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Week of Nov 5, 2026 · No. 13

The Brooklyn Folk Festival fills a church on Montague Street Friday through Sunday: 40-plus bands, workshops, jams and dances. Sunset over the harbor is at 4:42, four blocks away.

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Friday, Nov 6

  • Brooklyn Folk Festival, St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn Heights her thing ✓ Fri Nov 6–Sun Nov 8 · Day and weekend passes Jalopy Theatre's three-day festival of folk and traditional music, with 40+ bands, workshops, jams and dances at 157 Montague Street.via Brooklyn Folk Festival
  • New York Comedy Festival, five boroughs her thing ✓ Fri Nov 6–Sun Nov 15 · Tickets per show The 22nd festival: more than 100 shows over ten days at the Beacon, Town Hall, clubs and smaller rooms across the city.via I LOVE NY
  • Ziwe, The Town Hall her thing ✓ Fri Nov 6, 7 PM · Tickets via nycomedyfestival.com A New York Comedy Festival show at 123 West 43rd Street.via I LOVE NY
  • Ms. Pat, The Venue on Music Row, Hard Rock Hotel her thing ✓ Fri Nov 6 and Sat Nov 7, 7 PM and 9:45 PM · Tickets via nycomedyfestival.com Four New York Comedy Festival sets over two nights in the Hard Rock Hotel on West 48th Street.via I LOVE NY
  • Turn. Turning. TURNT., BAM Next Wave her thing ✓ Through Sat Nov 7 · Tickets via BAM The Next Wave production's final performances in Fort Greene this weekend.via BAM
  • Union Square Greenmarket, Union Square her thing ✓ Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat, 8 AM–6 PM · Free entry The year-round farmers market on the north and west sides of the square, four days a week.via GrowNYC
  • Bank of America Winter Village, Bryant Park her thing ✓ Daily; shops weekdays 11–8, weekends 10–8 · Free skating; rentals extra The free-admission rink and holiday shops between 40th and 42nd Streets. The rink runs through Feb 28.via Time Out
  • Art of Manga, Brooklyn Museum her thing ✓ Through Jan 31, 2027 · Museum admission The museum's manga exhibition on Eastern Parkway, open through January.via Brooklyn Museum

Saturday, Nov 7

Sunday, Nov 8

Monday, Nov 9

  • Grand Central Holiday Fair, Vanderbilt Hall her thing ✓ Opens Mon Nov 9; through Dec 24 · Free to browse Six weeks of holiday vendors inside Vanderbilt Hall at 89 East 42nd Street. Closed Thanksgiving.via Grand Central Terminal

Wednesday, Nov 11

  • NYC Veterans Day Parade, Fifth Avenue her thing ✓ Wed Nov 11, midday · Free The annual parade up Fifth Avenue from the 20s to the 40s, rain or shine.via United War Veterans Council
  • Art Week NYC, citywide her thing ✓ Wed Nov 11–Sat Nov 14 · Gallery visits free; some programs need reservations The first Art Week NYC, from Artforum, ARTnews and the New Museum: 80+ museums and galleries, a Midtown hub and a New Museum program day Sat Nov 14.via Artforum
  • DOC NYC, IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Village East her thing ✓ Wed Nov 11–Thu Nov 19 · Tickets per screening The documentary festival's 17th edition, in person for nine days. The Union Town centerpiece screens Fri Nov 13 at SVA Theatre.via BroadwayWorld
  • Michigander, Music Hall of Williamsburg her thing ✓ Wed Nov 11, doors 7 PM, show 8 PM · Tickets via the venue The indie-rock band at 66 North Sixth Street.via Music Hall of Williamsburg

Thursday, Nov 12

  • The Munk Debate, 92NY her thing ✓ Thu Nov 12, 7 PM · Tickets via 92NY Fareed Zakaria and Patrick Deneen debate whether liberalism has failed America; Rudyard Griffiths moderates.via 92NY
  • Revelry: Queen Esther, Symphony Space her thing ✓ Thu Nov 12, 7:30 PM · Tickets via Symphony Space The singer Queen Esther in the Revelry series at Broadway and 95th Street.via Symphony Space
  • Worlds Fan Fest, Pier 36 her thing ✓ Thu Nov 12–Sat Nov 14 · Free; capacity-limited Riot's League of Legends Worlds fan festival on the Lower East Side waterfront, with panels and interactive exhibits. Riot warns of long lines.via LoL Esports

Friday, Nov 13

  • Celebrating Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston, The Met her thing ✓ Fri Nov 13, 3 PM · Free with museum admission A performance of Morton Feldman's For Philip Guston, part of the Met's Feldman series, at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street.via The Met
  • Jane Handcock, Apollo Music Café her thing ✓ Fri Nov 13, 10 PM (doors 9) · $60; $85 with meet and greet A late set in the Apollo Music Café series at The Apollo Stages at The Victoria, 233 West 125th Street.via The Apollo

Saturday, Nov 14

Planned dates

Wednesday Nov 11: the Veterans Day Parade on Fifth Avenue, then the Grand Central Holiday Fair

A free holiday-afternoon parade in Midtown, then the first week of Grand Central's indoor holiday market

Cost: $0 to watch and browse; whatever you buy at the fair

her kind of night ✓ Manhattan

  1. Wednesday Nov 11, about 12:30 PM NYC Veterans Day Parade, Fifth Avenue near 42nd Street — Free, rain or shine. The route runs up Fifth Avenue from the 20s to the 40s; last year it stepped off at 12:30. Stand on the west curb near the library at 42nd.
  2. 2:30 PM Grand Central Holiday Fair, Vanderbilt Hall, 89 East 42nd Street — About 6 minutes on foot, 2 avenues east along 42nd. The fair opened Mon Nov 9 and runs six weeks, through Dec 24. Free to browse. Sunset is about 4:38.

Weather backup: If the parade crowd is deep, the Winter Village in Bryant Park is directly behind the library (in the listings).

Saturday Nov 14: dinner on Lenox Avenue, then Adeva at the Apollo Music Café at 10

A late Harlem night: dinner on Lenox, then a house-music set 5 minutes away

Cost: $100 for two in show tickets, plus dinner

her kind of night ✓ Manhattan

  1. Saturday Nov 14, 8:00 PM Red Rooster, 310 Lenox Avenue, between 125th and 126th Streets — Book a table for 2 on OpenTable; reservations are suggested. The 2 and 3 stop at 125th Street, half a block south.
  2. 10:00 PM Adeva, Apollo Music Café, The Apollo Stages at The Victoria, 233 West 125th Street — About 5 minutes on foot west along 125th. Doors at 9, set at 10. Tickets $50, or $75 with a meet and greet, on the Apollo's site.

Weather backup: Jane Handcock plays the same room Friday at 10, $60 (in the listings).

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