Good Eggs
Good Eggs brings a comedy show to New York Comedy Club’s East Village location.
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15 things worth doing in the next 7 days · Sunday, September 13th – Saturday, September 19th
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Comedy Mob Presents: The Lineup
Comedy Mob presents a comedy showcase.
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Trivia Night
Play trivia at Motel No Tell’s weekly night in the East Village.
🚇 1 Av (L) · 2 min walk
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Mixtape Bingo
Motel No Tell hosts Mixtape Bingo every Tuesday at 7pm.
🚇 1 Av (L) · 2 min walk
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Live Music Wednesdays
Motel No Tell hosts live music every Wednesday in the East Village.
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The Woman in the Window (1944): Film Noir Directed by Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window (1944) follows a reserved professor who meets a model and becomes entangled in murder.
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Comedy Mob Open Mic
Comedy Mob’s open mic brings comics to the stage for a series of short sets.
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Docu-Shorts Explroign the Lives of Pioneering Women Artists
Five short documentaries explore the lives and careers of women artists with ties to Cooper Union.
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Live DJ
A live DJ plays at Jackdaw on Fridays and Saturdays.
🚇 3 Av (L) · 2 min walk
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Friday Night Fever
Motel No Tell hosts live DJ sets for its weekly Friday Night Fever.
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Saturday Night Fever
Motel No Tell’s weekly Saturday night party features live DJ sets.
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Sunday Night Vibes
Motel No Tell hosts live music on Sunday nights in the East Village.
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Trivia Night
Juke Bar hosts weekly Monday trivia in the East Village.
🚇 3 Av (L) · 2 min walk
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Comedy Night
Juke Bar hosts comedy on Tuesdays in the East Village.
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Monday Trivia Night
You can play trivia at Motel No Tell’s weekly Monday gathering in the East Village.
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Irving Plaza
A standing-room concert hall running touring rock, R&B and hip-hop shows most nights — the calendar names The Wallflowers, Towa Bird, The Dear Hunter, YG and Pi'erre Bourne.
4.3★ from 3,248 Google reviews
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AMC Village 7
A cinema playing current blockbuster releases, with padded seats that recline.
4.4★ from 3,152 Google reviews
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Webster Hall
A concert hall putting on live music shows and late-night events; you buy tickets for a specific show.
4.2★ from 3,148 Google reviews
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Village East by Angelika
A seven-screen cinema in a Moorish-style building, showing a mix of arthouse and mainstream releases.
4.3★ from 1,796 Google reviews
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New York Comedy Club - Midtown
Stand-up showcases run nightly, several a night, with a rotating lineup of city comics and drop-in guests — the club also runs rooms in the East Village and on the Upper West Side, and the calendar lists each location separately.
4.3★ from 1,785 Google reviews
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The Stand
A comedy club with a northern Italian restaurant attached, so you can book a table for dinner or brunch and stay for a show.
4.4★ from 1,757 Google reviews
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Videogamesnewyork
A shop stocking modern, older and imported video games.
4.6★ from 1,613 Google reviews
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Olfactory NYC
A perfume shop where you build a scent of your own.
4.8★ from 1,601 Google reviews
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Amsterdam Billiards
A pool hall near Union Square with 25 tables, plus ping pong, darts and foosball.
4.3★ from 1,539 Google reviews
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L Train Vintage
A family-run thrift chain with shops across the city stocked from monthly shipments of vintage clothing bought by travelling buyers, with new merchandise arriving at each location around three times a week.
4.3★ from 1,032 Google reviews
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New York Comedy Club - East Village
A comedy club in the East Village with a bar out front and a darkened, candlelit room for the shows.
4.3★ from 1,008 Google reviews
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St. Marks Comedy Club
A small brick-walled basement comedy room on St.
4.3★ from 840 Google reviews
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Peridance Center
A dance school in the East Village running classes for children and teens alongside its adult drop-in program, with a teen intensive and pre-professional training for those who want to go further.
4.8★ from 751 Google reviews
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Russian & Turkish Baths
A bathhouse in Manhattan's East Village.
4.2★ from 735 Google reviews
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Caveat
A small room that programs live shows across stand-up, improv and science talks, often blending the formats in one night.
4.8★ from 514 Google reviews
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Catacombs by Candlelight
A guide leads you by candlelight through the crypts under the basilica.
4.2★ from 473 Google reviews
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SING SING St.Marks Karaoke
Karaoke spot in a downtown brick building where groups book private rooms to sing.
4.1★ from 425 Google reviews
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East Village Books
A used bookshop on Saint Marks Place where you browse shelves of art and photography books, philosophy, mathematics, religion, literary fiction, underground comics and graphic novels, and Greek and Latin.
