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Things to do in the Bronx

Find unique things to do in the Bronx today, this weekend and in the weeks ahead. Check out the cards for live music, art, comedy, workshops and outdoor activities. Use the filters to narrow your options by date, neighborhood, price and interests.

These special events are sourced from the web and social media, then carefully curated based on cool and fun events you might enjoy doing in the Bronx.

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12 things worth doing in the next 7 days · Friday, October 16th – Thursday, October 22nd

Afternoon Hip Hop

Boogie Down Grind’s recurring Friday session centers on listening to hip-hop.

Fri Oct 16 · Boogie Down Grind, Hunts Point · Bronx · Price not listed

🚇 Hunts Point Av (6) · 4 min walk

🍴 Eat nearby · 3 places, closest 2 min walk

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Open House New York Weekend

Go behind the scenes at infrastructure facilities, manufacturing workshops and private collections during a festival spanning all five boroughs.

Fri–Sun · More than 300 locations across the five boroughs · Multiple boroughs · Half the locations are free drop-ins; others require $7 advance tickets

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🌧 Rain likelyFree

Movies Under the Stars: Minions & Monsters

You can watch Minions & Monsters outdoors at South Playground through the city's Movies Under the Stars series.

Fri Oct 16 · South Playground (in Rev. T. Wendell Foster Park and Recreation Center ), Rev. T. Wendell · Bronx · Free

🚇 161 St-Yankee Stadium (4 B D) · 5 min walk

🍴 Eat nearby · 2 places, closest 5 min walk

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LGBTQ+

NewFest: 38th Annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival

NewFest pairs queer cinema with opening and closing film parties, alongside international, New York and documentary centerpiece selections.

Every day, ending Oct 25 · Various locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, plus online · Multiple boroughs · Various prices.

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Free

Paddle and Pick Up at Concrete Plant Park

Help clean the Bronx River during a guided canoe outing with the Bronx River Alliance.

Sat Oct 17 · Concrete Park Boat Launch (in Concrete Plant Park), Concrete Plant Park · Bronx · Free

🚇 Whitlock Av (6) · 3 min walk

🍴 Eat nearby · 2 places, closest 7 min walk

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Irish Trad Session

Hear traditional Irish music at An Beal Bocht Cafe’s weekly Sunday session.

Sun Oct 18 · An Beal Bocht Cafe, Riverdale · Bronx · Price not listed

🚇 238 St (1) · 6 min walk

🍴 Eat nearby · 4 places, closest 2 min walk

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Free

Fordham Rd BX Fest 2

Clearview Festival Productions brings a street fair to Fordham Road.

Sun Oct 18 · Fordham Rd · Bronx · Free admission

🚇 Fordham Rd (B D) · 4 min walk

🍴 Eat nearby · 3 places, closest 3 min walk

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Free

250th Commemoration of the Battle of Pells Point

Sun Oct 18 · Pelham Bay Park and Orchard Beach: Orchard Beach Boardwalk · Bronx · Free

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Free

Orchestral Works by Mozart & Schubert

You’ll hear Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, with violin and viola soloists, alongside Schubert’s Fifth Symphony.

Sun Oct 18 · Lovinger Theater at Lehman College · Bronx · Free

🚇 Bedford Park Blvd-Lehman College (4) · 5 min walk

🍴 Eat nearby · 4 places, closest 5 min walk

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Open Mic

An Beal Bocht Cafe holds a weekly open mic with Eric Sullivan.

Tue Oct 20 · An Beal Bocht Cafe, Riverdale · Bronx · Price not listed

🚇 238 St (1) · 6 min walk

🍴 Eat nearby · 4 places, closest 2 min walk

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Open Mic Night

Open mic performances at Boogie Down Grind.

Wed Oct 21 · Boogie Down Grind, Hunts Point · Bronx · Price not listed

🚇 Hunts Point Av (6) · 4 min walk

🍴 Eat nearby · 3 places, closest 2 min walk

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Thursday Trivia

Test your trivia knowledge at Rambling House in the Bronx.

Thu Oct 22 · Rambling House, Riverdale · Bronx · Price not listed

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Open any day. No date needed

Open any dayFree

Van Cortlandt Park

park · Bronx

1,146 acres in the northwest Bronx holding the last remaining stretches of New York City's native woodlands and wetlands, founded in 1888.

4.6★ from 9,138 Google reviews

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Open any dayFree

New York Botanical Garden

botanical garden · Fordham

The Everett Children's Adventure Garden is the part built for kids, and it runs alongside drop-in activities where children harvest vegetables and plant seedlings.

4.7★ from 12,994 Google reviews

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Yankee Stadium

stadium · Mott Haven

Alongside a Yankees game, the stadium runs guided tours covering the team's history, and the New York Yankees Museum is inside.

