Things to do in NYC in June 2025 include: Blue Note Jazz Festival, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Bryant Park Picnic Performances, National Puerto Rican Day Parade, NYC Pride Parade, Summer for the City, SummerStage, and more.
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June is Pride Month. The Stonewall Riots of 1969 energized the Pride movement. June is Caribbean Heritage Month. Yoruba is one of the African Diasporic cultures that took root in the Americas, and Nigerian Yoruba New Year is June 3, so this month is important in many Caribbean communities.
Juneteenth (June 19) is a U.S. national holiday. Father’s Day is a popular American holiday.
June weather is early summer with average temperatures of 64-80°, so it’s warm.
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- Harlem Stage, Nova Frontier Film Festival 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇬🇳 🇮🇷 🇲🇽 🇸🇳 🇪🇸 🇹🇷
- Hostos Center, Albita Son Cubano 🇨🇺
- Teatro Real, Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra 🇪🇸
Things to do in New York City in June 2025
ART
- Photoville photography festival ~ Jun 7-22, 2025
BOOKS
- Nuyorican Bowery Slam, Puerto Rican spoken word open mic ~ Mondays 🇵🇷
- Nuyorican Final Friday Slam, Puerto Rican spoken word open mic ~ Jun 27, 2025 🇵🇷
DANCE
Dance Theatre
- Ayodele Casel tap dance ~ May 28 – Jun 8, 2025 🇵🇷
- New York City Ballet Spring Season ~ ends Jun 1, 2025
- Calvin Royal III, Ronald K. Alexander ~ Jun 2, 2025 🇺🇸
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, African American modern dance ~ Jun 5-8, 2025
- American Ballet Theatre ~ Jun 10 – Jul 19, 2025
- Nélida Tirado traditional Spanish flamenco ~ Wednesdays 🇵🇷
Social Dances
- Latin Mondays NYC ~ Mondays
- Midtown Dance ~ Wednesdays & Fridays through Sep 20
- Tango La Nacional ~ Thursdays 🇦🇷
- Central Park Tango ~ Saturdays, Jun-Sep 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
- Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach ~ Sundays, Memorial Day Weekend – Labor Day Weekend 🇵🇷
- El Destino tango ~ Sundays 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
FESTIVALS
- Pride Month ~ Jun 1-30 🏳️🌈
- New Queens Pride Parade ~ Jun 1, 2025 🏳️🌈
- Philippine Independence Day Parade ~ Jun 1, 2025 🇵🇭
- Drums Along the Hudson, multicultural Native American powwow ~ Jun 1, 2025 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇱🇰
- New York Puerto Rican Week ~ Jun 1-8 🇵🇷
- Museum Week ~ Jun 2-8, 2025 🇺🇳
- Yoruba New Year ~ Jun 3 🇳🇬
- Portugal Day Festival Newark ~ Jun 4-8, 2025 🇵🇹
- Eleguá, Yoruba saint of the crossroads ~ Jun 6 🇵🇷
- Portugal Day Parade Newark ~ Jun 8, 2025 🇵🇹
- National Puerto Rican Day Parade ~ Jun 8, 2025 🇵🇷
- Knickerbocker Puerto Rican Day Parade ~ Jun 8, 2025 🇵🇷
- Sunset Park Puerto Rican Parade & Festival ~ Jun 8, 2025 🇵🇷
- Museum Mile Festival ~ Jun 10, 2025
- Luís de Camões ~ Jun 10 🇵🇹
- Portugal Day ~ Jun 10 🇵🇹
- National Corn Day is June 11
- Juneteenth Brooklyn ~ Jun 14 2025 🇺🇸
- Juneteenth Harlem ~ Jun 14, 2025 🇺🇸
- Father’s Day (USA) ~ Jun 15, 2025 🇺🇸
- Juneteenth ~ Jun 19 🇺🇸
- Summer Solstice ~ Jun 20, 2025 🌞
- Juneteenth Brooklyn Museum ~ Jun 21, 2025 🇺🇸
- Mermaid Parade ~ Jun 21, 2025 🇺🇸
- Saint John’s Eve ~ Jun 23 🇨🇦 🇵🇷
- Saint John The Baptist ~ Jun 24 🇨🇦 🇵🇷
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help, patroness of Haiti ~ Jun 27 🇭🇹
- Stonewall Riots ~ Jun 28, 1969 🏳️🌈
- Ogun, Yoruba orisha of metals ~ Jun 29 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
- Saint Peter ~ Jun 29 🇮🇹
- NYC Pride Parade, Sun, Jun 29, 2025 🏳️🌈
Summer Festivals
- Bryant Park Picnic Performances ~ May 30 – Sep 12, 2025
- NYC SummerStage ~ Jun 4 – Aug 31, 2025
- BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! ~ Jun 7 – Aug 16, 2025
- Summer for the City ~ Jun 11 – Aug 9, 2025
FILM
- Brooklyn Film Festival ~ May 30 – Jun 8, 2025
- Tribeca Film Festival ~ Jun 4-15, 2025
- Nova Frontier Film Festival, African Diaspora, Middle Eastern, Latin American film ~ Jun 5-7, 2025 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇬🇳 🇮🇷 🇲🇽 🇸🇳 🇪🇸 🇹🇷
MUSIC
- Blue Note Jazz Festival ~ May 27 – Jul 2, 2025
- New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks ~ Jun 4-7, 2025 🇻🇪
- Teatro Real, Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra ~ Jun 5, 2025 🇪🇸
- Governors Ball ~ Jun 6-8, 2025
- RKM, Puerto Rican reggaeton ~ Jun 27, 2025
- Albita: 100 Years of Son Cubano ~ Jun 28, 2025 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
- Ñejo Puerto Rican reggaeton ~ Jun 28, 2025 🇵🇷
- Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks, vintage hot jazz, Mondays & Tuesdays 🇮🇹
- Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra ~ Sundays 🇨🇺
SPORTS
- FIFA Club World Cup ~ Jun 14 – Jul 13
- New York Mets baseball
- New York Yankees baseball
- Gotham FC women’s soccer
- New York City Football Club (NYCFC) soccer
- New York Red Bulls soccer
THEATRE
- Tony Awards ~ Jun 8, 2025
- “Baya Con Dios” Nigerian Puerto Rican family drama with dance 🇳🇬 🇵🇷
Things To Do in NYC in June 1, 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025
LGBTQ+ Festival
June is NYC Pride Month.🏳️🌈
Caribbean Festival
June is Caribbean Heritage Month!
Filipino Parade and Cultural Festival
The 35th Philippine Independence Day Celebration 2025 is a series of events on Sunday, June 1, 2025:
- The celebration starts with a Flag Raising Ceremony and Independence Mass at the Philippine Center in Midtown, Manhattan at 8:30am. 🇵🇭
- The Parade Opening Ceremony is on Madison Avenue at 38th St in Murray Hill, Manhattan, at 11:45am. 🇵🇭
- The 35th Philippine Independence Day Parade 2025 marches down Madison Avenue from 38th St to 27th St, from Murray Hill, through Kips Bay, to NoMad, Manhattan; from 12-2pm. 🇵🇭
- The Philippine Independence Day Street Fair is on 26th St between Madison and Park in Nomad, Manhattan from 11am – 6pm. 🇵🇭
- The Philippine Independence Day Cultural Festival is on Madison Avenue at 25th St in Nomad, Manhattan from 2-6pm. 🇵🇭
Native American Powwow
Drums Along the Hudson Native American and Multicultural Celebration, is at Inwood Hill Park, in Inwood, Manhattan; on Sunday, June 1, 2025 from 11am – 6pm. FREE. 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇱🇰
Pride Parade
The New Queens Pride Parade 2025 marches down 37th Avenue from 89th St at 12noon, past the reviewing stand on 78th St, turns south on 75th St, to the New Queens Pride Multicultural Festival on 75th St at 37th Road through 6pm, in Jackson Heights, Queens; on Sunday, June 1, 2025. FREE! 🏳️🌈
Misa Jíbara
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade Misa Jíbara (Jíbaro Mass); is at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown East, Manhattan; on Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 4pm. 🇵🇷
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in June 2-8, 2025
It’s UNESCO Museum Week. 🇺🇳
Monday, June 2, 2025
Old Timey Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). From $25. 🇮🇹
African American Contemporary Dance (E-Moves Festival)
When We Dance, The Son Also Rises: Black Men in Dance is an evening of conversation, choreography, and cocktails co-curated by American Ballet Theatre Principal ballet dancer Calvin Royal III, and ballet teacher Ronald K. Alexander (Joffrey Ballet School, Ailey School, Dance Theatre of Harlem…); at Harlem Stage in Manhattanville, West Harlem; on Monday, June 2, 2025 at 7pm.
