Afternoon Hip Hop
Boogie Down Grind’s recurring Friday session centers on listening to hip-hop.
🚇 Hunts Point Av (6) · 4 min walk
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12 things worth doing in the next 7 days · Friday, October 16th – Thursday, October 22nd
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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| Fri, Oct 16 | Boogie Down Grind, Hunts PointHunts Point · Bronx | Fridays 2pm–4pmPrice not listed | |
| Fri, Oct 16 | South Playground (in Rev. T. Wendell Foster Park and Recreation Center ), Rev. T. Wendell Mott Haven · Bronx | 8:00 pm | |
| Fri, Oct 16 | 592 Johnson Ave Brooklyn, NY 11237Various | Not posted yetVarious prices. | |
| Fri, Oct 16 | More than 300 locations across the five boroughsVarious | 2:00 pmHalf the locations are free drop-ins; others require $7 advance tickets |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat, Oct 17 | 592 Johnson Ave Brooklyn, NY 11237Various | Not posted yetVarious prices. | |
| Sat, Oct 17 | More than 300 locations across the five boroughsVarious | 2:00 pmHalf the locations are free drop-ins; others require $7 advance tickets | |
| Sat, Oct 17 | Concrete Park Boat Launch (in Concrete Plant Park), Concrete Plant ParkHunts Point · Bronx | 10:00 am |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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| Sun, Oct 18 | Pelham Bay Park and Orchard Beach: Orchard Beach Boardwalk, Bronx, NYCity Island · Bronx | 8am-12pm | |
| Sun, Oct 18 | Fordham Road between Tiebout and ElmFordham · Bronx | Not posted yet | |
| Sun, Oct 18 | An Beal Bocht Cafe, RiverdaleRiverdale · Bronx | Sundays 3:30-6:30pmPrice not listed | |
| Sun, Oct 18 | 592 Johnson Ave Brooklyn, NY 11237Various | Not posted yetVarious prices. | |
| Sun, Oct 18 | More than 300 locations across the five boroughsVarious | 2:00 pmHalf the locations are free drop-ins; others require $7 advance tickets | |
| Sun, Oct 18 | 250 Bedford Park Blvd West, at Paul Ave, Bronx, 10468Bedford Park · Bronx | 3pm |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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| Mon, Oct 19 | 592 Johnson Ave Brooklyn, NY 11237Various | Not posted yetVarious prices. |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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| Tue, Oct 20 | 592 Johnson Ave Brooklyn, NY 11237Various | Not posted yetVarious prices. | |
| Tue, Oct 20 | An Beal Bocht Cafe, RiverdaleRiverdale · Bronx | Tuesdays 9pmPrice not listed |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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| Wed, Oct 21 | 592 Johnson Ave Brooklyn, NY 11237Various | Not posted yetVarious prices. | |
| Wed, Oct 21 | Boogie Down Grind, Hunts PointHunts Point · Bronx | Not posted yetPrice not listed |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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| Thu, Oct 22 | 592 Johnson Ave Brooklyn, NY 11237Various | Not posted yetVarious prices. | |
| Thu, Oct 22 | Rambling House, RiverdaleWoodlawn · Bronx | Not posted yetPrice not listed |
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Boogie Down Grind’s recurring Friday session centers on listening to hip-hop.
🚇 Hunts Point Av (6) · 4 min walk
🍴 Eat nearby · 3 places, closest 2 min walk
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Go behind the scenes at infrastructure facilities, manufacturing workshops and private collections during a festival spanning all five boroughs.
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You can watch Minions & Monsters outdoors at South Playground through the city's Movies Under the Stars series.
🚇 161 St-Yankee Stadium (4 B D) · 5 min walk
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NewFest pairs queer cinema with opening and closing film parties, alongside international, New York and documentary centerpiece selections.
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Help clean the Bronx River during a guided canoe outing with the Bronx River Alliance.
🚇 Whitlock Av (6) · 3 min walk
🍴 Eat nearby · 2 places, closest 7 min walk
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Hear traditional Irish music at An Beal Bocht Cafe’s weekly Sunday session.
🚇 238 St (1) · 6 min walk
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Clearview Festival Productions brings a street fair to Fordham Road.
🚇 Fordham Rd (B D) · 4 min walk
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You’ll hear Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, with violin and viola soloists, alongside Schubert’s Fifth Symphony.
🚇 Bedford Park Blvd-Lehman College (4) · 5 min walk
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An Beal Bocht Cafe holds a weekly open mic with Eric Sullivan.
🚇 238 St (1) · 6 min walk
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Open mic performances at Boogie Down Grind.
🚇 Hunts Point Av (6) · 4 min walk
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Test your trivia knowledge at Rambling House in the Bronx.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A 13-screen cinema running new releases.
4.1★ from 8,276 Google reviews
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Lehman Center programs touring music and dance acts in a Bronx theater.
4.6★ from 1,768 Google reviews
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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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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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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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A spa offering facials alongside massage.
4.3★ from 175 Google reviews
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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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A woman-led day spa.
4.9★ from 116 Google reviews
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A skincare spa on an upper floor of an office building.
4.9★ from 105 Google reviews
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A Christian bookstore selling Bibles, books and church supplies, including Bibles for children.
4.9★ from 88 Google reviews
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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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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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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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A meat supplier stocking poultry, goat and beef, along with other cooking ingredients.
4.2★ from 61 Google reviews
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A day spa where the treatment list covers facials, massage and body treatments.
4.8★ from 741 Google reviews
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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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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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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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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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A long-established shop for sewing machines, fabric and related supplies.
4.3★ from 143 Google reviews
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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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An indoor play park inside the Mall at Bay Plaza.
4.1★ from 2,021 Google reviews
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4.7★ from 122 Google reviews
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4.8★ from 120 Google reviews
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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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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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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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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 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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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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4.7★ from 134 Google reviews
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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An indoor courts facility on the east side of the Bronx.
4.6★ from 119 Google reviews
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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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This is a party and paint studio rather than a drop-in activity.
4.4★ from 98 Google reviews
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4.2★ from 78 Google reviews
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A landmark estate open to visitors, built around a mansion dating to the 1830s.
4.6★ from 364 Google reviews
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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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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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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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Outdoor public tennis courts run by NYC Parks.
4.7★ from 118 Google reviews
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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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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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4.7★ from 91 Google reviews
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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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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.
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.
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.
Updated Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 7:11 a.m New York time.
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.
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.
You have guided walks, canoeing and birding from Friday, October 16, through Thursday, October 22, 2026. Admission and registration rules differ by outing.
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.
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.
From Friday, October 16, through Thursday, October 22, 2026, you can see NYBG's 1960s flower displays and DÃa de los Muertos celebration. Friday also brings a chance to meet Garden science staff.
Curated by Nora Kinsella
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