4.7★ from 60,496 Google reviews

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Open any dayFree

Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center

garden · Riverdale

A garden overlooking the Hudson with plant collections, art exhibitions in the galleries and a cafe.

4.8★ from 2,232 Google reviews

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Bronx Zoo

zoo · Tremont

The day runs on a posted schedule of animal events — sea lion feeding, bee-eater feeding and penguin feeding all land mid-afternoon, so it is worth checking the day's timings on arrival and working your route around them.

4.6★ from 39,598 Google reviews

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Vida Dance Company

dance school · Hunts Point

A Salsa and Bachata school on Castle Hill Avenue running group classes seven days a week, with a separate kids' class.

5★ from 186 Google reviews

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Open any dayFree

Pelham Bay Park

nature preserve · City Island

This is the city's largest park, more than three times the size of Central Park, so pick one corner rather than trying to see it.

4.5★ from 10,173 Google reviews

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AMC Bay Plaza Cinema 13

movie theater · Pelham Bay

A 13-screen cinema running new releases.

4.1★ from 8,276 Google reviews

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Lehman Center for the Performing Arts

performing arts theater · Bedford Park

Lehman Center programs touring music and dance acts in a Bronx theater.

4.6★ from 1,768 Google reviews

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Bowlerland

bowling alley · Eastchester

Bowling that runs late, with pool tables, a bar and lounge area, and a pro shop.

3.8★ from 1,340 Google reviews

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Open any dayFree

Pugsley Creek Park

park · Castle Hill

A largely undeveloped stretch of wetland and marsh on the Bronx waterfront, with hiking trails through natural areas and wildlife to spot — ospreys are among the birds recorded here.

4.4★ from 866 Google reviews

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Children's Zoo

zoo · Belmont

The Children's Zoo sits inside the Bronx Zoo, so a visit is a day at the zoo built around the day's timed schedule.

4.7★ from 429 Google reviews

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Cozy Massage & Facial

spa · Morris Park

A spa offering facials alongside massage.

4.3★ from 175 Google reviews

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Maritime Industry Museum at Fort Schuyler

maritime museum · Silver Beach

The museum sits inside Fort Schuyler on the SUNY Maritime College campus and covers shipping and seafaring life.

4.7★ from 138 Google reviews

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Open any day

kingdom Royale Face N Body Spa

day spa · Eastchester Heights

A woman-led day spa.

4.9★ from 116 Google reviews

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Estética Beauty Lounge & Spa

spa · Kingsbridge

A skincare spa on an upper floor of an office building.

4.9★ from 105 Google reviews

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Open any dayFree

Divine Grace Christain Bookstore, llc

book store · Wakefield

A Christian bookstore selling Bibles, books and church supplies, including Bibles for children.

4.9★ from 88 Google reviews

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Open any day

Pelham Bay Park Tennis Courts

tennis court · Spencer Estates

Ten outdoor public tennis courts, all hard-surface, inside a city park on the waterfront.

4.7★ from 77 Google reviews

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Haffen Park Tennis Courts

tennis court · Baychester

Six outdoor hard courts in a 9-acre neighbourhood park at Hammersley, Ely and Gunther Avenues, for turning up and playing rather than for lessons.

4.2★ from 68 Google reviews

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New York Tennis Club

tennis court · Locust Point

A private membership tennis club with six Har-Tru courts, a shaded patio and a viewing deck overlooking tree-covered lawns.

4.5★ from 62 Google reviews

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Open any dayFree

One-Stop Live Market

poultry store · High Bridge

A meat supplier stocking poultry, goat and beef, along with other cooking ingredients.

4.2★ from 61 Google reviews

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Open any day

Tones Day Spa

day spa · Bronx

A day spa where the treatment list covers facials, massage and body treatments.

4.8★ from 741 Google reviews

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Open any dayFree

Bronx Park

city park · Fordham

The Bronx River Forest trails run through floodplain forest along the banks of the restored Bronx River, a few steps from the New York Botanical Garden.

4.7★ from 3,564 Google reviews

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Open any day

The Bronx Museum of the Arts

art museum · Mott Haven

A contemporary art museum in the South Bronx showing rotating exhibitions — currently the Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection and the Lifelong Studio: Alternative Archives show, both running to early September.

4.4★ from 1,421 Google reviews

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MyUnique Bronx

vintage clothing store · Riverdale

This is a secondhand shop where you dig through racks of clothing, shoes and accessories, plus sections of housewares, furniture and books.

4.1★ from 1,265 Google reviews

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World of Birds

zoo · Tremont

A 30,000-square-foot indoor bird house at the Bronx Zoo where ramps lead you through recreated habitats — deserts, jungles, alpine forests and rainforests with waterfalls and simulated storms.