Salsa Dance Party
Latin Mondays NYC by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular salsa dance parties, is at 5th&Mad in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Mondays. Doors open at 5pm. Salsa class at 7pm followed by DJ sets. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs until late. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam live poetry competition, is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors and signup). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Old Timey Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Tuesdays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). From $25. 🇮🇹
Yoruba Festival
Yoruba New Year in Nigeria is June 3. It celebrates the start of the planting season. In New York City, it’s the unspoken influence on Puerto Rican celebrations in June because in the Caribbean, Yoruba traditions have largely absorbed the Dahomey and Kongo traditions that also took root in the Americas. 🇳🇬
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Thursday, June 5, 2025
African Diaspora, Middle Eastern, & Latin American Film Festival
The Nova Frontier Film Festival 2025 opens with four short films about freedom from Iran, Spain, Senegal, and the UK. The evening ends with a reception with live music by Gambian Senegalese griot and kora master Malang Jobarteh; at Harlem Stage in Manhattanville, West Harlem; on Thursday, June 5, 2025 at 7pm. The festival builds to a climax on Saturday, June 7. From $25. All-Access Freedom Pass $60. Go all in. Freedom is worth the price. harlemstage.org 🇬🇳 🇮🇷 🇪🇸 🇸🇳 🇬🇧 Full Festival = 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇬🇳 🇮🇷 🇲🇽 🇸🇳 🇪🇸 🇹🇷
Argentine Tango Dance Party
Tango La Nacional, New York City’s most traditional and longest-running milonga (tango dance party), is at La Nacional, the old Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursdays, with an intermediate lesson at 7pm, dancing at 8pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $30. 🇦🇷
Spanish Classical Music
Teatro Real, the Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra, plays a gala musical fantasy of Spain featuring violinist María Dueñas and soprano Saioa Hernández, conducted by David Afkham; on the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, June 5, 2025 at 8:30pm. From $26.50. carnegiehall.org 🇪🇸
Friday, June 6, 2025
African Diaspora, Middle Eastern, & Latin American Film Festival
The Nova Frontier Film Festival 2025 continues with “Souleymane’s Story (L’Histoire de Souleymane)” by Boris Lojkine, a 2024 Cannes Jury Prize winner about a Guinean immigrant working towards his asylum hearing in France. It’s followed by a conversation with Soraya Hosni, an anthropologist and Yale World Fellow who studies the impacts of exile, and live traditional Moroccan music by Imal Gnawa; at Harlem Stage in Manhattanville, West Harlem; on Friday, June 6, 2025 at 7pm. From $25. All-Access Freedom Pass $60. Go all in. Freedom is worth the price. harlemstage.org 🇬🇳 🇫🇷 🇲🇦
Puerto Rican Scholarship Gala Fundraiser 2025
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2025 Gala is a fun evening of cocktails, mingling, dining, and dancing; on Friday, June 6, 2025. 🇵🇷
Saturday, June 7, 2025
East Harlem “El Barrio”
The 40th 116th Street Festival is a street fair with 20 blocks of Puerto Rican and Hispanic music, art, and food with three main stages of family entertainment; on 116th St between Lexington and Second Avenue, and on Third Avenue between 122nd St and 112th St, in East Harlem “El Barrio;” on Saturday, June 7, 2025, from 10am to 5pm. FREE. 🇵🇷
Tito Puente Jr, Frankie Negron, and Luis Damon perform for a PIX11 live broadcast on the 122nd St Stage between 2-4pm. Radio personality Leñ Boogs hosts the Third Avenue Stage (at 106th St). De la Ghetto and Brenda K. Starr perform on the 112th St Stage. Judy Torres, Gucci (2 Without Hats), DJ Prostyle, DJ Lucho, DJ Victor Vargas, and Angel DeLeon also perform.
