Things to do in NYC in August 2025 include Summer Streets, Harlem Week, Ecuadorian Parade, Dominican Day Parade, India Day Parade, and New York Carnival.
August 1-3 | 4-10 | 11-17 | 18-24 | 25-31
August is Black August, a commemoration of freedom fighters who are wrongfully incarcerated. Unfortunately there has been a lot of that in our country, and it is getting worse.
There are no U.S. national holidays in August, but the last two weeks of the month are family vacation time in the United States. In Latin Europe, the Assumption of Mary on August 15 is the traditional summer vacation time. Labor Day is in September, but Labor Day Weekend starts in August this year.
New York City’s August weather is late summer with average temperatures of 69° to 84°. It’s hot and muggy with afternoon thunderstorms. Wear short sleeves and short pants when you can, and protect yourself from the sun.
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Things to do in New York City in August 2025
ART
- Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021-2025, Aug 28, 2025 – Summer 2026 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷
DANCE
- BAAND Together Dance Festival ~ Jul 29 – Aug 2, 2025
- Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca, Spanish flamenco ~ Jul 29 – Aug 10
- Battery Dance Festival ~ Sat, Aug 9; Sun-Sat, Aug 12-16, 2025 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇳🇱 🇬🇩 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇹🇼
- Ballet Festival at The Joyce Theater ~ Tue-Sun, Aug 12-17, 2025 🇵🇪 🇵🇹
- Fall for Dance Festival on sale ~ Sun, Aug 24, 2025 🇨🇦 🇨🇺 🇪🇨 🇮🇹 🇵🇷 🇪🇸
Dancing
- Latin Mondays NYC salsa ~ Mondays
- Tango La Nacional ~ Thursdays 🇦🇷
- Central Park Tango ~ Saturdays June to September 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
- Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach ~ Sundays June to September 🇵🇷
- El Destino tango ~ Sundays 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
- New York International Salsa Congress ~ Thu-Mon, Aug 28 – Sep 1, 2025 🇨🇦 🇨🇺 🇪🇨 🇮🇹 🇵🇷 🇪🇸
FESTIVALS
- Augustus Caesar named August after himself. 🇮🇹
- Black August 🇺🇸
- Pachamama, Andean new year ~ Aug 1. 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇧🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪
- Harlem Week ~ Aug 1-17, 2025, FREE 🇺🇸
- National Dominican Day Parade Scholarship Application ~ Fri, Aug 1, 2025. 🇩🇴
- NYC Summer Streets Manhattan ~ Aug 2, 9, 16, 2025
- National Dominican Day Parade Gala ~ Fri, Aug 8, 2025. 🇩🇴
- Ecuadorian Parade NYC Gala ~ Fri, Aug 8, 2025. 🇪🇨
- A Great Day in Harlem (Harlem Week) ~ Aug 10, 2025. FREE 🇺🇸
- National Dominican Day Parade ~ Sun, Aug 10, 2025. 🇩🇴
- Ecuadorian Parade NYC ~ Sun, Aug 10, 2025. 🇪🇨
- Yewá orisha ~ Aug 11 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
- Haitian Revolution Bois Caïman Ceremony ~ Aug 14, 1791 🇭🇹
- Indian Independence Day ~ Aug 15, 1947 🇮🇳
- Assumption of Mary ~ Aug 15 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇾 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸
- Dominican Restoration Day ~ Aug 16, 1865. 🇩🇴
- National Rum Day ~ Aug 16 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇯🇲 🇵🇷
- Ecuadorian Festival ~ Sun, Aug 17, 2025. 🇪🇨
- India Day Parade & Cultural Festival ~ Sun, Aug 17, 2025. 🇮🇳
- Roberto Clemente birthday ~ Aug 18, 1934 🇵🇷
- 19th Amendment ~ Aug 18, 1920 🇺🇸
- National Potato Day ~ Aug 19 🇺🇸
- Haitian Revolution ~ Aug 21, 1791 – 1804 🇭🇹
- NYC Summer Streets Bronx & Brooklyn ~ Sat, Aug 23, 2025
- International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition ~ Aug 23 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇳
- Graciela Grillo birthday ~ Aug 23, 1915 🇨🇺
- Uruguayan Independence Day ~ Aug 25, 1825 🇺🇾
- Leonard Bernstein birthday ~ Aug 25, 1918 🇺🇸
- Sturgeon Moon ~ Aug 27, 2026
- August 28 is a special day
- Saint Augustine death ~ Aug 28, 430 🇩🇿
- Emmett Till lynching ~ Aug 28, 1955 🇺🇸
- “I Have a Dream Speech” ~ Aug 28, 1963 🇺🇸
- Chad Boseman (Black Panther) death ~ Aug 28, 2020
- New York Carnival ~ Thu-Mon, Aug 28 – Sep 1, 2025 🇹🇹
- New York Junior Carnival ~ Sat, Aug 30, 2025 🇹🇹
FOOD
- Uptown Night Market (Harlem Week) ~ Aug 14, 2025
MUSIC
- Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks vintage jazz ~ Mondays and Tuesdays 🇮🇹
- Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra ~ Sundays 🇨🇺
- Afropunk BLKTOPIA is on break in 2025 🇺🇸
- Carlos Henríquez Latin Jazz Initiative, salsa jazz ~ Tue, Aug 5, 2025 🇵🇷
- Great Jazz on the Hill (Harlem Week) ~ Sat, Aug 9, 2025. FREE 🇺🇸
- Harlem SummerStage (Harlem Week) ~ Thu, Aug 14, 2025. FREE 🇺🇸
- Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (SummerStage) ~ Fri, Aug 22-24, 2025 FREE 🇺🇸
- New York Carnival Experience Dancehall ~ Thu, Aug 28, 2025 🇯🇲
- New York Carnival Soca Fest ~ Fri, Aug 29, 2025 🇹🇹
