Park (Through Sunday, October 29)
Coney Island Beach, Brooklyn
Met Rooftop Transformed by 100+ Replicas of Works from the Collection (Through Sunday, October 29)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan
NYC Slavery & Underground Railroad Tours (Through Saturday, December 30)
'We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85' (Through Sunday, September 17)
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
Anish Kapoor's 'Water Vortex' Installation Displayed in Brooklyn Bridge Park (Through Sunday, September 10)
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1, Brooklyn
Rei Kawakubo's Avant-Garde Comme des Garçons Designs at The Met (Through Monday, September 4)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan
Check Out Beachside Street Art at 2017 Coney Art Walls (Through October)
Boardwalk & 10th St., Brooklyn
Cheap NYC Speedboat Rides (Through Sunday, September 10)
Get Your Summer 2017 Grilling Done on a Free Barbecue in NYC Parks
NYC Beaches Are Open for Summer 2017 (Through Monday, September 4)
'Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up' (Through Sunday, October 29)
Interference Archive, Brooklyn
'Closet Archaeology' NYC Time Capsule at City Reliquary (Through Sunday, August 27)
The City Reliquary, Brooklyn
'Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive' (Through Sunday, October 1)
The Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan
Prismatic Glass Sculptures in Mad. Sq. Park + Free Performances (Through Sunday, October 8)
Madison Square Park, Manhattan
2017 Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race (Through Tuesday, August 8)
'Millions: Migrants and Millionaires aboard the Great Liners, 1900-1914' (Through Sunday, January 7)
South Street Seaport Museum, Manhattan
Take a Dip in a Free Outdoor Pool (Through Monday, September 4)
Celebrating 60+ Years of 'Eloise' (Through Monday, October 9)
New-York Historical Society, Manhattan
'The United States: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow' (Through Sunday, August 20)
The City Reliquary, Brooklyn
$10 Tickets to New York Botanical Garden's CHIHULY Exhibit (Through Sunday, September 3)
2017 NY Musical Festival (Through Sunday, July 6)
Free Productions of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' (Through Sunday, August 20)
Free Shakespeare in the Park: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (Through Sunday, August 13)
Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan
$10 Central Park Bike Rental (Through Sunday, October 1)
SummerShorts 2017 Fest of New American Short Plays (Through Saturday, September 2)
Jim Henson Exhibition at MoMI
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens
Free Shakespeare: 'Henry VI Part 3'
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, Manhattan
Alexander Calder's Works in Motion at The Whitney (Through Monday, October 23)
Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan
Discounted 60th Anniversary Tickets to 'Jamaica' Musical (Through Saturday, March 24)
Harlem Week 2017 with Free Performances, Films & Fashion Show (Through Sunday, August 26)
2017 Bronx Salsa Fest (Through Thursday, August 31)
Free SNL Tickets (Through Thursday, August 31)
Shakespeare in the Theater 2017 (Through Saturday, August 26)
The Brick, Brooklyn
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