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Saturday Aug. 3, 2024

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Various

Free Kayaking

Ages: 5 and up
Boating
Community

Brooklyn Bridge ParkBrooklyn

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All day

Sports Watch Parties at Backyard at Hudson Yards: 2024 Paris Olympic Games

Ages: All
Free
Sports

Backyard at Hudson YardsHudson Yards

All day

The Billie Holiday Theatre Presents Sky’s The Limit: Style As Resistance

Ages: All
Art
Community

The Billie Holiday TheatreBrooklyn

White Plains Road Farmers Market

9 am – 4 pm

White Plains Road Farmers Market & DOT NYC Open Streets

Ages: 5 – 8
Caribbean
Community

Gloria Dei Old Swedes Episcopal ChurchPhiladelphia

Uptown Good Food – Harlem (1)

9 am – 3 pm

Uptown Good Food Farmers Market

Ages: 5 – 8
Caribbean
Community

St Nicholas Ave & W137th St, NYHarlem

BrooklynBookBodega_ENYFarmersMarket

9 am – 3 pm

Brooklyn Book Bodega Book Giveaway

East New York FarmsBrooklyn

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9 am – 7 pm

Sloomoo Summer Saturdays

Ages: All
Attractions
Free

Sloomoo InstituteManhattan

10 – 11 am

Whiz Kidz

Ages: 5 – 12
Free

Idlewild ParkSpringfield Gardens

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10 am – 3 pm

Free Kayaking

Ages: All
Free
Outdoors

Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 2 DockBrooklyn

10 am – 8 pm

Galaxy Experience Space

Galaxy Experience SpaceSoHo

11 am

Weekly Storytime

Ages: 3 – 12
Books & Readings
Free

Barnes & Noble Staten Island MallStaten Island

Hans Christian Andersen and the Ugly Duckling

11 am – noon

Storytelling at the Hans Christian Andersen Statue

Ages: 5 – 8
Free

Central ParkCentral Park

RSK picture

11 am – noon

Ready, Set, Kindergarten! @ Sheepshead Bay Library

Ages: 5 – 8
Free

Brooklyn Public Library Sheepshead BayBrooklyn

11 am – 1 pm

Family Activity Days

Van Cortlandt House MuseumBronx

11 am – 11 pm

NBC Olympics Viewing Village at The Rink at Rockefeller Center

Ages: All
Free
Games

The Rink at Rockefeller CenterManhattan

NKPR NY Announcement

Noon – 8 pm

The Black Hole Experience Presented by Age of Union

Ages: All
Art
Attractions

Times SquareWest 47th Street & 7th Avenue

1 – 5 pm

Open Hours at the Environmental Education Center

Ages: All
Free

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Environmental Education CenterBrooklyn

POP-UP SATURDAYS

1:30 – 3:30 pm

2024 Pop-Up Saturdays Free Family Fun

Ages: 12 and under
Animals
Art

Stony Brook Village CenterStony Brook

Manhattan Fencing

2 – 7 pm

Fencing Across America

Ages: All
Free
Sports

Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central TerminalManhattan

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3 – 6 pm

Community Science Fishing

Ages: 3 and up
Free
Outdoors

Pier 5 – Brooklyn Bridge ParkBrooklyn

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