- New York Carnival Ultimate Fete soca hip hop concert ~ Sun, Aug 31, 2025 🇹🇹
SPORTS
- FC Barcelona La Liga season opener ~ Sat, Aug 16, 2025 🇪🇸
- Real Madrid La Liga season opener ~ Tue, Aug 19, 2025 🇪🇸
- Gotham vs Utah Royals ~ Sat, Aug 23, 2025 🇺🇸
- US Open tennis championship ~ Aug 24 – Sep 7, 2025 🇺🇸
THEATRE
- NYC Broadway Week, on-sale Tue, Aug 19 for Sep 8-21 performances.
- Shakespeare in the Park “Twelfth Night” ~ Aug 21 – Sep 13, 2025 🇰🇪
- Public Works “Pericles” ~ Aug 29 – Sep 2 🇺🇸
Things To Do in NYC in August 1-3, 2025
Friday, August 1, 2025
Italian Festival
Augustus Caesar renamed the month of August after himself. (LOL, how insecure) 🇮🇹
African American Festival
Black August is a commemoration of freedom fighters who are wrongfully incarcerated. Jail is crime school. We need to stop putting so many people in jail for stupid stuff. 🇺🇸
Andean New Year Festival
Pachamama celebrations of Mother Earth and the Andean new year start on the eve of August 1. 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇧🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪
Dominican Scholarships
National Dominican Day Parade Scholarship Applications are due between August 1 and September 26, 2025. 🇩🇴
African American Jazz
Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band play jazz for Carnegie Hall Citywide; at a Bryant Park Picnic Performance, at Bryant Park in Manhattan’s Garment District; on Friday, August 1, 2025, at 7pm. FREE. 🇺🇸
Ballet, Modern, Contemporary Dance
BAAND Together Dance Festival brings five of New York City’s leading dance companies: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem and New York City Ballet; to dance ballet, modern, and contemporary; at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; Friday, August 1, 2025, at 7:30pm. Pay-what-you-wish, with a $35 suggested ticket price.
Spanish Flamenco Dance
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dances the world premiere of their 2025 flamenco show “Legacy of Our Dreams;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, August 1, 2025, at 7:30pm. From $52. 🇪🇸
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Street Festival
NYC Summer Streets car-free street festival celebrates Harlem Week on East 110th St between Park Avenue and Broadway, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd between 110th St and 125th St in Harlem, Manhattan; on Saturdays, August 2, 9, and 16, 2025, from 7am – 3pm. FREE 🗽
Spanish Flamenco Dance
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dances the world premiere of their 2025 flamenco show “Legacy of Our Dreams;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, August 2, 2025, at 2pm & 7:30pm. From $52. 🇪🇸
Ballet, Modern, Contemporary Dance
BAAND Together Dance Festival brings five of New York City’s leading dance companies: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem and New York City Ballet; to dance ballet, modern, and contemporary; at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; Saturday, August 2, 2025, at 4pm. Pay-what-you-wish, with a $35 suggested ticket price.
World Music Festival
globalFEST, the world music festival, highlights women artists for Summer for the City at Lincoln Center; on Saturday, August 2, 205 with shows throughout the campus, starting at 4:30pm through 10pm. FREE. 🇺🇸 🇨🇱 🇬🇳 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇹🇷
- Thea Hopkins, Indigenous Aquinnah Wampanoag American, sings Americana; in Hearst Plaza (main plaza); on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 4:30pm. FREE. 🇺🇸
- Gaye Su Akyol sings Turkish psychedelic rock and folk in Hearst Plaza (main plaza); on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 5:15pm. FREE 🇹🇷
- Taína Asili, the Puerto Rican New Yorker, sings her unique fusion of soul, salsa, and reggae; in Hearst Plaza (main plaza); on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 5:45pm. FREE. 🇵🇷
- Natu Camara, the Guinean New Yorker, sings Guinean pop and American funk on The Dance Floor; on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 6:30pm. FREE. 🇬🇳
- Claudia Acuña, the Chilean jazz singer, sings jazz and Chilean folk at Hearst Plaza; on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇨🇱
- BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness) from Soweto, South Africa, sings Sowetan funk and soul at Damrosch Park; on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇿🇦
- El Laberinto del Coco, Puerto Rico’s bomba fusion big band, plays bomba alternative on The Dance Floor; on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 8:45pm. FREE. 🇵🇷
- Haza, the NYC dance party, spins a silent disco of music of the Arab, Asian, and African diasporas on The Dance Floor; on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 10pm. FREE.