4.8★ from 416 Google reviews

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Blossom Holness Fabric & Sewing Center

sewing company · Hunts Point

A long-established shop for sewing machines, fabric and related supplies.

4.3★ from 143 Google reviews

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Open any dayFree

Orchard Beach and Promenade

beach · City Island

This is the Bronx's only public beach — 1.1 miles of sand on Long Island Sound in Pelham Bay Park, with a hexagonal-block promenade running its length and a central pavilion.

4.3★ from 945 Google reviews

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Billy Beez Bay Plaza Mall

amusement park · Pelham Bay

An indoor play park inside the Mall at Bay Plaza.

4.1★ from 2,021 Google reviews

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St. Martin of Tours Roman Catholic Church

catholic church · Belmont

4.7★ from 122 Google reviews

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Finer Beauty Spa

medical spa · Morris Park

4.8★ from 120 Google reviews

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Open any dayFree

Huntington Woods

nature preserve · Spencer Estates

A 41-acre section of Pelham Bay Park with forest, marsh and shoreline to walk, on the site of a former estate.

4.4★ from 50 Google reviews

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Open any day

Soundview

ferry terminal · Bronx

This is the Bronx end of NYC Ferry's Soundview route, at the south-east corner of Clason Point Park.

4.6★ from 460 Google reviews

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Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, NYBG

botanical garden · Fordham

The Conservatory is a glasshouse you walk through gallery by gallery, and each one is a different habitat — aquatic plants and vines, tropical rain forest, cactus-filled desert.

4.8★ from 2,515 Google reviews

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Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, NYBG

garden · Mott Haven

You walk a rose garden set down in a valley, laid out in rectangular beds, with more than 650 varieties in bloom from May to October.

4.7★ from 528 Google reviews

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An Beal Bocht Cafe

live music venue · Riverdale · $10–30

An Irish cafe and bar in Riverdale with live music scheduled almost every night, including the borough's longest-running Irish trad session.

4.6★ from 680 Google reviews

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Bug Carousel

exhibit · Tremont

The carousel sits inside the Bronx Zoo, so a visit is really a day at the zoo around it.

4.7★ from 371 Google reviews

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St. John Chrysostom's Church

catholic church · Hunts Point

4.7★ from 134 Google reviews

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City Island Stables, Inc.

horse riding school · City Island

Guided trail rides on scenic paths, pony rides for younger children, and English or Western riding lessons one-on-one or in small groups.

4.2★ from 327 Google reviews

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HC FOOT SPA

massage spa · Pelham Bay

A Bronx massage place specializing in back and foot massage, with therapists working on shoulder and lower back tension.

4.6★ from 128 Google reviews

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Arthur Avenue Food Tours

tour operator · Belmont

A guided walking tour of the Italian food shops on Arthur Avenue — butchers, bakers and fishmongers, several of them a century old.

4.9★ from 78 Google reviews

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Open any dayFree

Morris Park Library

public library · Morris Park

Browse a collection of about 25,000 adult, young adult and children's books plus audio recordings, with shelves in English, Italian, Albanian and Chinese.

4.3★ from 82 Google reviews

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Open any dayFree

Seton Falls Park

park · Bronx

A playground and open lawns sit beside more than 30 acres of preserved forest, so you can combine a play session with a proper walk in the woods.

4.1★ from 394 Google reviews

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Williamsbridge Oval

park · Fordham

This is a 19.75-acre neighborhood park in the Bronx with a playground, spray showers and a running track circling the middle.

4.5★ from 1,312 Google reviews

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The Lit. Bar

book store · Mott Haven

Browse the shelves at the front — a curated general-interest selection with an emphasis on African American and Latinx writers, plus gift items and a children's section — then carry what you have picked to the wine bar at the back and read over a glass of red, white or rosé.

4.8★ from 426 Google reviews

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Magical Dave

magician · Riverdale

This isn't a place you visit — Dave is a children's magician who comes to you, performing at birthday parties, summer camps, schools and libraries across the five boroughs and the wider Tri-State area.

5★ from 482 Google reviews

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Parkchester Library

public library · Tremont

The expanded Teen Center is the standout: video, gaming and photography equipment, an audio recording studio, a 3-D printer, and art and design supplies to use on site.

4.3★ from 213 Google reviews

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ZEREGA INDOORS HANDBALL/PADDLEBALL/RACKETBALL

sports complex · Hunts Point

An indoor courts facility on the east side of the Bronx.

4.6★ from 119 Google reviews

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Turtle Cove Golf Center

miniature golf course · City Island

A 15-acre practice facility inside Pelham Bay Park with an elliptical tee line of 53 hitting bays, some covered and fitted with Toptracer, hitting onto a real grass field.

