Brooklyn

1. Sunday Sept 20, 12:00 PM Montague Street closes to cars and the FAD Market vendors set up — Free, noon to 6 PM, Sunday only — that is the day restriction and it is the whole point. This is week two of a seven-Sunday run from Sept 13 to Oct 25, each Sunday with a different headliner, and this week's is the FAD Market vendor lineup. We ran the opening Sunday as a radar line two weeks ago and flagged that it was a back-to-school event aimed at kids; this one is not that. Two sources carry the date and the noon-to-six hours, the market's own page and a New York Family listing, and we checked both.
2. 2:00 PM Walk the car-free stretch west, all the way to the Promenade at the end of it — Ten minutes at market pace, free, no ticket. Montague Street runs west until it stops at the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, which is the reason this particular street is worth closing: the last block is a harbor view rather than another storefront. Do this in the middle of the afternoon rather than at the end — sunset is 6:56 PM on the 20th, an hour after the market has packed up, so there is no golden-hour version of this plan and we are not going to invent one.
3. 4:00 PM Back east into the stalls for the last two hours — Two hours left, still free, and the deadline is genuine: at 6 PM the vendors pack and the cars come back. Buying something small at 5:45 because the street is about to stop existing is a better shared decision than a long deliberation at 12:30 — the constraint does the work. Five more Sundays follow this one through Oct 25, so if you like it, it is repeatable; the specific FAD Market lineup is not.

Why it lands: The best thing a street closure does for a date is remove the seating chart. There is no table, no reservation, no server pacing you, and no moment where one of you has to decide the evening is over. You walk, you stop when something is interesting, and a fixed 6 PM ending means nobody has to be the one to call it. Brooklyn Heights is also small enough that six hours is generous rather than tight — you will have covered the whole thing twice.

Weather backup: There is no published rain policy for the series, so check fadmarket.co on Sunday morning. If it is off, the same Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn has St. Ann's Warehouse's buffalo puppets out in Dumbo — that is in the radar below, and it is there rather than here because no source we found publishes a start time for it. Five Sundays remain in the Open Streets run after this one, through Oct 25.

1. Before Saturday — buy the tickets now, not on the day General admission on AXS, the festival's own ticketing surface — From about $179 for general admission, before fees. AXS is the ticket seller the festival itself points to — not a resale site — and that matters at this price. This is a one-day, one-off event on Sept 26 with no second date, so there is no wait-and-see version of the decision. We cross-checked the date, the venue and the price floor across AXS, Bandsintown, JamBase and the festival's own cbgbfest.com before printing any of it; seven listings in total agreed, which is why we are comfortable putting a $179 number in front of you.
2. Saturday Sept 26, 2:00 PM Gates at Under the K Bridge Park, Gardner Avenue and Thomas Street, Greenpoint — 2 PM start, one day, outdoors under the Kosciuszko Bridge. The bill is the reason for the number: Morrissey, Patti Smith, Interpol, Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney among others. A 2 PM door on a festival site means this is an afternoon-into-evening commitment rather than an evening out — eat before you go in if you want a say in what — the festival's own site promises local food and drink vendors but names none.
3. Getting in, before 2 PM Two entrances, and the park is bigger than it looks — The site takes 15,000 to 20,000 people for concerts, which is stadium arithmetic for this corner of Greenpoint. There are two ways in — Gardner Avenue at Thomas Street, and Van Dam Street at Meeker Avenue — and knowing the second one exists is the difference between twenty minutes in a queue and five. This is far-east Greenpoint on the Newtown Creek side, not the Franklin Street end, so work out the trip home before you buy rather than at eleven o'clock at night.

Why it lands: We do not normally print a $179 ticket, and the only honest argument for this one is that the lineup is not reassemblable. It is a single afternoon with a set of bands that have not shared a bill before and have no announced reason to again, in a park that only started hosting this scale of show recently. If that is worth $360 to the two of you, it is worth it on those grounds and not because a newsletter said so. If it is not, everything else in this edition is free or close to it, which is the point of running them in the same issue.

Weather backup: There is no second date and no rain date published. If the price is the problem rather than the date, Sept 26 also holds the Park Slope Super Stoop, 11 AM to 4 PM and free, and the Village Trip's Judson Memorial Church concert at 8 PM — both in the radar below, both in Brooklyn or the Village rather than Greenpoint.