Argentine 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. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Sunday, August 3, 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. 🇵🇷
Spanish Flamenco Dance
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dances the world premiere of their 2025 flamenco show “Legacy of Our Dreams;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, August 3, 2025, at 2pm. From $52. 🇪🇸
French Opera Film
Carnegie Hall Citywide screens Franco Zeffirelli’s Arena di Verona production of “Carmen,” Bizet’s French opera set in Spain; in a Bryant Park Picnic Performance at Bryant Park in Manhattan’s Garment District; on Sunday, August 3, 2025 at 5pm. 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 jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in August 4-10, 2025
Monday, August 4, 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, August 5, 2025
Vintage 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. 🇮🇹
Puerto Rican Salsa Jazz
Carlos Henríquez Latin Jazz Initiative, featuring Michael Rodríguez on trumpet, and co-hosted by percussionist Bobby Allende, plays Latin jazz at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, at 7pm & 9pm. For the late set, bring your dancing shoes because its a Dance Session. From $25. 🇵🇷
Spanish Flamenco Dance
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dances the world premiere of their 2025 flamenco show “Legacy of Our Dreams;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, at 7:30pm. From $52. 🇪🇸
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Spanish Flamenco Dance
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dances the world premiere of their 2025 flamenco show “Legacy of Our Dreams;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, at 7:30pm. From $52. 🇪🇸
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Spanish Flamenco Dance
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dances the world premiere of their 2025 flamenco show “Legacy of Our Dreams;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday, August 7, 2025, at 7:30pm. From $52. 🇪🇸
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, gets busy at 9pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $30. 🇦🇷
Friday, August 8, 2025
Ecuadorian Parade NYC Gala
The Ecuadorian Parade NYC Gala is at Terrace on the Park in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Friday, August 8, 2025, at 7pm. 🇪🇨
Spanish Flamenco Dance
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dances the world premiere of their 2025 flamenco show “Legacy of Our Dreams;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, August 8, 2025, at 7:30pm. From $52. 🇪🇸
Dominican Gala
The 43rd National Dominican Day Parade 2025 Gala is at the Greentree Country Club in New Rochelle, Westchester, New York; on Friday, August 8, 2025, at 8pm. 🇩🇴
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Street Fair
NYC Summer Streets car-free street festival celebrates Harlem Week on East 110th St between Park Avenue and Broadway, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd between 110th St and 125th St in Harlem, Manhattan; on Saturdays, August 2, 9, and 16, 2025, from 7am – 3pm. FREE 🗽
Spanish Flamenco Dance
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dances the world premiere of their 2025 flamenco show “Legacy of Our Dreams;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, August 9, 2025, at 2pm & 7:30pm. From $52. 🇪🇸
African American Jazz Outdoors
Harlem Week’s “Great Jazz on the Great Hill” features live music and swing dancing to the Jazzmobile; at the Great Hill in Central Park; on Saturday, August 9, 2025, from 4-7pm. Bring your dancing shoes. FREE.
Argentine 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. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
International Contemporary Dance
The 44th Battery Dance Festival 2025 opens with Marie Poncé (Native American folk), John Manzari & Band (African American tap), Battery Dance Company (Dutch contemporary), and Limón Dance Company (Mexican modern); at Robert F. Wagner Park in Battery Park City, Manhattan where the backdrop is New York Harbor; on Saturday, August 9, 2025, at 7pm. FREE. 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇲🇽
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Dominican Parade
The 43rd National Dominican Day Parade 2025 marches up Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas); on Sunday, August 10, 2025, at 11am. 🇩🇴
Ecuadorian Parade
The Ecuadorian Parade NYC marches on Northern Blvd, from 69th to 87th St in Jackson Heights, Queens; on Sunday, August 10, 2025, from 11:30am – 3:30pm. FREE. 🇪🇨
African American Street Fair
Harlem Week’s “A Great Day in Harlem” features a Gospel Caravan, a Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute Afribembé presentation, and a concert saluting Kool & the Gang and Roberta Flack as part of family street fair at the General Grant National Memorial in Riverside Park in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Sunday, August 10, 2025, from 12noon – 7pm. 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. 🇵🇷
Spanish Flamenco Dance
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dances the world premiere of their 2025 flamenco show “Legacy of Our Dreams;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, August 10, 2025, at 2pm. From $52. 🇪🇸
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 jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in August 11-17, 2025
Monday, August 11, 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, August 12, 2025
Vintage 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. 🇮🇹
International Contemporary Dance
The 44th Battery Dance Festival 2025 continues with John Manzari & Band (African American tap), Battery Dance (Dutch), Faizah Grootens (Dutch Caribbean), Bulareyaung Dance Company (Taiwan); at Rockefeller Park’s North Esplanade in Battery Park City, Manhattan, on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, at 7pm. FREE. 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇹🇼
Neo-Classical Ballet ~ Opening Night
The Joyce Ballet Festival 2025 tribute to Jerome Robbins, curated by New York City Ballet Principal dancer Tiler Peck, features three combinations of City Ballet Principals, including Peruvian American Principal Roman Mejia and Portuguese Royal Ballet Principal Marcelino Sambé; at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 7:30pm. The Festival continues through Sunday, August 12-17, with a curtain chat on Thursday, August 14. From $47. 🇵🇪 🇵🇹
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
International Contemporary Dance
The 44th Battery Dance Festival 2025 continues with UNARTE Cía (Spanish), Theater Plauen (German), Bulareyaung Dance Company (Taiwanese), Faizah Grootens (Dutch Caribbean), and Platforma 13 (Romanian); at Rockefeller Park’s North Esplanade in Battery Park City, Manhattan, on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, at 7pm. FREE. 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇹🇼 🇪🇸
Neo-Classical Ballet
The Joyce Ballet Festival 2025 tribute to Jerome Robbins, curated by New York City Ballet Principal dancer Tiler Peck, features three combinations of City Ballet Principals, including Peruvian American Principal Roman Mejia and Portuguese Royal Ballet Principal Marcelino Sambé; at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 7:30pm. From $47. 🇵🇪 🇵🇹
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Haitian History
Preparations for the Haitian Revolution are said to have been made at a gathering in the forest around Bois Caïman, Vaudreuil, near Cap-Haitien in what is now Northern Haiti on August 14, 1791. There is debate about the place and date. Some put the meeting on August 21, although I suspect there were meetings on both dates. Legends make the gathering sound like a stormy night of scary rituals and animal sacrifices. The stories make Haitians appear savage, which they are not. The reality was probably much simpler. Religion is a powerful organizing principle and Vodou is a beautiful, highly-developed religion, but regardless of their religious practices, nearly all Haitians consider themselves Christians. When Caribbean people gather, we often slaughter an animal for a communal meal [I eat freshly slaughtered pig most Sundays]. We do have big storms at times, but it’s long past time to discard this Hollywood version of history. 🇭🇹
Food Fair
The Uptown Night Market street fair of international cuisine celebrates Harlem Week; at 12th Avenue and 131st St; on Thursday, August 14, 2025, from 4-10pm. FREE with food for purchase.
African American Music
Harlem SummerStage (Harlem Week) features live entertainment at the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building in Harlem, Manhattan; on Thursday, August 14, 2025, from 5-7pm. FREE.
Neo-Classical Ballet
The Joyce Ballet Festival 2025 tribute to Jerome Robbins, curated by New York City Ballet Principal dancer Tiler Peck, features three combinations of City Ballet Principals, including Peruvian American Principal Roman Mejia and Portuguese Royal Ballet Principal Marcelino Sambé; at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 7:30pm, with a curtain chat. From $47. 🇵🇪 🇵🇹
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, gets busy at 9pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $30. 🇦🇷
Friday, August 15, 2025
Indian National Day
Indian Independence Day is August 15, 1947. 🇮🇳
Catholic Festival
The Assumption of Mary, the tradition of her earthly death and rebirth in heaven on August 15, is the traditional start of summer holidays in Europe. It’s a national holiday in Latin European and some Latin American countries. 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇾 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸
Neo-Classical Ballet
The Joyce Ballet Festival 2025 tribute to Jerome Robbins, curated by New York City Ballet Principal dancer Tiler Peck, features three combinations of City Ballet Principals, including Peruvian American Principal Roman Mejia and Portuguese Royal Ballet Principal Marcelino Sambé; at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, August 15, 2025 at 7:30pm. From $47. 🇵🇪 🇵🇹
India Festival
The India Day Parade 2025 Times Square Lighting Ceremony is at Broadway and 43rd St in Times Square, Manhattan; on Friday, August 15, 2025 at sundown (around 7:54pm). 🇮🇳
The Empire State Building will light up with the colors of the Indian flag; on Indian Independence Day, Friday, August 15, 2025 at sundown (around 7:54pm). 🇮🇳
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Dominican National Day
Dominican Restoration Day commemorates “El Grito de Capotillo,” the call to arms that started the war against Spain on August 16, 1863 that finally led to Dominican independence. 🇩🇴
Indian Festival
As part of the India Day Parade 2025 celebrations, actor and movie producer Vijay Deverakonda will raise the Indian flag at Broadway and 43rd St, in Times Square, Manhattan; on Saturday, August 16, 2025 at 10:30am. 🇮🇳
Street Festival
NYC Summer Streets car-free street festival celebrates Harlem Week on East 110th St between Park Avenue and Broadway, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd between 110th St and 125th St in Harlem, Manhattan; on Saturdays, August 2, 9, and 16, 2025, from 7am – 3pm. FREE 🗽
Spanish Football
Watch Mallorca vs Barcelona, FC Barcelona’s 2025-26 La Liga season opener, with Penya FC Barcelona NYC; at Smithfield Hall NYC in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, August 16, 2025, at 1:30pm. 🇪🇸
Neo-Classical Ballet
The Joyce Ballet Festival 2025 tribute to Jerome Robbins, curated by New York City Ballet Principal dancer Tiler Peck, features three combinations of City Ballet Principals, including Peruvian American Principal Roman Mejia and Portuguese Royal Ballet Principal Marcelino Sambé; at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, August 15, 2025 at 2pm & 7:30pm. From $47. 🇵🇪 🇵🇹
