NYC Street Fairs, cultural festivals, and block parties are fun because the streets are one of the best things about The City. Many New York City parades end at street fairs, urban versions of traditional markets.
Panamanian Parade NYC Celebrates Panamanian Independence
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn 🇵🇦
Indigenous Peoples Day in New York City
Second Monday in October 🇺🇸
Nigerian Independence Day Parade Celebrates 64 Years of Independence
MURRAY HILL, KIPS BAY, NOMAD, Manhattan 🇳🇬
Junta Hispana is a Hispanic Product Sample Fair with Family Entertainment
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
Mexican Independence Day Parade NYC Desfile de La Independéncia de México is in Staten Island
PORT RICHMOND, Staten Island 🇲🇽
The Feast of San Gennaro is a Romantic Little Italy Street Fair
MULBERRY STREET, Little Italy, Manhattan 🇮🇹
Central American Independence Parade and Festival is a Honduran Garífuna Celebration in The Bronx
HAPPY LAND MEMORIAL MONUMENT to CROTONA PARK, Crotona Park East, The Bronx 🇭🇳
J’ouvert NYC 2024 is New York Carnival’s Daybreak Party and J’ouvert Parade
CROWN HEIGHTS & PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn 🇹🇹
New York Carnival Celebrates Freedom Trinidadian and West Indian Style
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Prospect Park, Brooklyn
EASTERN AVENUE, Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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India Day Parade and Food Festival Celebrates Indian Independence
MADISON AVENUE to MADISON SQUARE PARK, Murray Hill, Kips Bay, NoMad, Manhattan 🇮🇳
Afribembé Festival, by the CCCADI, Joins Harlem Week’s A Great Day in Harlem
GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL MEMORIAL, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
NYC Street Fair News
NYC street fairs happen all year long, except in winter.
January Street Fairs
El Museo del Barrio Three Kings Day Celebration is a block party in El Barrio, on or around Three Kings Day. 🇵🇷
The Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival celebrates Lunar New Year in Manhattan Chinatown and the Lower East Side. 🇨🇳🇰🇭🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇲🇳🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇼🇹🇭🇺🇸
June Street Fairs
The Portuguese Festival; in Newark, New Jersey; is Metro New York’s big Portuguese festival. 🇵🇹
The Philippine Independence Day Parade ends at a cultural festival street fair. 🇵🇭
August Street Fairs
Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in the Home of the Harlem Renaissance which defined American culture.
The Caribbean Culture Center African Diaspora Institute’s Afribembé Festival is New York City’s version of Las Fiestas de Santiago Apóstol in Loíza Aldea, the Puerto Rican town with the strongest African Diasporic culture.
The India Day Parade ends at an Indian Food Festival street fair. 🇮🇳
September Street Fairs
Brazilian Day celebrates Brazilian Independence in Manhattan’s Little Brazil. 🇧🇷
October Street Fairs
The Panamanian Parade ends at a Panamanian street fair. 🇵🇦
Indigenous Peoples Day NYC Powwow is a two-day outdoor festival of Indigenous storytelling, drumming, singing, dancing, artisanal crafts, and food with an overnight and a sunrise ceremony on Randall’s Island. 🇺🇸