African Diaspora, Middle Eastern, & Latin American Film Festival
The Nova Frontier Film Festival 2025 closes with a full day beginning with a series of short films about unbelonging, mostly by female filmmakers from Senegal, Türkiye, Iran, Belgium, and France at 1pm. Next at 4pm is a conversation about resistance led by Nova Frontier Film Festival co-founder Billy Gerard Frank. There are also screenings of films from Haiti, USA, with a spoken word performance by Cito Blanko of the Bronx. The festival ends at 7pm with a screening of “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found” by Raoul Peck, a 2024 French documentary about Ernest Cole, a photographer who documented apartheid in South Africa before his exile in the United States where he documented Black life in New York City and the American South. It’s all at Harlem Stage in Manhattanville, West Harlem; on Saturday, June 7, 2025. From $25. All-Access Freedom Pass $60. Go all in. Freedom is worth the price. harlemstage.org 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇿🇦
Tango Dance
OPENING NIGHT
Central Park Tango is a outdoor milonga (tango dance) at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. $10 recommended donation. We always give $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Puerto Rican Parade ~ Manhattan
The 68th National Puerto Rican Day Parade celebrates the theme “Plantando Bandera” as it marches up Fifth Avenue from 44th St to 79th St on Sunday, June 8, 2025, from 11am-3pm. 🇵🇷
Puerto Rican Salsa Dance Party
Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2025 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷
Puerto Rican Parade ~ Bushwick, Brooklyn
7th Knickerbocker Avenue Puerto Rican Day Parade 2025, Bushwick Brooklyn’s big Puerto Rican festival; is on Knickerbocker Avenue from Menahan St to Jefferson St, in Bushwick, Brooklyn; on Sunday, June 8, 2025, at 3pm. FREE. 🇵🇷
Puerto Rican Parade ~ Sunset Park, Brooklyn
The 9th Sunset Park Puerto Rican Parade and Festival 2025 marches north on 5th Avenue from 59th St in Sunset Park, Brooklyn at 5pm; to the Festival, near the entrance to Sunset Park at 43rd St; which starts at 6:30pm. It’s all on Sunday, June 8, 2025. FREE. 🇵🇷
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in June 9-15, 2025
Monday, June 9, 2025
Old Timey Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). From $25. 🇮🇹
Salsa Dance Party
Latin Mondays NYC by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular salsa dance parties, is at 5th&Mad in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Mondays. Doors open at 5pm. Salsa class at 7pm followed by DJ sets. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs until late. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam live poetry competition, is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors and signup). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Old Timey Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Tuesdays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). From $25. 🇮🇹
Portugal National Day
Portugal Day, Portugal’s national day, commemorates the death of Portugal’s national poet Luís de Camões on June 10, 1580, an important year in Portuguese history.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Food Festival
National Corn Day is June 11. Corn was domesticated by Indigenous Mexicans from wild grass around 9,000 years ago. It was brought north by Native Americans. 🇲🇽 🇺🇸
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Argentine Tango Dance Party
Tango La Nacional, New York City’s most traditional and longest-running milonga (tango dance party), is at La Nacional, the old Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursdays, with an intermediate lesson at 7pm, dancing at 8pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $30. 🇦🇷
Friday, June 13, 2025
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Tango Dance
OPENING NIGHT
Central Park Tango is a outdoor milonga (tango dance) at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. $10 recommended donation. We always give $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Puerto Rican Salsa Dance Party
Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2025 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in June 16-22, 2025
Monday, June 16, 2025
Old Timey Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). From $25. 🇮🇹
Salsa Dance Party
Latin Mondays NYC by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular salsa dance parties, is at 5th&Mad in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Mondays. Doors open at 5pm. Salsa class at 7pm followed by DJ sets. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs until late. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam live poetry competition, is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors and signup). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Old Timey Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Tuesdays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). From $25. 🇮🇹
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Argentine Tango Dance Party
Tango La Nacional, New York City’s most traditional and longest-running milonga (tango dance party), is at La Nacional, the old Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursdays, with an intermediate lesson at 7pm, dancing at 8pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $30. 🇦🇷
Friday, June 20, 2025
Saturday, June 21, 2025
NYC Pride
The NYC Pride Drag Brunch Fundraiser features Grand Marshal Marti Gould Cummings and other entertainment at Stella 34 Trattoria, an Italian restaurant in Macy’s Herald Square, Manhattan; on Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 11am. From $40. 🏳️🌈
Tango Dance
OPENING NIGHT
Central Park Tango is a outdoor milonga (tango dance) at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. $10 recommended donation. We always give $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Puerto Rican Salsa Dance Party
Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2025 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in June 23-29, 2025
Summer for the City Brings the World to Lincoln Center with Free or Pay-What-You-Wish Events 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇬🇹 🇵🇷, 🇨🇦 🇨🇮 🇷🇼 🇿🇼, 🇿🇦
It’s Pride Week!