4.3★ from 365 Google reviews
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Anthology Film Archives
A cinema and film archive on Second Avenue showing programmes built around a theme or a filmmaker rather than new releases — recent runs have included a John Berger series and a set of Duchamp programmes.
4.6★ from 332 Google reviews
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Academy Records
A used record shop where you flip through bins of rock, jazz, soul and funk, punk, metal, reggae, hip hop, disco, house and techno, avant garde and Latin records.
4.6★ from 317 Google reviews
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6BC Botanical Garden
A small garden planted with several hundred varieties of flowers and other plants, arranged around a pond.
4.6★ from 292 Google reviews
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Stranded Records NYC
A long-established shop for vinyl, with records spanning the 1950s through to current releases.
4.3★ from 269 Google reviews
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Kraine Theater
Run by FRIGID NY, which programmes roughly two dozen monthly and recurring shows across its stages — open mics, improv, comedy, plays and storytelling.
4.5★ from 247 Google reviews
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Drawing New York
A drawing school running in-person courses in Manhattan as well as online ones.
5★ from 234 Google reviews
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Limited to One Record Shop
A small vinyl shop with a focus on punk, indie and hip-hop records.
4.8★ from 233 Google reviews
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Fragrance Shop New York
You blend your own scent here.
4.7★ from 222 Google reviews
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P&T Knitwear Bookstore, Coffee, & Podcast Studio
4.8★ from 157 Google reviews
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Ergot Records
A vinyl and cassette shop stocking records across every genre, including a bargain section where some titles go for around a dollar.
4.6★ from 141 Google reviews
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Activate Games
You move as a group between interactive light-up game rooms, each a different physical and mental challenge — climbing walls, solving puzzles, dodging lasers.
5★ from 135 Google reviews
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Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
4.6★ from 126 Google reviews
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Spark Pretty
A vintage clothing store and showroom on East 9th Street, stocked from thrifting and estate-sale hunting by stylist Amanda Dolan and her team.
4.6★ from 112 Google reviews
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Tompkins Square Park Greenmarket
This is a Sunday farmers market at Avenue A and 7th Street where you walk the stalls and buy from the farms directly — vegetables from Amoon Farm and Norwich Meadows, orchard fruit and strawberries from Samascott, cheese and sheep's-milk yogurt from Valley Shepherd, mushrooms grown in Queens, breads from Bread Alone and She Wolf, and fish from Seatuck.
4.5★ from 105 Google reviews
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Village Works
4.2★ from 100 Google reviews
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Atelier Sucre
Hands-on workshops in a Manhattan kitchen run by pastry chef Simon Herfray, where you bake classic French pastries and American favourites.
4.6★ from 97 Google reviews
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Flea Market
A flea market with a mix of goods on sale and no charge to walk in.
4★ from 96 Google reviews
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Urban Illusions
A close-up magic show for 20 people in an East Village basement, performed by Hayden Childress using sleight of hand alongside VHS tapes, polaroids and haze in a black-walled room he built and painted himself.
5★ from 93 Google reviews
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Manhattan45
A shop dealing in new electronic records — house, techno and disco among them.
4.7★ from 63 Google reviews
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Teatro Círculo
Teatro Círculo is a Latino theater company in the East Village staging classical and contemporary plays in Spanish.
4.8★ from 53 Google reviews
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Unstruck Sound Reiki NYC
5★ from 48 Google reviews
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Ready Golf Club
An indoor golf facility on E 5th Street with Trackman simulator bays booked by the hour.
5★ from 41 Google reviews
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9th St. Vintage
A vintage store focused on women's clothing made before 1960, alongside unusual collectibles and jewelry.
4.3★ from 41 Google reviews
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iArt Institute
4.8★ from 39 Google reviews
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All Street Gallery
This is a small gallery running rotating exhibitions across two Lower East Side spaces, 119 Hester St and 77 East 3rd St, plus an online exhibition strand.
5★ from 26 Google reviews
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Worth knowing about East Village
Ottendorfer Library
Look up at Ottendorfer Library’s terracotta figures before going through the door. When the branch opened in 1884, its original 8,000 books were divided equally between German and English, reflecting the surrounding neighborhood’s German-speaking community.
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery
Notice how St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery sits at an angle to the surrounding street grid. It faces true south because its predecessor stood on a rural lane, preserving a trace of the landscape before the city grew around it.
McSorley’s Old Ale House
Look past the sawdust floor and crowded walls at McSorley’s: women were first admitted in 1970. The old ale house’s familiar room carries that surprisingly recent dividing line in its history, alongside its much older identity as a neighborhood gathering place.
