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Sunday June 29, 2025

Queens Family Day

1 – 4 pm

Family Day

Ages: All
Community
Family
Free

Mauro Playground in Flushing Meadows Corona ParkKew Gardens Hill

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1:30 – 2:30 pm

Drag Queen Story Time with Dee Dee

Ages: 3 – 8
Books & Readings
Family
Free

Jacob Burns Film CenterPleasantville

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2 – 3 pm

Garden Highlights Walk

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2 – 3 pm

Children’s Craft & Story at the Orangetown Museum

Ages: 5 and up
Attractions
Family
Free

The Orangetown Historical Museum & ArchivesOrangeburg

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2 – 6 pm

Duck Creek Alumni Group Exhibition

The Art Center at Duck CreekEAST HAMPTON

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5 – 6:30 pm

Queensboro Dance Festival Performances at Beach 94th Stage Amphitheater

Ages: All
Dance
Family
Free

Beach 94th Street Amphitheater StageFar Rockaway

WHCO Summer Concerts

5 – 6 pm

WHCO Summer Picnic Concerts!

Ages: All
Family
Free
Music

Fort Tryon ParkWashington Heights

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11:57 pm

Times Square Arts Presents Yuge Zhou’s Trampoline Color Exercise

Art
Free

Times SquareMidtown

Monday June 30

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All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade Center

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Various

Cross County Center Summer Fest

Ages: All
Family
Free

Cross County CenterYonkers

All day

Sports Watch Parties at Hudson Yards: FIFA Club World Cup

Ages: All
Family
Film
Free

Backyard at Hudson Yards, Public Square & GardensHudson Yards

All day

Sports Watch Parties at Hudson Yards: Wimbledon

Film
Free

Backyard at Hudson Yards, Public Square & GardensHudson Yards

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All day

New York Proud- Staten Island Pop-Up

Art
Free

St. George Ferry Stop

Royal Botania at The Roundtree Amagansett

Midnight

Royal Botania, Thayers, and The Roundtree, Amagansett Launch a Summer Design Pop-Up

The Roundtree, AmagansettAmagansett

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7 am – 8:30 pm

IN-PERSON/VIRTUAL: The Eagle Has Landed: Man on the Moon

Free
Talks

Connetquot Public LibraryBohemia

9 am – 5 pm

Being Hyper Human Exhibition

Art
Film

FIT Art and Design GalleryChelsea

Untitled Artwork

10 am – 8 pm

The Subway Doodle Experience

Ages: All
Art
Family
Free

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10 am – 7 pm

Crowned Dance: A Fine Art Photography Exhibition by Alex Yazlovsky

Animals
Art

Lux ContemporaryNew York City

11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Reimagining Kinship

Art
Free

410 Jefferson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221Brooklyn

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11 am – 12:30 pm

Short Story Workshop

The Hampton LibraryBridgehampton

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11 am – 5 pm

Eye of the “Art Asylum”: The Downtown Photography of Gary Azon at Tompkins Square Library

Free

Tompkins Square Park

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11 am – 5 pm

“The Ark”: An Exhibition curated by Eric Fischl

The ChurchSag Harbor

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Noon – 5 pm

All of Me with All of You: LGBTQ+ Art Out of the Collection

Art
Free

Heckscher Museum of ArtHuntington

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Noon – 5 pm

JHB Gallery at Jetsam Studio

Art
Free

Jetsam StudioSouthampton

Noon – 6 pm

Into the NOW – The Time of Our Lives

Free

Ceres GalleryChelsea

Noon – 6 pm

Into the NOW – The Time of our Lives

Art
Free

Ceres GalleryChelsea

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Noon – 6 pm

Homage: Queer lineages on video

Art
Free

Wallach Art GalleryManhattanville

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Meet Author Torben Kuhlmann

Brooklyn Heights LibraryBrooklyn

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4 – 5 pm

Children’s Summer Reading Kickoff with Dinoman

Ages: 12 and under
Family
Free

Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library Village BranchHaverstraw

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