4.2★ from 255 Google reviews

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Confetti

painting studio · Pelham Bay

This is a party and paint studio rather than a drop-in activity.

4.4★ from 98 Google reviews

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Saint Clare of Assisi Church

catholic church · Morris Park

4.2★ from 78 Google reviews

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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum

museum · Bronx

A landmark estate open to visitors, built around a mansion dating to the 1830s.

4.6★ from 364 Google reviews

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Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto at St. Lucy's Church

religious destination · Fordham

You walk up to a thirty-foot cave of hand-cut fieldstone built in 1939 as a replica of the shrine at Lourdes, France, with a running waterfall and candles.

4.9★ from 1,263 Google reviews

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Community Green Market

farmers' market · Mott Haven

A farmers' market with a wide range of stalls, covering fresh produce, seafood and plants.

4.3★ from 407 Google reviews

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Van Cortlandt House Museum

museum · Riverdale

You walk through an 18th-century New York provisioning plantation house, with the interpretation focused on the people who lived and worked on the property between 1749 and 1823 and on the decorative arts collection.

4.6★ from 231 Google reviews

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Crotona Park Tennis Center

tennis court · Tremont

Outdoor public tennis courts run by NYC Parks.

4.7★ from 118 Google reviews

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Rocking the Boat

youth organization · Hunts Point

A Bronx non-profit on the Bronx River at Edgewater Road running boatbuilding, sailing and environmental programs.

4.9★ from 97 Google reviews

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City Island Nautical Museum

museum · City Island

A small museum you walk through room by room — the permanent collection includes the Community Room and the Nautical Room, plus a current exhibit on America's Cup winners, many of which were built on City Island.

4.5★ from 69 Google reviews

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Fancy Feet Dance Studio - Allerton

dance school · Pelham Bay

4.7★ from 91 Google reviews

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Mosholu Golf Course

golf driving range · Bronx

A 9-hole public golf course in the northwest Bronx, a few steps from the Woodlawn stop on the 4 train.

4.5★ from 314 Google reviews

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Worth knowing about the Bronx

New York Botanical Garden

Look beyond the flower beds: the Thain Family Forest contains trees dating to the American Revolution and marks left by glaciers. Its surviving woodland helped persuade the Garden’s founders to choose this Bronx site in 1895.

Orchard Beach and Promenade

The pale sand at Orchard Beach has a Queens connection: Robert Moses had fine white sand dredged from the Rockaways and brought by barge. Looking along the crescent, you are seeing an engineered shoreline that connected Hunter Island with Rodman’s Neck.

Van Cortlandt Park

Watch for thirteen stone samples beside the Putnam Greenway near the steps to the Parade Ground. They were exposed to the weather to test potential building materials for Grand Central, turning an ordinary park walk into a small architectural detective story.

Bronx FAQs

Updated Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 7:11 a.m New York time.

When can I visit the Bronx Zoo for free?

Your next free day is Wednesday, October 21, 2026, when Limited Admission costs nothing all day. You do need a reserved ticket, and booking for that date opens Monday, October 19, at 5pm.

What free things can I do in the Bronx this week?

You can paddle with the Bronx River Alliance or hear Mozart from Friday, October 16, through Thursday, October 22, 2026. Free admission rules vary by stop.

What can I do outdoors in the Bronx?

You have guided walks, canoeing and birding from Friday, October 16, through Thursday, October 22, 2026. Admission and registration rules differ by outing.

What can I do with kids in the Bronx this week?

Blanka Amezkua’s Mexican craft workshops are among your options from Friday, October 16, through Thursday, October 22, 2026. You can also make sand-cast sculptures or garden with little ones.

Which Bronx cultural events are coming up?

You can hear Mozart, Schubert and mariachi from Friday, October 16, through Thursday, October 22, 2026. Wave Hill’s exhibiting artists and a Revolutionary War reenactment round out the choices.

What can I see at the New York Botanical Garden this week?

From Friday, October 16, through Thursday, October 22, 2026, you can see NYBG's 1960s flower displays and Día de los Muertos celebration. Friday also brings a chance to meet Garden science staff.

  • Flower Power (final days) runs through Sunday, October 18, with botanical displays and 1960s photography and visual art.
  • Día de los Muertos includes marigolds and a community ofrenda. Blanka Amezkua leads papel picado and silk flower workshops Saturday, October 17, and Sunday, October 18, 11am–3pm.
  • Science Open House runs Friday, October 16, 10am–4pm, with collection visits and staff-led tours. Free tours take 15 people each, first come, first served, with sign-ups at the entrance.
  • Before New York: The Bronx in the Ross Gallery runs through Sunday, November 15. It draws on Eric W. Sanderson and colleagues’ work reconstructing the landscape and its inhabitants in 1609.

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