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Culture, Food & Nightlife

Culture, Food & Nightlife in New York

The openings and closings, the food, the music, the nightlife, and the culture that makes this place worth the rent. Not a tourist listicle, the actual city, told by people who live in it.

Desks we analyze here: Eater NY, Time Out New York, The Skint.

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14 stories
  1. September 25, 2026 The nor'easter The city issued a travel advisory through Sunday morning, with gusts forecast at 40 to 50 mph on Saturday and coastal flooding at each high tide. Citywide
  2. September 25, 2026 Free seats at the Met Opera The Met will release 10,000 free tickets a month this season, 70,000 in all, in every section of the house except standing room. Citywide
  3. September 23, 2026 The Marathon stops boxing in a Bronx supermarket On Nov. 1 the Marathon drops two Bronx turns and stops looping around the Western Beef block across from the Patterson Houses, its first route change... Citywide
  4. September 20, 2026 Belmont Park reopens after a $555 million rebuild Belmont Park reopened Friday with a new five-story, roughly 300,000-square-foot grandstand, a public infield for the first time in the track's... Queens
  5. September 12, 2026 Alleva reopens in Chelsea Market Alleva, founded in 1892 and the oldest cheese shop in the country, reopens Sunday in Chelsea Market, three and a half years after pandemic rent... Manhattan
  6. September 11, 2026 Ground zero's seventh bell Friday's ceremony adds a seventh moment of silence, for people killed by 9/11-related illness, while the federal health program counts only about... Citywide
  7. September 8, 2026 The West Indian American Day Parade ends early, and still ends in gunfire The city shortened Carnival, double-barricaded Eastern Parkway and flooded it with cops. Three people were shot anyway, and the people who come every... Brooklyn
  8. September 7, 2026 Carnival returns to Eastern Parkway on a shorter clock The city's biggest street party keeps its route and loses its last half hour. Brooklyn
  9. September 4, 2026 Kips Bay fights for its last multiplex Fifteen screens and the East Side's only IMAX are set to go dark, and the landlord is a hospital. Manhattan
  10. September 1, 2026 Year-round outdoor dining returns The shed on your block can stay up through February, and thousands of restaurants that quit the program now have a reason to come back. Citywide
  11. August 31, 2026 NYU Langone buys the block, and Kips Bay may lose its movie theater The only IMAX screen in the neighborhood is now owned by a hospital system that will not say what it plans to do with it. Citywide
  12. August 30, 2026 Moulin Rouge! takes its last bow Seven years, 2,297 performances, and the highest-grossing run in the Hirschfeld's century end tonight. Manhattan
  13. July 11, 2026 The Guggenheim's Legionella Test One of the city's most-visited museums just became part of the map investigators are using to hunt a bacterium that has already put 22 people in the... Manhattan
  14. June 27, 2026 The Historic NYC Rent Freeze Seven Mamdani appointees voted to hold 1 million rents flat at El Museo del Barrio on Thursday night, and landlord groups were already calling their...

Culture, Food & Nightlife, explained

The questions New Yorkers actually ask.

How do you decide what’s actually worth doing in New York?

By what is genuinely good and genuinely here, not what a tourist board is pushing. We follow the openings, the closings, and the scene through the people who live it, from a new spot in Flushing to a show worth the trek deep into Brooklyn. Specifics over listicles.

Why do so many beloved New York places keep closing?

Usually rent, plus the thin margins of restaurants and bars and the slow grind of city permitting. When a place that mattered closes, we say why, because the reason is almost always a story about the city itself, not just one unlucky business.

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