East Village FAQs
Updated Sunday, September 13, 2026, at 1:01 a.m New York time.
Where can I see comedy in the East Village tonight?
For Sunday, September 13, 2026, St. Marks Comedy Club offers two useful early-evening choices at 12 St. Marks Place. Compare the drink minimums before choosing, and check the ticket total through the club’s booking links.
- Down Bad Comedy Show — Sunday, September 13, 5:30pm; doors at 5pm. Jordan Lueng is advertised, with other performers subject to change. Ages 16+; one drink per person is required in addition to admission.
- Daniela Mora, Laz Rivero and Alexis Carabaño — Sunday, September 13, 7:30pm; doors at 7pm. Ages 16+; two drinks per person are required. Tickets are nonrefundable, and seating depends on timely group check-in.
What can I pair with a comedy show at St. Marks Comedy Club?
You can add a meal or an ale without building a complicated route around your show. These walking estimates start at the club’s entrance at 12 St. Marks Place; leave extra time for crossings and waiting for a table.
- Veselka — At 144 Second Avenue, roughly 5–7 minutes away, this Ukrainian restaurant works for dinner before the show. Regular hours run until midnight Monday–Thursday and 11pm Sunday, with overnight service Friday and Saturday. Seating is mostly first come, first served, with limited reservations.
- McSorley’s Old Ale House — At 15 East 7th Street, roughly 2–4 minutes away, the ale house stays open until 1am. It opens at 11am Monday–Saturday and noon Sunday. Bring cash; it does not take reservations.
Where can I hear live music in the East Village?
For Sunday, September 13, and Monday, September 14, 2026, you can choose an early set or a later jazz night. Confirm age rules and any purchase minimum with the venue before making plans.
- Claudio Rubio Quintet — Sunday, September 13, 7–10pm, at Nublu, 151 Avenue C in Alphabet City. The saxophone-led quintet includes guitar, piano, bass and drums; Shotgun lists tickets at $22.
- Nick Cabrera at Sunday Night Vibes — Sunday, September 13, 7–10pm, at Motel No Tell, 210 Avenue A. Confirm cover charges directly with the bar.
- Producer Mondays — Monday, September 14, from 10pm, with Ray Angry and the Council of Goldfinger at Nublu’s 151 Avenue C room. Shotgun lists $22 tickets; Nublu Classic at 62 Avenue C is a separate location.
Where can I browse record shops in the East Village?
Make room for a slow browse at two shops with different collecting personalities. Bring a short wish list, but leave yourself permission to find something you did not come looking for.
- Academy Records — The East Village shop is at 415 East 12th Street and keeps regular hours of 11am–7pm daily. Its used-record business spans rock, jazz, soul, dance music and experimental sounds. Head for the bins without counting on any particular pressing being there.
- Limited To One — Find the basement-west shop at 221 East 10th Street. Regular hours are noon–7pm Tuesday–Sunday, closed Monday. Its specialty is rare and limited vinyl, including punk, indie, hip-hop, hardcore and 1990s alternative; ask about a pressing’s edition before buying.
Which East Village community gardens can I visit?
Start with gardens that publish visiting hours, then keep your route flexible around volunteer staffing. These two Alphabet City stops reward a quiet look at the planting and ponds.
- 6BC Botanical Garden — Use the entrance at 624 East 6th Street, between Avenues B and C. Scheduled access is noon–6pm Saturday and Sunday, April through October 31, weather and volunteers permitting; visitors are also welcome when the gate is open. Paths can be uneven, children need close supervision, and there are no bathrooms.
- Pancho’s Garden — The public entrance is on Avenue C between East 9th and 10th Streets; the address is 703 East 9th Street. Admission is free, with regular weekend hours of noon–6pm April–October. Look for the koi-and-turtle pond and fig arbor.
Where can I see independent theater in the East Village this week?
For Friday, September 18, and Saturday, September 19, 2026, Teatro Círculo opens Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña at 64 East 4th Street. This Spanish-verse tragicomedy has English overtitles and runs about 90 minutes without an intermission.
- Peribáñez at Teatro Círculo — Friday performance — Friday, September 18, 7pm; the production runs through October 4. General admission is $40; students and seniors pay $35, with student ID required. The venue is ADA accessible, and tickets are tied to a specific performance.
- Peribáñez at Teatro Círculo — Saturday performances — Saturday, September 19, 2pm or 7pm. The theater advertises subsidized $10 Saturday tickets: select General Admission and enter ACCESS on its official ticket page. Check the final offer before paying; discounts cannot be combined, and purchases generally cannot be exchanged or refunded.
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