Monday, June 23, 2025
Old Timey Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). From $25. 🇮🇹
Salsa Dance Party
Latin Mondays NYC by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular salsa dance parties, is at 5th&Mad in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Mondays. Doors open at 5pm. Salsa class at 7pm followed by DJ sets. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs until late. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam live poetry competition, is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors and signup). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Old Timey Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Tuesdays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). From $25. 🇮🇹
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Bilingual Shakespeare Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park opens with a bilingual mobile “Much Ado About Nothing,” the Shakespeare play about two couples who get stirred up by lies. That’s a perfect metaphor for an actor who stirs up trouble by claiming an emergency because the sky is falling (it’s not), and then causes lots of trouble at home and around the world. Being honest is better. The show, directed by Mexican American Rebecca Martinez, with music by Argentine playwright Julian Mesri, is at St. Mary’s Park in Mott Haven, The Bronx on Thursday, Jun3 26, 2025 at 6:30pm. Free, but first-come, first-served. 🇦🇷 🇲🇽
Argentine Tango Dance Party
Tango La Nacional, New York City’s most traditional and longest-running milonga (tango dance party), is at La Nacional, the old Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursdays, with an intermediate lesson at 7pm, dancing at 8pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $30. 🇦🇷
Friday, June 27, 2025
Haitian Saint
The feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, patroness of Haiti, is June 27. 🇭🇹
Latin Poetry and Music
La Casita, Summer for the City’s festival of Latin poetry and music, hosted by NYC Poetry Slam champion Felicia Cade, features Guatemalan Colombian poet Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Indigenous Diné (Navajo) poet Demian DinéYazhi, Cuban Dominican Puerto Rican author Yesenia Montilla, Bronx voice Jesica “Sumbodies Mama” Blandon; plus music by all-female Colombian ensemble La Manga, and pan-Latin Cvgebird. It’s in Hearst Plaza at Lincoln Center; on Friday, June 27, 2025 at 5:30pm. Free. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇬🇹 🇵🇷
Bilingual Shakespeare Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park opens with a bilingual mobile “Much Ado About Nothing,” the Shakespeare play about two couples who get stirred up by lies. That’s a perfect metaphor for an actor who stirs up trouble by claiming an emergency because the sky is falling (it’s not), and then causes lots of trouble at home and around the world. Being honest is better. The show, directed by Mexican American Rebecca Martinez, with music by Argentine playwright Julian Mesri, is at Travers Park in Jackson Heights, Queens on Friday, June 27, 2025 at 6:30pm. Free, but first-come, first-served. 🇦🇷 🇲🇽
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Final Friday Slam is at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Friday, July 26, 2025 at 10pm. From $35. 🇵🇷
Puerto Rican Reggaeton
RKM (José Nieves) sings Puerto Rican reggaeton at Salsa Con Fuego restaurant and lounge in Fordham Manor, The Bronx; on Friday, June 27, 2025 at midnight. Free with rsvp before midnight. 🇵🇷
Saturday, June 28, 2025
NYC Pride
The Youth Pride block party connects LGBTQ+ youth and their families with community resources in a fun street fair with games, performances, and snacks; at South Street Seaport Museum on Pier 16 and The Seaport on Pier 17; on Saturday June 28, 2025 at 12pm. Free with rsvp. 🏳️🌈
Rwandan, Ivorian, Zimbabwean Canadian Hip Hop
Missy D, a Canadian rapper with Rwandan, Ivorian, and Zimbabwean roots, raps in French and English for families; for Summer for the City at Hearst Plaza in Lincoln Center; on Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 12pm. Free. 🇨🇦 🇨🇮 🇷🇼 🇿🇼
Tango Dance