Argentine 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. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Sunday, August 17, 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. 🇵🇷
Indian Parade
The India Day Parade NYC 2025 marches down Madison Avenue from 38th St to 27th St; on Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12noon. One of the Parade highlights will be a record-breaking Jagannath Rath Yatra, a giant wooden chariot pulled by more than 200 people. This Hindu festival celebrates Lord Jagannath’s annual visit to his aunt’s house. 🇮🇳
Indian Street Fair
The India Day Parade NYC 2025 Cultural Festival is on Madison Avenue at 24th St; on Sunday, August 17, 2025, from 2-5pm. FREE with food and crafts for purchase. 🇮🇳
Neo-Classical Ballet
The Joyce Ballet Festival 2025 tribute to Jerome Robbins, curated by New York City Ballet Principal dancer Tiler Peck, features three combinations of City Ballet Principals, including Peruvian American Principal Roman Mejia and Portuguese Royal Ballet Principal Marcelino Sambé; at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 2pm. From $47. 🇵🇪 🇵🇹
India Day Parade NYC 2025 Gala
The India Day Parade NYC 2025 Gala is at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan’s Financial District; on Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 6pm. 🇮🇳
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 jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in August 18-24, 2025
NYC Broadway Week 2-for-1 Tickets to Broadway Shows Go On Sale
US Open Tennis Championship is the Place to See and Be Seen at the End of Summer 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇹🇼
Monday, August 18, 2025
Puerto Rican Birthday
Roberto Clemente, the great Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitarian said, “If you have a chance to help others and fail to do so, you are wasting your time on this Earth.” He was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico on August 18, 1934. 🇵🇷
Jazz Age 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, August 19, 2025
Broadway Theatre
NYC Broadway Week 2-for-1 tickets for popular Broadway performances from September 8-21, go on sale on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 10am. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇵🇭 🇫🇷 🇮🇹
Spanish Soccer
Watch Real Madrid’s La Liga season opener vs Osasuna, with Peña Madridista NYC at Playwright Irish Pub in Manhattan’s Garment District; on Tuesday, August 19, 2025. 🇪🇸
Vintage 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, August 20, 2025
Latin Jazz
John Benitez, the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican bassist, hosts an open Latin jazz jam session; at Terraza 7 Latin jazz club in Elmhurst, Queens; on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, from 8-11pm. From $10-15. 🇵🇷
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Haitian History
Senegambian Muslim cleric Dutty Boukman launched the Haitian Revolution on the night of August 21, 1791. 🇭🇹
Kenyan American Theatre ~ Opening Night
Shakespeare in the Park reopens the Delacorte Theater with Saheem Ali’s production of “Twelfth Night” (ca. 1601-1602), a riotous romantic comedy with gender themes. It stars Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Junior Nyong’o together on stage for the first time as the lead characters Viola and Sebastian, plus many actors you will recognize from film and television. It’s at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan; on select days from Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 8pm to September 13. FREE. 🇰🇪
Venezuelan Jazz
Stringwise, Jorge Glem on cuatro and César Orozco on piano, play jazz influenced by Venezuelan joropo, Dominican merengue, and son Cubano; at Terraza 7 Latin jazz club in Elmhurst, Queens; on Thursday, August 21, 2025, from 8-10:30pm. $21. 🇻🇪
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, gets busy at 9pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $30. 🇦🇷
Friday, August 22, 2025
African American Big Band Jazz
Ron Carter’s Great Big Band headlines, 2024 Sarah Vaughn International Vocal Competition winner April May Webb opens, the 33rd Charlie Parker Jazz Festival NYC 2025 for NYC SummerStage at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, Manhattan; on Friday, August 22, 2025, from 7-9:30pm. FREE 🇺🇸Afro-Cuban Jazz
Latin Big Band Jazz
Belongó’s Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra play big band Latin jazz in a Bryant Park Picnic Performance; at Bryant Park in Manhattan’s Garment District; on Friday, August 22, 2025, at 7pm. FREE. 🇨🇺
Brazilian Jazz
Nilson Matta (Trio de Paz) Brazilian Voyage Quintet plays Brazilian jazz; at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Friday-Saturday, August 22-23, 2025 at 7pm & 9pm, and Sunday, August 23 at 5pm & 7:30pm. From $25. 🇧🇷
Kenyan American Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park reopens the Delacorte Theater with Saheem Ali’s production of “Twelfth Night” (ca. 1601-1602), a riotous romantic comedy with gender themes. It stars Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Junior Nyong’o together on stage for the first time as the lead characters Viola and Sebastian, plus many actors you will recognize from film and television. It’s at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan; on select days on Friday, August 22, 2025 at 8pm. FREE. 🇰🇪
Puerto Rican Salsa
John Benitez, the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican bassist, hosts a celebration of salsa and Latin jazz legend Eddie Palmieri who died a couple of weeks ago, at Terraza 7 Latin jazz club in Elmhurst, Queens; on Friday, August 22, 2025, from 9-11:30pm. $21. 🇵🇷
“Vamonos Pa’l Monte” pa’l monte, pa guarachar…” When we go to the mountains, we’re going to look for you Eddie.
