Things to do in NYC in April 2021 include baseball, soccer, parks, museums and cinemas.
New York City is still battling the COVID-19 Pandemic. Things are getting better, but it’s not a normal April. Please be COVID safe.
The Month of April
Holy Week and Easter are in April this year.
April weather is peak spring. Average temperatures range from 45° to 61°F so it is still cool. Rainfall is slightly above average.
These events happen all month long.
- New York Mets ⚾️ baseball
- New York Yankees ⚾️ baseball
Things to Do in NYC in April 2021 ~ Week 13
March 29 – April 4, 2021
- NYC Schools Spring Recess 🎓 March 29-April 2, 2021
- Passover ✡️ continues through Sunday.
- College Spring Break Season ⛱ continues through April 10, 2021.
- It’s Holy Week (Semana Santa) ✝️.
- College Spring Breaks ⛱ through April 10, 2021
Thursday, April 1
It’s Major League Baseball ⚾️ Opening Day!
Yankees vs Toronto Blue Jays is the Yank’s home opener at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx at 1:05pm.
La Sábana Santa television special about the touring exhibition of the Shroud of Turin, is available for streaming in New York City at 10pm. $12.99
The Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 🎞🎪 film festival is at filmlinc.org. From $12
Celebrate Maundy Thursday ✝️.
Friday, April 2
The Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 🎞🎪 film festival is at filmlinc.org. From $12
Commemorate Good Friday ✝️.
Saturday, April 3
The Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 🎞🎪 film festival is at filmlinc.org. From $12
Commemorate Holy Saturday and the Easter vigil.
Sunday, April 4
Celebrate Easter Sunday ✝️
Walk in the Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival on Fifth Avenue from 59th St to 57th St, from 10am – 4pm. FREE. It’s unofficial this year and we don’t think Fifth Avenue will be closed like it usually is. Some people will probably walk around on the sidewalks. Be safe.
The Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 🎞🎪 film festival is at filmlinc.org. From $12
Passover ✡️ ends at sundown.
Celebrate Senegalese Independence Day 🇸🇳 from France on April 4, 1960
Celebrate the Feast of St Benedict the Moor, patron saint of African Americans.
Things to Do in NYC in April 2021 ~ Week 14
April 5-11, 2021
College Spring Break Season ⛱ runs through April 10, 2021.
Monday, April 5
The Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 🎞🎪 film festival is at filmlinc.org. From $12
Tuesday, April 6
OPENING
New York Fashion Week Bridal runs through Thursday.
The Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 🎞🎪 film festival is at filmlinc.org. From $12
Wednesday, April 7
It’s New York Fashion Week Bridal.
The Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 🎞🎪 film festival is at filmlinc.org. From $12
Remember Gabriela Mistral 🇨🇱, the first Latin American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was born in Vicuña, Chile on April 7, 1889. She died a New Yorker.
Thursday, April 8
The New York Mets ⚾️ home opener against the Florida Marlins is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 3pm.
The Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 🎞🎪 film festival is at filmlinc.org. From $12
It’s New York Fashion Week Bridal.
Celebrate International Romani Day.
Friday, April 9
Program 1 of the Harkness Future Dance Festival finalist presentations opens at 92y.org for the next three weekends: April 9-11, 16-18, and 23-25 2021 at 12 noon. $12
The art exhibition “Regla: Soul of a Community” opens with a reception at The Clemente in the Lower East Side from 5-8pm and runs through May 7, 2021.
The Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 🎞🎪 film festival is at filmlinc.org. From $12
Saturday, April 10
The New York Mets ⚾️ game 2 of 3 against the Florida Marlins is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 1:10pm.
Program 1 of the Harkness Future Dance Festival finalist presentations is at 92y.org at 12 noon. $12
The Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 🎞🎪 film festival is at filmlinc.org. From $12
Sunday, April 11
The New York Mets ⚾️ game 3 of 3 against the Florida Marlins is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 1:10pm.
Program 1 of the Harkness Future Dance Festival finalist presentations is at 92y.org at 12 noon. $12
The Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 🎞🎪 film festival is at filmlinc.org. From $12
The new moon 🌒 rises over New York City at 10:25pm.
Things to do in NYC in April 2021 ~ Week 15
April 12-18, 2021
It’s NYC Immigrant Heritage Week 🗽
Monday, April 12
Celebrate the start of Ramadan ☪️ tonight through May 12.
CLOSING
The Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 🎞🎪 film festival is at filmlinc.org. From $12
Tuesday, April 13
The New York Mets ⚾️ game 1 of 3 against the Philadelphia Phillies is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 7:10pm.
Wednesday, April 14
The New York Mets ⚾️ game 2 of 3 against the Philadelphia Phillies is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 7:10pm.
Thursday, April 15
The Billboard Latin Music Awards 🎶🏆 are live on Telemundo at 7pm ET.
The New York Mets ⚾️ game 3 of 3 against the Philadelphia Phillies is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 12:10pm.
Celebrate Jackie Robinson Day, when Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
Friday, April 16
It’s the application deadline for National Puerto Rican Day Parade Scholarships 🇵🇷🎓
Program 2 of the Harkness Future Dance Festival finalist presentations is at 92y.org at 12 noon. $12
Saturday, April 17
The 2021 Major League Soccer season starts today.
More immigrants entered Ellis Island on April 17, 1907 than on any other day in history.
Celebrate Malbec World Day with the popular Argentine red wine with French roots.
Program 2 of the Harkness Future Dance Festival finalist presentations is at 92y.org at 12 noon. $12
Remember Mexican ranchera legend Chavela Vargas who was born in San Joaquín Flores, Costa Rica on April 17, 1919.