Central Park Tango is a outdoor milonga (tango dance) at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. $10 recommended donation. We always give $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Bilingual Shakespeare Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park opens with a bilingual mobile “Much Ado About Nothing,” the Shakespeare play about two couples who get stirred up by lies. That’s a perfect metaphor for an actor who stirs up trouble by claiming an emergency because the sky is falling (it’s not), and then causes lots of trouble at home and around the world. Being honest is better. The show, directed by Mexican American Rebecca Martinez, with music by Argentine playwright Julian Mesri, is at The Peninsula on Well House Drive in Prospect Park, Brooklyn on Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 6:30pm. Free, but first-come, first-served. 🇦🇷 🇲🇽
Nigerian Puerto Rican Theatre
“Baya con Dios” (Go with God), by Cyril Amanfo and choreographed by Ray Mercer (“Lion King” Broadway choreographer), is a Latin family drama with dance about a talented young Bronx Nigerian Puerto Rican dancer who has to choose between her quinceañera and her mother’s deathbed. It’s at Pregones Theater in Concourse, The Bronx; on Saturday-Sunday, June 28-29 at 7pm and 3pm respectively. 🇳🇬 🇵🇷
Son Cubano + Rumba, Guajira, and Salsa
Albita: 100 Years of Son Cubano celebrates the evolution of Cuban folk music from rumba and música guajira, to son Cubano and salsa led by Albita, a Cuban national treasure. She is joined by salseros Los Hermanos Moreno, soneros Nodal y Los Soneros de Oriente, and Tony Rosa’s Rumba All-Stars. It’s in the Main Theater at Hostos Center at Hostos Community College in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 8pm. From $35. hostos.cuny.edu 🇨🇺
Puerto Rican Reggaeton
Ñejo sings Puerto Rican reggaeton at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens; on Saturday, June 28, 2025, with 10pm doors. 🇵🇷
LGBTQ+ Festival
The Stonewall Riots of 1969 at the West Village’s Stonewall Inn energized the Pride Movement. Many of the protesters were people of color. 🏳️🌈
Sunday, June 29, 2025
LGBTQ+ Parade
The 56th NYC Pride Parade 2025 forms at Fifth Avenue and 26th St, marches down Fifth Avenue from 25th St, turns west on 8th Street, jogs up Greenwich Avenue, passes the Stonewall National Monument on Christopher Street, heads up Seventh Avenue to the end at 15th Street; on Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 12noon. Some years the parade ends around 6pm, and some years it doesn’t end until late. The Village and Chelsea will be rocking into the wee hours. FREE. 🇺🇸 🇲🇶 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈
LGBTQ+ Street Fair
PrideFest, NYC Pride’s street fair, features exhibitors, food for sale, and fun activities organized as StageFest, FamilyFest, CommunityFest, and FoodFest; in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; on Sunday, June 29, 2025, from 11am to 6pm. Free. 🏳️🌈
Puerto Rican Salsa Dance Party
Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2025 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷
South African Jazz
NALEDI, the South African-born New York vocalist and composer, sings jazz for Summer for the City and Jazz at Lincoln Center; at The Underground at Jaffe Drive in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 6pm. Free 🇿🇦
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Bilingual Shakespeare Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park opens with a bilingual mobile “Much Ado About Nothing,” the Shakespeare play about two couples who get stirred up by lies. That’s a perfect metaphor for an actor who stirs up trouble by claiming an emergency because the sky is falling (it’s not), and then causes lots of trouble at home and around the world. Being honest is better. The show, directed by Mexican American Rebecca Martinez, with music by Argentine playwright Julian Mesri, is at The Peninsula on Well House Drive in Prospect Park, Brooklyn on Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 6:30pm. Free, but first-come, first-served. 🇦🇷 🇲🇽
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Cuban Yoruba Festival
Celebrate Ogun, the Cuban Yoruba orisha of metal, technology, drivers and rum on June 29. 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
Things To Do in NYC in June 30, 2025
Monday, June 30, 2025
Old Timey Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). From $25. 🇮🇹
Salsa Dance Party
Latin Mondays NYC by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular salsa dance parties, is at 5th&Mad in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Mondays. Doors open at 5pm. Salsa class at 7pm followed by DJ sets. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs until late. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam live poetry competition, is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors and signup). $20. 🇵🇷