Saturday, August 23, 2025
UNESCO Day
The United Nations’ International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, on August 23, should never be forgotten. 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇳
African American Jazz
Branford Marsalis Quartet, Nicholas Payton Quartet, Bertha Hope Quintet, Georgia Heers, and DJ KulturedChild (Angelika Beener) play the 33rd Charlie Parker Jazz Festival NYC 2025 for NYC SummerStage at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, Manhattan; on Saturday, August 23, 2025, from 3-7pm, 2pm doors and DJ. FREE 🇺🇸
Argentine 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. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Brazilian Jazz
Nilson Matta (Trio de Paz) Brazilian Voyage Quintet plays Brazilian jazz; at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 7pm & 9pm. From $25. 🇧🇷
Kenyan American Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park reopens the Delacorte Theater with Saheem Ali’s production of “Twelfth Night” (ca. 1601-1602), a riotous romantic comedy with gender themes. It stars Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Junior Nyong’o together on stage for the first time as the lead characters Viola and Sebastian, plus many actors you will recognize from film and television. It’s at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan; on select days on Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 8pm. FREE. 🇰🇪
Colombian Folk
Gaiteros de Pueblo Santo play traditional Colombian gaita music; at Terraza 7 Latin jazz club in Elmhurst, Queens; on, Saturday, August 23, 2025, from 9-11:30pm. $31. 🇨🇴
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Dance Festival On Sale
The 22nd Fall for Dance Festival 2025 brings five programs from the world of dance to New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; from Tuesday-Sunday, September 16-27, 2025. Tickets go on sale on Sunday, August 25, 2025 at 11am. It sells out in hours. $30. 🇺🇸 🇧🇩 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇵🇭
Tennis ~ Opening Day
The US Open Tennis 2025 Championship plays Men’s and Women’s Singles 1st Round; at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 11am and 7pm. The championship runs for two weeks, Sunday, August 24 to Sunday, September 7, 2025. From $156. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇹🇼
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. 🇵🇷
Jazz & Latin Jazz
Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap; Gary Bartz: Ntu Troop; The Jazz Gallery All-Stars featuring Miguel Zenon, Joel Ross, Kendrick Scott, Renee Neufville, Melissa Aldana, Dabin Ryu, Ryoma Takenaga, and Charles Altura, Lucía, and DJ KulturedChild (Angelika Beener) play jazz and Latin jazz for the 33rd Charlie Parker Jazz Festival NYC 2025 for NYC SummerStage at Tompkins Square Park, in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sunday, August 24, 2025, from 3-7pm. FREE. 🇺🇸 🇨🇱 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇰🇷
Brazilian Puerto Rican TV Personality
Natalie Nunn, the reality TV personality from “Bad Girls Club” hosts a Baddie Brunch evening at Salsa Con Fuego Dominican restaurant and lounge; on Sunday, August 24, 2025, 5pm doors. From $20. 🇧🇷 🇵🇷
Brazilian Jazz
Nilson Matta (Trio de Paz) Brazilian Voyage Quintet plays Brazilian jazz; at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 5pm & 7:30pm. From $25. 🇧🇷
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. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Kenyan American Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park reopens the Delacorte Theater with Saheem Ali’s production of “Twelfth Night” (ca. 1601-1602), a riotous romantic comedy with gender themes. It stars Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Junior Nyong’o together on stage for the first time as the lead characters Viola and Sebastian, plus many actors you will recognize from film and television. It’s at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan; on select days on Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 8pm. FREE. 🇰🇪
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in August 25-31, 2025
Monday, August 25, 2025
Tennis
The US Open Tennis 2025 Championship plays Men’s and Women’s Singles 1st Round; at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Monday, August 25, 2025 at 11am and 7pm. From $156. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇹🇼
Vintage 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. 🇮🇹
Cuban Jazz
New Cuban Express Big Band, led by Grammy-nominated pianist Manuel Valera, plays big band jazz; at Terraza 7 Latin jazz club in Elmhurst, Queens; on Monday, August 25, 2025, from 7-9:30pm. 🇨🇺
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, August 26, 2025
Tennis
The US Open Tennis 2025 Championship plays Men’s and Women’s Singles 1st Round; at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 11am and 7pm. From $156. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇹🇼
Vintage 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. 🇮🇹
Latin Jazz
Gina Savino Quartet, led by the Colombian singer, plays originals, Latin American pop, and jazz standards; at Terraza 7 Latin jazz club in Elmhurst, Queens; on Tuesday, August 26, 2025, from 7:30-10pm. $21. 🇨🇴
