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Tuesday May 6, 2025

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All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade Center

Umbra and Julia

All day

Free Exhibition at Umbra

Art
Free

Painting by Amrit Khurana – Whispers In Bloom

All day

Perceptions of Sentience – Art Exhibition by artists with autism from around the globe

Art
Free

United Nations Visitors Lobby

9 am – 5 pm

Perceptions of Sentience

Art
Free

United NationsEast Side Midtown

10 am – 9 pm

Macy’s Flower Show

Ages: All
Attractions
Family
Free

Macy’s Herald Square

10 – 11:30 am

Tot Time Tuesdays

Ages: 4 and under
Family
Free

Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve, Nature Interpretive Center

Bash Bish Falls Remembered III

10:30 am – 4:30 pm

Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven

Art
Free

Derfner Judaica MuseumRiverdale

Brooklyn Art Haus-the human layter 1×1

11 am – 10 pm

“The Human Layer” gallery opening at Brooklyn Art Haus

Art
Free

Brooklyn Art HausWilliamsburg

11 am – 12:30 pm

Tot Time Tuesdays

Ages: 4 and under
Family
Free

Shirley Chisholm State Park (Hendrix Creek Patio)

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11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Into the Shining Dark

Art
Free

Welancora GalleryBedford-Stuyvesant

The Space In Between

1 – 7 pm

The Space In Between

Art
Free

All Street GalleryEast village

3:30 pm

Caregiver Cards

Ages: 3 – 12
Craft & DIY
Family
Free

West New Brighton Library

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Kids Create: Mother’s Day Cards

Ages: 5 – 12
Craft & DIY
Family
Free

Bedford Library

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6 – 8 pm

Pop-Up Concert: Escape Rites by Austin Wulliman Feat. JACK Quartet

Free
Music

The Miller Theatre at Columbia UniversityMorningside Heights

Adam Gabel at WSCC 2

8 – 9:30 pm

Not Ripe Bananas

Comedy
Free

West Side Comedy ClubUpper West Side

8 – 10 pm

The Overthinking Hour Comedy Show

HalyardsPark Slope/Gowanus

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