Sunday, April 18
Program 2 of the Harkness Future Dance Festival finalist presentations is at 92y.org at 12 noon. $12
Celebrate Zimbabwean Independence Day 🇿🇼 from the UK on April 18, 1980.
Things to Do in NYC in April 2021 ~ Week 16
April 19-25, 2021
The SummerStage lineup is usually announced this week.
Tuesday, April 20
Remember Tito Puente the Latin jazz legend who was born in Harlem, NYC on April 20, 1923.
Thursday, April 22
Celebrate Earth Day 🌎
Friday, April 23
Program 3 of the Harkness Future Dance Festival finalist presentations is at 92y.org at 12 noon. $12
The New York Mets ⚾️ game 1 of 3 against the Washington Nationals is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 7:10pm.
Saturday, April 24
The Villalobos Brothers 🇲🇽 take a virtual musical journey through Queens on kupferbergcenter.org at 3pm. FREE-$10 with rsvp
The New York Mets ⚾️ game 2 of 3 against the Washington Nationals is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 4:05pm.
Program 3 of the Harkness Future Dance Festival finalist presentations is at 92y.org at 12 noon. $12
Celebrate Irish Independence Day 🇮🇪 from the UK on April 24, 1916.
Sunday, April 25
Program 3 of the Harkness Future Dance Festival finalist presentations is at 92y.org at 12 noon. $12
The New York Mets ⚾️ game 3 of 3 against the Washington Nationals is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 1:10pm.
The 93rd Oscars, the Academy Awards, are broadcast live on ABC Channel 7 from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.
Celebrate “Landing of the 33 Patriots Day” the Uruguayan 🇺🇾 national day.
Things to Do in NYC in April 2021 ~ Week 17
April 26 – May 2, 2021
Tuesday, April 27
[2020] The Havana Film Festival New York was scheduled to run through May 14.
Celebrate Sierra Leonean Independence Day 🇸🇱 from the UK on April 27, 1961
Celebrate Togolese Independence Day 🇹🇬 from France on April 27, 1960
Wednesday, April 28
Actress Penélope Cruz was born in Alcobendas, Spain on April 28, 1974.
Thursday, April 29
Celebrate International Dance Day, the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727 – 1810) who transformed ballet from a spectacle of costume and scenery to emotional expression through movement.
Friday, April 30
Celebrate UN International Jazz Day.
Categories of Things to Do in NYC in April 2021
April is National Autism Month, National Poetry Month and International Guitar Month.
APRIL HOLIDAYS
- NYC Schools Spring Recess 🎓 March 29-April 2, 2021
- College Spring Breaks ⛱ through April 10, 2021
APRIL FESTIVALS
- Passover ✡️ March 27 – April 4, 2021
- Easter ✝️ April 4, 2021
- Feast of St Benedict, the Moor ✝️ April 4
- International Romani Day April 8
- Juan Santamaria Day 🇨🇷 April 11
- NYC Immigrant Heritage Week🗽 April 12-18, 2021
- Ramadan ☪️ April 12 – May 12, 2021
- Landing of the 33 Patriots Day 🇺🇾 April 19
- Earth Day 🌎 April 22
- UN International Jazz Day 🎺 April 30
APRIL INDEPENDENCE DAYS
- Senegalese Independence Day 🇸🇳 from France, April 4, 1960
- Zimbabwean Independence Day 🇿🇼 from the UK, April 18, 1980
- Irish Independence Day 🇮🇪 from the UK April 24, 1916
- Sierra Leonean Independence Day 🇸🇱 from the UK, April 27, 1961
- Togolese Independence Day 🇹🇬 from France, April 27, 1960
APRIL PARADES
- Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival 👒🥁 Sunday, April 4, 2021
- National Puerto Rican Day Parade Scholarships 🇵🇷🎓 Friday, April 16, 2021
APRIL ART
- Paris Photo New York (AIPAD) 📸🎪 TBD
- Artexpo New York 🎨🎪 MOVED to November 19-21, 2021
APRIL DANCE
- 92Y Harkness Future Dance Festival 💃🏽🎪 Weekends April 9-11, 16-18, 23-25, 2021
- Flamenco Festival NYC cancelled
- Youth America Grand Prix international ballet competition (MOVED to March 30, 2021)
- Dance Theatre of Harlem
- New York City Ballet Spring
APRIL FASHION
- New York Fashion Week Bridal, April 6-8, 2021
APRIL FILM & TELEVISION
- 93rd Oscars Academy Awards 🎞🏆 Sunday, April 25, 2021
- 13th ReelAbilities Film Festival 👩🏽🦽🎞🎪 April 29-May 5, 2021
- 20th Tribeca Film Festival 🎞🎪 MOVED to June 9-20, 2021
- Havana Film Festival New York 🇨🇺🎞🎪
- Art of the Real 🎞🎪 documentary film festival (ran last November)
APRIL SPORTS
- Major League Baseball ⚾️ Opening Day, April 1, 2021
- New York Mets ⚾️ baseball, April 8 – October 3, 2021
- New York Yankees ⚾️ baseball, April 1 – October 3, 2021
- NYCFC ⚽️ soccer, April 3 – November 7, 2021
- NY Red Bulls ⚽️ soccer, April 3 – November 7, 2021
- Gotham FC ⚽️ women’s soccer (April to October)
- Surfs up 🏄🏿♀️ in Rockaway, Queens and Montauk, Long Island.
APRIL BIRTHDAYS
- Gabriela Mistral 🇨🇱, Nobel Prize for Literature, April 7, 1889