Kenyan American Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park reopens the Delacorte Theater with Saheem Ali’s production of “Twelfth Night” (ca. 1601-1602), a riotous romantic comedy with gender themes. It stars Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Junior Nyong’o together on stage for the first time as the lead characters Viola and Sebastian, plus many actors you will recognize from film and television. It’s at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan; on select days on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 8pm. FREE. 🇰🇪
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Tennis
The US Open Tennis 2025 Championship plays Men’s and Women’s Singles 2nd Round; at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 11am and 7pm. From $156. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸
Kenyan American Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park reopens the Delacorte Theater with Saheem Ali’s production of “Twelfth Night” (ca. 1601-1602), a riotous romantic comedy with gender themes. It stars Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Junior Nyong’o together on stage for the first time as the lead characters Viola and Sebastian, plus many actors you will recognize from film and television. It’s at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan; on select days from Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 8pm. FREE. 🇰🇪
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Latin Art
Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021-2025; an exhibition about getting together in the Latin way (Jangueando is Puerto Rican slang for “hanging out”); is at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, Manhattan; from Thursday, August 28, 2025 to Summer 2026. Suggested admission is $9. 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷
Tennis
The US Open Tennis 2025 Championship plays Men’s and Women’s Singles 2nd Round, and Women’s Doubles 1st Round; at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 11am and 7pm. From $156. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸
Jamaican Dancehall Concert
New York Carnival Experience Dancehall is a Jamaican dancehall concert featuring TeeJay, Valiant (Raheem Bowes), and special guests; at the Brooklyn Museum near Grand Army Plaza; on Thursday, August 28, 2025, from 5-11:50pm. From $68. 🇯🇲
Latin Jazz
Immigranet quartet plays world music-influenced jazz; at Terraza 7 Latin jazz club in Elmhurst, Queens; on Thursday, August 28, 2025, from 7:30-10pm. $11.
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, gets busy at 9pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $30. 🇦🇷
Kenyan American Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park reopens the Delacorte Theater with Saheem Ali’s production of “Twelfth Night” (ca. 1601-1602), a riotous romantic comedy with gender themes. It stars Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Junior Nyong’o together on stage for the first time as the lead characters Viola and Sebastian, plus many actors you will recognize from film and television. It’s at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan; on select days from Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 8pm. FREE. 🇰🇪
Salsa & Bachata Dance Festival
La Jara Band, a popular Latin band of NYPD officers, plays salsa and bachata for dancing in the Thursday night party at the New York International Salsa Congress 2025, New York’s Labor Day Weekend salsa and bachata dance festival, at the New York Marriott Marquis in the heart of Manhattan’s Times Square Theater District; on Thursday, August 28, 2025, at 11pm.
Friday, August 29, 2025
Tennis
The US Open Tennis 2025 Championship plays Men’s and Women’s Singles 3rd Round, and Men’s and Women’s Doubles 1st Round; at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Friday, August 29, 2025 at 11am and 7pm. From $156. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸
Accordion Festival
La Banda Chuska plays Peruvian psychedelic cumbia alternative, Santiago Jimenez Jr. plays American Tex-Mex folk, and David Wax Museum plays what they call Mexo-Americana folk; in a Bryant Park Picnic Performance; at Bryant Park in Manhattan’s Garment District; on Friday, August 29, 2025, at 7pm. FREE. 🇲🇽 🇵🇪
Trinidadian Soca Concert
New York Carnival Soca Fest is a soca concert featuring Kes the Band, Bunji, Fay Ann & Vikings Band, Mical Teja, Raymond, and more; at the Brooklyn Museum near Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn; on Labor Day Weekend, Friday, August 29, 2025, from 8pm to 3am. From $60. 🇹🇹
African American Community Shakespeare Theatre
“Pericles,” a Public Theater Public Works concert experience directed by Carl Cofield (Classical Theatre of Harlem), is a story of losing and rediscovering faith, told in the rousing Gospel style of the Black church; at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; from Friday-Tuesday, August 29 – September 2, 2025, at 8pm. FREE, first-come, first-serve. 🇺🇸
Kenyan American Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park reopens the Delacorte Theater with Saheem Ali’s production of “Twelfth Night” (ca. 1601-1602), a riotous romantic comedy with gender themes. It stars Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Junior Nyong’o together on stage for the first time as the lead characters Viola and Sebastian, plus many actors you will recognize from film and television. It’s at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan; on select days from Friday, August 29, 2025 at 8pm. FREE. 🇰🇪
Peruvian Psychedelic Cumbia
MONECO plays Peruvian psychedelic cumbia (chica, cumbia, rock); at Terraza 7 Latin jazz club in Elmhurst, Queens; on Friday, August 29, 2025, from 9:30pm – 12midnight. $21. 🇵🇪
Salsa and Bachata Dance Festival
Cuban tres master Yuniel Jimenez “El Guajiro” and Puerto Rican singer Pinto Picasso, play salsa for dancing in the Friday night party at the New York International Salsa Congress 2025, New York’s Labor Day Weekend salsa and bachata dance festival, at the New York Marriott Marquis in the heart of Manhattan’s Times Square Theater District; on Friday night, August 29, 2025 at 12:30am. 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Trinidadian Junior Carnival
New York Carnival Youth Fest is a junior carnival with a parade and back-to-school giveaway, where we can teach our heritage tra\ditions to our children; at the Brooklyn Museum near Grand Army Plaza; on Labor Day Weekend, Saturday, August 30, 2025, from 9-11am. $10. 🇹🇹
Tennis
The US Open Tennis 2025 Championship plays Men’s and Women’s Round of 16, Men’s Doubles 1st Round, and Women’s Doubles 2nd Round; at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday, August 30, 2025 at 11am and 7pm. From $156. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸
Argentine 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. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Trinidadian Steel Pan Concert
New York Carnival Panorama is a traditional Carnival battle of the steel pans; at the Brooklyn Museum near Grand Army Plaza, on Labor Day Weekend, Saturday, August 30, 2025 at 7pm. (6pm doors). 🇹🇹
African American Community Shakespeare Theatre
“Pericles,” a Public Theater Public Works concert experience directed by Carl Cofield (Classical Theatre of Harlem), is a story of losing and rediscovering faith, told in the rousing Gospel style of the Black church; at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Saturday, August 30, 2025, at 8pm. FREE, first-come, first-serve. 🇺🇸
Kenyan American Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park reopens the Delacorte Theater with Saheem Ali’s production of “Twelfth Night” (ca. 1601-1602), a riotous romantic comedy with gender themes. It stars Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Junior Nyong’o together on stage for the first time as the lead characters Viola and Sebastian, plus many actors you will recognize from film and television. It’s at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan; on select days from Saturday, August 30, 2025 at 8pm. FREE. 🇰🇪
Colombian/Mexican Son Jarocho
Guachinangos play Mexican son jarocho infused with Colombian cumbia; at Terraza 7 Latin jazz club in Elmhurst, Queens; on Saturday, August 30, 2025, from 9-10:50pm. $21. 🇨🇴 🇲🇽
Salsa & Bachata Dance Festival
Puerto Rican group Eric Cabanilla y Su Grupo K’ndela plays salsa at 12:15am and Dominican Kewin Cosmos plays bachata at 2am for the Saturday night party New York International Salsa Congress 2025, New York’s Labor Day Weekend salsa and bachata dance festival, at the New York Marriott Marquis in the heart of Manhattan’s Times Square Theater District; on Saturday, August 30, 2025. 🇵🇷
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Tennis
The US Open Tennis 2025 Championship plays Men’s and Women’s Round of 16, Men’s and Women’s Doubles 2nd Round, and Boys’ and Girls’ Junior Singles 1st Round; at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Sunday, August 31, 2025 at 11am and 7pm. From $156. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸
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. 🇵🇷
Trinidadian Soca & Hip Hop Concert
New York Carnival Ultimate Fete (Last Party) is a concert featuring Patrice Roberts & The A-Team Band (Trinidadian soca), Problem Child (Vincentian soca, hip hop, dancehall), Skinny Fabulous (Vincentian soca), Lyrikal (Nigerian hip hop), and more; at the Brooklyn Museum near Grand Army Plaza; on Labor Day Weekend, Sunday, August 31, 2025, 3-11pm. From $74. 🇳🇬 🇻🇨 🇹🇹
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. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
African American Community Shakespeare Theatre
“Pericles,” a Public Theater Public Works concert experience directed by Carl Cofield (Classical Theatre of Harlem), is a story of losing and rediscovering faith, told in the rousing Gospel style of the Black church; at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Saturday, August 30, 2025, at 8pm. FREE, first-come, first-serve. 🇺🇸
Kenyan American Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park reopens the Delacorte Theater with Saheem Ali’s production of “Twelfth Night” (ca. 1601-1602), a riotous romantic comedy with gender themes. It stars Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Junior Nyong’o together on stage for the first time as the lead characters Viola and Sebastian, plus many actors you will recognize from film and television. It’s at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan; on select days from Sunday, August 31, 2025 at 8pm. FREE. 🇰🇪
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Salsa & Bachata Dance Festival
Puerto Rican vocalist Grizelle “Chachi ” Del Valle sings salsa for dancing at the Sunday night party at the New York International Salsa Congress 2025, New York’s Labor Day Weekend salsa and bachata dance festival, at the New York Marriott Marquis in the heart of Manhattan’s Times Square Theater District; on Sunday, August 31, 2025 at 12:15am. 🇵🇷